JAMES F. L.

The Unknown Horn of Africa. An Exploration from Berbera to the Leopard River. The Map based on Surveys by W.D. James and Percy Aylmer, and the Narrative Illustrations by Rose Hake. Second Edition, containing the Narrative Portion and Notes only. With an Obituary Notice by J.A. and W.D. James. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH

George Philip,, 1890. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and folding map coloured in outline, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in white and black, black endpapers, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the contemporary trade ticket of Friend of Brighton on front paste-down, and 10pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end.

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Book number: 48205

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Keywords: travel, exploration, africa, east africa, horn of africa, james, rose hake

JANCOURT

Jancourt's Railway Steamship Airway Tourist Map and Guide Book to Europe. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

W & AK Johnston, Edinburgh,, [c.1948]. 8vo., with very large folding coloured map at end; original red boards, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, covers very lightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. Deceptively detailed data on European countries; particularly interesting the light of the post-WWII commentary on Germany.

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Book number: 25519

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Keywords: europe, jancourt, guide books, jancourt, travel, exploration, europe, jancourt's, railway, steamship, airway, tourist, map, guide, book, europe

JEKYLL Walter

Jamaican Song and Story. Annancy Stories, Digging Sings, Ring Tunes, and Dancing Tunes. Collected and edited by Walter Jekyll.

David Nutt for the Folk-Lore Society,, 1907. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with numerous musical notations in the text, series title and title lightly spotted, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; decorative cloth, blocked in gilt and black, gilt back, uncut, covers a little age-marked, upper hinge cracked but quite sound else a good, sound copy of a very scarce work. Publications of the Folk-Lore Society, LV.

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Book number: 2613

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Keywords: occult, folk-lore, jamaica, west indies, folk-song, walter jekyll, travel, exploration, americana, jamaican, song, story

JEPHSON A.J. Mounteney

The Diary of A.J. Mounteney Jephson. Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1887-1889. Edited by Dorothy Middleton. With Preface, Prologue and Epilogue compiled by the Editor in Collaboration with Maurice Denham Jephson. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Ashgate [for] Hakluyt Society,, 2014. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; original Society binding of black cloth, upper board blocked with signature in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Two-thirds of the complete diary; the omissions supplied by editorial narrative. Hakluyt Society, Extra Series, No. 40; Bridges & Hair, p.299.

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JIRU V.

Praha A Prazana.

Orbis, Praha,, 1962. Sm. 4to., First Edition, text in Czech, with illustrated title-spread, title in blue and black, numerous full-page photographs throughout and pictorial endpapers; ivory cloth blocked in gilt and black, gilt back, covers very lightly browned at edges else a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter worn and frayed at edges.

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Book number: 23371

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Keywords: czechoslovakia, praha, prague, czech republic, photography, v. jiru, travel, exploration, europe, praha, prazana

JOBSON Richard

The Discovery of River Gambra (1623). Edited, with additional Material, by David P. Gamble and P.E.H. Hair. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hakluyt Society,, 1999. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, coloured and monochrome plates, and maps; original Society binding of navy cloth, upper board blocked with sailing vessel in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Hakluyt Society, Third Series, No. 2.

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Book number: 39448

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JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY PROVIDENCE RI

The John Carter Brown Library Conference. A Report of the Meeting held in the Library at brown University on the Early History of the Americas. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

John Carter Brown Library, Providence RI,, 1951. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers lightly browned at extremities else a very good, clean copy . VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 21120

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JOHNSON, ed. Barry C.

Ho, for the Great West!. and other original Papers to mark the 25th Anniversary of the English Westerners' Society. NEAR FINE COPY

Eatome for The English Westerners' Society,, 1980. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 39770

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KAWAGUCHI Ekai

Three Years in Tibet with the original Japanese Illustrations by The Shramana Ekai Kawaguchi, late Rector of Gohyakurakan Monastery, Japan. EXCELLENT COPY WITH THE ORIGINAL JAPANESE ILLUSTRATIONS

Theosophist Office, Adyar, Madras and Theosophical Publishing Society, Benares and London,, 1909. Roy. 8vo., First English Edition, with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure, 10 plates (one large and folding) in photogravure, 63 illustrations in the text and a large folding coloured map (lightly spotted; one short tear without material loss in one fold); original cloth gilt, gilt back, mildly rubbed at joints, corners lightly bruised else a remarkably bright, clean copy of a very scarce work. Classic account of a journey by a Japanese monk through Tibet to Nepal between 1897-1903, and including a year's residence in the forbidden city of Lhasa disguised as a local doctor. His extraordinary narrative, detailing a series of events that ought never to have occurred at all, was originally published in a long series of articles written for two leading Japanese newspapers, and subsequently issued in book form (in Japanese) by Hakubunkwan. This is the first appearance in English. ONE OF THE RAREST MODERN BOOKS ON TIBET AND A VALUABLE PRIMARY SOURCE. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF WHICH THIS IS A WELL ABOVE AVERAGE COPY. Cordier BS 4382; Yakushi K35.

