For the Armchair Explorer: Books on Travel and Exploration
Curated by Julian MacKenzie and Lucinda Boyle, our travel and exploration collection encourages you to travel the globe from the comfort of your own home. Their selections offer an unparalleled escape into the world of adventure, making perfect gifts for the travel-hungry soul or the history enthusiast.
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Flights over the ancient cities of Iran.
SCHMIDT, Erich F.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| /Special publication of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A fine record of some the great archaeological sites of Iran as seen f...
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Amurath to Amurath.
BELL, Gertrude LowthianOriginal price £800.00 - Original price £800.00Original price £0.00£800.00£800.00 - £800.00Current price £800.00| /Bell's account of her five-month journey along the Euphrates. Scarce.Second edition, 8vo. xvii, 370 pp., frontispiece and 235 illustrations, large...
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Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido;
KEPPEL, Capt. the Hon Henry.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /The suppression of piracy off Borneo. Henry Keppel's Expedition to Borneo is a primary account for the suppression of piracy off Borneo.'In August ...
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A Voyage round the World,
ANSON, George.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 landmark of eighteenth-century English circumnavigation. Anson's voyage recounts the expedition made to cut off Spanish supplies of wealth from S...
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Soldiers of the Prophet.
MURPHY, Charles C. R.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 scarce account of military and naval operations in Arab lands including the Arabian Gulf in the period 1910-1918. Includes the rebellion in Oman...
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A description of the East and some other countries [bound with]
POCOCKE, R.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /One of the most important books on the Eastern Mediterranean. The first volume contains a description of Egypt, with volume two describing Palestin...
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Route of Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Nightingall, K.C.B.
HANSON, Captain [James].Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /First and only edition. Hanson, 'Late Assistant Quarter-Master-General with the Field Army of the Madras Establishment', acted as ADC to Sir Miles...
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Collection des costumes Espagnols anciens et modernes.
CRUZ CANO Y OLEMEDILLA, Juan de la.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00| /With 72 hand-coloured plates. First French edition of Cruz Cano Y Olemedilla's popular Spanish work, with 72 hand-coloured plates. The collection o...
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Recueil des differens costumes des principaux officiers et magistrats de la porte; et des peoples sujets de l'empire othoman.
[TURKISH COSTUME]; [WOLFGANG, Andreas Matthäus].Original price £50,000.00 - Original price £50,000.00Original price £0.00£50,000.00£50,000.00 - £50,000.00Current price £50,000.00| /Two extremely rare works bound in a single volume: the first work illustrating the costume of the Ottoman court and the Ottoman empire, almost cer...
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Mexican people.
Shapero Rare BooksOriginal price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £3,000.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00| /Representation of 18 different figures similar to "cries". Male and female figures, one child. 4 native indians of Latin America, in traditional c...
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Il Gazzettiere Americano
[AMERICAS].Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £5,000.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /A crisp copy of this wide-ranging topographical dictionary of the New World, in the preferred Italian version. Published in English a year earlier...
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Westminster from Waterloo Bridge.
BOYS, Thomas Shotter.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £350.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Tinted Lithograph.Abbey Scenery 239. From 'London As It Is'.
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The diary of William Hedges, Esq. (afterwards Sir William Hedges),
HEDGES, William.Original price £600.00 - Original price £600.00Original price £600.00£600.00£600.00 - £600.00Current price £600.00| /'An important glimpse of the activities of the East IndiaCompany in the period 1682 to 1684' (Riddick). Hedges was a director of the Company and p...
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A brief sketch of the Prophet of Islam.
ALI, Muhammad.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /Written by Ali 'for all fair-minded non-Muslims on the occasion of the fourteenth centenary of that great benefactor of humanity'.First edition. 8...
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Petromin handbook.
KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA.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| /The history of Petromin (The General Petroleum and Mineral Organization) from its foundation in 1962 up to 1977. Petromin was founded to develop p...
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Mycenae;
SCHLIEMANN, Dr. Henry.Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00| /'It is a spectacular book and was a roaring success... No one could overlook or ignore this book and as much as the discovery of Troy, this book w...
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A Journey from London to Persepolis;
USSHER, John.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| /An account of Ussher's travels through Russian Dagestan at the time of the Shami uprising, and thence south to view the antiquities of Mesopotamia...
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