Travel & Expedition – Rare (130 items)

Doughty - Travels in Arabia Deserta. [Patrick Leigh Fermor's personal copy with three first editions of Leigh Fermor's Travel Writing]

56. [Fermor, Patrick Leigh] Doughty, Charles M.

Travels in Arabia Deserta. With an Introduction by T. E. Lawrence. [Patrick Leigh Fermor’s personal copy] / [Also including all three Volumes of his autobiographical journey (one of them signed), on foot across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in the years 1933 – 1934].

Second Impression of the ‘New and definitive Edition’. Two Volumes (complete set). London, Jonathan Cape, 1943. 20 cm x 26 cm. Volume I: Frontispice- Portrait of Doughty, 674 pages. Volume II: 696 pages. With both Volumes including each the beautiful large colour-fold-out-map in the rear showing “North Western Arabia and Negd”. Hardcover / Publisher’s original buckram with gilt lettering on spine and original dustjackets in protective collector’s Mylar. Deckled fore- and tail-edges. Coloured top edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Dustjackets slightly stained and price-clipped. Interior is bright and clean. Patrick Leigh Fermor’s personal copy with his name in ink on the endpaper of Volume II: “Patrick Leigh Fermor. London, July 1945.”. Leigh Fermor obviously rewarded himself with the purchase of Doughty’s masterpiece directly after World War Two. Stunning item, manifesting Doughty’s heavy influence on Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Travel writing. The set includes also three first editions in original dustjackets, of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s famous Travel writings: A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water [SIGNED], The Broken Road (with the second book, “Between the Woods and the Water” signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor.

EUR 2.400,-- 

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Wohlgemuth - Die österreichische Polarstation Jan Mayen - Ausgerüstet durch seine Excellenz Graf Hanns Wilczek

57. First International Polar Year (1882-1883) – Wohlgemuth, Emil von.

Die österreichische Polarstation Jan Mayen – Ausgerüstet durch seine Excellenz Graf Hanns Wilczek. Geleitet von K.K. Corvetten-Capitän Emil Edlen von Wohlgemuth. Beobachtungs-Ergebnisse Herausgegeben von der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. [Inklusive Ephemera] Band I – III (Komplett in vier Bänden mit dem eingebundenen Vorbericht zur Publikation welcher manchmal auch separat gebunden wurde: I. Band / II.Band 1. und 2. Abtheilung / III.Band).

Erste und einzige Ausgabe. Wien, K. und K. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei in Commission bei Karl Gerold’s Sohn, 1886. Quarto (24.5 cm x 31.5 cm). Collation: Band I: 118 Seiten mit vier Falttafeln (Beobachtungsstation im Wilczeck-Thale / Sternwarte / Helligkeitsgrad der Polarnacht / Kreuzung / [Route] des S.M.Dampfer “Pola” laengs der Eiskante bei der Insel Jan Mayen (farbig) / ), 26, 50, 202, 76, 16,18 Seiten / Band II,1: 232 Seiten / Band II,2: 175 Seiten / Band III: X, 132, 24, 20 Seiten [The set includes 85 text-illustrations, 61 plates (some folded) and four maps (original lithographs of which one is in colour)]. Original publisher’s Hardcover-Boards, now in protective collector’s Mylar. [Inclusive grossformatiger Werbung zu den Druckschriften der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien vom Jahre 1885] The boards of the thicker Volume One, as often, cleanly detached. All other Volumes in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor signs of foxing only. Unopened, unread version of this rare publication !

EUR 680,-- 

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