FOREIGN TRAVEL, EXPLORATION and TOPOGRAPHY
ALEJANDRO, REYNALDO G.: Philippine Dance. Mainstream and
Crosscurrents.
Philippines: Vera-Reyes, 1978.
Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Large 4to,
pp.254, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding bumped quite hard on
the lower corner of spine (with slight creasing to some pages), else
very good; dustwrapper slightly bumped along edges and with a small
piece missing from lower spine, with faint handwriting indentations
to surface of dustwrapper (not immediately noticeable and no damage
to glazed surface), shelf-wear; internally, very good.
Quote Item No. 6947
Price: £50.00
ANDRIVEAU-GOUJON
(Publishers): France. Carte des Rivieres Navigables et des Canaux
Executes, en Construction et Projetes.
Paris: E. Andriveau-Goujon, 1880.
Coloured map dissected and mounted on linen. Size overall 39½
x 33¼
inches. Folding down to 6¾
x 5 inches and contained in slipcase.
Quote Item No. 11401
Price: £60.00
AUDETTE, NICOLE [Editor]: Stories of Hawaii. Volumes
I-IV. Illustrated by Ann La Mothe.
Hawaii: Writers' Hui, Lona Literacy Council, 1981.
Illustrated with simple black & white line drawings. Four
volumes. 8vo, pp.32, pp.28, pp.28 and pp.28, original
paper-wrappers.
Quote Item No. 7329
Price: £12.00
AUSTIN, K.A: Phillip Island Sketchbook. Drawings by Don
Angus.
Adelaide, Australia: Rigby, 1972.
First edition. Black & white drawings. 8vo, pp.62:[2],
original two-toned cloth in slightly chipped dustwrapper; very
short tear to upper back edge of dustwrapper, else a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 5032
Price: £10.00
AUSTIN,
MARY and PALMER, SUTTON: California, the Land of the Sun.
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1914.
First edition. Tipped-in coloured plates. Folding map.
Small 4to (9½
x 7 inches), 178-pages. Original decorated green cloth. Lower cover
marked, upper cover dulled, prelims. foxed. Contemporary inscription
on front free endpaper; generally very sound.
Quote Item No. 10960
Price: £65.00
BAKER, SIR SAMUEL W: Ismailia. A Narrative of the
Expedition to Central Africa for the suppression of the Slave Trade
organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt. With Maps, Portraits, and
upwards of fifty full-page illustrations by Zwecker and Durand.
London: Macmillan, 1874.
First edition. Two volumes. Two maps, one folding,
portraits, and plates. Two volumes. Large 8vo,
pp.viii:447:55(Macmillan's catalogue dated October 1874) and
viii:588, original green cloth pictorially blocked in gilt; inner
joints cracked but firm, some bubbling of the cloth on covers.
4-inch split to lower outer joint of vol. 2 and with 1-inch tear
into backstrip. Some foxing, one plate partly detached, tear
into folding map without loss. A better copy than it sounds.
Quote Item No. 6679
Price: £225.00
BAKER, S.W.: The Rifle and the
Hound in Ceylon. With Illustrations on wood. Second Edition.
London: Longman, 1857.
Frontispiece, plates and illustrations. Small 8vo, pp.xi:(1):293:(2,
adverts.) original red cloth.
Upper spine, approximately 2 inches, partly detached, binding
dusty and stitching cracked. Small damp mark to corner of one
plate, small edge chip to title. Inscriptions and bookseller's stamp
on endpaper.
Quote Item No. 8735
Price: £30.00
Kuching: The Kuching Press, 1949.
First edition. Map endpapers. 8vo, pp.125, original
cloth-backed printed boards; backstrip faded, very light
soiling to cream boards, else very good; internally, some browning
to title-page, otherwise good.
Quote Item No. 8565
Price: £36.00
BAUDOUIN FRERES (Publisher): Tableau Geographique et
Statistique de department de Main-et-Loire (No. 48).
Paris: Baudouin Freres, ca. 1820.
Engraved hand-coloured folding map with surrounding text. Size
overall 39 x 48 cms. Folding into the original glazed boards.
Quote Item No. 1940
Price: £15.00
BEAGLEHOLE, J.C.: The Exploration of the Pacific.
London: A & C Black, 1934.
First edition. Maps. 8vo, pp.xv:411, original blue
cloth. Some foxing, binding a little rubbed at extremities.
Signature on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 2948
Price: £48.00
BEVAN,
G. PHILLIPS: Royal Relief Atlas of all parts of the World,
consisting of 31 maps.
London: George Philip & Son, 1885.
Third edition. 31 maps, of which 26 embossed in relief. The
maps mounted on thick card frames with descriptions of the following
map pasted to the reverse, as issued. 4to (12 x 10¾
inches), publisher's half red roan, gilt Royal Arms to upper cover.
Backstrip partly
detached and badly chipped head and tail; internally very good.
The 26 embossed physical maps comprise: World; Europe;
British Isles; England; Scotland; Ireland; France; Germany;
Austria and Hungary; Switzerland; Scandinavia; Denmark; Netherlands
and Belgium; Spain and Portugal; Italy; Turkey and Greece; European
Russia; Asia; Palestine, India; Africa; Cape Colony;
North America; South America; Australia; & New Zealand (with an
inset of Fiji). The remaining 5 unembossed maps are political.
The map of Scandinavia with title slightly cropped.
Quote Item No. 11068
Price: £800.00
BLIXEN,
KAREN: The Illustrated Out of Africa.
London: Cresset Press,
1989.
Illustrated in colour and black & white.
Small folio (10¼
x 7¾
inches wide), pp.288, original pictorial boards in matching
dustwrapper; generally
an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 11590
Price: £18.00
BORON,
VITTORIO and RYAN, FREDERICK W.: Malta painted by
Vittorio Boron, described by Frederick W. Ryan.
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1910.
First edition. Coloured frontispiece and 19 coloured plates,
folding map at end. 8vo (9 x 6¾ inches), pp.xii:184, original green
cloth pictorially blocked in red, black, blue, and gilt, top edge
gilt; foxing to top edge of text block. Contemporary signature and
date on front free endpaper. A very good bright copy with sharp
corners.
Quote Item No.
10791
Price: £135.00
BRANGWYN, FRANK & STOKES, HUGH: Belgium. By Frank
Brangwyn. With Text by Hugh Stokes. With Fifty-Two Illustrations.
London: Kegan Paul, 1916.
First edition. 4to, pp.144, original cloth-backed boards;
some foxing, neat name on front free endpaper; generally very
good in torn, rubbed & repaired d.w.
Quote Item No. 5710
Price: £40.00
BREYTENBACH, CLOETE: Savimbi's Angola.
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: Howard Timmins, 1980.
Illustrated profusely with black & white photographic plates.
Folio, original glazed paper-covered boards, a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 5846
Price: £18.00
BRIGGS, J.P: Heathen and Holy Lands: or, Sunny Days on
the Salween, Nile, and Jordan. By Captain J.P. Briggs, Deputy
Commissioner Tenasserim and Martaban Provinces, Charge of Province
Tavoy.
London: Smith, Elder, 1859.
First edition.
Lithographic frontispiece. 8vo, pp.387, original crimson
pebble-grain cloth blocked in blind and gilt, all edges gilt.
