Viaggi e geografia

In the Footsteps of Pizarro; Or, a Yankee's Five Years Experience in the Klondike of South America.

AGLE, WILLIAM C. · 1903 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

Seattle, Washington: Published by The Homer M. Hill Co, (1903) . 0. First edition. A very good quarter leather binding. 8vo. 8.0" x5.5" x 1.0" . pp.365. Tan calf spine over grey textured boards. Spine with 4 raised bands, bright gilt decorated compartments and red leather titl...

The Log Of The Water Lily (Thames Gig), During Two Cruises, In The Summers Of 1851-52, On The Rhine, Neckar, Main, Moselle, Danube, And other Streams of Germany. By Robert Blachford Mansfield And Illustrated By Alfred Thompson.

MANSFIELD, ROBERT BLACHFORD (1824-1908) . · 1854 · Chilton Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London: Nathaniel Cooke, Milford House, Strand, 1854 . 0. "Second Edition Revised and Enlarged." Well bound in half leather. 8vo. 7.5" x 5.0" x 0.25". pp.124. Dark green calf covered spine and corners over marbled boards. Edges rubbed and bumped. Smooth spine with black leathe...

History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Cambridgeshire,comprising a General Survey of the County Including the Isle of Ely And Embracing Separate Historical Descriptions of the University and Town of Cambridge, the City and Diocese of Ely...

[ GARDNER, ROBERT ] . · 1851 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Peterborough: Printed And Published By Robert Gardner. For Subscribers Only. MDCCCLI. [ 1851 ] . 0. "Subscribers Copy." First edition. 8vo. 9.0" x 5.75" x 1.75". pp.14/[2pp.]/pp.744 . Soiled boards very rubbed, crudely re-backed at some time in the past, preserving most of the...

Pietro's Pilgrimage. A Journey to India and Back at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century. (Signed).

BLUNT, WILFRID. · 1953 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London: James Barrie, 1953. 1st edition. "Pietro Della Valle was in the East for some twelve years. He knew Constantinople well in the sunset of its glory; he visited Cairo, Jerusalem, Damascus, Aleppo and Baghdad; he explored Ctesiphon and Babylon; he spent seven years in Per...

Amazon and Andes.

GRUBB, K.G. · 1930 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1930. 1st edition. Journeys in the Andes and Upper Amazon region, undertaken while the author was living in South America as a missionary of the World Dominion Movement. Ppxvi/296/8(publisher's catalogue), 139 black & white photo illustrations, sketch...

Forty Years On The Pacific. The Lure Of The Great Ocean. A Book Of Reference For The Traveller And Pleasure For The Stay-At-Home. Compiled By Frank Coffee.

COFFEE, FRANK (1852-1929). · 1920 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

New York ; Sydney; San Francisco : Oceanic Publishing Company, A. M. Robertson, [1920] . 0. Signed first edition with a dedication to Charlotte Cameron OBE. A very good tight binding. pp.10/pp.375, with 9 maps and 51 pages of black & white pictures (including the frontispiece ...

The Peak: Some Places & People.

CASSON, BERNARD AND THORBURN, JEAN. · 1933 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Sheffield: J.W.Northend Limited, 1933. "The reader has, in these graphic pages, the best from many note-books and many sketch-books, fruits of journeys undertaken during one of the most exquisite summers on record."(Foreword. John Oakley). Pp.115, over 40 drawings throughout +...

Mungo Park in Africa 1795-7.

URLING-SMITH, F.M. AND FAUCETT, L.W. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

London: Oxford University Press, 1960. The Oxford Story Readers for Africa series. A re-telling of the explorer Mungo Park's first journey through Africa for children. Pp.90, small line-drawing illustrations occasionally throughout. Paperback, slightly rubbed. VG.

Siciliana. Sketches of Naples and Sicily in the Nineteenth Century. (Translated from the German by Mrs Gustavus W.Hamilton).

GREGOROVIUS, FERDINAND. · 1914 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

London: G.Bell & Sons Ltd, 1914. "The essays here translated are taken for the most part from the third volume of Gregorovius's 'Wanderjahre in Italien', published so long ago as 1853; the last, however, that entitled 'Segesta, Selinus and Mount Eryx' from his 'Kleine Schrifte...

