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$125.00
2f25a/51

Through South Africa


Being an Account of His Recent Visit to Rhodesiam, The Transvaal, Cape Colony, and Natal, reprinted with additions from South Africa

STANLEY, HENRY M.

Octavo, yellow buckram boards with black lettering to spine & front board, illus pastedowns, adverts to prelims & terminals, frontispiece with tissue guard, xxii + 140pp, illus, VG- (moderate browning to spine, soiling & staining to boards, slight bruising to spine extrems, sporadic foxing throughout, heavy foxing & 3x3cm tear with loss to frontispiece tissue guard)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Co 1898

KEYWORDS: Henry M Stanley MP South Africa Rhodesia Transvaal Natal Cape Colony letters to newspaper travel history

$45.00
2f34a/18

Natal: An Illustrated Official Railway Guide and Handbook of General Information


HARRISON, C. W. FRANCIS

Imperial octavo, green cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xii + 300pp, illus + folding maps + large folding map in pocket to rear ep, G+ (heavy rubbing, fraying, bruising & tears to spine, rubbing & fraying to board edges, some browning & staining to boards, moderate browning to eps, owner's name address & date in ink to fep, corner of first six pages torn off, front hinge loose, heavy tanning & foxing to folding maps, some foxing throughout, browning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Payne Jennings 1903

KEYWORDS: CW Francis Harrison South Africa Natal Durban transport trains railways travel tourism scenery attractions history immigration emigration

$16.50
xxbda62353

Corsairville: The Lost Domain of the Flying Boat


COSTER, GRAHAM

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Penguin 2001

KEYWORDS: specials Graham Coster aviation flying boats airline flights Imperial Airways flying boat Corsair history travel

$12.50
xxbge62354

As You Do: Adventures with Evel, Oliver, and the Vice President of Botswana


HAMMOND, RICHARD

Super 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2008

KEYWORDS: specials Richard Hammond travel adventure BBC Top Gear memoir biography

$17.50
xxbie62361

Great Little Railways


ADAMS, COLIN (Ed)

Imperial octavo hardcover (fine) 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: British Broadcasting Corp 1984

KEYWORDS: specials BBC narrow gauge railways trains transport travel Russell Chamberlin Colin Garratt Peter Hillmore Simon Hoggart Stanly Reynolds Lyn Webster Michael Wood

$65.00
2f34a/30

New Zealand: The Brighter Britain of the South:


An Illustrated Description of the Natural Wealth, Conditions of Life, Industries, Trade, and Opportunities for Advancement

FANNING, L. S.

Super octavo, brown light card stapled wrappers with NZ map & blue lettering to front cover, 120pp, illus, VG- (patch of damage to lower spine extrem, moderate creasing to cover edges, some discolouration & staining to covers, owner's name & date in ink to title page, creasing to some page corners)

PUBLISHER: British Empire Exhibition/ WAG Skinner Govt. Printer 1924

KEYWORDS: LS Fanning British Empire Exhibition New Zealand travel history industry culture natural history

$45.00
2f34a/38

New Zealand Revisited


GORST, JOHN E.

Super octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, teg, lacks title page, frontispiece, xi + 336pp, illus, VG- (lacks title page, moderate bruising & fraying to spine extrems, light bruising to board corners, light rubbing & soiling spots to rear board, bookseller's label to front pastedown, lacks title page, crease to contents page, frontispiece page loose, moderate foxing to prelims, slight staining to rear eps)

PUBLISHER: Isaac Pitman 1908

KEYWORDS: Rt Hon Sir John E Gorst New Zealand history travel culture Maori customs life

$75.00
2f34a/46

New Zealand for the Emigrant, Invalid, and Tourist


MOORE, JOHN MURRAY

Octavo, blue buckram boards with black lettering to front board & gilt lettering to spine, black decorative rule to edges & brown motif to front board, green coated eps, frontispiece map with tissueguard, xv + 253pp + 32pp adverts, illus, VG (some fraying to spine extrems, bruise/bend to board corners, v. sl chaffing to spine edges, moderate foxing to tissueguard, v slight rubbing to rear board)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington 1890

