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Exploration & Travel 2023

Curated by our senior specialist Julian MacKenzie, the catalogue features rare travel books on: (1) Voyages, the Americas & Polar Exploration, (2) Africa, (3) Greece, Russia & Europe, (4) Turkey, Middle East & Central Asia, and (5) China, India & South East Asia.

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  • Skobeleff and the Slavonic cause by O.K.

    [KIRREV, Olga].
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    Mikhail Skobelev (1843-1882), became famous for his conquest of Central Asia and for his heroism during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. Dresse...

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  • Travels in Italy, Greece, and the Ionian Islands.

    WILLIAMS, Hugh.
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    Published after the author's return from an extended tour of Italy and Greece between 1816 and 1818. Williams trained as a landscape painter and a...

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  • Narrative of a mission to Bokhara,

    WOLFF, Joseph.
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    Finely bound. A finely bound copy of a Great Game classic. Unfortunately, Wolff arrived too late to save Stoddart and Conolly; they died in the pri...

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  • Travels and discoveries in the Levant.

    NEWTON, Charles Thomas.
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    Newton was vice-consul at Mitylene and resided in the Levant from 1852-1859. The expeditions to Asia Minor took place between 1856-1859 and were m...

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  • From Kulja across the Thian-Shan to Lob-nor.

    PREJEVALSKY, N[ikolai] M.
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    Prejevalsky's second expedition. Account of Prejevalsky's second expedition, originally published in Russian in 1877.Travelling through East Turkes...

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  • The works of ...

    MONTAGU, Lady Mary Wortley.
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    Lady Mary's husband was appointed ambassador to the Porte in 1716, and she accompanied him to Constantinople. During her sojourn in Turkey the aut...

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  • Journal of a residence in England,

    NAJAF KOOLEE MEERZA, H.R.H.
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    Rare. Translated from the original Persian by Assad Yacoub Kayat. An account of the residence in England, and journey there from Syria and the sub...

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  • The River War.

    [MILITARY]. CHURCHILL, Winston.
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    Churchill's account of his adventures during the war in the Sudan. The River War was Churchill's second published book after The Story of the Malak...

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  • Dahomey and the Dahomans:

    FORBES, Frederick.
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    Forbes was a prominent anti-slavery campaigner. He is particularly interesting here on local customs and festivals, which are attractively illustr...

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  • Journal of a tour in Greece and the Ionian Islands,

    MURE, William.
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    William Mure, a classical scholar, toured Greece in 1838. 'An interesting work with a long chapter on Ithaca.' (Blackmer).First edition, 2 volumes...

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  • Athenes ancienne et nouvelle.

    GUILLET de SAINT-GEORGE, Andre Georges.
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    The material of the work comes from Giraud, the French Consul in Athens, and from the Capuchin monks settled there, judiciously mixed with scholar...

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  • Proceedings of the Levant Company, respecting the Surrender of their Charters, 1825.

    [? GRENVILLE, William Wyndham, 1st Baron Grenville].
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    Company of Merchants Trading to the Levant. The second work concerning trade with the Levant shows the increase in commercial activity between Grea...

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  • Karamania,

    BEAUFORT, Sir Francis.
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    An important archaeological survey. In 1810 Beaufort was appointed senior officer at Smyrna in command of the Frederickssteen; in August he began t...

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  • Russian projects against India

    EDWARDS, H. Sutherland.
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    An excellent history of Russian attempts to gain access to India via Central Asia.First edition. 8vo, iv, 295 pp., folding colour map, 20 pages' a...

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  • The Duab of Turkestan.

    RICKMERS, W. Rickmer.
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    The 'Duab' is a stretch of land between the Rivers Oxus and Jakartes. The author spent twenty years on and off in Turkestan and this detailed vol...

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  • Sinai, the Hedjaz, and Soudan:

    HAMILTON, James.
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    A rare and important record of Hamilton's voyage across Egypt to Sudan and the Hedjaz, with a dedicated chapter on Islam and the life of the Proph...

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  • Exploration of the Nile tributaries of Abyssinia.

    BAKER, Samuel.
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    The present work complements his earlier book The Albert Ny'anza, Great Basin of the Nile, by giving a summary of the Nile system derived from Ba...

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