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: Noel Douglas, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. x, 290pp. A thorough account, in fluent English, and with much detail. Pages have light foxing to the prelims and final leaves, and occasional spotting throughout the text. Small name stamp to front free endpaper. Firm, in the original binding of green cloth..... More
London: and Cape Town: Heinemann; and David Philip, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. xviii, 350pp, illustrated with maps and photographs. Library stamps to front endpapers, contents otherwise very fresh, clean and unmarked. Faint library stamps to closed edges of text block. Firm, in the original binding of brown cloth, spine titled..... More
Columbo: Printed at the City Press, 1951. First edition. Softcover. v, map, 224, ii (index). With photographs and tables in the text. Slight marks to title page, contents otherwise clean and fresh. 18.5x12.5cms, in printed blue card covers. Plain spine slightly toned, covers bright and clean with no creases, small..... More
London: Tho. Basset, Ric. Chiswell, Benj. Tooke, et al. 1687. Reprint. Hardcover. The poem, 'The Mind of the Front' is present and precedes the frontis and title page, which are followed by the Preface xxxii, and the Contents 24pp. // Then follows 'The Life of the Valiant and Noble Sir..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. New and Revised Edition. Hardcover. 302pp, pages very fresh, with crisp foldout maps at back. Free endpapers tanned. In the original binding of sharp green cloth, spine titled gilt: corners sharp, spine ends slightly compressed. In the protected unclipped yellow dust jacket: front panel bright..... More
London: printed for Pinnock & Maunder, 1820. First edition. Hardcover. xii, 435pp, [2]; with, as called for, the 9 foldout maps, 12 plates of views and costumes, and 4 plates on the construction of maps. Two of the costume plates have benefited from a little careful watercolouring. With foxing to..... More
London: Rex Collings, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. [xii], 858pp. Pages clean and unmarked, no ownership names etc. A major work, and a substantial volume, 23.5x15.5cms, in the original binding of black cloth, spine titled in silver. Clean and firm, some corners heavily knocked, and with small indentations to the upper..... More
Urumqi: Youlin Tourism Publishing House of China / Zinjiang Art & Photography Publication, 2008. First printing of second edition. Softcover. 223, [1]. Large format softcover, 26x22cms, illustrated in colour throughout. Contents clean and unmarked. DVD appears unplayed. Covers clean and bright, with faint handling marks. Great landscapes. And happy faces..... More
London: James Nisbet, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 486, [2] adverts. A stark, highly informative, but also evangelical, view of the state of India, with vigorous proposals for improving the lot of Indians. With the ownership name of Francis L.M. Noel R.N., to the pastedown (his relation to the author..... More
![Item #20080030 Invaze 68. [Text in Czech]. Josef Koudelka](/pictures/thumb/20080030.jpg?v=1584735678)
Praha / Prague: Torst, 2008. First edition. Softcover. 296pp. Glossy production, stark full page and double page photographs and text, an extraordinary and powerful record of the Soviet Invasion of Dubcek's Czechoslovakia in 1968 as experienced and resisted by the people. 32x24.5cms, in the printed covers of heavy flexible card..... More
New York: Mark H. Newman & Co., 1847. First edition. Hardcover. 688pp, illustrated with drawings and maps. Slight cockling and faint soling to the prelims and some of the earlier pages. Contents generally very clean throughout, with occasional light soiling. Text usefully arranged with a printed column of 'analysis' in..... More
![Item #18050010 The Eclectic Review, Vol.I: 1805, Parts I and II [in one volume]. Samuel Greatheed](/pictures/thumb/18050010.jpg?v=1581048979)
London: Printed by Biggs and Co., for C. Taylor et al, 1805. First edition. Hardcover. Part I: 480pp; Part II: [ii] title + [viii] Index to Vol I + (481-) 960, + 4 publishers' adverts. Contents clean and in good order. Near a thousand pages of thoroughly engaged articles and..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. x, 403, +24 adverts; with two maps, one being foldout, the other has a few foxing spots. Contents clean and unmarked. With the armorial bookplate of Lord Battersea. In the original binding of fine navy cloth, ruled and titled in gilt..... More
Bungay: C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley, 1807. Reprint. 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 of..... More
London: Sydney L. Moss Ltd., 1995. First edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. The two volumes consecutively paginated: 377pp, + 2 maps. Quarto, with many plates. In the original maroon boards, with dustjackets. In fine condition in the red cloth slipcase. All as new. [EXTRA Heavy Item]. More
Kuching, Sarawak: The Museum, December 1995. First edition. Paperback. xiv, 387; ix, (389-) 637. Author's 1997 gift inscription to title page of Part I. Parallel text Kejaman-English. Contents clean and fresh. Paperbacks, 24.5x17cms, in pictorial blue glossy covers. Fresh, clean and square, with a small knock to the upper front..... More
London: Dean & Son, n.d. [c.1888]. New Edition, revised and extended: Tenth Thousand. Hardcover. Two-page map of Ireland by Clapp; +[iv], title page & list of works on the History of Ireland; +193pp, text, with 3 plates reproducing fine engraved scenes, and 3 other illustrations; +[5], Chronological Table and Index;..... More
Lagos: The Government Printer, 1939. Original edition. Softcover. [vi] (Title & contents), xxxii (Index), 189 (text), [12] (Register of alterations and additions). All pages printed recto only, the blanks not counted, so there are about 240 leaves. Accompanied by a number of unused forms in an envelope attached inside the..... More
London: Hutchinson, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 256, [16] adverts. Some foxing to fore-edge margins throughout, and to prelims. Ownership name to front pastedown. Vivid accounts. Structurally in good order, in the original blue cloth, spine title yellow: clean and firm, spine ends puckered, slight rubbing to edges and extremities. Scarce..... More
London: G. Morrish, n.d. [1920s?]. Presumed first and only edition. Hardcover. Biblical stories, engagingly written for children, and interwoven with history: attractively produced, well printed on good paper. 56pp, with three plates, and 'copies can be had' from the author, giving a Teignmouth address. Contents very clean, free endpapers tanned..... More
London: Cargate Press, n.d. [c.1935]. First edition. Hardcover. 96pp, illustrated with photographs and a map. Contents clean and unmarked, with faint tanning to endpapers. In the original binding of orange cloth, titled to the front in blue-grey. Boards firm and bright with some fading to edges from former damp. Spine..... More
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 'printed 1920'. Hardcover. 256pp, with a colour frontis, illustrations in line, and pictorial endpapers of desultory children by a different artist. Children's story, set in British India, and Billy is an English girl. 1932 presentation note to front endpaper, with Sunday School Award label..... More
London: Routledge, 2014. Paperback. 290pp: digitally printed paperback, 23.2x15.4cms, in sea-green glossy covers, in fresh unread condition. More
Brussels, Oxford, etc: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2011. First English edition. Paperback. 642pp, [i]. Unread copy. Contents mint. 22x15cms, in black pictorial covers with faint handling marks when these catch the light, and small knocks to the tips of the corners. One of the founding fathers of the European Union. A...... More
