Morton, Friedrich (ills. by Fritz Berger),

XELAHUH.

The Adventurers Club, London, ND (circa 1960), club edn., 208pp, in text line drawings, light green cloth lettered in black at spine, coloured pictorial montage dustwrapper, first English edition published by Hollis & Carter in 1959, the explorer, archaeologist and naturalist spent many years in Guatemala and here relates his experiences, lightly rubbed and bumped at tips, edges tanned, ink inscr. verso front free endpaper, and gift card with old sello stains to half title, dustwrapper: a little rubbed with sl. loss at extrems., repaired to reverse, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 42285

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Keywords: travel exploration guatemala south america

Ommanney, F. D.,

EASTERN WINDOWS.

Readers Union, London, 1962, club edn., 245pp, 8pp halt tone photo ills., brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt at spine, upper edge coloured, pictorial dustwrapper, the author, a zoologist and marine biologist, relates his time in the 1950's in Singapore with the Colonial Service as Director of Fishery Research and at Hong Kong as reader in Marine Biology, with seagoing research trips and a conference in Tokyo, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at etxrems., small chips tail of spine and short nick lower flap fold, very good plus in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 28507

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Keywords: far east singapore hong kong japan tokyo marine biology fishery fisheries research

Ommanney, F. D.,

THE SHOALS OF CAPRICORN.

Readers Union, London, 1954, club edn., 280pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., maps at endpapers, dark green cloth lettered and lined in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, decorated lettered dustwrapper, an account of a two year scientific survey for the Colonial Office into the feasibility of commercial fishing in the shoals water of the Indian Ocean between the Seychelles and Mauritius, very lightly bumped at lower tips, dustwrapper: rubbed at extrems., sl. loss at spine ends and tips, two short tears upper edge lower panel, spine sl. sunned, very good plus in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 30741

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Keywords: travel exploration maritime voyage survey scientific fisheries seychelles mauritius

Parkman, Francis,

THE OREGON TRAIL - Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life.

Readers Union, London, 1944, club edn., viii, 280pp, maps at endpapers, green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, the classic account of the author's 1846 journey into the Great West and his time spent in a village of Sioux indians, a little bumped and light;y rubbed at extrems., light foxing to edges, a few faint fox marks to prelims., light foxing to final endpapers, no dustwrapper, good plus,

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Book number: 28503

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Keywords: usa oregon sioux west

van der Post, Laurens,

JOURNEY INTO RUSSIA.

The Reprint Society, London, 1965, club edn., 319pp inc. 2pp map, green cloth backed with maroon at spine, lettered in gilt at spine, upper edge coloureed, coloured lettered dustwrapper, an account of a journey of discovery through and across Russia in the early 1960's, bumped and a little creased at upper cnr. of upper board, heavy creasing to front free endpaper, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., short repaired tear upper edge upper panel, good plus in a very good dustwrapper,