Sale of The Michael Gilkes Collection of Travel & Exploration Books

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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY & ATLASES. - Magnus BARTLETT. Over Hong Kong. London: Andre Deutsch, 1988. First edition, oblong 4to (250 x 280mm.) Numerous ph...

BEERBOHM, Julius. Wanderings in Patagonia or Life Among the Ostrich-Hunters. London: Chatto and Windus, 1879. First edition, 8vo (215 x 128mm.) Fr...

BOURNE, Benjamin Franklin. The Captive in Patagonia; or, Life among the Giants. A Personal Narrative. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1853. First editi...

BRITISH MAPS & ATLASES. - Helen WALLIS. Atlas of the British Isles by Peter Van Den Keere c. 1605. Lympne Castle: Harry Margary, [n.d.] 8vo (152 x...

BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY. - Dudley STAMP and Stanley BEAVER. The British Isles, A Geographic and Economic Survey… second edition. London: Longmans, Gree...

CANALS & WATERWAYS. - R.C. Royal MINIKIN. Practical River and Canal Engineering. London: Charles Griffin and Company, Limited, 1920. First edition...

CANALS, BRITISH. - E. Temple THURSTON. The 'Flower of Gloster'. London: Williams and Norgate, 1911. First edition, 8vo (215 x 156mm.) Colour front...

CANALS, BRITISH. - Charles HADFIELD and John NORRIS. Waterways to Stratford. Dawlish: David and Charles, 1962. First edition, 8vo (215 x 140mm.) (...

CANALS, FOREIGN. - [Sun ZHEN (editor)]. The Grand Canal of China. [N.p.:] South China Morning Post Ltd., 1984. 4to (278 x 233mm.) Numerous colour ...

CANALS, SUSSEX. - Alan GREEN. The History of Chichester's Canal. Saltdean: Sussex Industrial Archaeological Society, 2005. First edition, 8vo (210...

CANALS. - Edward W. PAGET-TOMLINSON. The Complete Book of Canal & River Navigations. Albrighton: Waine Research Publications, 1978. First edition,...

CANALS. - Charles HADFIELD and Gordon BIDDLE. The Canals of North West England. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1970. 2 vols., 8vo (214 x 134mm.) N...

CAPTAIN COOK. - Andrew DAVID (editor). The Charts & Coastal Views of Captain Cook's Voyages. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1988-1992. First edition...

CAPTAIN COOK. - Georg FORSTER. Cook, the Discoverer… a new translation accompanying a facsimile of 'Cook, der Entdecker. Versuch eines Denkmals'. ...

CAPTAIN COOK. The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery, edited from the Original Manuscripts by J.C. Beaglehole… four volume...

CARTOGRAPHY. - John GOSS. The Mapmaker's Art, a History of Cartography. London: Studio Editions, 1994. Folio (367 x 263mm.) Numerous colour illust...

CARTOGRAPHY. - John GOSS. The Mapping of North America, Three Centuries of Map-making 1500-1860. New Jersey: The Wellfleet Press, 1990. Numerous c...

CARTOGRAPHY. - Mary Sponberg PEDLEY. Bel et Utile, The Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers. Tring: Map Collector Publications, 1992...

CARTOGRAPHY. - J.B. HARLEY and David WOODWARD (editors). The History of Cartography, Volume One, Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval...

CARTOGRAPHY. - R.V. TOOLEY et al. Landmarks of Mapmaking, an Illustrated Survey of Maps and Mapmakers. Oxford: Phaidon, 1976. Folio (396 x 268mm.)...

COBB, Arthur. Birds of the Falkland Islands, a Record of Observation with the Camera. London: H.F. & G. Witherby, 1933. First edition, 8vo (227 x ...

COLUMBUS. - Marc BECKWITH et al. (translator). Nuova Raccolta Colombiana, Christopher Columbus the Journal, Account of the First Voyage and Discov...

DARWIN. - Richard Darwin KEYNES (editor). The Beagle Record, Selections from the Original Pictorial records and Written Accounts of the Voyage of ...

DIRECTORY. The Directory of Birmingham. Birmingham: Wrightson and Webb, 1839. 8vo (217 x 128mm.) 45 engraved advertisements (2 folding), 9pp. adve...

DISCOVERY REPORTS. - L. Harrison MATTHEWS. Discovery Reports… The Birds of South Georgia… vol. I, pp.561-592, plates XLV-LVI, issued by the Discov...

EXPLORATION & CARTOGRAPHY. - Boyle SOMERVILLE. The Chart-Makers. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1928. First edition, 8vo (216 ...

EXPLORATION & DISCOVERY, GENERAL. - Harry JOHNSTON. The Nile Quest, a Record of the Exploration of the Nile and its Basin. London: Lawrence and Bu...

EXPLORATION & DISCOVERY. - Richard HAKLUYT. The Principall Navigations Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation… imprinted at London, 1589. C...

EXPLORATION. - Raymond John HOWGEGO. Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800; 1800-1850; 1850-1940 Continental Exploration; 1850-1940 The Oceans, Isla...

EXPLORATON & DISCOVERY, NORTH AMERICA. - Peter GUTHORN. United States Coastal Charts 1783-1861. Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1984. Firs...

