RUSSELL, MONTAGU

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, illus stapled light card covers, illus plate to front cover, 47pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate creasing to cover edges, moderate staining/discolouration to covers, light tanning throughout, some pages may be missing)

PUBLISHER: M Smethurst 1931

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Russell north island Bay of Islands travel writing literature guides historical signed Montagu Russell

WILSON, Mrs ROBERT

FIRST EDITION, FOLDING MAP TO REAR, octavo, teal buckram boards gilt lettering to spine, gilt & black lettering & black illus to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xviii + 322pp, illus, VG (in protective plastic cover- easily removed if desired, spine cocked, light bruising & rubbing to spine & board edges, light chafing & discolouration to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to reverse of frontispiece, minor foxing to prelims & sporadically throughout, minor annotation to terminals)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Company 1894

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history historical travel journals writing literature Mrs Robert Wilson first editions

MEADE, Lieut The Hon HERBERT

SECOND EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY - ownership bookplate of Rev Sidney Meade, brother of the author & of the editor of the book, with folding map to pg170, frontispiece features naked Maori maidens bathing - an image which isn't always present, super octavo, green half leatherbound buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, gilt rule to boards, teg, marbled eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xi + 375pp, illus, VG (light rubbing to spine & board edges, light soiling to boards, light wrinkling to buckram on rear board, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, light foxing sporadically throughout, sm ownership ink stamp to title page)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1871

KEYWORDS: second editions New Zealand history historical travel writing literature association copies south seas islands heritage culture

TINNE, J ERNEST

FIRST EDITION- A LOVELY COPY! Imperial octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt & black lettering & illus to front board, folding map frontispiece, unpaginatd prelims + 124pp, illus, VG (light rubbing & moderate staining to spine & boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to full title page, heavy cracking to gutters sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle 1873

KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand history historical travel writing literature north island exploration

PAYTON, E W

FIRST EDITION- A LOVELY COPY! Super octavo, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black lettering & gilt illus to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xii + 368pp, folding map to rear, illus, VG (spine sl cocked, light bruising & scuffing to spine & extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, smatterings of moderate foxing throughout, sporadic cracking to gutters, sm ink stamp to back page, 2cm closed tear & light to moderate foxing to folding map at rear)

PUBLISHER: Chapman & Hall 1888

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history historical travel writing literature E W Payton first editions

REEVES, WILLIAM PEMBER

Octavo, nicely rebound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards, gilt tooling & raised bands to spine, aeg, marbled eps, frontispiece, xv + 430pp, illus/photos, folding map to rear, VG (light to moderate rubbing & bruising to board & spine extrems, minor soiling & chafing to leatherwork, light foxing to prelims & terminals, 2cm closed tear to folding map)

PUBLISHER: Horace Marshall & Son 1898

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history historical travel writing literature heritage William Pember Reeves

CLYDE, CONSTANCE & MULGAN, ALAN E

A LOVELY COPY! Quarto, maroon light card covers, illus plate to front cover, illus eps, frontispiece, illus title page, unpaginated prelims, 58pp + catalogue to rear, illus/photos, VG+ (light to moderate creasing & rubbing to cover edges, light tanning to spine, sl soiling to covers, light foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals, prev. owner's ink stamp to reverse of frontispiece)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1925

KEYWORDS: New Zealand culture heritage customs history historical travel writing literature

N/A

Octavo, red cloth stiff card covers, black lettering to front cover, page edges stained red, printed eps, unpaginated illus prelims + 194pp + memoranda to rear, VG+ (sl fraying to cover edges, prev. owner's sm ex-libris plate to inside front cover)

PUBLISHER: Thos. Cook & Son 1909

KEYWORDS: New Zealand historical tourist travel writing literature guides history

COUTTS, MICHAEL N

Quarto softcover (VG) damp wrinkling to bottom corner of page block; 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: South Pacific Magazine 1990

KEYWORDS: travel history writing photos photography PNG Papua New Guinea historical

