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BELL, John.
Travels From St. Petersburg in Russia to Diverse Parts of Asia. 1763
£3,750
First edition of the account of the author's "remarkable journey" from St. Petersburg through Siberia and into China on behalf of the Russian tsar. Bell's narrative includes detailed...
2 volumes, octavo (239 × 181 mm). ?publisher's calf-backed marbled boards, contrast labels, edges sprinkled red. Folding map frontispiece to volume I, shows the... Read more
DOUGHTY, Charles M.
Travels in Arabia Deserta. 1921
£3,500
First published in 1888, this is the second edition, the first with Doughty's new preface, and Lawrence's introduction, one of 500 copies only. "Travels in Arabia Deserta, on which...
2 volumes octavo (219 × 140 mm). Handsomely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark green full morocco, title gilt to the spines, raised bands with dotted roll,... Read more
(LAWRENCE, T. E.) DOUGHTY, Charles M.
Travels in Arabia Deserta. 1936
£2,250
New and definitive edition, first impression. First published in 1886, this reissue with a new preface by Doughty and an introduction by T. E. Lawrence found a new generation of...
2 volumes, large octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in tan morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, rules to turn-ins,... Read more
DOUGHTY, Charles M.
Travels in Arabia Deserta. 1936
£650
New and definitive edition, first impression of this edition. "Lawrence's wish to make Travels in Arabia Deserta available to a wider public at affordable prices was realized through...
2 volumes, quarto. Original brown buckram, titles to spines gilt, chestnut top-stain, other edges uncut. Portrait frontispiece to Volume I and 8 other plates, 2 of... Read more
DOUGHTY, Charles M.
Travels in Arabia Deserta. 1936
£375
New and definitive edition, first impression of this edition. "Lawrence's wish to make Travels in Arabia Deserta available to a wider public at affordable prices was realized through...
2 volumes, quarto. Original brown buckram, titles to spines gilt, chestnut top-stain, other edges uncut. Portrait frontispiece to Volume I and 8 other plates, 2 of... Read more
(LAWRENCE, T. E.) DOUGHTY, Charles M.
Travels in Arabia Deserta. 1936
£200
New and definitive edition, first impression. First published in 1886, this reissue with a new preface by Doughty and an introduction by T. E. Lawrence found a new generation of...
2 volumes, quarto. Original brown cloth, title gilt to spines, dark brown top-stain. Frontispiece to volume I together with 8 plates, folding maps to each,... Read more
WELLSTED, James Raymond.
Travels in Arabia; 1838
£3,250
First edition. James Raymond Wellsted (1805–1842) was an East India Company naval officer who made detailed surveys of the Gulf of 'Aqabah and the northern part of the Red Sea,...
2 volumes octavo (207 × 127 mm). Modern dark green half morocco on black cloth boards, title gilt direct to the spines, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers.... Read more
(MURRAY’S GUIDE) STARKE, Mariana.
Travels in Europe for the Use of Travellers on the Continent, 1839
£750
First published by Murray in 1820. Mariana Starke (1761/2-1838) was born in India, the daughter of the governor of Fort St. George. She spent seven years in Italy in 1792-8 caring...
Small octavo. Original brown finely diapered cloth, title gilt to upper board and spine, blind panelling to the boards, edges sprinkled brown, cream surface-paper... Read more
PALLME, Ignatius.
Travels in Kordofan: 1844
£2,250
First edition in English, first published in German the previous year. Important and uncommon study of the region. Austrian businessman Ignatius Pallme explored Kordofan province,...
Octavo. Original green cloth with embossed panelling to spine and both boards, title gilt to spine, cream surface-paper endpapers. Contemporary armorial bookplate of... Read more
TORRENS, [Henry D’Oyley.]
Travels in Ladâk, Tartary, and Kashmir. 1862
£1,500
First edition. "A beautifully illustrated work, his book details the journey of Torrens and several soldiers from Simla to Leh, with descriptions of Hindustan and the Tibet Road....
Octavo (220 × 140 mm) recent maroon morocco on old moiré effect boards, black morocco label, raised bands, foliate roll on the bands. Folding map... Read more
ERMAN, Adolph.
Travels in Siberia: 1850
£250
First US edition, first published in English in 1848, the original edition published in Berlin in 5 volumes between 1833-42, this version is purged of the the mass of technical data....
2 volumes octavo. Original dark brown combed cloth, titles gilt to the spine, embossed panels to the boards A little rubbed, spines chipped away at head and tail,... Read more
MALCOM, Howard,
Travels in South-Eastern Asia, 1839
£375
First edition. Malcom was born in Philadelphia to a mercantile family, but after a year and a half at a "large commission house … he passed through a religious experience which...
2 volumes octavo. Original brown ribbed cloth, title gilt to the spines together with a gilt block of the Buddha, block of a mandarin in blind to all boards. 5... Read more
LICHTENSTEIN, Henry [Martin Hinrich Karl]
Travels in Southern Africa, in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806. 1812-5
£2,250
First Edition in English, first published in German 1811-2. "In the early part of the year 1802, General Janssens was appointed Governor of the Cape Colony, which had been taken over...
