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HARRINGTON, Peter.
Travel & Exploration: 2011
£10
Peter Harrington catalogue no. 79. Peter Harrington special subject catalogues describe a range of significant books in particular subject areas. Filled with lavish full colour...
Quarto (27 × 21 cm). Gloss laminated card wrappers. 223 items offered for sale. Fully illustrated in colour. New. Read more
DE GAURY, Gerald.
Arabia Phoenix. 1946
£25
First edition. Illustrated from the author's superb photographs. de Gaury had fluent Arab, and became friendly with Ibn Saud during his time as political agent in Kuwait in the 30s,...
Octavo. Original rust cloth, title gilt to the spine. With the dust jacket. 64 plates, maps to the endpapers. Spine a little sunned, mild spotting to the boards, else... Read more
BAZIN, René.
Charles de Foucauld. Explorateur du Maroc ermite au Sahara. 1921
£25
Octavo. Contemporary half burgundy calf, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, marbled boards, crest to upper board gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Some light...
Octavo. Contemporary half burgundy calf, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, marbled boards, crest to upper board gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge... Read more
FREED, Leonard.
Leonard Freed's Germany. 1971
£25
First UK Edition, First Impression.
Quarto. Original black boards, titles to spine in gold. With the dust jacket. With 124 photographic illustrations. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. Read more
GERARD, James.
My Four Years in Germany. 1917
£25
First English edition. Gerard was US ambassador to Germany from 1913 until 1917 when the German government asked for him to be withdrawn. "He served his own country well, and really...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine. With dust jacket. Folding facsimile of the Kaiser's telegram, 16 plates, and facsimile documents to the endpapers.... Read more
DONNELLY, Desmond.
The March Wind. Explorations behind the Iron Curtain. 1959
£25
First edition, second impression. Inscribed on the title page by the author "To Hazel Evans, in token replacement of this "Personal File" of yesteryear!! Desmond Donnelly, 7 May 1962".
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt, map endpapers. With the dust jacket. 16 plates. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with faded spine... Read more
ROBERTSON, William.
An Historical Disquisition concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India; 1802
£35
"Robertson has been chiefly remembered as a historian. His four published historical works brought him considerable fame and wealth, and they helped establish historical writing as...
12mo. (146 × 91mm.). Modern Italian sheep-backed patterned paper boards. Prefatory matter bound out of order, lightly browned, binding a little rubbed and... Read more
FALLS, Cyril.
Armageddon 1918. 1964
£35
First Edition, Second Impression, five months after the First. Account of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine and Syria culminating in the Battle of Megiddo, written by the official...
Octavo. Red quarter morocco on red linen boards, title gilt to spine. 8 plates, 7 full-page maps to the text. Edges foxed, light browning, a little rubbed at the... Read more
BIKO, Steve.
I Write What I Like. 1978
£35
First edition, first impression of the first representative collection of writings by the young anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, who founded the Black Consciousness Movement and...
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket. Read more
COX, Sir Edmund C.
Police and Crime in India. [1911]
£35
First Edition. "A long, detailed and very readable book devoted mainly to the Bombay Presidency Police, but with much information regarding the law, criminal activities, and police...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine, crest of the Indian Police gilt to the upper board. Frontispiece and 15 other plates. Somewhat foxed, as often, one... Read more
KEENE, Henry George.
A Servant of "John Company" - Being the Recollections of an Indian Official. 1897
£45
First edition. In many ways Keene reflected the changing nature of British rule in India, he joined the ICS in 1846 and retired in 1883: "For some Englishmen, India was truly a 'land...
Octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spine, arms of the East India Company gilt to the upper board. Recased and the spine relined. Photogravure portrait... Read more
PORTER, Eliot.
Appalachian Wilderness: The Great Smoky Mountains. 1970
£45
First edition, second printing.
Quarto. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout. An excellent copy in the nicked and lightly tanned dust jacket. Read more
EDWARDES, Michael.
Battles of the Indian Mutiny. 1963
£45
First edition. One of the always attractive British Battles series. " … a coherent chronological narrative … of the Mutiny campaign" (Ladendorf); " attractively written...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to the spine, blue top-stain. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 22 other plates, maps and plans to the text. A very sharp... Read more
LEVER, Tresham.
