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FONTANIER (Victor).
Voyage dans l'archipel indien.
Paris, Ledoyen, 1852 In-8, demi-veau moutarde, dos lisse orné de filets dorés, pièce de titre rouge, XV, 320 p.
Bookseller reference : 544184
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FONTENELLE (Bernard Le Bovier de)
La République des philosophes, ou Histoire des Ajaoiens. Ouvrage posthume de Mr. de Fontenelle. On y joint une Lettre sur la Nudité des Sauvages.
1768 In-12 (152 x 98 mm), demi-veau marbré de l'époque, dos lisse orné de compartiments garnis de fleurons et filets dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin brun, tranches rouges, (2) f., (8), 188 p. Genève, 1768.
Bookseller reference : 38623
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FONTENELLE (Bernard Le Bovier de)
La République des philosophes, ou Histoire des Ajaoiens. Ouvrage posthume de Mr. de Fontenelle. On y joint une Lettre sur la Nudité des Sauvages.
In-12 (157 x 100 mm), demi-cuir de Russie vert bronze, dos lisse orné d'un jeu de doubles filets dorés, titre doré, (rel. ca 1840), (2) f., (8), 188 p. Edition originale posthume de cette utopie attribuée à Fontenelle, composée par celui-ci autour de 1682 selon une date mentionnée page 152. Selon H.-G. Funke (Voltaire Foundation, 1998): "première utopie athée et communiste dans la littérature française, ce récit de voyage utopique lie le néo-scepticisme et le libertinage érudit du XVIIe siècle au matérialisme et au néo-spinozisme du siècle des Lumières". On y retrouve réunis les grands thèmes des utopies démocratiques de son temps: absence de propriété privée, travail modéré, régime alimentaire frugal et sain, urbanisation géométrique, magasins publics, pacifisme, mépris des biens matériels, polygamie mesurée, etc. Plus radical le traitement de la question religieuse: les Ajaoiens constituent une société d'athées vertueux et strictement matérialistes dans laquelle l'Etat et l'homme ne doivent plus rien à Dieu. Dieu comme l'âme ont été inventés "par d'habiles politiques" afin de maintenir les hommes "dans une crainte perpétuelle d'un prétendu avenir". "Ces peuples ne reconnaissent aucun fondateur ni de leur république, ni de leur religion. Aussi n’y a-t-il parmi eux ni secte ni parti, soit dans les religions, soit sur les affaires de l’État. Ils n’ont ni livre sacré, ni loi écrite" (p. 37). (Cf. R. Trousson, 'Voyages aux pays de nulle part', p. 111 et s. J.-M. Racault, 'L'utopie narrative', p. 386 et s. et A. Niderst, 'Fontenelle', p. 47 et s.). (R. Descharmes, 'Cat. des ouvrages de Fontenelle', B.N., n° 173. Hartig et Soboul, 'Utopies', 60. Tchemerzine-Scheler, III, 340). Très bon exemplaire, intérieur très frais.
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FONTENOY MAUD
LE PACIFIQUE A MAINS NUES - 7000 KILOMETRES ET 73 JOURS D'AVENTURE A LA RAME.
ROBERT LAFFONT. 2005. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 171 pages - 1er plat illustré en couleurs - quelques illustrations en couleurs hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 910.4-Voyages
Bookseller reference : R240058075
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Fontes Amando
Os Corumbas. Romance
Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Jos� Olympio Edit�ra 1967. Eighth Printing. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Eighth Printing. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Clean off-white pages. Wraps have light handling wear. ; First novel written by Brazilian author Amando Fontes 1899-1967 originally published in 1933. Cole��o Sagarana; Vol. 59; 7.25" tall; 172 pages. Livraria Jos� Olympio Edit�ra unknown
Bookseller reference : 3770069
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Fontpertuis Adalbert Frout de
Le Japon civilis�.
