Travel.- Layard (Austen Henry) Nineveh and its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or Devil-Worshippers; and an Inquiry into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians, 2 vol., second edition, half title, woodcut frontispiece, title vignette, text illustrations, 18 woodcut plates, 6 folded, a map showing Kurdistan, the Sinjar, and Mesopotamia, some browning, spotting, owner signatures on titles of both volumes, calf bindings, rubbed and worn, spines cracked, 8vo, John Murray, 1849; Irwin (Eyles) A series of adventures in the course of a voyage up the Red-Sea…Aleppo, Bagdad, and the Tygris to Busrah, in the years 1780 and 1781, 2 vol., 4 plates, 5 folded showing Arabia, Syria, Mesopotamia, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Catarro, some browning, bookplate, full brown calf binding, rebacked, rubbed and worn, spine cracked in the second vol., internally repaired, 8vo, J. Dodsley, 1787; Norden (Frederick Lewis) Travels in Egypt and Nubia, 2 vol. First Octavo Edition, in one, 7 engraved plates, some browning and foxing, full brown calf binding, rubbed and worn, internally repaired, 8vo, Lockyer Davis & Charles Reymers, 1757; Reicher-Sgradi (R.) La Chine: l’empire au milliard de sujets, half title, frontispiece, double page plate showing China, publisher’s red morocco, gilt title, t.e.g. slightly rubbed, 8vo, Paris, J. Martineau, 1967; Menpes (Mortimer) Japan, A Record in Colour, half title, advertisement, illustrated frontispiece, title and dedication, 99 coloured illustrations, Beeleigh Abbey ex Libris, half red morocco binding, gilt spine divided in 6 compartments with raised bands, t.e.g., slightly rubbed, 8vo, Adam & Charles Black, 1903; Bulwer-Lytton (George) The Last Days of Pompeii, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, some browning, slight foxing, half calf, rubbed and worn, spine cracked in third vol., 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1834; Carne (John) Syria, the Holy Land & Asia Minor, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece, title, 117 etchings by William Henry Bartlett, 2 maps showing Asia and Syria, some browning, foxing, calf binding, spine gilt, a.e.g, rubbed and worn, 4to, Fisher, 1837-1838; Orsi (Pietro) Modern Italy 1748-1898, FIRST EDITION, half title, title and dedication, coloured map of Italy, 40 photographs showing the most important politicians and heroes of the Italian Unification, internally clean, foxing at free endpaper, bookplate, full brown calf, marbled edges, rubbed, 8vo, T. Fisher Unwin Paternoster Square, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900; M'Call Theal (George) South Africa, the Cape Colony, Natal, Orange free State, South African Republic, Rhodesia, and all Other Territories South of the Zambesi, half title, illustrated frontispiece, floral headpieces and tailpieces, 25 illustrations, 1 folded map, internally clean, brown calf, gilt ruling to boards, spine gilt divided in 6 compartments with floral decorative motives, gilt device on board, marbled edges, rubbed, 8vo, T.Fisher Unwin, [1899]; Scott (Robert Falcon) Scott's last expedition, the personal journals of Captain R.F. Scott... half title, frontispiece with portrait of Robert F. Scott, 15 photographs, 2 illustrations, 1 folded map showing the British Antarctic Expedition, bookplate, brown calf, gilt ruling to boards, marbled edges, rubbed, 8vo, J. Murray [1964] (small quantity)
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