Search Results: Guidebooks from Lansdowne Books

First Edition. With 28 fine plates, including 16 in colour and 12 in monochrome, and with 34 line drawings within the text, many of which are quite large, decorated title-page printed in black and red. Publisher's original olive cloth-covered boards backed in buckram and ruled and lettered on the spine in dark green titling to spine. Top edge of pages green with front and bottom edges untrimmed. Sound and firm with no staining or foxing to contents. A very clean and tight copy, the text clean and fresh, the plates all very fine, the binding solid.Maxwell, an official artist sent by the Imperial War Museum, was a most original writer, artist and traveler.

Orig. cloth. Portrait frontisp. numerous b/w plates and a map. Boards are clean with Dust jacket in protective mylar. Pages clean and age-toned,.Author's signed to previous owners. " To Teddy and Eileen with old-time memories and every good wish, from Ethel Jarman."

Blue boards in protective mylar. Maps and photographs. Pages in good conditions with some yellowing due to age.

Original brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and designs on cover and along spine; very light rubbing along spine and tips. Binding and hinges tight and square; contents clean and unmarked except for previous owners inscription dated 1892.

Hardcover book with brown coated cloth over boards., gilt-stamped lettering on spine; pp. vi, 294, plus frontispiece and 15 beautifully engraved full-page plates. Spine tips and corners gently rubbed, else a clean, tight copy. Design stamped in black on cover and spine; lettering stamped in gold on cover and spine. Book is in very good condition. Cover has light, expected wear -- some light shelf wear.

These iconic pocket-sized, ultra-savvy concertina guides are housed in this gorgeous World Grand Tour Box featuring a deep purple velvet covering with gilt lettering. Included are Bangkok, Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. There are 12 matt-laminated fold out guides that have never been used. LUXE City Guides in this elegant handmade box make a fantastic travel gift. Some first editions are included e.g. New York

A very clean, tight and rare copy in original brown cloth in very good condition. Very slight bumps to spine and covers. Title in gilt lettering on spine and upper boards, incl. gilt tooled hieroglyphs between a gilt border also on upper cover. Red marbled endpapers and marbled edges. (xxi), 955pp. 2 full-page maps as a double frontisp., many plates, of which plans of temples, text-figs. and ills, diagrammes, full-page coloured maps and plans, index, list of contents, and important notice on Bakshish, list of Egyptological words.This work represents far more information to the tourist than the usual tourist-guide. Originally drawn up in 1886 in accordance to the suggestions of his [Wallis Budge's] friend Mr. J.M. Cook with vast information on ancient monumental Egypt.