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Paris: Challamel Ainé, Librarire Coloniale, 1886. xx, 639, with 30 pls, 77 vignettes and 9 polychrome maps and panoramas including a fold-out panorama of the Panama Canal and a large fold out map of Bolivia. Quarter blue cloth, marbled boards, brown label with gilt titles to spine (rubbed). The original thin card pictorial wrappers (somewhat dusty) are bound in. Ink stamps on the right top and bottom of the front wrapper and the title page have been removed leaving unattractive marks.The inscription on the verso of the frontispiece reads "A Monsieur Ed Lockroy, Député de la Serie, Minstre du Commerce & de l'Industrie, Commissionaire Genéral de l'Exposition de 1889. Hommage du plus profond respect de A. Bresson, 30. 7e. de 86". Edouard Lockroy, French radical politician (1838-1913) who served with Garibaldi for 3 years after 1860 is best known for arranging the Paris Exposition of 1889. In his capacity as Commissioner General he published the tender in… Leer más

London: Penguin Books, 1993. xiv, 392, as published, pages yellowed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

London: Hutchison $ Co. Ltd., 1932. 293, frontispiece and 16 other illustrations from photographs. Chapters on Man-Eaters, Fear in Man, Sagar Island, The Leopard, The Leopard of Nanda, Wolves, Wolf-Children and Werewolves, Bears, Crocodiles and Sharks. Publisher's green cloth gilt, spine slightly bruised at head and tail, some toning of eps else very good-no inscriptions. Advance copy, small unobtrusive stamp on title page "With the Publisher's Compliments" 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". First. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

London: Collins, 1947. 323, edited by W.J. Turner, 18 colour plates 120 illustrations in black and white, pale grey buckram, gilt titles to spine, small stain to back cover else vg-no inscriptions 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. xvi, 215, 96 pp of black and white illustrations (150), 2 double-page maps. Cpaters on The Middle east, Ottomans and Safavids, Lord of the Golden Horn, The Turkey Merchants, The Grand Sophy, the Road to India, Old Desolate Places, Artists in the Middle East etc. Covers all aspects of British involvement in the Middle East from trade and discovery to archaeology and the romance of the Orient. Publisher's red cloth gilt, decorative eps, dj unclipped, slight toning, small edge tear. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". First. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

London: John Long frontispiece, 444, 31 illustrations, publisher's red coth. Spine and back cover faded, small owner inscription on ffep. Top of spine repaired. No date. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hardcover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

London: W. Thacker and Co., 1900. xii, 541, frontispiece, publisher's red cloth gilt, bison head in gilt to front cover, stag's head to spine. Chapters on The Indian Bison, Bison Shooting, Reminiscences of Bison Shooting, Hints to Beginners on Bison Shooting, The Wild Buffalo-The Yak-The Tsine, The Tiger, Tiger Shooting in Southern India, Incidenets in Tiger Shooting, The Panther-Hunting Cheeteah-Clouded Leopard-Snow Leopard-Indian Lion, The Chief Bears of India, The Indian Elephant, Episodes in Elephant Hunting, The Deer of India and the Himalayas, The Nilgiri Wild Goat or Ibex of Southern India, Brief Notes on the Wild Goats of Cashmere and Ladak, Brief Notes on the Wild Sheep of India and the Himalayas, The Antelopes and Gazelles of India and the Himalayas, The Rhinocerotidae and Suidae of India, Poachers and Nuisances, Small Animals worth Shooting, Indian Snipe shooting, Brief Notes on some game birds, Mysore and its Denizens, Camp equipment-travel-outfit-servants,… Leer más

