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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. 

  • Butterfly and Fruits

    [CHINESE SCHOOL].
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    Fine, well executed, decorative Chinese export watercolour. Light and easily transportable, these watercolours, mostly produced in the Canton regi...

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  • Butterflies and Fruits

    [CHINESE SCHOOL].
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    Fine, well executed, decorative Chinese export watercolour. Light and easily transportable, these watercolours, mostly produced in the Canton regi...

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  • Butterflies and Fruits

    [CHINESE SCHOOL].
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    Fine, well executed, decorative Chinese export watercolour. Light and easily transportable, these watercolours, mostly produced in the Canton regi...

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  • Butterflies and Flowers

    [CHINESE SCHOOL].
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    Fine, well executed, decorative Chinese export watercolour. Light and easily transportable, these watercolours, mostly produced in the Canton regi...

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  • Butterflies and Flowers

    [CHINESE SCHOOL].
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    Fine, well executed, decorative Chinese export watercolour. Light and easily transportable, these watercolours, mostly produced in the Canton regi...

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  • Puteshestvie po Kitayu v 1874-1875 gg.

    [PIASSETSKY, Pavel].
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    The rare Russian first edition.Pavel Piasetskiy (1843 - 1919) was not only a respected doctor but also talented artist and writer. These versatile...

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  • The new world of Central Africa

    GUINNESS, Fanny Emma (Mrs H. Grattan Guinness).
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    An evangelical missionary, Fanny Guinness believed that it was important to know more about Central Africa in order to better understand it, and h...

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  • A Masai Youth, Kenya.

    HOPPE, Emil Otto.
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    Gelatine silver print (17 x 13 cm). Label with James Carr signature, manuscript title on reverse.

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  • The Choir Stalls, Westminster Abbey.

    WILSON, George Washington.
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    Albumen print. Title and photographer's name printed on image. Dimensions 17 x 24cm.

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  • The voyages of the "Morning"

    DOORLY, Gerald S.
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    Doorly was a junior officer on board the Morning, a relief ship used on Scott's Discovery expedition. It was the ship which took a disgruntled Sha...

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  • Birds and Insect

    [CHINESE SCHOOL].
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    Fine, well executed, decorative Chinese export watercolour. Light and easily transportable, these watercolours, mostly produced in the Canton regi...

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  • Bird and Insect

    [CHINESE SCHOOL.
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    Fine, well executed, decorative Chinese export watercolour. Light and easily transportable, these watercolours, mostly produced in the Canton regi...

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  • Delle Navigationi et Viaggi...

    RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista.
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    The foremost authority on the early history of America. A handsome set in a contemporary Italian binding. 'One of the earliest and most important c...

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  • An historical and geographical account of the Morea,

    CORONELLI, Vicenzo Maria.
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    The scarce English language edition of Coronelli's Morea. This was published to celebrate the new Venetian possessions reconquered from Turkey. Co...

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  • Sana an Arabian Islamic city.

    SERGEANT, R. B.; Ronald Lewcock.
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    Sergeant's Sana is the standard work on the city. The work covers all aspects of Sana society, history, and culture and is lavishly illustrated.Fi...

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  • Through Asiatic Turkey.

    GEARY, Grattan.
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    Scarce account of a three-month journey principally through Asiatic Turkey and undertaken for the purpose of making an objective assessment 'as to...

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  • Travels in the Himalayan provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab;

    MOORCROFT, William; TREBECK, George.
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    Scarce. Moorcroft's narrative traces the journey of the author and Trebeck from Bareilly to Bokhara in the years 1819 to 1825. En route to Bokhara...

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  • Le navigationi et viaggi, fatti nella Turchia,

    NICOLAY, Nicolas de.
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    The Loverdos copy of the expanded Italian edition. The best, expanded edition in Italian of Nicolas de Nicolay's (1517-1583) Quatre premiers livres...

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  • Report of proceedings on a voyage to the northern ports of China

    Lindsay, Hugh Hamilton.
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    Author's wife's copy. Hugh Lindsay's Report of Proceedings contains reports by Lindsay, an East India Company man, and Charles Gutzlaff on trade wi...

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  • Journal of a residence in India.

    GRAHAM, Maria.
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    Maria Graham's India was her first book. Graham was an artist who visited India and married the ship's captain shortly afterwards. Together they m...

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