BATES HENRY WALTER

The Naturalist on the River Amazons: With an Appreciation By Charles Darwin

London, Dent. reprint. Cloth, 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall. (500 grams) Everyman Library edition, small format, cloth rlightly soiled with small spot to edge of upper board, gilt dec spine, ink stamp to front endpaper, undated but around 1920, originally published 1863, xx 407pp + maps, hinges opened but holds well. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006670

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Amazon Brazil Jungle Exploration Victorian Travel Writing Naturalist Nature Botany

BB - DENYS WATKINS-PITCHFORD

The Autumn Road to the Isles

London, Travel Book Club. 1959, First Thus. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: Denys Watkins-Pitchford. (500 gram rate) unclipped DW light wear to corners, short split tail of upper joint, minor chipping spine ends, book lacks fep and has some minor age browning, 176pp, written and illustrated by Denys Watkins-Pitchford, travel writing in the north of Scotland, Highlands. Good/Good.

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Book number: 005519

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Scotland Scottish Isles Scots Travel Writing Engravings Illustrated Denys Watkins-Pitchford

NOYCE WILFRID

Climbing the Fish's Tail

London, Heinemann. 1958, First Edition. Original Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. inclipped DW has some minor wear to edges and spine ends, short splits at ends of joints, front panel of DW has faint aprtial cup ring, the board underneath has a ghost of a cup ring, some very faint minor foxing to book prelims, DW nearing VG, 150pp + plates, mountaineering in Nepal. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 010253

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Himalayan Himalaya Annapurna Mountaineering Climbing

NOYCE WILFRID

South Col, One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest 1953

London, Heinemann. 1954, First Edition. Original Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: A J Veilhan. dark blue cloth, gilt spine, endpapers illustrated with portraits of the expedition members, 303pp+plates and maps. some plates in colour, line drawings in text. top edge dusted blue. minor foxing to top edge, frontis glue not holding at bottom half. Windmill blind to lower board. Dust jacket unclipped, minor rubbing / chipping , some minor foxing staining to bottom of spine, a little paper has stuck from the jacket to the bottom of the rear book board, Noyce was the first memberr of Hunt's expedition to ascend South Col. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 012924

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Everest Mountaineering Climbing Edmund Hillary a J Veilhan

NOYCE WILFRID

South Col, One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest 1953

London, Heinemann. 1954, First Edition. Original Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: A J Veilhan. dark blue cloth, gilt spine, endpapers illustrated with portraits of the expedition members, 303pp+plates and maps. some plates in colour, line drawings in text. top edge dusted blue. minor foxing to top edge, frontis glue not holding at bottom half. Windmill blind to lower board. Dust jacket unclipped, minor rubbing / chipping at head of spine, some very minor foxing spots, a nice vibrant blue copy. Noyce was the first memberr of Hunt's expedition to ascend South Col. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 013326

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Everest Mountaineering Climbing Edmund Hillary a J Veilhan

WILLIS WILLIAM

The Epic Voyage Of the Seven Little Sisters

London, Hutchinson. 1956, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. unclipped dust jacket very tidy with minor rubbing or small chips to spine ends and corners, book and dust jacket are near Fine condition with just a hint of spotting to the closed edges, 244pp + plates, epic solo voyage across the Pacific in a balsa wood raft. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 005735

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Nautical Sailing Pacific Ocean Solo Raft Across the Pacific Balsa Raft

WILLIS WILLIAM

The Epic Voyage Of the Seven Little Sisters

London, Hutchinson. 1956, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. spine ends rubbed with tail frayed, pencil to fep, hinges loosening with binding showing at title, spine titling faded, 244pp + plates, epic solo voyage across the Pacific in a balsa wood raft. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008102

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Nautical Sailing Pacific Ocean Solo Raft Across the Pacific Balsa Raft

WILLIS WILLIAM

The Epic Voyage Of the Seven Little Sisters

London, Hutchinson. 1956, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR, unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing or small splits to spine ends and corners, minor foxing to dust jacket, minor foxing to closed edges of book, small 'Ferg' in biro to fep, signed to title page by the author, 244pp + plates, epic solo voyage across the Pacific in a balsa wood raft. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 011047

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Nautical Sailing Pacific Ocean Solo Raft Across the Pacific Balsa Raft

MCGOVERN WILLIAM

Jungle Paths and Inca Ruins

Grosset & Dunlap. 1927. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Century Vagabond Books of Travel. green cloth with red title and design.map endpapers 526pp + plates maps etc. VG copy. Includes witch doctors, cannibalism, vampire bats etc. an exploration through the Amazon jungle. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000449

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: South America Amazon Inca Jungle Exploration Rain Forest Travel Magic Cannibal

HUTCHESON WILLIAM

The New Zealander Abroad in England, America, and the Highlands of Scotland; in Madeira, Capetown, and the Sandwich Islands, Being Notes of a Six Months holiday Tour round the World

Glasgow, James Hamilton. 1888, First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. maroon cloth with black titling to cover and gilt to spine, spine faded and brittle, frayed at ends, lower joint partially split and with a tear across the spine, original endpapers, feps foxed, hinges cracked, internally VG and clean and tight on the cords, 302pp, a New Zealander records his world tour. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006745

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: New Zealand History Biography World Travel William M'Hutcheson Australia Pacific North America British Isles

COBBETT WILLIAM

Rural Rides in Surrey, Kent and Other Counties

London, Dent. 1924, reprint. Cloth, 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall. 2 volumes in cloth with dulled gilt title and decoration to spines, clean unmarked copies but a little loose in the boards, vol2 has a tidy dust jacket neatly folded and slipped in but the dust jacket for vol 1 is missing, published 1922 and 1924. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 012239

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Everyman 638 639 Cloth Rural Rides British Countryside Travel Writing Farm Economy

FORTESCUE WINIFRED

Mountain Madness

London, William Blackwood. 1943, First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. inscription to fep otherwise very tidy, 176pp + plates, reminiscences of an alpine mountain holiday in the pre war days. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002200

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Mountains Alpine Alps Mountaineering Travel Photographic

FORTESCUE WINIFRED

Mountain Madness

London, William Blackwood. 1943, First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) inscription to fep which has top 30mm trimmed off, otherwise tidy, 176pp + plates, reminiscences of an alpine mountain holiday in the pre war days. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008464

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Mountains Alpine Alps Mountaineering Travel Photographic

HECKEL & WOLF

Horolezecka Zastaveni

Praha, Olympia. 1988, First Edition. Cloth, 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. unclipped DW has some short tears to edges with minimal chipping loss, cloth boards slightly handling soiled, photographs in B&W of Czech expedition to Hindu Kush, Afghanistan and Pakistan, in b&w throughout; text in Czech (poetry) , the individuals in these photographs lost there lives in an earthquake caused avalanche in the Peruvian Andes in 1970, Vilem Heckel, who took these photographs included. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 010501

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Mountineering, Photography, Hindu Kush, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Czech Expedition to Peru 1970