The Silk Road. An Ancient Road to Central Asia
Beijing, China Three Gorges Publishing House, [c.1992]. More
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By Bus to Sahara
London, Travel Book Club, [c.1930s]. More
Deer of the World
London, Constable, 1972 (first edition). More
An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710
[London], Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758. An early publication from Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press in an elegant binding in the style of (or perhaps by) the influential English binder Roger Payne (1739-1797). 'Charles Lord Whitworth ... was Envoy Extraordinary to Russia in 1704, and Ambassador Extraordinary in 1710. Seven hundred..... More
Architecture of Bali. A Source Book of Traditional and Modern Forms
Singapore, Edition Didier Millet/ Wijaya Words, 2010 (first paperback edition)/ 2002. Signed by the author on the title page. More
Captain Cook's Voyages, 1768-1779. Selected and Introduced by ...
London, Folio Society, 1997 [first thus]. More
Reminiscences of Twenty-Five Years' Yachting in Australia. An Essay on Manly Sports, a Cruise on Shore ... Notes of a Voyage to China and Japan
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, 1888. Sir William Henry Bundey (1838-1909), for ten years Commodore of the South Australian Yacht Club, was a South Australian MP (Attorney-General, 1878-81), and later a Supreme Court judge. An uncommon book on an uncommon (Australian) topic. More
Grizzlies Don't Come Easy! My Life as an Alaskan Bear Hunter
Piscataway, Winchester Press, 1981/ 1981. More
The Heart of a Continent. A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Hunza, 1884-1894
New Delhi, Asian Educational Services, 2007 (facimile edition)/ 1904 (fourth edition)/ 1896. More
Song of the Summits. Memoirs from the High Country
Long Beach, Safari Press, 2003 (first English edition). Number 619 of 1000 copies signed by the author. More
An Account of the Religion, Manners, and Learning of the People of Malabar, in Several Letters written from some of the Most Learned Men of that Country to the Danish Missionaries. Translated from the High-Dutch by J. Tho. Phillips
London, printed for W. Mears, 1717 (first English edition). German by birth, Ziegenbalg founded the Danish Lutheran mission at Tranquebar (Tharangambadi, Tamil Nadu) in 1706. He was the first translator of the New Testament into Tamil, and an early printer in that language. The correspondence reprinted here, between Ziegenbalg and..... More