Headbands rubbed, two short splits to upper outer joint, upper inner
hinge pulled, lower inner hinge cracked and held on cords and
webbing, rear free endpaper removed. Slightly later prize
label on front free endpaper. The binding itself generally
good and attractive. The author devotes the first 131-pages to
his experiences in Burma. Rare.
Quote Item No. 10175
Price: £165.00
BURTON, CAPTAIN R.F. [and Dr. C.T. Beke]: The Lands of
Cazembe. Lacerda's Journey to Cazembe in 1798.
Translated and Annotated by Captain R. F. Burton. Also Journey
of the Pombeiros ...... and a Resume of the Journey of MM. Monteiro
and Gamitto by Dr. C.T. Beke.
London: Published for the Royal Geographical Society by John
Murray, 1873.
Only edition. Folding map. 8vo, pp.271, original blue
cloth; backstrip detached at lower joint and rubbed at head
and tail of spine, some marking to boards. Folding map
detached & foxed.
Quote Item No. 5480
Price: £115.00
BYRON, JOHN: The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron .....
containing an Account of the Great Distresses Suffered by himself
and his companions on the Coasts of Patagonia ... also a relation of
the Loss of the Wager Man of War ...... written by himself.
London: S. Baker, 1780.
12mo, pp.xii:263, contemporary calf; foxed, dusty and soiled, upper
cover detached.
Quote Item No. 870
Price: £65.00
CABLE, MILDRED and FRENCH, FRANCESCA: Grace Child of
the Gobi.
London: The China Inland Mission, 1934.
Reprint. Plates. Small 8vo, pp.68, original coloured
pictorial wrappers over plain boards; worn at head and base of spine
else good.
Quote Item No. 10539
Price: £18.00
CABLE, MILDRED and FRENCH, FRANCESCA: The Red Lama.
London: China Inland Mission, 1927.
Frontispiece, plate. 8vo, pp.44:4(adverts.) original coloured
pictorial wrappers. Wrappers a trifle edge-worn. In the original
plain glassine outer wrapper which is chipped. Tibet.
Quote Item No. 10516
Price: £24.00
CALHOUN, MAJOR A.R., PARFITT, W.S. and OTHERS: Wonderful
Adventures. A Series of Narratives of Personal Experiences
Among the Native Tribes of America. With Illustrations.
London: Cassell, ca. 1890's.
Frontispiece, engraved plates and b&w illustrations in the text.
8vo, pp.313:[16, publisher's catalogue], original green cloth
blocked in red and black; binding rubbed and dusty, some
foxing, one gathering detached. Contemporary ink inscription
on f.f.e., together with ink ownership stamps (one perforated).
Quote Item No. 1717
Price: £20.00
CAMERON, JOHN: Our Tropical Possessions in Malayan India.
With an Introduction by Wang Gungwu.
Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1965.
Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints. Coloured plates.
8vo, pp.xii:408, original brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine
contained in slip-case; lettered backstrip to slip-case with
small tears and lifting along the edges; in all other respects
a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 6783
Price: £40.00
CHAI, DR. PAUL (text);
LAWRENCE, MAX (photography): Borneo Alive. Exploring Sarawack's
Rainforest.
Insight Topics, Apa Publications (HK), 1993.
Coloured photographic plates throughout. Folio, pp.166, original
cloth; an excellent copy in like dustwrapper.
Quote Item No. 10700
Price: £20.00
CHEESMAN,
EDITH: Mesopotamia (Iraq) Water-Colours.
London: A. & C. Black,
1922.
Sixteen colour plates (no text).
9 x 6¼
inches wide, original cloth with colour onlay to front cover, no
dustwrapper; binding
edge-rubbed, quite heavily along sides of spine and corners;
internally, brown mottling to endpapers, otherwise very good.
Quote Item No. 11334
Price: £25.00
CLIFFORD, SIR HUGH: Bush-Whacking and other Asiatic Tales
and Memories.
London: Heinemann, 1929.
First edition. 8vo, pp.386, original red cloth, no dustwrapper;
binding a trifle dusty, headbands bumped, a small nick to cloth at
lower corner of spine; internally, page edges lightly spotted, some
light foxing, small creased nick to lower edge of one page, else
very good.
Quote Item No. 2925
Price: £15.00
COLLIER, WILLIAM F. and SCHMITZ, LEONHARD: The
International Atlas, Consisting of Sixty-Two Maps: Thirty-Two
of Modern Geography, and Thirty of Historical and Classical
Geography, with Descriptive Letterpress of Historical Geography and
Classical Geography.
London, Glasgow & Edinburgh: William Collins, Sons & Co., n.d.
ca. 1870's.
Sixty-two largely double-page coloured maps mounted on tabs.
4to, pp.28:62 maps:55, (publisher's catalogue printed on endpapers),
original decorative blindstamped cloth, heightened with black and
gold on spine and upper board; edges bumped else an
excellent copy. An attractive ink inscription to f.f.e. dated
1880.
Quote Item No. 4141
Price: £120.00
COOKE, JOHN: Wakeman's Handbook of Irish Antiquities.
Third edition.
Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1903.
Black & white frontispiece and illustrations in the text. 8vo, pp.xvi:414,
original green cloth gilt, no dustwrapper; binding a little unevenly
faded, headbands and corners bumped and slightly rubbed, tiny nick
to the cloth at side of spine and with a small dark mark on spine;
internally, excellent.
Quote Item No. 3969
Price: 13.00
COVARRUBIAS, MIGUEL: Island of Bali. With an Album of
Photographs by Rose Covarrubias.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.
Fifth printing. Coloured frontispiece, colour and black &
white plates, folding map. Large 8vo, pp.xxv:417:x [index], original
black and yellow cloth lettered in gilt in dustwrapper; binding very
good; dustwrapper in poor condition, rubbed and with a number of
tears and chips (some loss) and with brown tape adhered to part of
both inside flaps; internally, lower corners of text-block slightly
damp-stained affecting some plates; despite all, internally a good
copy.
Quote Item No. 6913
Price: £15.00
CROWLEY, F.K: The History of South
Perth, Western Australia. Westralian Suburb.
Perth, W.A.: Rigby, 1962.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.118, original cloth in
dustwrapper; a number of very short tears and nicks to edges
of dustwrapper, some rubbing; in all other respects, very
good.
Quote Item No. 32
Price: £15.00
DAVIDSON, JANET; N. TE AWEKOTUKU; NEICH, R; and
others: Maori Art and Culture.
Auckland, New Zealand: David Bateman, 1996.
Illustrated in colour and black & white. 4to, pp.168,
softcover; slight shelf-wear, else excellent.
Quote Item No. 7006
Price: £25.00
DAVIES, C. COLLIN: The Problem of The North-West Frontier,
1890-1908. With a Survey of Policy since 1849.
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1932.
First edition. Three folding maps at rear. 8vo,
pp.xii:220, original burgundy cloth lettered in gilt on spine, no
dustwrapper; headbands and edges slightly bumped;
some lighter coloured marks to binding; some foxing to some
leaves and page-edges; inner joints slightly cracked;
ink inscription to front-pastedown; despite all a good copy.
Quote Item No. 6871
Price: £35.00
DAVIES, C. COLLIN: The Problem of The North-West Frontier,
1890-1908. With a Survey of Policy since 1849.
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1932.
