Shelf lot: Travel & exploration, including Asia, Egypt & the Polar Sea

Travel & exploration: mixed grouping of 8 turn of the century publications including:

• Louise Jordan Milan.  Wooings and Weddings in Many Climes. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1900.  Brown cloth, early newspaper clippings pasted to endpapers.  

• Amundsen and Ellsworth. First crossing of the polar sea. New York: Dorian, 1927. He blue cloth, and points rubbed.

• Charles Dudley Warner. My Winter on the Nile. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1887;  publishers cloth binding. Light wear.

• Howard C Hillegass. Oom Paul’s People.  A narrative of the British Boer troubles, in South Africa, with the history of the Boers, the country, and its institutions. Illustrated with eight photographs and a map of South Africa. New York: Appleton, 1899. Illustrated cloth, first edition. Spine worn, block edges toned and lightly soiled. 

• Arthur Tillotson, Clark. To Baghdad with the British. Appleton, 1918. Illustrated, including maps.  Blue cloth, light wear.

• Lord Charles Beresford. The break up of China. With an account of its present commerce, currency, waterways, armies, railways, politics, and future prospects. With Maps. London and New York: Harper, 1899. Blue cloth, folding Mabs; corners bumped, cloth rubbed.

• David Fraser. Persia and Turkey in revolt. With 120 illustrations and maps. Edinburgh in London: Blackwood, 1910. Red cloth, small hole at hinge, and warming to inside covers. Red cloth, small hole at hinge, and sone worming to inside covers. 

• E. Bruce Medford. Japan’s inheritance the country, its people, and their destiny. New York: dad, Meade. 1914. Original cloth, light wear, spine slightly faded.

Inquiries welcome—overall condition is acceptable; some books have owner inscriptions and book plates.