54 Vues. Souvenir d'Alger & Environs.

Alger, No Date, Ca. 1900, Depot A. Fareau. 0. Hardcover, Oblong. Book, 54 b/w photos. No text except captions. Paper slightly browned. Photos show scenes of the harbour, city, street scenes, women (one photo showing a woman with exposed breast). Good+.

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Book number: 3306

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Keywords: Algiers, Algeria, North Africam French Colonies, Alger, Algerien,

The Geographical Journal. Vol. 131 Part 2. June 1965.

London, The Royal Geographical Society. 1965, First Edition. Printer Wrapper, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, x, 161-312 pages, several b/w plates and maps. Contains among others articles on the impact of the channel tunnel, Lucas Janzoon Waghenaer, the Pamir glaciers, Kjove island in East Greenland, etc. Very Good.

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Book number: 009131

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Keywords: Channel Tunnel, White Highlands of Kenya, Lucas Janzoon Waghenaer, Pamir Glaciers, Andes, Kjove Land, East Greenland, Slaettaratindur, Faroe Islands, Hominidae,

The Hakluyt Society. List of Members 1996.

London, Hakluyt Society. 1996, First Edition. Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 92 pages. Lists individual members and institutional members, categorized by country. Very Good.

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Book number: 008489

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

The Hakluyt Society. Prospectus with List of Publications and Maps 1952.

London, Hakluyt Society. 1952, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, lii pages, name stamp on title page, front cover soiled. Good.

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Book number: 008490

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

The Hakluyt Society. Prospectus with List of Publications and Maps 1952.

London, Hakluyt Society. 1952, First Edition. Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, lii pages. Name stamp on title page. Good.

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Book number: 008491

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Volume the Second.

London, John Murray. 1832, First Edition. Card Covers, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, iv, [4], 342 pages, no maps or plates. Contains among other articles: Is the Quorra the same river as the Nigir of the Ancients?; Notes on a Part of the Eastern Desert of Egypt, A Passage from Europe to Java; Notes of two Expeditions up the Essequibo and Mazaroony Rivers in 1830 and 1831; Some Remarks relative to the geography of the Maldiva Islands; Accounts of the Cossyahs; Brief View of the Progress of Interior Discovery in new South Wales; Notices on New Zealand; Particulars of an Expedition up the Zambezi to Senna; Remarks on Aegada; Journal of a Voyage on the Bahr-Abiad or White Nile; On the State of civil and natural rights among the aborigianl inhabitants of Brazil; Notices of the Indians in the interior of British Guiana; On the Hydrography of South America; Agriculture in Cashmere; Memoir descriptive of Prince's island and Anna Bom in the Bay of Biafra; On the Submersion by the Sea of part of Hayling Island near Portsmouth in the Reign of Edward III; Extract from a letter from Captain Fitzroy on the Abrolhos bank; communication between the Ganges and the Hooghly; recent information from Australia; Expedition to ascertain the fate of Captain Ross; and some other smaller articles. No maps or plates which suggests that this might be a reprint or it was rebound without plates. Very Good.

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Book number: 5507

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Lost Cities Brought to Light.

London, Ca. 1880, Religious Tract Society. 0, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book, Pictorial Cloth. iv, 127 pages, many illustrations. A very clean copy of a charming book on Egypt, Tyre, Nineveh and Babylon. Very Good.

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Book number: 2989

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Keywords: Egypt, Thebes, Tyre, Nineveh, Babylon, Mesopotamia, Holy Land Travel and Exploration

Naaukeurige Versameling der Gedenk-waardigste Zee en Land-reysen, na Oost en West-Indien, [.] Zedert het Jaar 1601 to 1605.

