De Veer (1570-1598), was a Dutch officer on Willem Barentsz' second and third voyages of 1595 and 1596 respectively, in search of the Northeast Pa...

The second part of Buckingham's overland journey to India from Egypt in 1816-17.First octavo edition, 2 volumes, 8vo., xx, [ii], 479; vi, [ii], 53...

Parker Snow (1817-1895), an eccentric English explorer, was working as a writer in New York when he claimed to have had a paranormal vision of the...

This volume contains papers relating to an expedition under the command of Captain Phipps commissioned by the Government of the day. These papers ...

Plate XII from Twenty-Four Views in St Helena, The Cape, India, Ceylon, The Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt, original hand-coloured aquatints, 495 x ...

Scarce. Natal Colony, Durban, and the Umgeni and Umvoti Rivers.First edition. 8vo., [viii], 40 pp., original tan printed wrappers, spine defective...

First edition. The book was conceived as a series of tracts rather than a comprehensive and systematic treatise, though Malthus published it to est...

One of the finest records of Moorish Spain. One of the finest records of Moorish Spain, the images contain not only architectural details but also ...

Werne (1822-1874), a German adventurer, took part in the second European exploratory mission to discover the source of the White Nile, under the l...

The first Protestant mission to Arabic-speaking Muslims. Rare. Anthony Norris Groves (1795-1853), travelled with his family to Baghdad in 1829 wher...

Unusual and decorative catalogue.Landscape folio (48.5 x 36.5 cm), 10 thick card sheets containing 67 chromolithographs of pots, tins, bottles, et...

Switzerland was the longest series in English with 28 editions (1863-1938). Endpapers dated ""May 1870". Fourth edition. xliv, 418pp, 21 maps, 7 p...

Rev. Baker gives an account of the opening of the second Anglo-Burmese War, when Rangoon was occupied by the British shortly after they had seized...

A very fresh example of this uncommon émigré edition that comprises selected articles by the famous Russian historian exploring the personality of...

In 1787, after a sojourn at Constantinople in the service of Choiseul-Gouffier, Le Chevalier accompanied Alexander Ipsilanti, the Hospodar (ruler)...

Scarce. An account of a three month stay in South Africa in 1825. Much information on the native people and Graham's Town.First edition. 8vo, xvi,...

"Schweiz" was almost the longest series in German with thirty-nine editions from 1844 to 1937. This copy is the second of two issues of the fift...

"At the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich, Schweinfurth specialized in geology and botany. An 1862 specimen-collecting trip up the Nile River ...