J & SL Bonham Antiquarian Booksellers

• ABBOTT Keith E. GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES, taken during a Journey in Persia in 1849 and 1850. RGS, 1855. [10981]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 1-78, folding map, disbound. £35
  
  

• ABERCROMBY John. A TRIP THROUGH THE EASTERN CAUCASUS; with a Chapter on the Languages of the Country. Ed Stanford, 1889. [8985]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 376, 3 maps, 6 plates, illustrations, original blue cloth, spine worn at head and tail, joints and corners rubbed, small ink marks on upper cover. £260
  
  

• ADAIR F E S. A SUMMER IN HIGH ASIA; being a Record of Sport and Travel in Balatistan and Ladakh...with an Appendix on Central Asian Trade by Capt S H Godfrey. W Thacker, 1899. [10389]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 286, folding map, portrait frontispiece, illustrations, original beige decorative cloth, t.e.g, slip case, a fine copy of a book which is often in poor condition. £1500
  A sporting expedition to Kashmir and Ladakh in 1894. He comments briefly on the inability of Europeans to cross into Tibet. The appendix by Godfrey, then British Joint Commissioner at Leh, contains a report on the trade of Ladakh with China and Tibet, and between Ladakh and India. Marshall 906.
  
  

• ANDREW W P. OUR SCIENTIFIC FRONTIER; W H Allen, 1880. [8889]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 103; 15; 24; advertisements, 2 folding maps (1 from the Journal of the RUS Institution), original red decorative cloth, spine re-backed and soiled.
  
  [With:]
  
  The Bolan and Khyber Railways; & Transport by Rail.
  London: W H Allen, 1880.
  
  [With:]
  
  TRANSPORT BY RAIL OF TROOPS, HORSES, GUNS, AND WAR.
  London: W H Allen, 1881.
  
  [With:]
  
  INDIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS.
  London: 1879. £145
  
  

• ANON. A BOOK OF THE JAPANESE THEATRE. Kojma, 1908. [9711]
  FIRST EDITION, oblong folio, pp 26, 12 illustrations, original buff decorative card with 2 purple ties, small piece missing from fore-edge of upper cover. £135
  
  

• ANON. EXTRAORDINARY HARDSHIPS AND ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN DAVID WOODARD; and Five Companions, who Lost their Vessel, the 'Resistance' and afterwards their boat, at sea, including their escape from the Malays, after a captivity of near 3 yearsand the horrid murder of Archibald Millar. Thomas Tegg, nd (1808.) [10734]
  FIRST EDITION, small 8vo, pp (5)-28, folding aquatint frontispiece (tear neatly repaired), plate (rebacked with linen), later brown boards. £225
  One of a series issued from 1807-1810 at sixpence each, all with an aquatint frontispiece. These could then be collected into volumes. Huntress 153C.
  
  

• ANON. INDIE IN WOORD EN BEELD. Pictorial Netherlands East Indies. Topografische Inrichting, 1924. [10322]
  FIRST EDITION,folio, pp ii, 176, numerous illustrations, parallel text in Dutch and English, original purple and brown decorative boards, corners rubbed, front free endpaper has a tear and some worming not affecting text. £150
  
  

• ANON. KYOTO. Municipal Govt, 1928. [8118]
  FIRST EDITION, small oblong 8vo, pp vi, 118, numerous gravures, original purple cloth, a very good copy. £100
  Shows the results of building and rebuilding after the 1922 earthquake.
  

• ATKINSON Thomas Witlam. ORIENTAL AND WESTERN SIBERIA; a Narrataive of Seven Years' Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and Part of Central Asia. Hurst and Blackett, 1858. [11031]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp viii, (iv), 611, folding map, 20 plates, original green decorative cloth, gilt vignette (3 figures), near fine. £600
  
  

• BACON Thomas. THE ORIENTALIST. Thos Arnold, 1842. [10768]
  First Edition (second series), 8vo, pp 244, 17 plates (lacks plate on p35), contemporary brown calf, upper board split and tender. £45
  
  

• BAIKIE R. THE NEILGHERRIES; including an Account of their Topography, Climate, Soil and Production; and of the effects of the climate on the European constitution. J Thomas, 1857. [9057]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp iv, 159, 86, tinted lithographic frontispiece and half-title, 2 folding maps in pocket, original red blind stamped cloth, neatly re-cased with new endpapers, small hole in margin of frontispiece not affecting the image, very clean, maps pristine. £750
  
  

• BARING-GOULD Sabine. A HISTORY OF SARAWAK UNDER ITS TWO WHITE RAJAHS. Sotheran, 1909. [8072]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 464, folding map, illustrations, original red cloth, slight fading to spine. £125
  
  

• BARNEBY William Henry. NEW FAR WEST AND THE OLD FAR EAST; being Notes of a Tour. Ed Stanford, 1889. [8135]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp x, 316, frontispiece, 7 plates, 3 folding coloured maps, de-luxe copy in morocco with lavish gilt decoration of a Japanese lady in a rickshaw, spine slightly faded, a handsome volume. £380
  Author's presentation copy to W J Hicks-Beach.
  

• BARTOLOMEO Fra Paolino da san, A VOYAGE TO THE EAST INDIES; containing an account of the manners, customs, etc of the Natives, with a Geographical Description of the Country. Collected from observations made during a residence of thirteen years, between 1776 and 1789, in the districts little frequented by Europeans. J Davis, 1800. [11072]
  First English Edition, 8vo, pp 478, plate, illustration, geographical index at rear, contemporary straight-grained morocco, edges of boards blind stamped, gilt-lined, raised bands to spine, maroon labels, all edges marbled, extremities a little rubbed, very handsome. £600
  Bartolomeo was a bare-footed Carmelite of Austrian origin. For seven years he held the post of Professor of Oriental languages in the Propaganda at Rome. His account covers the geography, people, flora and fauna of much of the East Indies.
  

• BATCHELOR John. THE AINU AND THEIR FOLK-LORE. RTS, 1901. [10001]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxvi, 604, illustrations, original blue decorative cloth, some light rubbing to spine, a very good, clean copy. £480
  
  

• BATCHELOR John. AINU LIFE AND LORE; Echoes of a Departing Race. Kyobunkwan, 1927. [9634]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 448, frontispiece, 15 coloured plates, numerous illustrations, original blue decorative cloth, small mark in corner of title-page and frontispiece, dust-jacket (small loss to spine). £250
  
  

• BATCHELOR John. THE AINU OF JAPAN; the Religion, Superstitions and General History of the Hairy Aborigines of Japan. RTS, 1892. [8019]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 336, frontispiece, illustrations, original blue decorative cloth, front free endpaper excised. £240
  
  

• BAX Bonham Ward. THE EASTERN SEAS; being a Narrative of the Voyage of HMS 'Dwarf' in China, Japan, and Formosa. With a description of the coast of Russian Tartary and Eastern Siberia, from the Cobra to the River Amur. John Murray, 1875. [10538]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xi, 287, frontispiece, folding map, illustratons, original blue cloth, a little rubbing to head and tail of spin, armorial book plate of Admiral Bonham. £970
  
  

• BECCARI Odoardo. WANDERINGS IN THE GREAT FORESTS OF BORNEO; Travels and Researches of a Naturalist in Sarawak. Translated by Dr Enrico H Giglioli...and Revised and Edited by F H H Guillemard. Archibald Constable, 1904. [11085]
  First English Edition, 8vo, pp xxiv, 424, 3 folding maps, frontispiece, many textual illustrations and diagrams, original blue decorative cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover, t.e.g, an excellent copy of this very uncommon book. £1250
  An important book by one of the great botanical explorers of the Nineteenth Century. Beccari was in Sarawak during 1865-67 when he collected some 800 bird skins including 40 hitherto unrecorded species.
  

• BELLEW Henry Walter. A GRAMMAR OF THE PUKKHTO OR PUKSHTO LANGUAGE; in a New and Improved System, containing brevity with practical utility and including exercises and dialogues, intended to facilitate the acquisition of the colloquial. Rai Sahb M Gulab Singh, 1901. [10020]
  Indian Reprint, quarto, pp 155, light browning throughout, original brown cloth, spine worn at head and tail, slight soiling to covers. Scarce. £130
  First Edition London 1867.
  

• BIRD Isabella L. THE GOLDEN CHERSONESE; and the Way Thither. John Murray, 1883. [11006]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvii, 384, advertisements, map, illustrations, original green decorative cloth, small wear to base of spine, very good. £450
  
  

• BLACK John R. YOUNG JAPAN, YOKOHAMA AND YEDO; a Narrative of the Settlement and the City from the Signing of the Treaties in 1879... Baker Pratt, 1883. [8790]
  First US Edition, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xv, 418; xiv, 522; original black cloth, a near fine set. £390
  
  

• BLAKENEY William. ON THE COASTS OF CATHAY AND CIPANGO FORTY YEARS AGO; a Record of Surveying Service in the China Yellow and Japan Seas and the Seabord of Korea and Manchuria. Elliot Stock, 1902. [11084]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xx, 353, frontispiece, 19 maps, numerous illustrations, original yellow decorative cloth, fine. Scarce. £1500
  Presentation copy from the author to O W Nordenskjold.
  William Blakeney was a Royal Navy hydographer.
  

• BLAND J O P & BACKHOUSE E. CHINA UNDER THE EMPRESS DOWAGER; being the History of the Life and Times of Twu Hsi. Wm Heinemann, 1910. [9906]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 525, illustrations, original green decorative cloth, vignette, spine faded, spotting to lower cover, wear to head and tail of spine £50
  
  

• BOCK Carl. TEMPLES AND ELEPHANTS; the Narrative of a Journey of Exploration through Upper Siam and Lao. Sampson Low, 1884. [10709]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 438, folding map, portrait frontispiece, colour plates, illustrations, original green decorative cloth, neatly re-cased. £900
  
  

• BONVALOT Gabriel. ACROSS THIBET; being a Translation of DE PARIS AU TONKIN À TRAVERS LE TIBET INCONNU. Cassell, 1891. [11024]
  First English Edition, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xxi, 218, (16) publisher's list; viii, 230, (16) publisher's list; frontispiece in Vol 1, 26 woodcut plates, many textual illustrations, coloured folding map, original green-grey pictorial decorative cloth, an exceptional set. £1500
  The account of the third expedition of the famous French Central Asian explorer. On his previous expedition Bonvalot, with Prince Henry of Orleans had scaled the Pamir and crossed Altyn Tagh and Chang Thang to Chitral and thence into India, this being the first time Europeans had crossed the mountain range. On this subsequent journey, he set out from the frontiers of Siberia and emerged on the coast of the new French colony of Tonquin, in the process, traversing most of northern and eastern Tibet through the regions previously explored by Dalgleish, Carey and Prjevalsky. In addition, he explored many new parts of the country, to which his predecessors had not reached, came within a hair's breadth of getting from Kulja to Lhasa itself (but he, like W W Rockhill was denied entry) and eventually proceeded to Ta-tsien-lu and became the first European to traverse the heart of Asia from north to east.
  

• BONVALOT Gabriel. THROUGH THE HEART OF ASIA; over the Pamir to India. Chapman & Hall, 1889. [11025]
  First UK Edition, 8vo, 2 vols, pp xxii, 281; x, 254; folding map, 250 illustrations, original green decorative cloth, near fine. £950
  
  

• BOOKWALTER John W. SIBERIA AND CENTRAL ASIA. Bookwalter, 1899. [6653]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxxi, 548, frontispiece, map, numerous illustrations, original green cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover, a near fine copy. £265
  
  

• BOURNE Frederick S A, NEVILLE H & BELL H. REPORT OF THE MISSION TO CHINA OF THE BLACKBURN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 1896-7. The North-East Lancashire Press Company, 1896-7. [8418]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols-in-one, 8vo, pp xii, 152; vii, 386; portrait frontispiece, folding map, folding sketch map, folding plan, original purple cloth, spine lightly faded with small nick to head, a very good, clean copy of a rare book. £550
  The mission was led by Consul Bourne to investigate the cloth trade. The Blackburn businessmen travelled around the country taking thorough details of trade, taxes, tariffs and textile manufacturing as well as the potitical situation. Bourne is responsible for the first part of the book, Neville and Bell the second.
  

