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Farming Personalities of Western Australia 1961

By: N/A

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Perth WA, Farming Personalities: 1961

Seller ID: X020150

Condition: Very Good

Scarce. A yearbook of Western Australian farming personalities, fully illustrated with photos of the farmers and oftern their farms/houses, and short bio Spine quite faded with a nick, rest of covers rubbed, clean unmarked text, previous owner's name
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In the Land of the Pharaohs Karnac - Luxor - Thebes

By: N/A

Price: £50.00

Publisher: CAIRO, Lehnert & Landrock:

Seller ID: X011965

Condition: VG-

Original pink soft card covers with gilt titling, now faded, landscape format, 40 monochrome artistic views, landscape format, undated - late 19th century?, bookplate to inside of front cover.
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Dry Leaves from Young Egypt

By: An Ex-Political [Edward Backhouse Eastwick]

Price: £250.00

Publisher: London, James Madden: 1851

Seller ID: X003552

Condition: Very Good

Original blue cloth with gilt titling and decoration, spine darkened and cloth fading at edges with some soiling, rebacked with original spine laid down and endpapers replaced, 393pp, illustrated with coloured frontispiece, 12 litho plates, a double page map, plans and 2 folding tables. Internally clean and binding tight.
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The Road to London

By: Attwell Eric

Price: £25.00

Publisher: R. B. Howell:

Seller ID: 016234

Condition: VG

Undated, but signed by Author in 1980. Account of journey by cycle by two brothers from South Africa to London in 1936-7. 195pp, illustrated. VG copy in dw. Signed inscription totitle page.
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Handbook

By: Automobile Association of Northern India

Price: £150.00

Publisher: CALCUTTA, Automobile Association of Northern India: 1934

Seller ID: 013390

Condition: VG-

Motoring guide to Northern India with extensive gazetteer etc. 303pp plus adverts and many fold out maps (all complete). Contents VG, original green boards, worn on corners and spine edges. Old ownership details to front. Very rare.
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More Sketches of Kenya

By: Baden-Powell, Lord of Gilwell, O.M. Chief Scout

Price: £40.00

Publisher: LONDON, MACMILLAN: 1940

Seller ID: X020167

ISBN: `

Condition: Very Good

Scarce in a reasonably decent jacket. This copy's jacket is missing a corner about 1" square, torn along half the spine, but without loss, missing a small triangle off one of the back corners, and chipped at top and bottom of spine with small loss. Wedged in its protective wrapper the losses are diminished. Interior clean and unmarked.
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The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery Edited from the Original Manuscripts: Four Volumes and a Portfolio

By: Beaglehole J C (Editor)

Price: £950.00

Publisher: Boydell Press: 1999

Seller ID: 015389

ISBN: 0851157440

Condition: Fine

The best edition of the full Journals of Cook from his various voyages with a volume of modern essays on aspects of Cooks life and achievements - produced for the Hakluyt Society. 4 large 8vo volumes plus a cloth bound portfolio of facsimile maps, charts and views. A fine, unread set in blue cloth as issued. Rare. Very Heavy - please enquire for postage costs (£25 in UK)
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Wonders of Darjeeling & The Sikkim Himalaya

By: Bhanja K C

Price: £20.00

Publisher: DARJEELING, The Author: 1943

Seller ID: X014249

Condition: VG-

163pp. Near VG copy in slightly worn and soiled card covers.
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Unknown Mexico : Volume II

By: Carl Lumholtz

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1902

Seller ID: X012381

Condition: Fair

Volume 2 only. 496pp, very fully illustrated and with nine coloured plates, binding slack. Original brown cloth with tipped in photograph in a circular black and silver frame to upper board, obvious damp to head of spine and front board which also affects inner pages corners, rear board has some small puncture marks. Heavy - UK postage £5.95.
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Human Nature in Rural India

By: Carstairs R

Price: £35.00

Publisher: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd: 1895

Seller ID: X019718

Condition: VG-

An Englishman's view of the social structure and mores of India in the Raj. 344pp, with publisher's catalogue bound in at rear, slight spotting otherwsie VG. Origrinal red cloth boards, spine a little sunned.
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Wanderings Ion South America the North-west of the United States and the Antilles in the Years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824

