St. Helena… Island Fortress
Contains more than 80 colour plates. Signed by the author. Boards show some shelf wear. Dw in shows very little wear.
Travel & Exploration
St. Helena: John Charles Melliss Esquire, A. I. C. E. , F. L. S. , Late Commissiner of Crown Property, Surveyor and Engineer of the Colony. A Reprint of Part of His Valuable and Inspiring Work Originally Published in 1875
Signed by Robin Castell. Illustrations throughout. DW shows only slight edgewear.
Steam in Africa
Open tears to top and bottom of dw. Damage to front board. Ink inscription to inside of front board.
Tandalla: a Danish Game Warden’s Study of Native and Wild Life in Kenya and Tanganyika
Owner’s name stamped on endpapers and fore edges of pages. Ink notes on back fep. Some discolouration on endpapers. DW scuffed and faded with extensive repairs of adhesive tape.
The Breath of the Desert: The Account of a Journey Through Algeria and Tunisia
Book in clean crisp condition; dw has tears top and bottom (pieces missing at top of back panel), spine of dw discoloured.
The Breath of the Desert: The Account of a Journey Through Algeria and Tunisia
Book in clean crisp condition; dw has tears top and bottom (pieces missing at top of back panel), spine of dw discoloured.
The Great Railway Bazaar
Some age toning to the dust jacket
The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi Desert, Through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral 1884-1894
Green cloth with gilt titles and decoration with very slight wear to edges. End papers have some discolouration and previous owners inscription. Includes 3 fold out maps. Good firm copy.
The Log of the Tantallon Castle
Guilt to front board, spine and page edges bright. Minor shelf wear to boards. Some foxing to the prelims. Tissue gard to the frontis. 193pp + index. This is a well made book and is solidly bound.
The Long Voyage
Presentation inscription and signature on half-title page by author. DW has chips and closed tear along top edge.
The Matabele Journals of Robert Moffat 1829-1860 Volume One and Two: The Oppenheimer Series
Some fading and watermarks and tipex marks on front cover of Vol. one. Fold-out map in the back of both volumes. Note: two separate volumes. Inscriptions on fep’s.
The Matabele Mission: a Selection from the Correspondence of John and Emily Moffat, David Livingstone and Others 1858-1878
Fold-out map at the back. Inscription on fep. Pages uncut.
The New Bath Guide, or Memoirs of the B-N-R-D Family
Book size: 13cm x 8,5cm. 166pp. Front board and fep have come loose, otherwise binding tight and all pages clean and clear. Previous owner’s name on fep.
The Pictorial Motoring Atlas of South Africa
Clean whole copy. Slight wear to lower corners and a past owner’s name on front endpaper.
The Pilgrims’ Way in South Africa
Contains numerous black-and-white plates and full colour frontispiece. Some random foxing to the text. Boards show some wear and insect damage.
The Quest for Africa : Two Thousand Years of Exploration
‘Translated from the German by Diana Pyke’. Published date unknown. Pages show some age toning. Text clean and clear. Boards show slight wear. DW in poor condition, with various closed and open tears and scuffing.
The South and East African Year Book & Guide, with Atlas, Town Plans and Diagrams
Shelf wear to top and bottom of spine.
The Standard Guide and Handbook to Rio De Janeiro
Slight sunning to edges of covers; otherwise a clean copy.
They Found the World
Clean neat copy, crease at top of spine; corners of boards slightly rounded. DW chipped top and bottom with small pieces missing.
Through Lapland with Skis & Reindeer, with Some Account of Ancient Lapland and the Murman Coast
Ex-library copy; labels laid down on front endpapers. Pages 279-83 loose; folding map torn at free edge bur virtually no information missing, Covers scuffed with tears to top and bottom of spine. Shelf number in white ink on spine.