• BOWER Hamilton. DIARY OF A JOURNEY ACROSS TIBET. Rivington, Percival, 1894. [11071]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 309, frontispiece, folding maps, illustrations, folding chart, original green decorative cloth, a near fine copy. £650
  
  

• BREDON Juliet. CHINESE NEW YEAR FESTIVALS; A Picturesque Monograph of Rites, Ceremonies and Observances in Relation thereto. Kelly and Walsh, 1930. [10414]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp 29, 6 colour photo-gravures, original decorative boards, a near fine copy. £420
  
  

• BRUCE C G. KULU AND LAHOUL. Ed Arnold, 1914. [9054]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 307, photogravure frontispiece, folding map, illustrations, original green cloth, vignette of kukris on upper cover, corners bumped, internal joints cracked, internally clean. £420
  "Account of six months' climbing and exploration in 1912." Neate
  They explored the area between Garhwal and Kashmir. Neate B198
  
  

• BUCHANAN W J. NOTES ON TOURS IN DARJEELING AND SIKKIM. Improvement Fund, 1916. [6974]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 40, 3 folding maps, original red cloth, corners rubbed, faded strip at head of upper cover. £350
  The maps are: 1) Sikkim, by Colonel Sir S G Burrard: 2) Bengal, Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim and Tibet, by Colonel C H D Ryder: 3) Routes in Sikkim and Darjeeling. There is a contemporary letter to Sardar Bahadive introducing Mrs De Beauvoir Stocks.
  

• BURN MURDOCH, W G. FROM EDINBURGH TO INDIA AND BURMAH. Geo Routlege, nd [1910]. [11013]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiv, 404, 24 coloured plates, original decorative cloth, purple dust-jacket, 34 coloured plates, numerous illustrations, very good. £220
  
  

• BURRARD Gerald. BIG GAME HUNTING IN THE HIMALAYAS AND TIBET. Herbert Jenkins, 1925. [10999]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 320, 8 charts (6 folding), 24 plates including frontispiece, original blue cloth,near fine. £390
  One of the early twentieth century accounts of hunting in the Himalayas. Burrard, certainly one of the most gung-ho of big game hunting authors of the period, travelled widely and usually shot anything that moved. Yakushi B306
  
  

• BURTON Richard F[rancis]. A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF BAYONET EXERCISE. Pierway, 2002. [9040]
  Reprint of the Original 1853 Edition, small 8vo, pp 36, 6 textual illustrations, original red blind stamped cloth, fine. £60
  A limited edition of 750, this copy being No. 386.
  The first edition was published by William Clowes in 1853.
  "This is probably the rarest of all Burton's books, and forms one of the most important works on the bayonet ever published, and to it can be traced the change in the systems of bayonet drill adopted in most European countries. I believe I am correct in saying that until about ten years ago it was impossible to find any work on the subject which was not based on Burton's work. Large numbers of it were purchased by foreign army authorities (particularly German). There are copies in the Kensington Library, the War Office Library, and at the British Museum. The two latter copies are in the original binding and in good state". Penzer N M. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SIR RICHARD BURTON p42.
  

• BUTLER John. TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN THE PROVINCE OF ASSAM; during a Residence of Fourteen Years. Smith Elder, 1855. [10994]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp x, 268, folding map, plan, 7 tinted plates, original black cloth, excellent. £800
  
  

• BYRON Robert. FIRST RUSSIA THEN TIBET. Macmillan, 1933. [10546]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvii, 328, colour frontispiece, illustrations, original green cloth, dust-jacket with the front sheet and spine only, near fine. £300
  
  

• BYRON Robert. THE ROAD TO OXIANA. Macmillan, 1937. [10988]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 341, maps, illustrations, original blue cloth, near fine. £600
  Considered one of the best travel books written in the 20th century.
  

• CALLERY M M & YUAN. HISTORY OF THE INSURRECTION IN CHINA; with Notices of the Christianity, Creed, and Proclamation of the Insurgents. Smith, Elder, 1853. [9879]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 301, folding map, frontispiece, original red cloth, very good. £275
  Translated by John Oxenford.
  

• CANDLER Edmund. THE UNVEILING OF LHASA. Ed Arnold, 1905. [11395]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 304, advertisements, coloured frontispiece, illustrations, folding map, original green decorative cloth, near fine. £115
  
  

• CARRUTHERS Douglas. BEYOND THE CASPIAN; a Naturalist in Central Asia. Oliver & Boyd, 1949. [10976]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xx, 290, folding map, 6 colour plates, illustrations, original red cloth, dust-jacket, an excellent copy with a smart slipcase. £220
  A noted explorer, naturalist and scholar, Carruthers embarked on a journey through Samarkand and into the Kara Kul. Stalking the elusive Bukhara wild sheep (Ovis Ammon Severtzovi), he bagged several specimens. An extensive and useful bibliography is provided. Czech p44
  
  

• CARRUTHERS Douglas. UNKNOWN MONGOLIA; a Record of Travel and Exploration in North-West Mongolia and Dzungaria. Hutchinson, 1913. [10676]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xviii, 318; x, 659; 6 maps (4 folding), 128 plates (14 folding panoramas), original blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g, very good. £950
  The regions of north-western Mongolia, Dzungaria, and specifically the sources of the Yenisei River, to which Carruthers devoted two years of exhaustive exploration, had previously been some of the only places in the world, in the exploration of which, the British had had no part, it having been monopolized by the Russians. The aim of Carruthers' expedition, which covered over 5,000 miles, was to explore as thoroughly as possible the sources of the Yenisei, one of the largest rivers in Asia. His account is thus of enormous value, not least for its geographical importance but also for its descriptions of the last indigenous tribes of southern Siberia, who had been driven back into the far recesses of the forests. His return route took him through Kulja, over the Tian Shan into Chinese Turkestan and down into Kashmir via Kashgar, Yarkand and the Karakorams. He was later awarded the Royal Geographical Society's gold medal.
  

• CHAPMAN F Spencer. LHASA; the Holy City. Chatto & Windus, 1938. [11035]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiv, 343, coloured frontispiece, coloured plate, numerous monochrome plates, original yellow decorative cloth, dust-jacket, near fine. £450
  
  

• CHARDIN John. TRAVELS IN PERSIA. Argonaut Press, 1927. [10513]
  FIRST EDITION thus, large 8vo, pp xxx, 287, illustrations, original blue cloth, vellum-backed, near fine. £200
  A limited edition, this being copy No 577 of 975.
  

• CHEESMAN R E. IN UNKNOWN ARABIA. Macmillan & Co, 1926. [11044]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp xx, 447, folding map, plans, illustrations, original green decorative cloth, vignette on upper cover, handsome. £550
  
  

• CLARK R S & SOWERBY A de C. THROUGH SHÊN-KAN; the Account of the Clark Expedition in North China 1908/9. T Fisher Unwin, 1912. [11045]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp ii, 247, maps (1 folding in slip case), 64 illustrations (6 coloured), original orange decorative cloth, near fine. £900
  
  

• COBBOLD Ralph P. INNERMOST ASIA; Travel and Sport in the Pamirs. Heinemann, 1900. [11034]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp xviii, 354, maps, photogravure frontispiece, plates, illustrations, original red decorative cloth, excellent. £1100
  
  

• COLLINGWOOD Cuthbert. RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST ON THE SHORES AND WATERS OF THE CHINA SEA; being Observations in Natural History during a Voyage to China, Formosa, Borneo, Singapore, etc. John Murray, 1868. [11022]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp (ii), iv, (vi-)xiii, (i) illustrations, 445, line-engraved frontispiece, 2 plates, some textual illustrations, original green decorative cloth, gilt vignette (jellyfish) on upper cover, fine. £950
  Includes descriptions of Hong Kong, Formosa, Sarawak, Manila and Canton.
  Dedicated to Joseph Dalton Hooker. Cordier SINICA 338; Casey Wood p294; Essex Institute Catalogue p339
  
  

• COOPER T T. TRAVELS OF A PIONEER OF COMMERCE IN PIGTAIL AND PETTICOATS; or, an Overland Journey from China towards India. John Murray, 1871. [7169]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 475, folding map, frontispiece, illustrations, recent brown quarter morocco. £125
  
  

• CORNER, Miss. THE HISTORY OF CHINA & INDIA; Pictorial and Descriptive. Dean & Co, nd [1843.] [9855]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp iv, 393, 2 maps, 31 tinted plates, illustrations, contemporary brown full calf, joints rubbed, internally clean and crisp. £480
  
  

• COXON Herbert. ORIENTAL CARPETS; how they are Made and Conveyed to Europe, with a narrative of a journey to the East in search of them. T Fisher, 1884. [10541]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 75, advertisements, coloured folding map, 11 plates (10 tinted), original blue pictorial cloth, inner joint cracked. £430
  
  

• CRADOCK C. SPORTING NOTES IN THE FAR EAST. Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh, nd [1889]. [11021]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp vi, 213, frontispiece, 10 plates, original blue decorative cloth, blind stamped vignette on upper and lower covers, slip case, a near fine copy of a scarce work. £450
  Cradock gives details of his shooting bags in Russia, Japan, Corea, China and the Straits Settlement. The book is also full of helpful notes for sportsmen serving on the China Station. Cradock went on to distinguish himself during the Boxer Rebellion.
  

• CRANE Lorence Hedleston. FLOWERS AND FOLK-LORE FROM FAR KOREA. The Sanseido, 1931. [5078]
  FIRST EDITION, small folio, pp 93, index, 45 tipped-in coloured plates with tissue guards, some light marginal spotting to plates not affecting images, original black decorative covers, floral endpapers. £575
  Very Scarce.
  The work is dedicated to George W Watts.
  

