London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 244 pages. 21 x 14 cm, illustrated. Index. List of Subscribers. Publisher adverts at rear. Limited edition, copy 417 of 750. Bevelled edges, backstrip chipped at head, worn at foot. Tight copy. More

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Ingleton, Geoffrey C. Hardcover. 176 pages, 35.5 x 25 cm. Limited edition, copy 1289 of 2000 signed by Ingleton and Douglas A. Dunstan. Introduction by Alan Villiers with three full page paintings and 22 line drawings printed in olive green by Geoffrey C. Ingleton..... More

London: Hafod Press, 1807. First English language edition. leather_bound. 336 pages. 24 x 15 cm. Folding map of Tartar. Translated by Thomas Johns, proprietor of the Hafted Press, James Henderson, printer. La Brocquiere offers considerable encouragement in support of a campaign against the Turks, and concludes a force composed of..... More

New York & London: George P. Putnam & Richard Bentley, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. 442 pages. 20 x 13.5 cm. A compilation of recollections during the last sixteen years on his various sketches made during his travels. BAL 1642. Owner inscription free front endpaper, scattered toning throughout, more heavily at..... More

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. 360 & 400 pages. 23 x 14 cm. Twenty-seven lithographed plates including the frontispieces, eleven are folding, plus large fold-out color map, and twenty-eight text illustrations. Index. Burton noted this work as a "pot-pourri" on "Unexplored Syria," containing articles by Burton Drake, Mrs..... More

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. First edition. 648 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Two maps, 4 colored lithographic plates; half-title. First edition, second issue, without the suppressed fourth Appendix on female circumcision included in the first issue. In 1849, the East India Company supported an exploration program to present-day Somalia. By 1854, the program was largely..... More

London: Ackermann and Co, 1841. First edition. Hardcover. 15 pages in text. Folio, 39 x 28.5 cm. Thirty-one illustrations on 15 plates [sixteen hand-colored]. ABBEY TRAVEL 336. "An interesting book, combining lithographed line-drawings with more elaborate coloured lithographs. Gordon-Brown erroneously refers to the plates as coloured aquatints." TOOLEY 126. The..... More

New York: Harper and Company, 1871. Hardcover. 314 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Twenty four full page black and white illustrations. Eight pages of adverts at rear. Chaillu explored the regions of West Africa in the neighborhood of the equator, gaining considerable knowledge of the delta of the Ogooué River..... More

Paris: A. Barbier, 1846. First edition. Hardcover. 490 pages. 27 x 19 cm. Nine hand-colored plates (with tissue guards) and a host of steel engraved plates -- Philippoteaux, T. Johannot, E. Bellange, Isabey, E. Lamy, K. Girandet, Morel Fatio, C. Nanteuil, H. Baron et al. Six pages at end of..... More

London: Rodwell & Martin, 1820. First edition. leather_bound. Unpaginated. 27 1/2 x 18 1/2 cm. Sixty steel plates engraved by Heath, Owen, Lacey, et al (with tissue guards), including vignette title and frontispiece. Plate Index. Bound without letterpress title. Each plate described in English (recto) and French (verso). "Cockburn, an..... More

Paris: Saillant & Nyon and Pissot, 1774. First French edition. leather_bound. 502 pages. 19 x 12 1/2 cm. Three engraved folding maps of the South Pacific (some soiling along folds, few old repairs on versos). Wood engraved chapter head and tail pieces. An abridged version of the author's "Historical Collections..... More

London: Printed For The Author By W. Bulmer And W. Nicol, 1821. First edition. leather_bound. 462 (lxxIx), 555, 621 (lxii). 28 x 19 cm. 83 engraved plates, one hand-colored, two double-page, engraved vignettes (many on India paper), woodcuts within text. Index bound in Vol. I with printed ticket, and Supplement..... More