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THE HUDSON BY DAYLIGHT. Map showing the Prominent Residences, Historic Landmarks, Old reaches of the Hudson, Indian Names, & c. With descriptive pages. Copyright, 1898 by Wallace Bruce.
New York.Bryant Literary Union. 1898?. 32pp illustrated book followed by a large hand-coloured folding map. Original printed card covers with canvas spine. To small corners missing from covers; map repaired from the rear at first fold; else a very good copy - the repair to the map invisible from the engraved side.
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THE HUDSON’S BAY TERRITORIES AND VANCOUVERS’ ISLAND, with an exposition of the Chartered Rights, Conduct, and Policy of the Honble Hudson’s Bay Corporation. By R. M. Martin., Esq. Author of the “History of the British Colonies,”
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The Lion Hunter of South Africa. FIVE YEARS' ADVENTURES IN THE FAR INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA, With Notices of the Native Traibes and Savage Animals. A New edition with illustrations.
London: John Murray, 1909. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper as issued. 497 pages. Illustrated. Original green sheep. Octavo. Prize label on endpaper; binding worn, with slight loss to the head of the spine; some occasional spotting; a good copy only of this much reprinted work.
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THE NILE BOAT; or, Glimpses of the land of Egypt. By W., H. Bartlett... Third Edition.
London: Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co, 1852. vi, [2], 218, 16 [ad's] pages. Illustrated with 36 steel engravings and 17 woodcuts. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. Top edge gilt. Binding: 26 x 16.5 cm. Just starting to split at the very bottom of the joint of the upper board; inscription on verso of title: 'Mary Derby given her by her sister Carolina Sept 29th 1852; else a very good copy.
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THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs. New edition.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1872. xx, 413, 48 ad’s pages. Illustrated with two coloured folding maps, and 24 engravings, many full-page. Original pictorial green cloth. Octavo. Small repair to one map; a few pages a little ragged at edges where carelessly opened; first leaf of ad’s missing; inner joints cracked but firm. A very good copy.
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THE PAGEANT OF VENICE, Illustrated with Pictures and Drawings by Frank Brangwyn R.A.
London.John Lane The Bodley Head Limited 1922. 19 plates including frontispiece by Frank Brangwyn. 148pp. including adverts to rear. Cream cloth, gilt. Dust wrapper. First Edition. Quarto. Previous owner's note to front free endpaper. Some spotting to fore-edges. Dust wrapper has minor chipping to corners and head and heel of spine. Else, an excellent, bright copy of a title rarely found in wrapper.
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THE PLEASURE TOURS IN IRELAND. With a Map, and Itinerary on a new plan &c. &c. Price 10s. 6d. Half-Bound in red.
Edinburgh: John Thomson, 1825. xiii, 258, 101 pages. Folding map at front. Original half red calf gilt over marbled boards. Octavo. Map repaired from the blank side in two places; boards and corners a little rubbed; else a very good copy of a scarce book.
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THE PUNISHMENTS OF CHINA, Illustrated by Twenty-Two Engravings with Explanations in English and French - LES PUNITIONS DES CHINOIS, représentés en Vingt-Deux Gravures avec des Explications en Anglais et en Français.
London: William Miller, 1808. Two title-pages, one in English, the other in French; similarly, two Preface; two list of plates; and two explications for each of the twenty-two hand-coloured plates. Bound in full red straight-grained morocco gilt. All edges gilt. Folio: 370 x 270 mm. First published in 1801, this is a later printing with the text leaves water-marked 1807, and the plates watermarked 1817. The binding has a small split at the heel of the from joint, and some rubs and light wear; two or three small, insignificant marks to the plates; else a fine clean copy. Bookplate of Samuel Charles Weston.
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THE RIVER CONGO, from Its Mouth to Bolobo; with a General Description of the Natural History and Anthropology of Its Western Basin.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1884. xvii, 470 pages. Illustrated with three etchings to folding maps and many illustrations within the text. Rebound in half green morocco gilt. Blind library stamp to prelims and later; else a very good copy.
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The South and East African YEAR BOOK & GUIDE with Atlas and Diagrams. 1932 Edition. Thirty-Eighth edition.
London: Sampson Low, & Marston & Co., Ltd, 1932. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. original grey pictorial covers. Union-Castle Line Bookmark still present. A very good copy. This book is heavy and will incur extra postal charges. Please contact us directly for a shipping quote: info@davidmilesbooks.com
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The South and East African YEAR BOOK & GUIDE with Atlas, Town Plans and Diagrams. 1949 Edition. Forty-ninth edition.
