Moscow Kremlin [Tourist Guide]
Tourist fold out picture guide to Moscow, 1957, in picture printed covers to upper & lower boards, title in red, with price to lower board. Internally, 12 panes, all B&W, each with the title in Russian to lower margin, & in 7 other languages to…
A Journal of a Voyage round the World in His Majesty's Ship Endeavour..WITH Descriptions of several new discovered Countries in the Southern Hemisphere; and Accounts of their Soil and Productions; and of many Singularities in the Structure, Apparel, Customs, Manners, Policy, Manufactures, &c. of their Inhabitants. BOUND WITH: A Description of East Florida, with a Journal, Kept by John Bartram of Philadelphia,.... Upon A Journey from St. Augustine up the River St. Johns, as Far as the Lakes.
[COOK - first Voyage] 1728-1779 [MAGRA James - attributed to] 1748?-1806 AND [STORK William Dr]; BARTRAM John 1699-1777
The First Published Account of Cook's First Voyage to the Pacific, complete with Dedication Leaf. A cornerstone of any Cook collection. Two works in one, bound in modern, to style, half calf over marbled boards, some blind edge tooling, spine with…
An Atlas to Guthrie's Geographical Grammar.
[GUTHRIE William 1708-1770. FLINT W.]
VG, 1807, complete 28 double page folding maps, hand coloured in outline. Includes British colonies in N. America & 2 maps of America. In modern half calf over contemporary marbled boards, some blind tooling. Spine, gilt tooling & titles.…
The Life of Captain James Cook
[KIPPIS Andrew] 1725-1795
VG, 1834, 4 pls, New Edition. In black full calf, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge blind stamped to upper cover, corners & edges bumped & worn a little. Spine, gilt title & tooling, edges & joints a little worn. Internally, frontis,…
A Month's Tour in North Wales, Dublin, and its Environs. With Observations upon their Manners and Police in the year 1780.
[LLOYD Edward] active 1780
VG, 1st ed, 1781. First edition, in modern, to style, quarter speckled calf over red marbled boards. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling, gilt titles to red calf label. Internally, [2], 5-119 pp, [1] adverts, small gutter hole, bound without half…
The Punishments of China.
[MASON George Henry] 1770-1851
A striking & influential illustrated book that depicts judicial & penal practices of imperial China during the late Qing Dynasty. VG, FIRST edition, 1801, 22 coloured pls. In contemporary red straight grain morocco, decorative gilt edge tooling,…
Wanderings of a Pilgrim, in Search of the Picturesque, during four-and-twenty years in the East; with revelations of life in the Zenana. Illustrated with sketches from nature
[PARKS Fanny - née ARCHER Frances Susanna] 1794-1875
Not only is this one of the most readable travel memoirs of the day, but perhaps one of the most unique, with such female voices and perspectives infrequently found in print during the period. First edition, 50 lithograph plates (complete,…
A Tour in Wales [With the Moses Griffith Supplemental plates]
[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798
2 vols, 2nd ed, 62 pls, 3 eng tps, 5 woodcuts, complete. In contemporary full spotted calf, gilt edge tooling, corners and edges lightly bumped and worn. Spines relaid, gilt tooling, titles in gilt to green leather labels. Internally, gilt…
The View of Hindoostan.
[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798
2 Vols (of 4), bound as 1, VG, 1st ed, 1 Map, 19 plates (as called for), 2 vignettes. In contemporary half calf over worn marbled boards, some gilt tooling, corners and edges lightly bumped and worn. Spines, carefully relaid retaining the old,…
History of Quadrupeds. BOUND With Genera of British Birds. (3 Vols bound as 2, complete)
[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798
Tall 8vo, VG, 71 B&W plates, 1st & 2nd eds. In contemporary full brown calf, corners and edges a little bumped and worn, some marks. Spines, have been relaid, but retaining most of the old, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling, titles in gilt to…
The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell.
[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798
1st ed, 1796, VG, 22 pls, 3 vignettes. In contemporary full basket weave calf, corners and edges lightly bumped and worn. Relaid spine, raised bands, titles in gilt. Internally, [10], 172 pp, [2], 185-328 pp, 22 pls (dated 1796), 3 vignettes,…
A Tour in Wales [With the Moses Griffith Supplemental plates].
[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798
VG, 2 vols, 2nd ed, 62 pls, 3 eng tps, 5 woodcuts, complete. In early 20c half brown calf with blue marbled boards, corners and edges very lightly bumped and worn. Spines, blind and gilt tooling and titles, edges rubbed. Internally, no…
A Tour in Wales. MDCCLXX [III]
[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798
VG, 1778, 26pls complete. In contemporary half calf over blue marbled boards, edges bumped. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling, gilt titles to red calf label, edges worn. Internally, title with oval vignette, [2], [1] (ii-vi), [1] pl list, [1],…
A Tour in Wales. MDCCLXX [III]
[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798
PENNANT'S FIRST WELSH TOUR. 26 plates. VG, 1778. First edition, re-spined in calf over contemporary tree calf boards, decorative gilt edges, corners bumped. Spine, gilt tooling, gilt title to black morocco label. Internally, title with oval…
A Tour in Wales. MDCCLXX [III]
[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-98
VG, 1st ed, 1778, 27 pls. In contemporary brown calf covers, corners & edges lightly bumped & worn. Modern, lighter calf spine, gilt titles, blind tooling. Internally, engraved tp, [1], (ii-vi), [2], [1], 2-455 pp, [1] errata, [8] index, [2]…