Allen, Bob

Short Walks in the Lake District: 60 Walks for Short Days, Wet Days and With the Family

London: Michael Joseph, 1995. 2nd printing., a lightly faded strip on front board (cover) otherwise very good hard cover book in decorative boards/ no dust jacket., An illustrated collection of 60 of the best walks in the Lake District, all within the National Park.

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Book number: 657002

Catalogue: Travel & exploration

Keywords: 718136942

De Blasi, Marlena

A Thousand Days in Venice: an Unexpected Romance

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2002. 3rd printing., Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket. 8vo., A story of the transplanted American in Venice finding true love; except this one is really good; 272 pages.

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Book number: 2564442

Catalogue: Travel & exploration

Keywords: 1565123212

Brown, Michael

South to Gascony

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine price clipped dust jacket., The first guide in English of this little-known region in Southwestern France, illustrated.

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Book number: 657099

Catalogue: Travel & exploration

Keywords: 241126940

Buruma, Ian

God's Dust: a Modern Asian Journey

NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989. 1st printing of 1st edition., Light foxing on end papers otherwise a clean, unmarked very good+ hard cover book/ very good+ dust jacket., The late 20th century has been the Pacific century but Buruma explores the identity crises that Asian faces as surely as its new material prosperity.

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Book number: 653498

Catalogue: Travel & exploration

Keywords: 374164584

Elliot, James & Richard Kerr

Rings: Discoveries From Galileo to Voyager

Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade hard cover book/ closed tears otherwise very good+ dust jacket., A broad historical description of the three known sets of planetary rings.

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Book number: 600025

Catalogue: Science: astronomy, astrophysics & planetary travel

Keywords: 262050315

Garcia, Paulo JV Editor

Physical Processes in Circumstellar Disks Around Young Stars

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., Contributors include Edwin Bergin, Steven Balbus, Richard Durisen and others; 422 pages.

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Book number: 2564019

Catalogue: Science: astronomy, astrophysics & planetary travel

Keywords: 226282295

Haresnape, Brian

Stanier Locomotives: a Pictorial History

Runnymede: Ian Allen, 1993. 3rd printing., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., A pictorial history of each class of locomotive built by Sir Willaim Stanier, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London Midland and Scottish Railway, illustrated.

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Book number: 656287

Catalogue: Travel & exploration

Keywords: 711010986

Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti

Italian Days

NY: Atlantic Press, 1989. 4th printing, A clean fine paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., Italy from the eyes of a great lover of Italy and Italian culture.

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Book number: 2021299

Catalogue: Travel & exploration

Keywords: Italy 0871137275

Jastrow, Robert

Until the Sun Dies

NY: Norton, 1977. 1st printing of 1st US edition., Fine trade hard cover book/ short closed tear otherwise near fine dust jacket.

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Book number: 600030

Catalogue: Science: astronomy, astrophysics & planetary travel

Keywords: 393064158

Littmann, Mark & Ken Willcox

Totality: Eclipses of the Sun

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991. 1st printing of 1st edition., A clean, unmarked Fine paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., An explanation of the anatomy & science of the Sun & eclipse phenomena as well as eclipse calendars through 2052.

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Book number: 600034

Catalogue: Science: astronomy, astrophysics & planetary travel

Keywords: 824813715

Mayle, Peter

Acquired Tastes

NY: Bantam Books, 1992. 1st printing of 1st US edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., Mayle on the spending habits of the rich.

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Book number: 563046

Catalogue: Travel & exploration

Keywords: 553090275

Moorehead, Alan

The Blue Nile

NY: Harper & Row, 1962. 1st printing of 1st US edition., Fine hard cover book/ closed tear & edgewear otherwise very good dust jacket.

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Book number: 2021240

Catalogue: Travel & exploration

Keywords: Africa: general

Morley, Frank

The Great Road North

NY: MacMillan, 1961. 1st printing of 1st US edition., Light foxing on bottom edge otherwise very good+ hard cover book/ dust jacket beginning to yellow & Light soiling otherwise very good dust jacket.

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Book number: 612058

Catalogue: Travel & exploration

Muller, Julius W

Ever Thine: a Selection of Exceptions From the Travel Letters of J.W. Muller

NY: Barlett Orr Press, 1928. 1st printing of 1st US edition., Slight foxing on end papers otherwise near fine hard cover book/ no dust jacket, no slipcase., One of 400 copies.

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Book number: 605523

Catalogue: Travel & exploration

De Roos, Wily With A Foreword By Rear-Admiral G-S-Ritchie

North West Passage

Camden: International Marine Publishing, 1980. 1st printing of 1st English edition, Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., The search for a passage from Europe to the Far East through the Canadian arctic has intrigued explorers since the 16th century. The feat was finally accomplished by Roald Amundsen in 1906 and the author repeated it in 1977.

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Book number: 652203

Catalogue: Travel & exploration

Keywords: 877420874