Travel & Exploration

Congo Sketches

No date circa 1955, Inscribed by the author. A missionaries travels in the Congo. Some creasing to edges of dust jacket. Minor foxing to end papers.

Desperate Voyage

Victor Gollancz 1950. No dust jacket.Cover is worn sunned on spine. Some foxing throughout.

Discover Namibia

Shelf wear to top and bottom of spine of dw with small chip in front cover.

East African Safari, A pictorial impression of East Africa

Binding shaken and loose in places.

Egypt, Burma and Brtish Malaysia

Preliminary and final pages have light foxing. Ownership stamps on front endpaper and lending slip pasted to back endpaper. Fore edges of pages mottled with name stamp on top fore edges. Covers have mild wear, corners bumped and spine faded.

Elephant Island: An Antarctic Expedition

Past owner’s signature in red ink on half-title page. DW torn at top edge.

Explorers’ Maps. Chapters in the Cartographic Record of Geographical Discovery

Sunning to the spine of the dw.

Farthest North

“Being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship Fram 1893-96 and of a fifteen month sleigh journey by Dr Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram with 16 coloured plates and maps” Volume I and II. Decorative green cloth with gilt title image. Some wear to edges. Sporadic foxing mostly to end papers. The Norwegian polar expedition 1893-1896.

Flug ins Schimpansenland: Reise durch ein Stuck Afrika von Heute

Ex-library copy with spine mark, ink stamp on verso of title page and pocket on back endpaper. Binding loose at hinges. Boards covered in contact plastic film, which has discoloured on inside edges of endpapers. Blurb pasted to verso of front flyleaf with contact plastic.

From Naboth’s Vinyard. Being Impressions Formed During a Fourth Visit to South Africa Undertaken at the Requestof the Tribune Newspaper

Neat ex-library copy. Binding shaken and boards scuffed.

From The Cape to Bulawayo

From Cape to Bulawayo or How to travel to Rhodesia through British territory. by one who has done it. Road maps and itineraries. hints on transport and outfit. Dust jacket has some minor creasing and chipping to spine. limited edition 148/ 1000.

Glorious Gospel Triumphs as seen in My Life and Work in Fiji and Australasia

Shelf wear to top and bottom of spine with slight fading to boards.

Great Explorers


Guide to Southern Africa, 1969

Guide book for Republic of South Africa, South-West Africa, Rhodesia, Zambia, Malawi, etc. Folding map in pocket.

Guide to the Garden Route

DW scuffed.

Guide to the Lake District with an Outline Guide for Walkers and a Special Section for Motorists

Ward Lock’s The Lake District. With foldout map of the district, three section maps and numerous illustrations. No date of publication; probably late 1940s. In good condition: a little foxing on top fore edges of pages and faded spine.

High Street, Africa

Entertaining account of motor vehicle trip through Africa, from Cape to Cairo. Some foxing on fore edges of pages and on final pages of text. Corners bumped and spine faded with small chip to base of spine.

Himalayan Journals

Himalayan Journals or notes of a naturalist in Bengal, The Sikkm, and Nepal Himalayas. Leatherbound with wear to edges and spine. Minor water staining to endpapers.

Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica

Text clean, gift inscription in ink on front fep. DW chipped top and bottom with tape repairs.

In New South Africa : Travels in the Transvaal and Rhodesia

Red cloth cover with wear to edges. With errata slip. Slight foxing to end papers. Good firm copy. With chapter headings like Land of gold and the way there