Search Results: Travel from Mike Park Ltd

London, 1969. THE TIMES SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT - THE COLOUR OF SPACE. A four page record of the Apollo 8 flight round the moon. Monday January 6th, 1969. Large folio, folded three times, very browned, a little worn at the joints and folds. SCARCE. [Postage will be reduced]. First Edition. Paperback. Fair.

At the Bible in George Yard, Lombard Street: Luke Hinde, 1756. First edition. Small octavo, pp viii, 198, + publisher's advert 2 pages, a little used internally, some pages with slight tears to the gutter margin, contemporary full calf, rubbed, worn at the corners, raised bands to the spine but no label. With the signature of an early owner John Gillett on the rear endpaper. With the further Quaker signatures of Joseph Gillett of Somerton and William S. Clark. [Samuel Bownas was born in 1676, to Quaker parents, although his father died when he was a month old. His father had been a Friend during the time of Quaker persecution, with meetings of the Friends having been held in his house. In 1696, his life was changed. At this time he was apprenticed to Samuel Parrott, a Friend from Briggflatts meeting in Sedbergh. Attending meeting for worship, another Friend, Anne Wilson rose in worship and accused him of being no better for his attendance of meeting for worship, and that would prove perilous for… Read More

Time-Life, 1984. [1810]. Folding map, 10 colour plates, portrait frontispiece, colour vignette title page, pp (2), 466, (4). [Time-Life Classics of Exploration Series. The uniform faux-leather bindings with gilt edges are a little garish, but the contents are well reproduced.] . Faux-leather. Very Good.

Readex Microprint, 1966. Facsimile reprint. Two vols, a few illustrations, pp (6),(8), 505; (6), 442, xcviii, a very clean set.. Cloth. Very Good.

London & Liverpool: George Philip & Son, 1891. First edition. With the first map but lacking the other two maps, with a chromolithograph colour frontispiece, twelve plain lithograph plates and eight mounted photographs, nineteen text illustratons, large thick octavo, pp xx, 404, a little foxing and age-toning throughout, an inscription on the half-title, with two small library stamps on the title page [Kenya Carnegie Circulating Libraries and McMillan Memorial Library], an accession stamp on the verso of the title page, stoutly bound in grey cloth. [Meyer was a German geographer and traveller. In 1887, during his first attempt to climb Kilimanjaro, Meyer reached the base of Kibo, but was forced to turn back. He did not have the equipment necessary to handle the deep snow and ice on Kibo. In 1888, alongside the Austrian cartographer Oscar Baumann, he explored the Usambara region, with designs of continuing on to Mount Kilimanjaro. However, the two explorers could not proceed on, due to events… Read More

London: Hurst & Blackett Ltd, 1952. Illustrated, octavo, pp 204, very clean internally, orange cloth (possibly not the original binding ??), in a dustwrapper which is slightly worn and stretched.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/A little worn and stretched.

London: Longmans, 1964. Illustrated, octavo, pp xvi, 494, a small signature on the front endpaper, otherwise clean internally, red cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is rather worn and frayed.. First Edition. Good/Rather worn and frayed.

London: Collins, 1956. Illustrated with black and white photographs, octavo, pp 448, very slightly used internally, red cloth slightly worn, in a poor dustwrapper. [A year's travel through Central and Southern Africa.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Poor.

London: Elm Tree Books, 1989. Well illustrated, (including some watercolours by Christabel King), quarto, pp 176, clean internally, brown cloth in good condition, a good copy in a slightly worn dustwrapper.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn. Illus. by Christabel King.

Monte dei Paschi of Siena Well illustrated, including three folding plates, tall quarto, not paginated (c.100 pages), very slightly age-toned internally, brown boards, embossed title on upper cover, slightly worn, the lower cover a little faded, a slight tear to the head of the front joint, otherwise a good copy. SCARCE. . First English edition. Boards. Good.

1988. Very well illustrated, large quarto, pp 190, very clean internally, grey cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is just very slightly worn. [Russian text with just one page of English summary. The Aksu-Dzhabagly is the oldest nature reserve of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, in the Western Tien-Shan mountains. Most images have birds, plants and mamals identified with Latin names.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

London: Constable & Company, 1970. 108 fine colour plates from photographs by Robert Lobl, quarto, pp 237, a good copy in unclipped dustwrapper which is a badly creased on lower cover and generally a little frayed and worn.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. Illus. by Lobl, Robert.

Leipzig: Deutsche Buchwerkstatten, 1930. illustrated, large octavo, pp 143, traces of an indented name on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, cloth slightly marked and worn.. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1930. Illustrated, octavo, pp xvi, 296, some foxing throughout, cloth very faded and a bit marked and worn. . First Edition. Cloth. Fair.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. A few illustrations, octavo, pp xii, 353, the first few pages are faintly creased vertically, top edge a little foxed otherwise very clean internally, green cloth very good, the dustwrapper is a little used and rubbed with one small tear, the front foldover is creased and price-clipped.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Slightly worn and rubbed.

Boston, Toronto, London: Bullfinch Press, 1990. Very well illustrated, large quarto, pp 165, very clean internally, green cloth with the slightest signs of use, in a very clean dustwrapper. A very good copy indeed. From the library of John Codrington; although not signed, there is an ink dedication to him internally by one of the contributors - Robert Wm Grimes. A heavy book - extra postage may be needed. [John Codrington was a garden designer active in the 20th century. He was born in 1899 and had careers in the army (in which he held the rank of Lieutenant-General), films and the BOAC before taking up garden design professionally. This he did in 1958, working in England, France, Malta, Australia, South Africa, Madagascar, Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea. Codrington died in 1991.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

Jerusalem: Goldberg's Printing Press, 1935. Illustrated, 12mo, pp 104, slightly used internally, corners creased, a folding map at the rear in very good condition, paperback, covers a little soiled and creased. [With many period advertisements].. Paperback. Good.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1932. [First reprint, in the same year as the first edition]. Illustrated, large octavo, pp xxx, 397. edges untrimmed, a large coloured folding map at the rear, a slight blemish from the front endpaper through to the frontispiece, otherwise very clean internally, brown cloth slightly faded marked and worn the spine a little more faded and slightly marked.. . First reprint. Cloth. Good.

London: Longman, 1959. Illustrated, octavo, pp 326, fore-edge very slightly thumbed, otherwise quite clean and sound internally, a folding map in the rear pocket, green cloth, very slightly bruised at the corners and the spine head. [This would appear to be a first edition, the endpapers and the pocket for the map appear correct; however the cloth binding doesn't quite ring true - there is no publisher's imprint at the base of the spine. So I am offering this for sale as FIRST EDITION, REBOUND.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

London & New York: George Routledge & Sons, 1875. Frontispiece, extra vignette title page, small octavo, folding map, pp xvi, 388, [+ 44 page publisher's catalogue dated August 1875], fore-edge slightly foxed, rather age-toned and a bit used internally with several turned corners, name and address on the front endpaper, which is also a bit marked, possibly re-cased at some point ?, decorated cloth, rather rubbed and worn, a bit marked and bleached. [SCARCE]. Decorative Cloth. Fair.