PAYTON, E W

FIRST EDITION- A LOVELY COPY! Super octavo, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black lettering & gilt illus to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xii + 368pp, folding map to rear, illus, VG (spine sl cocked, light bruising & scuffing to spine & extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, smatterings of moderate foxing throughout, sporadic cracking to gutters, sm ink stamp to back page, 2cm closed tear & light to moderate foxing to folding map at rear)

PUBLISHER: Chapman & Hall 1888

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history historical travel writing literature E W Payton first editions

REEVES, WILLIAM PEMBER

Octavo, nicely rebound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards, gilt tooling & raised bands to spine, aeg, marbled eps, frontispiece, xv + 430pp, illus/photos, folding map to rear, VG (light to moderate rubbing & bruising to board & spine extrems, minor soiling & chafing to leatherwork, light foxing to prelims & terminals, 2cm closed tear to folding map)

PUBLISHER: Horace Marshall & Son 1898

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history historical travel writing literature heritage William Pember Reeves

CLYDE, CONSTANCE & MULGAN, ALAN E

A LOVELY COPY! Quarto, maroon light card covers, illus plate to front cover, illus eps, frontispiece, illus title page, unpaginated prelims, 58pp + catalogue to rear, illus/photos, VG+ (light to moderate creasing & rubbing to cover edges, light tanning to spine, sl soiling to covers, light foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals, prev. owner's ink stamp to reverse of frontispiece)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1925

KEYWORDS: New Zealand culture heritage customs history historical travel writing literature

N/A

Octavo, red cloth stiff card covers, black lettering to front cover, page edges stained red, printed eps, unpaginated illus prelims + 194pp + memoranda to rear, VG+ (sl fraying to cover edges, prev. owner's sm ex-libris plate to inside front cover)

PUBLISHER: Thos. Cook & Son 1909

KEYWORDS: New Zealand historical tourist travel writing literature guides history

COUTTS, MICHAEL N

Quarto softcover (VG) damp wrinkling to bottom corner of page block; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: South Pacific Magazine 1990

KEYWORDS: travel history writing photos photography PNG Papua New Guinea historical

MACKENZIE, COMPTON

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1961

KEYWORDS: Greece history heritage culture Compton Mackenzie travel writing literature

[SWIFT, JONATHAN]

Second edition. Vol. II only. Post 8vo, pp. [2 (advts)] + [6] + 199; brown leather bds, double roll-tooled border to bds in black; four plates; G+ (heavy scuffing & soiling to bds; heavy bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with heavy chipping; heavy cracking to joints, rear board detatched, front board connected to 2/5 cords at spine; leather to bds peeling; moderate to heavy tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; lacking ffep; moderate to heavy tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscriptions to fly leaf & tp in black ink; heavy insect holes throughout; moderate to heavy tanning, foxing & soiling throughout).

PUBLISHER: Benjamin Motte 1727

KEYWORDS: 18th eighteenth century Jonathan Swift Gulliver Gulliver's Travels satire humor humour politics travel writing travels journey discovery

DE MUNILLA, FRAY MARTIN; KELLY, CELSUS (ed); PARSONSON, G S (introd)

This volume only. 8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w, (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1966

KEYWORDS: travel travels travelling voyage discovery ship 17th century Pedro Fernandez de Quiros Hakluyt Society

FERMOR, PATRICK LEIGH & MONSELL, JOAN EYRES (Photos) & CRAXTON, JOHN (Frontispiece)

FIRST EDITION THUS, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt nautical illus to front board, frontispiece, illus title page, xiii + 320pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & discolouration to spine & board extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims, light foxing throughout) in d/w, G+ (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, heavy tearing & loss to spine & extrems- heavy but tidy archival tape repairs, moderate foxing & staining)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1958

KEYWORDS: first editions THUS travel writing literature Patrick Leigh Fermor southern Pelopennese Greece Greek

