Geographical Journal, Signed (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Carlton, Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd, 2006. Quarto; stapled card covers; a fine copy. With the ownership signature of Australian anthropologist Peter Sutton (dated February 2007). Loosely inserted is a signed and inscribed compliments slip (on Macquarie University letterhead) from the author to Sutton. Signed.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Includes the Antarctic Meeting at the Albert Hall. Brown/cream quarter cloth covers with black lettering to front. Boards are generally in good order, just a little shelfwear. Covers have been cased within a removable plastic film, stuck only to itself, not to the book covers. Slight bumping to corners. Spine is intact albeit with some bumping to the ends. Pages numbered 617-708. Ownership stamps throughout. Textblock is in good condition, clean and tight. Bookplate from Kenn Back (1942-, Meteorologist for the British Antarctic Survey and descendant of the Arctic explorer Captain George Back). Fold out map to rear. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 280g. Unless specifically mentioned, all our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 032682:10c) Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall Language: ENG 280 G. Signed by Author. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. An official RGS reprint in the original blue printed wraps 16x25cm, pages numbered pp441-470 including 4 b/w maps and 1 section + (2)pp containing 6 b/w photos. Inscribed "With the Author's compliments" to the front wrap. Wraps and interiors very good, lightly creased with foxing, and a short ink double-sideline to the margin of p442. Anglo-Persian Oil Company geologist George Martin Lees surveyed Oman during 1925-26. This report describes findings from a mission organised by Arnold Wilson, supported by John Cadman (APOC), and conducted by Lees with fellow geologist K. Washington Gray, Hajji Abdulla Williamson (political agent), Captain GJ Eccles (of the Muscat State Levies), Joseph Fernandez (Indian botanist and collector), and B.S. (Bertram) Thomas (Financial Minister to the Sultan of Oman) who is here credited with the photos. The appendices describe the water supply of Bahrain, Qatar, insects, birds and flint implements collected. The paper was presented to the RGS on 16 Jan 1928. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. [Offprint] from The Geographical Journal for August 1935. pp. 97-113; photo. illusts., folding sketch map.; fine in original card wrappers, presented by the author to the upper wrapper. This is a self-standing offprint, not an extract from the March issue. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition thus. Large 8vo. (1) + 278 - 291 + 91)pp. 4 section colour fold out map at rear. Publisher's original blue printed paper covers with black lettering on front. 2 staple hinges through. Neat ink dedication from the author with date " 31/12/40 " top corner of front cover. Covers slight browned, slight staining on rear, faint vertical fold on front. Contents rear page 2 vertical folds else clean tight & unfoxed. Publisher's offprint. ***. VG. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. An important locally produced study on the history and prospects of Kuwait's commercial ports. Original printed wraps 15x20cm. Printed by the Modern Printing Company, Kuwait. 145, (1)pp Arabic text with several b/w maps, plans and charts. Wraps good, interiors very good with archival tape reinforcement to front hinge, and author's presentation inscription to the half title. Abdul-Maqsud was Professor of Geography at Kuwait University. Likening Kuwait's ports to windows through which it has viewed the outside world and key to its development, he was motivated to write this for his students, by the scarcity of material on the subject. He covers Kuwait's geographical and maritime setting, classifies ports based on their function into commercial and oil, describes their features, development over time (the former since the 18th Century, the latter since 1946), factors affecting them (the building of the Suez Canal, wars with Israel and Iran etc). He goes into detail on selected commercial ports, looking at their location, characteristics, function, development, capacity, etc. This includes the old port of Al Qurain (1756-1959), Shuwaikh (the first commercial port), Shuaiba (established as an alternative to Al Qurain), and Doha Port (established 1978 to relieve pressure on old Kuwait). He ends with a discussion of prospects in the context of numerous factors including oil price trends and OPEC, trade, state budget, increasing population, wars, handling Iraqi traffic, the newly created GCC, credit facilities encouraging Najdi merchants to purchase through Kuwait rather than Al Hasa (something Ibn Saud had unsuccessfully tried to counter), etc. Maps show the location of Kuwait's ports, handling volumes of Gulf ports, historic Kuwaiti trade routes, plans of Al Qurain, Shuwaikh, Doha and Shuaiba, and depths. Charts and tables give port statistics. Inscribed by Author(s).

Octavo journal off-print, pp., [2], 294-305, plus 1 full-colour map of the region, and 5 photographic plates. Publisher's blue paper wrappers, titled to upper cover, colophon to lower cover. Author's inscription in blue ink to upper cover reads 'I have found some more copies - // Greetings to you from Freya Stark.' Covers faded to edges, binding staples rusted. Spots of foxing to edges of contents, not affecting text or plates. A very good copy. Freya Stark (1893?-1993) was one of the most significant travellers of the twentieth century. She travelled extensively in Persia, Arabia, Kurdistan, Yemen, Egypt, India, Palestine, Libya, Afghanistan, Nepal, and, of interest to this volume, Asia Minor. Stark spent much of her career working with British intelligence as a propagandist, which allowed to her pursue her archaeological and geographical studies across near- and middle East. Stark wrote this volume as a result of three years of travels throughout Turkey, and combines historical discussion with accounts of Stark's travels and travails through the region. ODNB.