KEYWORDS: John Murray Moore New Zealand history travel geography climate Maori culture immigration society government jobs

$10.00
xxewd62283

The Flower of Gloster


THURSTON, E. TEMPLE

Ex-library hardcover super octavo (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: David & Charles (Publishers) Limited 1968

KEYWORDS: specials E Temple Thurston memoir canal boats English history travel

$35.00
xxewd62316

Joseph Thomson: African Explorer


A Biography by his Brother

THOMSON, J.B.

Hardcover octavo (VG) lacks d/w ; folding maps ; 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: Sampson Low, Marston and Company 1901

KEYWORDS: specials J B Thomson biography travel adventure Africa explorer history

$10.00
xxewd62331

Slow Boat Through the Pennine Waters


Exploring the Northern Waterways

DOERFLINGER, FREDERIC

Paperback (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: Universal-Tandem Publishing Co. Ltd. 1973

KEYWORDS: specials Frederic Doerflinger nautical waterways canals travel writing England

$14.50
xxewd62296

The Loneliest Continent


The Story of Antarctic Discovery

CHAPMAN, WALTER

First edition Hardcover super octavo (VG+) lacks d/w ; 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: Jarrolds Publishers (London) Ltd

KEYWORDS: first edition specials Walter Chapman travel adventure history Antarctica discovery exploration

$10.00
xxewe62380

House of Stone - The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe


LAMB, CHRISTINA

paperback octavo (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: Harper Press 2006

KEYWORDS: specials christina lamb biography rhodesia civil war history travel nigel hough briatin afria

$30.00
xxewe62396

Along Parallel Lines - A history of the railways of New South Wales 1850 - 1986


GUNN, JOHN

inscribed & signed by the author, first edition hardback octavo with 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: Melbourne University Press 1989

KEYWORDS: specials history australia new south wales tail trains railways john gunn travel transport

$17.50
xxexa62626

A Brief History of Flying


From Myth to Space Travel

GIBBS-SMITH, C.H.

Softcover super octavo (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: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1967

KEYWORDS: specials C H Gibbs-Smith aviation history aircraft planes myth space travel invention

$200.00
1w22a/33

Pictorial New Zealand


PERCEVAL, SIR W. B.

First edition (Bagnall P586), super octavo, brown textured cloth boards with gilt lettering & gilt illustration to spine & front board, blind-stamped motif to rear board, aeg, frontispiece with tissueguard, xvi + 301pp + xiv pp publication list, illus, VG+ (some bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, bookseller's label to front pastedown, owner's name & date in ink to fep, some tanning & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Cassell & Co 1895

KEYWORDS: Sir WB Perceval New Zealand scenery travel geography pictorial record

$14.50
xxexc62702

Brownsea Islander


BATTRICK, JACK & LAWSON, GAIL

hardback super octavo with 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: Poole Historical Trust 1978

KEYWORDS: specials poole history brownsea island travel jack battrick gail lawson

$24.50
xxexc62740

Historic Railway Disasters Second Edition


NOCK, O.S.

hardback octavo with 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 1969

KEYWORDS: specials railways travel transport trains disasters os nock history safety

$14.00
xxexb62767

Stockton and Darlington Railway - Anniversary Celebrations of the World's First Steam-worked Public Railway


HOOLE, K.

paperback (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: Dalesman 1974

KEYWORDS: specials railway trains travel stockton darlington steam hoole

$14.00
xxexb62769

Railways in the Peak District


NICHOLSON, CHRISTOPHER P. & BARNES, PETER

paperback (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: Dalesman 1971

KEYWORDS: specials railway trains travel steam christopher nicholson peter barnes peak

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