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London: Burns, Oates & Co, 1868 First English edition, translated by the author from the French. Preface dated Dec. 1867, so probably published in 1868 though not dated in publishing details. Hardcover book . Full dark brown leather over bevelled boards with gilt title to spine and elaborate gilt decorations to boards and spine, as well as gilt dentelles and all page edges gilt. 200pp. No illustrations. The life of Monsignor Justin de Jacobis, a Christian monk in Abyssinia who lived from 1800 to 1860 and who was revered for his piety. This copy has a pencil gift inscription on front free endpaper: 'To Edward Dawson with Father Giles' best wishes'. A Poor copy overall that needs rebinding work, as the covers are detached from the text-block. The contents are fair to good, the main text block holding together and the pages mostly clean, the prelim leaves before the title page are detached (present), and the text block itself is detached from the covers. The covers themselves are…
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Abyssinia and its Apostle.
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Adventures in Experience
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New York: Privately printed by William E. Rudge's Sons Christmas 1938 550 copies printed. The story of a life. Hardcover book , no dw, 236pp, 3 tipped-in colour plates by William Blake, 13 tipped-in b&w photographs, 150 other b&w photographs, folding map of the world in pocket at back. Dk red cloth, spine darkened, front edges sunned, internally small previous owner's label to front pastedown otherwise clean and good. A VG+ copy.
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An Adventurous Journey Russia-Siberia-China
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London: Thornton Buterworth Limited 1929 Revised, cheap Edition up to date. Hb, 285pp, 55 photographic illustrations, 3pp advertising to rear. Red cloth, slight sunning ato spine base. Bookplate of F.W. Cresswell to front pastedown. Dust jacket sunned to spine, remains ofclear tape (now yellowed) across top and bottom edges, some chipping to corners and ends. Includes laid in typed letter to Mr. Cresswell, signed in ink by the author. A VG+ copy in still G+ DJ.
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Africa on a Shoestring.
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London: Mills & Boon, 1960 First edition. Signed and dedicated by the author on flyleaf (she signs herself Anne Lindsay (Vinton)).Hardcover book . Cloth, and pictorial dustjacket. 190pp. No illustrations apart from nice colourful jacket design. A journey to Nigeria by the Lindsay family and living there on very little. Very Good in Good jacket, now in clear sleeve. Clean covers and pages, though page edges are heavily foxed (a few spots just onto margins). Jacket front bright, light handling marks to back, worn edges withsome rubbing, creasing and chips.
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An African Aristocracy. Rank Among the Swazi.
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London: Oxford University Press, 1961 Reprint with new preface, of book first published in 1947.. Hardcover book . Black cloth with gilt titles, and dustjacket. 251pp. With 4 b&w photo plates, a few line drawings, and a folding map at back of Swaziland. Very Good in Very Good jacket, now in clear sleeve. Clean covers and pages . Jacket has a few light marks, and closed tear to back.
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Algeria an up to Date Hand-Book for Tourists
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Paris: Horizons de France no date Soft covers, 13x20cms, 248pp, plus maps and illustrations. Large folding map has previously been poorly folded resulting in heavy chipping along side plus additional fold marks. Rear cover rippled with some water marks, spine sunned and creased. A G+ copy.
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Alone to Everest.
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London: Collins, 1954 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and colour photo-illustrated dustjacket. 255pp. With 13 b&w photos in plates, and 4 maps. Mountaineering in Africa, where the author was involved in game reserves, and a journey though closed Tibet and Nepal with Tenzing to climb Everest, where they reached 23,000 ft. Very Good in Fair jacket, now in clear sleeve. Clean covers no inscriptions in a worn jacket with losses to bottom of spine.
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Along the Pyrenees.
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Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1925 First edition. Hardcover book . Blue-grey cloth, lettered in dark blue o spine and front cover, no dustjacket. 302pp. With b&w photos in plates and maps to endpapers.Travel through the Pyrenees and the hinterland including Carcassone and Perpignan. A Good copy. Pages very good, well-bound, with browning to closed edges and slightly to margins; covers have darkening to margins and spine and some wear to edges including abrasions (showing as white) to lower spine. Photos available.
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Andalusia.
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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and colour pictorial dustjacket by Brian Keogh. 337pp. With 40 b&w photos by the author in plates, and 2 maps. People, history and topography of the varied region of Andalusia in Southern Spain. Fine book in Good+ jacket, which is bright but has some creases with tears to back panel, down spine and to top front.