By: Charles Waterton

Price: £10.00

Publisher: LONDON, MACMILLAN and Co: 1909

Seller ID: 013057

Condition: Very Good

Green embossed boards with gold lettering 520pp. Light spotting on page edges, but on the whole a very smart copy
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Through Central Africa from East to West

By: Cherry Kearton and James Barnes

Price: £40.00

Publisher: LONDON, Cassell & Co Ltd: 1915

Seller ID: X013556

Condition: Good

Original blue cloth with gilt titling to spine and blind-stamped to front board, cloth marked and binding slightly shaken, 283pp, with a colour frontispiece, 8 photogravures and 160 illustrations from photographs by Cherry Kearton, and with very good folding map of the Congo. Original owner's stamp on front pastedown. There will be additional postage due to weight [2kg approx]
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The Charts and Coastal Views of Captain Cook's Voyages : Volume Three - The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780

By: David Andrew (editor)

Price: £155.00

Publisher: Hakluyt Society: 1997

Seller ID: 015327

ISBN: 0904180557

Condition: Fine

Hakluyt Society Extra Series No.46. Third volume of this reprint of the maps and views of Cook's voyages with extensive notes, this one covering his final expeditions in Resolution & Discovery 1776-80. cxxxvi+319pp, colour frontis, fold out map at rear. A superb 'as new' copy in similar dust wrapper. VERY large and heavy - UK postage £9.95
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Cartes Postales Du Passe : L'Ile Maurice

By: De Kervern Andre

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Les Editions du Pacifique: 1991

Seller ID: 017363

ISBN: 287868009X

Condition: Fine

Nice album of early 20th century postcard views of Mauritius. 85pp, French text. Fine copy in dust wrapper.
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George Whitmore on Corfu

By: Dimacopoulos Jordan

Price: £65.00

Publisher: Greek Ministry of Culture: 1994

Seller ID: 015703

ISBN: 9607254082

Condition: VG

104pp, well illustrated, bi-lingual English/Greek text. VG clean copy in edge worn dw. Scarce.
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Masonic Calendar and Directory for the District of Madras 1912-13

By: District Grand Master of Madras

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Madras, The District Grand Lodge: 1912

Seller ID: 014109

Condition: VG

Directory of the Masonic Lodges of the Madras District for 1912-13 with full lists of members etc. 212pp. VG copy in original blue cloth, name to front paste down.
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Our Wherry in Wendish Lands : From Friesland Through the Mecklenburg Lakes to Bohemia

By: Doughty H M

Price: £175.00

Publisher: Jarrold & Sons: 1892

Seller ID: 013829

Condition: VG

Undated [but c.1892] 1st edition. One of the great classics of 19th century boating, being an account of a journey through the Netherlands and Northern Germany to Prague in a Norfolk Wherry in 1890-1. 406pp plus two fold out maps and drawings by the Authors daughter. A VG copy in the original decorative cloth boards. A little spotting to edges, maps clean but with a few tears, bookplate of Loretto Abbey (Dublin) to front paste down. A little edge wear to boards, but overall a fine copy of the rare original edition of this classic.
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Farthest North Being a Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893 - 96. 2 Volumes

By: Dr Fridtjof Nansen

Price: £69.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1897

Seller ID: X003417

Condition: Very Good

Original cloth with gilt titling to spine and gilt decoration with port and starboard lights and a compass rose to upper board, top 2 inches of upper hinge adjacent to spine faded, 587/713pp, with about 120 full page and text illustrations, 10 coloured plates etc, all maps present, with a description of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by Dr Nansen and Lieut Johansen and an appendix by Otto Sverdrup the Captain of the Fram. Heavy - UK postage £5.95
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Through David's Realm

By: Edward Staats DeGrote Tompkins

Price: £29.50

Publisher: LONDON, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington: 1890

Seller ID: X002356

Condition: Good

Fine original red leather with gilt decoration to spine, gilt titling, inscribed on upper board in gilt 'Greenhill School Moseley. Ne Tentes Aut Perfice', bevelled edges, slight scuffs to leather, marbled endpapers and page edges, 363pp, illustrated. Prize label to front endpaper.
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Elvin's Rides

