London: Methuen, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. xiv, [ii], 271pp, illustrated with 41 photographs (including the frontis), and map endpapers. Contents in very good fresh condition, but for page 187-8, which has been damaged, losing some of the text from the last seven lines: the tear has been made good. Mild..... More
London: J.C. Hotten, 1872. First UK edition. Hardcover. 0, 226, +[30]pp (Hotten's publisher's list for 1872). With four illustrations. Defective copy, with prelims removed, so no title page etc, but all the chapters are there. The damage to the gutter has been made good, a replacement brown endpaper supplied, and..... 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
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: 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: 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