Paris: Société de Géographie, 1890. 612, 7 folding maps, Articles - L'Unification des Heures; Le Campagne Scientifique du Schooner des États-Unis "Grampus" en 1889; Les Routes de L'Afrique Septentrionale au Soudan (map); De Lima a Iquitos par Le Palcazu (maps in text); Notes sur Le Thibet; Des Resources que L'Asie Central pourrait offrir a la Colonisation Russe; Le contesté Franco-Brésilien (map); Études sur le Royaume D'Assinie (map); De Zanzibar la Station de Kondoa (map); Note sur Tobrouq; Explorations dans la Laponie Russe ou presqu'ile de Kola (16 figs.); Études de Géographie Historique sur les anciens itinéraires a travers Le Pamir; Voyage dans L'Asie Centrale et au Pamir (map); Pamir et Tchitral; Voyage de Paul Crampel au nord du Congo Français (3 maps). Half green pebbled calf, compartmented spine with gilt titles, marbled boards and endpapers. Slight shelf wear, excellent, firm… Leer más

Paris: Société de Géographie, 1883. 631, 7 folding maps, figs. in text. Articles - Le Voyage de la "Jeanette" et les observatoires scientifiques Circumpolaires (map); L'archipel des Nouvelles-Hébrides (map and figs. in text); la Province D'Imerina (map); Passage de Vénus sur le Soleil observé en Mexique (figs. in text); Les Fuégiens; Chez les Indiens des États-Unis; Le Royaume de Pérak (3 maps); Mission dans le Haut-Niger et a Ségou; Dix-huit mois a Hué; La République Argentine; Les Sauvages de L'Indo-Chine (map); Voyage de Bangkok a Xieng-Sen (map); Notice Historique sur Le Cayor; Half green pebbled calf, compartmented spine with gilt titles, marbled boards and endpapers. Slight shelf wear, excellent, firm condition, maps and plates pristine. No inscriptions.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Paris: Société de Géographie, 1894. 646, 4 folding maps, plates; Articles - Explorations dans L'Océan Glacial Arctique-Islande-Jan Mayen-Spitzberg (map in text); Le Cañon du Rhone et le Lav de Genève (3 figs.): Notes sur le Tafilelt (figs. map); Instructions pour Voyageurs (figs. in text); D'Entrecasteaux (4 plates, map); La Vallée du Niari-Kouilou (map); Voyage au Gourâra et a L'Aougueroût; Contribution a L'Étude des Lacs des Vosges. Half green pebbled calf, compartmented spine with gilt titles, marbled boards and endpapers. Slight shelf wear, excellent, firm condition, maps and plates pristine. No inscriptions.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Paris: Société de Géographie, 1896. 556, 7 folding maps; Articles - Notes sur le région comprise entre les Riviè res Mananjara et Iavibola (map); Journal du Voyage fait sur la Côte Ouest de Madagascar (map); Itinéraires de Yola a Dingui sur le Mayo-Kebbi a Lagdé sur la Haute Bénoué et a Ngaoundéré et essai de carte des régions voisines (map); Cinq mois de séjour a Yola; De Tourane au Mékong (une mission au Laos, map); Notes sur un voyage de Nefta a Ghadame (map)s; Ogôoué et Como; La haute Sangha -Congo Français; les tentatives des Franciscains au moyen age pour pénétrere la Haute-Éthiopie; Journal du Voyage fait sur la Côte Ouest de Madagascar; De Libreville au Cameroun (map); Journal du Voyage fait sur la Côte Ouest de Madagascar-Excursion a L'Ile de Mangaoka; La voie ferrée de Bassac a Saigon (map in text); Abrégé de… Leer más

Paris: Société de Géographie, 1895. 560, 11 folding maps; Articles - De L'Oubangui a al Bénoué (4 maps); une Mission chez les Touareg Azdjer; Le Cañon du Rhone et le Lac de Genève; Journal du Voyage fait sur la Côte Ouest de Madagascar; la distribution des conditions physiques a la surface du globe (map, torn along folds); De Lastourville sur L'Ogoué a Samba sur le N'Gounié (map); Résultats Scientifiques des Voyages de M. Mizon; Projet d'une carte de la Terre; Le Dahomey en 1894; Une incursion chez les Moï; Itinéraire de la source de la Bénoué au confluet des rivières Kadei at Mambéré (3 maps); La région de Tombouctou (map); Du Turkestan au Kashmir a travers les Pamirs (map).). Half green pebbled calf, compartmented spine with gilt titles, marbled boards and endpapers. Slight shelf wear, excellent, firm condition, maps and plates pristine. No… Leer más

