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.
-
Debenham grinding Geological specimens.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing Frank Debenham, one of the geologists on the expedition...
View full detailsOriginal price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00 -
Clissold, Anton and Emperor Penguin.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913) showing the expedition cook Thomas Clissold and Anton Omelchenko...
View full detailsOriginal price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00 -
Clissold making bread.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing the expedition's chef Thomas Clissold making bread for ...
View full detailsOriginal price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00 -
Bowers returned from Southern journey.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913). Showing Lieut. Henry Robertson Bowers, known as 'Birdie', one o...
View full detailsOriginal price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00 -
Davis - ships carpenter - building Cape Evans hut.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing the expedition's shipwright and carpenter Francis Davie...
View full detailsOriginal price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00 -
Narrative of a journey from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, during the late Russian invasion of Khiva;
ABBOTT, Capt. James.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Inscribed presentation copy. Abbott was an officer in the Bengal Artillery and was sent on a political mission by the British envoy in Harat to the...
View full detailsOriginal 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 -
Mongoliia i Amdo i mertvyi gorod Khara-Khoto [Mongolia, and Amdo, and the dead city of Khara-Khoto].
KOZLOV, Petr Kuzmich.Original price £4,250.00 - Original price £4,250.00Original price £0.00£4,250.00£4,250.00 - £4,250.00Current price £4,250.00A fine copy of Kozlov's detailed account of his groundbreaking expedition to the Gobi desert and the excavation of Khara-Khoto between 1907 and 19...
View full detailsOriginal price £4,250.00 - Original price £4,250.00Original price £0.00£4,250.00£4,250.00 - £4,250.00Current price £4,250.00 -
Annapurna
HERZOG, Maurice.Original price £1,350.00 - Original price £1,350.00Original price £0.00£1,350.00£1,350.00 - £1,350.00Current price £1,350.00Inscribed by author. Herzog (1919-2012) was a French mountaineer who led this remarkable ascent of Annapurna, one of the highest mountains in the w...
View full detailsOriginal price £1,350.00 - Original price £1,350.00Original price £0.00£1,350.00£1,350.00 - £1,350.00Current price £1,350.00 -
Coronation Everest.
MORRIS, James.Original price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £0.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00Signed by Edmund Hillary. The author James (later Jan) Morris was the 'anonymous' Times special correspondent who had joined the successful Everest...
View full detailsOriginal price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £0.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00 -
Voyage of His Majesty's ship Alceste,
M'LEOD, John.Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £0.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00Best edition, enlarged and corrected. Contains descriptions of the Ryukyus (then a Chinese protectorate) and Canton (Guangzhou).'This voyage was u...
View full detailsOriginal price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £0.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00 -
Select views of the rock and fortress of Gibraltar.
CARTER, John Money.Original price £18,500.00 - Original price £18,500.00Original price £0.00£18,500.00£18,500.00 - £18,500.00Current price £18,500.00Hand coloured lithographs mounted on card as issued. Carter's rare views of Gibraltar, here in the deluxe issue with hand coloured lithographs. Car...
View full detailsOriginal price £18,500.00 - Original price £18,500.00Original price £0.00£18,500.00£18,500.00 - £18,500.00Current price £18,500.00 -
Three years' wanderings in
FORTUNE, Robert.Original price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £0.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00Travels between 1843 and 1845 in Kuangtung, Fukien, the Chekiang coast, and Shanghai. Fortune (1812-1880) was a Scottish botanist, plant hunter an...
View full detailsOriginal price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £0.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00 -
Elements of Chinese grammar,
MARSHMAN, Joshua.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00A pioneering work. Scarce. Two issues of this work were made in 1814. This second issue has Chinese characters on title and a 2-page errata, it als...
View full detailsOriginal price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00 -
The Arab of Mesopotamia.
[BELL, Gertrude].Original price £1,350.00 - Original price £1,350.00Original price £0.00£1,350.00£1,350.00 - £1,350.00Current price £1,350.00A tribal geography. Described in Bell's own words as a 'tribal geography', and published anonymously, Bell was annoyed by the general assumption th...
View full detailsOriginal price £1,350.00 - Original price £1,350.00Original price £0.00£1,350.00£1,350.00 - £1,350.00Current price £1,350.00 -
De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas Susepta ab Societate Iesu,
RICCI, Matteo; TRIGAULT, Nicholas.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00The most important work on China since Marco Polo. The earliest authoritative source of information on China available in Europe at that time. At h...
View full detailsOriginal 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 -
Nanda Devi.
SHIPTON, E[ric].Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00With dust-wrapper. 'Shipton was a natural choice for the Mount Everest expedition of 1933 on which he reached 27,900 feet, but the experience of th...
View full detailsOriginal 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 -
The Karakorams and Kashmir
ECKENSTEIN, Oscar.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Scarce personal reminiscences of Conway's 1892 Karakoram expedition.Eckenstein (1859 – 1921), was a member of the expedition led by Sir Martin Con...
View full detailsOriginal price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00 -
The Diary of W. Lashly.
LASHLY, William.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00With the glassine wrapper - a remarkable survival. Lashly served on both Scott expeditions, but this portion of his diary covers his heroic return ...
View full detailsOriginal 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 -
Little America
BYRD, Richard Evelyn.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00Author's autograph edition. 'The true first edition of Byrd's official narrative of his initial Antarctic expedition. For many it marks the end of ...
View full detailsOriginal price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00 -
The History of America.
ROBERTSON, William.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00This was the first sustained attempt to describe the discovery, conquest and settlement of Spanish America since Herrera's Décadas. Robertson inte...
View full detailsOriginal 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 -
Illustrationes Florae novae hollandiae
BAUER, Ferdinand.Original price £50,000.00 - Original price £50,000.00Original price £0.00£50,000.00£50,000.00 - £50,000.00Current price £50,000.00Extremely rare botanical drawings of australia with fine provenance. One of six scientists chosen by Sir Joseph Banks to accompany Matthew Flinders...
View full detailsOriginal 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
You've viewed of 2380 items
FEATIVE SHOPPING OFFER
Spend £2500 on a single visit to our bookshop at 105 New Bond Street, on or before Friday 15th December, and receive two complimentary tickets to a Christmas Wreath Making Workshop with the visionary floral artist Amie Bone including Tea at Clementine’s, an immersive Dickensian Christmas experience at 105 New Bond Street. NB This offer cannot be combined with any other promotion or discount.
EXPERIENCE THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS
Clementine’s is an immersive festive experience like no other. Visit our New Bond Street bookshop & gallery and discover a captivating Dickensian Christmas experience created by visionary floral artist & event designer Amie Bone and exclusive dining menus created by London’s premier caterer AP&Co.