• CRAVEN Elizabeth. A JOURNEY THROUGH THE CRIMEA TO CONSTANTINOPLE in a Series of Letters from the Right Honourable Elizabeth Lady Craven to His Serene Highness the Margrave of Brandenbourg, Ansprach, and Bareith, written in the year MDCCLXXXVI. GGJ and J Robinson, 1789, [11346]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp 328, large folding map, 6 engraved plates, short marginal tear expertly repaired, contemporary recent brown half calf, spine a little rubbed, very small damp mark at base of front endpaper, very good and clean. £750
  Howgego
  
  

• D'A[LMEIDA] Anna. A LADY'S VISIT TO MANILLA AND JAPAN. Hurst & Blackett, 1863. [10666]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiii, (i), 297, coloured frontispiece (Nagasaki), vignette on title-page, a little light foxing at beginning and end, very slightly browned, contemporary brown half morocco, spine lettered in gilt, by Winstanley of Manchester, extremities a trifle rubbed. £500
  Cordier JAPONICA 564; Griffin p125; Essex Library Catalog p48
  
  

• DALRYMPLE-HAY J C. LINES FROM MY LOG-BOOKS. David Douglas, 1898. [10522]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xi, 412, photographic frontispiece, plates, maps, original blue decorative cloth, corners rubbed, inner hinge cracked. £60
  
  

• DAS Sarat Chandra. JOURNEY TO LHASA AND CENTRAL TIBET. John Murray, 1902. [11019]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiv, 285, portrait frontispiece, 4 coloured folding maps, 2 other folding maps, illustrations, plans, original green decorative cloth, gilt vignette (RGS), near fine. £550
  
  

• DAVIES H R. YÜN-NAN the Link between India and the Yangtze. UP, 1909. [11064]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 431, frontispiece, 73 plates, 2 folding tables (vocabularies) and map (all loose in pocket), original green decorative cloth, very slight wear to corners but otherwise an excellent copy of this very rare book. £1500
  "Major Davies began the surveys of Yunnan in 1895, and was assisted in 1898 and in the following year by Captain C H D Ryder. Their journey started at Bhamo, and their surveys covered a large area to the north, west and south of the Yunnan. Their work was of a very high order, and after it there was some reality in a map of Yunnan, which had hitherto been crossed only by a number of route surveys." Baker p277 Cordier SINICA 3332
  
  

• DE FILIPPI Filippo. HIMALAYAN KARAKORAM EASTERN TURKESTAN 1913-1914. Ed Arnold, 1932. [8789]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp xvi, 528, 4 colour maps (2 folding and in lower pocket), 2 colour plates, 15 panoramas on 13 folding leaves (6 in lower pocket), original red-brick cloth, slight rubbing to head of spine, otherwise a fine copy. £1800
  
  

• DE FONBLANQUE Edward B. NIPHON AND PE-CHE-LI; or, Two Years in Japan and Northern China. London: Saunders Otley, 1862. [11096]
  FIRST EDITION,, 8vo, pp 288, folding map, 7 colour lithographs 1, 4 b & w lithographs (3 folding), textual illustrations, brown full calf, spine a little rubbed, very good. £550
  
  

• DE WINDT Harry. FROM PEKIN TO CALAIS BY LAND. Chapman and Hall, 1892. [4894]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp 365, map, illustrations, original buff decorative cloth, slight cockling on fore-edge. £75
  
  

• DEMIDOFF E[lim]. AFTER WILD SHEEP IN THE ALTAI AND MONGOLIA. Rowland Ward, 1900. [11354]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxii, 324, advertisements, coloured frontispiece, map, 20 plates, illustrations, folding map in slip case on lower board, original light blue cloth, very good. £950
  Czech p62
  
  

• DICKSON Walter. GLEANINGS FROM JAPAN. Wm Blackwood, 1889. [11074]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp x, 400, textual illustrations, a fine unopened red cloth copy in a slip case. £350
  
  

• DOUGHTY Charles M. TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA. University Press, 1888. [10660]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xx, 619, [4] appendix, advertisements; xiv, 539, [3] appendix, 543-690 Index and Glossary of Arabic Words; folding map in pocket of lower cover Vol 1, dissected and laid on linen as issued (some folds repaired), numerous illustrations (4 folding), recent green morocco, £900
  
  

• DOUGHTY Charles M. TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA. University Press, 1888. [11399]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xx, 619, [4] appendix, advertisements; xiv, 539, [3] appendix, 543-690 Index and Glossary of Arabic Words; folding map in pocket of lower cover Vol 1, dissected and laid on linen as issued, numerous illustrations (4 folding), recent red/brown half morocco, small round library stamp on verso of title-page, text clean. £1950
  
  

• DUNCAN Jane E. A SUMMER RIDE THROUGH WESTERN TIBET. Smith Elder, 1906. [11026]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xviii, 341, folding map, photographic frontispiece, 93 photographic illustrations, original green cloth, excellent. £600
  Presentation copy from Robert Duncan to Lieut Col Sir George Scott Robertson.
  Jane Duncan (1848-1909) began travelling aged 53. She travelled extensively in Canad and later, through Egypt, Palestine and Ceylon. In 1904 she visited India and spent 6 months exploring Tibet and Ladakh. This account is extremely entertaining and detailed.
  

• EGERTON Francis. JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN THE HOLY LAND; in May and June 1840. Harrison, 1841. [9905]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 141, 4 tinted lithographs (lightly foxed), original black blind stamped cloth, some fading to upper cover, internally clean and crisp. £135
  Lady Francis took a particular interest in the schools and missions she encountered on her travels. The lithographs are taken from her husband's original drawings. Blackmer 536.
  
  

• EGERTON Francis. JOURNAL OF A WINTER'S TOUR IN INDIA; with a Visit to the Court of Nepaul. John Murray, 1852. [11000]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp ix, 302; ix, 290; folding map, frontispieces, illustrations, original red/brown cloth, vignettes, discreet library stamps on title and half-title pages, a near fine copy of a scarce book. £1200
  Little is known of the author but that he was a minor nobleman in the Royal Navy of sufficient means to travel through India in comfort for some sport and adventure. The book is in diary form, and the author's voice is engaging, very dry and utterly unsentimental. As he and his fellow travellers reach land and get further east the entries lengthen with rich detail and happenings. Through jungles and up mountains they cross India from Calcutta to Nepal then to Bombay, stalking buffalo and birds, whose meat they greatly enjoyed. In addition to the details of his journey he relays tales heard. Being of the upper classes he was welcomed in the court of Nepal and enjoys a feast with the King. This is a fascinating insight into the possibilities of pleasure and excitement in 19th Century India through the mind of this quintessentially 'Alan Quartermain' style Victorian.
  

• ELLIOTT Robert. VIEWS IN INDIA, CHINA AND ON THE SHORES OF THE RED SEA. H Fisher, nd [1835.] [11011]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, quarto, pp 68; 64; steel engraved frontispieces (coloured Vol I), steel engraved vignette title-pages, 59 steel engravings, contemporary brown half calf, some light foxing of preliminaries. £500
  
  

• ELLIS Henry T. HONG KONG TO MANILLA and the Lakes of Luzo in the Philippine Isles in the Year 1856. Smith Elder, 1859. [11055]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 295, folding map, 8 tinted plates, 5 textual illustrations, original purple blind stamped cloth, gilt vignette, spine rubbed with small wear to head, inner hinge cracked. £750
  
  

• ELLIS Tristram J. ON A RAFT AND THROUGH THE DESERT; the Narrative of an Artist's Journey through Northern Syria and Kurdistan, by the Tigris to Mosul and Baghdad, and of a return journey across the Desert by the Euphrates and Palmyra to Damascus, over the Anti-Lebanon to Baalbek and to Beyrout. Field & Tuer, Ye Leadenhalle Presse, 1881. [11400]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols-in-1, 8vo, pp ii, 12, advertisements; 128, advertisements; 2-page map, 38 plates, recent brown half morocco, very clean. £500
  
  

• ELMHIRST & JEPHSON OUR LIFE IN JAPAN. Chapman & Hall, 1869. [10545]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, illustrations, a few pages lightly foxed mainly in the margins and verso of plates, 19th century brown half calf, gilt library stamp on upper cover, spine rubbed. £800
  
  

• ERSKINE W H. JAPANESE CUSTOMS; their Origin and Value. Kyo Bun Kwan, nd [1925.] [7728]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 236, 12 illustrations, original red cloth. £35
  
  

• ETHERTON P T. ACROSS THE ROOF OF THE WORLD; a Record of Sport and Travel through Kashmir, Gilgit, Hunza, the Pamirs, Chinese Turkistan, Mongolia and Siberia. Constable & Co, 1911. [11065]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 437, portrait frontispiece, map, numerous illustrations, original green decorative cloth, t.e.g, very small wear to cloth, very good. £700
  
  

• EYRE Vincent. THE MILITARY OPERATIONS AT CABUL; which ended in the Retreat and Destruction of the British Army, January 1842. With a Journal of Imprisonment in Afghanistan. John Murray, 1843. [8329]
  FIFTH EDITION, pp. xxvii, 436, adverts, original green decorative cloth, spine faded , folding map. £180
  
  

• FARRER Reginald. THE RAINBOW BRIDGE. Ed Arnold, 1922. [3695]
  Second Impression, 8vo, pp xi, 383, illustrations, map, original blue cloth, spine slightly faded, corners rubbed, small wear to head and tail of spine. £48
  
  

• FINCH Edith. WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT; 1840-1922. Jonathan Cape, 1938. [10717]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 415, illustrations, original green cloth. £40
  
  

• FORBES Gordon S. WILD LIFE IN CANARA AND GANJAM. Swan Sonnenschein, 1885. [6421]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 270, advertisements, 4 coloured plates, original purple cloth, inner joint cracked, spine rubbed at head and tail. £220
  Indian big game hunting. Schwerdt N33d
  
  

• FORBES Henry O. A NATURALIST'S WANDERINGS IN THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO A Narrative of Travel and Exploration from 1878 to 1883. Sampson Low, 1885. [11039]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xx, 536, advertisements, coloured frontispiece (Mrs Forbes' Honey-Eater), many illustrations, 6 maps (4 folding and coloured), original green decorative cloth, gilt illustration on upper cover, fine. £550
  
  

• FORBES M C. TO KULU AND BACK. Thacker, Spink, 1911. [11340]
  FIRST EDITION, 12mo, pp 160, 28, 2 folding maps, pp xxviii, 34-39 misbound, original green cloth, good and clean. £750
  
  

• FORTUNE Robert. TWO VISITS TO THE TEA COUNTRIES OF CHINA; and the British Tea Plantations in the Himalaya. John Murray, 1853. [11087]
  Third (and best) Edition, 2 vols, 8vo, pp viii, 315; xii, 299; frontispieces, folding map, 25 illustrations, engraved title pages, original purple decorative cloth, gilt vignettes, some occasional foxing of preliminaries, a very good set. £1250
  
  

• FORTY C H. BANGKOK; its Life and Sport; with some account of Siam's coastal and island game areas. H F & G Witherby, 1929. [10280]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 206, advertisements, frontispiece, 9 plates, original orange cloth. £75
  
  

• FOWLER George. THREE YEARS IN PERSIA; with Travelling Adventures in Koordistan. Henry Colburn, 1841. [10652]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, 2 vols, pp xi, 33; 333, frontispieces, recent half brown calf good and crisp. £1000
  Fowler was a British diplomat in Tehran during the last years of the reign of Fath-Ali Shah.
  

• GASCOIGNE Gwendolen Trench. AMONG PAGODAS AND FAIR LADIES; an Account of a Tour through Burma. A D Innes, 1896. [11028]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 312, numerous illustrations, original olive-green cloth, very good and clean. £400
  
  

• GIBSON Walter M. THE PRISON OF WELTEVREDEN; and a Glance at the East Indian Archipelago. J C Riker, 1855. [10317]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiv, 495, frontispiece, illustrations, original blind stamped cloth, spine split at head and rubbed. £55
  
  

• GIRAUDIÈRE H de Chavanne de la. LES CHINOIS; pendant une Période de 4458 Annés... An Mame et Cie, 1854. [7046]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp (ii), 380, engraved title-page with vignette, frontispiece, 2 engraved plates, foxing in places, original blue decorative cloth, g.e, head and tail of spine a little rubbed. £70
  Cordier SINICA 83
  
  

• GOLOWNIN Vasili. MEMOIRS OF A CAPTIVITY IN JAPAN during the Years 1811, 1812 and 1813, with observations on the country and the people. Colburn & Co, 1820. [11393]
  Second Edition, 3 vols, pp lv, lxxxiv, 315; 356; (ii), viii, 302; contemporary tan calf, aeg, near fine. £1500
  First Edition to have all 3 volumes printed at the same time.
  

• GRAHAM Stephen. THROUGH RUSSIAN CENTRAL ASIA. Macmillan, 1916. [10708]
  First US Edition, 8vo, pp 280, 2-page map, illustrations, original blue decorative cloth, very good. £120
  
  

• GRANT Christina Phelps. THE SYRIAN DESERT. A & C Black, 1937. [10466]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 410, maps, illustrations, original brown cloth, a very good copy. £55
  
  

• GRIFFITH, Major & DARBY George, Mrs. A JOURNEY ACROSS THE DESERT, from Ceylon to Marseilles. Henry Colburn, 1845. [10774]
  FIRST EDITION, Vol I only, 8vo, frontispiece, illustrations, contemporary black cloth. £65
  
  

• HAECKEL Ernst. A VISIT TO CEYLON. Kegan Paul, 1883. [10993]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 337, original green cloth, fine. £280
  A German zoologist, evolutionist and follower of Charles Darwin, here records his travels to Ceylon undertaken between October 1881 and April 1882.
  

