NYE R.B.

Midwestern Progressive Politics. A Historical Study of its Origins and Development 1870-1950. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

Michigan State College Press, [East Lansing MI],, 1951. 8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO PROFESSOR JACK MORPURGO WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.

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Book number: 20964

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OSWALD Felix

Alone in the Seeping-Sickness Country. [Second Impression]. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

Kegan Paul,, 1923. 8vo., Second Impression, with numerous plates and folding map coloured in outline, free endpapers lightly browned; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. First published in 1915.

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Book number: 30145

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Keywords: travel, africa, kisii highlands, victoria nyanza, kavirondo, felix oswald

OTTLEY R.

Black Odyssey. The Story of the Negro in America.

John Murray,, [1949]. 8vo., First UK Edition; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, back faded else a very good, clean copy. Includes an extensive bibliography. Published a year after Scribner's US edition.

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Book number: 24372

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Keywords: america, united states, negoes, black odyssey, civil rights, roi ottley, r. ottley, travel, exploration, americana, black, odyssey

OWEN Frank

Our Ally China. The Story of a Great People and its Man of Destiny - Chiang Kai-Shek. [With a Foreword by the Chinese Ambassador Dr. Wellington Koo.] A RARE SURVIVAL

W H Allen,, 1942. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, text lightly toned; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. Published in Allen's series 'Worth-While War-Time Books'. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL.

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Book number: 40236

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Keywords: travel, far east, china, chiang kai-shek, wellington koo, frank owen

PAEZ Pedro

Pedro Paez's History of Ethiopia, 1622. Edited by Isabel Boavida, Herve Pennec and Manuel Joao Ramos. Translated by Christopher J. Tribe. [Complete set.] NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

Ashgate [for] Hakluyt Society,, 2011. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; original Society binding of navy cloth, upper boards blocked with sailing vessel in gilt, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Hakluyt Society, Third Series, Vols. 23, 24.

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Book number: 48938

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Keywords: travel, hakluyt society, paez, pedro paez, ethiopia, abyssinia

PAIKERT G. C.

The Danube Swabians. German Populations in Hungary, Rumania and Yugoslavia, and Hitler's Impact on their Patterns. [Studies in Social Life X.] NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague,, 1967. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with full-page map in the text, tiny contemporary signature on front paste-down; green cloth, gilt back, green top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the small trade ticket of Parkers of Oxford on front paste-down. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 48838

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Keywords: travel, exploration, europe, paikert, danube, swabians, hungary, rumania, yugoslavia, hitler

PAKISTAN

Pakistan 1955-1956. IN MODERN BOARDS

Pakistan Publications, Karachi,, 1956. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; newly bound in boards, backstrip with paper label, original wrappers preserved, a very good, bright, clean copy.

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Book number: 25634

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Keywords: pakistan, anon, travel, exploration, india, pakistan, 1955-1956

PALLIS Marietta

Tableaux in Greek History. London: 25 March 1943 - 25 March 1944. NEAR FINE COPY

[Privately Printed,, 1952]. Large folio, First Edition, on laid paper, text in red and black, with 8 splendid plates (a number in gilt and colours; all original tissue guards present) and several illustrations (a number coloured by hand) in the text; original ivory laid paper boards, upper board with five decorative cross-stitches in sisal, blue cloth back, uncut, a near fine copy. A magnificent record of the original exhibition. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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Book number: 23763

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Keywords: greece, greek history, marietta pallis, m. pallis, travel, exploration, europe, tableaux, greek, history

PALMER William Thomas

Things Seen in North Wales. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Seeley Service,, [1927]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates, front endpaper map in blue and rear endpaper chart in blue, small neat repair to frontispiece margin; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and lettered in black, gilt back, a bright, clean copy With 2pp series catalogue preceding half-title and 6pp publisher's advertisement at end.

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Book number: 41933

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Keywords: travel, exploration, things seen, things seen series, wales, north wales, william palmer

PALMER W. P.

Things Seen on the English Lakes. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Seeley Service,, 1926. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates, and double-page map in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and lettered in black, gilt back, blue top, a bright, clean copy With series listing on half-title verso and 4pp publisher's catalogue at end.

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Book number: 41936

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Keywords: travel, exploration, things seen, things seen series, lake district, lakes

PARIS

[Paris]. L'Ile Saint-Louis. L'Ile de la Cite. Le Quartier de l'Ancienne Universite. Le Quartier de l'Ancienne Universite. Preface Pierre Gaxotte. Introduction Yvan Christ. Monographies des Hotels, des Eglises, des Colleges Jacques Sylvestre de Sacy, Philippe Sigur 3500 COPIES WERE PRINTED

L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza, [Alfortville,, 1974]. Sm. folio, First Edition, with numerous photographs and facsimiles (many double-page or full-page) in the text; red cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 3500 COPIES

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Book number: 18198

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Keywords: europe, france, paris, paris, travel, exploration, europe, paris

PARKER, ed. William Belmont

Paraguayans of To-Day. Edited by William Belmont Parker. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hispanic Society of America, Buenos Aires,, 1920. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous portraits, wanting front free endpaper, pictorial endpapers browned; tan cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red, red edges, radial corners, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with three of four small losses and lightly browned at backstrip. Hispanic Notes and Monographs, VI. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 31582

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Keywords: americana, paraguay, latin america, south america, hispanic, hispanic society of america, william belmont parker

PARKER Steve

Scott's Last Expedition. NEAR FINE COPY

Natural History Museum,, [2012]. Sm. folio, with coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a near fine copy. Outstanding collection of period and modern photographs depicting personel, equipment, scientific samples, clothing, rations, accommodation and so on. Conceived and published jointly by the Natural History Museum (UK), Canterbury Museum (NZ) and Antarctic Heritage Trust (NZ), this is a worthy pictorial complement to the many editions of Scott's text.

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Book number: 45266

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration0

Keywords: travel, exploration, polar, antarctic, south pole, scott, oates, herbert ponting

PARKER Matthew

The Sugar Barons. Family, Corruption, Empire and War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hutchinson,, [2011]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, full-page maps in the text and endpaper maps in sepia; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Well-illustrated, detailed and often harrowing account of the West Indies under slavery. The original edition is already scarce in this condition.

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Book number: 39338

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Keywords: mstock, travel, americana, west indies, slave trade, slavery, sugar, sugar plantations, piracy, matthew parker

PARKMAN Francis

[The Centenary Edition of the Works of Francis Parkman]. THE CENTENARY EDITION COMPLETE IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING

Little Brown, Boston MA,, 1924-32. 12 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 12 frontispieces (original tissue guards captioned in red) and many maps; original blue buckram, backstrips with printed paper labels (one label chipped but wholly legible; all save three volumes with spare label tipped-in at rear paste-down;), a few hinges tender (but all bindings sound), backstrips unevenly faded where library labels have been removed, else a very good, bright, clean set. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-downs and small blind stamp on front free endpapers. The set comprises: Vol. I: Pioneers of France in the New World; Vol. II: The Jesuits of North America; Vol. III: La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West; Vol. IV: The Old Regime in Canada; Vol. V: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV; Vol. VI: A Half-Century of Conflict I; Vol. VII: A Half-Century of Conflict II; Vol. VIII: Montcalm and Wolfe I; Vol. IX: Montcalm and Wolfe II; Vol. X: The Conspiracy of Pontiac I; Vol. XI: The Conspiracy of Pontiac II; Vol. XII: The Oregon Trail.

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Book number: 21661

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