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A Voyage Around the World 1740-44 |
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$10 C/C [HST 12]
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Heron Press nd leatherette with gilt filleting, xx 384pp, marker ribbon.
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BAEDEKER Great Britain Handbook for Travellers
G+ rubbed joints starting to split but olding well, one folding map marginal tear $35 A/C Karl Baedeker 1910 seventh edition, red cloth titled gilt, marker ribon, lxviii 624pp+ folding maps, maps and map endpapers. Invaluable for historical reference. [#1158 travel]
BROOK & DONNELLY The Windhorse G+ G+ ex library with stamps etc, DW under plastic sleeve $10 C/C Cape 1986 first edition hard cover,223pp + plates in colour. Mountaineering in Nepal, Kalathar by a blind woman and her guide. ISBN 0224028243 [# 894 explor]
DONALDSON Jean Innocents to Everest A Family journey to Everest
VG- VG- ex library with stamps, issue slip to end papers, DW under plastic sleeve $10 C/C United Writers 1976 first edition hard cover, 211pp + plates. ISBN 901976350 A Land Rover trip across Europe to the Middle East and Nepal followed by a trek to the base of Everest by a British family. [# 903 explor]
DUFFERIN Lord
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Letters form High Latitudes |
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VG small amount of ink to fore edge.
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$15 C/B [HST 25]
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Dent Everyman 1940 cloth 12mo, xvi 252pp, some illustrations and maps. A yacht journey to the far north of Iceland and Spitzbergen told in a refreshing and jovial manner. Gives anecdotes of the customs of the early nineteenth century Icelanders and wildlife as well as the geology of the area.
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GATTI Attilio Sangoma Africa and Zululand
VG-VG- minor spotting to closed edges, faint wear to DW $10 C/B Muller 1962 first edition hard cover, 229pp+ plates. Author searches for the Mulahu, a giant ape, then visits with the Zulu. [# 1301 travel exploration]
GRAHAM. R. B. Cunninghame A Vanished Arcadia Being some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767
VG+ sunned spine $15 C/B The Century Travellers 1988 first thus soft cover, xxvi 294pp. ISBN 0712618872 [# 1436 exploration]
HAKLUYT Richard The Principle Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation Made by Sea or Overland to the remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 Years VOLUMES 1 & 2
VG dust soiled closed edges. $20 C/C Dent / Everyman 1926 cloth 16mo, xxvi 468pp + xiii 461pp. First 2 volumes of 8 [# 696 explor]
HANSEN Thorkild
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Arabia Felix, the Danish Expedition of 1761-1767 |
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VG+ G+ DW has surface insect damage to backstrip.
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$20 C/C HST 24]
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Readers Union 1965 first thus book club edition after first Enlish of 1964. Hardcover, 381pp illustrated with maps and engravings in the text. The ill-fated Danish expedition from which only the author returned. Translated from Det Lykkelige Arabien in the Danish.
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HASLUND Henning
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Men and Gods in Mongolia |
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VG light wear at corners.
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$20 C/C [OCC 263]
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Adventures Unlimited Press 1992 first thus edition after 1935 original, large softcover, xv 358pp + adverts for AUP books. Part of the Mystic Traveller Series. Rare Central Asian travel writing of Swedish companion of Sven Hedin into Mongolia and Central Asia. This book has many mystical encounters with shamans and God-Kings in the Gobi desert etc. ISBN 0932813151
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LEON George deLucenay Explorers of the Americas before Columbus VG VG $5 B/B Franklin Watts 1989 hard cover, 64pp illustrated. Includes St Brendan, Vikings, Ra expeditions of Heyerdahl. Basic introductory work. ISBN 0531106675 [# 1038 exploration]
MACAULAY Rose The Towers of Trebizond G+ lightly spotted boards inscription to fep $5 C/B Collins 1965 new edition cloth, 288pp. Middle East and Turkey [# 1099 travel]
MANDEVILLE John
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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville and the Journal of Friar Odoric |
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$10 C/C [HST 11]
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Heron Press nd leatherette with gilt filleting, xviii 278pp, marker ribbon.
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MARTY Sid Men for the Mountains Canadian Rocky Mountains
VG VG- wear to DW $10 C/C McClelland & Stewart 1978 first edition hard cover, 270pp. Canadian Rocky Mountains warden. ISBN 0771058527 [# 897 explor]
MOOREHEAD Alan
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The White Nile (revised illustrated edition) |
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VG+ VG+ minimal chipping head of DW spine.
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$45 C/D [HST 27]
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Hamish Hamilton 1971 cloth 4to, 368pp. Illustrated throughout in line as well as colour plates and maps. Story of the exploration of the Nile from the Mountains of the Moon to the Mediterranean. Covers Burton and Speke, Baker of the Nile, Stanley and Livingstone etc. ISBN 241020352
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MORRIS Jan Among the Cities travel anthology
VG light cover wear, name and address to first page $8 C/C Penguin 1986 paperback, 410pp. Anthology of travel writing spans 1956-1984 and 37 different cities or trips. ISBN 0140074856 [# 1031 travel writing]
MORTON H V In Search of Ireland Eighth edition
VG VG neat gift inscription to free fly, light mottling to spine, DW has price clipped hole to spine and edge wear, much better than sounds $20 C/C Methuen 1933 cloth, 280pp map end papers, sepia photo plates, still a quality printing not one of the cheaper later ones. The inscription is in a neat decorative hand and is a presentation to Amy Railey from the Girl's Staff Library of the Farmers Trading Co Auckland 24-5-35. [# 824 travel
NEWHOUSE Joan Reindeer are Wild Too Lapp land travel and culture
G+ G+ private library stamp to fep, name to closed page fore edges, DW chipped with short edge tears $10 C/C Travel Book Club 1954 hard cover, 174pp + plates [# 1240 travel]
NICOLSON Harold Journey to Java G from hinge half split and loosened, pencil to paste down, cloth rubbed and titling dulled $5 C/C Constable 1967 first edition cloth 8vo 254pp + plates. Travel on a cruise liner. [# 779 explor travel]
OMMANNEY F D Isle of Cloves A View of Zanzibar
VG G booklabel to paste down, pen name and address to title, DW chipped with loss to edges, tears repaired with paper pasted to reverse. $5 C/C Longmans 1955 first edition hard cover, 230pp + plates. Zanzibar islands on the East African Coast. [# 778 exploration travel]