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

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

London: Putnam, n.d. [1935]. First edition. Hardcover. xii, [ii] 294, illustrated with photographs and map endpapers. Contents unmarked and in very good order. Original blue cloth, firm, showing some wear. Upper corner of front board bent and a little frayed, and there's some splitting of the cloth near the head..... More

London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, n.d. [1937]. Presumed first edition. Hardcover. 128pp, illustrated with photographs. Contents clean and unmarked. Front free endpaper bears the author's signed 1937 gift inscription: this had been covered with gummed labels, which have left a slight residue, and taken a little of his signature. In..... More

London: John Long, n.d. [1946]. First edition. Hardcover. 192pp, illustrated with photographs. Much about wrought iron and oxy-acetyline welding, as well as the author's diverse travels and adventures, including in Prague and Zanzibar. Contents clean and fresh. Faint foxing to closed fore-edge. In the original binding of russet cloth, clean..... More