[A., G. F.]

Australia; a popular account of its physical features, inhabitants, natural history and productions. With the history of its colonization.

London: SPCK, N.D. Small 8vo. 365[1]pp, [4]pp publisher's list, multi-folding colour map frontis, plates, text illustrations. Original blind-stamped decorated brown cloth gilt. Neat repair to spine head; extremes lightly rubbed; cloth unevenly sun-faded and lightly stained; small closed tear to map gutter-margin. * 1865 presentation inscription.

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Book number: 35062

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Travel & Exploration Australia

Bennett's hand-book for travellers in Norway.

Christiana: printed by H Tangen, 1888 25th revised and enlarged edition. Small 8vo in fours. Unpaginated prelims, 244pp, unpaginated vocabulary, lx pp vocabulary, list of books and adverts (some printed on coloured paper), maps and plans (some folding or multi-folding). The main body of the work interleaved with blanks. Original blind-stamped red cloth gilt, marbled leaf-edges. Spine browned and chipped; cloth lightly soiled and stained.

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Book number: 40556

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Travel & Exploration Scandinavia

[HINKS, Arthur R. (Editor).]

The Geographical Journal. Vol. 84. July to December 1934.

London: Edward Stanford for the Royal Geographical Society, 1934. 8vo. viii, 556[2]pp, double-sides plates, maps and charts (some folding /colour), text maps and figures. Contemporary blue cloth gilt. Ex-Athenaeum Club, Liverpool, with only evidence their handsome bookplate, name in gilt to spine tail and small oblong ink-stamps to foot of title-page and map versos. All maps crisp and bright. Includes contributions by Leakey, Kingdon Ward and Christopher Sykes.

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Book number: 42006

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Travel & Exploration learned journal

[KIRWAN, L. P. (Editor).]

The Geographical Journal. Vol. 125. January to December 1959.

London: John Murray for the Royal Geographical Society, 1950. 8vo. [vii], 502pp; double-sides plates, maps and charts (some folding /colour), text maps and figures. Contemporary blue cloth gilt. Sine lightly sun-faded. All maps crisp and bright. Includes Spry on Captain John Palliser, Eric Shipton's 'Explorations in Patagonia' and a contribution by St. John Philby on 'The Eastern Marshes of Mesopotamia.'

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Book number: 42008

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Travel & Exploration learned journal

[WILSON, H. K., H.M. Inspector of Prisons.]

Notes on the native question in Natal.

NP, [1883]. 8vo. 7pp. Disbound from disparate collection. Ink-stamp to head of title. Wilson, late resident magistrate, County Alfred, Natal, here presents his assessment of the situation, including possible taxation. 'The Natal kaffir is naturally an idle fellow ...' Not in COPAC. OCLC adds Toronto Public Library.

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Book number: 43353

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Travel & Exploration Africa

[BYRNE, Julia Clara.]

Pictures of Hungarian Life. ... Illustrated by the author.

London: William Ridgway, 1869. 8vo. x, 401pp, frontis, 6 plates. Original blind-stamped green cloth gilt, uncut. Extremes rubbed with slight wear; board fore-edges stained; re-cased with new eps.

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Book number: 36580

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Travel & Exploration Eastern Europe

[BAIN, George.]

Rambles in Holland; being notes of a run through the Netherlands.

Nairn: 'Telegraph', 1873. 17cm. 72pp. Original blindstamped brown limp cloth gilt. Lacks front free endpaper; stain to title page gutter margin; very light occasional spotting to text. Bain's major work was 'A history of Nairnshire' published in 1893. COPAC: BL, NLS.

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Book number: 45080

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: travel Europe Smoking habits Jews

[HOWARD, Catharine Mary.]

Reminiscences for my children. Private. Vol II.

Carlisle: printed for the author by Charles Thurnam, 1837. 8vo in fours. Pp [3]-254. Contemporary half calf gilt, raised bands, calf gilt spine label, marbled sides, sprinkled leaf-edges. Extremes rubbed with light wear; very light spotting to endpapers. Volume 2 of a 4 volume set. Journal of a trip to France covering 1813-1815 with discussion of the French situation arouind the time of Waterloo. Also includes various reports of visits in England between 1815 and 1837. The Turman archive copy with their binding ticket and modern stock number.

