Titles starting with P from The Traveller's Bookshelf

2 volumes 8vo Macmillan & Company 1906.. 1st edition. Frontispieces, 223 plates, 5 maps (2 folding) and bibliography. Brown cloth with embossed library label on front boards. Old library labels on front pastedowns and blind stamp on each plate and on title pages. xl+724pp & x+855pp. Despite its library background this is a very nice tight clean copy of a monumental work. ... more information

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2 volumes 8vo John Murray 1893.. 1st edition. Frontispiece volume 1 and map as frontispiece volume 2. 21 plates, 26 text illustrations, 3 folding maps and 1 table. Newly rebound in quarter calf on marbled boards and with new endpapers xx+360 & xi+340pp. A great journey of over 2000 miles from Kashmir through Ladakh, Western Tibet, to Chinese Turkestan for Dunmore and his companion Major Roche. Dunmore then went on alone through Russian Turkistan to the Caspian. Written in diary form the boo... more information

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8vo Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague 1957.. Koninklijk Institut Translation Series No. 2. Frontispiece, 76 photographs, many text illustrations and 2 folding maps. Green cloth. xv+384pp. This very full study of the Waropen, a northern New Guinea coastal tribe, was completed in the early 1940s and first published in the Netherlands in 1947. This is the English translation. ... more information

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4to The Studio 1911.. 816 illustrations (45 in colour) Raspberry cloth, slightly faded. 54 pp of text. Textiles, woodcarvings, architecute, pottery, metal work and jewellary etc form all parts of the Austrian Empire of the time including Bosnia Herzegovina and Dalmatia, and Hugary including Transylvania, Croatia and Slavonia. ... more information

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8vo John Murray 1948.. 1st edition. Chapter headings by Reynolds Stone. Green cloth with dustwrapper chipped in places and reinforced with tape. x+169pp. A collection of philosophical essays, sorted from Freya's 'bundle'. ... more information

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8vo The Macmillan Company, New York 1909.. 3rd impression. Frontispiece, 219 illustrations, plans and photographs and 1 folding map. Blue cloth with gilt vignette, a little rubbed, spine buckled and front hinge beginning to spring. xxxi+471pp. A scholarly work combining historical information with the account of the author's trip to Persia to pursue his interest in Zoroastrianism. ... more information

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Sm 8vo Charles Scribners' Sons, New York 1886.. 1st US edition. Folding map frontispiece (a little badly folded) and bibliography. Green cloth, rather rubbed and faded, top of spine chipped. xvii+343pp. The author was an American Presbyterian missionary who spent 11 years in Persia. He gives a graphic account of the country including the cholera epidemic of 1871 and the devastating famine that followed. He was based at the Nestorian mission in Oroomiah but travelled all around the country and writ... more information

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8vo Jonathan Cape 1958.. 1st edition. 16 plates, 8 text illustrations, 1 map and bibliography. owner inscription on title. Blue cloth with slightly worn pictorial dustwrapper. 384pp. The stories of early travellers to Central Asia such as Wolff, Vambery, McGahan, O'Donovan, Curzon and Bailey. The book that introduced many to the fascination that is travel in Central Asia. ... more information

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8vo Blackie & Son 1939.. 1st edition. 32 plates and 2 sketch maps, small bibliography. Terracotta cloth. xiv+210pp. A very good account of the city and its monuments by an archaeologist working on the site. ... more information

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8vo Faber & Faber 1973.. 1st edition. 14 photographs, 3 sketch maps and bibliography. Brown cloth with pictorial dustwrapper. 332pp. Monroe, a Foreign Office Middle East specialist, knew Philby's family well, both in Arabia and England. ... more information

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8vo Jonathan Cape 1934.. 1st edition. Frontispiece, 15 plates of 18 photographs and 2 folding maps. inscription on ff endpaper. Ginger cloth, slight watermark on front board. 317pp. From the plains of Assam to South Eastern Tibet ... more information

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8vo Jonathan Cape 1937.. 1st edition. Frontispiece, 11 plates and 2 folding maps. Red cloth. 347pp. Burma. From Myitkyina to Fort Hertz and north to seek the source of the Tamai river and then on into Tibet. ... more information

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8vo David Nutt, for the Folklore Society 1907. 2 volumes in 1.. Brown decorative cloth, mostly unopened. xxxi+204pp & 224pp. 2 library bookplates but no library marks. The author collected most of these examples himself amongst the tribes in the area stretching from the Bolan pass to the plains along the the right bank of the Indus in Southern Punjab. Before his work the only previous examples were collected by Leech in 1840 and Burton in 1877. ... more information

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8vo Government Printing, Rangoon 1902.. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Original cloth backed rubbed grey boards, edges worn. Label on spine worn. Library number on spine, library plate on pastedown, small stamp on title, contents, preface and 3 other pages. The author was a District Superintendent in the Burma police. The Chingpaw live on the northern Burmese border with Assam. It is the Burmese who call them Kachins. The book has a very good appendix on their customs mostly taken from a monograph by ... more information

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8vo Bureau of Public Printing, Manila 1904.. Coloured frontispiece and 60 illustrations. Original cloth backed boards, rather worn and loose . Library stamp on title and label on spine. The first of a series designed to help farmers in the study of certain crop pests in the Philippines. ... more information

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8vo John Murray 1959.. 1st edition. 14 photographs and 1 sketch map. Blue cloth with slightly waterstained dustwrapper. ix+221pp. Working for the Chinese Industrial Co-operatives in Kham with his headquarters in Tachienlu in the late '30s, Goullart met many of the tribal peoples of the area. He became very interested in the warlike independant 'Lolos' , the Nosu, and through a friendship with one of the princes was given the chance to travel in their little visited territory. ... more information

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Small 8vo Punjab Educational Electric Press, Lahore 1933.. 1st edition. Frontispiece, 48 plates and 1 folding sketch map. Green cloth, a little shaky and spine a little buckled. xiv+232pp. Description of the revolution in Afghanistan in 1928-9 and the events which led up to it by an eyewitness. He then goes on to write of the events after the revolution and the progress Afghanistan is making. ... more information

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