HOLLAND Clive

Flanders and Hainault. [The Picture Guides series]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY

Medici Society,, [1925]. 4to., First Edition, title and text in sepia, with very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text and front endpaper map, neat contemporary inscription on blank preliminary; original series binding of terracotta cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Combining history and travel, Medici's profusely illustrated 'Picture Guides' series is notable for its generous use of period photography. Each volume is filled with evocative images complementing a deceptively detailed text.

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Book number: 32327

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Keywords: travel, europe, belgium, holland, flanders, hainault, medici society, picture guides,

HOLLAND Clive

Things Seen in Belgium. An Account of the Land, its People, Historic Cities, beautiful Medieval Buildings, Art Treasures and the picturesque Ardennes. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Seeley Service,, [1930]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates, front endpaper map in blue and rear endpaper chart, small neat contemporary signature on series catalogue; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and lettered in black, gilt back, blue top, a near fine copy. With 2pp series catalogue preceding frontispiece. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 41920

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration0

Keywords: travel, exploration, things seen, things seen series, belgium, clive holland

HOLLAND Clive

Things Seen in Paris. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Seeley Service,, [1926]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and lettered in black, gilt back, a near fine copy. With series catalogue preceding frontispiece and 4pp publisher's advertisement at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 41930

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HOLLAND Clive

Things Seen in Shakespeare's Country. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Seeley Service,, [1927]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates, full-page illustration in the text and endpaper charts in blue; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and lettered in black, gilt back, blue top, a bright, clean copy With 4pp publisher's catalogue (including series listing) at end.

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Book number: 41935

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HORGAN P.

Great River. The Rio Grande in North American History.

Rinehart, New York NY,, 1954. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text; black cloth, gilt backs, blue endpapers, a very good, bright, clean set wanting publisher's slip-case as often. The set comprises Volume I: Indians & Spain; Volume II: Mexico and the United States. Nice set of this standard account, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History in the year of publication. Adams, Herd 1065; Basic Texas Books 95A

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Book number: 23633

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Keywords: americana, america, rio grande, p. horgan, travel, exploration, americana, great, river

HORNEMANN Friedrich

Missions to the Niger. Volume I. [This volume only]. The Journal of Friedrich Hornemann's Travels from Cairo to Murzuk in the Years 1797-98 [and] The Letters of Major Alexander Gordon Laing 1824-26. Edited by E.W. Bovill. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Hakluyt Society,, 1908. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps, full-page map in the text and 5 large folding maps; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board framed in blind and blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. Hakluyt Society Series II, vol. 123. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. With Laing's letters are included his 'Cursory remarks on the course and termination of the great river Niger', his 'Notes on Gadamis', his only surviving letter to his wife, and the newspaper report of his death. Bridges & Hair p.287.

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Book number: 42071

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Keywords: travel, exploration, hakluyt society, hakluyt, africa, niger, friedrich hornemann, alexander gordon laing,

HUANG Evelyn

Hong Kong. Portraits of Power. With Photographs by Snowdon. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, [1995]. 4to., First Edition, with numerous fine photographs throughout; black cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and red, red endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 29525

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Keywords: travel, far east, hong kong, snowdon, photography

HURLEY R. C.

Picturesque Hong Kong. A British Crown Colony and Dependencies. A RARE SURVIVAL IN FULL MOROCCO

Commercial Press, Hong Kong,, 1925. 8vo., First Edition, with over 70 plates and 4 folding maps (2 large and coloured); handsomely bound in red full morocco, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with a floral spray, original pictorial wrappers preserved, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With a contemporary picture postcard and embroidered Christmas card (1945) loosely inserted. One of the best - and scarcest - pre-WWII guides to Hong Kong. Profusely illustrated and with very numerous trade advertisements throughout, it includes detailed coloured maps of Hong Kong Island and the New Territories, and plans of the Central District of Victoria and the Canton-Kowloon railway. A splendid copy of a work rarely found complete. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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Book number: 27113

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HUTTON Edward

Florence. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Hollis & Carter,, 1952. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 32 plates, neat inscription on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 1725

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Keywords: travel, europe, italy, florence, hutton, edward hutton

HUTTON Edward

The Valley of Arno. A Study of its Geography, History and Works of Art. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Constable,, 1927. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and 31 fine plates; blue cloth, upper board framed in blind, gilt back, gilt top, backstrip chafed at head else a very good, clean copy of a scarce work.

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Book number: 1223

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Keywords: travel, europe, italy, arno, hutton, edward hutton

IDEMITSU Sazo

The Eternal Japan. Conversations with Sazo Idemitsu. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

[Privately Printed, Tokyo],, [1978]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs throughout; green cloth, backstrip lettered in brown, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper.

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Book number: 30635

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Keywords: travel, japan, japanese, idemitsu, sazo idemitsu

INDIAN MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT.

Festivals of India. [Second Impression.] IN FULL BUCKRAM

Tourist Division, Ministry of Transport, New Delhi,, [1957]. 4to., Second Impression, with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full red buckram, original coloured wrappers preserved, a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 14501

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Keywords: travel, india, indian ministry of transport, indian festivals

INDIAN CENTRAL BANKING ENQUIRY COMMITTEE

The Indian Central Banking Enquiry Committee 1931.. Volume . Part I: Majority Report THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Government of India, Calcutta, 1931. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous tables in the text; original printed wrappers, covers mildly age-soiled and faded, backstrip lightly scuffed, a very good, sound, clean copy. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE.

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Book number: 28036

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INNES Emily

The Chersonese. With the Gilding Off. Introduction by Khoo Kay Kim. [Facsimile reissue]. FINE COPY IN HALF CALF

Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur,, [1974]. 2 vols. in 1, 8vo., Facsimile Reissue, with 2 frontispieces; tan half calf, red cloth boards, back with four raised bands, second and fourth compartments with red leather labels lettered in gilt, a fine copy. Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints. High quality facsimile reissue of Bentley's original two-volume edition of 1885.

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Book number: 24308

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JACK James W.

Daybreak in Livingstonia. The Story of the Livingstonia Mission, British Central Africa. Revised with an Introduction by Robert Laws. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY

Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, Edinburgh,, 1901. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 15 plates, double-page plan and large folding coloured map (neatly repaired at fold); original green cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in yellow and black, gilt back, uncut, very neatly recased, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With 12pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 27076

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Keywords: travel, exploration, africa, livingston, livingstonia mission, missionaries, missions, british central africa, james jack