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South Yarra: John Currey, O'Neil Publishers 1982. 4to. xii, 185 pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Small dent to front board. Jacket bright. Very clean copy. No ownership names. Full-page photographic plates throughout. Scarce. 0859020657 . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1982.

London: Printed for Captain Wilson 1789. 4to. xxvii, 378 pp. Original boards. Lacks spine covering. Corners worn and boards badly marked. Front board detached. Uncut. Lacks free endpaper. Staining to frontis.Internally clean. Frontis portrait engraving. Folding map. Fifteen full-page engravings, including many folding. With Fuimus bookplate of the Bruce family, Lords Elgin, to the front pastedown. Second bookplate of Robert Washington Oates, who was a cousin of the explorer Capt. Oates. He helped fund the Gilbert White Museum, to which he donated his natural history collection, hence the Oates Collections at Selborne. Housed in a solander to help preserve the original condition. . Good. Boards. Third Edition. 1789.

Borstal, Rorchester: Privately Printed by Donald Maxwell 1922. Large 8vo.Illustrated. xii, 100 pp., Signed Limited Edition. Light brown cloth binding. Slight marks to the boards and fraying to the corners. Some bumping to the bottom edge causing slight creasing to the leaves. Binding firm and internally clean. Illustrated throughout in black and white with 7 colour plates. Signed by the author and artist Donald Maxwell, number 16 of a limited run of 150. Recounts Maxwell's journey across India with the then Prince of Wales and he subsequently illustrated the Prince's Eastern Book. Sketch book edition. . Very Good. Buckram. Limited Edition. 1922.

London: Constable and Company Limited 1911. Large 8vo. 343 pp. 76 photographs. In the words of W. N. Fergusson, this book is mainly an account of two journeys taken through China and Tibet by the late Lieutenant Brooke. Mr. Brooke started on his first journey from Shanghai on August 1, 1906, and after crossing Tibet, returned to Shanghai in October 1907. He left Shanghai on his second journey in December, 1907, and travelled in Western Sechuan and Eastern Tibet until December 24, 1908, when he was murdered in the Independent Lolo Land. On the second of these two expeditions, Lt Brooke was accompanied by Mr C. H. Meares; and when that journey came to its untimely end, Mr Meares returned to England and wrote some articles on the country they had been travelling through. These generated considerable interest and Mr Meares was urged to make a more permanent record of the journey, but as he was already enlisted by Captain Scott for the Antarctic Expedition, the task fell to Fergusson. He was entrusted with… Read More

London: John Long 1932. 8vo. 288 pp, illustrated in black and white, marks to boards and foxing to some pages, name in ink on first page. . Good. Hardback. First Edition. 1932.

New York: Harry N. Abrhams, Inc 1990. FolioPresentation Copy. 310 pp. Grey cloth hardcover with lettering to spine in pictorial dustjacket. 328 illustrations including 244 plates in full colour, 75 line drawings and 9 maps. Some markings to the dustjacket. Ink presentation by the authors to first free endpaper; otherwise internally clean and bright. This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. 0810919028 . Very Good. Cloth. 1990.

London: John Harris 1826. 12mo. 231 pp, 24 illustrations in b/w on 12 pages, twice as many as 1st edition of same year, very worn boards and spine with front board partly detatched, inscribed in ink on first page, a well read and battered book. . Poor. Leather Spine. Second Edition. 1826.

London: Constable and Company Ltd 1993. Small 4to. Signed copy. 183 pp. Hardcover in pictorial jacket. Minor creasing to jacket extremities. Minimal bumping to book extremities. Signed by Gregory. Includes related ephemera inserts. Published to mark the 40th anniversay of the first ascent of Everest. Gregory was the official stills photographer and James (Jan) Morris was the Times correspondent. Includes numerous black and white photographs, most of which had never been previously published. Jacket is not price clipped. 0094722404 . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1993.

London: Chatto & Windus 1925. 8vo. First edition. viii, 259 pp. Maroon half calf over maroon cloth. Gilt panelled spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bound for Hatchard's. Spine slightly faded. Slight spotting. VG . Very Good. Half Calf. First Edition. 1925.

