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The Surgeon’s Log Being Impressions of the Far East

By: ABRAHAM, J. Johnston,

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Chapman & Hall Ltd. 1912 fifth edition.:

Seller ID: 74356

Size approx 6 x 9 inches. In blue cloth covers with gilt book design to front and lettering to cover and spine. In very good condition. Some rubbing to edges and ends of spine and minor bumps to corners. Minor mark to rear. Inside some light foxing to page edges else a very clean and tight copy. 338pp. With Forty-Four b&w Illustrations.
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The Splendour of Asia. The Story and Teaching of The Buddha. By the Author of “the Way of The Stars,” “The Treasure of Ho,” etc.

By: ADAMS BECK, L.:

Price: £48.00

Publisher: London, W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1927 1st:

Seller ID: 78723

Hardback, approx 7.5 x 5 inches. Dark blue cloth with red lettering and line edging to front and spine. In original patterned dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (DW minor rubbing to edges, a couple of small nicks to corners and small nick to rear side nr bottom edge. In protective sleeve.) Some minor rubbing to edges of cloth. Some minor darkening to outer page edges else a very clean and tight copy. 253pp + 6pp cat.
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Biographies of the Celestial Beings on The Flat Peach Efte

By: Anon:

Price: £60.00

Publisher: Tokyo, ca1940:

Seller ID: 82311

Hardback, 8 x 6 inches. Eastern ‘oriental-style’ fold-out binding, brown silk covers, paper title label to front board. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to edges around corners, inside pages and plates all very clean and tight. An excellent copy. 22pp. Illustrated with 10 hand-coloured silk plates on silk mountings. Characters include: Mang Mu Niang Niang, Shou Xin, The Gwai-Li, Han Zhong-Li, Iu Dong-Bing & others.
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Image for Footsteps of Our Lord and His Apostles in Syria, Greece, and Italy. A Succession of Visits to the Scenes of New Testament Narrative. Seventh Edition, with numerous illustrations on steel and wood expressly prepared for this work.

Footsteps of Our Lord and His Apostles in Syria, Greece, and Italy. A Succession of Visits to the Scenes of New Testament Narrative. Seventh Edition, with numerous illustrations on steel and wood expressly prepared for this work.

By: BARTLETT, W.H.:

Price: £150.00

Publisher: London, George Bell and Sons, 1874 7th:

Seller ID: 83719

Hardback, 8vo. 9 x 6.5 inches. Leather bound spine with gilt lettering and extensive gilt decoration. Lacquered patterned boards with decorative gilt paneling and landscape vignette to front. All edges gilt. White textured endpapers. In very good condition. Leather rubbed on spine. Chip to top and bottom edge of rear board and top rear corner. Some light minor surface scratches. Prize inscription to front endpaper “Hereford Ladies College, Good Conduct Prize, Florence Chare, Midsummer 1883.” Some moderate foxing to prelims and edges of frontis and decorative title page. Some foxing...
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Picturesque India A Handbook for European Travellers. Illustrations Drawn by John Pedder, H. Sheppard Dale, and H.H. Stanton.

By: CAINE, W.S.:

Price: £100.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, 1890 1st:

Seller ID: 81013

Hardback, 9 x 7 inches. Dark green cloth with beveled boards, decorative gilt lettering and black pictorial designs to front and spine. All edges gilt. Green endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to corners and ends of spine. Some light rubbing to design on front. Inscription to half-title page “E.B. Rice, Served as a Sergent in the Rifle Brigade, during the Indian Mutiny, was present at Beige and Capture of Lucknow in 1858, and afterwards engaged on the North West Frontier of India,” then dated “10th November 1890” on first page. Frontis plate darkened ...
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Jungle Lore.

By: CORBETT, JIM:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Geoffrey Cumberlege, OUP, 1953 2nd edition (Same year as 1st):

Seller ID: 83929

Hardback, 8 x 5 inches. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine and gilt tiger vignette to front. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW some minor darkening and handling marks to rear, some minor rubbing to corners. Some slight fading to edges of cloth else cover clean and smart. Some minor darkening to endpapers. Neat pencil inscription to front. Inside pages all very clean and tight throughout, no spots or marks. Else a very clean and tight copy. 168pp. Illustrted with 6 B&W full-page plates. The closed Jim Corbertt “ever came to an autobio...
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The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag. Dedicated to the Victims of the Man-Eating Leopard of Rudrapayag.

By: CORBETT, JIM:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Geoffrey Cumberlede, Oxford University Press. 1954 4th:

Seller ID: 83931

Hardback, 8 x 5 inches. In green cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine and tiger vignette to front. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; Some minor rubbing to corners, some minor handling marks. Not price clipped.) Edges of cloth faded. Minor bump to bottom corner. Slight darkening to front endpaper. Inside pages all very clean and tight throughout, no spots or marks. Else a very clean and tight copy. 166pp. With maps to endpapers. Illustrated with 7 B&W photographs on 4 plates. Amazing account of author’s pursuit to bag a notorious leop...
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A History of the Arab Peoples.

