AUREL STEIN ON THE SILK ROAD
Written by Susan Whitfield.
Stock no. 1830222
Published by Serindia Publications. 1st 2004. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Evocatively illustrated account of the intrepid adventures and amazing discoveries of the great explorer and archaeologist Sir Marc Aurel Stein, who travelled the Silk Road nearly a century ago in the footsteps of Alexander the Great and the seventh-century Buddhist pilgrim monk Xuanzang. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. 143 pages including index. ISBN: 1932476113. 1cm crease to cloth at top front edge of spine else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine and lightly scuffed.

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THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO
Written by Marco Polo; Ronald Latham.
Stock no. 1830201
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1968. Very good condition.

Translated and introduced by Ronald Latham. Black cloth spine with gilt title, burgundy paper boards. Maps to endpapers. Colour plates (illuminated manuscripts) reproduced taken from The Bodleian Library. 310 pages including index. Top edge red. Spine lightly scuffed, boards very lightly faded. Contents clean. Contained in publisher's slipcase which is worn at edges and starting to split at one edge, scuffed.

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PARIS IN THE REVOLUTION
Written by Reay Tannahill.
Stock no. 1830193
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1966. Very good condition.

A collection of eye-witness accounts edited by Reay Tannahill. Black cloth spine. Blue paper boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. 127 pages. Spine faded. Corners rubbed. Boards scuffed. Contents clean. NO slipcase, as issued.

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WILD PRAIRIE: A PHOTOGRAPHER'S PERSONAL JOURNEY
Written by James R. Page.
Stock no. 1830181
Published by Greystone Books. 1st 2005. Very good condition.

Matt boards, brown spine with cream title, cream boards. Stunning colour photography of wild landscapes in North America. vii and 135 pages. ISBN: 1553651219. Base of spine lightly shelf-rubbed. Horizontal edges of boards lightly faded. A few dints to boards (minor). Rear board lightly scuffed. Rear joint between rear free endpaper and last page is pulled at the top half but the binding is tight.

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TRAVEL-PICTURES INCLUDING THE TOUR IN THE HARZ, NORDERNEY, AND BOOK OF IDEAS
Written by Heinrich Heine.
Stock no. 1830112
Published by George Bell & Sons. 2nd 1895. Very good condition.

Together with The Romantic School. Translated by Francis Storr. With map and appendices. Second Edition revised. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ix and 367 pages plus 32 pages of Bohn's Library list to rear. Spine faded and worn at top & tail, lightly rubbed at edges. Boards lightly marked, light fading to top margin of rear board. Spine slightly cocked. Text block browned. Endpapers marked with age, front endpaper has an area where a label has been removed and so the colour is less faded in this rectangle. Page browning. A nice copy considering its age!

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LIFE AND EXPLORATIONS OF FRIDTJOF NANSEN
Written by J. Arthur Bain.
Stock no. 1830084
Published by Walter Scott Ltd.. 1898. Almost very good condition.

New edition revised and considerably enlarged. Fridtjof Nansen was a Scandinavian Arctic explorer, scientist, diplomat, and humanitarian. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles and vignettes. B/w photos. xix and 449 pages plus publisher adverts to rear. Board edges rubbed, worn and frayed at corners. Prize plate to front pastedown. Text block browned. Some grubby marks to contents.

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SWITZERLAND
Written by John Russell.
Stock no. 1329701
Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd.. 1st 1950. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour frontis of a painting of Geneva. B/w photos throughout. 152 pages (including index). Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Foxing throughout and to dustwrapper. Dustwrapper is edge worn with slight loss to top of spine.

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THE ROAD TO OXIANA
Written by Robert Byron; Geoffrey Moorhouse. Illustrated by Robert Byron.
Stock no. 1829329
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

Introduction by Geoffrey Moorhouse. Vivid blue decorative cloth. B/w photos by the author. The author's journey to Afghanistan, 1933-1934. 329 pages including index. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is showing a few scuff marks.

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THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO
Written by Marco Polo; Ronald Latham.
Stock no. 1829300
Published by Folio Society. 1994. Very good condition.

Reissued. Translated and introduced by Ronald Latham. Black cloth spine with gilt title, red cloth sides. Maps to endpapers. Colour plates. 310 pages including index. Top edge dark red. Fourth printing. Spine lightly faded (quite usual for this title). Contents clean. Contained in publisher's slipcase which has a few white spots and scuffs.

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A BAR OF SHADOW
Written by Laurens Van Der Post.
Stock no. 1829261
Published by The Hogarth Press. 1954. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This is the story of Hara, a Japanese sergeant in command of a prisoner-of-war camp. A penetrating and enthralling study of the Japanese mentality, the Japanese myth, as personified by this demonic, naive, brutal, weirdly idealistic sergeant. Small format. Blue cloth spine with gilt title. Blue and white design paper boards. 58 pages. Reprint in the first year of publication. Boards lightly browned. Minor foxing present mainly to text block. Contents generally clean. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is browned to spine and rear panel, foxing to rear panel, corners lightly worn with minor chipping.

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PERILOUS PARADISE: PHOTO STORY OF NEW GUINEA AND ITS EMERGING PEOPLE
Written by Eric Were.
Stock no. 1829032
Published by Pacific Press Publishing Association. 1st 1968. Very good condition.

From its steamy, mosquito-infested swamps to its high fertile valleys and mist-enshrouded peaks, New Guinea presents 300,000 square miles of highly diversified terrain with 2,000,000 needy but fascinating tribal people. This land is a perilous paradise with minimum of comfort and maximum of challenge. Especially featured in this book are a group of missionaries who are doing humanitarian work, often under difficult circumstances. Matt pictorial boards. B/w photos, a few colour photos. Not paginated. Spine lightly faded, corners of boards lightly worn. Bookplate to half-title page and a few grubby marks to same. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean.

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FLORA OF IRAQ (VOLUME NINE)
Written by C.C. Townsend; Evan Guest; Ali Al-Rawi; N.L. Bor.
Stock no. 1828941
Published by Ministry Of Agriculture Of The Republic Of Iraq. 1st 1968. Good condition.

Gramineae; the grass plant. Green cardwraps. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 588 pages. Covers are edge-worn and creased, split to spine. Name & postcode in ink to half-title page. Possibly SIGNED by N.L. Bor to half-title page with dedication to Mary McCallum Webster. Some corner creasing to contents. Contents are clean.

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