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The Africa of Albert Schweitzer ; with a Concluding Essay By Albert Schweitzer

The Africa of Albert Schweitzer ; with a Concluding Essay By Albert Schweitzer

by Joy, Charles R; Arnold, Melvin

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London, United Kingdom: Adam & Charles Black, 1949. Green cloth bds with Dark Green illus and titles (fresh with old small mark) illus map eps of Lambarene, pp 159 with photo illus to most pages. Bright and clean copy with gift inscription to verso of ffep.. First British. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Joy, Charles R (photographer). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Among the Himalayas

Among the Himalayas

by Waddell, Major L A

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London: Archibald Constable & Co, 1900. Lieutenant Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell (1854-1938) British explorer. Waddell studied Buddhism and learned the Tibetan language visiting Tibet several times secretly, in disguise. He was the cultural consultant on the 1903-1904 British invasion of Tibet led by Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband. CONDITION Red cloth has wear to extremities, pp xvi 452 with humerous, illus, photo plate, figural illus, 4 maps in tect and a fold out to rear. Mostly bright and crisp copy, name to front paste down, front ep has been removed, very odd finger mark and crease cnr. OVERWEIGHT. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by A D McCormick. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Among the Mongols

Among the Mongols

by Gilmour, James

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London: London Missionary Society, 1882. Author was a Scottish Protestant Christian missionary in China and Mongolia. He served with the London Missionary Society not dated was published on his 1882 trip back to London. His trek across Mongolia at the time Gilmour went to the field in 1870, Mongolia embraced that vast territory between China proper and Siberia, stretching from the Sea of Japan on the east to Turkestan on the west. CONDITION Green cloth with black embossed illus and bright gilt titles, very slight sheld wear, presentation plate to ffep dated 1885. Copy is very bright and crisp, 288 pages with numerous nice engraved illus through out. Light dust spotting to eps.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific

The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific

by Obeyesekere, Gananath

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New Jersey, U.S.A.: Princeton University Press , 1994. Winner of the 1992 Louis Gottschalk Prize for Eighteenth-Century Studies. "Debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. Using shipboard journals and logs kept by Captain James Cook and his officers, Obeyesekere reveals the captain as both the self-conscious civilizer and as the person who, his mission gone awry, becomes a "savage" himself." Deals with Cooks death in Hawaii. CONDITION pp xvii 251 has some illus. Mildest handling signs.. First Trade. Soft Cover. Very Good/N/A. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Arabian Sands

Arabian Sands

by Thesiger, Wilfred

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New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton & Co , 1959. First American edition. His travels in the Empty Quarter of Arabia between 1945 and 1950 and describes the vanishing way of life of the Bedu. CONDITION Blue papered bds with cloth spine, White and bright Gilt decoration and title (clean and unworn, bottom cnrs bumped) pp xvi 326 with 68 photo illus, 8 maps inside and large map tipped in at rear. Bright and crisp copy with gilt note to front pastedown, small ownership stamps front and rear. DJ is rubbed and chipped to edges with some minor loss at spine ends. Overweight. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Arctic world: its plants, animals and natural phenomena : with a historical sketch of Arctic...

The Arctic world: its plants, animals and natural phenomena : with a historical sketch of Arctic discovery down to the British Polar Expedition: 1875-76

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London: T Nelson & Son, 1876. [1876 BL] Green bds with bright gilt titles and encised decoration, Gilt to all edges, wear to spine ends and tips, pp viii 339 with 143 nice engraved illus. Light scattered foxing mostly at ends and edges, previous owners book plate mostly removed at front paste down, last page and rear ep creased. Bright text block. OVERWEIGHT. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall.
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Behind God's Back

Behind God's Back

by Farson, Negley

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London, United Kingdom: Victor Gollancz, 1944. 15th imp. reset. Blue bds with Gilt title (bds fresh and unworn title sl oxidised) pp 373 with double page map. Very tight and clean given war economy paper with light age toning to edges, not inscribed. Original DJ is price clipped at top front and spine else unworn with some age browning.. Re-Issue. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Bush Life in Australia and New Zealand