By: HOURANI, Albert;

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Folio Society 2009:

Seller ID: 82797

Hardback, 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Bound in illustrated grey cloth covers. In hard card slipcase. In very good near fine condition with very good slipcase (sealed in shrinkwrap.) 659pp + xxxiv. Illustrated in colour from photographs.
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The Golden Calm. An English Lady’s life in Moghul Delhi. Reminiscences by Emily, Lady Clive Bayley and by her father, Sir Thomas Metcalf.

By: KAYE, M.M. (ed):

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Webb & Bower. Exeter. 1980 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 67759

Size 7.5 x 10.0 inches. In maroon leather binding with gilt to spine and front. Illustrated maroon endpapers. With pictorial dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly creased along top edge with small chips and tears. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 220pp. With colour illustrations and facsimile pages. The author was the daughter of the Resident in Delhi and joined her father at the Moghul Court, some ten years before the Indian Mutiny. Also included are pages from the ‘Delhie Book’ with illustrations commissioned by her father.
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From Hausaland to Egypt, Through the Sudan Illustrated.

By: KUMM, H. Karl W.:

Price: £120.00

Publisher: London, Constable & Co. Ltd., 1910 1st:

Seller ID: 80417

Hardback, 10 x 7 inches. Orange cloth covers with black and gilt lettering to spine and black lettering with pictorial design to front. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to corners. Some handling marks to cloth on front and back. Endpapers darkened with some mild foxing. Some foxing to pages immediately adjacent colour plates, Else inside pages and plates all very clean and tight throughout. 324pp. Illustrated with six coloured plates and many B&W photo illustrations. Photogravure frontis portrait. By the Author of; “Tribes of the Nile Valley,” “...
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Image for In the Forbidden Land. Two Volumes. An Account of a Journey in Tibet, Capture by the Tibetan Authorities, Imprisonment, Torture, and Ultimate Release. Also various official documents, including the enquiry and report by J. Larkin, esq., appointed by the Government of India. With a Map and Two Hundred and Fifty illustrations.

In the Forbidden Land. Two Volumes. An Account of a Journey in Tibet, Capture by the Tibetan Authorities, Imprisonment, Torture, and Ultimate Release. Also various official documents, including the enquiry and report by J. Larkin, esq., appointed by the Government of India. With a Map and Two Hundred and Fifty illustrations.

By: LANDOR, A. Henry Savage;

Price: £200.00

Publisher: William Heinemann, London. 1898 1st edition:

Seller ID: 82142

Two volumes. Size approx 6 x 9 inches. In original green cloth with gilt lettering to front and spines and with colour/gilt illustrated design to fronts and spines. In very good conditions. Nice bright copies. Volume I has slight lean. Endpapers mildly foxed, with a few small nicks on fore edge. Pages a little rough cut. Inside pages very clean & tight throughout. 320pp + 263pp. With a Map (rear v.2) and Two Hundred and Fifty illustrations. Photogravure frontis and 8 Coloured plates. 45 b&w full-page plates.
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Lloyd’s Sketches of Indian Life.

By: LLOYD, W.:

Price: £200.00

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall, 1890,:

Seller ID: 83389

Hardback, tall, approx 13 x 10 inches. Half bound with maroon cloth to spine and pale green paper covered boards with decorative title and illustration to front. Grey endpapers. In very good condition. Cover is rubbed around edges and corners, some darkening around edges of boards, some minor rubbing marks to front. Endpapers clean, no penned inscriptions. Title page is slightly darkened around edges, one minor dark mark to bottom corner edge of plate 2, some thumb marks to edges/margins of plates, else plates all very clean and bright. Else a very clean and tight copy. Illustrated with 18 ful...
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Eastern Approaches

By: MACLEAN, FITZROY:

Price: £70.00

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape, 1950 8th:

Seller ID: 83300

Hardback, in quarter bound light brown leather with marbled paper boards. Gilt line edging, raised banding, gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. In very good near fine condition. Some minor handling marks to boards, some minor fading to spine, some rubbing to edges and rear board. Bookplate to endpaper “M.&E.V. Bowater.” Inside pages and maps all clean, bright and tight throughout. Else a very clean and tight copy. 545pp. Illustrated with B&W photo plates and coloured maps.
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Romances of Old Japan. Rendered into English from Japanese Sources.

By: OZAKI, MADAME YUKIO:

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. 1920 2nd:

Seller ID: 83063

Hardback, Tall 8vo. approx 10 x 7 inches. Blue cloth, gilt and black lettering to spine, gilt and black mountain and sword design to front. In green dustwrapper lettered in black with colour plate to front. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (DW faint mark nr bottom of spine with some rubbing to top end, else very good in protective sleeve.) Cover with some minor bumps to corners and some minor rubbing to ends of spine, bump and small nick to top board edges, else cover and design clean and bright. Endpapers clean, no penned inscriptions.Some light foxing to halftitle and conten...
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Image for A History of The Indian Empire and the East India Company From the Earliest Times to the Present. Together with account of Beloochistan, Afghanistan etc..., Comprehending their History, Religions, Laws, Manners and Customs, Commercial Resources etc. In Two Volumes.

