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'...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Paris: Librairie Vuibert, 1930. Nouvelle édition. Hardcover. 424pp, illustrated with many drawings and maps, including a map in colour. Contents in very good fresh condition. 1932 ownership name to first blank leaf. Adhesion mark to upper margin of p.25 from former tipped-in note. Quarto, with marbled endpapers and sprinkled edges...
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...
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...
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...
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