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Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, [1972]. First edition, 4to, pp. 295, [9]; frontispiece; heavily illustrated; fine in jacket with small nick along top edge and price tag on rear panel. More
Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, [1972]. First edition, 4to, pp. 295, [9]; frontispiece; heavily illustrated; fine in jacket with small nick along top edge and price tag on rear panel. More
London: Seeley, Service & Co., [n.d.]. First published 1861, 8vo, 320pp., frontis. illus. in color & 8 plates, all after illustrations by H.M. Brock; a bright, near fine copy in original red cloth decorated with a floral trellis design in white, green, black, and gilt, negligible wear to extremities and..... More
Bloomington: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 2000. First edition, 4to, pp. [8], xxxvii, [1], 430 [i.e. 429], [1]; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "The Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang (Hsuan-tsang 600-664) ranks among the greatest Chinese travelers of all times. He left China for India in 629..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1963, 1974]. First edition, 2 volumes, large, thick 8vo, pp. xxxii, 412; xx, 554; black & white and color frontispieces, 73 leaves of photographic illustrations printed on rectos and versos; text maps throughout; original cloth, gilt-lettered spines; Vol. II in pictorial dust jacket. Very..... More
London, Paris & New York: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1884. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 432; large color folding map; t.e.g.; original black pebbled cloth with gilt totems on upper cover, spine rebacked with original spine laid down; covers rubbed and bumped, library stamp on title page, map with short..... More
London: Ernest Benn, 1923. First edition, 8vo, pp. 276; 2 folding maps, 80 illustrations on 64 plates; original gray cloth stamped in gilt on spine; generally a very good copy. Czech, Africa, p. 13: "Barns was joined by noted rifle maker Sir Charles Ross on an expedition leaving Mombasa in..... More
New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, [1970]. First edition, 8vo, 3 maps, fair dust-jacket with chips and tears, split at top and bottom of front hinge; overall, it's a good copy of a scholarly work. More
New York: A. T. Goodrich & Co., 1819. First edition, 24mo, pp. 60; extra engraved title-p.; original black calf-backed marbled boards, scuffed and rubbed, small pieces missing from the spine extremities; good and sound. American Travellers Abroad L-31: "Twenty-five letters from Greece and Turkey describe life and sights in the..... More
London: printed by A. Strahan for T.Cadell and W. Davis, 1804. First edition, 4to, pp. ix, [3], 632; 3 engraved plates (2 double-p.), 5 hand-colored aquatints after William Alexander, a little light foxing to text and plain plates, frontispiece slightly offset; recent quarter brown calf over marbled boards, gilt-paneled spine..... More
Edinburgh: printed for the Author ... and sold by Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburgh; and Longman Hurst Rees & Orme, London, 1805. First edition, 4to, pp. [2], viii, 509, [3] plate list and ads; folding map and 11 engraved plates; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelf-back, printed orange label..... More
Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Co., The Edinburgh Geographical Institute, 1896. Folding map of the world approx. 20" x 29", linen-backed, as issued, and folding down to an octavo with blue labels on front and back printed in black and red. The map was available with or without the linen backing..... More
London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co., 1855. Large 8vo, pp. viii, [4], 202; engraved title page, frontispiece and 20 plates (one folding), 18 text illustrations; full black polished calf, gilt decorated spine in six compartments, red morocco label in one, marbled endpapers and edges; joints just starting, later gift inscription..... More
[Richmond, VA]: privately printed by the author for distribution among his friends, n.d. [ca. 1932]. Edition limited to 200 copies, 8vo, pp. 134; frontispiece, 4 full-p. maps, and 43 illustrations on rectos and versos of 15 plates, plus 1 other full-p. illustration; spine slightly dull, else a very good copy..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1889. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xx, 192; 5 chromolithographs, 6 etchings, 6 wood-engraved plates, 2 maps printed in color (1 folding and with a short tear), other wood-engravings in the text; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover, beveled boards; 2..... More
London: George Philip & Son, 32 Fleet Street, 1889. First edition, 8vo, pp. xx, 192; 5 chromolithographs, 6 etchings, 6 wood-engraved plates, 2 maps printed in color (1 folding), other wood-engravings in the text; original blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, a very good, sound..... More
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1929. 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 398; frontispiece, plates, maps; original red cloth, spine gilt, top edges stained red; spine slightly faded, otherwise very good or better. Part of the Argonaut series edited by Sir E. Denison Ross and Eileen Power. Translated and selected by H.A.R...... More
London: Hakluyt Society, 2007. Large 8vo, pp. x, 404; 2 figures in the text and 8 maps; corrigenda leaf laid in, as issued; a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Issued as no. 18 in the Hakluyt Society's Third Series. Corrigenda sheet laid in. This volume offers annotated texts..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 669; publisher's navy cloth (a bit soiled), gilt-lettered spine; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, else a very good copy. More
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, thick 8vo, pp. xxviii, 371, [1]; xiv, 358, [2] ads; 3 maps (2 hand-colored, 1 folding), 8 chromolithographs, and 61 woodcuts (8 on plates, the balance in the text); attractive copy in original green diaper cloth lettered..... More
New York: Promontory Press, [1990]. 4to, two vols. in one, pp. [2], 976; frontispiece; many illus.; jacket, some water damage on half title and occasionally in text; else very good or better. This edition a reprint of the original volumes published in 1965 and 1966. More
Berkeley: Howell-North, 1963. First edition, 4to, pp. 157; frontispiece; many illus. in text; jacket, chipped at head of spine, worn; else very good. More
New York: Bonanza, ca. 1960s. 4to, pp. xiii, [1], 210; frontispiece; illus. throughout, jacket, worn at extremities; else fine. More
New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1927. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], v-xiii, [1], 248; pictorial endpapers, 58 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 25 plates; very good in original blue cloth stamped in gilt. More
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, the Knickerbocker Press, 1926. First edition, signed by the author on a specially tipped in slip after the half-title; large 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 439; "with 77 illustrations from colored plates, photographs and maps; fine copy in original green cloth, t.e.g. More