Search Results: Travel, Exploration from Lawrence Jones

London: Fisher, Son, & Co., 1839. xxxvi, 85; 100pp; index, almost 100 engraved plates, map, pictorial titles. Contemporary marbled boards with leather spine and corners (half-leather) with 5 raised bands to spine. Front hinge tender, very small bookseller label at top of front pastedown, pencilled note on front pastedown and prev owner name on front free endpaper. Moderate foxing, edges of boards rubbed and worn at corners. Lacking the 2 page map of the Turkish and Ottoman Empire, otherwise complete with all blanks and extra titles.No dates- 1839 & 1840. Very nice copy of this account of Constantinople in the early 19th century.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Allom, Thomas.. 4to.

Brisbane: The Jacaranda Press, 1967. 2 volumes-complete. 397, 427pp; bw ills. Or blue cloth in jacket. Both volumes with light even toning to page edges and minor foxing to endpapers. Volume I with 2cm tear at top of front jacket panel and rubbing to folds, crease to front jacket panel. Volume II 1cm tear to top of front jacket panel, jacket creased on spine, tiny hole at top of jacket spine and light rubbing. Offset toning to endpapers. Overall a very nice set. Volume I contains an introduction, Schnappering and Early Moreton Bay. Volume II, includes Discovers of the Brisbane River; Memories of Amity; Sport and Pastime in Moreton Bay and Bribie-The Basket Maker.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Fisher, Son, & Co., 1842. 2 volumes. 487pp, appendix, 4 bw plates; 588pp, appendix, 4 plates. Or brown cloth titled in gilt, decorated in blind. Ex-library of Legislative Council with expected stamps (most unobtrusive), and foxing to plates otherwise a lovely set. Antebelum travels in the slave states of America in the middle of the 19th century, some 20 years before the civil war. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 8vo.

London: New Burlington Books, 2002. HEAVY. 2 volume set in slipcase. Or pictorial card covers. As new. Each volume includes eyewitness accounts, strategic battle plans and maps of the area today.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Fine/Slipcase. 4to.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society., 1968. HEAVY. 3 VOLUME SET (complete). xvi, 423pp, appendices; v, pp425-819, appendices, folding map; v, pp821-1175, index ,supplement, family tree, appendices, bibliography, annotated calendar, table of events. Blue cloth in jackets. All jackets are price clipped with some foxing. The pages have minor foxing to page edges.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Melbourne: AE Press, 1988. xi, 124pp, maps, index, bibliography, bw & col ills, pictorial endpapers. Or pictorial glossy boards. Near new. The Dutch were the first Europeans to explore Australia and continue to play an important role in Australia society.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to.

USA: John Culler & Sons, 1994. xvi, 437pp, index, folding map, bw ills, page marker ribbon. Or full red leather, all edges gilt. Limited edition of 500 copies of which this #331. Near new. Includes hunting of wapiti, ibex, roe-deer and more. Originally published in 1911, this edition part of the Asian Series.. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1922. 359pp, bw ills. Or pictorial green cloth, no jacket. Prev owner small label inside front cover, even toning to page edges, spine a little faded. Travels in South America including Peru and travel down the Amazon.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

London: The Radcliffe Press, 2001. xxx, 386pp, index, bibliography, chronology, bw & col ills, maps. Or maroon cloth in jacket. Prev owner label on front pastedown, very slight foxing. Describes a perilous journey. The author entered Shan State of Burma through a border area of China closed to foreigners, crossed the Kachin Hills and left Burma via an area of India closed to foreigners.He was detained by Communist rebels, handed over to Kacjhin rebels and arrested by the Indian Army. More than an adventure, the book describes the Kacjhins of whom little has been written and offers a brief analysis of the Burmese Civil War.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Bartholomew, John C. (maps). 8vo.

London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1922. xvi, 324pp, index, glossary, map, bw ills. Or green cloth lacking jacket. Spine faded, some edge wear. 16 years on India's north-west frontier with Afghanistan.. Sixth & cheaper Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Sydney: Simon & Schuster Australia, 2008. VERY HEAVY. 400pp, index, gazetteer, 700+ colour ills, numerous maps. Or pictorial boards in like slipcase. Other than a school prize bookplate on the front free endpaper the book is near new. Massive work on the ecology, geology, wildlife and exploration of Antarctica.. First Australian Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Slipcase. 4to.

Wellington: Millwood Press, 1981. xvii, 192pp, refrences, bw ills, maps. Or blue cloth in jacket. Very slight edge wear to jacket. Ten of the lesser known Antarctic explorers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Brisbane: John Wiley & Sons, 2012. xvi, 573pp, index, glossary, num ills, maps. Or stiff card covers with integral flaps. Light crease at bottom of front cover. Comprehensive guide to ANZAC battlefields on the Western Front. WWI in France and Belgium.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. Large 8vo.

London: Collins, 1991. xi, 210pp, glossary, notes, bw ills, maps. Or boards in jacket. Minor foxing to endpapers and page edges, minor edge wear to jacket. Since walking through the mountains from Simla to Kashmir in 1970 the author has spent a large part of each year in Manali at the head of the Kullu Valley the West Himalayas with her business organizing trekking holidays in the West Himalayas. Not only an autobiography, but also a portrait of Kullu life.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970. 385pp, index, glossary, references, appendices, bw ills, endpaper maps. Or cloth in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket, prev owner bookplate. This edition has an additional chapter on the Faeroes Today by Einar Kallsberg.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: The Currawong Press, 1982. Volume 2 ONLY. iv, pp247-661, bw ills. Or yellow cloth in jacket. Near new. Facsimile edition limited to 2000 copies.. Facsimile Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: T. And W. Boone, 1845. xi, 243pp, 7 engraved plates, map. Or cloth boards, decorated in blind, titled in gilt with gilt kangaroos to base of spine. Cloth splitting along rear spine edge, front board starting to separate at top, hinges starting. Ex- Mines Department library with usual stamps etc, quite heavy foxing to map, plates and title page. Corners bumped. Text pages generally clean. Scarce early account of the early settlement of Moreton Bay and New South Wales from Port Macquarie north. A great deal on the Aborigines.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo. Ex-Library.

Melbourne: Marsh Taylor & Walsh., 1975. 54pp, table, folding map. Or full leather. Lacking the slipcase. The book itself in excellent condition-light crease to top of map adjacent to one of the folds. Limited to 350 copies of which this #313. . Limited Facsimile Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 8vo.

Sydney: Kangaroo Press, 1995. 184pp, index, bibliography, bw & col ills, endpaper maps. Or brown boards in jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket, prev owners label on title page. European discovery and presence in Australia prior to the First Fleet.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small 4to.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. xiii, 234pp, index, appendices, bw ills, pictorial endpapers. Or green cloth lacking jacket. A little silverfishing to front, bookseller label on front pastedown, prev owner bookplate, light even toning to page edges.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.