First edition. Three folding maps to the rear. 8vo,
pp.xii:220, original burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine;
headbands and corners slightly bumped; some lighter coloured
marks to binding; foxing to some leaves and pape-edges;
inner joints slightly cracked; ink name to f.f.e.; edge
of one map slightly bumped due to inadequate trimming.
Quote Item No. 6872
Price: £35.00
D'EWES, J: China, Australia and the Pacific Islands, in the
Years 1853 - 56.
London: Richard Bentley, 1857.
First edition. Tinted lithographic frontispiece and a tinted
lithographic plate (a view of Auckland) and illustrations in the
text. 8vo, pp.340, original blue grained cloth pictorially
blocked in gilt on spine and upper cover, all edges gilt. Some
light foxing but generally a very good bright copy.
Contemporary prize inscription on front free endpaper presenting
this volume to Master Ebenezer Chew for diligence and good conduct.
Quote Item No. 6684
Price: £180.00
DIGBY, K.H: Lawyer in the Wilderness. Data Paper:
Number 114. Southeast Asia Program, Department of Asian
Studies, Cornell University.
New York: Cornell University, 1980.
Illustrated in black & white. 4to, pp.xi:102:9 [List of
Cornell University Publications], softcover;
some slight spotting to spine, otherwise very good.
Quote Item No. 6971
Price: £20.00
DINGLA, CHEV. EDW.
CARUANA: Malta. The Colour and Life of Malta from
Original Paintings.
Valletta, Malta: Critien's, n.d. 1927?
Only edition. Tipped-in coloured frontispiece and 39 tipped-in
coloured plates with tissue guards. Folio (12¾ x 9½ inches), original wrappers,
bearing mounted coloured illustration as issued, over plain boards.
A few small punctures to upper joint, edges of wrappers bumped, some
tissue guards creased, corner crease to two of the tipped-in plates.
Overall very good. Calligraphic presentation leaf tipped-in at front
presenting this volume to F.H. Quarrie, R.N. by the Staff and
Apprentices H.M. Dockyard School, Malta.
Quote Item No.12227
Price: £240.00
DIXON, WILLIAM HEPWORTH: Free Russia.
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1870.
First edition of Volume 1, 2nd edition of Volume 2.
Two volumes. 8vo, pp.viii:352 & vi:344, contemporary half blue
calf, headbands lightly chipped, some rubbing, especially on
raised bands; foxing, especially to prelims. Contemporary
signatures on front free endpapers.
Quote Item No. 5070
Price: £55.00
DOUGHTY, CHARLES M.:
Wanderings in Arabia.
Being an abridgment of Travels in Arabia
Deserta.
London: Duckworth, 1926.
Reprinted in one volume in 1926 and abridged by Edward Garnett.
Frontispiece and folding map at end.
Tall 8vo (8¾ x 5¾ inches wide), pp.607, original
green cloth lettered in gilt on spine, no dustwrapper;
binding headbands bumped and with small nicks, lower corner
of front cover bumped quite hard;
internally, page edges browned, neat ink name on front
free-endpaper, else very good.
Quote Item No.12200
Price: £9.00
DRUMMOND, HENRY: Tropical Africa.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1903.
Eleventh edition. Folding map, illustrations. 8vo,
pp.xiv:228, original red cloth; a little rubbed and dusty,
very minor marginal worming at end.
Quote Item No. 3496
Price: £10.00
EDWARDS, AGUSTIN: My Native Land. Panorama,
Reminiscences, Writers and Folklore. A Comprehensive Survey of
Chile.
London: Benn, 1928.
First edition. Portrait, folding map. Large 8vo, pp.430,
original blue cloth. Previous owner's neat inked name stamp on
upper margin of 5 preliminary leaves (not title-page) else an
exceptionally nice copy in chipped and edge worn dustwrapper.
Quote Item No. 5420
Price: £15.00
EDWARDS, LEONARD and STEVENS, PETER W.: Short Histories of
the Lawas and Kanowit Districts.
Kuching: Borneo Literature Bureau, 1971.
Illustrated in black & white. Small 8vo, pp.vi:188,
softcover; some small chips to ends of spine, else generally very
good.
Quote Item No. 6986
Price: £22.00
FELL, R.T.: Images of
Asia.
Early Maps of South-East Asia.
Singapore, Oxford, New York:
Oxford University Press, 1988.
First edition.
Illustrated in colour and black & white.
8vo, pp.ix:103, original glazed boards;
generally an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 9382
Price: £35.00
FORDER, ARCHIBALD: With the Arabs in Tent and Town.
An Account of Missionary Work, Life and Experiences in Moab and Edom
and the First Missionary Journey into Arabia from the North.
London: Marshall Brothers, [1902].
First edition. Portrait, plates & folding map. 8vo,
pp.xii:243, original green cloth blocked in black & lettered in
gilt. Map split on two folds without loss. Map dusty on
reverse at fore-margin. Damp marking to upper margins of both
covers. Generally good.
Quote Item No. 8224
Price: £35.00
FRASER, JAMES: The History of Nadir Shah, Formerly called Thamas
Kuli Khan, The Present Emperor of Persia. To which is prefix'd A
short History of the Moghol Emperors. At the End is inserted, a
Catalogue of about Two Hundred Manuscripts in Persic......
London: for S. Millar, 1742.
Second edition. Engraved folding portrait and engraved folding
map of the Moghol Empire. 8vo, pp.vi:234:(3, index):(1, Publisher's
list):40("Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Persic, Arabic, and
Sanskerrit Languages Collected in the East by James Fraser" with
individual title-page), contemporary full panelled tan calf; rubbed,
upper cover detached. Armorial bookplate and number "No.177" in ink
on blank upper margin of title. The portrait frontispiece trimmed to
the plate-mark on fore and lower margins. Short marginal tear to
folding map which is however crisp and fresh.
Quote Item: 7594
Price: £250.00
GODLEY, JOHN ROBERT: Letters from America.
London: John Murray, 1844.
First edition. Two volumes bound in one. 8vo,
pp.xxiii:272:viii:243:(1, advertisement); both volumes with
half-titles present. 19th Century half calf, raised bands with
lettering piece, top edge gilt. Binding rubbed. Two
leaves of text detached but present, some foxing and
spotting.
Inscribed on endpaper, "James Godley from his affect. brother,
The Author" and with a carte de visite portrait of John Robert
Godley by Kilburn, Regent St., loosely inserted.
Quote Item No. 8875
Price: £200.00
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1963.
First edition. 8vo, pp.xv:420, original cloth in price-clipped
dustwrapper. Very faint damp mark to lower edge of binding and lower
inner margins of text; dustwrapper bumped and rubbed along the edges
and with some shelf-wear, spine slightly darkened.
Quote Item No. 597
Price: £40.00
HARPER, G.C.: The Discovery and Development of the Seria
Oilfield.
Brunei: Muzium Brunei, 1975.
Illustrated in black & white. 8vo, pp.iv:99, softcover;
very slightly edge-rubbed and some shelf-wear to cover, else very
good.; internally, excellent.
Quote Item No. 7014
Price: £18.00
HARRIOTT,
JOHN - Resident Magistrate of the Thames-Police:
Struggles Through Life Exemplified in Various Travels and Adventures
in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, of John Harriott Esq., resident
Magistrate of the Thames Police, to which are added Thoughts on the
Subject of the Police ........... Mad Houses ........