Bush Life in Australia and New Zealand

by Fergusson, Dugald (Ferguson)

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London, United Kingdom: Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1892. Originally published in 1891 with the inclusion of "His Vissitudes of" prefixed to title in this 2nd cheaper edition with erratta in the Authors last name. with additional text. CONDITION Red bds with Black letteing and illustrated front, gilt spine title, Lemon eps, Pp iv [2] 366. Spine darkened, light staining to bds, bottom cnrs bumped. Front ep removed and paper toned due to cheaper paper type used in this edition of this scarce title, else nice clean copy with very odd mark to interior, loss to edges of some pages from trimmed at production.. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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By Flood and Field : Adventures Ashore and Afloat in North Australia

By Flood and Field : Adventures Ashore and Afloat in North Australia

by Searcy, Alfred

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London, United Kingdom: G Bell & Sons, 1912. Green bds with blind stamped title to front, and bright Gilt title to spine (bds fresh with minor wear to cloth at cnrs and spine ends, small ding mid spine causing tiny tear in cloth) pp 327 with 18 half tone photo illus, and fold out map to rear. Very tight and clean with presentation inscription to front pastedown. #Australiana#. First British. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Far Away Up the Nile

Far Away Up the Nile

by Millais, John G

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London, United Kingdom: Longmans, Green & Co, 1924. John Millais (1865 -1931) was a British artist, naturalist, and travel writer. He travelled extensively around the world in the late Victorian period detailing wildlife often for the first time. He is noted for illustrations that are of a particularly exact nature. In 1921 he travelled with his son Raoul Millais to the southern Sudan and mapped for the first time large areas of Bahr al Ghazal. CONDITION Red bds (damp stain to leading edges, cloth buffed at tips) pp 254 with 48 plates illus by the author and his son, two photo illus and one map. A pretty good copy internally near fine condition, very bright and clean. OVERWEIGHT. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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The Fateful Voyage of St Jean Baptiste : A True Account of m De Surville's Expedition to New...

The Fateful Voyage of St Jean Baptiste : A True Account of m De Surville's Expedition to New Zealand and the Unknown South Seas 1769-70

by Dunmore, John

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New Zealand: Pegasus Press, 1969. An account of the remarkable expedition of French navigator M. de Surville's voyage of Pacific exploration that saw him off the coast of Northland in 1769 at the same moment as Cook, though the two ships passed out of sight of each other. Noted New Zealand historian this was published just before he set up his John Dunmore Press. CONDITION Blue leather look binding, printed on lovely crea m wove paper stock and hand set type that Pegasus Press is noted for, Map eps, 127 pages with plate illus including New Zealand artifacts and Maori taken from sketches produced on the expedition. Bright clean interior with toned eps, DJ has faded spine and light edge wear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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From The Black Rocks, On Friday: A Northland Story. Gold Digger's Notes: Otago in the Gold Rush

From The Black Rocks, On Friday: A Northland Story. Gold Digger's Notes: Otago in the Gold Rush

by Dickens, Charles: Morrell, W P (Ed)

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New Zealand: A H & A W Reed, 1950. Two New Zealand stories originally published in Dickens All Year Round Magazine 1862 and 1864. From the Black Rocks on Friday is set on an Island off Cape Brett and may be a fictional account. A Gold Digger’s Notes, Otago in the Gold Rush appears to a first hand account of the gold rushes in Victoria, Otago, Dunstan, Lake Whakatipu etc. CONDITION Green illus heavy card wraps, 62 pages, 5 illus through text and the rear being illus of Dickensonia held by the Dunedin Public Library. Name inside front, eps foxed, under lined to some words on one page. Spine to DJ brittle and splitting o/w nice with odd spot. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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From the Ocean to the Sky UNCORRECTED PROOF

