Storia regionale e locale

The Worst Desert on Earth: Crossing the Taklamakan

Charles Blackmore · 1995 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, John Murray, 1995. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated account of the author's dangerous crossing of the Taklamakan desert in China, signed and inscribed. First edition. Signed to the title page, addressed to Robert Carver, potentially ...

An Illustrated Guide to the Federated Malay States

Cuthbert Woodville Harrison [ed.] · 1920 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, The Malay States Information Agency, 1920. Cloth. An early twentieth century travel guide to the Federated Malay States, now Malaysia, with illustrations throughout. The third edition of this scarce work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Stamp in blind to...

A Saharan Venture

Donald R. G. Cameron · 1928 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Edward Arnold & Co, 1928. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce work recounting the author's expedition across the Sahara. The first edition of this scarce work.Presentation copy, with a stamp to the title page. A vivid travel work recounting Dona...

Cairo: How to See It

Alexander Cury · 1932 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Luzac & Co. 1932. Paperback. The thirteenth edition of this scarce travel guide to the city of Cairo, with illustrations and maps. Thirteenth edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece, ninety in-text diagrams and photographs, with a folding map to the rear....

Decorative Art of New Guinea & Carved and Painted Designs from New Guinea

Albert Buell Lewis · 1925 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1925-1931. Cloth. Two volumes from the Anthropology Design Series, with fifty-two plates per volume. Two volumes. Each volume is illustrated with fifty-two plates. Collated complete. This set includes: Anthropology Design Series No. 4:...

The Caliph&Apos;S House

Tahir Shah · 2006 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

New York, Bantam Books, 2006 . First edition. Cloth. A fine, first edition of Tahir Shah's autobiographical work depicting his move to live in a mansion by the sea in Casablanca. First edition, in the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boar...

A History of Persia

P. M. Sykes · 1915 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1915. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Percy Sykes' vivid travel work exploring Persia, lavishly illustrated with folding maps and colour plates. The first edition.Bound by Bumpus.An interesting travel work exploring the hist...

Jungle by-Ways in India: Leaves from the Note-Book of a Sportsman and a Naturalist

E. P. Stebbing · 1911 · Rooke Books

£89.00 (€106.70 | $117.60 | ¥18,782)

London, John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1911. Cloth. A smart illustrated account of the author's observations during his time in India under British Colonial rule. Second edition published the same year as the first. Illustrated with half-title, frontispiece, title page, fi...

We Two in West Africa

Decima Moore; Major F. G. Guggisberg · 1909 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.71 | $104.39 | ¥16,671)

London , William Heinemann , 1909. First edition. Cloth. A detail travel account of West Africa, with a folding map and illustrations by Decima Moore and Major F. G. Guggisberg. A first edition copy. We Two in West Africa is written by couple Decima Moore and Major F. G. Guggi...

Sverdrup&Apos;S Arctic Adventure

Otto Sverdrup; T. C. Fairley · 1959 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1959. First edition. Cloth. An adaptation of Sverdrup's previous work New Land: Four Years in the Arctic Regions, with additional chapters. First edition. Adapted from the previous work New Land: Four Years in the Arctic Regions. Illustrat...

Histoire Philosophique Et Politique Des Establissements & Du Commerce Des Europeens Dans Les Deux Indes

Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal · 1777 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Maestricht, Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe, 1777. Paperback. Raynal's philosophical and political history of European settlements and commerce in the two Indies, the fifth edition. The most important of Raynal's works. This the fifth edition, the first two volumes of se...

A Note on the Ancient Geography of Asia, Compiled from Valmiki-Ramayana

Nobin Chandra Das · 1971 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.53 | ¥8,230)

Varanasi, Bharat-Bharati, 1971. Cloth. A scarce reprint copy of this work on the Ancient Geography of Asia, with a folding map. A scarce reprint copy, with the first edition published in 1896. A Note on the Ancient Geography of Asia, compiled from Valmiki-Ramayana is by Nobin ...

The Bridge of the Brocade Sash

Sacheverell Sitwell · 1959 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Cleveland and New York, The World Publishing Company , 1959 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this travel volume for Japan, with illustrations. A first edition copy. Sacheverell Sitwell was an English writer, art critic and music critic. This is a volume of trave...

The Zambesi Journal and Letters of Dr John Kirk 1858-63

Reginald Foskett [ed.] · 1965 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd , 1965. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the journals and letters of explorer Dr John Kirk in two volumes. The first edition of this work. Complete in two volumes. With unclipped dust wrapper. Featuring frontispieces and nineteen plates. Coll...

World Pictures

Mortimer Menpes · 1902 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Adam & Charles Black, 1902. First edition. Cloth. Mortimer and Dorothy Menpes' beautiful travelogue of the world, the first edition. The first edition of this work. Illustrated with on-hundred full page plate, some in colour, as well as further line drawings in te...

African Camp Fires

Stewart Edward White · 1914 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1914. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this travelogue of Africa by Stewart Edward White. The first edition of this work. With frontispiece and further photographic plates in black and white.First hand account of Stewart Edward White&a...

Comment J&Apos;Ai Retrouve Livingstone Voyages Aventures Et Decouvertes Dans le Centre de L&Apos;Afrique

Henry M. Stanley; H. Loreau · 1880 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1880. Leather. A French translation of Henry Morton Stanley's popular account of his discovery of the lost David Livingstone in Central Africa. The third edition of this work in French, translated into French by H. Loreau.Illustrated with a frontis...

Fountains in the Sand: Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia

Norman Douglas · 1912 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Martin Secker, 1912. Cloth. Norman Douglas shares his experiences of early 20th century Tunisia in this travelogue A first edition of this travelogue of Tunisia, with 15 illustrations, collated and complete. Alongside captivating descriptions of Tunisian scenery, Dougl...

Travels in the Interior of Africa

Mungo Park · 1860 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

Edinburgh , Adam and Charles Black , 1860. Cloth. An illustrated copy of Mungo Park's fascinating Travels in The Interior of Africa. Travels in The Interior of Africa by Mungo Park. Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer of West Africa with this volume becoming a popular and ...

A Desert Journal Letters from Central Asia

Evangeline French; Mildred Cable; Francesca French · 1934 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, Constable & Co Ltd, 1934. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this enlightening volume of travel letters written by a trio of missionaries in Central Asia, complete with illustrations and the scarce dust wrapper. The first edition.In the very scarce unclipped du...