DUNHAM A.

Political Unrest in Upper Canada 1815-1836.

Longmans Green & Co for the Royal Colonial Institute,, 1927. 8vo., First Edition, title lightly browned; original navy blue cloth, sides with blind frame border, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its tape marks on covers and press marks on front paste-down. Imperial Studies, No. 1. Includes an extended bibliography. Very scarce.

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Book number: 20063

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration0

Keywords: canada, americana, royal colonial institute, a. dunham, travel, exploration, americana, political, unrest, upper, canada, 1815-1836

DURHAM Mary E.

Through the Lands of the Serb. Second Impression. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY

Edward Arnold,, 1904. 8vo., Second Impression, on laid paper, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 15 plates, 5 illustrations in the text and large folding map; red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, uncut, a near fine copy. With 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Published in the same year as the fist edition. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 45729

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration0

Keywords: travel, exploration, europe, serbia, serb, serbs, montenegro, belgrade, yugoslavia, servia, bosnia, mary durham

EARLE Alice Morse

The Sabbath in Puritan New England [Facsimile re-issue]. he Sabbath in Puritan New England [Facsimile re-issue].

Corner House Publishers, Williamstown MA,, 1969. 8vo., black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. High quality facsimile re-issue of the scarce original edition of 1891.

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Book number: 14483

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Keywords: americana, new england, puritans, puritan church, theology, alice morse earle, travel, exploration, americana, the, sabbath, puritan, new, england, facsimile, re-issue

EDMONDS C.J.

Kurds Turks and Arabs. Politics, Travel and Research in North-Eastern Iraq 1919-1925. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Oxford University Press,, 1957. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 31 plates on 16, 2 large folding maps, a full-page map and 2 full-page plans in the text, and endpaper maps in orange; original buff cloth, gilt back, a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy in unclipped, moderately age-soiled dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its inscription on front board, small label scar on front paste-down, bookplate on half-title verso and neat blind stamp on title. THESE ATTRIBUTES NOTWITHSTANDING, THIS IS A REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF A PRACTICALLY UNOBTAINABLE WORK. With dustwrapper artwork by Anthony Gross. This important account covers the diplomatic and military history of the Mosul dispute between Great Britain and Turkey from 1918 to 1925, with a detailed appreciation from the author's own experiences as political officer and member of the Anglo-Iraqi delegation of the Committee of the League of Nations. In addition it contains much new information of the geography and antiquities of north-eastern Iraq , the secular frontier dispute between the Ottoman and Persian Empires, the organization and influence of the mystical dervish fraternities, modern cultural activity and other facets of Kurdish society. THIS REGION ALSO SAW THE FIRST ASSIGNMENT ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AS THE ARM PRIMARILY RESPONSIBLE FOR EXTERNAL DEFENCE AND INTERNAL ORDER. Rare.

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Book number: 19672

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Keywords: middle east, kurdistan, turkey, iraq, persia, mosul dispute, raf, royal air force, c.j. edmonds, travel, exploration, middle east, kurds, turks, arabs

EMERSON Isabel

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

Seeley Service,, [1929]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates toned in sepia, front endpaper map in blue and rear endpaper chart in blue; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and lettered in black, gilt back, a near fine copy. With 2pp series catalogue preceding half-title. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 41942

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Keywords: travel, exploration, things seen, things seen series, sicily, isabel emerson

ENDACOTT G.B.

A History of Hong Kong. History of Hong Kong.

Oxford University Press,, [1958]. 8vo., First Edition, with 12 plates on 6, 2 folding map and a full-page map in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in chipped and creased dustwrapper. A major contribution to the history. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER

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Book number: 23839

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Keywords: mstock, far east, kong kong, china, british colonies, g.b. endacott, travel, exploration, far east, history, hong, kong

FAURE Gabriel

The Land of St. Francis of Assisi. Assisi and Perugia. [The Picture Guides series. Second Impression]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY

Medici Society,, [1925]. 4to., Second Impression thus, with sepia-toned title-vignette and very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text, neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in the previous year. 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: 32329

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Keywords: travel, europe, italy, st. francis, assisi, perugia, medici society, picture guides,

FAURE Gabriel

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

Medici Society,, [1926]. 4to., First Edition, with sepia-toned title-vignette and very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text; original series binding of chocolate cloth, upper board lettered in blind, 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: 32340

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration0

Keywords: travel, europe, italy, rome, medici society, picture guides,

FAVENC E.

