With 314 illustrations, 40 in colour. Translated from the German by Betty and Peter Ross. Pp. 310(last blank), illustrated, including numerous plates within pagination (40 coloured), pictorial endpapers, maps, notes, bibliography, chronology, index; roy. 4to; brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; Thames & Hudson..... More
8 plates, endpaper map, notes, glossary, select bibliography, index; dust wrapper; top edges of leaves a trifle soiled; Gollancz, 1978. More
Fortune and Freedom in Spanish America. Pp. x+238, text illustrations including maps (some full page), notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; I. B. Tauris, London, 2008. First edition. More
Pp. xii+234, frontispiece plus 8 plates, index; edges of boards a trifle bumped; dust wrapper, back panel slightly soiled, edges rubbed and slightly split; Cassell , London, 1964. First U.K. edition. *Memoirs of the Portuguese General. More
The story of an involvement. Pp. 224; faint damp stain to lower board; dust wrapper, the front flap a trifle foxed; free endpapers faintly offset, edges of leaves slightly foxed; The Bodley Head, London, 1984. First edition. *Graham Greene's account, based on his diaries, of a five-year friendship with Omar..... More
Pp. 224 (last blank), 32 coloured plates (including frontispiece), numerous black & white text illustrations (several full page), pictorial endpapers, chronology, notes, bibliography, index; narrow cr. 4to; boards a trifle sprung; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Michael Joseph, London, 1978. First U.K. edition. More
Travels and Adventures in the Banda Oriental, South America. Cheaper edition, in one volume. Pp. [iv]+286+266(last colophon)+32(publisher's catalogue, dated October 1885); grey/green cloth, upper board lettered and decorated in brown, slightly worn, the corners lightly bruised, tiny scar to upper board affecting one letter of title, rebacked, with the original..... More
Pp. xxvi+500(last blank), text maps (some double page), references, index; light blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; demy 8vo; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, the back panel faintly soiled; The Hakluyt Society, London, 1989. Second series, Volume 171. *During the first half of the 17th century, English and..... More
Travels in Brazil. Folding map at end; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and rubbed; top edges of leaves lightly foxed; Bodley Head, 1964. More
with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas. Pp. xx+464, engraved frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, appendix; cr. 8vo; school prize binding in nineteenth century full calf, spine decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, with contrasting red & green gilt lettered leather title labels, boards with gilt..... More
Pp. 192(last blank), 96 plates (16 coloured), text illustrations, pictorial endpapers, 3 full page maps, notes, bibliography, index; small cr. 4to; edges of boards a trifle faded; dust wrapper, slightly foxed on reverse, edges lightly rubbed and split, the laminate lifting slightly around backstrip; a little faint foxing and occasional..... More