TRAVEL from Chilton Books

Privately published, nd. (c.1980).. Dora Edington's memories from travelling as a child, with her parents, during the 1920s and 30s. !st class by P & O Liner to Egypt, Zanzibar, the Seychelles and ater after 1945 to Karachi, to join her parents after serving five years in the WAAF - where she met her husband, Jack, who was serving… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Macmillan And Co., Limited, St. Martin's Street, 1908 .. First edition. Publisher's original navy blue cloth binding. 8vo. pp.xviii/pp.426/[2pp. - Adverts] . 9.0" x 6.0" x 1.5" . Light rubbing to gilt titles and bumped corners. Otherwise clean throughout with all illustrations and map. VG

London: Macmillan And Co., Limited, St. Martin's Street, 1913 .. First edition. Publisher's original navy blue cloth binding. 8vo. pp.xviii/pp.400 . 9.0" x 6.0" x 1.5" . Light rubbing to gilt titles and bumped corners. Otherwise clean throughout with all illustrations and map. VG

London: Macmillan And Co., Limited, St. Martin's Street, 1910 .. First edition. Publisher's original maroon cloth binding. 8vo. pp.xviii/pp.426 . 9.0" x 6.0" x 1.5" . Light rubbing to gilt titles and bumped corners. Otherwise clean throughout with all illustrations and map. VG

London: Macmillan And Co., Limited, St. Martin's Street, 1906 .. First edition. Publisher's original navy blue cloth binding. 8vo. pp.xviii/pp.459 . 9.0" x 6.0" x 1.5" . Light rubbing to gilt titles and bumped corners. Otherwise clean throughout with all illustrations . VG

London: Macmillan And Co., Limited, St. Martin's Street, 1917 .. First edition. Publisher's original dark green cloth binding. 8vo. pp.xviii/pp.440/[4pp. - Adverts] . 9.0" x 6.0" x 1.5" . Light rubbing to gilt titles and bumped corners. Otherwise clean throughout with all illustrations and map. VG

London: James Nisbet & Co. Limited, 1899.. The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science for Young Readers series.. With numerous illustrations. Life Amid Snow and Ice. Travel to Iceland, Northern Russia, Greenland,Orkney, Shetland, Arctic Seas, Norway, and Sweden. Pp.xii/340/16(publisher's catalogue), numerous black & white illustrations throughout, brown foliate endpapers, occasional minor spotting. Teal cloth, gilt decorated… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1970.. Reprint of the 3rd edition. Impressions as to the Life, Character & Thought of the People of Persia Received During Twelve Months Residence in that Country in the Years 1887-1888. Pp.xxiv/650, folding map of Persia to end, minor spotting to closed page edges (not affecting text). Tan cloth, dustwrapper has small spot… Saber más sobre este artículo

Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1995.. 1st edition. "Looking at England in the early months of 1785, covering twenty or even thirty miles a day and making detailed and intelligent notes at night, the two La Rochefoucauld brothers, Francois and Alexandre, and their tutor, saw landscapes still visible today; but the world of momentous industrial invention and optimism that they… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: G.Bell and Sons Ltd, 1954.. 1st edition. "An account of the dangers and the humours of travel in the Sahara and in Syria...Major Stuart went to North Africa to fetch back the vicar's son from the Foreign Legion. Failing in this, he decided to walk across the Sahara. With an Arab, and three camels of decided individuality, he… Saber más sobre este artículo

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1975.. 1st edition. "How do you plan and organise an overland journey from England to India or from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska? What is the best type of vehicle? What documents must you have? Is such a journey dangerous? How much will it all cost?...Based on a wealth of experience built up… Saber más sobre este artículo

Harpenden: Pocket Essentials, 2006.. 1st edition. Psychogeography: the study of the influence of geographical environment on the mind or on behaviour. "Merlin Coverley examines the origins of psychogeography in the Paris of the 1950s, discussing the theoretical background and political significance of early practitioners such as GuyDebord...." 19cms x 13cms. Pp.158. Yellow cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

Newton Abbbot:Wotton Limited (printers), nd. (c.1978).. Autobiography. Memoir of the author's travels and life in Scandinavia. Pp.107, photo portrait frontispiece + 5 further black & white photo illustrations and a map, inscribed by the author to inner front endpaper + a coloured NUH Trondheim, Norway sticker, title page absent. Paperback, creasing to spine edge and rear, scuffing… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: The Hakluyt Society, 1953.. A modernized version of the 'Egerton Text (British Museum)', the 'Paris Text' (Bibliotheque Nationale)and The Bodleian MS. (Rawl. D.99). The Appendix contains translations from Von Diemeringen's German version (Strassburg, 1484) and the vulgate Latin version (Strassburg 1484) plus extracts from Prester John's Letter and from MS. Brussels 10420. Two Volumes with continuous… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1931.. The Broadway Travellers series (edited by Sir E.Denison Ross and Eileen Power. This book has been selected and edited with a biographical introduction by Professor H.G.Rawlinson of the Indian Educational Service. Contents include. Chapter I. Bombay; II.Sir Samuel Hood and the Alligator Hunt; III. Picnic Party in the Cave of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Seattle, Washington: Published by The Homer M. Hill Co., (1903) .. First edition. A very good quarter leather binding. 8vo. 8.0" x5.5" x 1.0" . pp.365. Tan calf spine over grey textured boards. Spine with 4 raised bands, bright gilt decorated compartments and red leather title and author labels. Corners lightly bumped. Red silk marker ribbon. Bookplate… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: James Barrie, 1953.. 1st edition. "Pietro Della Valle was in the East for some twelve years. He knew Constantinople well in the sunset of its glory; he visited Cairo, Jerusalem, Damascus, Aleppo and Baghdad; he explored Ctesiphon and Babylon; he spent seven years in Persia during the splendid reign of Shah Abbas, whom he knew personally; and he… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York ; Sydney; San Francisco : Oceanic Publishing Company, A. M. Robertson, [1920] .. Signed first edition with a dedication to Charlotte Cameron OBE. A very good tight binding. pp.10/pp.375, with 9 maps and 51 pages of black & white pictures (including the frontispiece of the author driving a team of huskies in Alaska). Original blue… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Murray, 1986.. 3rd impression. On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates. Pp.248, double page map. Blue cloth, dustwrapper (designed by John Craxton). VG/VG.

Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2001.. 1st edition. Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld with his companion Maximilien Lazowski, see for themselves "Improved farming from the Fens to the Moray Firth and back via Armagh, Dublin and North Wales, with deviations into Improved industry and trade, as at Rotherham and Paisley; Improved hospitals (notably Dr Hunter's at York); and more picturesque sights… Saber más sobre este artículo