Travel literature seeks to communicate information about newly discovered lands or those little known to the reader; it may be the history of an imaginary journey presented as a real one but important chiefly in terms of ideological and literary content, as in adventure stories, utopias, and philosophic works.
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Brittany [and] Its Byways: […,] Inhabitants and its Antiquities… (1869)
£60.00BURY PALLISER, [Fanny] (1805-78). Brittany & Its Byways: Some Account of Its Inhabitants and its Antiquities; During A Residence in that Country. 8vo. London, John Murray, 1869. Contents include: Cherbourg, Querqueville, Tourlaville, Granville, Pontorson, Dinan, St. Malo, Kermartin, Lannion, St. Pol. de Leon, Carnac, Nantes, Carhaix. Apart from this work, author Fanny Bury Palliser (sister of Frederick Marryat) was an authority on lace, publishing a work entitled The History of Lace in 1865. Scarce.
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SCOTT, G. Firth. The Romance of Polar Exploration. (1909). BINDING.
£55.00SCOTT, G. Firth (1862 -1935). The Romance of Polar Exploration. (1909). BINDING. 8vo. London, Seeley and Co. Limited, Chapters include: The Arctic Region, The Search For Franklin, The Voyage of the Polaris, The Greely Expedition, Nansen and the Fram, Franz Josef Land and Spitzbergen, Italy Claims the Record, The Antarctic Region, The Southern Cross Expedition. PROVENANCE: School Prize label to front pastedown, inscription on label dated July 1912. Please note that this book is of its time.
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The Heart of England by Waterway… (1933)
£120.00BLISS, William. The Heart of England by Waterway A Canoeing Chronicle By River and Canal. 8vo. London H.F. & G. Witherby, 1933. Chapters include: Thames above Oxford and Cotswold Waters, River Severn, Welshpool to Shrewsbury, Stroudwater Canal and Thames and Severn Canal, Cherwell and Oxford Canal, River Avon…, River Teme… PROVENANCE: Previous owner’s inscription to front endpaper. SCARCE, Charming book, SIGNED by the author. LIONEL FIELDING’S COPY (Author of Beggar my Neighbour) , PRESENTATION COPY- SIGNED BY BLISS.
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Continental Travel … The Remedial Advantages of Travelling. (1848)
£120.00LEE, Edwin (d.1870). Continental Travel with an Appendix on the Influence of Climate, The Remedial Advantages of Travelling. 8vo. London, W.J. Adams, 1848. Chapters include: Routes to Paris-Boulogne, Lyons-The Rhone-Marseilles-Climate of Provence, Toulouse- Pyrenean Baths-Bagnères de Luchon, Pau and its Climate, Nice- Climate and Remedial Advantages, Pisa and its Climate, Rome-Churches and Picture Galleries, Bologna-Parma, Geneva, Munich, and Nassau Baths. SCARCE. Please note the information contained within this book is of its time!
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ALDIN, Cecil (1870-1935) The Romance of the Road. (1933) INSCRIBED BY ALDIN.
£120.00ALDIN, Cecil (1870-1935) The Romance of the Road. (1933) INSCRIBED BY ALDIN.
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ATTENBOROUGH, Frederick (1887-1973). Cities In Sonnets. SIGNED
£50.00ATTENBOROUGH, Frederick (1887-1973). Cities In Sonnets. 8vo. London: S.M. Hall & Son, [1926] SIGNED by Frederick Attenborough on the title page, signature dated: Nov. 1926. Places covered include: Edinburgh, Paris, Rome, Venice, London, and Constantinople. Frederick Attenborough was an English academic, and also Principal of University College, Leicester. He was the father of Sir David, and Sir Richard Attenborough. Scarce.
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Memoir, Descriptive and Explanatory, To Accompany The Charts of the Northern Atlantic Ocean…
£150.00PURDY, John. (1773-1843). Memoir, Descriptive and Explanatory, To Accompany The Charts of the Northern Atlantic Ocean; and Comprising Instructions, General and Particular for the Navigation of the Sea. 8vo. London: R.H. Laurie, 1853. Scarce.
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LYNN, Stuart M. (1906- 97) New Orleans. (1949) SIGNED.
£60.00LYNN, Stuart M. (1906- 97) New Orleans. 4to. (Size), New York, Hastings House, 1949. SIGNED by Stuart M. Lynn to front endpaper (other previous owner’s inscriptions on same page). PROVENANCE: Previous owner’s inscriptions on front endpaper. A lovely, vintage photographic record of New Orleans, SIGNED by the author.
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Chelsea: A Lecture delivered in the Town Hall… (1888) SCARCE.
£50.00DILKE, Right Hon. Sir Charles (1843-1911). Chelsea: A Lecture delivered in the Town Hall, Chelsea by the Right Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Bart, on Wednesday, January 11th 1888. 8vo. West Middlesex Advertiser [1888]. A curious historical account, detailing various buildings including public houses, and the Royal Hospital and the Queen’s Elm- where Elizabeth 1st ‘ “stood up” for shelter from a shower with the great Lord Burleigh”.
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Up The River From Westminster to Windsor and Oxford; A Descriptive Panorama of Thames Scenery. [c.1879]
£75.00Up The River From Westminster to Windsor and Oxford; A Descriptive Panorama of Thames Scenery.
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RYE, Walter (1843-1929). Tourist’s Guide To The County of Norfolk… (1892). RARE.
£50.00RYE, Walter (1843-1929). Tourist’s Guide To The County of Norfolk With Some Preliminary Remarks as to its Natives, their Names, Superstitions and Peculiarities. 1 folding map, 1 folding plan. 8vo. London: Edward Stanford, 1892.
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HENDERSON, E. (1784-1858). The Vaudois… a Tour to the Valleys of Piedmont, In the Summer of 1844. (1845)
£55.00HENDERSON, E. (1784-1858). The Vaudois Comprising Observations Made During a Tour to the Valleys of Piedmont, In the Summer of 1844: Together with Remarks, Introductory and Interspersed, Respecting The origin, History, and Present Condition of That Interesting People. Folding map. PROVENANCE: Signature to front endpaper : ‘Thos Spalding’. 8vo. London, John Snow, 1845.
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Holidays on High Lands… 1869.
£40.00MACMILLAN, Rev. Hugh. Holidays on High Lands; or, Rambles and Incidents In Search of Alpine Plants. (Pages age toned, occasional spotting and foxing). Publisher’s blue pictorial cloth, gilt (wear to cloth, corners bumped, spine cocked). 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co. 1869.
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Hacky & Markey: Being The Adventures of Hacky Daniel & Markey Retchatts… 1855.
£60.00SIGNATURE next to the printed sentence: ‘’N.B. Every genuine copy is signed by the Author” is presumably the signature of TREGELLAS. TREGELLAS, L.T. (1792-1863 ). Hacky & Markey: Being The Adventures of Hacky Daniel & Markey Retchatts, Two Cornish Miners, Who Went Further To Sea Than They Intended and Encountered A Floating Regiment of What They Called….To Which Are Adde Their Extraordinary Confessions. [4], 22, [2] pp. Frontispiece (Pages soiled and a little grubby, some pages detached, sporadic spotting). Contemporary blue wrappers with white (now browned) title label (wrappers torn with loss, worn). 8vo. Penzance, F. T. Vibert, 1855.
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