London: Chapman and Hall circa 1860s. 8vo. [iv], 172 pp. Half morocco over marbled boards; all edges marbled; gilt lettering and devices to spine. Light rubbing and bumping to extremities. Scattered foxing throughout. With eight black and white illustrated plates. Dickens' American journey inspired Martin Chuzzlewit. . Very Good. Half Morocco. 1860.

London: Chapman and Hall, Limited 1891. 8vo. [vi], 658 pp., Brown half calf with marbled boards, with red & black title labels and raised bands. Minor darkening to the spine and bumping to the edges. Binding firm and slight spotting to the fore-edge, otherwise bright. Illustrated with 16 illustrations. . Very Good. Half Calf. 1891.

Paris: Baudry's European Library 1842. 8vo. First continental edition. viii, 320 pp. Contemporary quarter leather over marbled boards. Gilt decoration & lettering to spine. Rubbing to spine ends & corners. Slight spotting internally. Binding firm. From the 'Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors, Vol. CCCLXXXIII.' . Very Good. 1/4 Leather. 1842.

Paris: Pavillon des Arts 2001. 4to.Exhibition Catalogue. 314 p. Large format paperback. Clean copy. No ownership marks. Colour and b&w illustrations throughout. Published to accompany the exhibition in Paris in 2001. Text in French. 9782879005430 . Very Good. Paperback. 2001.

Frankfurt A.M.: Carl Jugel 1844. Oblong 8vo. n.d. [circa 1844] Litho title page in gold and green, and 17 steel engraving. All, except one of the engravings still has the original coloured paper tissue guards, but the plates are quite heavily foxed. In the original glazed paper printed boards, with cloth spine, the binding is shaken and loose, and the boards are rubbed. However, a scarce item. . Good. Original Boards. 1844.

Dresden: F. D. Reichel 1821. Oblong 8vo.Illustrated. First part. 8, + 6 plates, pp. Original oblong wrappers with paper title label to front cover. Wraps edgeworn. Eight pages of text followed by six full-page aquatint/lithographic views. Text in German. . Good. Wraps. 1821.

Clermont-Ferrand, France: Michelin & Cie c. 1920. 8vo. 128, [2] pp. Cream hardback in jacket. Jacket slightly chipped at edges, with tear and slight loss to head of spine. This is however, a title seldom seen in a jacket. Boards clean but slightly creased at extremities, very good and clean internally. Illustrated in black & white, and maps of Arras. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1919.

London: Hamlyn 1973. 4to. 263 pp, illustrated in colour and black and white, some wear to dustwrapper 0600391256 . Good. Hardcover. 1973.

New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1992. 8vo. xix, 279 pp., illustrated in b/w. 0691055319 . Very Good. Cloth. 1992.

London: Constable & Company Limited 1921. 8vo. xxiv, 404 pp. Quarter dark brown morocco over red boards with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine; patterned endpapers. Sections of fading to boards, with a few marks. Internally clean. . Very Good. 1/4 Morocco. 1921.

Moscou: N.p. [Ancelin et le Grand] 1801. Small Folio. (2), + [46] plates, 72 pp. Small folio measuring 23cm x 33.5cm. Contemporary half maroon morocco over paper-covered boards . Wear to spine with burn marks and boards rubbed & worn. Internally all maps in very good and clean condition. Kiev bookseller's label to front pastedown 'Chez Lenoir Libraire.' 72-page gazetteer at rear. Engraved double-page title. Large folding general map which has a small split to the cental fold, and forty-five double-page engraved regional maps. Plates complete. Hand-colouring. Printed on blue paper. All within decorative borders by Desnos. OCLC records just three copies of this edition; BNF, BNUS Strasbourg, & SBB-PK Berlin. The 1795 edition is at Oxford, NYPL, Leiden, Munich, BNF and ULB Darmstadt. Very scarce, I've been unable to find a copy of either edition selling through the book auction records. . Good. Original Boards. 1801.