Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Richard Francis Burton in Africa. 1910 VA 302 pp. ill. Genius, hero, misfit, egomaniac, madman, bigot, revolutionary, misanthrope, gypsy - and explorer. All have been used to describe thia great African adventurer - a man who risked uncertain paths into the unknown..... More
Cairo: Government Press, 1919. First. Orig Printed Stiff Boards. Ministry of Public Works, Zoological Service, Cairo. 119 pp + 31 colored plates on thick paper. Intended to be as complete a list as possible of the birds of Egypt. Also has in front a large colored folding map of Egypt..... More
Calcutta & London: W Newman & co, Forster Groom & Co, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. KASHMIR THE SWITZERLAND OF INDIA Calcutta & London nd ca 1930. 285 pp. Ill. 2 fold out maps. Descriptive guide with chapters on mountaineering & large and small game shooting. One of the few guides..... More
London: John Lane, 1928. First. Hardcover. Their manners, customs and country. 282 pp, ill, foldout map. History of Nepal, her soldiers and the people to managed to survive in this harsh land. A nice copy for the collector. VG+-near fine in original cloth and in the original pictorial jacket which..... More
NY: Greenwood Press, 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. The second Danish Pamir Expedition 1898-99. 229 pp, ill, 3 maps in rear incl. one folding. Fine copy. More
New York: Random House, 1991. First American. Hardcover. 738 pp, ill. 1st Amer ed. White man's conquest of the dark continent from 1876 to 1912. Near fine in like dj. More
London: The Folio Society, 2011. Folio Society. Hardcover. London 1991 The white man's conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912. Deluxe 2 volume set from the Folio Society 2011 Total 950 pages, profuse ill. 12 maps. A splendid edition, beautifully presented in photo (elephant tusks being sold at..... More
Amsterdam/Cape Town: Balkema, 1961. First. Hardcover. 332 pp. Profuse ill in color & b/w. Folding plate in rear. More
London: John Murray, 1816. New Edition. Full Leather. performed in the years 1795, 1796 and 1797 with an account of a subsequent missions to that country in 1805. ...to which is added an account of the life of Mr. Park. With an appendix containing geographical ill. of Africa by Major..... More
NY: WW Norton, 1954. First. Hardcover. An adventure in Tibet. 248 pp, ill, end paper maps. The Scot who became a Tibetan. A wild ride against time through an unknown Himalayan track. VG+-nr fine in vg+ dj. More
London: Harvill Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Nomads of the Jade Sea. 242 pp, profuse color ill. Large format. In the far northern reaches of Kenya, (The Rift Valley) on the shores of Lake Turkana, lives a group of nomads. The area is so poorly endowed that it cannot support..... More
Boston: Little Brown, 1975. First American. Hardcover. Story of an extraordinary adventure on the roof of the world. 254 pp, ill, end paper maps. Near fine in vg dj. More
Paris: Privately printed, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Itinerary of the Pelliot Mission. Three Years in Upper Asia. mimeographed, translated from Pelliot's article in L'Illustration. TEN Original photos inserted in text (presumably these were originals from the magazine illustration). Paul Pelliot made an important three year journey through Central Asia, Chinese..... More
New Delhi: Today & Tomorrow's Printers, 1976. Reprint. Hardcover. 82 pp + maps (3) and index & appendix at end. Bhutan, Tibet, Missions of Bogle, Turmer, Pemberton and more. Reprint of works scarce in first edition. VG+ in black cloth (lightly bubbled). More
London: Seeley Service, 1923. First. Hardcover. 464 pp, ill, folding map. Pennell was a medical missionary to spend his entire life working in Northern India and Central Asia. VG on black stamped cloth. Some wear on edges of board and occassional fading to black binding. More
London: Argonaut Press, 1929. Argonaut Press Ltd to 1,050 Copies. Hardcover. together with the travels of Nicolo de Conti.. # 1029 of 1050 copies. 381 pp, colored frontis, folding map before ch 1, notes, appendices. Original yellow cloth cover white vellum. Lightly soiled. Fine inside, in fact partially uncut and..... More
Philadelpha: Lippincott. First. Hardcover. an account of the institution as it existed in the palace of the Turkist sultans with a history of the grand seraglio from its foundations to the present time. 277 pp, 35 ill in half tone, 7 photogravures and folding plan. Near fine copy in vg-vg+..... More
Camden SC: Briar Patch Press, 1987. Trade Ed. Trade Ed Reprint. Hardcover. 409 pp, ill., all edges gilt. Percival was a member of the Kenya Game Dept for 23 years. His chapters on lions and elephants are excellent. Also info on stalking, tracking. Fine in original gilt stamped imit leather..... More
NY: Pantheon, 1981. First. Hardcover. Four expeditions to the arctic, the congo, the Gobi Desert and Siberia. 184 pp, maps, profuse ill. Four expeditions related by the author with the help of the American Museum of Natural History. Near fine in like dj. Interesting reading. More
London: Robert Hale, 1952. First. Hardcover. 280 pp, ill. The first full length biography of one of the most remarkable men in Middle Eastern Politics by the man who for many years served as his advisor. VG+ in jacket but there are large pieces chipped from jacket esp. on spine..... More
London: Golden Cockerell Press, 1943. First Limited to 350 Copies. Quarter Leather. #36 of 350 copies. 191 pp. Frontis portrait. Quarter leather binding. Very slightly scuffed. Cream cloth boards showing light soiling. More
London: Quarter, 1981. First. Soft cover. 141 pp, ill. Manuscript left by Philby and finally published about the visit f the Queen of Sheba to King SAolomon. Fine in near fine dj. More
Dehra Dun, India: Surveyor General of India, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. 4 volumes All have map endpapers and the Survey of India gilt crests on front cover but they crests from vol 1 and 2 differ from those on vol 3 and 4. Vol 1 & 2 have Vol 1..... More
New Jersey: David McKay, 1966. First American. Hardcover. 319 pp. ill. More