Paris Librairie g�n�rale de vulgarisation 1885 1885. Cartonnage rouge de l'�diteur d�cor dor� au premier plat. 13/20 cm. 143 pp. Ouvrage illustr� de quelques gravures hors-texte. Bel �tat. unknown
Bookseller reference : 4653
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Fonville Nina.
HOLD FAST THESE EARTH-WARM STONED.
San Antonio: Naylor 1949. D.j. 231 pp. illus. by Melvan D. Jordan. Author lived in Mexico City with her son in the house of a Mexican doctor and his family. 1st. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Naylor Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 027091
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Food Management in Hotel Travel and Tourism
Food Management in Hotel Travel and Tourism
ABD Publishers 2019. New. Edgar Donne. ABD Publishers unknown
Bookseller reference : OBC-9788183766746 ISBN : 8183766749 9788183766746
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Foord Edward
Exeter Truro and the West
London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Very Good in Poor dust jacket; Jacket in two pieces and tattered laid in. . Owner name on front flyleaf. 1925. Hardcover. Purple decorated cloth. Index photos illustrations. ; Cathedrals Abbeys and Famous Churches; 12mo 7" - 7�" tall; 191 pages . J. M. Dent & Sons hardcover
Bookseller reference : 36672
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Foord Edward
Gloucester Tewkesbury and District
London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket; Owner name on front flyleaf. Rear jacket . flap laid in. 1925. Hardcover. Purple decorated cloth. Index photos illustrations. ; Cathedrals Abbeys and Famous Churches; 12mo 7" - 7�" tall; 192 pages . J. M. Dent & Sons hardcover
Bookseller reference : 36671
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Foote Brian & Marr Joan
HAVE SLEEPING BAG WILL TRAVEL: An Autobiography of Brian Leonard Hodson Foote
Joan Marr 2006. Paperback. New. Limited 1st Edition 200 printed; xii 332pp illustrated with b/w photographs. Paperback. A personal account of the life of Brian Leonard Hodson Foote his life in Britain before during and after the war and his progression at the age of thirty to the Antarctic Continent as a member of the British Antarctic Survey team. New. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; ISBN: 0975173618. ISBN/EAN: 9780975173619. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1606. . 9780975173619 Joan Marr paperback
Bookseller reference : 1606 ISBN : 0975173618 9780975173619
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Footner Hulbert
The Fur Bringers a story of the Canadian Northwest
NY: James A. McCann 1920. corners and edges bumped; lightly soiled boards and several ep's. Lacks dust jacket; 313p. VanDerhoof 2071. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Hard Cover. James A. McCann Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 01144
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Footpaths Staff
Walks in Corsica : Footpaths of Europe
Previous owner's name inside front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 127pp. A guide to 600 kilometres of footpaths in Corsica including the famous GR20. Personal endorsement - I have used my own copy of this book many times with great satisfaction and enjoyment.
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Forbath Peter
The River Congo The discovery exploration and exploitation of the world's most dramatic river.
New York: Harper & Row. 1977. Octavo Size. Very Good in Very Good price-clipped Dustjacket. DJ protected in plastic sleeve. Wear to dustjacket edges and corners with area of loss along upper rear fold with subsequent rubbing to board. Minor bump to lower front corner. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Numbers neatly inked to upper corner of front free endpaper. Maps of Africa and the Congo to endpapers. xii 404 pages . 1st Edition. Hardback. Harper & Row hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIB256310
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Forbath Peter
The River Congo: The Discovery Exploration and Exploitation of the World's Most Dramatic River
New York: Harper & Row 1977. xii 404pp b/w ills end-paper maps: Africa and the Congo River. There is a blue biro cross by the upper corner of the half title page. Cloth boards in edge-worn dust-jacket and tape-stained edges from protective clear plastic cover. The book offers a sweeping all-inclusive account of the Congo's discovery exploration and exploitation by Europe. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Harper & Row Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018152 ISBN : 0061224901 9780061224904
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FORBATH, Peter
L'Africa del fiume Congo
Traduzione dall'inglese di Ettore Gianoro Benni e Giuseppe Dicorato. Con alcune illustrazioni e fotografie in bianco e nero e a colori . 8vo. pp. 396. . Ottimo (Fine). . . .
