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Kingfishers and butterfly on flowers. Original water colour
Book ID: 5102More details Price: £80.00 -
Les héros du désert: Moffat et Livingstone.
Rouen: Megard et Cie, 1881. First Edition. Part of the Bibliothèque Morale de La Jeunesse. Original dark green buckram with black embossed designs and gilt detail. A touch of handling to the binding only. Internally clean and tidy with just a little darkening to the pages. 224pp. Frontis of Livingstone. 250 by 170mm (9¾ by 6¾ inches). Première édition. Fait partie de la Bibliothèque Morale de La Jeunesse. Percaline vert foncé originale avec des motifs en relief noirs et des détails dorés. Une touche de manipulation à la reliure uniquement. Intérieurement propre et bien rangé avec juste un peu d'assombrissement des pages. 224pp. Frontis de Livingstone. 250 par 170mm
Book ID: 2406More details Price: £20.00 -
Limbas - dessiné et aquarellé d'après des aquarelles originales faites au Congo belge Une série de 7 tirages sur la production de bois au Congo / A series of 7 prints on timber production in the Congo
Book ID: 4781More details Price: £200.00 -
Missionary Register. Survey of the Protestant Missionary Stations throughout the world in their geographical order. Full Year 1824
Book ID: 3496More details Price: £100.00 -
Ozeanien, die Inseln der Südsee. Ältere und neuere Erforschungsreisen im Gebiet der Inselgruppen des Stillen Ozeans. Mit besonderer Rücksicht auf Leben, Sprache und Sitten der aussterbenden Naturvölker jener Eilande. Mit 170 Textabbildungen, mehreren in den Text gedruckten Karten Ozeanien II: Die Inselwelt des Stillen Ozeans in Melanesiuen, Polynesien und Mikronesien.
Leipzig: Otto Spamer, 1873. Vol 2 only. Richly illustrated work on the Pacific islands. Half leather with marbled boards. Gilt titles to spine. Frontispiece, maps, views and numerous illustrations in the text on Hawaii. Binding in good, clean condition. Slight weakness to the rear hinge. Slight darkening to the pages. XXVI, VIII, 376 pp. 225 by 150mm (8¾ by 6 inches).
Book ID: 3260More details Price: £60.00 -
Picturesque China. Architecture and Landscape. A Journey through twelve provinces.
Book ID: 2996More details Price: £280.00 -
Prince Arumugam, the Steadfast Indian Convert. Translated from the German of A. v. B.
Edition: First Edition
Freiburg im Breisgau: B. Herder, 1895. First edition. Original cloth-backed decorated boards. A title in the series: Tales of Foreign Lands. A Series of Illustrated Tales for the Young. Collected by the Rev. Jos. Spillmann. Illustrations by R. E. Kepler. A very good copy - A touch of darkening to the tan boards only. Pages are fractionally darkened only. pp. (vi). 86. 3 plates.
Book ID: 1078More details Price: £20.00 -
Sea Road to the Indies. An account of the voyages and exploits of the Portuguese Navigators, together with the life and times of Dom Vasco Da Gama, Capitao-Mor, Viceroy of India and Count of Vidigueira.
London: William Hodge and Company, Limited, 1952. First British edition. Hardback. In original unclipped dust jacket. Now in protective wrap. Red cloth with gilt title to spine. The map end papers have some age toning in line with the dust jacket. Inside is clean. The dust jacket has a little age-toning and some light rubbing / chips to the corners. Overall a good example. 296 pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 2889More details Price: £20.00 -
Strolling About On The Roof Of The World: The First Hundred Years of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs (Formerly Royal Central Asian Society)
London: Routledge Curzon, 2003. First edition in original red boards, with gilt titles to spine, and in original dust jacket. Illustrated throughout. An excellent copy. Signed to the title page by both the author, and Susan Maria Farrington. 229 pp. 250 x 185 mm (9¾ x 7¼ inches). Fine, in a fine dust jacket. Hugh Leach, OBE, was an Arabist who spent most of his thirty-six-year career as a soldier and diplomat in the Middle East. He was later a Historian of the Royal Society of Asian Affairs. Upon his death in 2015, the Royal Society's obituary said they considered this book - its centennial history - to be "an outstanding achievement for the Society".
