London: Day & Son, Limited, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 2 vols. (complete). XIV + 360 + XIV + 275pp. Original green blind-stamped cloth with gold title on spine. Folding map frontispiece in each volume. Fascinating account of the author's journey in the Levant. Newton was vice-consul between 1852 and... More about Travels & Discoveries in the Levant
London: Day & Son, Limited, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 2 vols. (complete). XIV + 360 + XIV + 275pp. Full brown cloth with gold title on spines. Marbled paper edges. Folding map frontispiece in each volume. Fascinating account of the author's journey in the Levant. There, Newton was vice-consul... More about Travels & Discoveries in the Levant
London: Henry Colburn, 1834. New edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. xii. 338pp. vii. 352pp. Three-quarter calf over marbled boards. Title plate with gilt lettering. Embossed and gilt decorated spine. Raised bands. Decorated page edges. Minor age wearing to leather. Corners bumped and worn. Piece of backstrip to head of spine... More about Personal Narrative of a Journey from India to England
Warsaw: Yudish, 1918? - 1924. Hardcover. Three volumes bound in one. 8vo. 162pp. 111pp. 40 pp. From the series "Lender un Felker" Eshtes bukh. Pictorial decorative b/w facsimile photograph of an elegant lady in fine traditional Chinese garb holding a fan sitting in picturesque scene pasted on blue cloth. Rebacked... More about Khina um Mandzshuryen, Mongolyen, Tibet, Koriye un and. by M. Birnboym abd David Kassell. Afrika,...
Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (11 1/4 x 7 1/2"). [4], xii, 470, [2]pp. Modern orange cloth, with gold lettering to spine. The author of this scarce study, Henri Marie Gustave d'Ollone, better known under the name of Henri d'Ollone (1868-1945) was a French military and... More about Recherches sur les Musulmans Chinois
Frankfurt am Mayn: Philipp Fiebet, 1693. Hardcover. Octavo. (18) 419 (18), (2) 285 (15), (4) 228 (10)pp. Original vellum and handwritten lettering on spine. Illustrated half-title. Three title pages: first printed in red and black with decorative initial, second in black, and third in black with printer's device. All three... More about Deß Herrn Thevenots Reysen in Europa, Asia und Africa. Worinnen gehandelt wird von der...
Paris: Chez Furne et C., Libraries-Editeurs, 1839. Jules Boilly. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Two sections; one for Asia and one for Africa. Section one is 426 pp. and section two is 160 pp. 3/4 green leather over marbled boards. Illustrated in gravure by Jules Boilly. Frontispiece. Some light foxing, minorly affecting... More about Voyage Pittoresque en Asie et en Afrique: Resume General des Voyages Anciens et Modernes
Berlin: Vossische Buchhandlung, 1791. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxviii, 544pp., 3 fold outs (2 maps, 1 diagram). Original three quarter leather over decorative paper-covered boards with gilt decorations and lettering on spine. Decorative endpapers. Accounts of the journeys of Mr. von Lessep to the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Far East... More about Magazin von merkwürdigen neuen Reisebeschreibungen aus fremden Sprachen übersetzt und mit...
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et cie, 1864. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 428pp. 427pp. 3/4 maroon leather over marbled boards. Marbled page edges and marbled endpapers. Travel account of renowned explorer Henry Russel-Kilough. Illustrated with fold-out map at rear in each volume, as issued. Boards of both volumes detached but present... More about Seize mille lieues à travers l'Asie et l'Océanie, voyage exécuté pendant les années 1858 -...
Paris: Librarie Hachette et Cie. 1883. First French language edition. Softcover. Original paper wrappers, pages uncut. 556 pp. An account of Piassetsky's Russian expedition to China and Mongolia from 1874-75. Text in French. Ninety gavures and one map. Quarto. Front wrapper is detached but present, back cover is missing. A.... More about Voyage à Travers la Mongolie et la Chine, Traduit du Russe avec l'Autorisation de l'Auteur
Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1866. First edition. Softcover. Quarto (11 x 9"). [4], 142pp (Text), 3 leaves (Plates). Uncut and unopened copy. Original printed wrappers, with publisher's logo on front cover and title page. Written by the famed Russian Orientalist Nikolaï Vladimirovich Khanykov (also spelled Khanikoff), "Mémoire Sur l'Ethnographie de la... More about Recueil de Voyages et de Mémoires Publié Par la Société de Géographie: Mémoire Sur...
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxxviii, 383 (1)pp., 34 plates, incl. frontispiece and two maps, one of them double page. Original green cloth with gilt ruling, decor and lettering to cover and spine. Gilt top edge. Frontispiece. Title page printed in orange... More about Corona and Coronet being a Narrative of the Amherst Eclipse Expedition to Japan, in Mr. James's...