• HALL Basil. ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE WEST COAST OF COREA AND THE GREAT LOO-CHOO ISLAND. John Murray, 1818. [10624]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp xvi, 222, 130, 72 vocabulary and sentences etc, 5 maps and charts, 8 hand-coloured aquatints, 1 aquatint (uncoloured), contemporary boards with later re-back in brown calf, spine, corners and joints rubbed, internally clean and plates have good colour, very good, clean. £1380
  
  

• HALLORAN Alfred Laurence. WAE YANG JIN; Eight Months' Journal kept on Board one of Her Majesty's Sloops of War during Visits to Loochoo, Japan and Pootoo. Longman, 1856. [10724]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 126, advertisements, 4 lithographic plates, original blue blind stamped cloth. £950
  
  

• HAMILTON Alexander. A NEW ACCOUNT OF THE EAST INDIES; Giving an Exact and Copious Description of the Situation, Product, Manufactures, Laws, Customs, Religion, Trade, etc of all the Countries and Islands, which lie between the Cape of Good Hope and the Island of Japan. Bettesworth & Hitch, 1739. [11386]
  Second Edition, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xxix, ix, 396; xii, 309, 10: 8 folding engraved maps (1 map with small tear in fold), 11 plates, some slight browning, contemporary brown calf, recently re-backed. £3500
  Hamilton went to sea, in his own words: "very young", in 1688 and travelled as far as the Barbary coast before basing himself in Surat and trading and travelling all over the Indian Ocean. He made a reputation for himself as a foul-mouthed, resourceful and bold operator fending off Baluchi robbers, treacherous governors and Indian pirates. Goldsmiths 6522; Cordier 890; Mendelssohn (1979) II, 492
  
  

• HARRIS Walter B. FROM BATUM TO BAGHDAD, via Tiflis, Tabriz and Persian Kurdistan. Wm Blackwood, 1896. [11082]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 336, frontispiece, 2 maps, illustrations, original green cloth, very good and clean. £500
  
  

• HARRIS Walter B. A JOURNEY THROUGH THE YEMEN and some General Remarks upon that Country. Wm Blackwood, 1893. [11081]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 385, (1) blank, 32 publisher's list, half-title, 3 maps (1 folding), several textual illustrations, original green decorative cloth, near fine. £500
  
  

• HARRISON Archibald. INDO-CHINA; a Sportsman's Opportunityl The Mayfair, 1933. [10977]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 157, frontispiece, 11 plates (3 of tiger hunting trophies), 2 illustrations, original green boards, dark green cloth spine (as issued), very good and clean. £320
  Privately printed by the author's daughter and brother after his death in 1928, this scarce work is based on his journals of shikar in Vietnam in 1917. He hunted tiger with Marcus Millett near Dalat, with gaur taken near the Dadang River. Traveling south of Dalat, Harrison and his companions hunted bodung, a species of wild cattle, and collected con-nai, a type of deer. He also includes discussions of the peoples, choosing a gun and campsites in the jungle. Czech p99
  
  

• HAYNES A E. MAN-HUNTING IN THE DESERT. Horace Cox, 1894. [8148]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxii, 305, map, 12 illustrations, original light brown decorative cloth, spine lightly rubbed, small stains on lower cover and rubbing at edge, internally very clean.
  Lacks the folding map £180
  
  

• HAYNES A E. MAN-HUNTING IN THE DESERT. Horace Cox, 1894. [9449]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxii, 305, 2 maps (1 folding), 12 illustrations, original green decorative cloth, re-backed with original spine laid down, internally very clean. £275
  
  

• HEDIN Sven. THE FLIGHT OF BIG HORSE. E P Dutton, 1936. [10823]
  First US Edition, 8vo, pp xv, 248, illustrations, map on endpapers, original blue cloth, dust-jacket, near fine. £100
  
  

• HEINE Peter Bernhard. DIE EXPEDITION IN DIE SEEN VON CHINA, JAPAN UND OCHOTSK; unter Commande von Commodore Colin Ringgold und Commodore John Rodgers, im Auftrage der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten Unternommen in den Jahren 1853 bis 1856. Hermann Costenoble, 1858-59. [8809]
  FIRST EDITION, 3 volumes, large 8vo, pp xx, 330; viii, 391; vii, 424; 3 frontispieces, 7 maps (5 folding), 21 plates, textual illustrations, recent black morocco, a very clean, crisp set. £800
  
  

• HENRY B C. LING-NAM; or, Interior Views of Southern China, including Explorations in the hitherto Untraversed Island of Hainan. S W Partridge, 1886. [8017]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 511, map, illustrations, original blue decorative cloth, a very good copy. £250
  
  

• HOWARD B Douglas. LIFE WITH TRANS-SIBERIAN SAVAGES. Longmans, Green, 1893. [7488]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp x, 209, original green cloth, spine faded, corner rubbed. £280
  A scarce work on the Ainus in northern Japan.
  

• HUBBACK Theodore R. THREE MONTHS IN PAHANG in Search of Big Game. Kelly and Walsh, nd [1912.] [11095]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp iv, 67, 4 photographic plates, original decorative card, spine faded with small loss to base, internally clean, a very good copy of a rare account. £1200
  
  

• HUTTON J H. THE ANGAMI NAGAS; with Some Notes on Neighbouring Tribes. Macmillan, 1921. [8180]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 480, maps, illustrations, original blue decorative cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover, head of spine slightly rubbed. £75
  
  

• INDIA GOVERNMENT. RAILWAY MAP OF INDIA; showing Railways, Open and Under Construction, on 31 March 1926. India Office, 1926. [10622]
  FIRST EDITION, 80 x 101.5 cms, 28 panels laid on linen (14.5 x 20 cms). Includes Burma and Assam and 8 city maps within the map, good. £250
  
  

• INNES Emily. THE CHERSONESE WITH THE GILDING OFF. Richard Bentley, 1885. [7960]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp 273; 250; frontispieces, contemporary half calf, gilt, gilt library stamp (the Parliament of New South Wales) on upper covers but no stamps inside, a very good set. £320
  
  

• JENKINS, Lady. SPORT AND TRAVEL IN BOTH TIBETS. Blades, 1909. [10702]
  FIRST EDITION, tall 8vo, pp 87, map, 25 coloured plates (1 frayed at foot)1, original purple decorative cloth. £300
  
  

• K.C.A.J. THE SPORTMAN'S VADE-MEDUM FOR THE HIMALAYAS; containing Notes on Shooting, Outfit, Camp Equipment, Sporting Yarns... Horace Cox, 1891. [11366]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 120 34, advertisements, illustrations, original light brown decorative cloth, light cockling to upper cover, corners bumped, but good and clean. £300
  
  

• KEPPEL Henry. EXPEDITION TO BORNEO OF HMS "DIDO" FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY; with Extracts from the Journal of James Brooke. Chapman & Hall, 1846. [10490]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xiv, 337, 28; vii, 230, 102; frontispieces, illustrations, folding maps, original blue blind stamped cloth, slightly sunned to head of lower boards, very good. £1250
  
  

• KEPPEL Henry. A VISIT TO THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO; in HM Ship 'Maeander', with portion of the private journal of Sir James Brooke, KCB. Richard Bentley, 1853. [10757]
  FIRST EDITION, Vol I only, large 8vo, pp xv, 301; 4 tinted lithographs folding map, original red decorative cloth,approximately one/third of spine missing, text and map clean. £200
  The book is inscribed to Edward S Keppel from his affectionate brother the author.
  "In June-July 1843 Keppel operated a successful expedition against the piratical Malay and Dyak operating in the Seribas River and, after returning to Singapore in 1844, went back to Sarawak with Brooke in August for a campaign against the pirates of the Sakarran River. Keppel was then retired on half-pay unltil 1847, when he returned to Borneo in the 'Maeander', again to assist Brooke against the pirates." Howgego K8 Abbey TRAVEL 550; Howgego EXPLORATION
  
  

• KESSICK Maggie. THE CHINESE GARDEN, HISTORY, ART & ARCHITECTURE. St Martin's, 1978. [11308]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp 216, numerous plates (some coloured), original red cloth, dust-jacket, near fine. £45
  
  

• KIDD Samuel. CHINA; or Illustrations of the Symbols, Philosophy, Antiquities, Customs, Superstitions, Laws, Government, Education and Literature. Taylor and Walton, 1841. [11073]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 403, advertisements, coloured frontispiece, 14 plates (2 folding), original black blind stamped cloth, small wear to top of spine, very good and clean. £350
  
  

• KINGDON WARD F. BURMA'S ICY MOUNTAINS. Cape, 1949. [10503]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 287, maps, illustrations, original blue cloth. £55
  
  

• KINGDON WARD F. FROM CHINA TO HKAMTI LONG. Ed Arnold, 1924. [11341]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 317, (i) advertisement, folding map, numerous photographic illustrations, original black cloth, covers slightly bowed, a good clean copy. £250
  
  

• KINGDON WARD F. IN FARTHEST BURMA; the Record of an Arduous Journey of Exploration and Research through the Unknown Frontier Territory of Burma and Tibet. Seeley Service, 1921. [11036]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 311, 2 maps, illustrations, original black decorative cloth, vignette, good and clean. £500
  
  

• KINGDON WARD F. THE LAND OF THE BLUE POPPY; Travels of a Naturalist in Eastern Tibet. UP, 1913. [10828]
  FIRST EDITION, pp 283, maps, illustrations, original blue cloth. £1950
  One of the most sought-after books by Kingdon Ward.
  

• KINGDON WARD F. THE LOOM OF THE EAST. Martin Hopkinson, 1932. [8786]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 206, map on endpapers, minimal foxing to preliminaries, orange cloth, spine faded and soiled, a good tight copy of a rare book. £600
  
  

• KINGDON WARD F. ON THE ROAD TO TIBET. The Shanghai Mercury, 1910. [11324]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 141, recent dark blue half morocco, original front brown cover bound in, internally clean, Rare. £5800
  The first book written by Kingdon Ward. Frank Kingdon Ward was an English Botanist, explorer and plant collector.
  

• KINGDON WARD, F. PLANT HUNTING ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD. Gollancz, 1930. [11005]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 383, illustrations, original black cloth, dust- jacket (piece missing from lower jacket), near fine. £175
  
  

• KINGLAKE Alexander W. EOTHEN; or, Traces of Travel brought home from the East. With Letter signed by Kinglake and a Carte de Visite (Kinglake reading). John Ollivier, 1845. [11054]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp xii, 418, folding coloured frontispiece, a coloured lithographic plate, contemporary dark blue diced calf, spine has gilt decoration and morocco label, extremities worn, spine slightly faded to brown, handsome. £480
  The First Edition is scarce.
  A classic of travel literature. Kinglake toured the Levant about 1835. Abbey
  
  

• KINNEAR John Gardiner. CAIRO, PETRA, AND DAMASCUS, IN 1839; with Remarks on the Government of Mehemit Ali, and on the present prospects of Syria. John Murray, 1841. [10697]
  FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, small 8vo, pp xi, 348, contemporary half morocco, spine rubbed, internally a crisp clean copy. £800
  Kinnear was a member of the well-known family of Scottish bankers and merchants. He had been a member of the Bannatyne Club since 1826, and in 1827 he reprinted at his own expense Gavin Douglas's 'Palace of Honour, 1579'. In 1839 he met David Roberts (q.v.) in Egypt and travelled with him to Mt. Sinai and Petra. This work, dedicated to Roberts, is an account of that journey and of Kinnear's subsequent travels in Syria; it includes a favourable discussion of Mehmet Ali's recently established government in that country. Navari 913; Weber 328; Hilmy I, 342
  
  

• KNIGHT E F. WHERE THREE EMPIRES MEET; a Narrative of Recent Travel in Kashmir, Western Tibet, Gilgit, and the Adjoining Countries. Longmans Green, 1893. [11062]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 495, folding map, 27 plates, textual illustrations, original green cloth, gilt vignette, very good. £400
  The first edition is scarce.
  

