The Royal Geographical Society History of World Exploration by Ed John Keay (6 results)

29.0 x 22.0cms 320pp b/w & colour illusts very good+ hardback & dustwrapper Includes specially commissioned maps showing all the principal exploration routes most from first-hand accounts.

Original publisher's light-blue paper-covered boards, title spine and frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, large 4to: pictorial endpapers, frontispiece, 320pp. very richly illustrated, chronologies for each chapter, general bibliography, index.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 320pp., Pictorial illustrated dustjacket with hint of rubbing to upper spine-end & top corners of jacket- covered in removable protective clear plastic, orig. grey textured boards, exploration illust. eps. & title-page, intro. by John Hemming, col. & b/w plts. & text illust., full page col. photos, col. maps- dbl. page, further reading, index. The Royal Geographical Society: History of World Exploration is the most up-to-date and authoritative work on the subject. The book is written by a team of leading experts under the auspices and general editorial supervision of The Royal Geographical Society and the author and traveller John Keay. Size: Large Quarto. Book.

320pp. 4to. Original boards in dustwrapper. Colour illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. A near fine copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: As new. Dust Jacket Condition: as new. Mallard Press, c1991. 320pp., index, color illustrations throughout. 4to. As new hardcover in as new d/j.

First Edition. F+/F+. 4to. original pale blue textured paper boards in dustwrapper; pp. 320, with numerous illustrations. A very fine copy, as new.