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$40.00
3d5/12

The Rambles of a Naturalist on the Coasts of France, Spain, and Sicily, in Two Volumes: Volume II


DE QUATREFAGES, A & OTTE, E C (Trans)

THIS VOL ONLY, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp decoration to spine & boards, vii + 375pp, VG- (heavy water damage & staining to boards & eps, moderate tanning to spine, minor bruising to extrems, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep, minor foxing & soiling sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts 1857

KEYWORDS: exploration history historical travel literature Europe France Spain Sicily

$245.00
3d5/14

Six Months in Ascension: An Unscientific Account of a Scientific Expedition


Mrs GILL

FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black decoration to boards, frontispiece, liv + 285pp + 32pp catalogue to rear, VG (spine cocked, moderate bruising to extrems, minor rubbing to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, minor cracking & tearing to front gutter, prev. owner's name in ink & sl foxing/soiling to prelims, occasional cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1878

KEYWORDS: first editions Ascension historical travel writing literature expeditions exploration Mrs Gill

$15.00
xxesd221121

Seraffyn's Oriental Adventure


PARDEY, LIN & PARDEY, LARRY

Superoctavo 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Waterline 1996

KEYWORDS: travel memoir lin larry pardey red sea bay of bengal sailing cruising voyage

$25.00
xx117pol221222

Godel Meets Einstein: Time Travel in the Godel Universe


YOURGRAU, PALLE

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: Open Court 1999

KEYWORDS: philosophy science cosmology time travel physics Kurt Godel Albert Einstein

$25.00
xx120pol221240

Quirky New Zealand: Landmarks, Features and Installations


BLACK, ELEANOR

Oblong 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: David Bateman Ltd 2021

KEYWORDS: New Zealand tourism tourist attractions quirky landmarks features art installations travel

$100.00
3d2/52

The Handbook to the Bay of Plenty and Guide to the Hot Lakes, the Boiling Springs, the Healing Baths, the Geysers, the Intermitting Fountains &c in the Rotomahana and Taupo Districts, (Province of Auckland) New Zealand


N/A

Ex-library- stiffened boards utillizing original cover, octavo, black hand-written lettering to spine, marbled eps, large folding map to prelims- tidy, 20pp + 18pp ads to rear, VG (usual library markings, light rubbing & bruising to extrems, moderate scuffing & foxing/soiling to boards, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Langbridge & Edgcumbe 1875

KEYWORDS: New Zealand historical travel literature guides Rotomahana Taupo hot lakes thermal pools

$16.50
xx126pol221305

Duende: A Journey in Search of Flamenco


WEBSTER, JASON

FIRST EDITION, 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: Doubleday 2003

KEYWORDS: autobiography Spain Spanish culture guitar flamenco literature Jason Webster travel first editions

$17.50
xx128pol221326

Gateway to the Ice: Christchurch International Airport - Antarctic Air Links from 1955


PHILLIPS, TONY

LACKS MAP, quarto 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: Christchurch International Airport Ltd 2001

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Christchurch airport travel exploration south pole Antarctic Antarctica routes expeditions

$95.00
3e5/16

My Life as an Explorer


HEDIN, SVEN

Super octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering & illus to front board, illus eps, illus tipped in to half title page, frontispiece with tissue guard, xii + 498pp, illus, VG (light to moderate bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, moderate scuffing to spine, minor soiling to boards, minor water/damp wrinkling to top edge of front board, light tanning & moderate foxing/soiling to page egdes, minro tanning to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional minor cracking to gutters, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1926

KEYWORDS: exploration autobiography autobiographies memoir Sven Hedin travel explorers

$75.00
3e5/22

Letters from the Steppe, Written in the Years 1886-1887


BATESON, WILLIAM & BATESON, BEATRICE (Ed & Intro)

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, blind stamp lettering & rule to front board, teg, base of page block deckled, illus/map to front eps, frontispiece, xvi + 222, VG (light fading to spine, sl scuffing to extrems, light to moderate staining to front board, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, minor foxing to eps, moderate foxing to prelims, occasional light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1928

KEYWORDS: travel exploration Steppe William Bateson letters correspondence history historical

$175.00
3e5/36

The Duab of Turkestan: A Physiographic Sketch and Account of Some Travels


RICKMERS, W RICKMER

Quarto, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, teg, base of page block deckled, frontispiece, xv + 563pp, illus, folding maps, VG (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate tanning to spine, light chafing & fading to boards, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's initials in ink to base of ffep, moderate foxing to prelims, sl adhesion to base of pages, occasional cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1913

KEYWORDS: travel history historical exploration landscapes geography duab Turkestan

$50.00
3e4/21

A Journey from St Petersburg to Pekin 1719-22


BELL OF ANTERMONY, JOHN & STEVENSON, J L (intro)

FIRST EDITION THUS, imperial octavo, teal buckram boards, copper gilt to tan coloured section on spine, illus eps, frontispiece, x + 248pp, illus, VG (sl rubbing to spine, moderate soiling and staining to spine & boards, light to moderate foxing and soiling to page edges, light to moderate foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w VG- (3cm section missing from top of spine, moderate to heavy soiling, v slight chipping to extrems, closed 5cm tear to rear of jacket)

PUBLISHER: Edinburgh at the University Press 1965

KEYWORDS: st petersburg to pekin travelogue travel journal eighteenth century history memoir john bell of antermony china russia

$35.00
xx139pol221447

Esto Perpetua: Algerian Studies and Impressions


BELLOC, H

Octavo 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Duckworth and Co 1911

KEYWORDS: Hilaire Belloc travel literature writing historical history Algeria Africa

$20.00
xx143pol221469

Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey


POPE, NICOLE and HUGH

Ex-library, 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: The Overlook Press 2000

KEYWORDS: travel history literature writing Turkey Turkiye

$35.00
xx152pol221553

Steimatsky's Guides: Syria and the Lebanon


AVI-YONAH, M et al

Octavo stiff card covers (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: Steimatsky's Publishing 1942

KEYWORDS: travel literature guides historical Steimatsky Syria Lebanon

$10.00
xx161pol221764

Stewart Island: New Zealand Holiday Guides


SEAWARD, N S

Octavo softcover, stapled (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: The Pegasus Press 1951

KEYWORDS: New Zealand old holiday brochures travel literature Stewart Island Rakiura

$25.00
xx182pol221943

The Tosa Diary


TSURAYUKI, KI NO & PORTER, WILLIAM N (Trans)

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: Charles E Tuttle Co N/D (c.1990s?)

KEYWORDS: Japanese literature travel diaries diary journal writing history Japan

$15.00
xx184pol221956

Into the Heart of Borneo: An Account of a Journey Made in 1983 to the Mountains of Batu Tiban With James Fenton


O'HANLON, REDMOND

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: Salamander Press 1984

KEYWORDS: travel literature writing Borneo Batu Tiban Redmond O'Hanlon James Fenton

$18.00
xxrgj222372

Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet


CRANE, NICHOLAS

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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

KEYWORDS: travel exploration history Gerard Mercator maps cartography

$9.50
xxrhc222387

Mungo Park's Travels in Africa


PARK, MUNGO & MILLER, RONALD (Ed & Intro)

Sm 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: Everyman's Library / J M Dent & Sons 1969

KEYWORDS: travel literature writing Africa Mungo Park history historical

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