Travel from Brogden Books

Michael Joseph, 1987 8vo pp128 colour plates map glossary index F-

Sunflower Books, 1992 pp136 colour plates maps glossary VG-

Kendal: Westmorland Gazette, 1968 12mo turquoise cloth pp xxxviii+176 bw drawings index G+/G- First edition, with 18/- priced dust jacket, stated Fourth Impression. Text and drawings are VG+ with some very minor former damping. Name, address and slight label scrape inside front. Slight 3x4mm loss at top jacket spine, and remains of old tape on inside jacket edge. Quite scarce.

London: Warne, 1890 large 8vo cloth pp xlvi+587 bw engravings VG- Memoir of hunting across the continents. Written with practical information, and includes some social observations. Also a gun fight with a party of Sioux while on a buffalo hunt. The author was a British Army officer, seconded to Ottoman forces, and permanently wounded in… Read more about this item

Hong Kong: South China Morning Post, 1953 larger 8vo cloth pp244 colour/bw plates drawings index VG/fair- A work by the administrator ornithologist and cultivator. This is the April 1953 First printing. Name written inside front. Lower front and upper back jacket torn. Very scarce.

Skeffington, 1946 12mo cloth pp143 bw plates index G+ Printed on war economy paper, all plates present.

Random House, 1986 8vo pp vii+213 VG/G Study and teaching in earlier 1980s Changsha, China.

London: Readers Union, 1938 8vo cloth pp xvi+304 bw plates maps index VG- Memoir of journeys in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman, with photographs. Foreword by T.E.S. aka T. E. Lawrence. All plates present, large fold out map inserted loose. Minor binding wear, a nice copy. [ Extra signed for postage overseas. ]

London: Burke Publishing, 1969 8vo pictorial cloth pp96 bw/colour plates index F-/VG+ A late 1960s account of Romania, written by a West based national author. This is the quite scarce First, with the old Rumania English spelling, a nice copy.

Salerno: Matonti, 1989 8vo pp63 colour plates maps F- Detailed guide to the ruins of Paestum, famous for its temples. A nice copy.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001 large 8vo cloth pp xix+316 colour/bw plates maps glossary bibliography notes index F-/VG+ Travels in the Andean hinterland. Newspaper article about author inserted loose. [ Larger book, so extra airmail postage overseas. ]

Robert Hale, 1980 larger 8vo cloth pp217 bw drawings maps index F-/VG England's regional borders with Scotland and Wales. Name neatly written on title page, Fine text-block, originally priced dust jacket. Printed on high quality paper. A nice copy.

Athens smaller 4to pp unpaginated approx100 colour plates VG+ A nice overview of Crete and its historical and modern culture.

London: J. J. Seeley, 1913 smaller 8vo boards pp239 F- Catalogue of the organisation's library. Includes many obscure titles, particularly topography and travel. Very minor wear and one scrape to card binding, Fine text. Rare.

Penny, 2005 8vo pp130 colour/bw plates VG- Signed dedication on title page.

2002 8vo pp147 bw plates map bibliography F- History and guide to the North Aegean island. Dedicated and signed by the author inside front, with her business card inserted loose. Spine uncreased, a nice copy.

Railway & Canal Historical Society, 1974 sideways 8vo pp64 maps VG+ Combined from earlier England & Wales and Scotland booklets. Minor fading and spotting to binding, near Fine text-block, a nice copy.

London: HarperCollins, 1992 larger 8vo cloth pp xiv+290 colour/bw plates index VG+/VG Travels from London around the Middle East and Mexico. Author signed on title page. [ Larger book so extra airmail postage overseas. ]

London: Century Hutchinson, 2010 8vo cloth pp viii+200 colour plates bw maps glossary bibliography index F/VG+ Personal memoir of travel across Central Asia. Revised edition. Author signed dedication on title page. A nice copy.

Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing, 1987 large 8vo pictorial cloth pp64 bw/colour plates map index F- Central America, a good 1980s general geographical and social overview. Fine text-block, a nice copy.