Titles starting with B from The Traveller's Bookshelf

8vo Jonathan Cape 1959. 1st edition. 16 plates of 28 photographs and 1 sketch map. Blue cloth 156pp. Maclean returned to Central Asia after twenty years to assess the changes. This time he travelled 'de luxe' under the auspices of Intourist. ... more information

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8vo John Murray 1946.. Third edition. Frontispiece, 14 plates of 17 photographs, 10 text illustrations and 1 double page map. Grey cloth with blue pictorial dustwrapper. xiv+158pp. Stark was working for the Baghdad Times and occasionally writing thumbnail sketches on life in the city which were gathered together in this her first book. Less conventional members of the ex-pat community enjoyed the way she poked gentle fun at the establishment but also wrote sympathetically about local people.This book was... more information

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8vo The Times Press , Baghdad 1932.. 1st edition. Frontispiece and 11 plates. Red cloth with chipped paper labels. 132pp. Stark was working for the Baghdad Times and occasionally writing thumbnail sketches on life in the city which were gathered together in this her first book. Less conventional members of the ex-pat community enjoyed the way she poked gentle fun at the establishment but also wrote sympathetically about local people. ... more information

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8vo Macmillan & Co. 1936.. 1st edition. Frontispiece, 121 plates (1 folding) and 1 folding map. Black cloth. Slight crease to back board. Otherwise a very nice copy. xv+248pp. This is the first book of the trilogy on the motor expedition begun in 1933 to map possible routes for two roads from Peking to the troublesome province of Sinkiang. It also gives the background to the war of 1931-4 in which the Islamic Tungans fought to gain independence from China under their General Ma Chung-yin 'Big ... more information

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8vo Government Printing Office, Washington 1915.. 7 plates, 18 text illustrations, figures and maps and 1 folding coloured map (with small tear). Maroon cloth. 638pp. An industrial and commercial handbook to facilitate American trade with the area and thus full of all sorts of useful information. ... more information

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8vo Constable and Company 1922.. 1st edition. Frontispiece, 31 plates of 41 photographs, 1 sketch map and 1 folding coloured map at rear of volume. Bibliography. Blue cloth gilt.. xvi+404pp. Unopened in places. The history of the colony, its administration, topography, jungles and agricultural land, tribal customs and pacification strategies. Rutter served for 5 years as magistrate and District Officer in the North Borneo Civil Service before the first world war. A beautiful copy of a most interestin... more information

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8vo Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company 1933.. 1st English edition. Frontispiece, 31 plates and 1 map. Blue cloth, a little rubbed. xiii+304pp. A one man expedition from Srinagar to Leh then on to the Shyok and Nubra valleys and the little known Siachen, Terem Sher and Rimo glaciers. ... more information

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8vo Edward Arnold 1905.. 1st edition. Frontispiece, 7 plates, 21 full page and text illustrations and 1 folding map. Red pictorial cloth a little worn on edges and with spine faded. xii+331pp An important account of the borderlands of eastern Albania, where the lack of defined borders left the area vulnerable to annexation by neighbouring states as Turkish power declined. Durham argued that the cause of the present revolts was not of religious but racial and tribal origins. She describes the history o... more information

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8vo Longmans Green & Co, New York 1929.. 1st US edition. 52 plates of 91 photographs (2 with small tears not affecting images), 2 maps, text illustrations and plans; and bibliography. 1 page with tear. Blue cloth, edges rubbed and cloth slightly stained, front hinge a little worn. 180pp. These expeditions between 1904 and 1907 yielded many beautiful treasures from the silk route sites. Beginning in Turfan, Le Coq excavated in the ancient city of Karakhoja where they found the frescoes, manuscripts ... more information

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4to Sampson Low, Marston & Company 1900.. 1st edtion. Frontispiece, 454 photographs (many full page) and double page map (slightly damaged at one corner but not affecting image) Maroon cloth gilt, spine slightly faded. xii+237pp. A wonderful photographic record of Burma at the beginning of the 20th century covering many different aspects of the life and customs of the people ... more information

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Slim 8vo At the Advertiser Press, Maulmain 1855.. Second edition of 1000 copies. Original half calf on marbled boards, rather rubbed and well handled, small piece of spine missing. 132pp. A ready reckoner of timber sizes which clearly saw a great deal of use in its day. ... more information

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