Travel & Topography from Ariadne Books

London: Chatto & Windus, 2007. First edition, first impression. Hardback. [i - xi], xii - xiv, [xv - xxii], [1 - 3], 4 - 490pp. Dust jacket (three quarter height of book). "Thames: Sacred River" is about the river from source to sea. It covers history from prehistoric times to the present; the flora and fauna of the river;… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1968. John Piper and John Betjeman. Faber & Faber, London, 1968. Hardback. 211 pages plus maps. Lacking dust jacket. Illustrated with many black & white photographs and a colour frontispiece. Book in very good condition. A nice clean copy.

London: Faber & Faber, 1967. John Piper and John Betjeman. Faber & Faber, London, 1967, first edition. Hardback. 78 pages plus map. Dust jacket. The Isle of Wight is compact: a microcosm of southern England, blessed by climate and history. It escaped the Industrial revolution, and its charms were discovered and exploited by the early Victorians. There is a… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1979. John Piper and John Betjeman. Faber & Faber, London, first edition 1979. Hardback. 192 pages plus maps. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Warwickshire is a county of contrasts, with the vast industrial city of Birmingham in the north west and half a million acres of farmland stretching south to the Edge Hills and… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1968. John Piper and John Betjeman. Faber & Faber, London, 1968, third edition, first published 1935. Hardback. 198 pages plus 2 maps. Dust jacket. The original Shell Guide to Wiltshire, by the late Robert Byron, appeared in 1935. The gazetteer of parishes was revised by David Verey in 1956. The present work is longer and… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1976. John Piper and John Betjeman. Faber & Faber, London, second edition 1976, first published 1963. Hardback. 189 pages plus 2 maps. Dust jacket. Since the first Shell Guide to South-West Wales was published in 1963, Carmarthensire and Pembrokeshire were merged into the new county of Dyfed. This guide sticks with the old two counties… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1951. John Piper and John Betjeman. Faber & Faber, London, 1951, first edition. Hardback. 68 pages plus 2 pages of maps. Lacking dust jacket. This was the first Shell Guide to be published after the Second World war, and the first of a new series. In Shropshire, John Piper and John Betjeman found a county… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1969. John Piper and John Betjeman. Faber & Faber, London, 1969, third edition (first edition 1937). Hardback. 127 pages plus 3 maps. Dust jacket. Northumberland is a county of hills and valleys, grassy uplands, a rich coastal plain, a sandy coast, and off-shore islands. It has more ancient remains and medieval castles than any other… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1971. John Piper and John Betjeman. Faber & Faber, London, 1971, first edition. Hardback. 151 pages plus 3 maps. Dust jacket. This guide deals with the appearance and history of buildings in the landscape: with the man-made sights as well as the natural ones. But in North Wales nature is far more important, and far… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1960. John Piper and John Betjeman. Faber & Faber, London, 1960. Hardback. 120 pages. Dust jacket. A sparkling morning sea, gentle rivers and a wide East Anglian sky are Suffolk's permanent blessings. One of its southern valleys inspire Gainsborough and Constable, and other parts of the county have had their moods expressed in poetry by… Read more about this item

London: Columbus Books, 1988. First edition, 1988. Hardback. 267pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. In 1985 Peter Hudson set off for Africa. Though he had already spent some time working on a farm in Zambia, building safari camps in the bush and following the backpack trail through the southern countries, he felt impelled to seek a wider experience… Read more about this item

Norwich: Jarrold Publishing, 1990. Hardback. 224pp. Dust jacket. There can be few old buildings in Britain which do not have some sort of strange story attached to them. This book offers a collection of over 250 such stories in and around some of Britain's most beautiful and historic buildings, from pubs and theatres to castles and stately homes. Beautifully… Read more about this item

Moreton-in-Marsh: The Windrush Press, 2000. First edition, 2000. Hardback. 336pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. There are some 13,000 parishes in England, each with its parish church, covering the country in a network which gives identity to local communities. Two-thirds of English parishes are ancient, probably a thousand years old, one-third have been founded in the last 150… Read more about this item

Hindhead: Trailblazer Publication, 2019. Paperback. 342 pages plus maps at rear. 142 large scale maps & guides to 81 towns and villages. Covers the entire coastline of Cornwall. 142 maps at 1:20,000 scale (8cms to 1 mile) - bigger than even the most detailed walking maps available in the shops. Walking times, directions, tricky junctions, places to eat, points… Read more about this item

London: Frederick Warne & Co, c1893. Undated but c1893. Hardback. xi, 512pp. Publisher's original tooled red cloth with gilt to upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. No jacket. Eight colour plates with tissue guards plus over 140 wood engravings. Decorated initials to each chapter. An entertaining read indeed. "In order to give a fair picture of our country,… Read more about this item

Hindhead: Trailblazer Publication, 2016. Paperback. 354 pages plus maps at rear. 142 large scale maps & guides to 81 towns and villages. Covers the entire coastline of Cornwall. 142 maps at 1:20,000 scale (8cms to 1 mile) - bigger than even the most detailed walking maps available in the shops. Walking times, directions, tricky junctions, places to eat, points… Read more about this item

London: Thames & Hudson, 2017. First edition, 2017. Paperback. 352pp. East London has changed more dramatically than any other part of the city ovre the last thrity years. From a desolate and often derelict state after the bombing of the Second World war, it has become one of the most fashionable neighbourhoods in the world, with major developments in… Read more about this item

New York: Bonanza Books, 1970. Fourth edition, 1970. Hardback. xii,140pp. Publisher's original light brown cloth. Top edge tinted. Dust jacket. A nicely illustrated study of map-making from the earliest times to the mid nineteenth century. Book in very good condition. Tint to top edge a little sun-bleached towards the spine. Dust jacket very good and unclipped. … Read more about this item

London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher & P. Jackson, 1832. First edition, 1832. 4to. 220pp plus plates. Half bound in modern red calf with marbled boards and new (plain) endpapers. Six panels to spine with gilt and contrasting title panel. All edges marbled (original). No jacket. A fine collection of views and descriptions of this attractive region of the… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First edition, 1992. Hardback. xi, 573pp. Red cloth boards with gilt to upper board and spine. Dust jacket. With all the with and brio of his acclaimed writings on art, with all the humane passion of his best-selling account of the settlement of Australia, "The Fatal Shore", Robert Hughes now brings to life… Read more about this item