Travel, Exploration & Transport from Duck Cottage Books

Shepperton, Surrey UK: Ian Allan, 1990. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 933 8vo. Subtitle: the story of railway property management 1800-1990. Pictorial dust jacket, grey cloth-covered boards, 288 pages, generosuly illustrated. Condition notes: A little shelf wear but almost as new.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1931. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 373 8vo. Thirteen extracts selected and edited by H G Rawlinson, wih notes. Blue cloth-covered boards, black titles to spine and front board, 215 pages, illustrations (some plates, and in run of text). Condition notes: Spine faded, dust-soiling to external page edges, front board and corner of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Koln: Konemann, 1998. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 383 12mo. Smart republication of Oliphant's accounts of these two journeys, illustrated with drawings from his own note-books in run of text. Dark green cloth-covered boards, white titles to spine, small format (approx 174 mm high), pictorial red dust jacket, 465 pages including Editor's Note at rear. Condition notes: Almost… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Viking Press, 1944. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 335 8vo. Pale blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, gilt motif to front board, illustrations from photographs, 175 pages. A history of aviation up to the date of writing and some predictions about its future. Condition notes: Boards patchily faded, bumped at corners, edges worn. Internally,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Middleton Press, 1993. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 389 8vo. Co-author Keith Smith. Glazed pictorial boards; a photo-history. Pages unnumbered. Octavo/quarto borders in size. Condition notes: Clean and bright inside and out.

Sidcup UK: Lambarde Press, 1963. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 348 8vo. Sub-title: The Ancient and Modern City in Eighty Photographs. With text in English, French and German. Light green cloth-covered boards, 80 black and white photographs. Condition notes: Some mottling/staining and to boards, especially along front hinge; internally clean and bright.

Middleton Press, 2002. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 389 8vo. Pictorial glazed boards, well-illustrated photo-history (black and white). Condition notes: Clean and bright, internally and externally.

Leicester UK: University College of Leicester, 1956. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 43 4to. Offprint from the Journal of Transport History, stapled, paginated pp 152-157, in original blue-green card covers. Condition notes: Covers worn and differentially sunned, staples rusted, pages clean and bright.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1892. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 1468 8vo. First English edition. Original publisher's green cloth-covered boards, illustration to front board, gilt titles to spine, portrait as frontispiece, large folding map as called for, numerous black and white plates and illustrations in text . The third of three works describing the author's… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: K G Saur, 1980. First edition. Hardback. Good/Very good. 475 8vo. Ex-library (BBC Reference Libraries), red dust jacket, blue cloth-covered boards, silver titles to spine, 295 pages. An annotated bibliography which acts as a summary and handbook to the history of exploration of the Old World. Condition notes: Dust jacket creased, book clean and sound but… Saber más sobre este artículo

Midhurst, UK: Middleton Press, 1998. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 388 8vo. Pictorial glazed boards, 96 pages, many illustrations. Condition notes: Almost as new.

Sheerness, Kent: Published by the Author, 1990. First edition. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 66 8vo. A stapled booklet documenting events at and near the aircraft factory at Leysdown, Sheppey, Kent, which the author describes as the first factory purpose built to manufacture aeroplanes. Card covers, 31 pages of text plus 8 pages of illustrations from photographs (as black… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Ernest Benn, 1933. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 418 8vo. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 259 pages. Many illustrativee diagrams, tables etc. A practical book; sample chapter headings are Provision for Safety of Life at Sea, Freeboard, Collision Regulations and Navigation Lights, Stowage of Cargoes, etc. Condition notes: Boards faded and bumped, age-tanning… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Edward Arnold, 1922. First Edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 503 8vo. Dark blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 284 pages. Covering the ships, crew, ports and many other aspects of Britain's merchant fleet in the early twentieth century. Condition notes: Boards rubbed, foxing to external page edges and to earliest pages and subsequently to some margins. … Saber más sobre este artículo

Midhurst: Middleton Press, 1998. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 386 8vo. An illustrated history. Pictorial glazed boards, illustrations from photographs, plans, diagrams etc. Condition notes: Bumping to one corner of the front board, some soiling to bottom external page edges which here and there has bled into the bottom margin of the page.

Rainham, Kent: Meresborough Books, 1984. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 625 8vo. Bright green glazed boards, 241 pages, illustrations (black and white) from photographs. Publisher's catalogue to rear. Condition notes: A clean, bright copy.

Shepperton, Surrey UK: Ian Allan Ltd, 1987. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 1105 4to. Pictorial dust jacket, brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 191 pages, many illustrations. Related material left laid in. Condition notes: A little bumping to the top corners of the boards, light wear to the unclipped dust jacket, tidy gift inscription to… Saber más sobre este artículo

Pinner, Middlesex UK: Irwell Press, 1990. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 624 4to. Pictorial dust jacket, grey cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 92 pages. Many illustrations from photographs (black and white). Condition notes: A little edge wear to the dust jacket; book almost as new.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co Ltd, 1937. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 739 4to. Landscape format, 315 mm by 230 mm. Dark blue cloth-covered boards, blind-stamped titles to front board; contents: half title, title page, Foreword (one page), Contents list then colour plates illustrating House Flags and Funnels. Condition notes: Covers worn and stained, internally clean… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: David & Charles, 2001. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 849 Folio. Black and white pictorial dust jacket, similar glazed boards, diagrams of trains across end papers, 112 pages, many illustrations. Condition notes: A little edge wear to the jacket; book in excellent condition.