London.
John Murray, 1840.
Second edition.
8vo.
xvi, 282, 12pp. With an etched frontispiece, one further etched plate, and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and marked. Early inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 31194
Edinburgh.
Published by Oliver & Boyd, 1829.
First edition.
8vo.
[2], 283pp. Later cloth-backed buff paper boards, contrasting black morocco lettering. Lightly rubbed and marked. Early manuscript notes to title page and first page of text, blank bottom half of final leaf of text torn away, spotted throughout. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 29243
Cape Town & Johannesburg.
Wood & Ortlepp, 1900.
First edition.
Dimensions, unfolded: 620 x 490 mm, folded in cover: 110 x 179 mm.
Colour lithograph map. Scale 1:250 000. Linen backed. Original publisher's buff printed cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked, faded ownership inscriptions to covers. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 29039
London.
Printed by M. Ritchie, 1800.
A new edition considerably enlarged.
12mo.
iv, 322pp. With a double-page engraved plate. Contemporary calf, later rebacked in brown morocco. Boards worn. Early inked ownership inscription to head of title page, leaves toned and spotted. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 29015
Edinburgh.
David Douglas, 1882.
First edition.
Quarto.
viii, 83pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's red cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Bookplate and shelf-label to FEP, scattered spotting. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 28812
Inverness.
Kenneth Douglas, James Smith, and Donald Fraser, 1847.
First edition.
8vo.
160pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Internally clean and crisp. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 28518
[London].
Printed by The London Stereoscopic & Photographic Co., [1905].
Quarto.
With 58 photographic illustrations in the text. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in black. Extremities rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 25279
London.
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, [1909].
German-Spanish-Portuguese edition.
Oblong 8vo.
8pp, [2]. Parallel German, Spanish, and Portuguese text. With 24 watercolour sketches, reproduced in lithography. Tied, as issued, in original publisher's pictorial limp cloth. A trifle rubbed, chipping to spine. Very occasional light spotting. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 24160
Oslo.
Forlagt av H. Aschehoug & Co., 1941.
Attende tusen [i.e. eighteenth thousand].
8vo.
218pp, [4]. With seven photographic plates. Original publisher's blue cloth-backed tan buckram boards, lettered in silver. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. From the library of Eric Kenneth Prentice 'Kenn' Back (b. 1942), meteorologist with the British Antarctic Survey from 1963 to 2002, and a descendant of Arctic explorer George Back, with his bookplate to FEP. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 23451
Gyldendal.
Norsk Forlag, Oslo, 1926.
First edition.
8vo.
285pp, [3]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece, a further 52 black and white photographic illustrations, a full-page sketch map, and a folding map to rear. Recent calf-backed green cloth boards, stamped and lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Occasional pencil marks. From the library of Eric Kenneth Prentice 'Kenn' Back (b. 1942), meteorologist with the British Antarctic Survey from 1963 to 2002, and ... More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 23449
London.
John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1933.
First edition.
8vo.
xix, [1], 279pp, [1]. With 57 illustrations from photographs, diagrams, and maps. Without the 3D Glasses for viewing the Anaglyph on p.222. Rebound in later green cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed. Bookplate of George Lowe to FEP, ink-stamp of J. Garfield Anderson. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 23435
Leipsic [i.e. Leipzig].
Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1903.
Tenth edition, revised and augmented.
8vo.
571pp, [1]. With 53 maps, 10 plans, and seven panoramas. Original publisher's blind-ruled red cloth, lettered in gilt, marbled edges. Extremities rubbed and spotted, spine sunned. Later bookplate of George Lowe, beneath earlier inked ownership inscriptions, to FFEP, small holes and tape repairs to initial map. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 23432
Bergen.
J. W. Eides Forlag, [1958].
First Norwegian edition.
8vo.
275pp, [1]. Illustrated with 32 pages of monochrome photographs and 16 pages in full colour. Original publisher's red cloth-backed decorated paper boards, pictorial dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed and marked, some slight shipping to dustwrapper. Endpapers browned, bookplate of George Lowe to FEP. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 23431
London.
Evans Brothers Limited, [1958].
First edition.
8vo.
191pp, [1]. With a photographic frontispiece and a further 18 photographic illustrations. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, dustwrapper price-clipped, and trifle marked and chipped. Later bookplate of George Lowe to FEP, near contemporary inked gift inscription and booksellers ink-stamp to FFEP, lightly spotted. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 23430
[London].
Hodder and Stoughton, [1958].
First edition.
8vo.
205pp, [3]. With a sketch-map frontispiece and 31 photographic illustrations. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper rubbed, marked, chipped, and torn, spine panel sunned. Bookplate of George Lowe to FEP. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 23429
London.
Adam & Charles Black, 1905.
First edition.
Quarto.
Limited edition of 350 copies signed by the illustrator, of which this is copy 116. ix, [1], 254pp. With 75 colour plates by Menpes. Uncut in original publisher's decorative cream cloth. Lightly rubbed, marked, and dulled. Endpapers browned, else internally clean and crisp. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 23311
London.
Smith, Elder, & Co., 1879.
First edition.
8vo.
xii, 387pp, [1]. With a half-title. Original publisher's green cloth, blocked in black, gilt, and blind. Extremities rubbed. Upper hinge exposed, bookplate to FEP, inked ownership inscription to recto of half-title, very occasional light spotting/chipping to margins. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 20807
London.
Sifton, Praed & Co. Ltd., [1928].
Dimensions: 770 x 1000 mm, Scale: 1:3,000,000.
A printed folding colour map mounted on cloth. Edges a trifle rubbed, else fine. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 20203
London.
William Heinemann, 1898.
First edition.
8vo.
x, 323pp, [1]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and a map. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 18255
Birmingham.
Printed by and for R. Jabet...and J. P. Lucas, 1808.
Fourth edition.
8vo.
xviii, 78pp. With an engraved folding map bound as frontispiece, and three engraved plates. Original publisher's printed paper boards, later rebacked in grey cloth. Rubbed, with some surface loss, corners bumped. Hinges exposed, ink ownership inscriptions to FEP of 'John Turner' and 'H. R. Brownwich / 1886', else internally clean and crisp. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 14294