Paris: Ch. Delagrave, 1880. Cinquante-Neuviem Anniversaire, 16, 74 (list of members), 576, 8 folding maps; Articles - Résumé des travaux Géographiques sur L'Indo-Chine Orientale; Notes sur le projet de création en Algérie d'une mer dite Intérieure; Notice sur le Tong-King (1 map); La région entre Ouargla et el Golea (1 map); Voyages au pays des Medjourtines-Cap Gardafui-Afrique Oriental (figs, 1 map); L'Yniridia 1 map); Sur le fleuve Rouge (1 map); De la Frontiére entre des Bellovaques et les Vélogasses; De Cayenne aux Andes-L'Oyapock-Le Yary-Le Parou-L'Amazone et L'Ica, retour par le Yapura (1 map); Adolf-Erik Nordenskiold (1 large map of the north circumpolar regions); map of eastern Tibet in text); Deux semaines a Bang-Kok. Half green pebbled calf, compartmented spine with gilt titles, marbled boards and endpapers. Slight shelf wear, excellent, firm condition, maps and plates pristine. No inscriptions..… Leer más

Paris: Ch. Delagrave, 1880. 592, 7 folding maps; Articles - Voyages a L'Ouest du Haut Nil (1 map); deux semaines a Bang-kok; La Rivière de Surinam (map, and another in text); Itinéraire dans le Turkestan Afghan; Notice sur Tahiti; Les restes de Christophe Colomb; Voyage en Sonora ( 1 map); Les Monts Aourès; Guinée Méridionale Indépendante-Congo-Kacongo-N'Goya, Loango (1 map); De petrovsk a Astrakhan; Des collections Ethnographiques; Déscription géographique, Historique, et Archéologique de la Palestine, Basse Galilée; Voyage au pays des Banyais et ay Zambèze (1 map); Notice sur la Règion de L'Oued Draa (1 map); La découverte du Mississipi. Half green pebbled calf, compartmented spine with gilt titles, marbled boards and endpapers. Slight shelf wear, excellent, firm condition, maps and plates pristine. No inscriptions.. Artist's Original Artwork. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over… Leer más

London: Francis Griffiths, 1912. xi, 302, 107 illus. of which 7 are colour plates with tissue guards. Publisher's red cloth, gitl, spine faded 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". First. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Miss Marjorie Nash. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966. 126, 4 colour plates, 252 plates and figs. with captions at the back, publisher's brown cloth gilt. Detailed description of the remains of the city. Owner signature on ffep. 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Hardcover. Good. Illus. by Photographs By Fabrizio Clerici. 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Book.

London: Alexander Mooring Ltd, 1911. x, 520, folding map, frontispiece and 63 plates, publisher's grey pictorial gilt cloth, a few pages loose and rubbed at the edges, split to backstrip, well-used. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Second Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Book.

London: Unicorn Press, 1932. 327, frontispiece photograph with 14 further illustrations; publisher's green cloth, black titles. Spine darkened, owner name in pencil on ffep, occasional foxing to gutters and fore margins. An account of the author's journey from Lebanon to Simla via Iraq, Iran etc. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". First. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

London: Unicorn Press, 1932. 328, 15 illustrations, publisher's green cloth, black titles to spine, some edge wear, slight foxing of preliminary pages. pencil dignature of Indian Civil Service official B. Penny on ffep.An account of journey in 1932 to Indian via Damascus,Baghdad, Isfahan, Bushire, the oil fields,Persian Gulf to Karachi, Bombay followed by discussion of various issues and places in India. Occasional foxing in gutters etc.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

London: Methuen & Co., 1909. xv, 448 with a coloured frontispiece and a further 15 colour plates after paintings by Fletcher and 32 monotone photographs. Very good condition, a little toning of pages but almost no wear. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". First. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Benton Fletcher. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.