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Angkor The Hidden Glories
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Boston, Houghton Mifflin,1990 Hardcover book , First Edition with dustjacket, 253 pages illustratyed in colour. A thorough exploration of this ancient city in western Cambodia. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket. small nick to top front corner of jacket
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Antiche Stampe Di Trieste
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Edizioni Lint: 1972 Profilo dello sviluppo urbanistico della Citta illustrato da 51 stampe. HB, 2nd ED, November 1972. Folio, 33x40cms, 112pp, 51 plates. Pictorial cloth boards, some light tanning to top 4cms and to spine. Some very light bumping to corners. Previous owner's inscription to ffep, small oblong label to rear pastedown otherwise internally clean. A VG copy.
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Apes and Ivory.
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London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1953 First edition. Signed and presented by the author on half-title, and signed again on title page. Hardcover book . Red/orange cloth, no dustjacket. 400pp. With 3 b&w photos in plates, and maps to endpapers showing the author's journeys in various parts of Africa. Patchy sunning to cover, spine sunned and faded. Occasional foxing which is heavy to ends. Light foxing spots to fore and lower edges. A Good copy.
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An Apostle of the North
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London: Seeley & Co Ltd 1908 Memoirs of the Right Reverend William Carpenter Bompas, D.D. Hardback, first edition, [xviii] 385pp [16], 42 illustrations, introduction by the most rev. S.P. Matheson. Red cloth, gilt to front and spine. Volume is aged and slightly loose but complete. A G+ copy.
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Are You Going to Russia?
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1934 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. 264pp. With b&w photo frontispiece, maps and diagrams in text. Maps to endpapers. Aimed at informing travellers and tourists to the Soviet Union, including some vocabulary. Very Good in Good jacket, now in clear sleeve. Some light foxing to endpapers. Jacket has rubbed edges with creases and tiny closed tears; losses to spine (over title), old stain to back lower edges.
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Assignment in Germany. Volume 1: Speyer on the Rhine. Original sketeches by Karl Graf.
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Ramstein, Germany: The Author, 1954 First edition. Hardcover book . Stiff card covers: black card lettered in gold and with illustration in gold to front, ringbound at spine. 43pp quarto. With line drawings in text throughout by Karl Graf. The history and people of Speyer in Germany, written by the editor of an American service newsletter at Ramstein Air Base, and intended to be the first volume of ten, each on a different town in Germany. Very Good copy. Paper has some tanning to margins. Gift inscription on half-title from a resident of Speyer.
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The Atlantic Islands
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London: Collins 1948 1st ed A study of the Faeroe Life and Scene with a foreward by Eric Linklater. Hardcover book , 360pp, 35 photographs, 4 maps, and pen and ink drawings by the author. Green Boards . Dw lightly foxed, chipped at spine ends and rear edges, large closed tear to front of jacket now protected in non-adhesive sleeve, light foxing to edges. A VG copy in Poor dw.
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The Atlas of North American Exploration: From the Norse Voyages to the Race to the Pole
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New York, Prentice Hall, 1992 A totally new perspective on the exploration of the North American continent, including the routes taken by famous explorers, historical backgrounds, sites of settlements and excerpts from journals and diaries of early explorers. Hardcover book with dust jacket. 1st ed. 224pp. Over 100 full-colour maps and over 90 contemporary colour and B&W illustrations. Thick black marker pen mark to bottom edgeof papers, otherwise a fine copy.
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The Bandit on the Billiard Table
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London: Derek Verschoyle 1954 A Journey through Sardinia. The third of a trilogy. HB, 1st ED, 184pp with photographs by A. Costa. Pink boards, sunned to edges, light stain top rear, rubbing to spine and edges. Smith's library plate to front pastedown. A Good copy.
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The Beagle Record
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Cambridge, Cambridge university Press, 1979 Hardcover book First edition with dustjacket. 408 pages , with illustations many in colour. Selections from the original pictorial records and written accounts of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. a Very good copy in a Very Good price clipped dustjacket. Slight sunning to jacket spine. previous owners name to end paper. Pictures available.
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Belgium and Holland including the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. Handbook for Travellers.
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Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1901 Thirteenth edition, revised and augmented. Red cloth covered flexible card covers with gilt titles, no dustjacket as issued. lxvi, 442pp. Folding and other colour maps throughout (14 maps, and 22 plans). Marbled edges and linen placemark. Book Fair to Good : clean covers, front bright, spine cloth darkened and with frayed top. Dulled page edges. Page faces clean, main body of pages very good, though front free endpaper detached (present) with abrasions and browning to endpapers and prelims (brittle paper).
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