London: Richard Bentley, 1851. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 297 (1), vi, 309pp. Rebound in three-quarter blue leather over marbled boards with gilt ruling on covers, gilt lettering, tooling and ruling on spines; raised bands. Gilt top edges. Marbled endpapers. An account on Pakistan and India, written by Burton while... More
London: Printed for C. Dilly, 1775. Second edition with large additions and amendments. Hardcover. Octavo. vii, 267, two folding plates; iii, 299 (1)pp., two plates, one folding. Rebacked with beige leather spine retaining original calf boards,with gilt lettering on red label and gilt ruling on spine; raised bands. Frontispiece. With... More
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davis, 1804. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. ix (i), (1) 632pp., 8 plates, two of them double-paged, incl. frontispiece. Rebound in orange leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering and ruling on spine, raised bands. Frontispiece. Five plates in colored aquatints, three uncolored line-engravings... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1851. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 368pp., 1 folding map, 4 tinted plates, incl. frontispiece, with tissue guards. Rebound in contemporary dark green three-quarter leather over textured green cloth with gilt ruling on cover and spine, gilt lettering on spine; raised bands. Top edge gilt. Textured green... More
London: John Murray, 1818. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Original brown calf with gilt ruling and blind-stamped decorative border on covers, gilt lettering on black label and gilt tooling and ruling on spine; raised bands. Gray endpapers. Color frontispiece. With an Appendix, containing Charts, and various Hydrographical and Scientific Notices... and... More
Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1823. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. ix, (1) 372pp., 1 folding map, 5 plates. Rebound in peach leather over cloth with gilt lettering on black leather label, gilt ruling and raised bands. Frontispiece folding map of the River of Don-Nai. Illustrated with four plates of b/w engravings... More
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
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
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davis, 1806. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xviii,(1) 447pp., 18 plates, 2 folding maps. Original red Morocco over marbled boards with gilt lettering on green and brown labels of spine, and gilt and blind-stamped decorative ruling on spine, raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Annexed an... More
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
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
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1859. Ex-Library First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiii, (1) 492, 496pp., 20 color lithographs, incl. frontispiece, 5 folding maps. Modern three-quarter brown leather over decorative paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on red label of spine, gilt and black ruling and black tooling on spines... More
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
Shanghai: A. S. Watson & Co., 1920. First edition. 791/1000. 4 leaves, 40pp., 66 plates. Original blue silk-covered boards with stamped circular dark blue Chinese characters and debossed gilt lettering and Chinese characters on cover. Titles page with red stamp of Chinese characters. Silk shows some fading, sunning of spine... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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