Travel and Exploration

London & New York: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1896. Two portraits and four plates of charts, large 8vo, pp lii, 466, uncut, a little age-toned, cloth slightly worn and faded, spine very faded and a little rubbed, faint traces of a label at the head which also has a very slight tear. A duplicate from Harvard College Botanical Laboratory, presented by its first director, George Lincoln Goodall, who has also written his signature very large across the title page !The front endpaper has been repaired, there are two labels on the front endpaper, a blind-stamp on the title page and the subsequent page, the half-title also contains the small neat signature of george Basalla.. Fifth edition. Cloth. Good.

Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. London. 1855. First English edition. Octavo. 493pp. Half calf, marbled boards. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt rules, leather label. All edges marbled. Neat signature (M.C.E.S. Douglas) to upper edge of first blank. Shelf wear to extremities and boards.

Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821 - 1891) historian and writer.

Russell Martineau (1831 - 1898), Linguist, translator and librarian of Early Printed Books at the British Museum. The eldest son of James Martineau.

"The entrepot of all the surrounding nations of the continent"

Hafner, 1952, A Facsimile Reprint of the FIRST EDITION NF/VG. Hardcover has boards with geometric design , green spine with gold gilt titles. Binding is tight, clean interior of book. No marks, no stickers, no bookplates, no p.o's signature. Inside front and back cover depicts a map of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, 1831-1836. Fifteen scarce (15) breathtaking wood cut plates on back pages of book. Dust Jacket has a sketch of the ship and shows average shelf ware of a book over 60 years old- tears at top and bottom spines,corners and edges bumped. 615 pgs. + 15 full page platesOn October 6, 1836, Charles Darwin, then a young Geologist of twenty-five, returned to England after a five-year voyage around the world on the H.M.S. Beagle. This memorable voyage of exploration and research was particularly important in Darwin's intellectual development. When he set out Darwin was still under the influence of the Biblical Idea of creation. As the trip progresses, the reader of the Journal of Researches becomes… Read More

London, Edinburgh and Glasgow, Kirkwall: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. John Menzies & Co. Wm Peace & Son, 1883 A good to very good copy of the 1st edition in the original decorative cloth binding. The binding has gilt titles and black decoration to the front board and gilt titles to the spine. It is bright and clean. The spine is cocked and with some pulling and slight fraying at the top and bottom. There is slight mottling and a little bubbling to the cloth on the back board, and overall light wear to corners. Internally the original yellow endpapers are present - with some splitting starting at the bottom part of the rear joint. Contents with title; poem to Orkney; preface; contents 3 pp and text pp 1-177 including appendix. Contents in very good clean condition.

Les Merveilles de la France le pays, les monuments, les habitants By Ernest Granger (The Wonders of France – the country it's monuments and inhabitants) - In French language.
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Beautiful, detailed and illustrated, this book takes the reader on a trip from the country side to the coast and through the time. The book has luxurious binding, 17 colored plates and numerous black and white illustrations.
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Paris, Hachette, 1931.
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Pp.: 443 pages with illustrations + 17 illustrated plates Size: 31 x 23,4 cm
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Binding: Original quarter leather binding. Giltstamped and blindstamped cover and spine cover. Luxurious binding. Condition: Foxing, signs of ageing, paper on some of the plates slightly detached from plates and has dog-ears.

The Boy Travellers in the Far East - Part fifth. Illustrated. 473 pp.+1 colour plate h.t. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1884.
--- Pictorial cloth gilt. Some wear at corners and spine ends (see photos). Pages bright and clean. A dedication written on a blank page. Richly illustrated with engravings. Tight binding.

London: Effingham Wilson, 1832. Two volumes, small octavo, pp xxii, 358; 304, with both half-titles, slight age-toning and foxing but otherwise sound throughout, original (?) brown boards, slightly marked and worn, neatly re-backed with bew spines and paper labels. [This copy is from the Circulating Library, English College, Lisbon, with their small blind-stamp on the title pages, and a label and number on the front endpapers.]. {As a landscape gardener, Puckler-Muskau is considered of European importance. As a writer of books of travel he holds a high position, his powers of observation being keen and his style lucid, animated and witty.]. First British edition. Boards. Very Good.