Presentation copy of this scarce offprint, inscribed by the author on the front cover, "Col. de Lancey Forth, with the author's cordial regards." Likely passed by the recipient to Orde Wingate in the early 1930s, while the latter was planning his own quest to find the Zerzura oasis, this copy remained in the Wingate family papers until their dispersal in 1996. John Ball (1872-1941), Director of Desert Surveys in Egypt, undertook several expeditions to the Libyan Desert in the 1920s, and his "Problems of the Libyan Desert" inspired a generation of explorers, including the young Lieutenant Wingate, to search for the mythical site of Zerzura. Wingate, serving in the Sudan Defence Force, shared this oasis fascination with Colonel Nowell Barnard de Lancey Forth (1879-1933), a former camel corps commander, whose efforts to locate the site earned him election to the Royal Geographical Society, the Order of the Nile, and the Order of the Mejidieh. While planning his RGS-backed expedition in the early 1930s, Wingate consulted both Ball and de Lancey Forth as to his proposed route. His 1933 search for Zerzura marked an important point in Wingate's life, for it "proved to him that he had the inner strength to live and survive in an unforgiving environment" (Royle) and prepared him for his time in Palestine and with the Chindits in Burma. Provenance: by descent to Lieutenant-Colonel Orde Jonathan Wingate (1944-2000), Wingate's son, and sold as part of Lot 373 in the dispersal of Wingate's papers, Sotheby's, 11 June 1996. It was purchased by Steve Forbes, the chairman of Forbes Magazine and a presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 US elections. Trevor Royle, Orde Wingate: A Man of Genius, 1903-1944, 2014. Octavo. With 10 half-tone plates, large folding colour map, illustrations in text. Original blue card wrappers, front cover lettered in black. Spine repaired, covers with a few losses and closed tears, map folds repaired on verso with archival tape: a good copy only.

Scarce offprint, inscribed by the author on the title page, "With best regards of A. Stein." "The results of this fresh inquiry, limited as its scope is, bring out once again the remarkable care of the great traveller's record even where it relates to ground beyond his personal observation" (p. 93). Octavo, pp. 11 (numbered 93-103). Original blue card wrappers, sewn as issued, front cover lettered in black. Covers and contents lightly creased and toned: very good.

Presentation copy of this offprint, inscribed by Kingdon-Ward on the front cover, "With the author's kind regards. 1934." Though unmarked as such, this copy is from the library at Exbury House, home of the de Rothschilds. Lionel de Rothschild financed many of Kingdon-Ward's plant-collecting expeditions, including his 1927-8 expedition to Assam, and created one of the country's finest gardens at Exbury. "In 1933 Kingdon Ward received permission from the Tibetan Government to botanise in Zayul. He describes his journey and comments on the seasonal movements of the Assamse tribes into Zayul. A detailed map of his north route of Rima is included. In the discussion that followed his lecture to the Royal Geographical Society there are comments by [F. M.] Bailey on his 1911 journey to this area" (Marshall). Presentation and inscribed copies of works by Kingdon-Ward are seldom encountered in commerce. Marshall 3943; not in Troelstra or Yakushi. Octavo. With 8 photographic half-tone plates, folding map, map in text. Original blue card wrappers, front cover lettered in black. Wrappers creased and lightly marked: near-fine.

Three folding notecards, two with photographs of Turkey or the Houseboat on the Euphrates. 8vo and smaller. A nice clutch of autograph material from world travelling author Freya Stark, comprising Christmas or New Year's cards over several years, two with original photographs, and an inscribed offprint from one of Stark's notable journaeys through the Hadhramaut. Three cards: "Another fat book has just come whether you got to Afghanistan? I asked at the British Council but found no trace. I was very lucky & met some charming people who were crossing the centre in a Landrover & asked me to join. Am hoping to write a little book with pictures: wonderful country do look in here when next you come South Freya Stark" "This little Turkish hut is just what I feel like, recovering from 'flu' All good wishes. I do hope you like your new job? Freya Stark" [with a view of a ramshackle country hut in a Turkish landscape]. "I am glad to have news of you, though rather too feeblein the matter of writing letters just now myself. 2 far too razzle-dazzle months in London to recover from. But I thought you might like a memento of the Raft. It was wonderfully restful in spite of its adventures Best wishes for 1978 from Freya" [with a color photograph of a marsh rasft, titled in ink Euphrates 1977] And: Two Months in the Hadhramaut, Geographical Journal 87:2, Feb. 1936. Offprint, stitched in wrappers, later inscribed by the author beneath her printed name, "for John Richardson Xmas 1966". With a snapshot of Stark with parasol, and a copy of Alexander's Minor Campaigns in Turkey, Geographical Journal 122:3, Sept. 1956. Offprint, stapled wrappers. Offprints in blue wrappers. Fine Three folding notecards, two with photographs of Turkey or the Houseboat on the Euphrates. 8vo and smaller.