N/A

FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, red stiff buckram boards/covers, gilt lettering to spine & front cover, maps/illus to eps, addenda loosely enclosed to rear, xv + 1102pp, folding maps throughout- not counted presumed all present, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl tanning to page edges, prev. owner's inscription in ink to verso of title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, moderate fading to spine) in slipcase, VG (moderate bruising & tanning/foxing)

PUBLISHER: Japan Travel Bureau, Inc 1966

KEYWORDS: first editions travel guides Japan Japanese maps tourist tourism history historical 60s sixties

SAVITT, STEVEN F (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 330pp, illus/diagrams, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear pastedowns) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing, prev. bookseller's label to rear)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1995

KEYWORDS: philosophy science quantum physics time travel cpsmology thermodynamics first editions

BURTON, ROBBIE

Super octavo, illus heavy boards, grey & black lettering to spine, 257pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine, spine sl cocked, minor bruising to board edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Potton & Burton 2022

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Zealanders Robbie Burton autobiography autobiographies memoir travel writing literature tramping landscape nature

BAEDEKER, K

Sm octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind rule/decoration to spine & boards, marbled page edges, printed front eps, illus/map to rear eps, folding maps throughout, lxii + 464pp, illus/maps, VG- (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light fading to spine, moderate tanning/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, heavy cracking to front & rear gutters- rear board shaky, minor closed tearing to folding maps)

PUBLISHER: Karl Baedeker 1892

KEYWORDS: travel literature writing Italy maps historical historic history travelling guides

BOWEN, T J

LACKS FEP, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule & decoration to boards, 359pp + 7pp to rear, VG- (moderate scuffing & chipping to board & spine edges/extrems, sl chafing to boards, heavy tanning & moderate soiling to page edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name -historic- to front pastedown, ffep missing & top half of prelim pg missing, sm pink pencil cross to top corner of title page, minor foxing throughout, moderate cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: Southern Baptist Publication Society 1857

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature central Africa 19th nineteenth century history historical accounts missionaries T J Bowen

ELLIS, HAMILTON & ALLEN, PETER (Fore)

FIRST EDITION, oblong imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1965

KEYWORDS: first editions transport history trains rail travel steam locomotives

BRROKFIELD, H C & HART, DOREEN

Super octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1974

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Melanesia geography

OLLIVER, ISABEL (transl)

Olb 4to, pp. 219; grey cl bds, black labels to spine & front board lettered in gilt; photos, illus.; VG (moderate scuffing, tanning & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderare tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; prev bookseller's sticker to front pastedown).

PUBLISHER: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust 1986

KEYWORDS: New Zealand journey travel voyage exploration explorers diary diaries journal journals ships ocean sea

WILKINSON, WALTER

Crown 8vo, pp. x + 230; blue buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; illus. eps; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate to heavy tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; light to moderate cracking to central gutters; light to moderate foxing throughout); in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling; moderate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping; moderate to heavy tanning & foxing; lg closed tear to lower spine extrem along rear joint fold; hole to spine).

PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Bles 1933

KEYWORDS: Walter Wilkinson England travel travelling journey social history puppet puppeteering

GRENFELL, WILFRED T

FIRST EDITION, octavo, green textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering & illus to front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 240pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate rubbing & light bruising to spine & extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to front pastedown, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate cracking to front gutter, moderate foxing to frontispiece & title page, light foxing to terminals)

PUBLISHER: Marshall Brothers 1895

KEYWORDS: first editions anthropology travel exploration Labrador history historical Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen

GREEN, WILLIAM SPOTSWOOD

LACKS FEP, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black rule to spine & front board, frontispiece, xiv + 350pp, VG (spine cocked, moderate fading to spine, light to moderate bruising to extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing & moderate soiling to page edges, ffep missing, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1883

KEYWORDS: history New Zealand alpine alps Mount Cook glaciers travel writing literature William Spotswood Green