Book ID: 2493More details Price: £50.00 -
The Adventures of the Gooroo Paramartan : a tale in the Tamul language : accompanied by a translation and vocabulary, together with an analysis of the first story.
Book ID: 4388More details Price: £600.00 -
the British Catholic Colonial Quarterly Intelligencer. No. 1.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1319More details Price: £48.00 -
The New York Visitor. World's Fair News July 1939
New York Central System, 1939. A lovely guide to the World's Fair at New York. Illustrated throughout with information for visitors to New York. There were regular monthly publications throughout 1939 giving up to date information. Aerial sketch map of the fair, and a folding map of New York and the subway system. 50 pages (inc covers). 230 x 100 mm (9 x 4 inches).
Book ID: 3212More details Price: £35.00 -
The Open Road. Photography & The American Road Trip.
New York: Aperture, 2014. First Edition. Heavy hardback book, full of visually stunning photographs which illustrate the influence America's landscapes have had on photographers as they travel its length and breadth. The Open Road is a visual tour de force, presenting the story of photographers for whom the American road is muse. Includes a comprehensive introduction to road culture, from early 1900s to publication in 2014, and maps to rear showing areas visited. Boards are in good shape, with some light handling, and what looks like a greasy hand print to bottom right. Back board has wrap over promotional / publishing details, which are a little rubbed and have had the prices crossed out in pen. 336 pages. 300 x 250 mm (11¾ x 9¾ inches).
Book ID: 4442More details Price: £100.00 -
The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas. Maps by Catherine Petit. Translated from the French by A.M. Berrett
London: Viking Penguin, 1995. A lovely copy of this fascinating atlas. Text, maps and a few photographs of the most important migrations of the modern period. These include the Jewish, Armenian, Gypsy, Black, Chinese, Indian, Irish, Greek, Lebanese, Palestinian and the Vietnames and Korean diasporas. Clean and tidy dust wrapper over clean black boards. Oblong octavo. Internally clean and tidy throughout. 190 by 250mm (7½ by 9¾ inches). 184 pages.
Book ID: 3280More details Price: £30.00 -
The Private Journal of Captain G.F. Lyon of H.M.S. Hecla During the Recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry
London: John Murray, 1825. 2nd revised edition. 7 plates. (all called for). Lacks map.
From the library of Downside Abbey. Library cloth with red leather spine. Internally clean and tidy with slight darkening. Very good condition apart from the lack of map.Book ID: 2061More details Price: £180.00 -
The truths of others. An essay on nativistic intellectuals in Mexico.
Cambridge, Mass: Schenkman Publishing Company, 1977. First edition. Softback. Very good, clean condition inside and out. No significant flaws. A work about two social movements organised by Mexican intellectuals during the 1940's. 23cm x 15.5cm Worldcat / OCLC: 2401881. [iv], 124 pages. Alicja Iwańska was a Polish sociologist, academic and writer.
. Première édition. Livre souple. Très bon état, propre à l'intérieur comme à l'extérieur. Aucun défaut notable. Ouvrage sur deux mouvements sociaux organisés par des intellectuels mexicains dans les années 1940. 23cm x 15.5cm Worldcat / OCLC : 2401881. [iv], 124 pages. Alicja Iwańska était une sociologue, universitaire et écrivain polonaise.
Book ID: 5086More details Price: £25.00 -
Vues et types d'Algerie et de Tunis
Book ID: 4430More details Price: £380.00 -
Worlds Within Worlds. With illustrations by the author.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1928. Burgundy cloth covered hardback boards, lettered in gilt on spine and within a decorative border in gilt on the front board. Top edge red as issued. fore edge and bottom edge untrimmed. Preface by the author. Illustrated with 10 b/w drawings by the author. A very good clean copy. A collection of articles, and b/w illustrations - mainly on travel within China, Japan, Korea and America. viii, 310 pp + 2 pp. publisher's adverts. Spine and section of dust jacket loosely inserted. Boards only lightly handled. Internally clean and unmarked. 230 x 130 mm (9 x 5 inches).
Book ID: 4440More details Price: £120.00