World Pictures

London: A & C Black. Very Good. Hardcover. Minor soiling to back boards. Bookplate. Endpapers browned. A tiny bit of foxing to first and last few pages. A bit musty; 50 color illustrations and 50 b&w illustrations from pictures by Mortimer Menpes. 400 b&w line drawings in text. This is part of the A&C Black 20 Schilling… Read more about this item

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1902. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". Mortimer Menpes. A delightful collection of the artwork of Mortimer Menpes depicting stunning locations all across the globe. Exploring countries all across the globe, including Holland, Switzerland, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, India, Morocco, China and Palestine, amongst countless others.Mortimer Menpes was a British painter, illustrator and printmaker.… Read more about this item

London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1903. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6.5". Mortimer Menpes. A smart edition of this colourfully illustrated travel journal from across the world. Reprint, originally published 1902. Illustrated with a frontispiece, ninety-nine plates, many of which are in colour, and black-and-white sketches in text. Collated complete. … Read more about this item

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. very good+. Quarto. (10 1/2" x 9") 332pp. Gray boards with title label to front cover. With 102 color mounted illustrations (with tissue guards) This edition de-luxe is limited to 250 copies and 50 for the United States. This copy is unnumbered. Front top corner bumped. Bookplate of former… Read more about this item

London: A. & C. Black, 1902. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6.5". Mortimer Menpes. The first edition of this colourfully illustrated artistic look at the world, illustrated with the beautiful plates of Mortimer Menpes. The first edition of this work.A beautiful work travelling around the world, taking the reader across the Earth looking at the stunning… Read more about this item

Adam and Charles Black, London, 1905?. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Menpes, Mortimer. 332 pages (complete). Sweetly illustrated in colour (more effective than the b/w illustrations) and b/w. The front pastedown has a presentation plate from Girls' High School, Oudtshoorn to Susan Langenhoven (mildly related to C J Langenhoven). A much owned copy. The covers and binding… Read more about this item

London: A & C Black Book. Illus. by Mortimer Menpes. Fair. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No date, but c.1916. Pale red cloth decorated with small black squares, with titles in gilt on front cover and spine. Condition: Fair to good, covers are lightly shelfworn and sunned with bumping head and tail of spine and cover corners.… Read more about this item

London: A&C Black, 1903 x, 332pp gilt top edge. 50 full pages illustrations in colour and 50 printed in monotone on a biege underlay. All captioned to the tissues. 400 line illustrations throughout within the text. Slight fade to spine otherwise very good throughout.