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

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

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863. Eighth Edition. Hardcover. xvi, 365pp, +32 adverts (dated 1864), and with the guarded frontis portrait and the map of the North West Passage, outlined in colour. Contents very clean. Original brown endpapers with 1867 gift inscription to the ffep. In the original..... More

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

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

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

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

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. xiv, 286, (4) adverts: with the translator's preface, and illustrated with a portrait frontis and many other photographs. Contents clean and unmarked. Firm, in the original binding of pale ochre cloth, a little faded and the spine slightly darkened. More

London: Egon Ronay Ltd., [1959]. First edition. Paperback. 80-page stapled booklet 18.3x12cms, in thin card covers. Front cover design is red, and bears the shop label of the Fakenham garage which originally sold it. Advertisements for Ford cars to rear cover and inside covers. Slight foxing and soiling to both..... More

Sutton Coldfield: Newmark Editions, n.d. [1990s ?]. Presumed first and only edition. Hardcover. [vi], 227pp, plus several pages of photographs. Contents very fresh and clean. Spanish bookseller's stamp to front pastedown. In the original binding of mottled red leatherette, spine titled in gilt, bright and sharp, like new. In the..... More

Williamston, NC: Privately Printed for Nicholas Scheetz, 1997. Limited edition. Hardcover. [42]pp, printed recto. #18 of 80 copies, signed by Richey on the limitation page, and with his gift inscription to Libby Purbes on the front free endpaper. Her introduction is a paean to the man. He was director of..... More

London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 285pp, illustrated with photographs in the text. Young owner's 1898 details to half title, plus some later initials. Contents clean and unmarked, although the margins of the five pages 101-110 have been punctured with two small neatly-cut holes, with an extra tear..... More

London: Rich & Cowan, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. 236pp, illustrated with photographs. Contents very clean, with an occasional foxing spot. Slightly penetrative foxing to closed edges. In the original binding of blue cloth, spine titled in orange, clean, bright and firm, corners sharp, spine ends slightly blunted. In the protected..... More