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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Femme Juive. [Jewish Girl].
GEISER, Jean.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00A photographic portrait of a Sephardi-Jewish girl in traditional dress, holding a fan.Jean Geiser (1848 - 1923) inherited his mother's photographi...
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Thames with Tower of London in background.
[LONDON].Original price £100.00 - Original price £100.00Original price £100.00£100.00£100.00 - £100.00Current price £100.00Original price £100.00 - Original price £100.00Original price £100.00£100.00£100.00 - £100.00Current price £100.00 -
[Dolma Palace].
BERGGRER, GOriginal price £75.00 - Original price £75.00Original price £75.00£75.00£75.00 - £75.00Current price £75.00Turkey. Albumen print. Good tonal range with some staining around margins; Dimensions: 200 x 260mm. (8 x 10.5 inches).
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How I Found Livingstone.
STANLEY, Henry Morton.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'One of the most famous books in the broad spectrum of African exploration, this title acquainted many a nineteenth-century reader with the wonder...
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Travels,
SHAW, Thomas.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00A valuable work. 'A valuable work' (Ioannou). Shaw was chaplain to the English factory at Algiers from 1720 to 1733. During this period he visited ...
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Storia degli Arabi sotto il governo de'Califi.
MARIGNY, François Augier de.Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00A splendidly bound first edition set in Italian of this chronological history of the Eastern Caliphs, successors of the Prophet and the Emperors o...
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Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople,
DUPRE, Louis.Original price £95,000.00 - Original price £95,000.00Original price £95,000.00£95,000.00£95,000.00 - £95,000.00Current price £95,000.00The finest colour plate book on Greece & Turkey. First edition of the finest colour plate book ever produced on Greece and Turkey.Born in Versa...
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The American testimonial banquet to Henry M. Stanley.
[STANLEY, Henry Morton].Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £2,750.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00A scarce memorial of Stanley's last expedition. Following the printed title, the text consists of a list of the Committee and honorary Stewards, e...
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Histoire de l'expedition de trois vasseaux,
[BEHRENS, Carl Friedrich].Original price £7,250.00 - Original price £7,250.00Original price £0.00£7,250.00£7,250.00 - £7,250.00Current price £7,250.00Roggeveen's voyage - Europeans discover Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The first French account of Roggeveen's voyage and the European discovery of Rapa...
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Journal de la navigation autour du globe
BOUGAINVILLE, Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien (Baron de).Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00The official record of Bougainville's voyage around the world. The main intention of the voyage was political: to extend French influence in Indoc...
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Begin ende Voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie.
COMMELIN, Isaac (editor).Original price £30,000.00 - Original price £30,000.00Original price £0.00£30,000.00£30,000.00 - £30,000.00Current price £30,000.00Dutch mercantile enterprise - the definitive edition. The definitive edition of the great early Dutch voyages of exploration. This collection of vo...
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Voyage autour du monde sur la Frégate La Vénus
DU PETIT-THOUARS, Abel.Original price £65,000.00 - Original price £65,000.00Original price £0.00£65,000.00£65,000.00 - £65,000.00Current price £65,000.00With the rare Atlas Hydrographique. One of the most important and complete records of the Mexican period in California. 'This voyage, ostensibly t...
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The possibility of approaching the North Pole asserted
BARRINGTON, Hon. Daines; BEAUFOY, Colonel.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £475.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00This volume contains papers relating to an expedition under the command of Captain Phipps commissioned by the Government of the day. These papers ...
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Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar;
OWEN, William Fitzwilliam.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00Family copy of crew member with letters. Lt. Henry Gibbons served on H.M.S. Leven and died on December 26th 1822 from fever. The same fate was to b...
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An album of watercolours of Scottish landscapes,
BURGESS, Henry William; KERR Lady Harriet.Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £0.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00Henry William Burgess (c.1792-1837) was highly regarded for his landscape drawings and paintings, with a particular emphasis on the study of trees...
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Sport in Somaliland,
POTOCKI, Count Joseph.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £7,500.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00One of the rarest of big-game books and certainly one of the most luxuriously produced. Potocki (1862-1922), was a renowned big-game hunter and br...
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Voyage pittoresque de la Grece.
CHOISEUL-GOUFFIER, Marie Gabriel August Florent.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £17,500.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00A very attractive example of the first edition of one of the most celebrated Voyages pittoresques.Choiseul-Gouffier's masterpiece is the first pub...
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Alt-Christliche Baudenkmale von Constantinopel vom V. bis XII. Jahrhundert.
SALZENBERG, Wilhelm.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £6,500.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00An excellent example of this celebrated second edition, limited to only a few copies, of this important work on christian architecture in Constant...
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Antverpia Totius Inferiorisæ Primaria Urbs
VRIENTS, Jan Baptist.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £25,000.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00A rare and finely engraved prospect of Antwerp viewed from the Scheldt, first published by Vrients in 1610, under a privilege issued by Albert and...
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A mission to Gelele, King of Dahome.
BURTON, Richard Francis.Original price £1,850.00 - Original price £1,850.00Original price £0.00£1,850.00£1,850.00 - £1,850.00Current price £1,850.00One of Burton's more sensational books. Dahomey had the reputation of being the most bloodthirsty land in Africa. Burton had wished to visit whils...
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