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Marijana Dworski Books: Travel Writing
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Russia: The Official Report of the British Trades Union Delegations to Russia and Caucasia Nov. And Dec. 1924. Copyright of the Trades Union Congress General Council.
London, Printed at the Co-operative Printing Society. 1925. Large 8vo. 19x25cm. original green buckram, spine and upper board lettered gilt. xxiii+250pp. large folding map, many b/w illustrations (from photographs). In very good condition, clean and tight. Upper board a little sunned. " (This is one of) only two of the numerous labour delegations which at one time or another have visited Soviet Russia, (and which) produced reports of any serious value." Grierson 56 and 102.
Marijana Dworski Books Professional sellerBook no.: 38232
GBP 14,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 16 US$ 18.41 | JP¥ 2839]
Catalogue: Travel Writing
Keywords: Caucasus |Central Asia|Russia|Economics|Politics|Featured|Travel|Transport
The Trail of a Peace Scout: A Padre\'s Tramps and Camps in East Africa. Books for Boys and Girls.
London, S.P.C.K. Printed by William Clowes. 1924. Small 8vo. pictorial paper-covered boards, 56 pp, 8pp publisher\'s list. In very good condition, a little snagging to spine. William and Dorothy Logan Jack\'s attractive bookplate to f.e.p. Bookplate by S.B. .
Marijana Dworski Books Professional sellerBook no.: 38061
GBP 18,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 20.75 US$ 23.67 | JP¥ 3650]
Catalogue: Travel Writing
Keywords: Missionary|Africa|Travel|Featured|Ex-Libris
Over the Hills of Ruthenia: Cheap Edition.
London, Harold Shaylor, 1931. Small 8vo. original blue cloth, lettered gilt with attractive decoration in gilt to upper board. 245pp. A very nice tight and clean copy. Scarce work by Henry Baerlein, prolific writer, often on Eastern Europe, also wrote under the name of Henry Bernard and George Birmingham - "MR. BAERLEIN\'S leisurely account of his equally leisurely journey over the hills and dales and through the fields and forests of Ruthenia is a delicate blend of ironic charm and haphazard literary gypsying among the sturdy and almost illiterate peasant folk and villagers of this obscure little country -- a country bent upon making the most of its recently discovered self-determination." .
Marijana Dworski Books Professional sellerBook no.: 38560
GBP 35,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 40 US$ 46.02 | JP¥ 7096]
Catalogue: Travel Writing
Keywords: Travel|Travel Guide|Ukraine|Poland|History|Featured|Central Europe
From a Terrace in Prague.
London, Allen & Unwin, 1923. With 36 illustrations, of which four are colour plates, and one map. A very good bright copy in originall blue cloth. Spine lettered and ruled in gilt, Prague coat-of-arms in gilt to upper board. 262[ii]pp. A little damp spotting to fore-edges and occasionally throughout otherwise a very nice copy. School prize label neatly to paste-down. Clean and tight. Hardback.
Marijana Dworski Books Professional sellerBook no.: 32419
GBP 23,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 26.25 US$ 30.24 | JP¥ 4663]
Catalogue: Travel Writing
Keywords: Czechoslovakia|Travel|Central Europe|History|Prague|Featured|
L\'Ungheria E Gli Ungheresi. (Hungary and the Hungarians).
Milan Milano, Fratelli Treves Editori, 1937. Photo illustrated wrappers, 270 pp. and many (c200) photographs. Used; Very Good The author Ignác Balla or Ignazio Balla (1885 - 1976), was an Hungarian Jewish writer and journalist born in Transylvania. He was in the Austro-Hungarian navy and was sent to Pula. He translated D\'Annuzio, Boccaccio and Pirandello into Hungarian and later travelled to Italy. Despite his background he joined the PNF. Paperback.
Marijana Dworski Books Professional sellerBook no.: 8391
GBP 58,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 66.25 US$ 76.26 | JP¥ 11760]
Catalogue: Travel Writing
Keywords: Austria-Hungary|Travel|Travel Guide|Featured|Hungary|History
The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768 - 1771.
Cambridge, Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press. 1968. Volume One (only). Usual blue cloth, spine lettered gilt, gilt relief to upper board, original unclipped printed dust-wrapper. cclxxxiv+696 pp. 45 illustrations and maps (complete as called for). With bibliography, appendices, indices, corrigenda. A very good, clean tight copy. Usual browning and slight marking to dust-wrapper spine edges, fore-edges dusty. Otherwise very tight and clean. Best edition. First published in 1955. This edition Reprinted with Corrigenda, 1968.