A History of The Indian Empire and the East India Company From the Earliest Times to the Present. Together with account of Beloochistan, Afghanistan etc..., Comprehending their History, Religions, Laws, Manners and Customs, Commercial Resources etc. In Two Volumes.

By: RITCHIE, Leitch:

Price: £385.00

Publisher: London, W. H. Allen & Co., 1848 1st:

Seller ID: 81248

Two Volumes. Hardback, approx 9 x 5.5 inches. In full calf leather bindings, with red and black spine labels lettered in gilt, with gilt decorations and raised banding to spine, gilt paneled boards. Marbled endpapers and page edges. In very good conditions. Some minor wear to binding; rubbing to spines, small chip to bottom of spine on vol.2, a couple of small marks and minor rubbing to boards. Minor glue repair between front endpapers vol.1, half-title and blank endpaper neatly removed. Else pages all very clean and tight throughout. 500 & 512pp.
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The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, and Arabia. (Together with) Egypt and Nubia. 2 vols (complete and all published).

By: ROBERTS, DAVID:

Price: £1,000.00

Publisher: London, The Folio Society 2010 Limited edition Only 1000 Copies Numbered 164:

Seller ID: 82459

Folio (50 x 35.5 cm). Orig. illust. cloth printed in black and gold with designs by Roberts. Preserved in matching orig. slip-cases. T.e.g. and with silk ribbon markers in both vols. In near fine condition. One slipcase very small light scuff. First blank page of first volume has small red mark. Inside very clean & tight. Complete with 247 coloured lithograph plates most of which are full-page, a portrait of Roberts and map. Both volumes numbered No. 164 of only 1000 sets published. NOTE: David Roberts was the first British painter to make an artistic expedition to Egypt and the Holy Land.
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Lands of The Thunderbolt. Sikhim, Chumbi & Bhutan.

By: RONALDSHAY, Earl of:

Price: £80.00

Publisher: London, Constable and Company, 1923 1st:

Seller ID: 83915

Hardback, approx 9 x 6 inches. In light blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to edges and corners of cover. A couple of minor light handling marks else cloth clean and smart. Endpapers clean, neat inscription to front. Some mild foxing to prelims including title page, some mild foxing and darkening to inside pages throughout. Plates are clean and bright. Else a clean and tight copy. 267pp. Illustrated with 32 B&W photo plates and a folding map at rear.
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Image for The Casale Pilgrim. A Sixteenth-Century Illustrated Guide to the Holy Places. Reproduced in Facsimile, with Introduction, Translation and Notes by Cecil Roth. Limited numbered edition.

The Casale Pilgrim. A Sixteenth-Century Illustrated Guide to the Holy Places. Reproduced in Facsimile, with Introduction, Translation and Notes by Cecil Roth. Limited numbered edition.

By: ROTH, Cecil;

Price: £280.00

Publisher: London. Soncino Press 1929 1st thus edition:

Seller ID: 76712

Large hardback. Approx 10 x 7.5 inches. Full vellum binding with gilt design to front and lettering to spine. Top page edges gilt. In very good condition. Some rubbing/darkening to edges of boards. Some small marks to edges of endpapers otherwise a very clean and tight copy throughout. Numbered 83/560. 91pp. With colour illustrations.
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The Ibex of Sha-Ping And other Himalayan Studies. With Numerous Pen and Ink Sketches and Coloured Plates by The Author.

By: RUNDALL, LIEUT. L. B.:

Price: £150.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co., 1915 (1st.):

Seller ID: 81041

Hardback, Tall 8vo. 10 x 7 inches. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering and designs to spine and front. In very good condition. Small nicks to cloth on corners and ends of spine, no penned inscriptions. Pages all very clean and tight throughout. A very clean and tight copy. 152pp. 15 mounted colour plates & many b&w text illustrations. First edition of this beautifully illustrated, lyrical memoir by a young author who died in the First World War. Contains stories of hunting adventure in the Himalayas and notes about the flora and fauna. This volume contains 8 stories: The Scape-Goat;...
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Image for 13 Years Among The Wild Beasts of India: Their Haunts and Habits from Personal Observation; With an account of the Modes of Capturing and Taming Elephants. Second Edition.

13 Years Among The Wild Beasts of India: Their Haunts and Habits from Personal Observation; With an account of the Modes of Capturing and Taming Elephants. Second Edition.

By: SANDERSON, G. P.:

Price: £125.00

Publisher: London, Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1879 2nd ed.:

Seller ID: 79187

Hardback, 9 x 7 inches. Green beveled cloth covers, decorative gilt lettering to spine and front, with black and gilt pictorial designs to front and spine. Blind embossed panel to rear board. Marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Boards have been professionally re-bound and original cloth re-laid on spine. Corners bumped, edges rubbed. “H.V. Day, Dorchester” bookseller label to front endpaper. Neat inscription to front endpaper. Mild foxing to pages throughout. Plates bright and clean. Else a clean and tight copy. 387pp. 24 B&W plates including Coloured frontis plate.
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