Search Results: Travel and Exploration from Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books

London: Elm Tree Books, 1989. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Pale brown hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound. Inscribed by the author to Elspeth Huxley, the writer on Africa, on the blank page facing half-title. 176pp. Many colour illustrations. Botanical drawings by Christabel King. This book is an account of a botanical expedition to the Rwenzori range in 1987..

Seattle and London: Hsi An T'ang Distributed By University of Washington Press, 1986. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Softcover. Grey card covers with title in silver on front cover and spine. Condition: Fine, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fine, with a hint of shelfwear. 91pp. Many colour illustrations.The book includes a foreword by C.C.Wang (1907-2003), an artist and collector originally from China, but based in New York for much of his career, essays by James Cahill on Wangs' oeuvre and by Lynn King on Chinese seals and their place in Chinese painting. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

London: Methuen & Co.Ltd., 1925. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Orange cloth with title in black on spine and front cover. Condition: Fair to good, covers have general shelfwear with sunning to spine. Front inner joint beginning to crack but holding firmly. Light foxing to endpapers. Occasional light foxing within book. The title page has the date 1925 written in ink under the publishers' details. 266pp. 20 b/w photographic plates plus frontispiece. This book is a companion volume to the authors previous book entitled "Far Eastern Jaunts". The book consists of a series of stories based in or around Peking which illustrate a lighter side to Chinese society..

London: Grayson & Grayson Ltd., 1932. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. NB: No dustjacket. Light orange-brown cloth with title and an image of a desert island with palm trees in green on front cover and spine. Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear to covers. Light bumping to head and tail of spine and cover corners. Light wrinkling to cloth to the lower right corner of the front cover. Small dent to centre of outer edge of rear cover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Light crease to top right corner of first 20 pages or so (including front endpaper). 258pp. An account of the authors trip through Morocco..

Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1961. Book. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Green hardcover with title in black on front cover. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general light shelfwear and some sunning to spine. 102pp. 6 b/w illustrations and one folding map to rear showing the places mentioned in the text. Portugal became a colonial power in 1415. This book gives a succinct survey of the various forms of conquest, commercial penetration and settlement which the Portuguese adopted in three continents from the time of their capture of Ceuta to their recognition of Brazilian independence. The emphasis is placed rather on social and economic factors than on military and political..

Amsterdam, London, New York: Elsevier Publishing Company, 1971. Book. Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. NB: No dustjacket. Black hardcover with title on spine. Condition: Good, withlight shelfwear to covers. Previous owners name neatly written at top of front pastedown. 159pp. Many b/w illustrations. The book includes chapters on recent (in 1971) exploration of the moon, lava flows and the origin of small craters in Mare Imbrium as well as multiphase eruptions associated with the craters Tycho and Aristarchus.

London: J S Virtue & Co., 1898. Book. Good. Full-Leather. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Dark red leather with titles in gilt within black label on spine. Five raised bands to spine and gold decoration within the compartments and around the edges of the covers. Marbled endpapers and marbling to textblock edges. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers and rubbing to edges of spine. Rear cover has a faint waterstain, not affecting book in any way. Binding sound, text clean. School prize label (Amersham Grammar School) fixed to front pastedown. Previous owners name on half-title. 248pp. Eight b/w plates including frontispiece portrait of General Gordon. .

Aylesbury: G.T.de Fraine & Co. Ltd., 1923. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Grey paper covered boards with buff colour linen spine. Titles in black on front cover and spine together with an image of a sickle in black on front cover. Condition: Good, covers are lightly soiled and shelfworn and sunned around edges. Browning to endpapers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Text lightly sunned around edges. Occasional finger print marking/soiling to a couple of pages. The folding map of the county facing title page has a half-inch rip (outside the border of the map) where it is fixed to the page. 129pp. plus index. 12 b/w plates. Includes chapters on old cottages, dove-cots, duck decoys, furniture and old farming ways. .

London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. Book. Good. Buckram. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. First published in 1929, this is the new edition, published in 1930.Blue buckram, with title in gilt on spine and front cover. Condition: Good, although the covers are faded and sunned, particularly to the spine and cover edges. Some "bubbling" to cloth around the spine, not from damp but difficult to determine the cause.Light foxing to endpapers. Front endpaper bears the name G.Huxley (Gervas Huxley, husband of the writer on Africa, Elspeth Huxley), and the date 1933. Binding sound, text clean. 218pp. 55 illustrations, plus frontispiece. 3 sketch maps plus a folding general map of Mount Kenya to rear of book. This was the first book to be written devoted to Mount Kenya which had been clibmbed around the time of publication by P.Wyn Harris, Mr E E Shipton and Mr G A Sommerfelt..

London: Lutterworth Press, 1954. Book. Good. Soft cover. Stapled booklet. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers and light sunning to cover edges. The booklet contains a couple of small spelling corrections by the previous owner. 36pp. This booklet contains a brief overview of Kenya in 1954, in terms of land ownership, industrial development and racial tensions, amongst other factors..

