Travel, Maps & Topographical Views, Antiquarian Literature, Cookery & Science

Allom (Thomas, illustrator). China in a Series of Views, displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits, of that Ancient Empire ... WIth ...

Arlington (Lewis Charles). The Chinese Drama from the Earliest Times until To-Day, 1st edition, Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, Limited, 1930, half-tit...

Baker (Samuel White). The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon, 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854, half-title, 6 chromolitho...

Bishop (Isabella, née Bird). The Yangtze Valley and Beyond. An Account of Journeys in China, chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and among the Ma...

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 on t...

Buchanan (Sir George). My Mission to Russia and Other Diplomatic Memories, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1923, pho...

Byron (George Anson). Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the Years 1824-1825. Captain the Right Hon. Lord Byron, Commander, 1st e...

Callery (Joseph-Marie, & Melchior Yvan). History of the Insurrection in China ... Translated from the French, with a Supplementary Chapter, narrat...

Carey (Frances Jane). Journal of a Tour in France, in the Years 1816 and 1817, 1st edition, London: Taylor and Hessey, 1823, profusely extra-illus...

Cave (Henry W.). A Series of Forty Aionograph Ceylon Views, 1st edition, Colombo: H. W. Cave & Co., [1893], 40 'aionograph' plates from photograph...

Curzon (Robert). Armenia: A Year at Erzeroom, and on the Frontiers of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1854, 5 wood-e...

David-Neel (Alexandra). Tibetan Journey, 1st edition, London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1936, 16 photographic plates, folding map, half-title spo...

Doughty (Charles M.). Travels in Arabia Deserta, with a New Preface by the Author, Introduction by T. E. Lawrence, and all original Maps, Plans an...

Ebers (Georg). Aegypten in Bild und Wort, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, Stuttgart & Leipzig: Eduard Hallberger, c.1880, wood-engraved plates, 2 colour m...

Erskine (John Elphinstone). Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific, including the Feejees and Others inhabited by the Polyne...

Europe. Photograph album, c.1870-80, containing 313 albumen print photographs mounted rectos and versos to 68 thick card leaves, including landsca...

Francklin (William). Inquiry concerning the Site of Ancient Palibothra, parts 2-4 of 4 in 1 volume, 1st editions, London: Kingsbury, Parbury, and ...

Frankland (Charles Colville). Travels to and from Constantinople, in the Years 1827 and 1828, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Henry Colburn, 1829,...

Harris (Walter B.). From Batum to Baghdad via Tiflis, Tabriz, and Persian Kurdistan, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1896, hal...

Hose (Charles). Natural Man. A Record from Borneo, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1926, numerous halftone photographic plates (all presen...

Ibn Battuta. The Travels of Ibn Battuta A.D. 1325-1354. Translated with revisions and notes from the Arabic text edited by C. Defrémery and B. R. ...

Jack (R. Logan). The Back Blocks of China. A Narrative of Experiences among the Chinese, Sifans, Lolos, Tibetans, Shans and Kachins, between Shang...

Johnston (Robert). Travels through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland; along the Southern Shores of the Baltic, 1st edition, Lon...

Kennedy (Sir Alexander B. W.). Petra. Its History and Monuments, 1st edition, London: Country Life, 1925, 76 collotype photographic plates includi...

Kennedy (Sir William Robert). Sport, Travel and Adventure in Newfoundland and the West Indies, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons,...

Landon (Perceval). Lhasa. An Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission sent there by the English Gover...

Lay (G. Tradescant). The Chinese As They Are: their Moral, Social, and Literary Character; a New Analysis of their Language; with Succinct Views o...

Lowth (George Thomas). Around the Kremlin; or, Pictures of Life in Moscow, 1st edition, London: Hurst and Blackett, 1868, half-title, wood-engrave...

Lyon (George Francis). A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to reach Repulse Bay, through Sir Thomas Rowe's "Welcome," in His Majesty's Sh...

Mackenzie (Charles). Notes on Haiti, made during a Residence in that Republic, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, ...

Mariner (William). An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, 2 volumes, 2nd edition ('with additions'), London: ...

Mason (John Abraham). A Treatise on the Climate and Meteorology of Madeira, 1st edition, London: John Churchill, 1850, errata slip, 3 engraved pla...

Melville (George Wallace). In the Lena Delta. A Narrative of the Search for Lieut.-Commander DeLong and his Companions. Followed by an Account of ...

Milne [Mary Lewis]. The Home of an Eastern Clan. A Study of the Palaungs of the Shan States, 1st edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924, 20 halfto...

Morier (James). A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809; in which is included, some Accou...

Osborn (Sherard). Quedah; or, Stray Leaves from a Journal in Malayan Waters, 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857...

[Ottoman Turkey]. Thirty Years in the Harem: or, the Autobiography of Melek-Hanum, Wife of H.H. Kibrizli-Mehemet-Pasha, 1st edition in English, Lo...

Philby (Harry St John Bridger). The Empty Quarter, being a Description of the Great South Desert of Arabia known as Rub' al Khali, 1st edition, Lo...

Pleshcheev (Sergey Ivanovich). Survey of the Russian Empire ... Translated from the Russian, with considerable Additions, by James Smirnove, 1st e...

Prip-Møller (J.). Chinese Buddhist Monasteries. Their Plan and its Function as a Setting for Buddhist Monastic Life, 1st edition, Copenhagen: G. E...

[Rothery, Charles William]. Notes on a Yacht Voyage to Hardanger Fjord and the Adjacent Estuaries. By a Yachting Dabbler, 1st edition, London: Lon...

Singh (Sir Jagatjit, Maharaja of Kapurthala). My Travels in China, Japan and Java, 1903, 1st edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1905, photogravure...

[St Helena]. A Few Thoughts for the Stranger and Resident in St. Helena, 1st edition, London: Vincent Brooks, Day and Son, 1868, 32 pp., chromolit...

Stevenson (James). The Arabs in Central Africa and at Lake Nyassa, Glasgow: James Maclehose & Sons, 1889, pp. 24 [2], 2 folding colour maps (inclu...

Telfer (J. Buchan). The Crimea and Transcaucasia. Being the Narrative of a Journey in the Kouban, in Gouria, Georgia, Armenia, Ossety, Imeritia, S...

[View-books]. Collection of 30 view-books, c.1890-1930, comprising 10 on the Americas, 15 on Europe, and 5 on the Middle East or Australia, titles...

Whyte (William Athenry). A Land Journey from Asia to Europe: being an Account of a Camel and Sledge Journey from Canton to St. Petersburg through ...

Wilson (James). A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean, performed in the Years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the Ship Duff, commander by Captain...

Wright (Arnold, editor). Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon: its History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources, London: Lloyd's Greate...

Younghusband (Sir Francis). Peking to Lhasa. The Narrative of Journeys in the Chinese Empire made by the Late Brigadier-General George Pereira, 1s...