Marijana Dworski Books Professional sellerBook no.: 38733
GBP 92,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 105 US$ 120.96 | JP¥ 18653]
Catalogue: Travel Writing
Keywords: Hakluyt|Travel|Pacific|Biography|Far East
Westminster. A New Edition with an Etching by Francis S. Walker R.P. E. And 130 Illustrations by William Patten and Others.
London, Chatto & Windus, 1902. Contemporary red calf, five raised bands to spine, compartments richly gilt, boards ruled gilt, inner dentelles gilt, a.e.g. (all edges gilt), engraved tissue protected frontis. many b/w in-text and full page illustrations, xx+312pp. Spine edges rubbed, leading spine corner weak, a little colour bleed to front free-endpaper, light damp stain affecting preliminaries including frontis and title page. Otherwise very clean and tight. Related newspaper cutting loosely inside. Used; Very Good Handsome fine calf binding for J & E Bumpus, Oxford Street: Related newspaper cutting loosely inside. Hardback.
Marijana Dworski Books Professional sellerBook no.: 34524
GBP 46,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 52.5 US$ 60.48 | JP¥ 9327]
Catalogue: Travel Writing
Keywords: Fine Binding|Calf|Featured|London|Travel Guide|Featured
Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria. With Illustrations by Theodore Horschelt (the Author\'s Son-in-Law).
London, Chapman and Hall, 1853. Contemporary or later textured cream cloth, gilt lettered morocco labels, viii+410pp. 6 two-tone lithographs and 6 vignettes as called for. Moncrieffe "Sur Espérance" ornate bookplate to paste-down. Spine age-darkened, labels a little chipped and scored, one plate slightly protruding but a very good, clean, tight copy. Charles Boner, poet and travel-writer, one time tutor to John Constable\'s children, left England to take up a post in Regensburg with Maximilian Karl, 6th Prince of Thurn and Taxis. Boner settled and married in Germany. He published a number of books of poetry but his seminal work was the comprehensive \' Transylvania, its Products and People\', (1865) - describing an area at the time under Austria. Hardcover.
Marijana Dworski Books Professional sellerBook no.: 35344
GBP 138,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 157.25 US$ 181.45 | JP¥ 27980]
Catalogue: Travel Writing
Keywords: Featured|Travel|Mountaineering|Germany|Austria-Hungary|Travel Guide
The Origins of the Grand Tour. The Travels of Robert Montagu, Lord Mandeville (1649-1654). William Hammond (1655 - 1658). Banaster Maynard, (1660 - 1663). Third Series. Hakluyt Society. Series III Volume 14.
London, Hakluyt Society, 2004. An excellent copy in original light-blue dust-wrapper. Unused. Complete as published. Used; Like New Focusing upon three previously unpublished accounts of youthful English travellers in Western Europe, this study reassesses the early origins of the cultural phenomenon known as the \'Grand Tour\'. Hardback.
Marijana Dworski Books Professional sellerBook no.: 36760
GBP 17,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 19.5 US$ 22.35 | JP¥ 3447]
Catalogue: Travel Writing
Keywords: Exploration|Featured|Special Collection|History|Europe|Italy
The Nile: Notes for Travellers in Egypt. Eighth Edition. With Two Maps, Plans of Temples, and Numerous Illustrations.
London & Cairo, Thos. Cook & Son, 1902. Original limp brown cloth. Spine and upper board lettered gilt, with gilt cartouches and hieroglyphs to upper cover with same pattern in blind to lower. Marbled endpapers and fore-edges, engraved frontis. map and one folding internally (by Johnston of Edinburgh), xxvi+674pp. profusely illustrated with b/w plates and very many in-text hieroglyphs and sketches. A lovely bright and tight copy. Mild creasing to spine, edges and spine ends just a little rubbed. One or two foldings protruding minimally. Very occasional light pencil underscoring. First published in 1890, this guide ran to many editions. Sir Ernest Wallis Budge, celebrated Victorian Egyptologist, orientalist, philologist and prolific writer compiled it on the instigation of Thos. Cook and Son while he was Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum. The guide was to be presented to every Cook passenger on the Nile tourist steamers, so that they would: "no longer be liable to be misled (unintentionally) by Dragomans" (Intro.). As well as comprehensive information on the 'antiquities and their history', the handbook includes some 25 pages on Egyptian and Coptic writing.
Marijana Dworski Books Professional sellerBook no.: 38566
GBP 23,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 26.25 US$ 30.24 | JP¥ 4663]
Catalogue: Travel Writing
Keywords: Featured|Egyptian|Coptic|Baedeker|Guide|Egyptology|History
Why Angels Fall: A Portrait of Orthodox Europe from Byzantium to Kosovo.