London: Collins, 1987. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Black hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Fine, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with just a very faint hint of shelfwear. Not price-clipped. 459pp. Several b/w photographic plates. In this acclaimed autobiography, the legendary British traveller Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003) recalls his life and the people he met who most profoundly influenced him, and the events which enabled him to lead the life of his choice..

Brookland, Kent: Huddlesford Publications, 1988. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Black hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Signed by the author on title page. The front endpaper also bears the name Huxley (this book came from the collection of the late writer on Africa, Elspeth Huxley). Dustjacket condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear. 159pp. Several b/w photographic illustrations. In this book the author describes his life as a settler in Kenya during the period after World War II and the granting of independence, dividing his time between farming and hunting, and a way of life gone forever..

London: The Harvill Press, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Revised augmented edition. Navy blue hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Fine, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear. Not price-clipped. 425pp. Many b/w illustrations..

Hong Kong: John Nicholson Ltd., 1990. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Laminated hardcover with title in dark blue on front cover and spine. Condition: Very good, with light shelfwear to covers. Hint of sunning to spine. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 130pp. Many b/w illustrations. The full title reads:" Being Glimpses of Nineteenth Century Japan from Commodore Perry's Visit (1853) until the Promulgation of the Meiji Constitution (1889), as seen and reported by the Illustrated London News and other contemporary sources"..

Ashurst, Southampton: Tony Astill, 2005. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Navy blue cloth with title in gilt on spine and front cover. Condition: Fine, binding sound, no inscriptions. Two dustjackets, the top one with titles the one below without. Dustjacket condition: Fine, with just a faint hint of shelfwear. This book was the winner of the James Monroe Thorington award for best book in mountaineering history at Banff Mountain Book Festival 2006, and the front of the top dustjacket bears a sticker declaring this (see image). 359pp. Over 120 b/w illustrations. Two folding maps drawin by Ted Hatch to rear. Light crease to lower right corner of the first, which depicts the route of the Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1935, Darjeeling to Mt.Everest.This book tells the story of the fifth Everest expedition in 1935, which was led by Eric Shipton (1907-1977), and is based on the diaries of the team members..

London: The Radcliffe Press, 1995. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Brown hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound. Inscribed by the author to Elspeth Huxley (who wrote the foreword for the book) on front endpaper, and dated April 1995. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with sunning to spine and just a hint of shelfwear. 266pp. Twelve b/w plates and two b/w maps. Oscar Watkins strove unceasingly to protect the interests of the African peoples in East Africa, particularly Kenya. This biography by his daugter provides him with in the words of Elspeth Huxley "an eloquent and fitting memorial".

Johannesburg, South Africa: Witwatersrand University Press, 1960. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Beige hardcover with title in red on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Light browning to endpapers from dustjacket flaps. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally shelfworn with some light soiling, light foxing and some sunning to spine. 226pp. 12 b/w illustrations, 3 b/w maps, one folding. In this book the author details the 17th century activities of the Portuguese in south-east Africa, from their base at Mocambique (Mozambique) up the Zambezi into Mashonaland, and on the Mombasa coast. An appendix summarises survivors' accounts of the shipwrecks on the coast of southern Africa during this period..

Oxford and New York: Pergamon Press, 1970. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Green hardcovers with titles in silver on front cover and spine. No dustjackets. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Bindings sound. Previous owners name neatly written in red biro at top of front endpaper on all three volumes. Light foxing to top edges of textblocks. A very heavy set, will require extra postage if to be sent outside UK..

London: Chatto & Windus, 1939. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. NB: No dustjacket. Ochre yellow cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Fair, covers are generally shelfworn, with sunning to spine. Some bumping to lower outer cover corners. Foxing throughout, particularly to the first and last few pages. Binding sound. The name Huxley is written on the front endpaper in pencil. 406pp. 16 pages of sepia photographic plates. The book is a novel about life among the Kikuyu (and the Masai) and the effect of the coming of the white man on their traditional societies. Loosely inserted with the book are two handwritten letters to Elspeth Huxley (1907-1997) from the British paleoanthropologist and archaeologist Louis Leakey (1903-1972). The first letter is dated July 4, 1939 and initially Louis Leakey mentions a few corrections that could be made to the facts in the text of Red Strangers. He then goes on to request her help in finding financial supporters for a… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1948. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fourth impression of the first edition. Orange cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Front inner hinge cracked but holding firmly. The front endpaper bears the inscription "Elspeth Huxley - Correction Copy". The book came via descent through the Huxley family. There are approximately twenty corrections in ink within the book (presumably in Elspeth Huxley's hand) the majority very minor. Also loosely enclosed with the book is an an incomplete letter(two pages only) dated 1951, addressed to Mrs Huxley from a reader with a suggested correction to the book. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general shelfwear and a couple of small tears to head and tail of spine of jacket. Not price-clipped. 366pp. 32 b/w photographic plates and a folding map to rear..