TRAVEL & EXPLORATION from Fortuna Books

London: Hodder, 1942 Being in the main an account of the discovery and development of the Morobe Goldfields, name and an old price marked out to fep overall VG and tidy but this copy ALL THE PLATES ARE MISSING. 253pp someone has numbered the few blank leaves at the rear and carried it on to the rear fep and… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1954 blue cloth buckram, gilt spine, minor rubbing to corners, still sharp, small booksellers ink stamp bottom of fep, 304pp+ maps and plates. DW has rubbing to corners and spine ends showing as white crazing to the blue printed surface. the reverse of the spine has been strenghtened with rice paper to stop chipping from… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1977 quarter bound with blue and white papered boards, unclipped ust jacket, minor adhesive residue bleed to the endpaper at top and bottom edges, x 180pp + plates and maps, top edge dusted blue, a great writer observes the Tibet that has sadly now changed immeasurably under communist chinese pressure. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very… Read more about this item

London: Hodder, 1938 tan cloth slightly sun-faded or handling soiled, minor surface flecking, pictorial map endpapers, pencil name to half title, 352pp + frontis and plates, half of front panel of the dust jacket slipped in at front. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: MacDonald, 1972 "The magnificent saga of how the white man changed Africa/The pioneers, visionaries and politicians - and their crazy railway" from jacket blurb Story of the Uganda Railway, white pioneers transforming Africa with the Ugandan railway project from 1895, tidy book, DW lightly sunned spine and price clipped, 559pp with illustrations in the text, HEAVY may incur excess… Read more about this item

London: Travel Book Club first thus book club edition. 213pp + plates. Book tidy, DW unclipped, edgewear, small chips from head of spine and corners, small area of tape reside. Author was with Captain Cousteau and his Red Sea diving expedition, also travelled into central Africa, Tanganyika etc. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo -… Read more about this item

London: MacDonald, 1956 An expedition to Mt Ararat in Turkey by six Frenchmen in 1952 to summit the mountain and hopefully find Noah's Ark!, excellent copy, jacket is price clipped but otherwise VG with minimal edge chipping to spine ends and corners, spine slightly sunned, rear white panel uniformly surface soiled, with one short edge tear, Book VG,… Read more about this item

London: Blackie, 1961 unclipped DW, a little handling soiling, 318pp, name and address to front paste down. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Nigel Lambourne. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Colorado: American Alpine Journal, 1996 427pp colour & b&w plates. near new copy. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: John Murray, 1861 faded red textured cloth, tsetse fly in gilt on front, title in gilt across sunned spine, upper board nearly detached, starts at title page, good condition, 'John Burton' in ink at head of title, some light areas of browning or foxing, illustrated, ix plus 436 pages, plus fold out map of Southern Africa showing Livingstone's routes… Read more about this item

London: Constable, 1964 very tidy, DW price clipped otheriwse VG 234pp + plates, map end papers. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Methuen, 1950 cream buckram with green chinese characters to cover and titled to spine. map end papers, book VG 281pp + 17 coloured plates and over 120 images in the text also. DW unclipped and tidy but some spots of foxing starting and spine a little discoloured, small edge chips to the head. A unique view… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1899 minor rubbing to cloth, small split at head of spine, old ink inscription to fep 'Frederick W Gale Kaikoura 1900', light foxing to endpapers, tissue guarded frontis, ix 307pp + plates +32pp publishers adverts, illustrated in line throughout and on plates, places Dickens referred to in his writings. New and Enlarged. Decorative Cloth.… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1951 cloth rubbed at spine ends and starting to fray, inscribed to fep 'Honolulu -1956- James A Michener', stated ELEVENTH PRINTING of Michener's second work, dust jacket has sunned spine with loss to both ends of spine, rubbed fore edges, head of front fold in flap has been trimmed, chipping etc, book is tidy, 437pp. Signed… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 1953 312pp + plates, map end papers, fourth impression, Arranged from Fawcetts manuscripts, letters, logbooks and records by Brian Fawcett, chapter decorations by Brian Fawcett, much South American legend and lore and anthropological observations, map endpapers. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Heinemann, 1954 dark blue cloth, gilt spine, endpapers illustrated with portraits of the expedition members, 303pp+plates and maps. some plates in colour, line drawings in text. top edge dusted blue. minor foxing to top edge, frontis glue not holding at bottom half. Windmill blind to lower board. Dust jacket unclipped, minor rubbing / chipping , some minor foxing… Read more about this item

London: Blackie, 1961 price clipped DW with edge wear and some chipping from head and tail of spine, small taped tear rear cover, name and adress at head of fep, a little handling soiling, 318pp. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Nigel Lambourne. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Heinemann, 1931 DW has minor edge and corner chipping, is intact and near complete but has some long tears taped on the reverse, one is across the front panel, another along the upper joint, Crown Library reprint edition, large 8vo, ink name to fep,272pp illustrated with photographs by the author, Canaries, West Indies, Panama, Galapagos, Marquesas, Paumotu, Papeete, Tahiti,… Read more about this item

London: George Allen Unwin, 1965 144pp + plates, col frontis, DW price clipped otherwise VG. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Dent, 1962 black cloth, some rubbing to bottom edge of upper board, single name in felt to fep, 189pp + plates colour frontis. DW price clipped, rubbed heavily to edges chipped spine ends and corners, lower panel surface rubbed. Inroduction by Edmund Hillary. The first English account of the Carstensz mountain range… Read more about this item