Travel And Exploration from Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB

London, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1937, 1939 and 1979-1986: The Golden Cockerel Press. Limited Editions. Quarto. Owen Rutter 1889-1944 was an English historian who wrote many important books on travel and history around the globe. He became a partner with The Golden Cockerel in 1933 and he began writing this important collection on Bligh and the Bounty. He edited the… Read more about this item

(Sydney, 1962): Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales in Association with Angus and Robertson. First Editions. Octavo. 2 volume set. Color frontispieces. Volume I, xxvi, 476 pages, and 39 plates. Volume II, xvi, 406 pages, index, 2 page folding map, and 40 plates. A few plates in color. A well annotated text of the Endeavour Journal.… Read more about this item

New York, Nd(ca.1978): Burt Franklin. Octavo. 278 pages. One folding map. Reprint of Hakluyt Society, I, series, no. 52. This edition reprints the original documents with notes and Lord Stanley's introduction. Bound in a blue gray cloth, spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy.

New York, Nd(ca.1970): Burt Franklin (Hakluyt Society). Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, lxxx, 430 pages, xxxv, errata. Originally published by the Hakluyt society in 1900 (No. XLII), Variation, no. 42. This work was translated from the Portuguese by the Honorable Henry E.J. Stanley. The author had gone to India very young and sixteen years later India was discovered, about 1514. He… Read more about this item

London: Oxford University Ress, 1963. First Edition. Octavo. First translation in English by E. Noel Bowman. 195pp. illustrated with black and white photographic images, drawings and charts. Large folding map in rear pocket. This work presents a detailed picture of the region which has haunted man's imagination since the fact became known that 'Peak 15" of the Himalayas was… Read more about this item

(London, 1953): Hodder and Stoughton. First Edition. Octavo. 299(1) pp. This is the story of how two men, both endowed with outstanding stamina and skill, reached the top of Everest, and made it back to rejoin their comrades. Bound in blue cloth, spine lettering gilt, corners lightly rubbed, in clipped pictorial dust jacket depicting Mt. Everest in white and… Read more about this item

Np/nd [ca.2008]: [Robert Parkin Johnson]. Limited Edition. Octavo. No. 136 of 500 privately printed copies. [iv] 182 pages, map, photographs, with an introduction by Mayotta Southworth. Written by a physician who spent six months on Pitcairn caring for the medical and some of the psychological needs of the islanders, this book gets "inside" the Pitcairners' lives in a way… Read more about this item

London: Francis Edwards, 1915. Octavo. 177pp., large folding chart following the last page. With an introduction and notes by Basil Thomson. Mutiny on the Bounty ranks first among the stories of the sea, with the living elements of romance, of primal passion and of tragedy, all moving to a happy ending in the Arcadia of Pitcairn Island. The Pandora,… Read more about this item

London: Published for the Hakluya Society By Cambridge University Press, 1970. Octavo. xix, 393 pages, folding map in rear pocket. Translated from the Chinese text edited by Feng Ch'eng-Chin with introduction, notes and appendices by J.V.G. Mills. Ma Huan, a Chinese Muslim, sailed on the 4th, 6th, and 7th voyages of the eunuch admiral Cheng Ho in the early… Read more about this item

New York; (1979): The Viking Press. First Edition. Octavo. 273pp. signed by the author. Hillary had a dream of traveling with a group of friends from the mouth of the Ganges River up stream against the current as far as they could go. This is his dramatic record of the journey, a 1500 mile long journey which provided menu… Read more about this item

London and New York, 1922, 1924 and 1925: Edward Arnold and Longmans, Green and Co.`. First Editions. Small Quartos. In three volumes, mixed editions. frontispieces, 356, 339 (1 p. ad) and 372pp. Each volume illustrated with amazing photographic images and maps (some folding). To climb mount Everest, it was imperative to locate many men called Coolies who were accustomed… Read more about this item

The Folio Society, 2010. Limited Edition. Large Folio. A beautiful work. 6 volumes in two. Limited to 1000 copies for members only. The present set is #30. Another 20 lettered copies were published but not for sale. This set was reproduced using the first edition held in The John Rylands Library. It also reproduced every word and image from… Read more about this item

Boston: Page Company, 1914. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. Color frontispiece, 439 pages, index, and several other illustrations. One of the finer guides to Spain in the beginning of the 20th Century. Bookplate of Jesse M. Averill. A lovely copy, nearly fine bound in green pictorial cloth accented in blue, dark brown and gilt, pictorial spine and top edge… Read more about this item

New York: A.R. Keller & Company, 1911. First Edition. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, 448 pages. Illustrated with photographic images. The Arctic explorers such as Walter Wellman, Roald Amundsen, and Lincoln Ellsworth, captured the attention of the world at the beginning of the 20th century. His attempt to get above the North Pole was marked by horrendous weather. His next trip… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara; (2002): ABC-Clio. Quarto. Later printing. 512 pages. index. This major work brings together the work of over 100 experts covering historical figures, relevant legal and historical concepts, states that formed in the new territory, frontier outposts, and the Native Americans uprooted by expansion westward. The book examines every aspect and consequence of Thomas Jefferson's momentous transaction: the… Read more about this item

London; (1964): George Allen & Unwin. First Edition. Octavo. . 221 pages. A fascinating account by one of the great hunters of big game who here discusses the various aspects of the man-eaters. He writes about all the things that must first occupy the hunter's mind if he is to avoid being a victim. A very good copy bound… Read more about this item

Norman, Oklahoma. (1973): University of Oklahoma Press. First Edition. Octavo. Translated by W. Robert Nitski, Edited by Savoie Lottinville. 456 pages, index, bibliography. 456 pages, index, bibliography. The full story of German explorers in the American West has never been told. Year by year, however, it gradually emerges as scholars unearth new sources to address the problem. One of… Read more about this item

New York: The Macmillan Co, 1909. First Edition. Octavo. . 398 pages, maps, photographs. After opening with his experiences with man-eating lions, Patterson details his work during the expedition into the great northern game reserve of British East Africa which he penetrated into the little known regions. His sketch maps of the Guaso Nyiro are good material for the… Read more about this item

New Yorl;: Harper and Brothers, 1879. Octavo. . Later printing. In two volumes. 522 and 566pp. (2) pp. ads, Engraved frontispieces, illustrated with 10 maps some folding including the two large folding maps in rear pocket of each volume, and 150 woodcuts. This was one of Stanley's most important expeditions. He recounts the incredibly difficult and perilous journey during… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1914. First Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece, 351 pages. Later printing. A book that led Teddy Roosevelt to invite him to the White House and has influenced hunters and writers for over a century. Paul Theroux and a host of modern readers refer to it again and again. Patterson writes with cold reality: "I felt at once that this… Read more about this item