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FORBATH, Peter,
The River Congo
The discovery, exploration and exploitation of the world's most dramatic river. Profusely illustrated in black and white . 8vo. pp. VI + 412. . Molto buono (Very Good). . Seconda edizione inglese (2nd English edition). .
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Forbes Andrew
AA Essential Thailand AA Essential Guide
Automobile Association 2004. 2nd Revised edition. Paperback. Used; Good. <p><i><strong>Fast Dispatch. Expedited UK Delivery Available. Excellent Customer Service. </strong></i> <br/><br/>Bookbarn International Inventory #3310172</p> Automobile Association paperback
Bookseller reference : 3310172 ISBN : 0749543248 9780749543242
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Forbes Anna
Unbeaten Tracks in Islands of the Far East: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the 1880s
Singapore: Oxford University Press 1987. xii 305pp folding map. Paperback. The work was originally published as Insulinde in 1887. . Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. Trade Paperback. Oxford University Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 029078 ISBN : 019588857X 9780195888577
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FORBES Archibald;
The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1892 First American edition. . original cloth gilt title lettering on spine and cover gilt cover decoration spine ends frayed joints with short tear else very good interior clean. . 8vo 20.5 x 14.5 cm; viii 337 vi ads pp 4 plates including frontis portrait 5 plans/maps index. . A detailed account of the British military expeditions in Afghanistan which are interesting in light of current events including the tribal aspects. Yakushi F124. Ghani 134. A picture of this book is available on request by email. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892, First American edition. hardcover
Bookseller reference : J10718
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Forbes Charles S
Iceland; Its Volcanoes Geyers and Glaciers
London: John Murray 1860. Purple cloth gilt spine title and geyser decoration to front pp x 335 with nice engravings and fold out map to rea. CONDITION Cloth worn to spine ends with splits at head split to front hinge with old amateur repair using cloth o'w copy motly bright fold out map to rear foxed large publishers cat bound in back. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. John Murray Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 15347
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Forbes Duncan
The Heart of Ethiopia
The Travel Book Club 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5" x 8. The author shares his travel experiences through the turbulent country of Ethiopia. A clean and sound copy. All orders processed and shipped promptly from the UK usually within 24 hours. Please call or email with your questions. <br/> <br/> The Travel Book Club hardcover
Bookseller reference : 012155
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Forbes Henry O.
A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago: A Narrative of Travel and Exploration from 1878 to 1883
New York: Harper and Brothers 1885. Book. Illus. by John B. Gibbs based on the author's sketches. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Dark green cloth front cover illus. in gilt and lettered in black spine panel lettered in gilt. xx5364 pp. illus. w/ color frontis. 6 maps including 3 folding reproductions of engravings drawings in text. Minimally ex-library copy clear-coated spine panel and joints which has darkened with age handwritten call number on lower spine discarded stamp on front fixed endsheet and discarded slip mounted to rear flyleaf. Appears not to have circulated and shows only minor shelf wear with slight chipping at head of spine small area of surface loss at top corner of front flyleaf. Text block is a bit toned by age. Very firm intact binding. One map shows minor raggedness along edges owing to having been improperly folded. Decently preserved copy with relatively minor faults. Harper and Brothers Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 042309
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Forbes Henry
A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago: a Narrative of Travel and Exploration from 1878 to 1883
New York: Harper & Brothers 1885. HEAVY. xx 536pp book catalogue cold frontis with tissue-guard illustrations from the author's sketches double-page folding coloured map maps some folding one slightly creased and one with a closed tear index brown endpapers. Prelims and endpages lightly foxed. Two personal notes on the first otherwise blank prelim. Upper edge tinted. Decorative blue coth boards gilt with wear and some loss at the spine head and foot. The book is in six parts: In the Cocos-Keeling Islands; In Java; In Sumatra; In the Moluccas and in Timor-Laut; and In Timor. Each part has an appendix. An extremely attractive copy. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Harper & Brothers Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 026048
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Forbes Henry O.