London: for the Author by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Brown,
1815.
Volume 2 only (of 3). Third edition. Small 8vo,
pp.xii:428, contemporary full polished tan calf, some rubbing to
polished surface of spine, joints cracking but firm. Pages
115-428 are descriptive of his travels in America and the Bahamas
Quote Item No. 8300
Price: £50.00
HARRIS, WALTER B: Tafilet. The Narrative of a Journey
of Exploration in the Atlas Mountains and the Oases of the
North-West Sahara. Illustrated by Maurice Romberg from
Sketches and Photographs by the Author.
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1895.
First edition. Frontispiece, illustrations, 2 maps, 1 being
large and folding. 8vo, pp.xii:386:32 (publisher's advertisements),
original cloth gilt; a little rubbed, spine a little dulled,
corners a trifle bumped, some light foxing, but generally a good
copy.
Quote Item No. 4285
Price: £150.00
HILL, JONATHAN A;
SILVEIRA DE BRAGANZA; CHARLOTTE OAKES: The Hill
Collection of Pacific Voyages.
San Diego: University of California, 1974.
Plates. Large 8vo (10½ x 7¼ inches), pages: xiv:433. Original
blue cloth gilt. Boards a little edge browned, generally good.
Inscribed by Jonathan Hill and signed on the title-page.
Quote Item No. 10922
Price: £28.00
HITCHMAN, FRANCIS: Richard F. Burton. His Early,
Private and Public Life with An Account of His Travels and
Explorations.
London: Sampson Low, 1887.
First edition. Two volumes. All plates present.
8vo, pp.xi:430 & x:460, original cloth. Bindings horribly worn &
stained. Some of the plates damp-marked on upper margin.
Circulating Library label on front pastedowns.
Printers/binders error inasmuch as pages 385-401 in Volume 1 (the
quire of 8 leaves 2c1-2c8) are actually from Volume 2.
Therefore this group of 8 leaves is included in both volumes;
thus Volume 1 lacks the correct pages 385-401.
Generally a poor copy of this rare work which may, perhaps, be
useful for making up another incomplete copy or odd volume.
Quote Item No. 5483
Price: £60.00
HOGARTH, PAUL: Defiant People. Drawings of Greece
Today. With an Introduction by James Aldridge.
London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1953.
First edition. Illustrated in black & white. 4to, pp.42,
softcover; binding poor with damp-staining which also affects a
number of leaves along stitching, browning, and with pieces chipped
from both ends of spine and small chip to top edge; impact damage to
upper wrapper penetrating to first two leaves.
Quote Item No. 5849
Price: £10.00
JOHNSTON, SIR HARRY: Pioneers in Tropical America.
London: Blackie, 1914.
Eight coloured plates, eight black & white plates and two maps. 8vo,
pp.xiv:320, original green cloth blocked in black & gilt, t.e.g., no
dustwrapper; spine very slightly faded, headbands and corners
bumped, small whitish mark to back cover, else good and still
bright; internally, one black & white plate detached but present,
generally very good.
Quote Item No. 1885
Price: £9.00
JONES, SIR WILLIAM (and
Lord Teignmouth): The Works of Sir William Jones in Six Volumes;
with the two supplementary volumes and the Memoir of his Life by
Lord Teignmouth.
London: for G.G. & J. Robinson, 1799.
First edition, with the two Supplementary Volumes published in 1801
and the Memoir published 1806 (this the second edition).
The eight volumes of the main work illustrated with an
engraved portrait, engraved by Heath after Sir Joshua Reynolds,
map, and 85 plates, some of which are facsimiles of script,
12 of these on 6 leaves. 4to (12 x 9½ inches), pp.(6):xv:558;
pp.(3):656; pp.(3):592 (followed by a substantial unpaginated
section in Persian script); pp.(3):613;
pp.(6):(1):xxi-xxxviii:610; pp.(4):730:(18, General Table of
Contents); pp.(6):493; & pp.(3):493-1092.
The uniform Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence
of Sir William Jones by John Shore, Lord Teignmouth, published by
John Hatchard in 1806 has a portrait by Evans after A.W. Devis of
Calcutta and one plate, a facsimile of his handwriting. 4to,
pp.xv:(1)531:(4, index).
In all nine volumes uniformly bound full tan calf, each board
with diced panel within ornamental gilt border. Each volume
with the engraved armorial bookplate of Augustus Frederick, Duke of
Sussex (1773-1843; the sixth son of George III) on front pastedowns.
The spines are very dry and chipped, eight of the boards are
detached and the remaining hinges cracked with the boards held on
cords. There is some scattered foxing within, very occasionally
heavy; also some offsetting of a few of the plates onto the facing
text. Altogether an excellent candidate for rebacking and
priced accordingly to allow for this expense.
Quote Item No. 11990
Price: £750.00
KING, VICTOR T.: Essays on Borneo Societies. Hull
Monographs on South-East Asia No. 7.
Oxford: Published for the University of Hull by the Oxford
University Press, 1978.
8vo, pp.xvi:256, softcover; front cover creased in three places;
generally, in all other respects, very good.
Quote Item No. 6924
Price: £12.00
KIRWAN, L.P: The White Road, A Survey of Polar Exploration.
London: Hollis & Carter, 1959.
First edition. Plates, maps. 8vo, pp.x:374, original
blue cloth; very good.
Quote Item No. 3707
Price: £10.00
KUNZ, EGON and ELSIE: A Continent Takes Shape.
Sydney: Collins, 1971.
First edition. Illustrated in colour and black & white.
4to, pp.176, original grey cloth in glazed dustwrapper;
binding slightly faded along edges; edges and spine to
dustwrapper browned and slightly chipped and bumped. This
volume was presented to Rear-Admiral Alan Wilson and bears the
signatures of the presenters on the f.f.e. and extra title.
Quote Item No. 6497
Price: £20.00
LAMPHEAR, JOHN: The Traditional History of the Jie of
Uganda.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.
First edition. Map. 8vo, pp.281, original cloth in
price-clipped dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper with light
edge-rubbing and two tiny nicks to edges, a patch of soiling to the
back cover, spine slightly sunned, else good; internally, very good.
Quote Item No. 4053
Price: £12.00
LANGE, ALGOT: In the Amazon Jungle. Adventures in Remote
Parts of the Upper Amazon River, including a Sojourn among Cannibal
Indians.
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912.
First edition. Coloured frontispiece, plates, folding maps.
8vo, pp.xix:405:(8, adverts.), original green cloth gilt with onset
coloured illustration as issued. Backstrip faded, rubbed, and
cockled, joints rubbed, corners bumped.
Quote Item No. 10518
Price: £25.00
LATTIMORE, OWEN: Inner Asian Frontiers of China.
Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Maps. 8vo, pp.xxiii:585, original cloth; good in complete but
slightly creased dustwrapper.
Quote Item No. 10525
Price: £35.00
LES GUIDES BLEUS: Grece.
Paris: Hachette, 1953.
Small 8vo, original cloth in dustwrapper; dustwrapper with
numerous tears along edges (some loss); in all other respects, very
good.
Quote Item No. 536
Price: £9.00
LES GUIDES BLEUS: Savoie.
Paris: Hachette, 1931.