• KNIGHT William Henry. DIARY OF A PEDESTRIAN IN CASHMERE AND THIBET. Richard Bentley, 1863. [10461]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 385, advertisements, 16 plates (8 tinted lithographs), textual illustrations, contemporary green polished calf, slight rubbing to joints, Eton Presentation Copy, handsome. £650
  Lacks the plate of the Tibetan Prayer Wheel.
  

• KOENIGSMARCK Hans. THE MARKHOR; Sport in Cashmere. Kegan Paul, 1910. [11029]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 151, 9 illustrations, original blue decorative cloth, fine. £650
  
  

• LANDON Perceval. NEPAL. Constable, 1928. [3683]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xxiii, 358; viii, 363; 5 maps (4 folding), 3 folding genealogical charts, 15 plates (5 coloured), 184 textual illustrations, original blue cloth, spine and part of back cover faded, ex-library, paper label to lower spine, library book-plate on front paste-down, stamp on front free endpaper, sprung, inside clean. £425
  
  

• LANSDELL Henry. THROUGH CENTRAL ASIA; with a Map and Appendix on the Diplomacy and Delimitation of the Russo-Afghan Frontier. Sampson Low, 1887. [11027]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 668, folding map, illustrations, original blue decorative cloth, a corner bumped otherwise good and clean. £350
  Also a 3-page letter from Lansdell to G H Pike about this book.
  

• LAWRENCE, Lady (Napier, Rosamund). INDIAN EMBERS. Geo Ronald, nd [1949.] [10637]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 397, colour frontispiece (Hyder Khan), original red cloth, dust-jacket. £60
  
  

• LE MESSURIER A. FROM LONDON TO BOKHARA AND A RIDE THROUGH PERSIA. Richard Bentley, 1889. [11412]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 320, 3 folding maps, 11 plates, 6 plans (including 2 not listed), minor spotting, original purple cloth, gilt, spine heavily sunned, vg. £850
  Le Messurier travelled through the Caucasus and Persia gathering details of the railway system built by the Russians, amongst other pieces of useful information!
  

• LEACH Hugh. STROLLING ABOUT ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD. Routledge Curzon, 2003. [10505]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 229, illustrations, original red cloth, dust-jacket, fine. £30
  
  

• LEIGHTON, Lord. SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON. Fine Art Guild, nd (1910.) [10671]
  COLOURED LITHOGRAPH (Burton), 340mm x 260mm, and including a page of Burton's achievements. £280
  
  

• LEWIS Norman. SAND AND SEA IN ARABIA. Geo Routledge, 1938. [11349]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp xii, 123, 123 textual illustrations, original white buckram. £150
  
  

• LIN-LE TI-PING TIEN-KWOH; the History of the Ti-Ping Revolution; Including a Narrative of the Author's Personal Adventures. Day, 1866. [11050]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, 2 vols, pp xvii, (iii), 424; vii, (i), 425-842; 2 folding maps, folding lithographick frontispiece (Vol I), 18 lithographic plates (8 coloured, remainder tinted), original purple cloth, vignettes, handsome. £1750
  The author describes himself as: 'commander of the loyal and faithful auxiliary legion'. Cordier 650.
  
  

• LOGAN Jack R. THE BACK BLOCKS OF CHINA; a Narrative of Experiences among the Chinese, Sifans, Lolos, Tibetans, Shans and Kachins, between Shanghai and the Irrawadi. Ed Arnold, 1904. [10997]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxii, 269, advertisements, maps, illustrations, original black decorative cloth, near fine. £450
  
  

• LORIMER D L R. THE SUPERNATURAL IN THE POPULAR BELIEF OF THE GILGIT REGION. Royal Asiatic Society, July 1929. [10831]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 507-536, original yellow wrappers, tear to a corner of upper wrapper. £25
  
  

• LOW Hugh. SARAWAK; its Inhabitants and Productions; being Notes during a Residence in that Country with His Excellency Mr Brooke. Richard Bentley, 1848. [10991]
  FIRST EDITION, Second Issue, 8vo, pp xxiv, 416, 7 engraved plates (including frontispiece), contemporary brown full calf, fine. £550
  
  

• McCARTHY James. SURVEYING AND EXPLORING IN SIAM. John Murray, 1900. [11057]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 215, folding chart, 2 folding maps in slipcase, numerous illustrations, original green cloth, gilt vignette, near fine copy of a rare account. £1200
  
  

• MACGREGOR John. THROUGH THE BUFFER STATE; a Record of Recent Travels through Borneo, Siam, and Cambodia. F V White, 1896. [10986]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvii, 290, advertisements, frontispiece, plates, original blue cloth, vignette (elephant), light marginal foxing of preliminaries, label on front endpaper. £250
  
  

• MACKELLAR C D. TORRES STRAITS GERMAN NEW GUINEA AND THE DUTCH EAST INDIES. John Murray, 1912. [10554]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiii, 351, illustrations (8 coloured), original green decorative cloth, near fine. £300
  
  

• MADDEN Richard R. TRAVELS IN TURKEY, EGYPT, NUBIA, AND PALESTINE; in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827. Henry Colburn, 1829. [11394]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xvi, 401; viii, 398; hand-coloured frontispiece (author in Syrian costume), contemporary green half calf, some wear to head and tail of spine, very good and clean. £575
  "The author compares his letters to those of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and discusses the difficulty of combining accurate observations with literary elegance: 'the refinement of her enthusiasm prevailed over the correctness of her descriptions'. Madden had trained as a surgeon, though he never practised in England, but because of this he was able to enter areas closed to most Europeans, mainly the harem and some slave bazaars. He travelled in the Levant from 1824-27. His work also contains much information on Egypt and Egyptology." Blackmer Blackmer 1056; not in Abbey
  
  

• MALCOLM Howard. TRAVELS IN SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA. comprising Hindustan, Malaya, Siam and China. Chas Tilt, 1839. [11058]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp viii, 364; xi, 324; folding map, textual illustrations, original black decorative cloth, gilt vignettes (oxen pulling a gilt carriage), near fine. £600
  
  

• MALCOM Howard. TRAVELS IN SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA; embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China...and a full account of the Burman Empire. Chas Tilt, 1839. [10747]
  First London Edition, Vol I only, 8vo, pp xi, (i) blank, 324, folding engraved map, textual line engravings, original purple cloth, spine worn with some loss. £40
  A three-year tour of Asian Missions on behalf of the American Baptist Union, the book first appeared at Boston in the same year. The author also wrote TRAVELS IN HINDUSTAN AND CHINA (1840).
  

• MALIK M B K. HUNDRED YEARS OF PAKISTAN RAILWAYS. Govt of Pakistan, 1962. [10596]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiv, 226, illustrations, original grey cloth, dust-jacket (some fraying), very good. SCARCE. £85
  Signed copy by the author.
  

• MALLESON G B. HERAT; the Granary and Garden of Central Asia. W H Allen, 1880. [11037]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 196, advertisements, folding map, original blue cloth, small wear to head of spine, good and clean. £800
  
  

• MALMIGNATI, Countess. THROUGH INNER DESERTS TO MEDINA. Philip Allan, 1925. [10706]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 187, illustrations, original blue cloth, near fine. £95
  
  

• MAN Edward Horace. THE NICOBAR ISLANDS AND THEIR PEOPLE. Printed and Published for the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Billing & Sons, nd [1932] [11413]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp x, 186, 32 photographic illustrations, 3 folding maps, light browning to margins, original green cloth, gilt, small mark lower cover, small mark to lower cover. £225
  Man spent most of his working life on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, where his sympathetic attitude to the inhabitants afforded him close observations of the people and their society. This work reprints papers Man contributed to various journals, enlarged from his own notes and with the addition of a memoir by David Prain
  

• MANSUR Abdullah. THE LAND OF UZ. Macmillan, 1911. [10762]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxviii, 354, lacks map, illustrations, original red cloth. £50
  
  

• MARIGNY Taitbout de. THREE VOYAGES IN THE BLACK SEA TO THE COAST OF CIRCASSIA; including Descriptions of the Ports, and the Importance of their Trade: with sketches of the manners, customs, religion, etc. etc., of the Circassians. John Murray 1837. [11089]
  First UK Edition, 8vo, pp xvi, 303, frontispiece, folding map, vignette on title-page, 19th century brown calf, corners a little rubbed, very good and crisp, £450
  
  

• MARKHAM Clements R. NARRATIVES OF THE MISSION OF GEORGE BOGLE TO TIBET; and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa. Trubner, 1879. [11086]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp clxv, 362, 4 folding linen-backed maps, 10 plates, some occasional foxing, contemporary black half calf, good. £950
  George Bogle went to Tibet in 1774 under the instructions of Warren Hastings. Thomas Manning's journey was carried out in 1811 and 1812. This book was the first published accounts of their missions, and a most important work. Yakushi M88.
  
  

• MARRYAT Frank S. BORNEO AND THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO; with drawings of Costume and Scenery. Longmans, 1848. [11003]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp viii, 232, 22 lithographic plates, numerous woodcuts, original red blind stamped cloth, handsome. £1850
  The bookplate of Owen Rutter the explorer who wrote 'British North Borneo', 'The Pagans of North Borneo' and 'Through Fomosa'.
  The above work comes from his journal of the surveying voyage of HMS 'SAMARANG' under Sir Edward Belcher. The plates illustrating his account are some of the most beautiful of the period and show the people and scenery of Borneo, including Brunei and Kuching, in addition to views of Hong Kong, Mauritius and other ports of call. Abbey S49.
  
  

• MARVIN Charles. THE REGION OF THE ETERNAL FIRE; an Account of a Journey to the Petroleum Region of the Caspian in 1833. W H Allen 1884. [10524]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xviii, 413, half-title, 6 maps (2 folding and linen-mounted), frontispiece, 10 plates (2 folding and linen-mounted), illustrations and maps in text, occasional spotting at beginning and end, water stain to inner margin on first few leaves, contemporary green half morocco, rubbed at corners, erased library stamp on upper cover, spine gilt with gilt library stamp, joints cracked but sound. £320
  Account of the Russian petroleum industry containing an important account of Baku.
  

• MEDHURST W H. CHINA: Its State and Prospects. John Snow, 1838. [4711]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp xvi, 582, coloured frontispiece (Baxter's process), 5 wood-engraved plates, folding map, original purple blind stamped cloth, spine faded, plates foxed but mainly in margins, ex-libris Earl of Portsmouth. £250
  Baxter's process of chromolithography using an aquatint plate as a key for printing in oil colours is well exemplified in the frontispiece. Abbey 539; Cordier 74; Courtney Lewis 40.
  