A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago
Singapore: Oxford University Press 1989. Originally published 1885 by Harper & Brothers NY; Oxford in Asia Hardback Reprints in 1989. Printed boards sunned on front cover and spine. Minor foxing to edges of page block. Previous owner's name on FEP; contents otherwise in very good condition clean and sound throughout. With six maps and numerous illustrations from the author's sketches as per the original edition and a new foreword by the Earl of Cranbrook. First Thus. hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. Oxford University Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 212064 ISBN : 0195889223 9780195889222
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Forbes James D.
NORWAY AND ITS GLACIERS VISITED IN 1851; FOLLOWED BY JOURNALS OF EXCUSIONS IN THE HIGH ALPS OF DAUPHINE BERNE AND SAVOY
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. Very Good. 1853. First Edition. Half leather over gilt decorated brown cloth. Interior of text is tight clean & intact. 2 book plates from prior owners. Illustrated with 2 color maps: a folding one of Norway and one of Ymes-Field. 10 lithographic views includes frontispiece and 22 wood engravings. xxiv includes separate Errata sheet & also Corrections & Additions 349pp . Additional Journals on time spent in France. Leather with a few scuff marks. A few pages age toned. Western Europe Norway Scandinavia Travel; Chromolithographs Wood Engravings maps; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 349 pages . Adam and Charles Black hardcover
Bookseller reference : 17066
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Forbes Lindsay
Cuba and Her People of To-Day: An Account of the History and Progress of the Island Previous to its Independence;
Boston: L. C. Page and Company. Good with no dust jacket; Library stamps and markings on spine title . page embossed stamp on Cuba map rear endpapers. 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. xii 329 pp index. 2 color folding maps of Cuba and Havana. Illustrated endpapers. Lovely red cloth decorative binding with heraldic shield design showing seascape sunset palm tree and stripes on front boards and spine. Top edges gilt. Titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Many photos. Subtitle continued: A Description of its Physical Features; A Study of its People; and in Particular An Examination of its Present Political Conditions its Industries Natural Resources and Prospects; Together with Information and Suggestions Designed to Aid the Prospective Investor or Settler. ; Ex-Library . L. C. Page and Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 36428
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Forbes Rosita. 1890 1967. Noted English explorer and travel writer.
2 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS: AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO J. B. POND'S SECRETARY AND A 2-PAGE AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO POND BOTH SIGNED BY ENGLISH EXPLORER ROSITA FORBES TOGETHER WITH A COPY OF HER 1925-26 CONTRACT.
