Travel & Exploration from Shelley and Son Books

Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good+. Black and White Illustrations. Volume 1, Hawaii. Bound in dark green cloth with gilt title on spines. Gilt top edge. Generously illustrated with maps and engravings xxiii 1-192pp.<br><br>CONDITION: Normal shelf, edge and corner wear. Lightly rubbed. Pages are crisp and clean. Binding and text block are sound. Full refund if… Read more about this item

Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good+. Black and White Illustrations. Volume 5, China. Bound in dark green cloth with gilt title on spines. Gilt top edge. Generously illustrated with maps and engravings xiii 739-928pp.<br><br>CONDITION: Normal shelf, edge and corner wear. Rubbed and spotted. Pages are crisp and clean. Binding and text block are sound. Full refund… Read more about this item

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good . Color illustrations. Blue cloth hardcover with elaborate gilt decorations and lettering. Gilt top edge and deckled foredge. Illustrated with 12 color illustrations. 325 pages.<br><br>CONDITION: Mild shelf wear. Gift inscription on front fly leaf. Page 200 has been dogeared, otherwise pages are crisp and clean. Binding and text… Read more about this item

New York / London: Abbeville Press, 2007. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 9x2x11. Basil Pao. Bound in black cloth with red text on the spine. This volume portrays China's must-see places as well as regions visitors rarely discover. Internationally acclaimed photographer Basil Pao set out on an expedition through all of China's provinces to capture the spirit and rare… Read more about this item

London: Princeton University Press, 1917. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good. Inscribed by Author. Hardbound maroon boards, gold title on cover and faded spine. Normal wear to edges and corners. Shaded endpapers with inscription on front free endpaper. Notations within rear endpapers, occasional marginalia. Index, 291 pp. Very good reading copy. Full refund if not satisfied.

Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1975. Reprint with Corrections. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Author. Official and personal journals of midshipman, Robert Hood, outline the expedition seeking the Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic. Paintings, maps and illustrations of the journey, animals and peoples encountered. Bibliography, Index, 217 pp. Condition: Hardbound brown textured boards, graphic on cover, title… Read more about this item

New York : E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illustrated with black and white and color photographs. Inscribed and Signed by Author. Inscribed and signed by the author. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering. The personal story of the World's most widely traveled salesman. Illustrated with both B&W and color photographs. xii 240pp.… Read more about this item

Post Mills, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1990. First Printing. Paperback. Fine. Black and White Photographs. Glossy pictorial paper covers with title front and spine; photographer/traveller information on rear with photos. 183 pp. Condition: Fine unmarked book. Full refund if not satisfied.

Camden, ME: Down East Books, 1989. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Photographs. Author Inscription. An account of fourteen months spent in the wilderness of northern Canada--of a canoe trip from the Yukon to Hudson Bay and a winter of isolation deep within the Barren Grounds, 250 miles from the nearest settlement. Descriptions of the beauty in the… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1916. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hugh Thomson. A detailed travel book of the less visited areas of Scotland. Blue hardcopy, gilt title on cover and spine. Sound binding. Intact fold out map at rear. Illustrations, clean text. xxix, Index, 536 pp. Very good condition. Full refund if not satisfied.

Not Given: Penn Publishing Co, 1918. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated volume bound in blue publishers cloth, red, white and blue coat of arms on front with gilt title; gilded top edge sound binding. Normal shelf wear. Inscription and gift card affixed to front free end paper. Index, 344 pp. Very good condition. Full refund if not… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, PA: The Penn Publishing Company, 1922. FIRST EDITION. Very Good/No Jacket. Rebound hardback, green boards, title on spine. Over 50 plates. Ex-library with notations, stamps, spine numbers. Very good. Full refund if not satisfied.

Edinburgh: Polygon Books, 1981. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Like New/Near Fine. Richard Demarco. Author Inscription. Hardcover green boards, gilt lettering on spine. Wraparound illustrated dust jacket, slight shelf wear. Full refund if not satisfied.

Thousand Oaks CA: Burn, Hart and Company Publishers, 1979. SECOND PRINTING. Hardcover. Very Good. Nena Grigorian Ullberg. Red hardboard covers with illustration and title on front and spine. Normal shelf wear. Ex-library label inside rear cover. Beautifully illustrated. 80 pp.

Philadelphia / St. Louis, Mo: P. W. Ziegler & Co, 1889. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Engravings, Colored Plates and Maps. Hardbound brown boards, gilt lettering on spine; illustrations, many with tissue. Soundly bound. Ex-library with markings, pocket. Clean text. 800 pp. Full refund if not satisfied.

Cincinnati: Hitchcock & Walden, No date, ca. 1860s. Either 1st or Early Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrations. Volume presents the missionary travels of David Livingstone accomplished in South Africa between the years 1840 and 1856. Ten chapters set forth Livingstone's boyhood, discovery of Lake Ngami, encounters with lions and buffalo, voyaging on the rivers, the beauty of scenery… Read more about this item

London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1917. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illustrations. Section I: Anansi, or Spider, Tales. Section II: Miscellaneous Tales. 183 pp. Black and white photograph frontispiece, thirteen woodcut illustrations. CONDITION: Hardbound green boards, black lettering front and spine. Wear to corners, edges, spotting, rubbing. Previous owner name on endpaper. VG. Full refund if… Read more about this item

London / Edinburgh: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster Row; and Cadell and Co. 10, Price's-Street, Edinburgh, 1826. First Edition in English. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto: 10.5" x 8.25" x 1.75. Illustrated with map. Association copy of Greek-Irish writer and professor, Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), whose pen name was Yakumo Koizumi. Known for his introduction of Japanese culture… Read more about this item

Washington D.C: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer; The United States Senate, 1853. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Illustrated . Bound in full leather, covers bear blind tooled decorative border. Spine is adorned with two leather labels, red and black, stamped in gilt lettering reading "Senate Document, 2d Session, 32nd Congress. 1852-53". This Executive Document No. 59 is accompanied by numerous… Read more about this item

Unknown: Unknown, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good . Black and White Engravings. Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth. Cover has white text and a White text on the spine red stamped border and decoration around a full color illustration. Contains two full color engravings and 100 black and white engravings. 254pp.<br><br>CONDITION: Bumped corners. Title partially worn off the spine.… Read more about this item