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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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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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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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Where Three Empires Meet. A Narrative of Recent Travel in Kashmir, Western Tibet, Gilgit, and the Adjoining Countries. With a Map and 54 Illustrations. New Edition.

By: KNIGHT, E. F.:

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1903:

Seller ID: 84038

Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. 8vo. In maroon full calf leather binding by Bickers & Sons. With gilt paneled boards, raised banding and gilt decoration to spine, with gilt lettering to black leather spine label. Marbled endpapers and page edges. In very good condition. Some rubbing to edges and corners, some fading to boards around spine. Some minor light scratches to boards. Endpapers clean, neat inscription to front “M.B. Hughes, Godalming, Easter 1897.” Binders stamp to corner “Bickers & Son.” Else a clean and tight copy. 528pp. Illustrated with a folding map plat...
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Monographs of The Jewish Historical Society of Hong Kong. Volume 1. Sino-Judaic Studies: Whence and Whither, An Essay and Bibliography. And, The Kadoorie Memoir.

By: LEVENTHAL, Dennis A.:

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Jewish Chronicle, Rising Sun Co., 1985 1st:

Seller ID: 84363

Small hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and design to spine and front. In very good condition. A couple of minor handling marks to cloth else cover clean and smart. Endpapers clean, no penned inscriptions. Inside pages all clean and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 99pp. With B&W illustrations.
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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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India, Through The Stereoscope. A Journey Through Hindustan.

By: RICALTON, James:

Price: £36.00

Publisher: New York and London, Underwood & Underwood, 1900 1st edition:

Seller ID: 84552

Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front. Pocket on rear board with maps in paper booklet. In very good condition. Some minor handling marks to cloth, some rubbing to edges and corners. Two bumps/chips to cloth on top edge of front board. Minor darkening to edges of endpapers with a couple of minor faint spots. Inside pages all very clean and tight. Map booklet all clean and tight. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 383pp + 5pp adverts. Illustrated with 10 folding coloured maps.
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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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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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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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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.

By: SANDERSON, G. P.:

Price: £150.00

Publisher: London, Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1878 1st edition:

Seller ID: 83835

Hardback, size approx 8.5 x 7 inches. Quarter bound dark green calf leather to spine and corners, dark green cloth to boards. Decorative gilt lettering to maroon leather spine label, with raised banding and gilt decorations to spine. Decorative gilt and embossed edging to leather on boards. Marbled endpapers and page edges. In very good condition. Some rubbing to extremities; light rubbing to boards, edges and corners, some darkening to spine with rubbed path nr. bottom end. Neat inscription to top of half title page “Roger Dodington, from his father 30th July 1878.” Endpapers clea...
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Hand Coloured Original Map of Toshogu Shrine in Nikko Japan Woodcut Print Fantastic Original Japanese woodblock print

By: Unknown

Price: £200.00

Publisher: Ca 1850:

Seller ID: 83507

Size 35cm x 27cm. In very good condition. Some very light tanning, one small closed tear top corner.
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An Englishman Defends Mother India. A Complete Constructive Reply to “Mother India.”

By: WOOD, Ernest:

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Madras, India, Ganesh & Co. 1929 1st edition:

Seller ID: 84492

Hardback, 9 x 5.5 inches. Green paper covers with paper title labels to front and spine. Plain endpapers. Rough cut page edges. In very good condition. Some darkening to spine with rubbing to ends, small nick to bottom end. Endpapers clean, no penned inscriptions. Inside pages and plates all very clean and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 458pp + index. Illustrated with 50 full-page B&W photo plates.
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