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THE CID AND HIS SPAIN.
London: John Murray, 1934. First edition, scarce, 8vo.,pp. xiv,474, navy cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, maps and genealogical table, fold-outs to rear and b/w frontispiece; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, toning and foxing to endpapers, with damp staining to margins of front free endpapers, light toning and foxing throughout and to edges of text block, otherwise clean and a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed and toned to extremities.
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THE GREEN DESERT.
Somerset: Cox, Sons & Co. Ltd, 1963. 8vo., pp.91, green cloth, gilt, authors inscription to front free endpaper, b/w illustrations; a clean near-fine copy in a good unclipped dust-jacket with rubbing and foxing/damp spots to extremities, slight surface soil to front and rear and small areas of loss to front right upper margin and tail end of spine.
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VOYAGE D'ITALIE, DE DALMATIE, DE GRECE, ET DU LEVANT,
Fait aux annees 1675. & 1676. Tome I et Tome II [Set of Two Volumes].
Amsterdam: Chez Henry & Theodore Boom, 1679. Second edition, two volumes, 12mo., pp.456;489, full vellum with hand-lettered spines, 32 engraved plates, pictorial vignette to titles; small ink autograph to title page of Volume I, with small ink mark also to revserse of frontispiece and inked number to vellum at inner dentelle of front endpaper to Volume II, light creasing to fore-edges of prelims, clean within, a very good set indeed.
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LI HUNG CHANG'S SCRAP-BOOK.
London: Watts and Co, 1913. First edition, red cloth, b/w frontispiece portrait of Li Hung Chang, with caption sheet, 42 further illustrations; endpapers toned, light rubbing to extremities, gilt dulled, a very good copy, without dust-jacket.
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TRAVELS IN THE ISLAND OF CRETE, IN THE YEAR 1817.
London: Shackell and Arrowsmith, 1975. Paperback reprint of the 1823 edition, 8vo.,pp. 118, paperback, b/w frontispiece; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, wrappers coming away from contents to front inner hinge, otherwise firm, toned to margins, overall a very good copy.
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THE ITINERARY OF BENJAMIN OF TUDELA.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1907. First edition, 8vo., pp.xvi,94 (English text),(90) Hebrew text, blue cloth, gilt, folding colour map as frontispiece, manuscript facsimile plates; ex Reference library, with stamps to prelims and sporadically throughout, bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, and small label to foot of spine, heavy foxing to prelims, rubbing to extremities, a good copy of this scarce title.
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THE EVE OF THE GREEK REVIVAL.
British Travellers’ Perceptions of Early Nineteenth- Century Greece.
London: Routledge, 1990. 8vo., pp.xvii,289, black hardcover, silver lettering, 6 b/w maps; light soiling to boards, very slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket which is slightly shelf-worn, else very good.
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GREECE UNTRODDEN.
Athens: Mrs Alan Wace, 1964. 8vo., pp.116, paperback, b/w illustrations by Elektra Megaw; small price sticker to rear wrapper, spine lightly sunned, small crease to lower right corner of rear wrapper, light toning to wrapper margins, lightly shelf-worn, a very good copy.
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ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE: Journeys to England and Ireland.
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. 8vo.,pp. 243, blue cloth, yellow lettering; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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VENICE.
London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First edition, 8vo., pp.337, pictorial red cloth, gilt, b/w plates and maps; slight roll forward to spine, else very good, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed to edges, with light rubbing to front, else very good.
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SCANDINAVIAN AND RUSS, Or By Way of the Baltic.
Being an Account of the Cruise of the S.S. St. Sunniva to the Northern Capitals, Illustrated with Map and Forty Original Photographs and Thumb-Nail Sketches.
London: Gay and Bird/Sheffield: Pawson and Brailsford, 1895. Pocket 8vo., pp.viii,93, printed paper wrappers, b/w plates, folding frontispiece Cabin Plan, b/w map; closed tear and creasing to fore-margin of frontispiece, light wear to extremities of wrappers, paper covering of spine lost, a good copy, which is lightly foxed to prelims, else internally clean, though with surface soil to wrappers.
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LORDS OF THE ATLAS: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893-1956.
London: Longmans, 1966. First edition, 318, black cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w maps, pictorial endpapers; light toning to margins, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities, with light surface soiling.