From the Ocean to the Sky UNCORRECTED PROOF

by Hillary, Edmund

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New Zealand: Hodder & Stoughton, 1979. 1977 jetboat expedition from the mouth of the Ganges River to its source. Uncorrected proof printed prior to layout being complete with no appendices or index, illus present though yet to be assigned eventual placement. Dated for release April 1979, assume this copy is actually late 1978. CONDITION Card wrap unworn (faded to edges and a little toned) 268 pages with photo plates in colour and b/w. Bright and crisp copy. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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A History of the English Church in New Zealand

A History of the English Church in New Zealand

by Purchas, H(enry) T(homas) 1860-1921

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New Zealand: Simpson & Williams, 1914. (NZNB P1097) From 1805 with Bishop Marsden, has a map of the North Island showing the Missionary routes. CONDITION Blue bds with bright Gilt titles and bevilled edges (cloth nice and clean with a ding to leading edge of front ) pp xviii 252 with 19 illus plates and one map. Very tight and bright with browned eps, a little insect damage top cnr of front ep, name to pastedown, some newspaper articles laid in. Overweight. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Iceland; Its Volcanoes, Geyers and Glaciers

Iceland; Its Volcanoes, Geyers and Glaciers

by Forbes, Charles S

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London: John Murray, 1860. Purple cloth, gilt spine title and geyser decoration to front, pp x 335 with nice engravings and fold out map to rea. CONDITION Cloth worn to spine ends with splits at head, split to front hinge with old amateur repair using cloth, o'w copy motly bright, fold out map to rear foxed, large publishers cat bound in back.. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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An Inland Voyage

An Inland Voyage

by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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London, United Kingdom: Chatto & Windus, 1907. Early Edition printed on fine paper. Green waxed cloth with Blind Embossed decoration and bright Gilt title, fresh and unworn with speckling top rear, bright Gilt top edge, Green floral eps, nice frontis illustration by Walter Crane, pp xvi 178, bright and clean, not inscribed or foxed. Original Blue publishers wraps are mostly clean with tanned spine, silverfishing to leading edges and top rear.. Reprint. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
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Islands of Tomorrow

Islands of Tomorrow

by Elmberg, John-Erik

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London, United Kingdom: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. Translated from the original Swedish. Diary of a voyage to make films of the indigenous peoples in Southern India, Ceylon, the Indonesian Islands, New Guinea and New Zealand. Blue bds with sunning to spine, private library plate pasted to front paste down, small bookshop stamp to title page, pp 355 with many b/w photos and illus showing tradional skills, daily life, incl musical scores and 3 maps. Book block is tight, interior clean with usual foxing.. First Edition. Buckram. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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James Cook : The Voyages

James Cook : The Voyages

by Frame, William; Walker, Laura

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Auckland, New Zealand: David Bateman, 2018. Examines the British Library collections relating to Captain James Cook on the 250th anniversary of his Endeavour voyage. Written by leading experts with full colour illustrations throughout. Themes of cultural encounter and scientific discovery are interwoven with the personal stories of the key protagonists, including James Cook and Joseph Banks. The illustrations include drawings by all the artists employed on the voyage, as well as the only surviving paintings by Tupaia, a Polynesian high priest. CONDITION 224 pages lavishly illus with newspaper review laid in. Unworn and unread copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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The Land of the Three Worlds

The Land of the Three Worlds

by Young, Everild

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London, United Kingdom: Andrew Melrose, 1953. Green bds with gilt title (fresh and unworn) map eps have name, pp 256 with 41 sepia photo illustrations, tight and clean interior. Original DJ is well chipped to spine ends and foxed.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Laplace in New Zealand, 1831

Laplace in New Zealand, 1831

by Cyrille Pierre Theodore; Dunmore, John; Sinclair, Keith Val; Laplace

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New Zealand: Heritage Press, 1998. During the course of an expedition around the world in the corvette "Favorite", Captain Cyrille-Pierre-Theodore Laplace visited the Bay of Islands, where he and his officers carried out detailed scientific work. Their observations of the land and its native inhabitants. CONDITION Card wraps, 155 pages with illus of early contact. Unread copy. . First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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