A E.H.

Tribes on My Frontier. An Indian Naturalists Foreign Policy. With Illustrations by F.C. Macrae. Fifth Edition.

Thacker Spink & Co., Calcutta,, 1892. 8vo., Fifth Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present), illustrated title, and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; original blue pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked in gilt and black, bevelled boards, black endpapers, a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy. With the trade ticket of Sizer of Felixstowe on front paste-down, and 40pp publisher's illustrated catalogue (dated January 1894) bound in at end. First published in 1883, this scarce work collects a series of papers first published in the newspaper 'Times of India'. Scarce, especially in this condition.

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ACTON Sir John

Acton in America. The American Journal of Sir John Acton 1853. Edited by S.W. Jackman. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Patmos Press, Shepherdstown WV,, 1979. 8vo., First Edition; green marbled boards, green cloth back blocked and lettered in silver, green endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's glassine dustwrapper. DUSTWRAPPER NOT SHOWN IN IMAGE. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 46647

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AGATHARCHIDES OF CNIDUS

On the Erythraean Sea. Translated and edited by Stanley M. Burstein. [Hakluyt Society]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hakluyt Society,, 1989. 8vo., First Edition; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing a sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at head and tail of backstrip. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 172. Written 'sometime before 100BC' and through to have been an appendix to a larger historical work not extant. Bridges & Hair, p.294.

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AITKEN Eleanor

Ariadne's Thread. Through the Labyrinth to Palestine and Isreal SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

Cornelian Press, Cambridge,, [1999]. 8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE.

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Book number: 35476

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Keywords: travel, middle, israel, palestine, amnesty, amnesty international, eleanor aitken

ALLILUYEVA Svetlana

Twenty Letters to a Friend. Translated from the Russian by Priscilla Johnson. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Hutchinson,, [1967]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, small tape mark on front free endpaper; terracotta cloth, gilt back, grey endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper lightly sunned at backstrip. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 41834

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Keywords: travel, russia, soviet russia, stalin, gulags, svetlana alliluyeva

ALMEIDA Manoel de

Some Records of Ethiopia, 1593-1646. Being Extracts from 'The History of High Ethiopia or Abassia'. Together with Bahrey's 'History of the Galla'. Translated and edited by C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL SERIES BINDING

Hakluyt Society,, 1954. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. The selections from Almeida describe the country, its people and the journeys of Jesuit missionaries attempting to enter or leave Ethiopia. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 107. Bridges & Hair, p.284.

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Book number: 33997

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AMUNDSEN Roald

The South Pole. An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram' 1910-1912. Translated from the Norwegian by A.G. Chater. [Facsimile re-issue].

C. Hurst,, [1996]. 2 vols., in 1, 8vo., with a portrait frontispiece, numerous photographs, maps and tables in the text, a folding plan and a large folding map (creased at one fold); original blue cloth, gilt back, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter mildly creased and frayed at edges. Good quality facsimile re-issue of the scarce John Murray edition of 1912. Already scarce in its own right. Taurus 71; Rosove 9.A1; Spence 16 (all recording the 1912 edition).

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Book number: 24910

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ANON

Hong Kong Directory. NEAR FINE COPY

[Universal Publications, Hong Kong],, [1998]. 8vo., Fourth Edition, indexes and captions in English and Chinese, with very numerous details coloured maps; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE.

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Book number: 22022

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Keywords: travel, far east, hong kong, hongkong

ASBOTH Janos de

An Official Tour through Bosnia and Herzegovina, with an Account of the History, Antiquities, Agrarian Conditions, Religion, Ethnology, Folk Lore and Social Life of the People. Authorized English Edition. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION

Swan Sonnenschein & Co.,, 1890. 8vo., First Edition thus, with title in red and black, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and large folding coloured map, some light offsetting on front free endpaper; green buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy. With the fine armorial bookplate of John Gretton on front paste-down. The author was a sometime member of the Hungarian Parliament. The original (German) edition was published in 1888. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 48893