The Secret of the Australian Desert. With Illustrations by Percy F. . Spence.

Blackie,, 1896. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 3 plates and double-page coloured map in the text, wanting front free endpaper; grey pictorial cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in red, white and black, gilt back, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Juvenile novel based on the disappearance of the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt. VERY SCARCE. Muir, 2438, McLaren, 11415

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Book number: 24943

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Keywords: australasia, pacific, australian desert, ernest favenc, ludwig leichhardt, e. favenc, travel, exploration, australasia, pacific, the, secret, the, australian, desert

FERRAND Henri

Nice to Evian by the Route des Alpes. [The Picture Guides series]. NEAR FINE COPY

Medici Society,, [1925]. 4to., First Edition, with sepia-toned title-vignette, very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text and front endpaper map (lightly browned), small neat signature on blank preliminary; original series binding of burgundy cloth, upper board lettered in blind, 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: 32332

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Keywords: travel, europe, france, nice, riviera, evian, route des alpes, medici society, picture guides,

FIELDING Xan

Corsair Country. The Diary of a Journey along the Barbary Coast.

Secker & Warburg,, [1958]. 8vo., First Edition, with 13 plates and rear endpaper map; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Evocative travel diary. Fielding (1918-1991) was one of the first SOE agents (with Paddy Leigh Fermor and Dick Barnes) to be landed in Crete where he spent two years or so in a precarious game of hide and seek with the occupying Germans. Arrested in France later in the war, he was saved from execution by the Polish SOE agent Krystyna Skarbek. In post-war years a close friend of Lawrence Durrell, Fielding developed a career as writer and translator, achieving acclaim for his translation of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. Scarce, especially in this condition.

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Book number: 10819

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration0

Keywords: africa, barbary, morocco, algeria, tunisia, libya, xan fielding, travel, exploration, xan fielding, travel, exploration, africa, corsair, country

FIELDING Xan

Corsair Country. The Diary of a Journey along the Barbary Coast. [Travel Book Club edition].

Travel Book Club,, [1959]. 8vo., First Edition thus; original pale blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. Published a year after the first edition. Evocative travel diary. Fielding (1918-1991) was one of the first SOE agents (with Paddy Leigh Fermor and Dick Barnes) to be landed in Crete where he spent two years or so in a precarious game of hide and seek with the occupying Germans. Arrested in France later in the war, he was saved from execution by the Polish SOE agent Krystyna Skarbek. In post-war years a close friend of Lawrence Durrell, Fielding developed a career as writer and translator, achieving acclaim for his translation of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. In common with all TBC editions, this issue omits the plates and map present in the original.

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Book number: 18524

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Keywords: africa, barbary, morocco, algeria, tunisia, libya, xan fielding, travel, exploration, xan fielding, travel, exploration, africa, corsair, country

FIENNES Ranulph

Captain Scott. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hodder & Stoughton,, [2003]. 8vo., First Edition, with 74 coloured and monochrome plates on 32 and pictorial endpapers; white cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 48022

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Keywords: travel, exploration, polar, antarctic, scott. discovery, terra nova, fiennes, ranulph fiennes

FILLER Louis

Crusaders for American Liberalism. [Second Edition]. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY IN FULL MOROCCO

Antioch Press, Yellow Springs OH,, [1950]. 8vo., Second Edition, with illustrations in the text; handsomely bound in blue full morocco, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, compartments tooled in gilt, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO PROFESSOR JACK MORPURGO, WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION OPN FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.

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Book number: 24959

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Keywords: travel, exploration, usa, america, louis filler, jack morpurgo

FLEMING Peter

Brazilian Adventure. [Revised and expanded reissue. With Foreword by Kate Grimond.] 150 COPIES WERE PRINTED

Queen Anne Press,, [2010]. 8vo., with plates and endpaper maps; green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. Splendid, expanded reissue of the original edition of 1933, with new Foreword by the author's daughter and several new photographs. The binding matches that of the original Cape edition.

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Book number: 47608

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Keywords: mstock, travel, americana, brazil, fleming, peter fleming, percy fawcett, private press, queen anne press