Leiden, Pieter Van Der Aa. 1707, First Dutch Edition. Vellum, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book, Naaukeurige Versameling der Gedenk-waardigste Zee en Land-reysen, na Oost en West-Indien, Mitsgaders andere Gewesten, ter eerster Ontdekking enn soo vervolgens van Verscheyde Volkeren, meerendels door Vorsten, op Maatschappyen Derwaarts gefonden, gedaan, Zedert het Jaar 1601 to 1605. Waar van eenige noyt gedrukt, andere nu eerst uyt haar Oorspronkelijke Taalen overgeset, en sommige merkelijk verbeterd zijn; Zijnde een waaragtige en bondage Beschrijving van veele vreemde Koningrijken, Landschapen en steeden, der selver Benamingen, Gelegentheden, Sterktens, Stroomen, Zee-Havens, Goud - en Silver - Mijnen, Peerl - Visseryen, en menigvuldige Wonderen; Benevens de Oorlog-daden en Gedenk-waardige Bedrijven der Ontdekkers, in het op-doen deser Landen vorgevallen; voorts hunne gevaarlijke en seldsame Outmortingen, merk-waardige Geschiedenissen, grouwsame Verwoestingen, vorrname Volk-Plantingen en Vestigingder Koopmanscahppen aldaar. Alles Doorgaans met nodige Land-Kaarten, menigse Konst-Printen, en bequame Registers verrijkt. 9 parts with separate title pages and pagination, bound in one volume. 10 folding plates (part of one plate lacking). Contemporary vellum covers, book is almost detached from covers (but easily restorable). Contains the accounts of the following early voyages: First voyage of the English East Indies Company under the command of James Lancaster; Voyage to the West Indies under David Middleton and Michael Geare; Voyage of George Weymouth to find the North-West passage; Voyage of Martin Pringe to the northern parts of Virginia; Second voayge to Virbinia under captain Bartholomew Gilbers; Second voyage of the English East Indies Company under the command of Hendrik Middleton; Voyage of Hendrik Middleton to the Moluccas; Voyage of Captain Charles leig to Guyana; Voyage of Nicolaus Schmidt to Constaninople and Egypt; Voyage of Captain John Saris to the East Indies. Good.

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Book number: 5516

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

The New-York Traveller; Containing Railroad, Steamboat, Canal Packet, and Stage Routes Through the State of New York. Also Other Information Useful to Travellers.

New York, Disturnell. 1845, First Edition. Blue Cloth, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book, 48 pages, old name and bookplate on front endpapers, lovely copy of a scarce item. Very Good.

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Book number: 4306

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Photo of Frank Hurley lining up a shot, moments before falling through the ice

0. No Binding. Book, 194mm x 142mm. Photo of Frank Hurley lining up a shot. Probably a photo of an older photo or from a book. Newspaper clipping pasted to the back says "Famous photographer Frank Hurley fell through the ice as he lined up this shot." Handwriting and stamp "Used 23 June 1974 Daily Sun". Very Good.

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Book number: 011445

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

The Picturesque Pocket Companion to Margate, Ramsgate, Broadstairs, and the parts adjacent. Illustrated with One Hundred and Twenty Engravings on Wood, by G. W. Bonner.

London, William Kidd. 1831, First Edition. Original Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: G.W. Bonner. Book, iii, 215 pages, all plates and illustrations present, original paper titling label on front cover is slightly darkened and has a small piece of one corner missing, old name and date on front endpaper. A nice copy of a delightful book. Nearly Very Good.

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Book number: 4511

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Keywords: G.W. Bonner

Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography. New Monthly Series. Vol. XIII., 1891.

London, Royal Geographical Society. 1891, First Edition. Blue Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, viii, 780 pages, coloured folding maps and b/w illustrations (all present). Front and rear covers detached, lacks spine. Good.

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Book number: 3876

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Keywords: Tashkent Expedition 1890, Matabele and Mashona Lands, Lands of the Globe Still Available for European Settlement, Exploration in Alaska North-West British Columbia, a Botaniclake Nyassa Tanganyika, Colonel Pevtsof, Challenger Expedition, Botanical Trip to

Silver gelatin photo "Bear of Oakland" leaving NZ (Dunedin) [1935]

0. No Binding. Book, 210mm x 160mm. Handwriting in pencil on the back. Very Good.

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Book number: 011435

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Silver gelatin photo of the crows nest on the Bear of Oakland [1935]

0. No Binding. Book, 210mm x 160mm. Handwriting on back 'Bear of Oakland', four tiny holes in the corners where the photo was attached to a pinboard. Very Good.

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Book number: 011436

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Silver gelatine photo: Iceberg Byrd Antarctic expedition

0. No Binding. Book, 214mm x 163mm. Handwriting on back 'Iceberg 1 Byrd Ant Expedition'. Not clear whether this is a photo from Byrd's first or second Antarctic Expedition. Small water stain on the left hand side. Good.

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Book number: 011437

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration