MADDEN (ed.) C.

Polar Record. Volume 19 [Numbers 118 (January), 119 (May), 120 (September) 1978. This volume only].

Polar Record,, 1978. 3 parts in one vol., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; strongly bound in polar blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy.

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Book number: 11069

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MADOX Richard

An Elizabethan in 1582. The Diary of Richard Madox. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno. NEAR FINE COPY IN SERIES BINDING

Hakluyt Society,, 1976. 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, a near fine copy. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 147. Bridges & Hair, p.291.

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MAGUIRE Rochfort

The Journal of Rochfort Maguire, 1852-1854. Two Years at Point Barrow, Alaska, aboard HMS PLOVER in the Search for Sir John Franklin. Edited by John Bockstoce. NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

Hakluyt Society,, 1988. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper boards with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt backs, uncut, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front paste-down of first volume. Includes much material on encounters and relations with 'Eskimos'. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Nos. 169, 170. Bridges & Hair, p.294.

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MAHAN J.A.

Vienna Yesterday and Today. [Fifth Impression].

Halm & Goldmann, Vienna,, [1933]. Sm. 8vo., Fifth Impression, with frontispiece and numerous plates; original burgundy cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, backstrip sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in 1928. SCARCE.

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Book number: 24204

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MAITLAND Louise

Forest Venture. Conquering the Deserts of the Middle East. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hale,, [1960]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 30860

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Keywords: travel, middle east, victor kennard maitland, louise maitland

MALASPINA Alessandro

The Malaspina Expedition 1789-1794. [Complete set]. The Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina. Edited by David Andrew, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Carlos Nove and Glyndwr Williams. Introduction by Donald C. Cutter. NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

Hakluyt Society,, [2001-2004]. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispieces, coloured and monochrome plates, illustrations, maps and endpaper maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Hakluyt Society, Series III, vols. 8, 11, 13. The set comprises: Vol. I: Cadiz to Panama; Vol. II: Panama to The Philippines; Vol. III: Manila to Cadiz.

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MARCHAL Henri

Le Décor et la Sculpture Khmers. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

Vanoest, Paris,, 1951. 8vo., First Edition, text in French, with 263 photographs on 64 plates, and 109 illustrations in the text, top lightly dust-soiled; original wrappers printed in red and black, uncut, a near fine copy. Etudes d'Art et d'Ethnologie Asiatiques III. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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Book number: 45938

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MARCHANT Leslie

France Australe. The French Search for the Southland and subsequent Explorations and Plans to found a Penal Colony and Strategic Base in South Western Australia 1503-1826. [Second and Best Edition]. FINE COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

[Scott Four Colour Print, Perth,, 1998]. 8vo., Second Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, many maps and plans in the text, and pictorial endpapers; pictorial boards, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Substantially revised and enlarged version of the original edition of 1982 which was never reissued. A LOVELY COPY OF THE BEST EDITION OF THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT.

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Book number: 22916

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MARGOLIOUTH D.S.

Cairo, Jerusalem & Damascus. Three Chief Cities of the Egyptian Sultans. [Illustrated by W.S.S. Tyrwhitt and R. Barratt]. NEAR FINE COPY, NEATLY REBACKED

Chatto & Windus,, 1907. 8vo., First Edition, with mounted coloured frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), title in blue and black, 57 fine coloured plates and 4 line illustrations in the text; original green cloth, upper board lettered in gilt with coloured illustration mounted in centre frame, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a near fine copy. With the separately printed addendum slip facing text.

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Book number: 20457

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Keywords: travel, exploration, middle east, egypt, syria, israel, cairo, jerusalem, damascus, margoliouth

MARSHALL J. F.

Whereon the Wild Thyme Blows. Some Memoirs of Service with the Hongkong Bank. [Introduction by Sir Michael Sandberg.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Token, Grayshott,, [1986]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.

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Book number: 41876

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Keywords: travel, far east, hong kong, hongkong bank, banking

MAUCLAIR Camille

Normandy. [The Picture Guides series]. NEAR FINE COPY

Medici Society,, [1927]. 4to., First Edition, with sepia-toned title-vignette, very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text and folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board lettered in black, gilt back, a near fine 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: 32339

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MAYCOCK Alan Lawson

Things Seen in Cambridge. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Seeley Service,, [1936]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and front endpaper map in blue; original series binding of blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With 2pp series catalogue precedingfrontispiece and 2pp publisher's advertisement at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 41922

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MAYDON Major Hubert Conway

Simen. Its Heights and Abysses. A Record of Travel and Sport in Abyssinia, with some Account of the Sacred City of Aksum and the Ruins of Gondar. NEAR FINE COPY OF MAYDON'S RAREST WORK

HF & G Witherby,, 1925. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 22 plates on 11, 5 maps in the text and large folding panorama on japon; green cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, uncut, top and fore-edge lightly spotted else a near fine copy. With publisher's catalogue leaf at end. Arguably Maydon's masterpiece and certainly his rarest work, combining detailed travelogue (starting in 1922), notes on field sports and mountain hunting (including Walia Ibex and Nyala), landscape and archaeology. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Czech 187.

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Book number: 49070

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Keywords: travel, exploration, africa, abyssinia, ethiopia, simen, aksum, gondar, field sports, hunting, ibex, nyala, maydon

MCFEE William

Sir Martin Frobisher. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY

John Lane Bodley Head,, [1928]. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, blue top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. The Golden Hind series comprises biographies of great explorers written by acknowledged authorities under the general editorship of Milton Waldman. Noted for their appearance and quality of design and production, all volumes are highly collectable.

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Book number: 32837

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McGAW Judith A.

Most Wonderful Machine. Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ,, [1987]. 8vo. First Edition, with photographs in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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