XIN, GUO & HAO, WANG (Trans)

Octavo softcover (nr fine); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: China International Press 2015

KEYWORDS: Tibet travel

ELLIS, WILLIAM

This volume only, small octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, blind rule & decoration to boards & spine, yellow eps, frontispiece + one other plate, viii + 407pp, VG-- (internal front hinge completely cracked - front board still firmly attached to cloth of spine but binding only attached at rear hinge, rear hinge cracked - attached by lower threads only, light bruising to board corners & spine extrems, light rubbing & soiling to boards, small closed tears to cloth of spine extrems, owner's ex libris label to front pastedown, owner's name & date to fep, heavy foxing to plates, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Henry G Bohn 1859

KEYWORDS: Polynesia Society Sandwich Island anthropology travel exploration William Ellis

KEELEY, RAYMOND

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable.They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Ian Allan 1982

KEYWORDS: steam transport trains Britain British rail travel

SHAH, IDRIES

Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable.They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Octagon 1971

KEYWORDS: Saudi Arabia Mecca travel Islam religion Idries Shah

BULLOCK, IAN (comp)

Ex-library, oblong octavo stapled wrappers (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: The Lodestar Press 1978

KEYWORDS: New Zealand illustrated Thames goldfields travel historical North Island

WEIR, TOM

Octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: The Travel Book Club (N/D)

KEYWORDS: travel nepal mountains mountaineering

MACNAIR, JAMES I.

Folding map to rear, duodecimo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Collins Clear-Type Press n/d

KEYWORDS: exploration Livingstone biography travel memoir

BRYSON, BILL

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Doubleday 2000

KEYWORDS: humour travel humour omnibus Bill Bryson

KELLY, CELSUS (Trans & Ed)

2 vol set, octavo, blue cloth boards, blind stamp lines to boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif to front boards, vol 1- xvii + 270pp, vol 2- xv + 176pp, illus, VG (sl staining to spines, vol 2- light creasing to base spine extrem, light/moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, vol 2- light foxing throughout, previous owner's name in pencil to front pastedowns) in d/w, VG (moderate tanning to spines, light foxing & tanning to edges, moderate chipping to edges)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press/Hakluyt Society 1966

KEYWORDS: exploration Fray Martin de Munilla Pedro Fernandez de Quiros nautical shipping marine sailing history travel

TA-KUAN, CHOU & PELLIOT, PAUL (Trans) & PAUL, J. GILMAN D'ARCY (Trans)

Square super octavo, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, 41pp, illus, VG+ (light scuffing/soiling to board edges, light tanning to eps) in d/w, VG- (light creasing to edges, light soiling to covers, 1cm closed tear to spine, 3cm closed tear to bottom, moderate scuffing to front, archival tape to top spine area)

PUBLISHER: Social Science Assoc. Press 1967

KEYWORDS: Cambodia travel illustrated history culture

TRANTER, NIGEL

FIRST EDITION, octavo, forest green heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, 396pp, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) in d/w & removable protective plastic cover, VG, (light chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, 5cm closed tear to top of spine, price clipped)

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1977

KEYWORDS: first edition illustrated Scotland maps travel exploration history culture

HOLMES, T.

scarce; octavo; dark blue cloth boards; gilt lettering & decoration on spine & cover; dark maroon eps; top edge of pages coloured black; tissue paper fold-out map of lands of the Bible and Lands adjacent; xv+325pp; VG (sl. rubbing, soiling & bruising to covers & edges; pages & prelims sl. foxed; eps are sl. soiled with a little surface loss; spine faded) Very sound overall.

PUBLISHER: J. W. Glesdale 1887

KEYWORDS: travel East bible Egypt Greece Suez history Thebes Luxor

JONES, LOUISA

Quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 1993

KEYWORDS: provence france photography travel countryside

BISIGNANI, J.D

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Moon Publicatiosn 1986

KEYWORDS: hawaii maui travel guide island united states

HUNTER, TONY ET AL

Large quarto, illus heavy card boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims/terminals 540pp, illus, VG (light soiling to half title page, moderate creasing to random pages throughout, sl mouldy smell, otherwise near fine)

PUBLISHER: Smudge Books 2013

KEYWORDS: coffee illustrated beverages drinks history explorarion travel beans farming Latin America Indonesia

SILIOTTI, ALBERTO

Folio, white heavy card boardsm gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, illus title page & prelims, 359pp + 9pp, illus, VG (light scuffing & soiling board edges, light foxing to boards & page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & soiling to edges, light tape residue to top front corner, 6cm closed tear to top edge with sellotape repair, 2cm closed tear to bottom edge)

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1998

KEYWORDS: art ancient Egypt illustrated heiroglyphics antiquities pictorial exploration travel

RITCHIE, HARRY

large octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Sceptre 1997

KEYWORDS: travel adventure humour wry British Empire imperial power

PORTER, Rev. J. L.

Octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt & black tooling to front board, blind rule & stamp to rear board, frontispiece with tissue guard, illus half title page, v + 371pp, VG- (heavy chipping & moderate chafing to spine extrems, light scuffing to spine & board corners, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, crack to fulll length of gutters, pgs 1-10 missing, pgs 11-12 completely detached but present, boards sl shaky)

PUBLISHER: T. Nelson and Sons 1881

KEYWORDS: religion exploration travel history Syria Jerusalem Jordan Galilee northern border

EISEMAN, FRED B. JNR. & EISEMAN, MARGARET ( two chaps)

two vol set, super octavo, illus, light card covers, black lettering on spine, vol 1: xv+376, vol 2: xv+383pp, illus, VG+ (sl. sunning to covers of vol. 1, mod. sunning to vol 2)

PUBLISHER: Periplus 1996

KEYWORDS: autobiography travel Bali Indonesia Balinese culture dance art geography gamelan Hinduism music pageants rituals ceremony

SEVERIS, RITA C.

square quarto, emerald green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus. eps, frontis, 278pp, illus, Near FiNE, in d/w Near FINE.

PUBLISHER: Philip Wilson 2000

KEYWORDS: travel art history Cyprus influences imperialism orientalism colonialism Ottoman Greece Malta Britain artists painting monuments ethnography