OTHER LEARNED PUBLICATIONS

The Travels of Ibn Battuta - A.D. 1325 - 1354
Translated, with revisions and notes from the Arabic text by C. Defrenery and B.R. Sanguinette, by H.A.R. GIBB

Born in Tangiers in 1304 Ibn Battuta began his extensive travels at the age of twenty-one, and over the next thirty years he visited Persia, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, India, China, Egypt, Sumatra, Spain and Ceylon. Known as "The Traveller of Islam" he travelled for its own sake in order to learn about unknown countries and new peoples. His only rule was 'never to travel any road a second time'. 

By kind permission of the Hakluyt Society we have reissued the first three volumes of The Travels of Ibn Battuta in a limited edition of 400 copies.

Volume I 288pp, 2 maps, 1 plate: North-west Africa, Egypt, Syria, Mecca
Volume II 262pp, 3 maps, 1 plate: southern Persia, Iraq, southern Arabia, east Africa, the Persian Gulf, Asia Minor, south Russia 
Volume III 246pp, 1 map, 5 plates: Turkestan, Khurasan, Sind, north-western India, Delhi

Each volume is bound in the blue cloth of the Hakluyt Society and blocked in gold in exactly the same style as the originals. The size is 215mm x 140mm. £30 per volume. Order


The Heir of Parham, Robert Curzon 14th Baron Zouche, 1810-73 - Ian Fraser
248pp, 25 plates, 215mm x 145mm

Robert Curzon has been described as 'the most attractive figure in the history of English book-collectors'. But beyond his authorship of Visits to Monasteries in the Levant, one of the best loved and enduring of travel books, he remains largely unknown. This biography paints a fascinating portrait of a great collector as well and one of the most eccentric writers of the nineteenth centuries for whom Parham, with its calm beauty, was central to his life. £15 REDUCED TO £10 Order


The Lady's Country Companion - Jane Loudon
1845; 416pp, 17 engravings, 215mm x 145mm

Jane Loudon was one of those admirable Victorian professional lady writers such as Aphra Behn and Jane Austen. If this book, with its incomparably vivid picture of the country lady, did not quite match the sales of her earlier work, The Ladies' Companion to the Flower Garden, it was still a best-seller, and deservedly so. She described this charming work as 'the only one I have ever written having any reference to farming; intended principally for the use of ladies who have been brought up in a town, but who from circumstances have been induced to reside in the country'. The accent is on self-help and covers The House, The Garden, Domestic Animals, Rural Walks, Country Amusements and Country Duties. REDUCED TO £10 Order