London: July 30 and August 12 1925. 1925. Very good. - Letter penned in black ink & filling 1-1/2 sides of a 5-3/4 inch high by 4-3/4 inch wide sheet of cream letterhead with her London address printed in raised lettering in black at top right of the recto. Signed "Rosita Forbes" There is a paper-clip mark to the top edge of the letterhead with a rust stain to the verso. Together with the second letter: Engadin Switzerland: August 12 1925. Letter penned in blue ink & filling 2 sides of a 4-sided sheet of Hotel Bernina 7 inch high by 5-3/4 inch wide letterhead with the hotel's Swiss address at the top of the 1st side. Signed "Rosita Forbes. Both letters are folded once for mailing. Also with unsigned carbon copies of Pond's August 27 reply and the contract for the 1925-26 season. The letters are in very good condition. <p>On July 30 Forbes writes to Pond's secretary saying that she is shortly off to Switzerland and asking her to send Forbes the contract for the 1925-26 season and other information. "You see I write to you sure of a speedy answer most capable of ladies!" On August 12 Forbes replies to a letter from Pond expressing her confusion about who is supposed to be providing him with publicity material for a promotional article. The carbon copies of Pond's replies to both her letters include the contract and a cover letter explaining the publicity situation and saying that he doesn't want to fix a starting date for her tour just yet. "Things are not going as well for you as I had hoped and instead of having you here for a long time it might be more sensible to have you remain in England just as long as business there is good and to stay here for only a sufficient length of time to get what business there is."</p><p>Though Rosita Forbes started traveling at an early age following her marriage to Major Ronald Forbes it wasn't until after a nervous breakdown following her husband's death in World War I that her travels started in earnest. At first she served as an ambulance driver in France during the war and subsequently traveled around the world "by way of American Hawaii Papua Sumatra Java Cochin China Siam and China". In China she was taken prisoner during the revolution and ended up doing Red Cross work for the Chinese army. In 1919 she resumed her travels through Africa and the Middle East and was in Jerusalem for the riots of 1920. "From here her journeys are chronicled in her lectures.After her return from Kufra she met and married Col. Arthur McGrath of the British War Office." Astonishingly all this had been accomplished by the time she was thirty years old.</p><p>Rosita Forbes described her journey around the world in her first book "Unconducted Wanderers" 1919. Disguised as a Moslem she traveled across the Libyan desert to the oasis of Kufara from 1920-21. This journey is described by her in "The Secrets of the Sahara Kufara" 1924.</p> London: July 30 and August 12, 1925.
Bookseller reference : 36695
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Forbes Rosita; d'Erlanger Robin Illustrator
Adventure Being a Gipsy Salad--Some Incidents Excitements and Impressions of Twelve Highly-Season Years
Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good . 309 pp 4 full color illustrations with frontispiece. Spine significantly sunned and fraying at head and foot; book store label on rear pastedown; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin hardcover
Bookseller reference : 344
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Forbes Rosita. 1890 1967. Noted English expilorer and travel writer.
FOUR-PAGE AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO TOUR MANAGER JAMES B. POND SIGNED BY NOTED ENGLISH EXPLORER ROSITA FORBES APOLOGIZING PROFUSELY FOR NUMEROUS "CRIMES" SHE HAS COMMITTED.
New York: February 17 1926. 1926. Very good. - Four-page letter penned in black ink & filling both sides of 2 sheets of 9-1/4 inch high by 6 inch wide Hotel Webster letterhead with the address printed in raised lettering at the top of each sheet. Signed "Rosita Forbes". At top left of each sheet there is a small slit & tear where a fastener has been removed. Together with a Pond Bureau illustrated flier announcing 3 additions to his list of lecturers including Forbes. Very good. <p>An amusing letter addressed to "Lord James" metaphorically prostrating herself for several offenses she has committed. First she missed a Brooklyn lecture by mistaking the scheduled time and is desperate to make it right so that Pond will not be blamed for her error. Second she has asked for a check after a lecture rather than waiting for the fee to be sent to Pond. She admits that she is short of cash and has sent to England for additional funds: "Your America is so ruinous that till the draft comes I'm quite broke!" Third "the worst sin of all of having been such an unprofitable investment for you this year."</p><p>Though Rosita Forbes started traveling at an early age following her marriage to Major Ronald Forbes it wasn't until after a nervous breakdown following her husband's death in World War I that her travels started in earnest. At first she served as an ambulance driver in France during the war and subsequently traveled around the world "by way of American Hawaii Papua Sumatra Java Cochin China Siam and China". In China she was taken prisoner during the revolution and ended up doing Red Cross work for the Chinese army. In 1919 she resumed her travels through Africa and the Middle East and was in Jerusalem for the riots of 1920. "From here her journeys are chronicled in her lectures.After her return from Kufra she met and married Col. Arthur McGrath of the British War Office." Astonishingly all this had been accomplished by the time she was thirty years old.</p><p>Rosita Forbes described her journey around the world in her first book "Unconducted Wanderers" 1919. Disguised as a Moslem she traveled across the Libyan desert to the oasis of Kufara from 1920-21. This journey is described by her in "The Secrets of the Sahara Kufara" 1924.</p> New York: February 17, [1926].
