Guidebooks & Mountaineering
Lucinda Boyle
Manager
We are the leading specialists in antiquarian travel guide-books and our extensive stock from the eighteenth century onwards includes one of the largest collections of Baedeker’s, Murray’s and Thomas Cook handbooks. Our extensive mountaineering stock covers all the major mountain ranges of the world including the Alps, the Himalayas and the Andes. We also sell many titles on British climbing and exploration. Please feel free to browse our website and if you cannot find the edition or title you want please do not hesitate to contact us.
We are also always interested in acquiring collections or single items.
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Russia with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking.
Karl Baedeker, Leipzig,1914.
First edition, lxiv, 590pp, 40 maps, 78 plans, spine slightly faded; overall a very good copy.
Price: £ 850
Illustrated Guide Book for Travellers round the World .[In Japanese]
Awoki Szandow, Osaka[c.1880].
Price: £ 5,000
John Murray, London,1854.
Sixth edition. pp.lxviii, 412, 32 adverts at rear, folding map in rear pocket, large map of Switzerland...
Price: £ 150
T. Fisher and Unwin, London,1907
Royal 8vo (29 x 19 cm). Limitation page numbered and signed by publisher in ink, 336p