  

• MEINERTZHAGEN Richard. PIRATES AND PREDATORS. Oliver and Boyd, 1959. [9890]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp ix, 230, illustrations, original red cloth, fading to base of spine, slight flecking to fore-edge, dust-jacket. £120
  
  

• MELVILL, Baron of Carnbee THE SEAMAN'S GUIDE ROUND JAVA; to the Islands East of Java, and through the Straits of Banca and Gaspar. Admiralty, 1852. [9101]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiv, 322, original blue wrapper, recently re-backed, crisp. £550
  
  

• MORRIS J. ADVANCE JAPAN; a Nation Thoroughly Earnest. W H Allen, 1895. [10504]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xix, 443, 84 illustrations, original green pictorial cloth, near fine. £120
  
  

• MOSSMAN Samuel. NEW JAPAN; the Land of the Rising Sun, its Annals during the Past Twenty Years, recording the remarkable progress of the Japanese in Western Civilization. John Murray, 1873. [7459]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp vii, 484, folding map, original purple decorative cloth, joints split in parts, library label on front pastedown, small stamp on base of title-page. £290
  
  

• MOUNSEY Augustus H. A JOURNEY THROUGH THE CAUCASUS AND THE INTERIOR OF PERSIA. Smith Elder, 1872. [10242]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xi, 336, folding map, original brown cloth, small wear to head and tail of spine, very good and clean. £700
  An English traveller, for whom little seems to be recorded beyond his travels, boarded a ship at Trieste and sailed to Istanbul. From here he continued to Batumi in Georgia, crossed the Caucasus and proceeded into Iran, visiting Tabriz, Tehran, Esfahan, Perspolis, Shiraz and Persepolis (a second time). Returning north to Tehran, he arrived on the Caspian Sea at Rasht, then sailed to Baku and Astrakhan. He published a lighthearted account of his journey in 1872 and at some time appears to have visited Japan.
  

• MUNDY Rodney. NARRATIVE OF EVENTS IN BORNEO & CELEBES; down to the Occupation of Labuan: from the Journals of James Brooke Esq. John Murray, 1848. [10543]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xviii, 386, advertisements; xi, 396, advertisements; 5 folding maps, portrait frontispiece, 17 illustrations, contemporary brown polished calf, fine. £1750
  
  

• NAIPAUL V S. AN AREA OF DARKNESS. Andre Deutsch, 1964. [10510]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 281, original black cloth, dust-jacket (small wear to head and tail of spine, small loss to a corner). £65
  Owner's signature on front free endpaper.
  

• NEBESKY-WOJKOWITZ Réne, de. WHERE THE GODS ARE MOUNTAINS; Three Years among the People of the Himilayas. Reynal, nd [1955.] [6086]
  First US Edition, 8vo, pp 256, maps, illustrations, original green cloth, dust-jacket (a little frayed). £30
  
  

• NEWTON C T. TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN THE LEVANT. Day & Son, 1865. [11048]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, 2 vols, pp xiv, (ii), 360; xiv, (ii), 275; 32 lithograph and etched plates (1 folding), 9 maps and plans (4 folding), original green blind stamped cloth, handsome . £1000
  The author, an excellent archaeologist, was very successful in recovering important artefacts for the British Museum from the Mausoleum at Helicarnassus, the Delphic serpent from the Hippodrome in Constantinoople and other outstanding sites.
  

• NOEL J B L. THROUGH TIBET TO EVEREST. Ed Arnold, 1927. [10974]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 302, advertisements, portrait frontispiece, illustrations, original blue cloth, a couple of scratch marks on spine. £320
  Account of the first three attempts on Everest by the photographer to the 1922 &1924 expeditions. Neate N22
  
  

• NORMAN Francis Martin. 'MARTELLO TOWER' IN CHINA AND THE PACIFIC... Geo Allen, 1902. [10525]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, (iii), 299, (1) imprint, (4) advertisements, half-title, 22 plates including frontispiece, some textual illustrations, a little foxing, original green cloth, gilt devices on upper cover and spine, t.e.g., spine and edges slightly browned, ink ownership stamp of Edward Norman on upper free endpapers. £80
  The voyage included visits to Peru, the Sandwich Islands, Hong Kong, Canton, Japan, Vancouver and St Juan. Cordier    Sinica    2373.
  
  

• OGAWA Kikuzawa. THINGS SEEN IN JAPAN. np, nd [1907.] [8704]
  FIRST EDITION, oblong folio, 36 coloured plates, original brown decorative cloth-backed boards, corners rubbed but a very good copy. £375
  
  

• OLIVER S Pasfield. THE MEMOIRS AND TRAVELS OF MAURITIUS AUGUSTUS COUNT DE BENYOWSKY; in Siberia, Kamchatka, Japan, the Luikiu Islands and Formosa. T Fisher Unwin, 1893. [5228]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 399, folding map, illustrations, original orange decorative cloth, neat gilt stamp on upper cover (NSW Library of Parliament). £75
  
  

• OSBORN Sherard. MY JOURNAL IN MALAYAN WATERS; or, the Blockade of Quedah. Routledge, Warne, 1860. [10478]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp xvi, 360, 4 tinted lithographs (1 coloured, Gun Boat Escaping from Burning Jungle), original blue blind stamped cloth, small loss at head and tail of spine. £275
  
  

• OUTRAM, Lieut-Col. THE CONQUEST OF SCINDE; a Commentary. Wm Blackwood, 1846. [9335]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp (iv), 567, original brown blind stamped cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, recased, covers slightly rubbed. £175
  
  

• PALGRAVE W G. ULYSSES; or, Scenes and Studies in Many Lands. Macmillan, 1887. [10328]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 385, original green decorative cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover, corners slightly bumped. £95
  Although a large proportion of the book deals with Turkey there are chapters on Japan, Malaya, South America and Arabia. Palgrave was HM Minister resident in Uruguay and had previously written an excellent account of Arabia,    A Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia.   
  

• PALMER E H. THE DESERT OF THE EXODUS; Journeys on foot in the Wilderness of the Forty Years' Wanderings undertaken in connection with the Ordnance Survey of Sinai and the Palestine Exploration Fund. Deighton, Bell, 1871. [10731]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xx, 280; 281-576; advertisements, 5 folding maps, 16 plates (14 in colour or tinted), numerous illustrations, coloured frontispiece, original green decorative cloth,spines rubbed, 2 small splits, a hinge cracked and tender, plates and text clean. £200
  "Palmer was despatched by Gladstone's government on a secret mission, the purport of which, so far as known, was to attempt to detach the Arab tribes from the side of the Egyptian rebels, 1882; he succeeded, and was appointed interpreter-in-chief to the English forces in Egypt, but while engaged in further negotiations with tribes beyond Suez (he became known as 'Abdallah Effendi') was murdered at Wady Sudry by Arab robbers." The Concise... pp 2285-6 Blackmer; The Concise Dictionary of National Biography, Vol III
  
  

• PALMER E H. HAROUM AL RASCHID Caliph of Bagdad Marcus Ward, 1881. [10362]
  FIRST EDITION, pp 228, original blue decorative cloth (secondary binding). £30
  The author was murdered in Egypt in 1882, in an ambush.
  

• PERRY-AYSCOUGH H G C & OTTER-BARRY R B. WITH THE RUSSIANS IN MONGOLIA. John Lane, 1914. [4268]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp xxii, 344, folding map, illustrations, original brown decorative cloth, small mark on upper cover, library stamp on end pastedown, inner hinge cracked. £100
  
  

• PHILBY H[arry] St J[ohn] B[ridger]. ARABIA OF THE WAHHABIS. Constable, 1928. [10654]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 422, folding map, plan, diagrams, illustrations, original green cloth, spine a little wrinkled, internally good and clean. £275
  
  

• PHILBY H[arry] St J[ohn] B[ridger]. ARABIAN HIGHLANDS. Cornell University, 1952. [10243]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 771, numerous illustrations, 3 maps (1 large folding at end of book), original green cloth, spine slightly faded. £300
  
  

• PHILBY H[arry] St J[ohn] B[ridger]. ARABIAN JUBILEE. Robert Hale, nd [1952.] [10808]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiv, 280, frontispiece portrait, map, 15 plates (printed recto and verso), original black cloth, dust-jacket (small piece missing from spine). £120
  
  

• PHILBY H[arry] St J[ohn] B[ridger]. ARABIAN OIL VENTURES Middle East Institute, 1964. [10591]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiii, 134, frontispiece (HM Abd al-Aziz al Saud), illustrations, original grey cloth, dust-jacket, scarce. £160
  
  

• PHILBY H[arry] St J[ohn] B[ridger]. THE EMPTY QUARTER; being a Description of the Great South Desert of Arabia known as Rubcal Khali. Constable, 1933. [10648]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxiv, 433, illustrations, maps (2 folding), some light foxing on 3 pages, original green cloth, excellent. £600
  
  

• POWELL E Alexander. THE LAST HOME OF MYSTERY; Adventures in Nepal. The Century Co, 1929. [6106]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 332, maps on endpapers, illustrations, original black decorative cloth. £45
  
  

• QUARITCH WALES H G. SIAMESE STATE CEREMONIES; their History and Function. Bernard Quaritch, 1931. [10488]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiv, 326, frontispiece, plates, original green cloth, joints slightly rubbed, good and clean. £180
  
  

• READY Sybil. MY VISIT TO CHINA AND JAPAN. Charpentier, nd [1937.] [11059]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 155, frontispiece, textual illustrations, original cream decorative cloth, dust-jacket (price clipped), near fine. Rare. £450
  
  

• REED Edward. JAPAN; its History, Traditions and Religions with the Narrative of a Visit in 1879. John Murray, 1880. [10495]
  Second Edition, 8vo, 2 vols, pp lii, 366; ix, 356; folding map, 16 lithographic plates (including frontispieces), original green decorative cloth, some light foxing to preliminaries, very good. £380
  Cordier    Japonica    697.
  
  

• RICHARDS Fred. A PERSIAN JOURNEY, being an Etcher's Impressions of the Middle East. Jonathan Cape, 1931. [11397]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original red decorative cloth, light foxing to half-title, dust-jacket (clipped), good and clean. £50
  
  

• RICHTER G. MANUAL OF COORG; a Gazetter of the Natural Features of the Country and the Social and Political Condition of its Inhabitants. C Stolz, 1870. [9091]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xi, 474, folding map, 4 plates, recent blue cloth. £250
  
  

• RICKMERS W Rickmer. THE DUAB OF TURKESTAN; a Physiographic Sketch and Account of some Travels. University Press, 1913. [10989]
  FIRST EDITION, royal 8vo, pp xv, 564, 207 maps, diagrams and other illustrations, t.e.g, original green cloth, slight rubbing to head of spine and corners. £500
  
  

• RIHANI Ameen. ARABIAN PEAK AND DESERT; Travels in Al-Yaman. Constable, 1930. [10804]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 280, plates, original black cloth, spine worn at head, good and clean. £200
  
  

• RONALDSHAY, Earl of. AN EASTERN MISCELLANY. Wm Blackwood, 1911. [10338]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiv, 422, original black cloth, spine slightly faded. £35
  
  

• ROTH Henry Ling. THE NATIVES OF SARAWAK AND BRITISH NORTH BORNEO; based chiefly on the MSS of the late Hugh Brooke Low, Sarawak Government Service. Truslove & Hanson, 1896. [11041]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, large 8vo, pp xxxii, 464; xv, 302, [240] appendices; folding map, numerous illustrations, original green cloth, teg, a fine set of this important work. £2000
  Limited to 700 copies.
  One of the great works on the ethnography of the island.
  Roth used the manuscript notes of Hugh Brooke Low who had spent eighteen years in the Sarawak Government service studying Dayak and Kayan. He added to this from his extensive bibliographical research into sources in many languages.
  Vol I: On Geographical Distribution and the Dyaks, their Physical Character, Customs, Religion, Festivals, Medicine Men, Legends, Daily Life, Food, Agriculture and Domestic Animals, Hunting and Fishing.
  Vol II: Habitations, Dress and Fashion, Torturing, War, Head-Hunting, Blow Pipe, Human Sacrifices, Cannibalism, Natural Productions, Boating, Swimming, Riding, Archaeology, Music, Language, Names, including Vocabularies of several Dialects and Comparative Vocabularies by H B Low, Lieut de Crespigny, Rev C Hupe, Ch Hose, Sir Spencer St John, Revs W Chalmers and W Gomes, Mr Brereton, etc. Ethnographical Notes from the works of Dr Schwaner (100 pages), Mrs Pryer and Prof Kukenthal, and a Bibliography.
  

• ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. THE JOURNAL with the exception of the Preface and Contents page.
  1. BURTON Richard. JOURNEY FROM EL-MEDINA TO MECCA in 1853 and the Trip to Harar. Pp 121-150.
  2. ABBOTT Keith. NOTES TAKEN DURING A JOURNEY IN PERSIA in 1849 and 1850. Pp 1-78, folding map.
  3. LIVINGSTONE David. EXPLORATION INTO THE CENTRE OF AFRICA. Pp 218-237, folding map.
  4. Many Other EXPLORERS ACCOUNTS. RGS, 1855. [10745]
  Disbound. £285
  
  

• ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY JOURNALS (EXTRACT) FOUR YEARS' JOURNEYINGS THROUGH GREAT TIBET; with European Territorial Claims of the Red Sea. RGS, 1885. [10743]
  Pp 65-136, large folding map (Tibet). £45
  
  

• RUNDALL L B. THE IBEX OF SHA-PING, and Other Himalayan Studies. MacMillan, 1915. [11404]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiv, 152, 15 plates, original green cloth, gilt vignette, spine a little faded. £190
  Rundall, killed in action on the Western Front in 1914, spent several shooting seasons in the Himalayas. This work is comprised of short vignettes of mountain game told primarily from the animals' point of view. Though fictional, there are numerous glimmers gleaned from the author's hunting experiences.
  

• RUTTER Eldon. THE HOLY CITIES OF ARABIA. G P Putnam, 1928. [11091]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xv, 303; vii, 288; frontispieces, 8 maps and plans, illustrations, original green decorative cloth, gilt arabic script on upper cover, teg, fine. £950
  
  

• RUTTER Owen. BRITISH NORTH BORNEO; an Account of its History, Resources and Native Tribes. Constable, 1922. [11068]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 404, maps, illustrations, original blue decorative cloth, gilt vignette, dust-jacket, fine. £400
  
  

• RUTTER Owen. THE PAGANS OF NORTH BORNEO. Hutchinson, 1929. [11033]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp 288, 2 maps, 75 plates, 11 diagrams, original red cloth, near fine. £320
  
  

• RUTTER Owen. TRIUMPHANT PILGRIMAGE; an English Muslim's Journey from Sarawak to Mecca. Geo Harrap, 1938. [11403]
  Reprint, 8vo, pp 278, map, 2 portraits, original purple blind stamped cloth, dust-jacket, very good and clean. £120
  
  

• SACKVILLE-WEST V. TWELVE DAYS; an Account of a Journey across the Bakhtiari Mountains in South-Western Persia. Hogarth Press, 1928. [11330]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 142, advertisements, 32 plates, original purple mottled cloth, faint crease on lower board, otherwise good and clean. £120
  
  

• SALVATOR Ludwig, Archduke of Austria. THE CARAVAN ROUTE BETWEEN EGYPT AND SYRIA. Chatto & Windus, 1881. [10887]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp x, 68, advertisements, 23 plates, original green cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover and spine, near fine. £350
  
  

• SAVAGE LANDOR A Henry. ALONE WITH THE HAIRY ANU; or, 3,800 miles on a Pack Saddle and a Cruise to the Kurile Islands. John Murray, 1893. [9702]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 325, frontispiece, folding map, illustrations, original green decorative cloth, very good. £650
  Cordier 621.
  
  

• SAVAGE LANDOR A Henry. COREA. or, Cho-sen, the Land of the Morning Calm. Heinemann, 1895. [11063]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 304, portrait frontispiece, 6 plates, numerous illustrations in text, original green decorative cloth, small piece of the front free endpaper excised removing a signature, a very good copy of a scarce work. £850
  
  

• SCHELTEMA J F. MONUMENTAL JAVA. Macmillan, 1912. [8697]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xviii, 302, advertisements, illustrations, original blue decorative cloth. £60
  
  

• SCHOMBERG R C F. PEAKS AND PLAINS OF CENTRAL ASIA. Martin Hopkinson, 1933. [10789]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 288, folding map, coloured illustrations, original blue cloth, near fine. £200
  
  

• SCHOMBERG R C F. UNKNOWN KARAKORAM. Martin Hopkinson, 1936. [9586]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 244, map in end pocket, illustrations, original blue cloth. £145
  
  

• SCOTT James George. BURMA; As It Was, As It Is, and As It Will Be. Geo Redway, 1886. [10712]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp vi, 184, advertisements, original brown cloth, spine rubbed and faded, small mark on upper cover. £200
  
  

• SHAKESPEAR J. THE LUSHEI KUKI CLANS. Macmillan, 1912. [10202]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxii, 235,folding map, illustrations (4 coloured), original blue decorative cloth, gilt vignette. £75
  
  

• SHERRING C A. WESTERN TIBET AND THE BRITISH BORDERLANDS; the Sacred Country of Hindus and Buddhists with an account of the government, religion and customs of its peoples. Ed Arnold, 1906. [11078]
  FIRST EDITION, pp xv, 376, frontispiece, maps, illustrations, original blue decorative cloth, gilt vignette, near fine. £1100
  Description of the Bhotias of Kumaon and the Tibetans of Western Tibet together with an account of his journey to Western Tibet in 1905 when he was Deputy Commissioner of Kunaon. He describes the passes into Western Tibet and the administration of the border areas.
  

• SINKER Robert. MEMORIALS OF THE HON IAN KEITH-FALCONER, MA; Late Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, and Missionary to the Mohammedans of Southern Arabia. Deighton Bell, 1888. [4774]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp viii, 280, portrait frontispiece, map, illustrations, original brick-red cloth, spine slightly faded. £95
  
  

• SITWELL Sacheverell THE RED CHAPELS OF BANTEAI SREI. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962. [11252]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 239, original red cloth, dust-jacket (price unclipped). £20
  
  

• SKENE James Henry. THE FRONTIER LANDS OF THE CHRISTIAN AND THE TURK. Richard Bentley, 1853. [10859]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp vi, 423, frontispiece, original green blind stamped cloth, spine lightly faded, VOL I only. £60
  
  

• SKRINE Francis Henry & ROSS Edward Denlison. THE HEART OF ASIA. A History of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanate from the Earlist Times. Methuen, 1899. [10987]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xi, 444, 39 advertisements, original blue cloth, vignette (mosque), near fine. £550
  
  

• STEIN M[arc] Aurel. OLD ROUTES OF WESTERN IRAN. Narrative of an Archaeological Journey carried out and recorded. Macmillan, 1940. [11067]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxviii, 432, original brown cloth, gilt roundel on upper cover, teg, fine. £1500
  
  

• STEIN M[arc] Aurel. ON ALEXANDER'S TRACK TO THE INDUS; Personal Narrative of Explorations on the North-West Frontier of India. Macmillan, 1929. [11102]
  FIRST EDITION, pp xvi, 182, maps, illustrations, original red/brown decorative cloth, fine. £800
  
  

• STEIN M[arc] Aurel. ON ANCIENT CENTRAL ASIAN TRACKS; Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China. Macmillan, 1933. [10493]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp xxiv, 342, advertisements, folding map, 4 panoramic views, 147 plates, original brown decorative cloth, t.e.g, fine. £1500
  
  

• STOCKDALE John & Joseph. SKETCHES CIVIL AND MILITARY OF THE ISLAND OF JAVA and its Immediate Dependencies, comprising interesting details of Batavia and authentic particulars of the celebrated Poison-Tree. J J Stockdale, 1811, [11083]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xix, 406, advertisements, folding maps, original buff boards with original paper label, near fine. £1500
  
  

• SYKES Ella & Percy. THROUGH DESERTS AND OASES OF CENTRAL ASIA. Macmillan, 1920. [11060]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 340, 46 plates including frontispiece, 2 maps (1 large folding, coloured in outline, showing authors' route, loose in pocket of lower cover), original black cloth, Chinese characters on upper cover, signatures of both Percy and Ella on the front endpaper, spine rubbed with small wear to head and tail. £500
  "Miss Sykes and her brother left for Kashgar in March 1915, crossing the Tien Shan by the Terek Pass. The country and people of Kashgar and the Pamirs are well described." Yakushi Yakushi S398
  
  

• SYKES Percy M. TEN THOUSAND MILES IN PERSIA; or, Eight Years in Iran. John Murray, 1902. [9677]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp xv, 481, portrait frontispiece, folding map, numerous illustrations, original blue decorative cloth, neatly re-backed, very clean. £850
  
  

• TAYLOR Neville. IBEX SHOOTING ON THE HIMALAYAS. Sampson Low, 1903. [8920]
  FIRST EDITION, small 8vo, pp xv, 146, frontispiece, 7 plates, occasional foxing, original brown cloth, neatly re-cased, new endpapers. £200
  Taylor enjoyed his leave from military duty in Kashmir where he bagged several ibex in the Wardwan district. During one episode he witnessed an avalanche in an area he had just quit. There is also note of stalking a bear. Czech 211.
  
  

• TEICHMAN Eric. TRAVELS OF A CONSULAR OFFICER IN EASTERN TIBET; together with a History of the Relations between China, Tibet and India. With original maps of Eastern Tibet and photographs taken by the author. UP, 1922. [11363]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 248, 32 double-sided photographic plates, 8 maps (1 large folding in pocket at end), small tear in margin of pvii, very good. £550
  
  

• TEICHMAN Eric. TRAVELS OF A CONSULAR OFFICER IN NORTH-WEST CHINA. UP, 1921. [11047]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 219, maps (2 in slipcase), numerous illustrations, original red cloth, corners a little rubbed, very good and clean. £500
  
  

• TENNENT James Emerson. CEYLON; an Account of the Island, Physical, Historical, Antiquities and Productions. Longman Green, 1859. [11352]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xxxx, 619, advertisements, frontispieces, maps, illustrations, original green decorative cloth, re-backed using original spines, good and clean. £350
  
  

• TERRY Edward. A VOYAGE TO EAST INDIA; wherein Some Things are Taken Notice of, in our passage thither, but many more in our abode there; within that rich and most spacious Empire of the Great Mogul... J Wilkie, 1777. [10711]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp xix, 511, (2), lacks portrait frontispiece, folding map (small tear in margin), 3 plates, brown half calf, spines a little rubbed. £200
  "Went to India as chaplain in the East India Company's fleet, 1616, and in a mission to Mandoa, 1617." The Concise Dictionary of National Biography III, p2947
  

• TERRY Edward. A VOYAGE TO EAST INDIA; wherein Some Things are Taken Notice of, in our passage thither, but many more in our abode there; within that rich and most spacious Empire of the Great Mogul... J Wilkie, 1777. [11088]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp xix, 511, (2), portrait frontispiece, folding map, 3 plates, contemporary brown half calf, teg, very good and clean. £1100
  "Went to India as chaplain in the East India Company's fleet, 1616, and in a mission to Mandoa, 1617." The Concise Dictionary of National Biography III, p2947
  

• THESIGER Wilfred. DESERT MARSH AND MOUNTAIN; the World of a Nomad. Collins, 1979. [11320]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp 304, maps, illustrations, original brown cloth, dust-jacket (price unclipped). £45
  
  

• THUBRON Colin. TO A MOUNTAIN IN TIBET. Chatto & Windus, 2011. [11344]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 227, map, original blue cloth, dust-jacket (price unclipped), fine. £20
  
  

• TILLEY Henry Arthur. EASTERN EUROPE AND WESTERN ASIA; Political and Social Sketches on Russia, Greece, and Syria in 1861-3. Longman Green, 1864. [6037]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 374, 6 tinted lithographs, original blue cloth, neatly re-cased, new endpapers, a very good clean copy. £235
  
  

• TRINKLER Emil. THE STORM-SWEPT ROOF OF ASIA by Yak, Camel and Sheep Caravan in Tibet, Chinese Turkestan and over the Kara-koram. Seeley Service, 1931. [10998]
  First English Edition, 8vo, pp 312, folding map, illustrations, original ochre cloth, dust-jacket, near fine. £420
  
  

• TRONSON J M. PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO JAPAN, KAMATSCHATKA, SIBERIA, TARTARY; and Various Parts of the Coast of China; in HMS 'Barracouta'. Smith Elder, 1859. [7113]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 414, 24 advertisements, 3 large folding charts (1 with tear, repaired), 2 folding charts, 8 lithographic plates (4 tinted, including frontispiece (with light marginal water-stain)), 2 textual illustrations, some occasional foxing, original figured cloth, repairs to head and tail of spine, spine slightly faded. £1000
  Tronson undertook several voyages between 1854 and 1856. He describes many of the growing centres of foreign trade in the Far East and also gives an interesting account of Korea which was still closed to foreigners at the time.
  Tronson was a surgeon on H.M.S. Barracouta, which had been sent to Japan in 1854 under the command of Admiral James Sterling, who was British Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies and China station. Tronson describes how the British squadron visited in Nagasaki (in the wake of Commodore Perry's visit) in order to conclude the first treaty with Japan allowing British merchants access to Japanese markets. As Britain was at war with Russia in the Crimea they had been ordered to assess Russian naval activity in the area. He describes many of the growing centres to foreigners at the time.
  