Quarto (267 × 213 mm) Modern green full calf, red and tan labels to the spines, spines gilt in compartments, foliate and floral tools, gilt panelling to the... Read more
DEMIDOFF, Anatole de
Travels in Southern Russia, and the Crimea; 1853
£1,500
First edition in English, originally published in four volumes in French, 1840-2. This translation presumably issued to capitalize on the interest in the region stimulated by the...
2 volumes, tall octavo. Original green wavy-grained cloth, titles in gilt to the spines, panelling in blind to the boards, Russian Imperial eagle gilt to the upper... Read more
PARK, Mungo.
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: 1816 & 1815
£1,500
First edition of the second work, first work a new edition. "Until the publication of Park's book in 1799 hardly anything was known of the interior of Africa, apart from the...
2 volumes, quarto. (270 × 213mm). Contemporary full calf with attractive geometric lozenge device in blind to all boards within a wide blind acanthus roll border... Read more
ATKINSON, Thomas Witlam.
Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China. 1861
£475
Second edition, issued the year after the first. Having trained as a stonemason, Atkinson became an architect carrying out some highly accomplished commissions in the Manchester...
Large octavo (249 × 150 mm) original pinkish purple sand-grained cloth, embossed, title elaborately gilt to the spine and to the upper board together with a large... Read more
MACKENZIE, G[eorgina Mary] Muir & A[delina Paulina] Irby.
Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey in Europe. 1867
£500
First edition. "In 1858, [Mackenzie and Irby] began a two-year tour of the Austro-Hungarian empire, during which they were arrested as spies with 'pan-Slavistic tendencies'. They...
Octavo. Original plum cloth, title gilt to the spine, elaborate panelling in gilt and black to the upper board, blind tooling to the lower, all edges gilt, brown... Read more
SWINBURNE, Henry.
Travels in the Two Sicilies … in the years 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. 1783-5
£3,000
First edition. Scion of an old Catholic family, Swinburne was educated "at the monastic seminary at Lacelle, France, the University of Paris, Bordeaux, and finally the Royal Academy...
2 volumes, quarto (294 × 234 mm). Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, rebacked with the original spines laid down, title direct to the spines, ruled... Read more
WORTLEY, Lady Emmeline Stuart.
Travels in the United States, etc. 1851
£750
First Edition. A prolific poet, friend of Mary Shelley, Richard Monckton Milnes, and Tennyson, and prodigious traveller. Following the death of her husband and youngest son in 1844...
3 volumes, octavo. Some browning, particularly to the title pages, small ink stamps of the NSW Parliamentary Library to the title pages, but in all other respects a... Read more
HOLMAN, James.
Travels through Russia, Siberia, Poland, Austria, Saxony, Prussia, Hanover, &c. &c. 1825
£1,250
Second edition in the same year as the first. In 1798, Holman, aged just 12, joined the Navy as a first class volunteer, and served until 1810, when he was invalided out with severe...
Octavo (213 × 132 mm) Contemporary sage green, straight-grained morocco by Bentley of Poland Street, red morocco label, flat bands gilt tooled, compartments with... Read more
PALLAS, Peter Simon.
Travels Through the Southern Provinces of The Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794. 1812
£3,750
Second edition of one of the chief travel narratives describing Russia in the late eighteenth century. Pallas, an eminent German naturalist, describes what he saw "with Teutonic...
2 volumes, quarto. Recent antique-style sprinkled calf, red morocco labels. 52 plates (44 hand-coloured, 21 of these folding), 28 vignettes (23 hand-coloured), and 3... Read more
BRUCE, James.
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile 1805
£2,000
Second edition. "Few books of equal compass are equally entertaining; and few such monuments exist of the energy and enterprise of a single traveller" (DNB). Bruce arrived in...
7 volumes, octavo, and plate volume, quarto. Text volumes uniformly bound in early 20th-century brown half calf by Bayntuns of Bath, spines lettered gilt and with gilt... Read more
BRUCE, James, & Alexander Murray.
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, 1790 [and] 1808
£7,500
First editions. Bruce's "long and energetic narrative … remains one of the great travel accounts of the eighteenth century" (ODNB). James Bruce of Kinnaird (1730-1794) was only...
6 volumes, quarto (285 × 230 mm). 19th-century tree calf, brown and green labels, spines gilt in compartments, attractive gilt panelling to the boards, Northern... Read more
BRUCE, James.
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, 1790
£7,500
First edition. "His long and energetic narrative … remains one of the great travel accounts of the eighteenth century" (ODNB). James Bruce of Kinnaird (1730-1794) was only the...
5 volumes. Contemporary diced calf, gilt twist panel to the boards, flat spines, titles gilt direct to spines, gilt banding forming compartments enclosing gilt roundel... Read more
LEWIS, Meriwether & William Clark.
Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. 1814
£17,500
First English edition of the authorized account of the travels of Lewis and Clark, the "definitive account of the most important exploration of the North American continent"...
Quarto (270 × 210 mm). Contemporary streaked calf, neatly rebacked, red morocco labels, undulating rolled gilt panel to the boards, marbled endpapers. Large... Read more
