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].Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /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.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /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.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /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.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| /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.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| /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.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| /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.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /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.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| /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.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| /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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Athenes ancienne et nouvelle.
GUILLET de SAINT-GEORGE, Andre Georges.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /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].Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00| /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.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00| /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.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| /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.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /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.Original price £5,500.00 - Original price £5,500.00Original price £0.00£5,500.00£5,500.00 - £5,500.00Current price £5,500.00| /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.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /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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