FALKLAND ISLANDS & SOUTH GEORGIA. - David TATHAM (editor). The Dictionary of Falklands Biography (including South Georgia), From Discovery up to 1...

FALKLAND ISLANDS, PHOTOGRAPHS. To Commemorate the Visit to the Falkland Islands of His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh. [N.p.:] January 1957....

FALKLAND ISLANDS. The Falkland Islands Journal. Port Stanley: 1967-2014. Vols. 1967-2014 only, 8vo (212 x 152mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Some li...

FALKLANDS WAR. - Lawrence FREEDMAN. The Official History of the Falklands Campaign. London & New York: Routledge, 2007. 2 vols., 8vo (234 x 154mm....

GOODRIDGE, Charles Medyett. Narrative of a Voyage to the South Seas, and the Shipwreck of the Princess of Wales Cutter, with an Account of Two Yea...

GRAHAM, Robert. The Carved Stones of Islay. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1895. First edition, 4to (290 x 220mm.) 1 map, 32 plates. (Browning...

ICELAND. - Geo. V. TURNBULL & CO. (publishers). Sportsman's and Tourist's Handbook to Iceland. Third edition… The Royal Mail Steamers of the Unite...

ISLANDS. - [Isobel] GILL. Six Months in Ascension, an Unscientific Account of a Scientific Expedition… second edition. London: John Murray, 1880. ...

ISLAY & JURA. - John RICKMAN. Laird of the Light Houses. [N.p.:] John Rickman, 1994. First edition, 8vo (247 x 162mm.) Numerous illustrations. Ori...

JACKSON, E.L. St. Helena: The Historic Island from its Discovery to the Present Date. New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1905. First edition, 8vo (215 x ...

LONDON WATERWAYS. River Thames Wharf Directory, Towage-Thames & Medway 1879-1954. London: Gaselee and Son Ltd., [n.d. but circa 1954]. (Light brow...

MAPPING, MILITARY & CIVIL. - W.H. RICHARDS. Text Book of Military Topography: including the Courses of Instruction… and Examinations for Promotion...

MAPS, ENGLAND & WALES. The Old Series Ordnance Survey Maps of England and Wales. Lympne Castle: Harry Margary, 1975-1991. 8 vols., first edition, ...

MASON, Michael H. Where Tempests Blow, Upon the Land of Magellan. London: Hodder and Stoughton, November 1933. Second impression, 8vo (241 x 150mm...

MOUNTAINEERING, EVEREST & HIMALAYAS. - Michael P. WARD. Everest, a Thousand Years of Exploration, a Record of Mountaineering, Geographical Explora...

MOUNTAINEERING. - Alan LYALL. The First Descent of the Matterhorn, a Bibliographical Guide to the 1865 Accident & its Aftermath. Llandysul: Gomer ...

NATURAL HISTORY, SOUTH AMERICA. - David D. MOORE. Flora of Tierra del Fuego. England: Anthony Nelson, 1983. First edition, 4to (296 x 208mm.) Nume...

PACIFIC ISLANDS. The Parsons Collection, Rare Pacific Voyage Books from the Collection of David Parsons. Potts Point: Hordern House, [n.d. but cir...

PATAGONIA. - A. DE CORDOVA. A Voyage of Discovery to the Strait of Magellan: with an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants; and of...

PATAGONIA. - George M. TOTTEN (translator). U.S. Hydrographic Office. No. 55. Remarks of Captain M.A. Lefèvre… on the Voyage of the Vaudreuil thro...

PENN, James. The South America Pilot. Part I. East Coast of South America, from Cape St. Roque to Cape Virgins including Falkland, South Georgia… ...

PIKE, W.T. (editor). Liverpool and Birkenhead in the Twentieth Century. Contemporary Biographies. Pike's New Century Series. Brighton: W.T. Pike &...

PITCAIRN ISLAND & THE BOUNTY. - [Thomas] Boyles MURRAY. Pitcairn: The Island, the People, and the Pastor; with a Short Account of the Mutiny of th...

PRICE, Julius. From the Arctic Ocean to the Yellow Sea. The Narrative of a Journey, in 1890 and 1891, across Siberia, Mongolia, the Gobi Desert, a...

PRICHARD, H. Hesketh. Through the Heart of Patagonia. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1902. First edition, 8vo (265 x 170mm.) Colour frontispie...

RIVERS. - P.G. HAMERTON. The Unknown River: an Etcher's Voyage of Discovery. London: Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday, 1874. 8vo (182 x 118mm.) Etched ...

ROUTLEDGE, [Katherine]. The Mystery of Easter Island, The Story of an Expedition. London: printed for the author by Hazell, Watson and Viney, [n.d...

SATELLITE PHOTOGRAPHY. - Richard WILLIAMS and Jane FERRIGNO (editors). Glaciers of South America, Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World. ...

SCOTLAND, HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY. - Ian LINDSAY and Mary COSH. Inveraray and the Dukes of Argyll, with a foreword by the Eleventh Duke of Argyll. E...

SCOTLAND. - Alan MCKIRDY et al. Land of Mountain and Flood, the Geology and Landforms of Scotland. Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 2007. First edition...

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