Middle Eastern Journey.

NEWMAN, BERNARD. · 1947 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: The Travel Book Club, 1947. "First I returned to old haunts in Austria and Italy: then on to the Middle East proper: and finally, beyond its limits to Kenya. Thus my record goes considerably beyond the range promised by its title." Pp.296, 45 black & white photos, owne...

Kestell, Clapp and Cornish. Records of Home Life and Travel.

CORNISH, VAUGHAN. · 1947 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London; Sifton Praed, 1947. 1st edition. "The correspondence, journals and essays of five generations gathered in this volume provide records of home life, travel and study by the families of Kestell, Clapp and the Cornishes of Salcombe Regis." Pp.145, black & white photo port...

Peeps at Many Lands: Jamaica. (With 12 full-page illustrations in colour by A.S.Forrest).

HENDERSON, JOHN. · 1909 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. 1st edition. Pp.viii/87/3(ads for other publications, colour frontispiece + 11 further colour illustrations by A.S.Forrest + a sketch map of Jamaica, gift message to front free endpaper, light spotting to closed page edges with a few spots...

Narrative of the Expedition to the China Seas and Japan. 1852-1854.

PERRY, COMMODORE MATTHEW C. · 2000 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Mineola: Dover Publications, 2000. 0486411338. Unabridged reproduction of the work originally published in Washington in 1856. "Naval officer Matthew Perry set sail for Japan in 1852 with a small escort of ships and a huge commission - persuading the Japanese government to eme...

Florence.

HUTTON, EDWARD. · 1966 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Hollis & Carter,1966. New edition. "The present volume is a new, revised edition of the Florence which the author wrote in the light of the changes wrought by World War II. In addition, a fresh selection of up-to-date illustrations has been made." Pp.16/284,24 b/w illu...

Warwickshire. Shakespeare's Country. (King's England series).

MEE, ARTHUR. · 1957 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

London: The Caxton Publishing Company Ltd, nd.(c,1957). 0. Special edition. "It has not been thought desirable to note in this volume the lamentable changes and destruction wrought during the war." Pp.xii/308, many black & white photos and illustrations throughout, map to rear...

The Skirts of the Great City.

BELL, MRS ARTHUR G. · 1907 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Methuen & Co, 1907. 0. A history of London suburbs. Pp.viii/320/40(ads for other publications), colour frontispiece + 15 further colour illustrations and 17 black & white photo illustrations by Arthur G. Bell and a map from a drawing by B.C.Boulter to front endpapers, ...

The Voyage of the Matthew. John Cabot and the Discovery of North America. (Acompanies the Major Television Series).

FIRSTBROOK,PETER. · 1997 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London:BBC,1997. 1st ed. "On 24th June 1497, John Cabot became the first European of his day to land in North America. Five hundred years later, a full-size replica of Cabot's ship, the Matthew, sails from Bristol to mark the anniversary of his extraordinary but little known t...

Douglas of the Forests. The North American Journals of David Douglas.

DAVIES, JOHN. · 1979 · Chilton Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Edinburgh: Paul Harris, 1979. 0904505375. "This edited and abridged version deals principally with Douglas's second expedition to what are now the States of Oregon and Washington and the Province of British Columbia in the years 1824-27. In the whole of that vast territory the...

White Tie and Decorations. Sir John and Lady Hope Simpson in Newfoundland, 1934-1936.

NEARY, PETER. · 1997 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. 0802080855. "In February 1934, a financial emergency created by the Great Depression forced the suspension of self-government in Newfoundland. Britain guaranteed Newfoundland's debt and appointed a Commision of Government. Among the ...

The Peacock Country. (Decorated by Vera Bock).

ALSTON WARING, P. · 1948 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

New York: The John Day Company, 1948. 0. 1st edition. "In India there is a bond between people and animals. During my long stay in that country I came to understand this fact and to wonder at it and to be delighted by it..These stories are the stories of the lives of animals w...