Rare Travel Books
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Picturesque Hong Kong.
[HONG KONG]. HAZELL, Denis H. (photographer).Original price £1,000.00 - Original price £1,000.00Original price £0.00£1,000.00£1,000.00 - £1,000.00Current price £1,000.00| /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.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /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.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /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 ContariniOriginal price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00| /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.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /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.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /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.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /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.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /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].Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /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].Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /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.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /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.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /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.Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £0.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00| /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.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /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.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00| /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.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /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.Original price £3,950.00 - Original price £3,950.00Original price £0.00£3,950.00£3,950.00 - £3,950.00Current price £3,950.00| /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.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /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.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /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].Original price £16,500.00 - Original price £16,500.00Original price £0.00£16,500.00£16,500.00 - £16,500.00Current price £16,500.00| /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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