Viaggi e geografia

The Great Within. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER

COLLIS Maurice · 0 · Island Books

£148.00 (€177.40 | $195.53 | ¥31,223)

Faber, [1941]. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in red and black, plates, maps in the text and large folding map at end, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original purple cloth, gilt back, yellow top, boards lightly faded at lower edge else a ...

Prutky's Travels in Ethiopia and other Countries. Translated and edited by J.H. Arrowsmith-Brown and annotated by Richard Pankhurst. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

PRUTKY Vaclav · 1991 · Island Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

Hakluyt Society, 1991. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Hakluyt Socie...

English and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon, 1550-1646. Edited by Joyce Lorimer. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

RIVER AMAZON · 1989 · Island Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,641)

Hakluyt Society, 1989. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper...

An Elizabethan in 1582. The Diary of Richard Madox. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno. NEAR FINE COPY IN SERIES BINDING

MADOX Richard · 1976 · Island Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

Hakluyt Society, 1976. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 147. Brid...

Tewkesbury. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

JONES Anthea · 0 · Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Phillimore, [Chichester], [1987]. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, and numerous photographs and maps in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Some Records of Ethiopia, 1593-1646. Being Extracts from 'The History of High Ethiopia or Abassia'. Together with Bahrey's 'History of the Galla'. Translated and edited by C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL SERIES BINDING

ALMEIDA Manoel de · 1954 · Island Books

£54.00 (€64.73 | $71.34 | ¥11,392)

Hakluyt Society, 1954. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With personal bookplate...

Francis Mortoft: his Book. Being his Travels through France and Italy 1658-1659. Edited by Malcolm Letts. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL SERIES BINDING

MORTOFT Francis · 1925 · Island Books

£74.00 (€88.70 | $97.76 | ¥15,612)

Hakluyt Society, 1925. 8vo., First Edition, with large folding plate as frontispiece (original tissue guard present), and 2 large folding maps, free endpapers mildly browned; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sail...

A Brief Summe of Geographie. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by E.G.R. Taylor. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL SERIES BINDING

BARLOW Roger · 1931 · Island Books

£78.00 (€93.50 | $103.05 | ¥16,456)

Hakluyt Society, 1931. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy. With personal bookplate on front paste...

The Voyage of Nicholas Downton to the East Indies, 1614-15. As recorded in contemporary Narratives and Letters. Edited by Sir William Foster. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL SERIES BINDING

DOWNTON Nicholas · 1939 · Island Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Hakluyt Society, 1939. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With personal bookplate...

The Travels of Abbe Carre in India and the Far East, 1672-1674. Translated from the manuscript Journals of his Travels in the India Office by Lady Fawcett, and edited by Sir Charles Fawcett with the assistance of Sir Richard Burn. [Complete set.] NEAR FINE SET IN SERIES BINDING

CARRE Abbe · 1947 · Island Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

Hakluyt Society, 1947-48. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper boards with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt backs, uncut, a near fine set. With personal bookplate o...

Further English Voyages to Spanish America 1583-1594. Documents from the Archives of the Indies at Savile illustrating English Voyages to the Caribbean, the Spanish Main, Florida and Virginia. Translated and edited by Irene A. Wright. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL SERIES BINDING

WRIGHT, ed. Irene A. · 1951 · Island Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

Hakluyt Society, 1951. 8vo., First Edition, with illustration and 2 folding maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy. With personal bookplate on fr...

A Hundred Years of Bray and its Neighbourhood from 1770 to 1870. By an Old Inhabitant. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

SEYMOUR] [Francis Jane · 1907 · Island Books

£128.00 (€153.43 | $169.11 | ¥27,004)

Hodges Figgis & Co., Dublin, 1907. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece; original green holland, upper board lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

South-West Wales. Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. A Shell Guide. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

REES Vyvyan · 0 · Island Books

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,595)

Faber, [1963]. 4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text and photographic endpapers, small signature on front free endpaper verso; original green cloth, backstrip blocked and lettered in green and red...

Unto the Hills. The History and Wildlife of the South Downs. [Foreword by Denis Healey]. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

COULCHER Patrick · 0 · Island Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

Book Guild, [ Lewes], [2001]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monchrome plates, and illustrations and maps in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.

A short History of Sherborne from 705 AD. Fourth Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE BEST EDITION

WILDMAN W.B. · 1930 · Island Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Abbey Book Shop, Sherborne, 1930. Roy. 8vo., Fourth and Best Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece, 13 plates and large folding plan on japon, title lightly spotted, some light and occasional marginal spotting to text; green buckram, vellum back lettered in gilt, gilt top,...

A Walk from London to Land's End and Back. With Notes by the Way. Second Edition. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION

BURRITT Elihu · 1868 · Island Books

£84.00 (€100.69 | $110.98 | ¥17,721)

Sampson Low Son & Marston, 1868. 8vo., Second Edition, with engraved frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 6 engraved plates, free endpapers lightly spotted; original terracotta cloth, upper board elaborately framed in gilt and black, lower board framed in blind, b...

Ordnance Survey Contoured Road Map of Clacton-on-Sea and Harwich. Sheet 98. Scale: One Inch to to One Mile. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

ORDNANCE SURVEY · 0 · Island Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Ordnance Survey, Southampton, [1932]. Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 22 x 30 ins (approx. 56 x 76 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.0 x 4.0 ins (approx. 17.7 x 10.1 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. The famous Popular Edition One In...

Shrewsbury. A Historical and Topographical Account of the Town. Illustrated by Katharine M. Roberts. Second Edition [revised by Henrietta M Auden]. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

AUDEN Thomas · 0 · Island Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

Methuen, [1923]. 8vo., Second and Best Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette and very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, fore-edges lightly spotted; red cloth, gilt back, uncut, a very good, tight copy in lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. First publish...

Ancient Stone Crosses of England. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

RIMMER Alfred · 1875 · Island Books

£42.00 (€50.34 | $55.49 | ¥8,861)

Virtue Spalding & Co., 1875. 8vo., First Edition, with 72 wood-engravings in the text; pictorial green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and black, gilt back, bevelled boards, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Although somewhat less detailed than...

The County Books. Sussex. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

MEYNELL Esther · 0 · Island Books

£26.00 (€31.17 | $34.35 | ¥5,485)

Hale, [1947]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map, free endpapers mildly browned; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, backstrip slightly dulled else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dus...