• TYACKE R H, Mrs. HOW I SHOT MY BEARS; or, Two Years' Tent Life in Kullu and Lahoul. Sampson Low, Marston, 1893. [11309]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiii, 318, folding map, 13 illustrations, original purple cloth, gilt vignette, good and clean copy. £600
  Mrs Tyacke was a keen hunter but "to give the woman her due, she did survive two years largely above the snow-line in a canvas tent, living for the most part off the land and never complaining". Robinson Jane Robinson WAYWARD WOMEN pp 76-77
  
  

• TYACKE R H, Mrs. HOW I SHOT MY BEARS; or, Two Years' Tent Life in Kullu and Lahoul. Sampson Low, Marston, 1893. [11345]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiii, 318, folding map, 13 illustrations, original purple cloth, gilt vignette (Mrs Tyacke sitting on a yak), light scratch on spine (2 cm), good and clean. £650
  Mrs Tyacke was a keen hunter but "to give the woman her due, she did survive two years largely above the snow-line in a canvas tent, living for the most part off the land and never complaining". Robinson Jane Robinson WAYWARD WOMEN pp 76-77
  
  

• VAMBÉRY Arminius. HIS LIFE & ADVENTURES. T Fisher Unwin, 1884. [11319]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiii, 370, advertisements, original photographic frontispiece (author), 13 plates (1 missing), original green decorative cloth, spine re-backed using original spine. £35
  
  

• VAN DE VELDE C W M. NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY THROUGH SYRIA AND PALESTINE IN 1851 AND 1852. Wm Blackwood, 1854. [11090]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp viii, 522; v, 520; coloured lithographic frontispieces, folding map (Syria and Palestine), plan of Jerusalem,folding plate (Greek Inscriptions), original blue decorative cloth, labels removed from front endpaper, very small wear to head of spines, very good. £1500
  
  

• W H ALLEN & CO. MAP OF THE ROUTES IN INDIA with Tables of Distances between the Principal Towns and Military Stations. W H Allen & Co Nov 1841. [10629]
  FIRST EDITION, folding coloured map, 80 x 65 cms, divided into 20 sections, laid on linen, some very light browning, original purple boards, very good. £380
  
  

• WALKER J T. FOUR YEARS' JOURNEY THROUGH GREAT TIBET; by one of the Trans-Himalayan Explorers of the Survey of India
  
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  RAWSON R W. EUROPEAN TERRITORIAL CLAIMS ON THE COASTS OF THE RED SEA, and its Southern Approaches, in 1885. London: RGS,1885. RGS, 1884 [11333]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, 65-92, Great Tibet and folding map, 93-119 Red Sea and folding map, disbound. £40
  
  

• WALLACE Harold Frank. THE BIG GAME OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN CHINA; being an Account of a Journey from Shanghai to London Overland across the Gobi Desert. John Murray, 1913. [9393]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xviii, 318, illustrations, maps, original blue decorative cloth, spine faded, covers stained. £380
  
  

• WARBURTON Robert. EIGHTEEN YEARS IN THE KHYBER 1879-1898. John Murray, 1900. [10015]
  Reprint, 8vo, pp 18, 351, folding map, illustrations, brown half calf (1930), gilt spine with raised bands, Eton binding. £105
  The reprinted edition came out 4 months after the first edition.
  

• WARD Michael. EVEREST, A THOUSAND YEARS OF EXPLORATION. A Record of Mountaineering, Geographical Exploration, Medical Research and Mapping. The Ernest Press, 2003 [10469]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo pp xxiv, 350, original plum cloth, dust-jacket, fine. £150
  Signed by the author.
  

• WARKWORTH, Lord. NOTES FROM A DIARY IN ASIATIC TURKEY. Arnold, 1898. [11052]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 267, frontispiece, folding map, 30 photographic plate, plate (church at Kars), turn-in mark to corner on p266, original green cloth, very slight creasing to front hinge, very good. £700
  Warkworth was one of a team of Lords who went to Anatolia to investigate the Armenian question. Warkworth takes the pro-Turkish side, convinced that Armenia will be worse served by the Russians than the Ottomans. This well-produced work with excellent illustrations is important both for these comments on the Armenian question, and his astute observations on a part of Anatolia which is less visited (Ankara to Sungurlu to Amasia and Van.
  

• WENYON Charles. ACROSS SIBERIA; on the Great Post Road. Charles Kelly, 1898. [10407]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp 240, photographic frontispiece, folding map, illustrations, original green decorative cloth. £40
  
  

• WHITE George Francis. VIEWS IN INDIA; chiefly among the Himalaya Mountains, drawn from Nature. Fisher & Co, 1838. [10996]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, small folio, pp. 81, list of subscribers; 82-140, list of subscribers, frontispieces, 28 plates, brown quarter morocco, vignette on title-page Vol I, spines rubbed, good and clean. £550
  
  

• WHITE Walter. A SAILOR-BOY'S LOG-BOOK FROM PORTSMOUTH TO THE PEIHO. Chapman & Hall, 1862. [10607]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp ix, 246, tinted portrait frontispiece, original blue blind stamped cloth, a very good copy. £500
  
  

• WHITE Walter G. THE SEA GYPSIES OF MALAYA; an Account of the Nomadic Mawken People of the Mergui Archipelago...with a Foreword by R R Marett. Seeley, Service, 1922. [11014]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 318, (2) advertisements, half-title, 16 plates including frontispiece, folding map at end, very slightly browned, original grey decorative cloth, printed in black, fine. £180
  
  

• WILBRAHAM Richard. TRAVELS IN THE TRANS-CAUCASIAN PROVINCES OF RUSSIA; and Along the Southern Shore of the Lakes of Van and Urumiah, in the Autumn and Winter of 1837. John Murray, 1839. [10229]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xviii, 477, folding map, frontispiece, 4 tinted plates, contemporary brown half calf, some light scufffing at head of spine, spine slightly faded, internally very clean. £800
  
  

• WILLIAMS E Crawshay. ACROSS PERSIA. Ed Arnold, 1907. [11061]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 348, frontispiece, folding map, numerous illustrations, original green decorative cloth. £320
  
  

• WILSON Ernest Henry. A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA; with Vasculum, Camera, and Gun; being some account of eleven years' travel, exploration, and observations in the more remote parts of the flowery kingdom. Methuen, nd [1914.] [9307]
  Second Edition, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xxxvii, 251; xi, 229; map, 101 illustrations, some very light occasional foxing, original red cloth, a very good set. £450
  
  

• WINSTON W R. FOUR YEARS IN UPPER BURMA. C H Kelly, 1892. [10037]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 266, 10 advertisements, frontispiece, coloured folding map, numerous textual illustrations (some full-page), original brown decorative cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover. £200
  Cordier INDOSINICA 426.
  
  

• WINTER Christopher T. SIX MONTHS IN BRITISH BURMAH or, India Beyond the Ganges. Richard Bentley, 1838. [11015]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 287, frontispiece, 3 plates, original purple cloth, gilt vignettes (upper cover and spine), good copy of a rare book. £850
  
  

• WOLFF Joseph. JOURNAL OF THE REV JOSEPH WOLFF; in a Series of Letters to Sir Thomas Bain; containing an account of his missionary labours from the years 1827 to 1831; and from the years 1835 to 1838. James Burns, 1839. [7523]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 402, contemporary black half calf, a very good clean copy. £550
  
  

• WOLFF Joseph. NARRATIVE OF A MISSION TO BOKHARA, IN THE YEARS 1843-1845; to Ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddard and Captain Conolly. John Parker, 1846. [9374]
  Fourth Edition, 8vo, pp xxvii, (i), 515, portrait frontispiece, original green blind stamped cloth, spine faded and worn, joint split at head and tail. £380
  Presentation copy signed in three languages.
  

• WOLFF Joseph. NARRATIVE OF A MISSION TO BOKHARA, IN THE YEARS 1843-1845; to Ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddard and Captain Conolly. With a Letter from Wolff. John W Parker 1845. [11007]
  Second Edition (Revised), 2 vols, 8vo, pp xx, 356; xvi, 335; frontispieces, 7 lithographic plates, contemporary brown half calf, good clean set. £600
  
  

• WONG-QUINCY J. CHINESE HUNTER. Robert Hale, nd [1938.] [10077]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 383, illustrations, original yellow cloth, very good. £85
  
  

• WOOD Herbert. THE SHORES OF LAKE ARAL. Smith, Elder, 1876. [9673]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxvii, 352, 2 folding maps (1 of West Turkestan in pocket), original green decorative cloth, near fine. £575
  'He accompanied the Grand Duke Constantine's expedition, sent under the auspices of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society to examine the Amu Darya. He published in 1876 the results of his travels...should be read by all who would thoroughly understand the difficulties with which the Russians have to contend in Central Asia.' DNB
  

• WOODTHORPE Robert G. THE LUSHAI EXPEDITION 1871-1872. Hurst and Blackett, 1873. [8488]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp vi, 338, frontispiece, map, contemporary brown half calf, a very good copy with minimal rubbing. £380
  Woodthorpe was in the Royal Engineers and served in several areas on the Sub-continent. This campaign was in the North East of the country.
  

• WORKMAN Fanny Bullock. ILLUSTRATIONS OF ICE WILDS OF EASTERN KARAKORAM. [Constable], nd [1908.] [10825]
  FIRST EDITION, no text, 134 plates, very clean. £320
  
  

• WORSFOLD W Basil. A VISIT TO JAVA; with an Account of the Founding of Singapore. Richard Bentley, 1893. [6096]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xi, 283, illustrations, map, original pink decorative cloth, spine faded with small wear to head and tail. £165
  
  

• [XI SHICHEN.] ALBUM OF HUMAN FIGURES. np, nd, [1920.] [10556]
  FIRST EDITION, 235x157mm, 8 double-page watercolour illustrations on thick boards of people in landscapes, all with red seals, minor repair not affecting image, traditional Chinese leporello-style binding of green-grey patterned silk over boards with cartouche (author/artist and title) on upper cover, however this would appear to be fictitious since the style of illustration seems much more modern than the work of Xi Shichen (1488-unknown). £300
  These delightful illustrations may have been intended for a children's story book.
  

• YOUNGHUSBAND Francis E. PEKING TO LHASA. The Narrative of Journeys in the Chinese Empire made by the Late Brigadier-General George Pereira, CB, CMG, DSO, compiled by Sir Francis Younghusgand KCSI, KCIE, from Notes and Diaries supplied by Major General Sir Cecil Pereira, KCB, CMG. Constable, 1925. [11076]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp x, 293, 2 maps, illustrations, original black cloth, fine. £350