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
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: 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
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
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: 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
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). 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
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
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
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: Rich & Cowan, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 283pp, illustrated with 18 photographs. Endpapers and final page slightly browned, contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Closed top edge soiled. In the original binding of green cloth printed in black. Spine ends puckered, small scuff at head of upper joint, otherwise firm..... 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
[Cobham, Surrey]: P.R. Pratt, [1980?]. First edition. Paperback. 82pp, illustrated throughout with photos, plus a map, 8 unpaginated pages of photos and 12 of adverts. Pages clean and unmarked. In pictorial card covers, bright, firm, and clean, with a crease to the back cover and very slight scuffs and knocks..... 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
South Africa: Acorn Books, 1997. First printing, Sponsors' Edition. Hardcover. 240pp: with maps, and richly illustrated with the author's drawings, paintings, and colour photographs of wildlife. Half-title is signed by Paul Augustinus and bears the tipped-in Sponsors' Edition slip stating it to be Volume H (of 26 copies), and the..... More