MACKENZIE, COMPTON

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1961

KEYWORDS: Greece history heritage culture Compton Mackenzie travel writing literature

[SWIFT, JONATHAN]

Second edition. Vol. II only. Post 8vo, pp. [2 (advts)] + [6] + 199; brown leather bds, double roll-tooled border to bds in black; four plates; G+ (heavy scuffing & soiling to bds; heavy bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with heavy chipping; heavy cracking to joints, rear board detatched, front board connected to 2/5 cords at spine; leather to bds peeling; moderate to heavy tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; lacking ffep; moderate to heavy tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscriptions to fly leaf & tp in black ink; heavy insect holes throughout; moderate to heavy tanning, foxing & soiling throughout).

PUBLISHER: Benjamin Motte 1727

KEYWORDS: 18th eighteenth century Jonathan Swift Gulliver Gulliver's Travels satire humor humour politics travel writing travels journey discovery

DE MUNILLA, FRAY MARTIN; KELLY, CELSUS (ed); PARSONSON, G S (introd)

This volume only. 8vo 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1966

KEYWORDS: travel travels travelling voyage discovery ship 17th century Pedro Fernandez de Quiros Hakluyt Society

FERMOR, PATRICK LEIGH & MONSELL, JOAN EYRES (Photos) & CRAXTON, JOHN (Frontispiece)

FIRST EDITION THUS, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt nautical illus to front board, frontispiece, illus title page, xiii + 320pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & discolouration to spine & board extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims, light foxing throughout) in d/w, G+ (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, heavy tearing & loss to spine & extrems- heavy but tidy archival tape repairs, moderate foxing & staining)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1958

KEYWORDS: first editions THUS travel writing literature Patrick Leigh Fermor southern Pelopennese Greece Greek

N/A

FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, red stiff buckram boards/covers, gilt lettering to spine & front cover, maps/illus to eps, addenda loosely enclosed to rear, xv + 1102pp, folding maps throughout- not counted presumed all present, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl tanning to page edges, prev. owner's inscription in ink to verso of title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, moderate fading to spine) in slipcase, VG (moderate bruising & tanning/foxing)

PUBLISHER: Japan Travel Bureau, Inc 1966

KEYWORDS: first editions travel guides Japan Japanese maps tourist tourism history historical 60s sixties

SAVITT, STEVEN F (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 330pp, illus/diagrams, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear pastedowns) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing, prev. bookseller's label to rear)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1995

KEYWORDS: philosophy science quantum physics time travel cpsmology thermodynamics first editions

BURTON, ROBBIE

Super octavo, illus heavy boards, grey & black lettering to spine, 257pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine, spine sl cocked, minor bruising to board edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Potton & Burton 2022

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Zealanders Robbie Burton autobiography autobiographies memoir travel writing literature tramping landscape nature

BAEDEKER, K

Sm octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind rule/decoration to spine & boards, marbled page edges, printed front eps, illus/map to rear eps, folding maps throughout, lxii + 464pp, illus/maps, VG- (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light fading to spine, moderate tanning/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, heavy cracking to front & rear gutters- rear board shaky, minor closed tearing to folding maps)

PUBLISHER: Karl Baedeker 1892

KEYWORDS: travel literature writing Italy maps historical historic history travelling guides

BOWEN, T J

LACKS FEP, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule & decoration to boards, 359pp + 7pp to rear, VG- (moderate scuffing & chipping to board & spine edges/extrems, sl chafing to boards, heavy tanning & moderate soiling to page edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name -historic- to front pastedown, ffep missing & top half of prelim pg missing, sm pink pencil cross to top corner of title page, minor foxing throughout, moderate cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: Southern Baptist Publication Society 1857

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature central Africa 19th nineteenth century history historical accounts missionaries T J Bowen

ELLIS, HAMILTON & ALLEN, PETER (Fore)

FIRST EDITION, oblong imperial 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1965

KEYWORDS: first editions transport history trains rail travel steam locomotives

BRROKFIELD, H C & HART, DOREEN

Super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1974

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Melanesia geography