Hard To Find Books
Books

Search For Hard To Find Books

Advanced Search

Books - "travel"

Showing 4321 to 4340 of 4388 results.

$19.50
xxhnf223260

Space Frontier


VON BRAUN, Dr WERNHER

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: The Scientific Book Club 1969

KEYWORDS: astrophysics space travel Dr Wernher von Braun lunar moon

$22.50
xxhoc223301

The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific


MONTGOMERY, CHARLES

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: HarperCollins 2006

KEYWORDS: Melanesia travel religion Charles Montgomery

$22.50
xxhog223337

Transatlantic Liners: In Picture Postcards


McDOUGALL, ROBERT & GARDINER, ROBIN

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: Ian Allan Publishing 2004

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history transatlantic liners Cunard liner art postcards travel

$22.50
xxhog223338

White Star Line: In Picture Postcards


McDOUGALL, ROBERT & GARDINER, ROBIN

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: Ian Allan Publishing 2003

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history transatlantic liners white star line liner art postcards travel

$20.00
xxhqz223389

Java, Sumatra and the Other Islands of the Dutch East Indies


CABATON, A & MIALL, BERNARD (Trans & Preface)

Scruffy ex-library, octavo hardcover (G) scruffy reading copy only; 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: T Fisher Unwin 1911

KEYWORDS: travel literature writing historical Dutch East Indies Java Sumatra islands A Cabaton

$15.00
xxhrn223407

The Naked Shore: Of the North Sea


BLASS, TOM

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: Bloomsbury 2015

KEYWORDS: travel literature writing North Sea coastal Tom Blass

$13.50
xxhrn223411

Perseus in the Wind


STARK, FREYA

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: Century Publishing 1984

KEYWORDS: historical travel writing literature Freya Stark

$17.50
xxcjf223573

Jewish Travellers in the Middle Ages: 19 Firsthand Accounts


ADLER, ELKAN NATHAN (Ed & Intro)

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: Dover Publications N/D (c.2000s)

KEYWORDS: medieval travel Jewish Palestine history

$25.00
xxaqv223648

Inventorum Natura: The Wonderful Voyage of Pliny


WOODRUFF, UNA

Quarto stiff card 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Paper Tiger / Dragon's World 1979

KEYWORDS: fantasy literature travel exploration Pliny the Elder mythical creatures Una Woodruff

$40.00
3i4/35

Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa; Including Accounts of Timbuktu, Sokoto, and the Basins of the Niger and Benuwe


BARTH, HENRY

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering with gilt & black rule to spine, black decoration to boards, aeg, patterned eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvii + 548pp, illus, VG (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, sl soiling to gilt/page edges, minor tanning to eps, minor foxing & soiling to prelims, heavy cracking to gutters btween pgs 289-321)

PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock & Co N/D

KEYWORDS: travel exploration literature writing Africa Henry Barth history historical

$22.50
xxcyc223711

Beyond the Coral Sea: Travels in the Old Empire of the South-West Pacific


MORAN, MICHAEL

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: HarperCollins 2003

KEYWORDS: exploration travel south-west pacific writing literature anthropology New Guinea

$17.50
xxaqz223795

Solomon Time: An Unlikely Quest in the South Pacific


RANDALL, WILL

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: Scribner 2003

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Solomon Islands south pacific Will Randall

$35.00
xxaua223803

Polynesia's Sacred Isle: The Ring of Fire, Volume III


DODD, EDWARD

THIS VOL ONLY, 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: Dodd, Mead & Company 1976

KEYWORDS: Polynesia ring of fire geology Raiatea Pacific science Apetahia travel history

$22.50
xxbce223856

New Zealand Gardens to Visit


NICHOLAS, JULIET & BARRACLOUGH, ROSEMARY

Imperial octavo stiff card 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Godwit / Penguin Random House 2022

KEYWORDS: New Zealand gardens tourism tourist locations travel

$15.00
xxbib223880

The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise


WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL & BASTIN, JOHN (Intro)

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: Oxford University Press 2001

KEYWORDS: historical travel writing literature Malay Archipelago anthropology nature Alfred Russel Wallace

$65.00
3i2/19

Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa; Including Accounts of Tripoli, the Sahara, the Remarkable Kingdom of Bornu, and the Countries Around Lake Chad


BARTH, HENRY

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, black decorative rule to spine & boards, aeg, patterned eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xxxii + (2) + 608pp, illus, VG (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, light fading & soiling to spine, sl chafing to boards, light soiling to page edges, light tanning to eps, moderate crack to gutter of prelims- title page partially detached [nothing missing])

PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock & Co N/D

KEYWORDS: historical travel writing literature Central Africa Henry Barth history

$400.00
3i1/9

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa


LIVINGSTONE, DAVID

FIRST EDITION, 2x FOLDING MAPS- 1x IN REAR POCKET PRESENT, super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp decoration to spine & boards, deckled page edges, folding frontispiece, x + 687pp + 8pp to rear, illus, folding maps, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, minor tanning to spine, minor wrinkling to buckram/cloth on rear board, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, moderate soiling to pages throughout, moderate cracking to gutter of title page, occasional light foxing to pages, occasional light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1857

KEYWORDS: first editions history historical travel writing literature David Livingstone South Africa

$60.00
3j5/6

A Year Amongst the Persians: Impressions as to the Life, Character & Thought of the People of Persia


BROWNE, EDWARD GRANVILLE & ROSS, Sir E DENISON (Memoir)

RE-BOUND, super octavo, quarter leather bound blue boards, brown lettering to beige leatherette title plate to spine with raised bands also, teg, deckled page edges, frontispiece, xxi + 650pp, folding map to rear, VG+ (single sm library ink stamp to base of copyright page- no other stamps/markings detected, minor fading to spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1926

KEYWORDS: historical travel literature writing Persia Edward Granville Browne history

$40.00
3j5/35

Mongol Journeys


LATTIMORE, OWEN

Octavo, beige heavy boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxxii + 324pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sm scuff to top edge of title page)

PUBLISHER: AMS Press 1975

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Mongolia Mongol Owen Lattimore

$65.00
3j5/36

Star Trek to Hawa-i'i: Mesopotamia to Polynesia


HOSTETTER, CLYDE

SIGNED & INSCRIBED, octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, xiii + 208pp, illus, VG (sl curling to cover edges, sl soiling to page edges, heavy crack to gutter of pgs64/65- otherwise a very tidy copy still)

PUBLISHER: The Diamond Press 1991

KEYWORDS: signed Clyde Hostetter travel writing literature history Polynesia origins

site powered by - Turboweb :: Simple Web Manager