Amsterdam: N. Israel 906072-0016 [906072-0016] 1969. (Hardcover set) 358, 347pp. Fine, no dust jackets. 2 volumes. Cream covers with blue titles to the cover and spine. Fold-out map, facsimile title page and text, illustrations, diagrams. "On February 14th, 1776, the Resolution and Discovery were put in Commission, and the pendants hoisted. After undergoing a thorough repair, &c. In the dry dock, they were moored alongside the hulk, and continued in that situation, taking in the necessary stores, till the 12th of May, when the Discovery fell down to Galleons" - from the text. Book about Captain Clerke, Captain Cook, Discovery--Sailing Ship & Resolution--Sailing Ship. Time Period 18th Century. Publisher series: Bibliotheca Australiana. (Travel, Diaries, Exploration, Explorers, Journals, Sea Adventure, Voyages and Travels).

Budapest: La Societe Anonyme "Athenaeum", 1900. Large quarto, illustrated with 48 plates (one folding), mainly photographic, 64 pages of text in French, a little used internally with slight age-toning, faint staining to the bottom margins, the final plate worn at the margins and lacking a small corner, the original upper cover is bound in, but lacking a corner (no loss of text), bound in a simple recent green quarter calf, very slightly marked and faded. RARE. [An intriguing account of fin-de-siecle horticulture in Hungary. COPAC lists only two copies within the UK - Kew and the London Library.]. First Edition. Quarter leather. Good.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1892. (Hardcover) 128pp. Very good, no dust jacket. A signed fine binding with armorial crest in gilt. Spine, edges and borders tooled in gilt, inner dentelles blind tooled. Marbled endpapers and edges. Frontispiece, 19 illustrations. The spine is lightly worn and faded. Binding by James Galt and Co. Manchester. Locale: Arctic. (Arctic Life, Travel and Adventure).

PLAN, SECTION and ELEVATION of the POO-TA-LA of TEMPLE of the LAMA at ZHE-HOL in TARTARYThis monumental temple which looks more like a fortified tower was drawn by HW Parish in 1793.This antique original copper plate engraving is from Sir George Leonard Staunton's atlas folio of prints to accompany "An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China . Taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney". The work was published in London by G.Nicol in 1797. George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737-1806) was dispatched to Beijing in 1792 travelling via Madeira, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope and Indonesia. He was accompanied by George Staunton, and a retinue of suitably impressive size, including Stauntonâ s 11-year-old son who was nominally the ambassadorâ s page. On the embassy's arrival in China it emerged that the 11-year-old was the only European member of the embassy able to speak Mandarin, and thus the only one able to… Read More

Buenos Aires: Emece Editores, 1945. [Spanish text]. Five volumes, with reproductions of the original title pages, large octavo, PAGES UNCUT AND UNOPENED, marbled endpapers, red coth with black spine labels, slightly faded and rubbed but very firm, a good set. [Please note - the pages are uncut, unopened. They will need to be opened with a sharp knife. PAGINA SIN ABRIR.] SCARCE.] A heavy set - extra postage will be needed.. Second edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Ottawa: NRC Research Press, 2000. Well illustrated with hundreds of small line drawings and distribution maps, large thick octavo, pp xviii, 669, paperback, a very good clean copy throughout. [SCARCE].. Second edition. Paperback. Very Good.

UNITED STATES: THE PEOPLES PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1869 LEATHER BOUND HARD COVER, GOLD AND BLACK DESIGN SPINE, LOWER 5TH OF SPINE COVER MISSING OUTSIDE, CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE.FRONT AND BACK COVER HAVE BEEN REATTACHED NEATLY. LIGHT FOXING INSIDE VERY FRONT AND BACK COVERS. NICE FOLD OUT MAP OF THE UNITED STATES IN FRONT. NUMEROUS MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
DETAILS OF CLIMATE, SCENERY, SOIL, PRODUCTIONS RAILROADS, MINING INTERESTS, GENERAL RESOURCES, COST OF FARM LANDS, HOW TO OBTAIN TITLES, HOMESTEAD AND OTHER LAND LAWS AND RATES AND WAGES.
TERRIFIC BOOK PUBLISHED 1969. VERY EDUCATIONAL.
Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanently move to a country). A migrant emigrates from their old country, and immigrates to their new country. Thus, both emigration and immigration describe migration, but from… Read More

Leipzig 1895
Very good copy of the third edition of Baedeker's Handbook for Travellers. This is the last edition of this handbook for Lower Egypt. 14 maps, 33 plans, 7 views and 76 vignettes. Book is very good. Soft leather boards clean. Binding tight. Edges marbled. Light cracking of hinge inside front cover but still very firm (see images).Cover has very small wear at corners and head and tail of spine.Only marking or inscription is name and address of previous owner in pencil on first blank with previous sale price and edition also in pencil. Tiny bookseller label on front pastedown.
Overall, a well preserved copy of an uncommon title.
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