Creed, Richard

Richard Creed's Journal of the Grand Tour 1699 - 1700 to Rome with the 5th Earl of Exeter.

Oundle Museum, 2002. First Edition. Soft Cover, Large format. 68pp, illustrated softback covers with light creases to the corners. B + w illustrations, maps and family tree. A very clean copy. Richard Creed from Oundle accompanied the collector John Cecil, Earl of Exeter, of Burghley House on his travels on the Grand Tour to Rome in 1699, spent four months in Rome with him then travelled through Italy to Portugal from 1st May to 27 November 1700. Rare... Fine.

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Book number: 17088

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Grand Tour, Travel, Italian History, History, Portugal

Cunha, Rosa Maria and Raposo, Helena

Traditional Portuguese Cooking & Typical Sweets.

Distribuidora Editora Tres, 1992. Soft Cover, 3rd edition. 144pp, illustrated softback covers with a couple of creases. Colour illustrations. Internally clean. Country recipes, for soup, fish, meat etc., using all parts of the animal, and sweets. Includes a list of Portuguese wines... Very Good.

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Book number: 15099

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Portugal, Portuguese Cooking, Recipe, Cookery

Cunningham, William

Dr Livingstone Man of Africa.

Jarrold, 1977. First Edition. Soft Cover, 16pp, colour illustrated soft covers. Map. Colour and b + w illustrations. A clean copy. A short biography of the missionary and explorer, produced for the Livingstone Museum at Blantyre... Fine /No Jacket.

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Book number: 15692

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Missionary, Biography, Africa, Explorer

Dampier, William

A Voyage to New Holland The English Voyage of Discovery to the South Seas in 1699.

Alan Sutton, 1981. Soft Cover, With a new Introduction by James Spencer. Large format. 256pp, illustrated laminated soft covers. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. The text of the 1729 editon of Dampier's account of his voyage of 1699... Fine.

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Book number: 15827

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Travel, South Seas, Adventure, Voyage

Danielsson, Bengt

What Happened On The Bounty?.

Readers Union Allen & Unwin, 1963. Hard Cover, Translated by Alan Tapsell. 221pp and map. Green boards with silver decorative motif, complete dustjacket, a little rubbed to ends of spine. B + w frontispiece portrait of Captain Bligh. The story of the Mutiny on the ship 'Bounty'... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 6589

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Pitcairn, Bligh, South Sea, Mutiny, Adventure

Davies, T Barry

Letters From America 1853 - 1860.

Self Publishing Association, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover, 189pp, complete illustrated dustjacket. B + w illustrations. A clean copy. The letters of John Webb, a fascinated observer of life in America who left Sheffield in 1853 to work as the agent of a steel firm in New York and travel widely on the east coast of America and Canada... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 14615

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Sheffield, History, New York, American History

Davies, Hunter

A Walk Around the Lakes.

Arrow, 1989. Mass Market Paperback, Revised edition. 339pp, the edges browning a little with age, illustrated softback covers. B + w photographs and maps. A couple of small spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean and tight. A readable book on the Lake District. its places and its poets... Very Good.

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Book number: 8979

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Lake District, Wordsworth, Cumbria

Debraye, Henry

Touraine And Its Chateaux.

Medici Society, 1926. Hard Cover, 156pp, green cloth covered boards. Sepia illustrations. Map. Internally clean. One of the 'Picture Guides' series, to the area of Tours and the Chateaux of the Loire, including Blois... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 4157

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Blois, Loire, Tours

Deedes, Sir Wyndham (Foreword)

A New Way of Life The Collective Settlements of Israel.

Shindler and Golomb, 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover, 146pp, dustjacket with closed tears, and a little loss to the spine. B + w illustrations. Internally very clean. 8 writers give their accounts of the philosophy and life of the new Kibbutz movement.. Fine /Good.

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Book number: 10893

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Kibbutrz, Israel

Delpal, Jacques-Louis (ed)

Bourgogne.

Le Livre de Poche, 1978. Soft Cover, Pocket sized softback. 384pp, black and white illustrations and maps. A couple of light marks to top edge, otherwise a very clean, tight copy. Guidebook to Burgundy, France, giving sights, museums, hotels, restaurants, wines etc in French... Fine.

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Book number: 5076

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Burgundy, wine,

Demesse, Lucien

Quest For The Babingas.

The Adventurers Club, 1958. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 187 pp, green boards. B + w photographs. a couple of spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean. The search for the world's most primitive tribe... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 723

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: africa, Tribe

Dicks, Brian

The Greek Islands.

Hale, 1986. First Edition. Hard Cover, 319pp, complete dustjacket with one short closed tear to edge. Many colour and b + w photographs and maps. History, descriptions, and advice to travellers to the Greek islands... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 4508

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: cyclades, sporades, crete

Dodson, James

Faithful Travellers.

Century, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover, 279pp, complete illustrated dustjacket. A very clean copy. A journey across America... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 2926

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: travel

Downes, Kerry

The Georgian Cities Of Britain.

Phaidon, 1979. First Edition. 64pp, complete dustjacket. Colour and b + w photographs. A very clean copy. Examines how far the eighteenth century city owed to artistic achievement... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 4318

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Enlightenment, architecture

Duff Gordon, Lucie

Letters From Egypt.

Virago, 1983. Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of the 1902 edition, with a Memoir by the author's daughter and a new Introduction by Sarah Searight. 383pp, the paper browning a little with age, illustrated softback covers with a couple of light creases to corners. B + w illustrations. Internally clean. 7 years in Egypt 1862 -69.. Very Good.

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Book number: 9027

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Egypt, Travel, Luxor, Customs