Bookseller reference : 36694
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Forbes Rosita
The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1937. Paperback - Penguin 113 - in wraps both slightly shelfworn with tanned spine nicked at foot. Late pages' upper corners are faintly bumped. Page block and page edges are tanned. Text is clear throughout. TS. Paperback. Good. Used. Penguin Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 505200
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Forbes Rosita. 1890 1967. Noted English explorer and travel writer.
TWO-PAGE AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO TOUR MANAGER JAMES B. POND SIGNED BY NOTED ENGLISH EXPLORER ROSITA FORBES WRITTEN IN 1925 THE YEAR HER BOOK "FROM RED SEA TO BLUE NILE" WAS PUBLISHED.
London: April 23 1925. 1925. Good. - Letter penned in blue ink & filling both sides of a 5-3/4 inch high by 4-3/4 inch wide sheet of cream letterhead with her London address printed in raised lettering in black at top right of the recto. Signed "Rosita Forbes". There are several rust stains to the letter left by paper clips with some creasing around the fold & a chip to the bottom left corner. Folded once for mailing. Together with an unsigned carbon copy of Pond's reply. Good. <p>Forbes writes to James B. Pond of the Pond Lecture Bureau in New York City who is to arrange a tour for her. She reports that she is safely back from her arduous travels in Arabia and Abyssinia "after an 1100 eleven hundred mile mule trek with a completed book 'From Red Sea to Blue Nile' &11000 ft. of film & lots of excellent photos." After listing many of the stops on her journey she writes that she is enclosing some press cuttings and will shortly send a series of articles she wrote for The Daliy Telegraph and some snapshots. She asks if he will need any other information. Pond replies with suggestions about dates for the tour. Forbes has scrawled a pencil note across both sides of the letter asking "Please keep all these press / clippings for me".</p><p>Though Rosita Forbes started traveling at an early age following her marriage to Major Ronald Forbes it wasn't until after a nervous breakdown following her husband's death in World War I that her travels started in earnest. At first she served as an ambulance driver in France during the war and subsequently traveled around the world "by way of American Hawaii Papua Sumatra Java Cochin China Siam and China". In China she was taken prisoner during the revolution and ended up doing Red Cross work for the Chinese army. In 1919 she resumed her travels through Africa and the Middle East and was in Jerusalem for the riots of 1920. "From here her journeys are chronicled in her lectures.After her return from Kufra she met and married Col. Arthur McGrath of the British War Office." Astonishingly all this had been accomplished by the time she was thirty years old.</p><p>Rosita Forbes described her journey around the world in her first book "Unconducted Wanderers" 1919. Disguised as a Moslem she traveled across the Libyan desert to the oasis of Kufara from 1920-21. This journey is described by her in "The Secrets of the Sahara Kufara" 1924.</p> London: April 23, [1925].
