Travel & Exploration (all items)
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VERNE, Jules.
The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century. 1881
£675
First English language edition, first impression, and a very beautifully bound copy.
Octavo (214 × 135 mm). Contemporary deep purple calf, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, red morocco label, marbled endpapers and edges. Engraved maps and... Read more
VERESHCHAGIN, Vasilii Vasilevich.
Turkestan', ztiudy s' natury. 1874
£9,500
First edition. Extremely uncommon pictorial record of the khanates of central Asia by the recognised master of the Russian Realist school, who recorded the people, the architecture,...
Folio (470 × 325 mm). Modern half calf on marbled boards to style, black morocco title label to spine. Plates mounted on guards. Title page in Russian, German... Read more
VENNING, Mary Anne.
A Geographical Present; 1817
£575
Uncommon first edition of this highly attractive juvenile geography. "Like her early-nineteenth-century contemporary Priscilla Wakefield, Venning seems to have been a woman who...
Duodecimo (147 × 88 mm). Modern red morocco, title gilt to spine, raised bands, floral devices within single fillet panels to the compartments, gilt panels with... Read more
VANCOUVER, Captain George.
A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; In which the Coast of North-West America has been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed, 1801
£9,500
First octavo edition. "This voyage became one of the most important ever made in the interests of geographical knowledge" (Hill). George Vancouver (1758-1798) had accompanied Cook...
7 volumes, 6 octavo text volumes (220 × 138 mm) and quarto atlas of plates and maps (284 × 235 mm). Early twentieth-century red half morocco on matching... Read more
VAN GRUISEN, Jun., N. L.
A Holiday in Iceland. 1879
£375
First Edition. Uncommon, six copies only on COPAC. Attractively and innovatively produced private publication recording a pleasure trip to Iceland undetaken on board the Danish mail...
Octavo. Mounted original albumen print frontispiece and four other similar plates. Later attractive Yacht Library bookplate of M. Botterill's "Molly", to the front... Read more
VALENTIA, George Annesley, Viscount.
Voyages and Travels 1809
£3,500
First edition, one of 50 large paper copies. "This work contains much information of a novel and important kind... It was read through the press by Mr. Salt, who was Secretary and...
3 volumes, quarto (300 × 238 mm) original boards with near contemporary sheep reback, red morocco labels to the spines. Half-titles, 3 engraved vignette... Read more
(URQUHART, Beauchamp Colclough, Capt.)
In Memoriam Beauchamp Colclough Urquhart of Meldrum, 1898
£375
First edition. Scarce early memorial volume: COPAC locates the BL, NLS, Durham and Aberdeen copies only; no copies listed on RLIN or OCLC. Urquhart had served in Egypt 1882, and on...
Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, title in gilt to the upper board, top edge gilt, others uncut. Frontispiece and 5 other plates. Free endpapers browned, as usual,... Read more
ULMANN, Doris, & Julia Peterkin.
Roll, Jordan, Roll. 1933
£1,250
First Edition, First Printing, Trade Issue. There was a special paper issue of an intended 350 copies on better paper, with 90 images and an extra signed proof gravure. Plainly far...
Octavo. Original, first issue, coarse blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge stained black, others untrimmed. With the photographic dust jacket. With 70 full page... Read more
ULMANN, Doris.
The Appalachian Photographs. 1971
£100
First Edition First Impression. Ulmann's monumental record of life in the Appalachians first published during the Depression has ever since remained one of those essential...
Quarto. Original brown cloth, titles to upper board and spine in blue, patterned endpapers. With the photographic dust jacket. Photographic illustrations throughout. A... Read more
(TUTANKHAMUN.)
Treasure of Tutankhamun. 1972
£275
First edition, first impression of the companion book to the blockbuster Tutankuhman exhibition that began at the British Museum in 1972 and was shown around the world until 1979.
Quarto. Original red morocco, titles to spine, double line ruling to boards, and all edges gilt, white silk endpapers. In a red cloth slipcase. 16 colour plates and... Read more
TULLOCH, Alexander Murray.
Statistical Reports on the Sickness, Mortality, & Invaliding among Her Majesty's Troops 1841
£1,000
First Edition. Uncommon, five copies only on COPAC, three of which appear to be in BL, OCLC lists just one copy in the NY Academy of Medicine. Tulloch's work here represents the...
Fo. (327 × 205 mm). Numerous tables, five of them folding. Ex-Royal College of Surgeons' Library, ink-stamp and cancellation to title page only, light browning... Read more
TULLOCH, Alexander Bruce, Major-General.