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EDWARD LEAR’S INDIAN JOURNAL. Watercolours and extracts from the diary of Edward Lear, 1873-1875.
London: Jarrolds Publishers, 1953. First edition, 8vo.,pp. vi,240, burgundy cloth, gilt, colour and half tone illustrations, b/w figures, colour frontispiece; two ownership autographs to front free endpaper, light foxing to endpapers and to edges of text block, with light toning to margins, boards lightly speckled with some damp stains, otherwise very good, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed and chipped along upper margin.
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DESCRIPTION OF EGYPT.
Notes and views in Egypt and Nubia, made during the years 1825, -26, -27, and -28: Chiefly consisting of a series of descriptions and delineations of the monuments, scenery, &c. of those countries; The views, with few exceptions, made with the camera-lucida.
The American University in Cairo Press, 2000. 8vo., pp.xxxii,588, backed in maroon cloth, gilt, pictorial boards, 160 monochrome plates (including folding plates); slight tone to edges, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, with two small nicks and creasing to front lower edge, else very good.
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[MURRAY’S] THE HAND-BOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN SPAIN.
Ninth Edition, Revised and Corrected. Part I. Madrid and the Castiles; The Basque Provinces; Leon; Asturias and Galicia. With Index and Directory for 1908. Part II. Estremadura, Andalucia, Murcia, Valencia, Catalonia, Aragon, Navarre, and the Balearic Islands. With Maps and Plans. With Index and Directory for 1907.
London: John Murray, 1908. Two volumes, pocket 8vo., pp.xi,2,274,39,32 (adverts);vi,2,275-570,39,48 (adverts), red cloth, gilt, folding maps and plans; neat ownership autograph to front free endpaper verso of both volumes, a few annotations (mostly pencilled) to Part I., toning to adverts and to prelims of Part II., and to front endpaper map of Part I, with water-staining to fore-margin of rear board, affecting endpapers and last few leaves within, paper-cracking to front inner hinge of Part I., rubbing and slight wear to extremities, with uniform light sunning to spines, and with marking to front board of first volume, an otherwise clean and overall good+ set.
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THE OGRE.
Biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent.
Sheffield: Vertebrate Publishing, 2017. First edition, 8vo., pp.xi,178, pictorial hardcover, colour illustrations throughout, endpaper maps; very good indeed, in an unclipped dust-jacket, with light creasing and slight peeling of laminate to extremities, but otherwise very good.
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HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN NORTHERN ITALY. Comprising, Turin, Milan, Pavia, Cremona, The Italian Lakes, Bergamo, Brescia, Verona, Mantua, Vicenza, Padua, Venice, Ferrara, Bologna, Ravenna, Rimini, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Genoa, The Riviera, and the intermediate towns and routes.
London: John Murray, 1877. Fourteenth edition, 8vo.,pp. xlix,566, red cloth, gilt, b/w fold-out maps, fold-out map to rear pocket; slight cracking to inner hinge where paper endpapers slightly worn, hinge otherwise firm, ownership autograph to front free endpaper verso, occasional light foxing to margins, edges of fold-out map to p.526 chipped, lightly rubbed and toned to extremities and spine, small stain to rear board, an unusually nice copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE TRAVELS OF LORD CHARLEMONT IN GREECE & TURKEY 1749. From his own unpublished journals.
London: Trigraph, for the A.G. Leventis Foundation, 1984. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xii,244, green cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations and map, b/w frontispiece; a very good copy, in a price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities and sunned to spine and extremities.
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ARMENIA: Travels and Studies. Two volumes.
Volume One: THE RUSSIAN PROVINCES. Volume Two: THE TURKISH PROVINCES.
New York: Armenian Prelacy, 1990. Two volumes, the set, 8vo.,pp. xv,470; xi,512, black hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispieces, loose fold-out map to rear of volume one; very good, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which are very lightly sunned to spines.
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THE MAHDI OF ALLAH. A Drama of the Sudan. The Story of the Dervish Mohammed Ahmed.
London/New York: Putnam, 1931. First edition, 8vo., pp.xiv,318, cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 14 further b/w plates and 2 b/w maps; foxing to fore-edges, some foxing throughout, a very good copy, in good unclipped dust-jacket, which has small closed tears and light wear to edges, as well as loss to head of spine.
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