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Book number: 7691

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KEANE A.H.

The Gold of Ophir. Whence brought and by Whom? NEAR FINE COPY.

Edward Stanford,, 1901. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece; original red diced cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, uncut and largely unopened, black endpapers, a near fine copy. With the publisher's separately printed trade terms slip. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION

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Book number: 19264

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Keywords: middle east, africa, ophir, rhodesia, sofala, gold, a.h. keane, travel, exploration, middle east, the, gold, ophir

KIEWIET C.W. de

British Colonial Policy and the South African Republics 1848-1872.

Longmans Green & Co.,, 1929. 8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, uncut, covers lightly age-marked, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down and markings on front free endpaper. This copy was presented by the Imperial Studies Committee of the Royal Empire Society. Imperial Studies No. 3. Includes an extended bibliography. Extremely scarce.

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Book number: 21109

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Keywords: africa, south africa, british colonial policy, imperial studies, c.w. de kiewiet, travel, exploration, africa, british, colonial, policy, the, south, african, republics, 1848-1872

KING L.W.

Egypt and Western Asia in the Light of Recent Discoveries. Containing One Hundred Plates and Illustrations. ROBERT SINKER'S COPY

SPCK,, [1907]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard captioned in red present), and numerous plates and illustrations in the text; original red buckram, bevelled boards, gilt back, black endpapers, uncut, backstrip very lightly sunned else a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy. ROBERT SINKER'S COPY WITH HIS SIGNED INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. Robert Sinker (1838-1913) was famously Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge and Chaplain of Trinity College Chapel. He compiled several bibliographical works, including a scholarly account of the College library and the standard Catalogue of its Fifteenth-Century Printed Books, and was active also as a biblical scholar, publishing a number of textual studies resulting from the progressive archaeology of the Holy Land. A SPLENDID AND IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY.

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Book number: 21954

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Keywords: travel, middle east, holy land, egypt, western asia, sinker, robert sinker, trinity college, trinity college cambridge, cambridge

KING, ed. Moses

King's Handbook of New York City. An Outline History and Description of the American Metropolis. With over Eight Hundred Illustrations from Photographs made expressly for this Work. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING

Moses King, Boston MA,, [1892]. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title in red and black, over 800 photographs (many full-page) and a full-page map in the text, and pictorial endpapers; original pictorial tan cloth gilt, upper board board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and brown, gilt back, brown top, very neatly recased, a remarkably bright, clean copy. A remarkably well-preserved copy of the best nineteenth-century guide to the city, extensive in scope and comprehensive in detail. A second edition was issued in the following year; the original edition is very scarce, especially in this condition.

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Book number: 14220

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KLEIN A.

Among the Gods. Scenes of India. With Legends by the Way.

Blackwood, Edinburgh,, 1895. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 21 plates, small neat period inscription on half-title, half-title and facing page lightly browned; original decorative blue cloth, upper board panelled and lettered in gilt and blind, gilt back, black endpapers, backstrip faded (but all lettering entirely legible), a very good, clean, firm copy.

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Book number: 14032

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KNIGHT Edward Frederick

The Awakening of Turkey. A History of the Turkish Revolution. [Second Impression]. IN FULL MOROCCO

John Milne,, 1909. 8vo., Second Impression, with portrait frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), and 7 fine portraits (all original captioned tissue guards present), title very lightly spotted; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Sold from an institution with its small blind stamp on title. Detailed account of the personalities and development of the Young Turk movement, and the restoration of Turkey's Constitution. Published a month after the first edition. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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Book number: 20134

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Keywords: travel, exploration, europe, turkey, turkish revolution, midhat pasha, riza bey, niazi bey, enver bay, kiamil pasha, aassam bay, edward frederick knight