![The Modern Traveller: Vol. III: Containing the Compressed Travels of Browne, Savary, and Volney in Africa. [Egypt, Libya]. Claude Etienne Savary William George Browne, Constantin-Francois de Volney, anon.](/pictures/thumb/18001113.jpg?v=1542314650)
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
Bungay: C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley, 1807. First edition. Hardcover. Vol I: v, (i), 254, 827; Vol II: [ii], 695, (i), [28] (index). All plates and maps (some folding) present except the map of 'Turkey in Europe and Hungary', referred to in a Note at the end of the list... More
London: printed for Henry Colburn, 1817. Second edition. Hardcover. xiii, (ii), 376pp, with 7 hand-coloured aquatints and a foldout map. Some browning to endpapers, and a little soiling to the borders of some plates and to the adjacent pages: the text and the attractive plates are otherwise very clean. The... More
![The Life of Ali Pacha, of Janina, Vizier of Epirus, surnamed Aslan, or the Lion: from various authentic documents. [A translation of A. de Beauchamp’s “Vie d’Ali Pacha” with additions.]. Alphonse de Beauchamp.](/pictures/thumb/18220812.jpg?v=1542314657)
London: Lupton Relfe, 1822. First edition. Hardcover. vii,(1), 320pp, with a portrait frontis (no other illustrations called for). Lacks half-title. Frontis foxed, soiled and stained, with offsetting and soiling to title page. Text clean, paper slightly toned. 19thC marbling to all edges. In new green Victorian cloth, spine ruled in... 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
![Travels in Assyria, Media and Persia: Vol I only. [plus the plates for Vol II]. James Silk Buckingham.](/pictures/thumb/18305030.jpg?v=1542314661)
London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1830. Second Edition. Hardcover. xvii, 508pp, plus the folding map of Persia and the 17 plates (all asked for). Map crisp and in good order, text and plates very good and clean, with occasional very light soiling or an occasional foxing spot; the first... More
London: John Snow, 1838. First edition (third thousand). xvi, 592pp. With a number of plates, including Baxter's frontis printed in oil colours, a foldout map of the Maritime Provinces of China, and in the appendix, a chronological table of Chinese history. Contents clean, though with edge stains to the title... More
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
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
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
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), n.d. [1867?]. First edition. Hardcover. v, [ii], 356, with a number of plates and a foldout tinted map. A seriously-written account by one who knows the country. While the contents are notably clean in general, a few pages have corner creases, or are... 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
![A Tour Round the World. Being a Narrative of Travel compiled from Private Journals. [Inscribed copy]. William Corry.](/pictures/thumb/18793040.jpg?v=1542314699)
London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1879. First edition. Hardcover. [vi], 287pp. Front blank inscribed 'To Mrs George Workman / with the Author's kind regards / Dunraven / Belfast / 17 Jan 1879'. Pages clean and bright, with some minimal foxing to a few pages, and a small and shallow faint... 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
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. xx, 464, +24 adverts, with text illustrations, a number of guarded plates, and a tinted frontis (all called for). 1892 ownership name to half-title. Original maroon endpapers, gutters professionally repaired, with a small crested bookplate to front pastedown. Contents... More
![Murray's Handbook for Travellers in Constantinople, Brusa, and the Troad. [Brusa aka Brûsa]. John Murray.](/pictures/thumb/18931106.jpg?v=1542314727)
London: John Murray, (title dated) 1893 [adverts 1896]. First edition / reprint. Hardcover. vi, (ii),[38] introduction, 166pp + 56pp (Murray's Handbook Advertiser, 1896-1897): with 12 maps and plans, and addenda leaf tipped in at p.1. Pocket maps present. Turkish numerals added in ink to p[1] of the Introduction. Silverfish damage... More
![A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Harrogate, Knaresborough, Ripon, Bolton Abbey, Fountains Abbey, Pateley Bridge, Wharfedale, York, Etc. With an appendix for cyclists and motorists. ['Red guides']](/pictures/thumb/19013040.jpg?v=1542314744)
London: Ward Lock, 1902-3 Series. Seventh Edition - re-written. Hardcover. 192pp, with photographs, plans and maps in the text, and two fold-out maps. Preceded, interspersed and followed by many pages of advertisements, some being on tinted paper. Contents unmarked and in very good order, with some toning to edges of... More
London: John Murray, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. xiv, 248pp, with 28 pages of plates and 4 maps and sections (all called for). Slight tanning to first and last pages, otherwised contents clean and firm and in good order. In the original binding of blue cloth titled in gilt. Slightly rubbed... More
London: Mills & Boon, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 364, + [4], 32 adverts: with a guarded tinted portrait drawing of the King as frontis. Pencilled note to front free endpaper: 'Given to me by Stamper - Dec 1913' followed by initials, probably 'ML'. Some quite obtrusive foxing to the... 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
London: The Classic Press, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 69pp, with headpiece, text illustrations, and endpapers by Lionel Edwards. Several of Edwards' little pictures show landscape being enjoyed from cars of the period. Contents clean and unmarked. 6.4 x 4.3ins, in the original flecked red cloth lettered in gilt. Firm and... More
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
Paris: Librairie Vuibert, 1930. Nouvelle édition. Hardcover. 424pp, illustrated with many drawings and maps. 1932 ownership name to first blank leaf. Adhesion mark to upper margin of p.25 from former tipped-in note. Contents otherwise very clean, with marbled endpapers and sprinkled edges. In contemporary half calf with dappled brown marbled... 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
Colombo: The Automobile Club of Ceylon, and printed by The Colombo Apothecaries Co Ltd, n.d. [1931]. Presumed first and only edition thus. Hardcover. 564pp, with photographs, some text illustrations, 74pp of maps in colour, a 50 page gazeteer, 100pp of itineraries, many advertisements, and much other information, some in tables... More
