London: Geo Cawthorn, British Library: and others:, 1800. Apparently first thus. Hardcover. (ii), x, 416pp. Name in ink practised at head of both contents page and page 1. Light toning or foxing to pages, and protruding uncut fore-edges and bottom edges are soiled. 12mo, 16 x 9.5 cms, in publishers'... More about The Modern Traveller: Vol. III: Containing the Compressed Travels of Browne, Savary, and Volney...

London: printed for Henry Colburn, 1817. Second edition. Hardcover. xiii, (ii), 376pp, with 7 hand-coloured aquatints and a foldout map. A stately volume, handsomely produced and in lovely condition. Both text and plates are very clean, with some light soiling to the margins of the second plate and its facing... More about Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa: from the Original Correspondence in the...

London: Henry Colburn, 1823. First English edition. Hardcover. Starts with the title page (the copies held at Edinburgh and Glasgow are described as having a portrait). (iii-)vi, 125pp. Slightly cockled. Title page stained and spotted, staining to some other margins. Final leaf foxed. Uncut edges soiled. In new binding of... More about Narrative of a Journey to Brussels and Coblentz 1791

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1848. Hardcover. 308pp with additional engraved title page, a frontis, and six other plates (all called for), mostly with guards. Edge stain to upper margins of several plates, and two formerly detached have slight fraying to the edges. Contents otherwise good. New endpapers with original... More about Notes of a Tour in Switzerland, in the Summer of 1847

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1864. Second edition. Hardcover. Landscape format: title, dramatis personae, map, + 40pp printed recto, packed with light-hearted drawings and notes recording the party's adventures and things seen. Occasionally obtrusive - but generally light - foxing to many pages. Original red-brown endpapers with new... More about How We Spent the Summer, or a Voyage en Zigzag: in Switzerland and Tyrol, with some Members of...

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1882, 1878, 1878. 21st & 17th years of publication. Hardcover. Consecutively paginated, 1330pp, illustrated with maps, some folding, plus c.470pp of Indexes and advertisements. Three vols, each 7.4 x 5 ins, bound in red leather in wallet form, with map pockets in the covers and... More about The American Traveller's Guide: Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East....

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1880. First edition. Hardcover. [vi], 283pp (+ 32 ads); including 4 maps, and with a tinted foldout map of South Africa. Faded 1880 gift inscription to head of title page, and author's rank corrected in pencil, to Colonel. Originally a stapled binding: now sewn... More about A Sketch of the Kafir and Zulu Wars. Guadana to Isandhlwana

London: John Murray, (title dated) 1893 [adverts 1896]. Reprint of the first edition. Hardcover. vi, (ii),[38] introduction, 166pp + 56pp (Murray's Handbook Advertiser, 1896-1897). All maps and plans present and in good order, but for a repair to a fold of one the pocket maps which has lost a little... More about Murray's Handbook for Travellers in Constantinople, Brusa, and the Troad. [Brusa aka Brûsa

London: John Murray, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. xiv, 248pp, with 28 pages of plates and 4 maps and sections (all called for). Contents in good order, with slight tanning to first and last pages. In the original binding of blue cloth titled in gilt. Good firm copy with slight rubbing... More about An Egyptian Oasis. An Account of the Oasis of Kharga in the Libyan Desert, with special reference...

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. xviii, (ii), 290pp, with 31 illustrations from photographs. Photographs all very clean: initial and final leaves foxed, and some spotting in text. Spirited account of the author's journey from Halifax to Victoria. In the original binding of green cloth, titled... More about A Motor Tour Through Canada

London: Fisher Unwin, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. [iv], 192pp, illustrated with photographs. Contents very clean and fresh. Some foxing to the fore-edge of the closed text block, and faint stain to top margin of a few plates. In the original binding of blue cloth, title in blind to front and... More about Life in French Congo

Peking: North China Standard, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. x, 44pp, with 12 tipped-in coloured illustrations by Gladys Mary Havers. With the author's 1952 gift inscription on blank page facing half title 'For Ruth / in remembrance of the good old days spent in China / Hope Danby/ Christmas 1952... More about Charming Peking: A Diary of Seven Days Spent in the Old Chinese Capital

London: Macmillan, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. xxiv, 342pp. Minor foxing at pp 44-45, and slight browning to edge of map. Contents otherwise fresh and clean. Foxing to uncut edges of text block, but not intruding onto pages at all. Top edge gilt. Firm in the original smooth red-brown cloth with... More about On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks. Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and...