Small 8vo, original cloth gilt binding very bright; dustwrapper poor
with two long tears (one at side of spine and across) two pieces
missing, spine and edges browned; internally very good.
Quote Item No. 537
Price: £9.00
LES GUIDES BLEUS: Italie. Centrale et Rome.
Paris: Hachette, 1935.
Small 8vo, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding very
good with tiny amount of edge-rubbing; dustwrapper with tears along
edges (some loss), spine browned. Being Volume 2 of the three volume
Italy series.
Quote Item No. 538
Price: £15.00
LIAN, ROBERT and SAGING, ROBERT: An Ethno-History of the
Kelabit Tribe of Sarawak. A Brief Look at the Kelabit Tribe
before World War II and After. "This Graduation Exercise is
submitted to the Jabatan Sejarah, University of Malaya, in partial
requirement for the Fulfillment of the Degree, Bachelor of Arts,
Honours. 1976/77".
Unpublished: 1976 - 1977.
Two plates, two maps, one folding. 4to, pp.330, mimeographed
throughout. Bound full simulated leather lettered in gilt.
Binding dusty, a few text leaves corner bumped else excellent.
Inscribed and signed to John Maidment, "With Compliments and Kind
Regards, Robert Lian & Saging, 8 August 1977, Bario Longhouse,
Kelabit Highlands, Baram, Sarawak".
Quote Item No. 7008
Price: £200.00
LOCKARD, CRAIG A. and SAUNDERS, GRAHAM E: Old Sarawak.
A Pictorial Study.
Borneo Literature Bureau, 1972.
Illustrated in black & white. 4to, original red cloth lettered
in gilt on spine in dustwrapper; dustwrapper slightly
edge-rubbed, else very good.
Quote Item No. 6960
Price: £25.00
HIVES, FRANK and LUMLEY, GASCOIGNE: Ju-Ju and Justice in Nigeria. Told
by Frank Hives.
London: John Lane, 1930.
First edition. Illustrations and map. 8vo, pp.xi:254:[6,
advertisements], original red cloth lettered in gilt, no dustwrapper.
Spine very very slightly faded; internally, some foxing to leaves of
text and page edges, Inscription on front free-endpaper; overall, a
very good copy.
Quote Item No. 68
Price: £25.00
LUMSDEN, LIEUTENANT THOMAS: A Journey from Merut in India,
to London, through Arabia, Persia, Armenia, Georgia, Russia,
Austria, Switzerland, and France, during the Years 1819 and 1820 by
Lieutenant Thomas Lumsden, of the Bengal Horse Artillery.
London: for Black, Kingsbury, Parbury, & Allen, 1822.
First edition. Engraved frontispiece but lacking the map. 8vo,
pp. vii:272:12 (Itinerary), old crude quarter calf, uncut, inner
joints broken. Lacks front free endpaper, inscribed George Emerson,
Quebec Sept. 23, 1857 on front pastedown. Some foxing and light
soiling, damp-marking to the frontispiece, occasional damp-marking
to margins. Although lacking the map this is a good unsophisticated
copy, uncut with wide margins, and with the half-title.
Quote Item No. 6789
Price: £450.00
MACINTYRE, MAJOR-GENERAL DONALD: Hindu-Koh:
Wanderings and Wild Sport on and beyond the Himalayas.
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1889.
First edition. Coloured lithographic frontispiece, 8 other
plates including photographs of trophies, illustrations in the
text.
8vo, pp. xx:464:24(publisher's advertisements), original green cloth
blocked in black and gilt. Central panel of upper cover
unattractively bleached out perhaps due to damp; the spine very
bright and clean, upper inner hinge cracked but firm otherwise
internally an excellent copy. Armorial bookplate, inscription on
half title.
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MACKENZIE, C: Interesting and Remarkable Places; with
Historical & Topographical Descriptions. Illustrated with Two
Hundred and Fifty Engravings.
London: John Reynolds, n.d. ca. 1840.
First edition. Woodcut illustrations. 8vo, pp.viii:296,
original blindstamped green cloth pictorially blocked in gilt;
corners bumped, contemporary prize presentation inscription on recto
of frontispiece; generally a very good and attractive copy.
Quote Item No. 5298
Price: £45.00
MAXWELL, DONALD: A Dweller in Mesopotamia. Being the
Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden. With
Sketches in Colour, Monochrome and Line.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1921.
First edition. Coloured frontispiece, coloured and black &
white plates. 4to, pp.xii:124:[2, advertisements], original
quarter linen, uncut; binding slightly marked, spine slightly
discoloured but in all other respects, very good.
Quote Item No. 6023
Price: £25.00
MAYBURY-LEWIS, DAVID: Peoples of the
World.
Washington DC: National Geographic, 2001.
Profusely illustrated in colour. Large 4to, pp.304, original
blue vinyl cover in dustwrapper; corners of binding and
dustwrapper bumped; dustwrapper with a number of short tears
and creases along edges; internally an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 6661
Price: £10.00
MENPES, MORTIMER & DOROTHY: World Pictures.
London: A. & C. Black, 1902.
First edition. Coloured and monotone plates. Large 8vo, pp.332,
original red cloth blocked in black & gilt; good.
Quote Item No. 5408
Price: £30.00
London: for the Royal Geographical Society by John Murray,
1895.
8vo, pp.viii:833, original blue cloth gilt; headbands bumped,
corners rubbed in places, else good; internally, page edges lightly
browned and spotted, generally, a very good copy.
Quote Item No.3548
Price:
London: Hutchinson, 1938.
First edition. 8vo, pp.288:(8,adverts.), original cloth;
inscription on front free endpaper. A very good copy in like
d.w.
* Palestine.
Price: £35.00
MORISON, MARGARET COTTER: A Lonely Summer in Kashmir.
London: Duckworth, 1904.
First edition. Illustrated with black & white photographic
plates. 4to, pp.x:281, original green cloth lettered in gilt,
t.e.g., others uncut; headbands and corners bumped and
slightly frayed;
Quote Item No. 6021
Price: £20.00
MULLER, KAL: Indonesian Borneo. Kalimantan.
Berkley, California: Periplus Editions, 1990.
Illustrated in colour. 8vo, pp.203, softcover;
an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 6939
Price: £20.00
MUNSHI, MOHAMED IBRAHAM: Translated by Amin Sweeney and
Nigel Phillips: The Voyages of Mohamed Ibrahim Munshi.
Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1975.
Portrait, maps. 8vo, pp.xxxiii:145, original cloth; a
very good copy in slightly marked d.w. with short edge-tear.
Quote Item No. 4052
Price: £21.00
NEW ZEALAND: Guide to the Hot Lake District - Rotorua,
Whakarewarewa etc. Descriptive & Illustrated.
No publisher, n.d. ca. 1910.
Descriptive text and 16 views on pink paper. Advertisements on
endpapers. Oblong 8vo, original gilt blocked boards; ink
stamp of the Hot Lakes Chronicle, Rotorua, on first leaf, very good.
Quote Item No. 4220
Price: £15.00
NEW ZEALAND: Album of Specially Selected Views of New
Zealand to Illustrate some of its Cities and Scenery.
Christchurch, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs, n.d. ca. 1910.
Illustrated title-page and 16 views and portraits on pink paper.
Oblong 8vo, original gilt blocked red boards; very good.