By: Elvin Harold

Price: £12.00

Publisher: LONGMAN: 1963

Seller ID: 017954

Condition: VG

The author's rides on his trusty Raleigh bicycle around Lapland, Thailand and Cambodia. 203pp, illustrated. VG clean copy in slightly age toned and chipped dust wrapper. Signed by Author to title page.
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Through Europe and the Balkans : The Record of a Motor Tour

By: Etherton P T & Allen A Dunscombe

Price: £19.00

Publisher: Cassell & Company: 1928

Seller ID: 017916

Condition: Good+

Account of motor tour across Europe to the Balkans and back in the mid-1920s. ix+308pp, illustrated. Contents Generally a VG, a littte light scattered spottting. Original green cloth boards, slightly marked to front, binding tight.
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Behind the Ranges Parentheses of Travel

By: F G Aflalo

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Martin Secker: 1911

Seller ID: X01711

Condition: Good

Original green cloth with gilt tiling to spine, which is rubbed, and black titling to upper board, some marks to both boards, corners bumped, 13 illustrations, that opposite p 221 is missing, 284pp, slight foxing.
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African Wanderings: Or An Expedition from Sennaar to Taka, Basa and Beni-Amer with a Particular Glance at the Races of Bellad Sudan

By: Ferdinand Werne

Price: £175.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans: 1852

Seller ID: X006547

Condition: Very Good

Half calf with gilt titling and decoration, slight rubbing to edges, xi/267pp, marbled edges, with fronitispiece map of Bellad Sudan, translated from the German, bookplate stamp to both outer covers, bound with Swiss Men and Swiss Mountains by R Ferguson also published by same publishers, 1853, 143pp. Slight foxing to endpapers. Very good + neat copy.
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The Custom of the Country : Tales of New Japan

By: Fraser Mrs Hugh

Price: £25.00

Publisher: HUTCHINSON:

Seller ID: 017170

Condition: Good+

Stated 2nd edition, but undated (c.1905). 341pp. VG clean copy, slight spotting to edges, original puple cloth boards, spine very sunned.
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Voyages to the East Indies

By: Fryke Christopher & Schweitzer Christopher

Price: £14.00

Publisher: LONDON, CASSELL & Co: 1929

Seller ID: X009884

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: VG-

Reprint of the 1700 original with an introduction and notes by C Ernest Fayle. xliv/276pp, illustrated with 8 half-tone plates. VG clean copy in brown cloth boards, slight spotting to edges.
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1837 : a 150-Year History of the Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry

By: Gale, Bruce

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Kuala Lumpur, The Chamber: 1987

Seller ID: X012490

ISBN: 9679998908

Condition: Very Good

Original cloth and dustwrapper spine of which has faded, 195pp, illustrated in colour and b/w. Heavy - please enquire for overseas postage costs
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Lighthouses of the Pacific

By: Gibbs, James

Price: £14.00

Publisher: West Chester, Pa, Schiffer Publishing Ltd: 1986

Seller ID: X015441

ISBN: 088740054X

Condition: Fine

Original cloth and dustwrapper, 256pp, illustrated with b/w and colour photographs and drawings. There will be additional postage due to weight [1.5kg approx]
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Turn Left - The Riffs Have Risen

By: Gilg A Cameron

Price: £25.00

Publisher: RAC Publications: 1981

Seller ID: 016978

ISBN: 0862110165

Condition: VG

First hand account of toe Englishmen driving from England to Cape Town in a baby 8hp Morris in 1933. 191pp, illustrated. VG clean copy in dust wrapper.
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The New World of Central Africa with a History of the First Christian Mission on the Congo

By: Gunness H Grattan

Price: £75.00

Publisher: HODDER & STOUGHTON: 1890

Seller ID: 015909

Condition: VG

xx+537pp, illustrated, 2 maps, one a large fold out to rear. VG clean copy, very slight spotting to edges, small old repair to verso of larger map. Old gift inscription head of half-title. Original publishers blue cloth boards with minimal wear to edges. A bright clean copy.
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Big Horse's Flight :The Trail of War in Central Asia

By: Hedin Sven

Price: £35.00

Publisher: MACMILLAN and Co: 1936

Seller ID: 017126

Condition: VG-

First volume of this trilogy dealing with the Civil War with the Chinese Muslims in 1931-4. xv+248pp, pjhotos and fold out. VG clean copy, just a little spotting to edges. Original blue cloth boards, clean but a little age toned on spine.
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