Clayton of Toc H. 1971
£45
First edition. A warm inscription by Clayton to Skegg Blanchard on on front paste down. "Here's to Skegg Blanchard, who never fails to help to meet my needs in Toc H problems....
Octavo. Tan boards with gilt lettering to spine, with dustjacket. 8 plates. Upper corners bumped, otherwise a very good copy. Old tape repair tear to plate facing page... Read more
PEARLMAN, Maurice [Moshe].
Collective Adventure. 1938
£45
First edition. Interesting study of the burgeoning kibbutz movement by British immigrant journalist Pearlman who became first the IDF Spokesperson in 1948. Author of a biography of...
Octavo, original plum cloth, title gilt to spine. In the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 11 other plates. Ownership inscription of R. G. Thackray, The Yorkshire... Read more
HOLLINS, S.T.
No Ten Commandments. Life in the Indian Police. 1954
£45
First edition. Fascinating account of over forty years in the Indian Police, serving in the United Provinces and in Hyderabad, Hollins rose to the rank of Inspector General;...
Octavo. Original puce cloth, title gilt to the spine. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 14 other plates. Apparently a subscription library copy, remains... Read more
VERNEY, Margaret M.
Sir Henry Stewart Verney, K.C.I.E. 1923
£45
First edition. This copy inscribed, "To Miss Edith Langridge with love from Hermione Cunningham, March 20, 1925." Cunningham went to India in 1866 and became Government Advocate and...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in yellow. Portrait frontispiece and 4 other portraits. a little rubbed, the spine lettering a touch faded, but overall... Read more
MacMUNN, Sir George, Lieut.-General.
The Crimean in Perspective. 1935
£45
First edition. An unusually nice copy of this attractive and well-written popular history of the campaign.
Octavo. Originla blue cloth, title gilt to the spine. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 15 other plates, 6 full-page maps. A very good copy in a jacket, just a... Read more
FORSTER, E. M.
The Hill of Devi, being Letters from Dewas State Senior. 1953
£45
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in red. With the dust jacket. With frontispiece and several illustrations. An excellent copy in the price-clipped dust... Read more
MAUGHAM, Robin.
The Slaves of Timbuktu. 1961
£45
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. 30 plates from photographs. Lightly rubbed, spine a little faded with some dampstain. An... Read more
RICKMERS, Willy Rickmer.
Travels in Bokhara. 1899
£45
First Edition. Scion of a German shipping dynasty, Rickmers carried out several reconnaissances into Bokhara. This paper was read to the RGS on November 13th 1899 and relates to a...
Octavo. Modern blue paper wraps. Folding map, illustrations to the text. Small library stamp to the first page, otherwise very good. Read more
BARLOW, Roger.
A Brief Summe of Geographie. 1932
£50
First edition. First publication of Barlow's translation, with additional material on navigation, of Enciso's Suma de Geographia, an English attempt to pre-empt the project for a new...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to the spine, both boards with gilt block of a galley within elaborate blind panels. Photogravure frontispiece and 2 similar... Read more
GOWING,Timothy.
A Soldier's Experience, or a Voice from the Ranks: 1889
£50
First published Colchester, 1870, this one of the many revised editions issued down to 1906 which constituted Gowing's only means of support other than his army pension. In his...
Octavo. Original brown pictorial cloth, title gilt to the spine, large gilt fusilier block to the upper board, decoration in black to spine and upper board, all egdes... Read more
AUSTIN, A. B.
Birth of an Army. 1943
£50
First edition, first impression of a first-hand account of the Tunisia campaign of World War II by a war correspondent for the Daily Herald.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in yellow. Folding map frontispiece and folding map in contents, 16 illustrations from photographs. Lightly rubbed, bump... Read more
FORREST, G.W.
Field Marshall Sir Neville Chamberlain. 1909
£50
First edition. Biography of Sir Neville Chamberlain, a career British Army officer, who served with conspicuous valour and great distinction in numerous Indian and Afghan campaigns,...
Octavo. Original red pebble grain cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt top edge, blind panelling to boards, contents slightly toned throughout. Frontispiece and one... Read more