Quote Item No. 4219
Price £15.00
OKEY, T: Venice. Illustrated by Nelly Erichsen, W.K.
Hinchcliff, and O.F.M. Ward.
London: J.M. Dent, 1930.
First edition. Coloured plates. Large 8vo, pp.xix:325,
original white cloth elaborately decorated in red and gilt;
spine lightly browned but a very good, bright and attractive copy.
Quote Item No. 4167
Price: £25.00
OSMASTON, JOHN: Old Ali or Travels Long-Ago. With
Illustrations.
Cumbria: Henry Osmanton, 1999.
Second edition, facsimile of 1881 edition with the addition of an
illustrated introduction. Illustrated in black & white.
8vo, pp.x:467, original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and
upper cover; an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 6653
Price: £20.00
PAYNE, C. H. [Editor]: Tod's Annals of Rajasthan, the Annals
of Mewar.
London: Routledge, n.d.
Plates and a folding map. 8vo, pp.xv:216, original cloth; a
very good copy indeed. Pencil inscription dated 1914.
Quote Item No. 3495
Price: £12.00
PEARY, ROBERT E: The North Pole.
Exact facsimile reprint of the 1910 edition by Time Life in 1987.
Illustrated in black & white with folding coloured map at rear.
8vo, pp.xii:326, publisher's full 'leather' gilt, all edges gilt.
Very good.
Quote Item No. 6028
Price: £12.00
PENROSE, BOISE - SOTHEBYS AUCTION CATALOGUE: The Celebrated Library of Boies
Penrose. The First Portion: Travel & Exploration,
Navigation & Trade A-L.
London: Sotheby's, 1971.
Illustrated in black & white. Small 4to, pp.106:[4], softcover;
binding browned with small perforation to front cover, otherwise
good.
This sale comprised 152 lots.
Quote Item No. 2485
Price: £7.00
PENROSE, BOISE - SOTHEBYS AUCTION CATALOGUE: The Celebrated Library of Boies Penrose.
The Second Portion: Travel & Exploration, Navigation and
Trade: M-Z. Fourteen Georgraphical Manuscripts, English
and Continental Books of the 15th, 16th & 17th Centuries.
London: Sotheby's, 1971.
Illustrated in black & white. Small 4to, pp.161:[3], softcoer;
binding browned, otherwise good.
This sale comprised 366 lots.
Quote Item No. 2486
Price: £7.00
PFEIFFER,
MADAME IDA: Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy.
Translated from the German by H. W. Dulcken. With Eight Tinted
Engravings.
London: Ingram, Cooke, 1852.
First English edition. Tinted frontispiece, extra pictorial title,
and six tinted plates. 8vo, pp. 336:(4, advertisements, original
elaborately blindstamped blue cloth, spine blocked in gilt, by
Leighton Son & Hodge with their ticket. Spine sunned, some foxing
especially to prelims. Generally very good.
Quote Item No. 10367
Price: £55.00
[London: for J. Cooke, ca. 1792].
Two engraved portraits on a single folio leaf (10 x 15 inches) from
Bankes', "New System of Geography Published by Royal Authority" and
so engraved at head.
Quote Item No. 1381
Price: £30.00
THE RANEE MARGARET OF SARAWAK: Good Morning & Good Night.
London: Constable, 1934.
First edition. Black & white photographic plates. 8vo,
pp.xi:308, original burgundy cloth no dustwrapper; spine faded,
headbands and corners bumped, rubbed and with some short splits to
cloth, edge-rubbed; internally, page edges browned, front inner
joints cracked and front hinges loose; foxing throughtout, bookplate
pasted to half-title, and a cutting of The Ranee pasted to front
free-endpaper.
Quote Item No. 6954
Price: £30.00
RAWLINSON, GEORGE: The
Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy; or the Geography, History, &
Antiquities of Parthia, collected and Illustrated from Ancient and
Modern Sources.
London: Longmans, Green, 1873.
Chromolitho frontispiece, two folding maps & illustrations in the
text. 8vo (9 x 5½ inches), pages: xiii:(2):458.
Nicely bound recent half tan calf with black gilt lettering piece,
spine ornamentally blocked in gilt within gilt rules, marbled
boards. Some foxing to prelims. but generally a very nice copy
indeed.
Quote Item No. 12013
Price: £120.00
RODD, SIR RENNELL: Rome of the Renaissance and To-day.
London: Macmillan & Co, 1932.
57 illustrations by Henry Rushbury A.R.A. Inscribed by
the illustrator to the artist Stanley Anderson. Imperial 8vo,
pp.x:303, original cloth; spine a trifle faded.
Quote Item No. 1030
Price: £20.00
London: Putnam, 1930.
First edition. Plates, map endpapers. Royal 8vo,
pp.xv:339, original cloth, no dustwrapper. Spine a little faded,
headbands and corners bumped and rubbed, some light coloured spots
to back cover; internally, page edges browned, back inner joint
cracked, bookplate on front pastedown, else good.
Quote Item No. 695
Price: £25.00
RYAN, PETER [General Editor]: Encyclopaedia of Papua and
New Guinea.
Melbourne University Press in Association with the University of
Papua and New Guinea, 1972.
First edition. Three volumes. Illustrated in black &
white, with folding coloured map in pocket at rear of Volume 3.
Large 8vo, pp.xv:588, pp.[4]:589-1231 and pp.v:83, original green
vinyl binding lettered in silver on spine and with decorative round
silver device blocked on upper cover; lettering on spine
almost completely faded; bindings slightly scuffed and bumped;
green endpapers edge-faded; internally excellent.
Quote Item No. 6559
Price: £55.00
SACKVILLE-WEST, V: Twelve Days, an account of a journey
across the Bakhtiari Mountains in South-western Persia.
London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press,
1928.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.viii:143:(1), original
patterned cloth; headband a little rubbed, corners a little bumped,
foxing to edges of text block.
Quote Item No. 7883
Price: £90.00
SANDIN, BENEDICT: The Sea Dayaks of Borneo. With a
preface by Tom Harrisson and an introduction by Robert M. Pringle.
London: Macmillan, 1967.
First edition. With black & white photographic plates.
8vo, pp.xx:134, original green cloth in dustwrapper; binding
slightly edge-faded; dustwrapper slightly rubbed and frayed on
edges.
Quote Item No. 6482
Price: £25.00
SANDIN, BENEDICT: The Living Legends: Borneans
Telling Their Tales.
Sarawak: Dwan Bahasa Dan Pustaka, 1980.
Illustrated in black & white. 4to, pp.ix:280, original
cloth in dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper slightly
edge-rubbed with a number of short creased tears to edges;
internally, an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 6475
Price: £30.00
SELWYN,
C.J. and L.F.: Annals of the Diocese of New
Zealand. Annals of the Colonial Church.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1856.
Frontispiece and illustrations (largely after G.F. Angas). Small
8vo, pp.xvi:247, original cloth; binding faded and lightly worn at
headbands, some spotting. Original owner's name stitched into upper
cover. Front free endpaper removed, inner joints cracked,
inscription on front pastedown.
"The letters of the Bishop of New Zealand [i.e. George Augustus
Selwyn] ... form a considerable portion of this work" -- preface.
Quote Item No. 10513
Price: £145.00
SHAW, ROBERT: Visits to High Tartary, Yarkand and Kashgar.
Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Coloured plates, folding maps. 8vo, pp.xiii:xv:486, original cloth.
Some age-toning to the text, headbands a little rubbed, 2 leaves
detached but present. In faded and edge worn dustwrapper.
Quote Item No. 10528
Price: £35.00
SINHA, SACHCHIDANANDA: Kashmir "The Playground of Asia".
A Handbook for Visitors to the Happy Valley.
Allahabad: Ram Narain Lal, 1943.
First edition. Illustrated with b&w plates. 8vo,
pp.xii:448:xxxviii, original cloth; outer corners frayed and
headbands bumped; spine faded.
Quote Item No. 5027
Price: £30.00
SPEIGHT, R; WALL, A; and LAING, R.M. (Editors): Natural
History of Canterbury [New Zealand] issued by the Philosophical
Institute of Canterbury.
Christchurch, N.Z.: Simpson and Williams, 1927.
First edition. Portraits, plates, and folding map. 8vo, pp.ix
(including 2-page list of subscribers):299, original cloth lettered
in gilt on spine and front cover, no dustwrapper; headbands
and corners slightly bumped and rubbed, else an
excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 186
price: £35.00
STUART, CA. M.
VILLIERS: Gardens of the Great Mughals.
London: A. & C. Black, 1913.
First edition. Coloured frontispiece, plates in b&w.
8vo, pp.xvii:290, original decorative cloth; spine dulled and
chipped at headband.
Quote Item No. 2328
Price: £40.00
STUBBS, LAURA: Stevenson's Shrine, the Record of a
Pilgrimage.
London: Alex. Moring 1903.
Plates. Square 8vo, pp.58, original green cloth pictorially blocked
in blue and gilt, t.e.g. others uncut. Front free endpaper
damaged else very good,
Quote Item No. 685
Price: £15.00
SURVEY OF INDIA: KASHMIR and JAMMU, N.W. FRONTIER PROVINCE
and PUNJAB - Muzaffarabad District and Punch Jagir. Hazara
District. Rawalpindi District. Map Sheet No. 43 F/8.
Calcutta: Heliozincographed at the Survey of India Office,
Published under the Direction of Colonel F.B. Longe, Surveyor
General of India, 1910, new edition with alterations, 1927.
Folding map on a scale of 1 inch to a mile; 24 x 17 1/2
inches, folding within the original wrappers of the Survey of India,
very good.
Quote Item No. 4324
Price: £20.00
SURVEY OF INDIA: DELHI, PUNJAB & UNITED PROVINCES - Delhi.
Rohtak District. Meerut District. Map Sheet No. 53 H/1.
Calcutta: Heliozincographed at the Survey of India Office,
Published under the Direction of Colonel S.G. Burrard,
Surveyor General of India, 1912, reprinted with alterations, 1928.
Folding map on a scale of 1 inch to a mile; 24 x 18 inches,
folding within the original wrappers of the Oxford Book & Stationery
Co. Kashmir Gate, Delhi. Wrappers marked, map excellent.
Quote Item No. 4323
Price: £20.00
SURVEY OF INDIA: N.W. FRONTIER PROVINCE & PUNJAB - Hazara
District. Rawalpindi District. Map Sheet No. 43 G/5.
Calcutta: Heliozincographed at the Survey of India Office,
Published under the Direction of Colonel S.G. Burrard,
Surveyor General of India, 1911, new edition with alterations, 1929.
Folding map on a scale of 1 inch to a mile, 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches,
folding within the original Survey of India wrappers; stain to
left hand blank margin of map else very good.
Quote Item No. 4325
Price: £20.00
SURVEY OF INDIA: PUNJAB - Rawalpindi District. Map Sheet No. 43
G/6.
Calcutta: Heliozincographed at the Survey of India Office,
Published under the Direction of Colonel S. G. Burrard ,
Surveyor General of India, 1911, new, corrected, edition, 1921.
Folding map on a scale of 1 inch to a mile, 24 x 17 1/2 inches,
folding within the original Survey of India wrappers; very
good.
Quote Item No. 4326
Price: £20.00
SURVEY OF INDIA: PUNJAB & UNITED PROVINCES - Karnal, Meerut,
Muzaffarnagar & Rohtak Districts. Map Sheet No. 53 G/S.W.
Calcutta: Heliozincographed at the Survey of India Office,
Published under the Direction of Colonel C.H.D. Ryder, Surveyor
General of India, 1922.
Folding map on a scale of 1 inch to 2 miles; 24 x 18 inches,
folding within the original wrappers of the Oxford Book & Stationery
Co. Kashmir Gate, Delhi. Wrappers split, map excellent.
Quote Item No. 4322
Price: £20.00
SWAYNE-THOMAS, APRIL: Indian Summer. A Mem-sahib in
India and Sind.
London: New English Library, 1981.
Illustrated in colour and black & white. 4to, pp.175, original
brown cloth in price-clipped dustwrapper; an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 5775
Price: £10.00
TAPLIN, GEORGE: The Folklore, Manners, Customs, and Languages of
the South Australian Aborigines: Gathered from Inquiries made by
Authority of South Australian Government. Edited by the Late
Rev. G. Taplin, of Point Macleay. First Series.
Adelaide: By Authority, E. Spiller, Acting Government Printer,
1879.
First edition. Frontispiece and 15 plates, 12-pages of printed
facsimiles of letters written by Aborigines, one folding.
Musical notation, "The Aboriginal Corrobbery". 8vo,
pp.viii:174:(1):29 (the addendum with separate title-page, "Grammar
of the Narrinyeri Tribe of Australian Aborigines" by the late Rev.
George Taplin, Adelaide: 1880), original crimson cloth, the upper
cover elaborately blocked in gilt with an image of an Aborigine
hunting Emu; the spine mottled and discoloured, the upper cover
bright; decorative endpapers. Foxing to prelims., one leaf creased
(binding fault).
Nine of the plates are from drawings by Aborigines, e.g. "Hunting
Party. Drawing by 'Yertabrida Solomon' an Aboriginal of the Coorong".
The frontispiece and remaining six plates are original photographs,
albumen prints, and depict, "A Camp of the Narrinyeri, Lake
Alexandrina" (the frontispiece) showing eight Aborigines seated
before a hut, two of the other photographs show weapons, mats,
baskets etc. The remaining four photographs are individual portraits
and depict, "Waldaninyeri, a Woman of the Narrinyeri Tribe"; "Wewat-thelari,
a Man of the Narrinyeri Tribe"; "Ngunaitponi, a Man of the
Narrinyeri Tribe"; & "Mimukulari, a Woman of the Narrinyeri
Tribe"; pp.105-106 of this work give an explanation of the
photographs, giving details of the Aborigines portrayed and of the
weapons, mats, baskets, twine, girdles and necklaces shown. \
Very rare. Series 2 was not published.
Quote Item No. 7525
Price: £750.00
TATE, BRIAN & MARCUS: The Pilgrim Route to Santiago.
Photographs by Pablo Keller.
Oxford: Phaidon, 1987.
First edition. Coloured plates and maps throughout. 4to,
pp.159, original cloth; an excellent copy in like d.w.
Quote Item No. 4666
Price: £25.00
TAYLOR, C.R.H.: A Bibliography of Publications on
the New Zealand Maori and the Moriori of the Chatham Islands.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972.