London, Macmillan, 2000. Hardback in original illustrated dust-wrapper, xviii[ii]+460pp. 24 b/w plates (photographs). A very good copy, almost as new but some light foxing to upper fore-edge. Dust-wrapper excellent. Travelling from Mount Athos to Istanbul and unravelling the tangled historythrough revealing encounters with monks, nuns, bishops and archbishops, in monasteries ancient and modern, Victoria Clark demonstrates a rare sympathy with Eastern Orthodox Europe.
Marijana Dworski Books Professional sellerBook no.: 38720
GBP 14,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 16 US$ 18.41 | JP¥ 2839]
Catalogue: Travel Writing
Keywords: Balkans|Featured|Yugoslavia|Byzantium|Religion
Gleanings in Europe. By an American. In Two Volumes. Vol. II (Only)
Philadelphia, Carey, Lea & Blanchard. 1837. Small 8vo. original publisher\'s cloth, paper label to spine, 233pp. Spine sunned, cloth just beginning to split along one side, label much rubbed, one gathering very slightly protruding else in excellent condition for its age, possibly unread. In very good condition. This volume covers France. Volume II only. Hardcover.
Marijana Dworski Books Professional sellerBook no.: 22073
GBP 14,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 16 US$ 18.41 | JP¥ 2839]
Catalogue: Travel Writing
Keywords: France|Travel|James Fenimore Cooper
Voyages Au Pays de Bambouc, Suivi D\'Observations Intéressantes S. Ur Les Castes Indiennes, Sur la Hollande, Et Sur L\'Angleterre
A Bruxelles .. et a Paris, Chez Dujardin a Bruxelles et a Paris Chez Defer de Maisonneuve. 1789. 8vo. contemporary continental mottled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, morocco label, marbled endpapers, fore-edges stained red. Bookseller label to paste-down "Cet Ouvrage se trouve ainsi que beaucoup d\'autres chez La Veuve Mangot, Libraire sur le Hof im blauen Haus N. 312 im 3 ten Stock". 358 pp. Engraved head and tail pieces, divisional titles. Price of £2 in old ink on endmatter. A lovely copy. Spine ends just a little chipped. Internally very crisp and clean. Appears unread.
Marijana Dworski Books Professional sellerBook no.: 38737
GBP 288,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 328.25 US$ 378.67 | JP¥ 58393]
Catalogue: Travel Writing
Keywords: Travel|Featured|Africa
The Companion Guide to Paris. The Companion Guides.
London, Collins, 1963. Small 8vo. 320pp. endpaper maps and others throughout by K. C. Jordan, many b/w plates. Dust wrapper design by Charles Harris Gorham. A lovely copy, clean, bright and tight in price-clipped dust-wrapper. Classic travel guide to Paris by son of A. J. Cronin. Vincent Cronin, prolific historian and biographer, was the first General Editor of the Companion Guides series which became well regarded for high quality writing. Dust-wrapper by artist and graphic designer Alfred Charles Harris Gorham, who is perhaps best remembered for the fifteen covers he illustrated for these Collins Companion Guides.
Marijana Dworski Books Professional sellerBook no.: 38035
GBP 23,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 26.25 US$ 30.24 | JP¥ 4663]
Catalogue: Travel Writing
Keywords: Europe|France|Travel Guide|Travel|Featured|Book-Cover-Design
Siberia As It Is. With an Introduction by Her Excellency Madame Olga Novikoff "O.K. ".
London, Chapman & Hall, 1892. Original pictorial cloth, xxiv+504pp. black endpapers, b/w in-text illus. appendices. Spine ends bruised, very slightly cocked, inner joint starting, a little usual foxing to prelims. but a very nice solid copy. Armorial bookplate featuring crown atop letter \'H\', \'Cawthorn & Hutt Booksellers\' of Charing Cross label to paste-down. Collectable; Very Good By roving journalist and author of "Through Savage Europe" (an account of his journeys through the Balkans). Having read Kennan\'s account of the labour camps, Harry De Windt gives his rather less critical view. "Captain Harry Willes Darell de Windt (9 April 1856, Paris - 30 November 1933, Bournemouth) was the aide-de-camp to his brother-in-law Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (Harry\'s sister Margaret was Brooke\'s wife), and is best known as an explorer and travel writer. His books were published under the name of Harry de Windt." Wiki . Hardcover.
Marijana Dworski Books Professional sellerBook no.: 33250
GBP 92,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 105 US$ 120.96 | JP¥ 18653]
Catalogue: Travel Writing
Keywords: Russia|Siberia|Kennan|Labour Camps|Featured|Russia|Antiquarian