Bookseller reference : 36693
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Forbes Rosita
Women Called Wild
London: Grayson & Grayson 1935. Hardcover without jacket; first edition with all of Beard's striking stylised four-colour illustrations present. Boards are slightly shelfworn; spine is bumped at ends; exterior slightly marked with score on tanned page block head slightly affecting two or three upper page edges. Previous owner's name penned on FEP; half-title page is tanned; all content is clear. TS. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Illus. by Beard Isobel R. Used. Grayson & Grayson Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 509005
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Forbes Rosita; d'Erlanger Robin Illustrator
Adventure Being a Gipsy Salad--Some Incidents Excitements and Impressions of Twelve Highly-Season Years
Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good . 309 pp 4 full color illustrations with frontispiece. Spine significantly sunned and fraying at head and foot; book store label on rear pastedown; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 344
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Forbes Suzi
New England
New York: Crescent 1985. First printing of this edition. Hardcover. Very Good /very good . Landscape 4to 282 x 308mm. Pp 159 as 32pp text printed on cream coloured stock and 127pp colour photographs by Neil Sutherland. Burgundy leatherette boards stamped in orange on the spine and upper panel. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper else a clean unmarked copy in a tight binding and bright unclipped dust-jacket. <br/><br/> Crescent hardcover
Bookseller reference : 85212 ISBN : 0517405539 9780517405536
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Forbes Vernon S.; Rourke John
Paterson's Cape Travels 1777 to 1779
Johannesburg: The Brenthurst Press. 1980. HEAVY. 202pp index bibliography appendices frontis portrait 62 col plates 8 maps pictorial endpapers. Or green cloth in jacket. Tape stains to endpapers and flaps. One of a limited edition of 850 copies bound in cloth. The travels of over 9000km by Willam Paterson later governor of NSW in South Africa in the 1770s. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to. The Brenthurst Press. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 030848 ISBN : 0909079129 9780909079123
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Forbes Leith F. A. C.
Checkmate Figthing Tradition in Central Persia
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1928. Hardcover. 242 pp. Spine corners bumped and worn. Upper edge of front cover worn through. The author's account of his time spent in the service of a feudal nobleman in Persia. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Robert M. McBride & Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : TRAV0357
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FORBES, Archibald
The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80
8vo [20.5 x 14.5 cm]; [viii], 337, [vi, ads] pp, 4 plates including frontis portrait, 5 plans/maps, index. original cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and cover, gilt cover decoration, spine ends frayed, joints with short tear, else very good, interior clean. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A detailed account of the British military expeditions in Afghanistan, which are interesting in light of current events, including the tribal aspects. Yakushi F124. Ghani 134.
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FORBES, FREDERICK E.
Dahomey and the Dahomans: being the Journals of two Missions to the King of Dahomay, and Residence at his Capital, in the Years 1849 and 1850. 2 Vols.
London, Longman, Green, and Longmans, 1851. Small 8vo. Uncut in 2 orig. blindstamped full cloth. Gilt lettering to spines. Light wear along edges. XII,244V,248 pp. and 13 plates (10 lithographed, 4 in colour, 6 tinted and 3 in woodcut). Internally clean. With errata slip
Bookseller reference : 52556
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FORBES, FREDERICK E.
Dahomey and the Dahomans: being the Journals of two Missions to the King of Dahomay, and Residence at his Capital, in the Years 1849 and 1850. 2 Vols.
London, Longman, Green, and Longmans, 1851. Small 8vo. Uncut in 2 orig. blindstamped full cloth. Gilt lettering to spines. Light wear along edges. XII,244 V,248 pp. and 13 plates (10 lithographed, 4 in colour, 6 tinted and 3 in woodcut). Internally clean. With errata slip
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Forbes, Malcolm S.
Around the world on hot air & two wheels
271pp. 29 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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FORBIN Count Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste;
Travels in Greece Turkey and the Holy Land in 1817-18
London Sir Richard Phillips 1820 . . recent cloth title lettering on paper spine label rear of title page repaired interior is clean and unmarked. . 8vo 23 x 14 cm; iv 80 pp 9 of 11 illustrations lacking two including frontis. . The illustrations are of views of the Holy Land. Originally published in Paris in French 1819 in only 325 copies and described as 'one of the most important French books to use lithography on a grand scale' Blackmer and contained 80 plates. Rohricht p. 350. Tobler 144. A picture of this book is available on request by email. London, Sir Richard Phillips, [1820], . hardcover
Bookseller reference : J13538
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FORBIN (Marquis de).
