Category: Travel

Agricultural Concerns of the Monte dei Paschi of Siena

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Monte dei Paschi of Siena

Seller ID: 018148

Binding: Boards

Condition: Good

Well illustrated, including three folding plates, tall quarto, not paginated (c.100 pages), very slightly age-toned internally, brown boards, embossed title on upper cover, slightly worn, the lower cover a little faded, a slight tear to the head of the front joint, otherwise a good copy. SCARCE.
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Aksu-Zhabagly (a large format pictorial record)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: : 1988

Seller ID: 018055

ISBN-13: 9785620001125

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, large quarto, pp 190, very clean internally, grey cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is just very slightly worn. [Russian text with just one page of English summary. The Aksu-Dzhabagly is the oldest nature reserve of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, in the Western Tien-Shan mountains. Most images have birds, plants and mamals identified with Latin names.]
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Bacon's Route Guide to Kent, Surrey & Sussex for Cyclists and Motorists

Price: £8.50

Publisher: London, G.W. Bacon & Co Ltd

Seller ID: 007932

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

(1912). Small 12mo, (measures 97mm x 158mm), pp 30, rather worn and stained internally, with folded corners, paperback covers a little worn. The booklet has been folded in half (in the pocket, no doubt), so is creased vertically throughout. [Very scarce - a listing of mileage distances between most towns and villages of the area.]. Postage will be much reduced.
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Flora of the Pyrenees

Price: £7.50

Seller ID: 015897

Binding: Ringbound plastic

Condition: Good

A large ring-bound quarto binder containing many dozens of articles dealing with the flora. Illustrated with extra illustrations from magazines and postcards. Mainly dating from gardening journals of the 1960's ? Slightly worn, the binder covers very discoloured.
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Guia de Turismo del Uruguay

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Montevideo, Federacion Uruguaya de Turismo

Seller ID: 015019

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

[Not dated - c.1954 ?]. Illustrated, many maps, some of them folding, thick 12mo, pp 176 + 66 pages of advertisements, very clean internally, paperback, covers slightly worn and age-toned, a large stamp on the back cover.
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Kenya - an Official Handbook

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Nairobi, East African Publishing House : 1973

Seller ID: 007150

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Illustrated, small quarto, pp 208, the dustwrapper is a little faded on the spine a little frayed generally and has one closed tear on the upper cover, otherwise a good copy and difficult to find with dustwrapper in this condition. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpaper]
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Life of the Emperors and Empresses in the Forbidden City (1644 - 1911)

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Beijing, China Travel and Tourism Press

Seller ID: 009620

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated with superb photographs, 121 pages, quarto, paperback, covers very slightly worn. Chapters include The Grand Ceremony, Imperial Wedding, Birthday celebrations, Routine affairs, Meals, Royal Wardrobe, Bedchambers, Cultural accomplishments, Theatrical performances in the Palace, and Sacrificial rites and religious services. [The captions are in Chinese. However a translation booklet of 12 pages is inserted which gives, in English, all the captions and chapter introductions.
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Norfolk, Virginia - "The Sunrise City by the Sea"

Price: £12.50

Publisher: The Industrial Commission : 1914

Seller ID: 007502

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Well illustrated with photographs throughout, two folding plans, pp 84, staples rusty, paperback, covers rather worn and frayed, contents a little age-toned but reasonably clean and tight.
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Shell Street Guide and Metropolitan Map of San Francisco and Bay Cities

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Shell : 1936

Seller ID: 016475

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Very Good

A large colour folding map, double-sided, with detailed street index; oute covers slightly age-toned and slightly used, but overall the map is in very good condition. SCARCE.
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Image for Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, and of a Voyage To and From That Country, in the Years 1816 and 1817; containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's embassy to the court of Pekin, and observations .......

Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, and of a Voyage To and From That Country, in the Years 1816 and 1817; containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's embassy to the court of Pekin, and observations .......

