Byron, Robert

Route d'Oxiane.

Payot, 1993. Mass Market Paperback, French translation by Michel Petris. Introduction by Bruce Chatwin. 381pp, illustrated softback covers, a little rubbed to the corners. Maps. Internally clean and tight. A classic travel book in a French translation - the account of Byron's travels in 1933-34 in Persia and Afghanistan. Petite Bibliotheque Payot Voyageurs edition... Very Good.

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Book number: 16560

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Travel, Persia, Afghanistan

Cameron, Roderick

The Golden Haze With Captain Cook In the South Pacific.

Readers Union Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1965. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 283pp, orange yellow boards. Colour and b + w photographs and maps. A very clean copy. Captain Cook's voyages... Fine /No Jacket.

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Book number: 6566

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Friendly Isles

Campbell, FFyona

On Foot Through Africa.

Orion, 1995. Hard Cover, 349pp, priceclipped dustjacket is otherwise complete. Colour photographs. Gift inscription on flyleaf, otherwise a very clean copy. An epic walk through Africa, from South Africa to Morocco... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 5874

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Zaire, Morocco, walking, hiking, adventure

Carrington, Richard

The Tears of Isis The Story of a new Journey from the Mouth to the Source of the River Nile..

The Travel Book Club, 1111. Hard Cover, c. 1959. 256 pp, b + w photographs, blue boards, illustrated dustjacket is near Fine. A few light spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internallly clean and VG+... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 27

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: travel, egypt, nile, adventure.

Carter, C C and Brentnall, H C

Man The World Over.

Blackwell, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover, 508pp, blue cloth covered boards. B + w photographs and maps. Previous owner's bookplate on inner board, otherwise clean.. An introduction to the peoples and places of the world, the photographs now of period interest... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 5492

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: human geography, Kabul

Cavan, Earl of

With The Yacht and Camera in Eastern Waters.

Sampson Low, 1897. First Edition. Hard Cover, 128pp, handcut edges. Brown cloth covered boards, a little worn to ends of spine, with gilt illustration. Top edge gilt. Fold out coloured map. Engraved chapter headings. Many b and w photographs (one of Port St Nikolo missing, otherwise complete). Bookplate of the Constitutional Club to inner board, otherwise internally clean. An acoount of the Earl's yachting trip from Italy to Istanbul via Greece, with illustrations and information useful to yachtsmen. The Appendix has an account from the 'Field' of the opening of the Oympic Games of1896... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 13915

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Yachting, Mediterranean, Istanbul

Chapman, E Spencer

In Lightest Africa.

Chatto, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover, 288pp, green cloth covered boards. Colour and b + w illustrations. Previous owner's name on flyeaf, otherwise internally clean. Travels in South Africa, Rhodesia, Uganda and Kenya... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 3768

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Kenya, South Africa, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Kenia, Africa, travel

Chasse, Charles

A Wanderer Through Brittany En Parcourant La Bretagne.

Editions Les Flots Bleus, 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ill.: P Peron. 315pp, dustjacket with portions of loss. Endpaper maps and coloured illustrations and b + w photographs. Text in English. An attractive guide to Brittany... Very Good /Fair.

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Book number: 4162

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Peron

Chorus

Churches of Venice The Museum in the City.

Marsilio, 2006. Soft Cover, Text into English by David Graham. A tall book of 128pp, with illustrated laminated card covers. Many colour illustrations of the churches and their paintings, and floor plans. A very clean copy. A guide to discovering the artistic masterpieces of 15 Venetian churches... Fine.

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Book number: 16261

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Venice, Venetian Painting, venetian Architecture, Church

Roden Claudia

Mediterranean Cookery.

BBC, 1989. Soft Cover, 336pp, colour illustrated card covers a little rubbed to the corners. Colour illustrations. Internally clean and tight. A book which has become a classic - recipes for traditional home cooking from the mediterranean area, originally written to accompany a BBC TV series... Very Good.

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Book number: 14450

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Cookery, Recipe, Mediterranean, Food, BBC, TV

Collier, Richard

The Indian Mutiny.

Collins Fontana, 1966. Mass Market Paperback, 349pp, the paper browning with age, illustrated softback covers. B + w illustrations. Internally clean and tight. An eyewitness account taken from diaries, letters and documents of the 1857 Indian Mutiny. Originally published as 'The Sound of Fury'... Very Good.

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Book number: 15955

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Indian History, Indian Mutiny, Colony, India

Cook, Hartley Kemball

Over The Hills And far Away Three Centuries of Holidays.

Allen & Unwin and The Right Book Club, 1949. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 263pp, blue cloth covered boards. Endpapers in purple and yellow by Edward Ardizzone. B + w illustrations. Light spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean. 3 centuries of holidays... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 6414

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Ardizzone

Cossons, Neil (Director)

National Railway Museum York.

National Museum of Science and Industry, 1111. Soft Cover, Second Edition of 1997. Large format. 48pp, illustrated lainated soft covers. Many colour illustrations. A clean copy. A guide to the Museum and its collections. Comes with a Souvenir supplement from the local York paper June 25 2013 celebrating the visit of Mallard to the Railway Museum... Fine.

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Book number: 15719

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Train, Railway, Museum

Crabtree, Harold and Clarke, Mike

Railway on the Water Tom Puddings and the Yorkshire Coal Industry.

Sobriety Project, 1993. First Edition. Soft Cover, 112pp, illustrated soft covers. B + w illustrations. A new, unread, copy. The history of the transport of coal on the Aire & Calder canal to Goole, and the development of the Tom Pudding compartment boat... As New.

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Book number: 12729

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Canal, Coal, Yorkshire, Container, Aire, Goole

Crawford, Francis Marion

Gleanings from Venetian History.

Macmillan, 1907. Hard Cover, Ill.: Joseph Pennell. First one-volume edition. A heavy book of 833pp with red cloth covered boards, a little worn to the edge of the spine. Gilt top edge and title. B + w illustrations. Previous owner's name and venetian bookseller's label to flyleaf, otherwise internally clean... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 14469

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Venice, Venetian History, Italy