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Rare Travel Books

Step into the shoes of intrepid explorers and adventurers with our captivating collection of books. Each page takes you on a journey to distant lands, allowing you to experience the thrill of discovery, the allure of the unknown, and the resilience of those who dared to wander. Immerse yourself in their tales and explore the world through their eyes.
  • Picturesque Hong Kong.

    [HONG KONG]. HAZELL, Denis H. (photographer).
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    A very attractive series of photographs showing Hong Kong in the colonial era.'Denis Henry Hazell (1897-1970) was a British businessman. Some of h...

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  • The Capital of the Tycoon.

    ALCOCK, Sir John Rutherford.
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    A handsome set of Sir John Rutherford Alcock's (1809-1897) account of his time as the first British diplomatic representative to reside in Japan.A...

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  • Operations in Waziristan 1919-1920.

    [CONFIDENTIAL] - General Staff Army Headquarters, India.
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    The scarce official account of the Waziristan campaign 1919–1920, and preceding 1917 conflict, with copious views and maps of the scarcely travers...

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  • Travels to Tana and Persia. [WITH] A narrative of Italian travels in Persia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

    BARBARO, Josafa; Ambrogio Contarini
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    Hakluyt Society, first series, 49a & 49b.Important collection of early travels to Persia. The second part contains accounts by Caterino Zeno. ...

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  • The South Pole.

    AMUNDSEN, Roald.
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    a cornerstone of Antarctic exploration; the account of the first expedition to reach the South Pole.A handsomely produced book containing ten full...

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  • [Text in Persian and French]. Sefer Nameh.

    NASIR-i KHUSRAW.
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    Mecca and Bahrain. The scarce original printing of Schefer's translation of the Safarnama, an eleventh century account of a pilgrimage to Mecca fro...

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  • Records of the Persian Gulf pearl fisheries 1857-1962

    [ARABIAN GULF]; Anita Burdett, editor.
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    A very important work on the pearl fisheries of the Arabian Gulf, bringing together in a single research collection all relevant documents from Br...

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  • Records of the Emirates 1966-1971

    [ARABIAN GULF]; Anita Burdett, editor.
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    A Very important collection of documents covering the period in Arabian Gulf history which saw the British withdrawal from the region.6 vols, 8vo,...

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  • Records of the Emirates 1961-1965

    [ARABIAN GULF].
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    A comprehensive collection of documents covering an important period in the history of the Arabian Gulf. Includes much on oil and water disputes, ...

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  • Historic maps of Bahrain 1817-1970.

    [BAHRAIN].
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    A comprehensive collection containing 69 maps and charts of Bahrain originally produced between 1817 and 1970. The volumes are divided into naval ...

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  • A history of Persian navigation.

    HASAN, Hadi.
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    Hasan's History of Persian Navigation is based on Chinese, Persian and Arabic sources, and provides the first scholarly account of the history of ...

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  • Boyd Alexander's Last Journey.

    ALEXANDER, herbert.
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    With original dust wrapper. With the rare dust wrapper. 'After his efforts to journey from the Niger River to the Nile, Boyd Alexander returned to ...

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  • A Journey into Greece...

    WHELER, George.
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    A large paper copy of Wheler's Journey to Greece, undertaken with Dr Spon. The travels took place in 1675-76. Wheler was specially interested in b...

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  • My Personal Experiences in Equatorial Africa as Medical Officer of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition.

    PARKE, Thomas Heazle.
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    Parke's important first-hand narrative of the Emin Pasha Relief expedition, one of the last major nineteenth century European expeditions into the...

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  • Scenes in Kafirland,

    GRAHAM, Lieut. Lumley; ROBINSON, Lieut. Hugh.
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    Twenty-one hand-coloured lithographed plates. The rare hand-coloured edition of Graham and Robinson's Scenes in Kafirland. In their preface the aut...

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  • The Chater collection

    ORANGE, James.
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    A fine copy of James Orange's catalogue of the Chater collection. Originally formed by Wyndham Law, the collection was acquired by Sir Catchick Ch...

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  • Blank on the map.

    SHIPTON, Eric.
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    With letter from the author. Shipton's scarcest and most important work with a personal letter tipped in on front pastedownThis book describes an e...

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  • Views in India,

    WHITE, George Francis.
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    Well-illustrated account of White's tours in the direction of Mussoore, Simla, the sources of the Jumna and Ganges, etc.First edition; 2 vols, fol...

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  • History of the recent discoveries at Cyrene,

    SMITH, Captain Robert Murdoch; E.A. Porcher.
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    Early photography. An attractive description of the excavations of the long neglected site at Cyrene in Libya between Tripoli and Benghazi, with al...

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  • Oman and the southern shore of the Persian Gulf.

    [OMAN].
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    Rare dual language first edition. The very rare first edition with English and Arabic text of this comprehensive study of Oman produced by the Arab...

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