Recollections of Forty Years' Service. 1903
£100
First edition. "Active service from the Crimean War [after which he was involved in the inquiry into the Commissariat Department] to the expedition to Egypt, 1882" (Bruce) An...
Octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spine, dark blue surface-paper endpapers. A little rubbed, spine relined, light toning, a very good copy. Read more
TRINKLER, Emil.
The Stormswept Roof of Asia. 1931
£350
First Edition in English, first published in German in 1930. Account of exploration in the Eastern Karakoram, from Srinagar to Leh and on into the Taklamakan Desert to Khotan and up...
Octavo. Original yellow cloth in dust jacket. Frontispiece and 15 other plates, folding map at the rear. Slight browning to the endpapers, edges mildly foxed,... Read more
TOWNSHEND, Major General Sir Charles V. F.
My Campaign in Mesopotamia. 1920
£175
First Edition, First Impression of the most important early work on the subject. Townshend had been commander of the force taken captive near Kut in which town the army was besieged....
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With a portrait frontispiece and fifteen maps and plans. Text a little thumbed in places, one map lightly creased in... 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
TOMLINSON, H. M.
South to Cadiz. 1934
£65
First Edition, First Impression. Scarce in the dust jacket.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to upper board and spine in black. With the dust jacket. Contents just a little browned but an excellent copy in the nicked dust... Read more
TOMLINSON, H. M.
Tidemarks: Some Records of a Journey to the Beaches of the Moluccas and the Forest of Malaya, in 1923. 1924
£55
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece from a photo by the author. Slight bump to top corner, a little... Read more
TOMATSU, Shomei.
Saraamu Areicomu. Afghanistan. 1968
£1,250
First edition, first impression. Scarce.
Small quarto. Original laminated white photographic boards, titles to upper board and backstrip, textured buff endpapers. With the original acetate protective jacket.... Read more
(TOLKIEN, J. R. R.) WANKLYN, Cyril.
Lyme Regis A Retrospect. 1927
£1,250
Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Signed on the front free endpaper by J. R. R. Tolkien, who holidayed in Lyme Regis as a child and then later with his own family. Anyone...
Small quarto. Original black cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt. With plans, portraits and illustrations. Light foxing to preliminaries, edges slightly rubbed. Read more
(TIMUR MIRZA QAJAR) PHILLOTT, Douglas Craven.
The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri, a Persian Treatise on Falconry. 1908
£2,500
First edition, one of 500 copies. "A very important work by a falconer who flourished in the middle of the nineteenth century … gives a detailed account of falcons as well as...
Octavo. Original dark green cloth, title gilt to spine, large gilt block of a Persian hunting scene within double fillet panel to the upper board, top edge gilt.... Read more
TILLEY, Henry Arthur.
Japan, the Amoor, and the Pacific; 1861
£950
First edition. A well-written and lively account of life in late-Tokugawa Japan with excellent descriptions of the early European establishments there. Tilley took the position of...
Octavo. (219 × 132 mm) Contemporary scarlet calf, double gilt fillet panel to the boards, green morocco label to the spine which is gilt in compartments, all... Read more
THOMSON, Joseph.
Mungo Park and The Niger. 1890
£165
First edition, first impression.
Octavo (184 × 118 mm). Finely bound for Sotheran & Co. in contemporary tan calf, double green morocco labels, elaborate tooling to spine in compartments separated... Read more
THOMSON, Ada.
Memorials of Charles Dixon Kimber, 1902
£75
First edition. Dixon was "Killed in action at Wildfontein whilst rescuing a comrade/17th July 1901/Aged 38 years/'Dulce et Decorum Pro Patria Mori" as recorded on the memorial at the...
Octavo, original buff pictorial cloth., title gilt to spine and upper board along with an image of an IY trooper taking aim with his carbine. Frontispiece and 5 other... Read more
[THOMSEN, Christian Jürgensen]
Leitfaden zur Nordischen Alterthumskunde, 1837
£350
First Edition in German, first published in Danish in 1836, Thomsen's manual was immediately translated in recognition of its importance. The tripartite division suggested here was...
Octavo. (211 × 135mm). Contemporary cream glazed paper-covered boards, black morocco label to the spine. Wood-engraved illustrations to the text. Light... Read more
[THOMSEN, Christian Jürgensen]
Leitfaden zur Nordischen Alterthumskunde, 1837
£625
First Edition in German, first published in Danish in 1836, Thomsen's manual was immediately translated in recognition of its importance. The tripartite division suggested here was...
Octavo. (211 × 135mm). Original light card printed wraps. Wood-engraved illustrations to the text. Light browning, scattered foxing, wraps just a touch rubbed,... Read more