Stuttgart: Strecker und Schroder Verlag, 1939. Hardcover. 8vo. xv, 186 (8)pp. Color maps and advertisements at rear. Tan cloth spine over brown boards with dj. With b&w illustrations (some fold-out). Frontispiece. Front board bowing. Dj chipped along edges. Dj with 1/2 inch tear at head of spine, and 1-inch tear... More about Aus den Einsamkeiten Irans: Dritte Forschungsfahrt durch die Wüste Lut und Persisch-Balocistan...
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Carey, 1828. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (4), viii, 507, 395pp. Original red half clothe over tan paper-covered boards with black lettering on labels of spine, housed in black pebbled cloth slipcases with gilt lettering on red and black labels of spines. Four pages of publisher's advertisements... More about Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824–1825,...
Paris: Challamel Aine, (1878). Fourth edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 108pp. Decorated paper covered boards with red title plate. Title plate faded. Spine sunned. Age wearing to binding. Corners bumped and rubbed. Frontispiece. Heavy worming throughout pages. One loose fold-out map which is also heavily wormed. Text in French. Binding in good... More about Le Royaume De Siam
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1903. Autorisierte Ausgabe. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Ex library. 8vo. xiv,559pp. x,570pp. Decorated tan cloth and spine. Age wearing throughout binding. Library inventory numbers on spine. Head and tail of spines chipped and frayed. Corners bumped and worn. Staining and discoloration to boards. Hinges starting. Decorated endpapers. Ex..... More about Im Herzen von Asien
Cambridge: Printed for The Hakluyt Society, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. LXXXII, 394, [2], 40pp. Uncut and unopened copy! Original gilt-, and blind-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Decorative head-, tailpieces and initials. This volume deals with the first years of the seventeenth century, one of the most... More about The Journal of John Jourdain, 1608-1617, describing his experiences in Arabia, India, and the...
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXIII, [1], [677]-984pp. Uncut and unopened copy! Original gilt-, and blind-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece. This third volume tells the story of the Abbé's journey back to France with dispatches sent by de la Haye, the French..... More about The Travels of the Abbé Carré in India and the Near East, 1672 to 1674. Volume III: Return...
Paris: Editions Duchartre & Van Buggenhoudt, (1930). Softcover. 8vo. xliv, 298 pp. Brown paper binding. With 16 plates. Part of the Collection Laque Orange Aventures et Voyages. Most pages uncut. Cover foxed and spine sunned. Binding and page edges lightly chipped. Text and plates not affected. Overall, in good+ condition. More about Journal du Voyage de Siam fait en 1685 & 1686
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Ex library. xviii,405pp. x, 406pp. Brown cloth with illustrated color paste-down. Library inventory plates with numbers near tail of spines. Split on both sides along library plate and on side on head of spine on Vol. I. Some staining and scuffing... More about Transhimalaja: Entdeckungen und Abenteuer in Tibet
Kathmandu, Nepal: Ratna Pustak Bhandar, 1976. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo (10 x 7 3/4"). 362, [2]pp (Vol. 1); 363, [1]pp (Vol. 2). Original illustrated dust-jacket over blue cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Pictorial endpapers. Title page in blue and black lettering. Ribbon marker. Second edition of Perceval Landon's monumental work... More about Nepal, Volumes I and II [Bibliotheca Himalayica, Series I, Volume 16]. 2-vols bound in one (Complete
New York: Garden City Publishing, (1925). First Am edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xi. 544 pp. Illustrated tan cloth binding. Head and tail of spine bumped and worn. Corners worn. Some stains to front and back cover. Age toning to endpapers. Adventures of the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin. Illustrated with b/w drawings... More about My Life as an Explorer
Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1903. Autorisierte Ausgabe. Hardcover. 8vo. x,570pp. Illustrated, decorated gray cloth. Some staining to boards and spine. Decorated endpapers. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Fascinating account of Hedin's expedition to Asia from 1899-1902. Sven Hedin was a famous Swedish explorer and adventurer. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs in... More about Im Herzen von Asien: Zehntausend Kilometer auf unbekannten Pfaden (Volume 2
Paris: B. Arthaud, 1959. Softcover. 8vo. 507pp. Pictorial wrappers with purple, red and black lettering in mylar dj. Caligraphic frontispiece. Travel account on Japan, illustrated throughout with full-page b/w photographs, one color photograph (by the author), two maps of Japan [a full-page map at beginning, a fold-out map at the... More about Japon
San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 168pp. Mottled olive cloth with maroon lettering to cover and spine. Corners slightly rubbed. Inscribed on endpaper by previous owner. Tipped-in frontispiece, depicting a street scene in India. Printed on parchment. Fore- and bottom page edges untrimmed. Some pages... More about Far Countries as Seen by a Boy