LES VOYAGES DE M. DE LA BASTIE. Extrait des Mémoires de l'Académie de Vaucluse.
Avignon, Aubanel, 1935-1938 3 plaquettes brochées in-8. 14 + 23 + 32 pp.
Bookseller reference : 18697
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FORBIN (Victor)
Un coureur d'aventures
Paris, J.Susse, Paris, J.Susse1946 ; petit in-4° br. 376p. Photog.hors-texte
Bookseller reference : 35500479
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FORBIN (Victor).-
L'évocation au clair de lune. Souvenir d'un coureur d'aventures.
Paris, Baudinière, 1933, in 12, broché, 253 pages
Bookseller reference : 7774
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FORBIN (Victor).-
Mes aventures sous les tropiques.
Paris, Malfère, 1930, in 12, broché, 243 pages
Bookseller reference : 7775
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FORBIN (Victor).-
Un coureur d'aventures vous conte sa vie.
P., Susse (Collection "Voyages et Aventures"), 1946, in 8° relié d'une modeste demi-toile noire amateur, 381pp. ; illustrations ; taches aux gardes.
Bookseller reference : 29646
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FORBIN (Victor).-
Un coureur d'aventures vous conte sa vie.
P., Susse (Collection "Voyages et Aventures"), 1946, in 8° relié demi toile bordeaux, 381 pages ; illustrations hors-texte ; couverture conservée ; cachets de bibliothèque.
Bookseller reference : 55820
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FORBIN Auguste Comte de
Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818 par M. le C.te de Forbin
Delaunay 1819, In-8 (12x20cm), (12) 460pp., relié.
Bookseller reference : 62765
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FORBIN Auguste Comte de
Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818 par M. le C.te de Forbin
- Delaunay 1819, In-8 (12x20cm), (12) 460pp., relié. - Seconde édition parue la même année que la première, chez le même éditeur. Grand plan dépliant du Saint Sépulcre in fine. Le grand et fameux atlas, édité à seulement 325 exemplaires et qu'on se procurait à part, est absent. In fine explication des 78 planches lithographiées en couleurs qui composent l'atlas. Reliure en pleine basane brune d'époque porphyre. Dos lisse orné de 4 caisson à la grotesque croisillonnés, d'un fer central. Frise d'encadrement sur les plats. Pièce de titre en maroquin chocolat. Dos uniformément éclairci. Petits manques aux mors en tête. Un léger manque en queue. Mors supérieur fendu étroitement en queue sur 8 cm, et sur 5cm le long du mors inférieur. Trace de mouillure pâle sur le faux titre, la page des titre et les feuillets préliminaires. 3 coins émoussés. Nommé en 1816 Directeur général du musée du Louvre, Forbin obtient de Louis XVIII un congé pour réaliser enfin son rêve de jeunesse, un voyage dans le Levant. Embarquant sur plusieurs navires, il visite tout d'abord Milos, Athène, Constantinople, Ephèse, puis arrive enfin à Saint Jean d'Acre, poursuivant jusqu'à Jerusalem, Gaza, Damiette. Il visite également l'Egypte et ses principaux sites : Le Caire, Louxor, Thèbes, Rosette et Alexandrie. Il acquière de nombreuses antiquités qui enrichiront les collections du Louvre. En dehors de la narration classique et pittoresque du voyage, ce Voyage au Levant se caractérise par sa vision esthétique et artistique ; Forbin est avant tout un homme de l'art, et il oeuvrera beaucoup en France pour les musées, réaménageant les collections du Louvre, créant le musée du Luxembourg et celui de Versailles... Dans le Dictionnaire des orientalistes, Frédéric Hirzel écrit : "Le voyage au Levant du Comte de Forbin reste l'une des plus belles réalisations des Voyages pittoresques du début du XIXe siècle. A la différence de certains de ses précurseurs, comme le Comte de Choiseul-Gouffier, le texte est ici un vrai récit." [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
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