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Book number: 41829

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Travel & Exploration France

ABERIGH-MACKAY, George.

Twenty-One Days in India, being the tour of Sir Ali Baba, K.C.B.

London: W H Allen & Co, 1860 2nd edition. 8vo. [iv], iv, 210pp, [2]pp publisher's adverts. Original printed paper-covered boards, bevelled edges, uncut. Plain paper repair to spine head; binding rubbed, worn and soiled; eps, prelims, leaf-edges and last few leaves spotted; advert leaf at rear holed and worn; very occasional light spotting and soiling to a few margins; 6 relevant 'Personal Column' newspaper clippings of the time tipped on to blank page within the 'Mem-sahib' section.

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Book number: 39052

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Travel & Exploration India Social History Humour

AHMAD, Nafis.

An Economic Geography of East Pakistan.

London: OUP, 1968 2nd edition. 4to. xvi, 401pp, 57 text maps, 71 text tables. Original brown cloth gilt. Ex-reference library with only evidence 3 small ink-stamps to foot of title-page.

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Book number: 35857

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: travel Asia

ALLEN, W. E. D. (Editor).

Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings (1589-1605) Volume II. 'The Hakluyt Society Second Series No. CXXXIX.'

Cambridge: published for the Society at the University Press, 1970. 8vo. ix[i] pp, pp [369]-640, colour frontis, colour and b/w plates, multi-folding map at rear. Original decorated blue cloth gilt. Ex-reference library with minimal evidence. * A bright crisp copy.

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Book number: 38705

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Travel & Exploration

BARKLEY, Henry C.

Between the Danube and Black Sea, or, Five Years in Bulgaria.

London: John Murray, 1877 2nd edition. Small 8vo. xx, 313[1]pp, [2]pp publisher's list, 32pp publisher's general list, frontis map. Original maroon cloth gilt, boards decorated in black, uncut, black eps. Spine sun-faded; scattered small light stains to rear board; very occasional light spotting - mainly to upper margins.

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Book number: 36578

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Travel & Exploration Eastern Europe

BRANDT, G. H.

Royat (Les Bains) in Auvergne: its mineral waters and climate.

London: H K Lewis, 1880. 8vo. vi[ii], 29[1]pp, [2]pp adverts, frontis, map at rear, text tables. Original decorated green cloth gilt, brown eps. Cloth damp-stained and faded; small bump to rear board fore-edge. * Internally a crisp bright copy.

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Book number: 39103

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Travel & Exploration France Spas

THE LANDS OF CAZEMBE.

Lacerda's Journey to Cazembe in 1798. Translated and annotated by Captain R. F. Burton, F.R.G.S. Also Journey of the Pombeiros ... translated by B. A. Beadle; and a resume of the journey of Mm. Monteiro and Gamitto. By Dr. C. T. Beke.

London: John Murray for the Royal Geographical Society, 1873. 8vo. vii[i], 271pp, multi-folding part-coloured engraved map, text table. Original blind-stamped blue cloth boards, re-spined in matching plain blue cloth with black calf gilt spine label, brown eps. Board extremes rubbed with slight wear; light staining to cloth; reinforcement strips to ep gutter-margins; title-page lightly spotted and soiled; light browning and spotting to map.

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Book number: 37781

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Travel & Exploration Africa

COSTELLO, Dudley.

A Tour Through the Valley of the Meuse: with the legends of the Waloon Country and the Ardennes.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1846 2nd edition. 8vo. xiii[i], 316pp, additional colour litho title-page, colour litho frontis with tissue-guard, text illustrations, head and tail-pieces. Original blind-stamped decorated red cloth gilt, uncut. Extremes very lightly rubbed; cloth lightly soiled.

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Book number: 33193

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: travel Europe Illustrated Belgium