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Keywords: travel, exploration, europe, bosnia, herzegovina, balkans, asboth, janos de asboth

ASHBY Douglas

Things Seen in Switzerland in Summer. A Description of a wonderful Country, its peerless Valleys and Mountains, Ancient Towns and the picturesque Customs of its freedom-loving Peoples. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Seeley Service,, [1928]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates, front endpaper map in blue and rear endpaper chart; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and lettered in black, gilt back, backstrip a trifle faded else a near fine copy. With 2pp series catalogue at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 41921

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Keywords: travel, exploration, things seen, things seen series, switzerland, douglas ashby

ATTEBERY L.W.

The Most of What We Spend. A Biography of Robert L. Hendren Jr. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

[West Shore Press, Caldwell ID,, 1998]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and very numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNATURE ON TITLE, AND SEPARATE SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON OBVERSE OF IMPRINT LEAF. THIS COPY WAS PRESENTED TO PROFESSOR JACK MORPURGO 'WITH GRATITUDE FOR MANY YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP'. Professor Jack Morpurgo (1918-2000) was Director-General of the National Book League and later Professor of American Literature at Leeds University. His many works include several on Anglo-American military history and an acclaimed biography of fellow Old Blue Barnes Wallis. Extremely scarce.

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Book number: 20686

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AUSTRIA.

Hoch Osterreich. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Osterreichischer Bundesverlag,, 1935. 8vo., with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. The influence of Germany's newly created Third Reich is evident.

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Book number: 29342

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Keywords: travel, europe, austria, osterreich

BAEDEKER Karl

Berlin and its Environs. Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker. With 30 Maps and Plans. Sixth Edition. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE LAST EDITION IN ENGLISH

Karl Baedeker, Leipzig,, 1923. Sm. 8vo., Sixth Edition, with double-page map as frontispiece, double-page coloured map, 9 folding coloured maps, 13 folding plans and numerous plans in the text, series catalogue on front endpapers and rear endpaper map; original series binding of red grained red cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, radial corners, gilt back, marbled edges, silk marker, a remarkably well-preserved, near fine copy. The folding maps and plans are on japon. SCARCE WITH ALL MAPS. Hinrichsen E65.

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BAEDEKER Karl

The Dominion of Canada, with Newfoundland and an Excursion to Alaska. Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker. With 13 Maps and 12 Plans. Third Revised and Augmented Edition. [Compiled by J.F. Muirhead.] GOOD, CLEAN COPY

Karl Baedeker,, 1907. Sm. 8vo., Third Edition, text in English, with folding coloured map as frontispiece, and numerous coloured and tinted maps and plans (a number folding or double-page), contemporary surname on front free endpaper; original series binding of grained red cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, radial corners, marbled edges, primrose endpapers, silk marker, joints mildly rubbed else a good, clean copy. With series catalogue on front free endpapers; the folding maps and plans are on japon. Compiled and written by J.F. Muirhead, Baedeker's Canada was first published in 1894. This edition sees the first mention of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (incorporated in 1903 but to date partly constructed; the section on Alaska has been enlarged from the previous edition. Hinrichsen E265.

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Book number: 41912

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BAEDEKER Karl

The Eastern Alps. including the Bavarian Highlands, Tyrol, Salzburg, Upper and Lower Austria, Styria, Carinthia and Carniola. Handbook for Travellers. With 78 Maps, 16 Plans and 11 Panoramas. Twelfth Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE TWELFTH EDITION

Karl Baedeker,, 1911. Sm. 8vo., Twelfth Edition, with folding coloured map as frontispiece, coloured maps and plans ( a number double-page or folding), folding panoramas and rear endpaper maps, a few maps poorly folded; original series binding of grained red cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, radial corners, marbled edges, primrose endpapers, silk marker, a bright, clean copy. With series catalogue on front endpapers. The folding maps and plans are on japon. Hinrichsen E53.

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Keywords: baedeker, karl baedeker, eastern alps, italy, switzerland, austria, alps, bavaria, tryol, styria, carinthia, carniola