First edition thus. 8vo, pp.xii:161, original cloth in
price-clipped dustwrapper; binding excellent; dustwrapper with three
tears and creasing to edges, some soiling; internally, excellent.
Quote Item No. 837
Price: £25.00
TETTONI, LUCA INVERNIZZI and ONG, EDRIC: Living in Sarawak.
London: Thames & Hudson, 1996.
First edition. Profusely illustrated in colour. 4to,
pp.224, original orange cloth in dustwrapper; corners
slightly bumped; dustwrapper headband with very short tear;
two leaves (back of title and contents page) partially adhered
together; in all other respects very good.
Quote Item No. 6980
Price: £20.00
THORBECKE, ELLEN: Hong
Kong Photographed and Depicted by Ellen Thorbecke with Sketches by
Schiff.
Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh n.d. [1940].
Illustrations thoughout, partly
in colour. 4to
(9½
x 7¼
inches), 69-pages. Original coloured pictorial boards;
corners rubbed, insect damage to head of backstrip and small area of
upper cover adjacent with some loss of surface. In the original d.w.
which has suffered loss at the head of the backstrip, edge
rubbed with several short tears and some light loss to the wrapper
on lower joint. Some light foxing.
Quote Item No. 11232
Price: £220.00
TOOLEY,
R.V.: The Mapping of Australia.
London: Holland Press Cartographica,
1979.
First edition. 239 plates. 4to (10 x 7½
inches), xix:633 pages. Original green cloth, spine decorated and
gilt; a very good copy in slightly faded dustwrapper which has some
edgewear. The first volume in the Holland Press "Cartographica"
series.
Quote Item No. 10911
Price: £250.00
TOZER, HENRY FANSHAWE: Researches in the Highlands of
Turkey; including visits to Mount Ida, Athos, Olympus, and
Pelion, to the Mirdite Albanians, and other Remote Tribes.
With Notes on the Ballads, Tales, and Classical Superstitions of the
Modern Greeks.
London: John Murray, 1869.
First edition. Two volumes. Frontispiece to each volume, 6 plates,
illustrations in the text, and large folding map. 8vo, pp.xi:(1):397:(2,
advertisements) & vii:390:(2, advertisements), original green cloth,
the covers with decorative borders in blind, spines gilt. The
bindings very lightly rubbed or marked, short nicks at head and tail
of spines, corners bumped. Some foxing, piece torn from blank
margin of one leaf of text, marginal tear to another leaf repaired
with strip of paper at an early date, in neither case is the text
affected.
Very rare, especially in the original cloth. A very
presentable copy.
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TREASE, GEOFFREY: The Grand Tour.
Heinemann, 1967.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.xi:251, original cloth,
very good in trifle snagged d.w. Signed by the author.
Quote Item No. 1634
Price: £10.00
UNWIN, STANLEY & STORR, SEVERN: Two Young Men see the
World.
London: George Allen, 1934.
First edition. Large 8vo, pp.510, original red cloth; some
foxing, spine dulled, but generally a very good copy.
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WADIA, D.N. and COTTER, G. DE P: The Geology of Poonch
State (Kashmir) and Adjacent Portions of the Punjab by D.N. Wadia.
Bound with: The Geology of the Part of the Attock District
West of Longitude 72 45' E by G. de P. Cotter.
Being Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Volume LI, Pt. 2
and Volume LV, Pt.2.
Calcutta: Government of India 1928 & 1933.
Two works bound in one. The first work illustrated by 10 plates,
many folding including large coloured folding map mounted on linen
in endpocket, pp.vi:185-370:xxxiv.
The second work illustrated by 9 folding plates including large
coloured folding map mounted on linen in endpocket, pp.
v:(1):63-161:xvi.
4to, old coarse grained black cloth lettered in gilt. Wrappers
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WALES, H. G. QUARITCH: Archaeological Researches on Ancient
Indian Colonization in Malaya.
London: Royal Asiatic Society, Malayan Branch, Feb. 1940.
Being Volume XVIII, Part 1, of the Journal of the R.A.S. Large
8vo, pp.xiii:85, together with maps, plans, and 89 plates, original
printed wrappers.
Together with Volume XVIII, Part II. August 1940.
Plates. Large 8vo, pp.xxxiv:155, original wrappers.
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WALI, MAULAVI ABDUL: Life and Work of Jawad Sabat, An
Arab Traveller, Writer, and Apologist; Together with a review
of his Romantic Career, as a Christian and Muslim.
Calcutta and Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co. 1925.
8vo, pp.ix:86, original printed wrappers; backstrip chipped.
Inscribed by the author on title and with autograph letter signed
from the author, dated Asiatic Society of Bengal, Jan. 28th 1925,
sending this complimentary copy.
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WARBURTON,
ELIOT: The Crescent and the Cross or, Romance and Reality of Eastern
Travel. Eighteenth edition.
London: Hurst & Blackett, n.d. ca. 1890.
Frontispiece with tissue guard. Illustrations. 8vo, pp.ix:(1):380,
contemporary full crimson hard grain morocco, spine with raised
band, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles; small dark mark to spine
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WARREN, C.V.: Burmese Interlude.
An Enthralling Account of Five Years Spent
in the Jungles of Burma.
London: Skeffington &
Son, 1937.
First edition. With map
and 18 illustrations.
Large 8vo, pp.288, original cloth in dustwrapper;
binding with very slight rubbing to corners and headbands,
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dustwrapper spine slightly faded, with slight creasing and rubbing
along edges, and front outer edge near flap slightly soiled;
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WHELAN, F.G.: A History of Sabah.
Singapore: Macmillan & Co Private, 1970.
Illustrated in black & white. 8vo, pp.vi:300, softcover;
binding edge-rubbed (especially at ends of spine), spine creased,
slight shelf-wear; internally, inner joints slightly cracked between
p.122-123 but stitching still firm, else good.
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WYNNE, A.B: On the Trans-Indus Extension of the Punjab Salt
Range. Being Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India Vol.
XVII, Pt. 2.
Calcutta: Printed for the Government of India, Geological
Survey Office, 1880.
Six lithographic views and large folding coloured "Geological Map of
the Trans-Indus Salt Range" and two further coloured maps, one
folding of the Shekh Budin Hills. Tall 8vo, pp.iii:(1):95, old
coarse grained black cloth lettered in gilt; wrappers
retained. General series title bound upside down and
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WYNNE, A.B. and WARTH, H: The Trans-Indus Salt Region in
the Kohat District by A.B. Wynne, with an Appendix on the Kohat
Mines, or Quarries, by H. Warth. Being Memoirs of the
Geological Survey of India, Vol. XI, Pt.2.
Calcutta: Printed for the Government of India, Geological
Survey Office, 1875.
Tinted lithographic frontispiece. Large folding coloured "Map
of the Trans-Indus Salt Region" by A.B. Wynne. Tall 8vo,
pp.viii:226:viii, old black coarse grained cloth lettered in gilt;
original wrappers retained. Folding map holed on one fold and
with short tear. Blank lower fore-corner of frontispiece and
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YOUNGHUSBAND, FRANCIS: The Heart of a Continent.
Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Frontispiece, plates, folding maps (one large in endpocket). 8vo,
pp.xii:xvii:(1):409, original cloth; headbands and spine rubbed in
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