London: Sampson Low, & Marston & Co., Ltd, 1949. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. original grey pictorial covers. Bookmark still present. Hinges weakening; small nick at heel of spine; else a good plus copy. This book is heavy and will incur extra postal charges. Please contact us directly for a shipping quote: info@davidmilesbooks.com
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THE STORY OF THE L.M.S. 1795-1895. With Maps and many Illustrations. Special Quarto Thick Paper Edition.]
London: London Missionary Society, 1895. Hardback. [6], 444 pages. Bound in full back morocco, gilt. All edges gilt. 21.5 x 17.5 cm. Presentation inscription on the front endpaper: 'To Miss Bonsey With the good wishes of colleagues in the wok at Darby Street Mission. Alexander Sandison, President. J. Henry Kiddle. Hon. Sec.' A very nice copy, rarely found in what appears to be an issue specially commissioned for presentation.
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THE TRAVELS OF REASON IN EUROPE. Translated from the French of Marquis Caraccioli.
London: J. Johnson, 1778. vi, 300 pages. Contemporary sheep, recently finely re-backed. 12mo in sixes. First edition. Corners worn, else a very good copy of this rare travel book. ESTC list two copies: British Library and Cornell University only. Marquis Louis-Antoine Caraccioli (6 November 1719 – 29 May 1803) was a prolific French writer, poet, historian, and biographer.
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THE UGANDA PROTECTORATE. An attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and between the first degree of south latitude and the fifth degree of north latitude.
London: Hutchinson & Co, 1902. In two volumes. 1018 pages. 506 illustrations from drawings and photographs by the author and others. 48 coloured plates by the author, and 9 maps by J. G. Bartholomew and the author. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Ex-libris, with some evidence of the removal of a library mark to the spines; three small neat blacking pieces laid over ownership names; inner joints repaired at some time; some spotting to the blank verso of some of the maps; else a very good set.
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The World in Miniature. South Sea Islands. Being a Description of the Manners, Customs, Character, Religion and State of Society Among the Various Tribes Scattered over the Great Ocean, called the Pacific, or the South Sea.
Volume I only. xvi, 320 pages. Illustrated with 11 hand-coloured plates as called for. Contemporary half-morocco gilt. Head of spine pulled and worn; frontispiece offset onto title; else very good.
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THREE LETTERS FROM THE ANDES.
London: John Murray, 1991. Hardback in the original dust-wrapper (not price-clipped). First edition. As new. Mounted on the front free endpaper is a sheet of Fermor’s headed notepaper bearing a gift inscription, set within his customary cloud surrounded by birds, to Colin Seymour Ure, and signed in full. There is also a small correction on the rear inner flap of the wrapper, where the word ‘Life’ and been changed in biro to ‘Irish’.
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THROUGH THE GRAND CANYON FROM WYOMING TO MEXICO. With a Foreword by Owen Wister. New Edition With Additional Illustrations (76 Plates) From Photographs by the Author and His brother.
The Macmillan Company, 1969. Hardcover. Pictorial dust-wrapper. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: 'Sincerely yours, Emery L. Kolb, Age 88, August 5th – 1969, Grand Canyon, Arizona.' A very good copy in a slightly worn wrapper.
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TRAVELS IN CHINA. A Plantsman's Paradise.
Antique Collectors' Club, 1989. Hardcover. Pictorial dust-wrapper. 4to. First Edition. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper. This book is very heavy and will incur extra shipping charges. Please contact us directly (01227 464773) for a shipping quote.
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TRAVELS IN NUBIA; by the late John Lewis Burckhardt. Published by the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the interior parts of Africa.
Farnborough: Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1968. 498 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three maps, 2 of which are folding. Hardcover. Green cloth gilt. Octavo. A fine copy.
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TRAVELS IN UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT, during the campaigns of General Bonaparte. Translated from the French. To which is prefixed, an historical account of the Invasion of Egypt by the French. By E.A. Kendal, Esq. Illustrated by maps, views &c. &c. in two volumes.
London.B.Crosby and Co. 1802. Vol. I: [iii], lxx, [1], 2-264pp; folding map with some outline colouring; 3 engraved plates. Vol II: [1], 2-285pp; folding plan and 3 engraved plates. Both volumes in half calf over marbled boards. Octavo. First edition. Spines and corners a trifle rubbed with some bumping to Vol. 1; board edges showing some wear; pages lightly browned - particularly the title of volume I; bookplates to both volumes; else a very good set.
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