The Narrow Boat Book
Weybridge, Whittet Books, 1978. More
Travel
The Ancient Cities of the New World. Travels and Explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882
London, Chapman and Hall, 1887. More
Four Captains
Glasgow, Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1975. More
The Red Heart. Sagas of Centralia
Melbourne, The Hawthorn Press, 1944. Inscribed and signed by the author in ink on the half-title. More
Australia and Back
London, A.& C. Black, 1927. '... the first person to fly from England to Australia and back in his de Havilland D.H. 50J biplane, Sir Alan Cobham [also] became famous for his exploits in the interwar years by making civil aviation accessible and popular throughout the world.' [RAF Museum website]..... More
Our New Way Round The World
London, Frederick Warne & Co., 1883. Charles Carleton Coffin (1823-1896), American historian, 'best known as an author of patriotic books for children and for his speeches. During the Civil War, he wrote dispatches from the front for the Boston Journal by which he attained considerable fame. He served in the..... More
Coleridge among the Lakes & Mountains. From his Notebooks, Letters and Poems, 1794-1804
London, The Folio Society, 1991 (first thus). Edited by Roger Hudson. More
Coleridge among the Lakes & Mountains. From his Notebooks, Letters and Poems, 1794-1804
London, The Folio Society, 1991 (first thus). Edited by Roger Hudson. More
White Funnel Steamers. A Photographic Legacy
Stroud, The History Press, 2010. 'Covering the period from the 1880s to the 1950s using many rare and previously unpublished images, through the golden years of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, the difficult years of the 1920s and 1930s, and the resurgence of the late 1940s. [Includes] stories from the..... More
Aconcagua and Tierra Del Fuego. A Book of Climbing, Travel and Exploration
London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1902 (first edition). 'William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (1856-1937), known between 1895 and 1931 as Sir Martin Conway, was an English art critic, politician, cartographer and mountaineer, who made expeditions in Europe as well as in South America and Asia.... In 1892..... More
Captain Cook's Voyages, 1768-1779
London, The Folio Society, 1997 (first thus). Selected and introduced by Glyndwr Williams. More
Captain Cook's Voyages, 1768-1779. Selected and Introduced by Glyndwr Williams
London, Folio Society, 1997 [first thus]. More
Hong Kong. Return to the Heart of the Dragon. A Photographic and Literary Tribute to Hong Kong and Macau
Hong Kong, O & A Editions/ Elsworth Books Limited, 1997 [new edition/ 1993]. Loosely inserted is a colour pictorial commemorative leaf; 'In Commemoration and in Witness of the Handover of the British Colony of Hong Kong to Chinese Sovereignty at Midnight, 30th of June 1997', from JW Marriott Hotel, Hong..... More
Venetian Voices
Mile End, Wakefield Press, 2017. More
The River People
Frenchs Forest, AH & AW Reed Pty Ltd, 1983. With the ownership signature of poet, author and critic Alan Brissenden. A journey down the Lachlan River. More
An Embassy to China. Being the Journal kept by Lord Macartney during his Embassy to the Emperor Ch'ien-lung, 1793-1794
London, The Folio Society, 2004 (first thus). Introduction by Jonathan Spence; edited by J.L. Cranmer-Byng. More
Journal of an Embassy to the Courts of Siam and Cochin China
Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1967 (facsimile edition)/ 1828. One of the Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints series; the introduction by David K. Wyatt is new to this edition. More
Sport on the Pamirs and Turkistan Steppes
[No Place, No Publisher, facsimile edition, no date] / 1895. More
Cummy's Diary. A Diary Kept by R.L. Stevenson's Nurse, Alison Cunningham, while Travelling with him on the Continent during 1863. With a Preface and Notes by Robert T. Skinner
London, Chatto and Windus, 1926. Number 25 of 780 copies (750 being for sale). Loosely inserted is a period postcard of R.L. Stevenson. More
Greyhounds of the Sea. The Story of the American Clipper Ship. Third Edition with 500 Sailing Records
Wellingboroough, Patrick Stephens, 1984 (third, revised and expanded, edition)/ 1930. More
Lola Montez. An Adventuress of the 'Forties
London, T. Werner Laurie, [c.1920s]. More
Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia
London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1887. 'Shortly after the return of Mr Goyder's surveying expedition to Adelaide in April, 1870, my father was appointed Government Resident of the Northern Territory'; 16 year-old Harriet accompanied William Bloomfield Douglas (see the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography') and the rest of the..... More
A Voyage Round the Coast of Great Britain
London, The Folio Society, 2008 (first thus). Preface by Robert MacFarlane. Edited and introduced by C.J. Shepherd. More
A Voyage Round Great Britain. Sheerness to Land's End ...in the Footsteps of William Daniell R.A. (1769-1837)
Staplehurst, Spellmount, 1995. The first of four volumes. More
Sport in the Highlands of Kashmir. Being a Narrative of Eight Months' Trip in the Baltisian and Ladak, and a Lady's Experiences in the Latter Country, together with Hints for the Guidance of Sportsmen
Camden, John Culler and Sons, 1993 (first thus)/ 1898. Number 390 of only 500 copies of a facsimile edition, with a new five-page introduction by Robert Churchill. One of the publisher's Asian Series. More