By: Abel, Clarke

Price: £1,000.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown : 1819

Seller ID: 013161

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good

Second edition, quarto, pp xvi, 420, with 10 plain litho plates, 7 hand coloured aquatint plates, 4 maps (of which 3 are folding), errata leaf present, some marking foxing and thumbing throughout, margins frayed of one plate, contemporary marbled boards, rubbed, a later calf spine, endpapers marked. Three small Penzance Library stamps on the title page, partially removed, but no other markings. {Possibly lacking one plate ? This frequently occurs in this work.} [One of the main accounts of the period, during which a large number of plants were both discussed and collected. Clarke Abel, 1...
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Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, etc, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703

By: Addison, Joseph

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, J. & R. Tonson, & S. Draper : 1745

Seller ID: 017152

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Fair

12mo, pp 303, (9), several engravings of coins within the text, various small head and tail pieces, a little used and age-toned internally, a little foxing, marbled endpapers, a contemporary signature on the title page, (Geo. Parsons), a later inscription dated 1840 on the front blank, contemporary full leather, very rubbed, corners worn, upper joint cracking but still very firm, lacking the top and bottom 3mm of the spine.
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The Tianshan Mountains

By: Ai Qing (introduction)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Beijing, Xinjiang People's Publishing House : 1980

Seller ID: 015368

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, quarto, pp (not paginated - c.200 ?), clothbound, a very good copy in a slightly worn dustwrapper. From the library of the botanist Alan Leslie, with his bookplate and various signatures facing the title page. [A pictorial accounf of the landscape and life in this mountainous district of China, bordering on Kazakhstan.]
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El Pensamiento Biogeografico de Alfred Russel Wallace (Coleccion Luis Duque Gomez)

By: Alfredo Bueno, H. & Jorge Llorente B.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Bogota, Academia Colombiana de Cincas Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales : 2003

Seller ID: 012173

ISBN-13: 9789589205570

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A few illustrations and maps, small octavo, pp 191, paperback, a few very slight creases to the spine, otherwise this is virtually like new. Spanish text. [Presentation inscription on the front endpaper, signed by the author]
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Gardening in Bangkok

By: Amranand, Pimsai

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Bangkok, The Siam Society : 1976

Seller ID: 018800

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Second edition. Illustrated, large octavo, pp (8), 169, very slightly used internally, paperback, the covers slightly worn, the lower cover creased. SCARCE.
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To Introduce the Hebrides

By: Anderson, Iain F.

Price: £6.00

Publisher: London, Herbert Jenkins Limited : 1933

Seller ID: 018029

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Second printing, 1933. Illustrated, small thick octavo, pp 306, slightly age-toned, fore-edge a little foxed, very occasiobal foxing internally, blue cloth faded and slightly worn.
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Gunung Mulu National Park - a management and development plan

By: Anderson, J.A.R.; Jermy, A.C. & The Earl of Cranbrook (et al)

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Royal Geographical Society : 1982

Seller ID: 016896

Binding: Ringbound paperback

Condition: Very Good

Five maps, octavo, pp viii, 327, ringbound, very clean internally, paper covers, very slightly worn.
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Black Panther of Sivanipalli and Other Stories of the Indian Jungle

By: Anderson, Kenneth

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd : 1959

Seller ID: 016771

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

First british edition, illustrated with five photographic plates, octavo, pp 247, lacking the front endpaper, rear endpaper age-toned, otherwise exceptionally clean internally, black cloth in very good condition.
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A Naturalist in the Guianas

By: Andre, Eugene

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co : 1904

Seller ID: 015762

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

First English edition thus. Octavo, pp xii, 310, illustrated (including two chromolithographs by Keulemans), a rather poor copy, lacking the folding map, an ex-Boots library copy in red library cloth, a bit used and weak internally with cracked hinges (through front and rear hinges tight and strong), some plates a little frayed, a small stamp on the front endpaper and a library label on the rear, the cloth rather worn, marked on the upper cover, the spine torn. A useful working copy. [Andre was an explorer and collector of natural history specimens . He wrote a glossary of common and scienti...
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Photographer of the World : The Biography of Herbert Ponting

By: Arnold, H.J.P.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co. : 1969

Seller ID: 018154

ISBN-13: 9780090976805

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp 175, very clean internally, blue cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is only very slightly worn.
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Challenge - Lone Sailors of the Atlantic

By: Asaria, Gerald

Price: £4.75

Publisher: London, Sidgwick & Jackson : 1979

Seller ID: 014583

ISBN-13: 9780283985034

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, quarto, pp 176, a very good clean copy in dustwrapper. [francis Chichester. Eric Tabarly. Geoffrey Williams. Alain Colas. Blondie Hasler.Alain Gerbault. Joshua Slocum. Howard Balckburn. William Andrews. Alfred Johnson.]
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