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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Bradford on Mount Fairweather
WASHBURN, Bradford.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /Bradford Washburn was one of America's foremost mountaineers. He led many first ascents and established new routes on several Alaskan peaks, often...
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The life of Horace Benedict de Saussure.
FRESHFIELD, Douglas W.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| /Inscribed copy. The standard biography of the great Alpine mountaineer, Saussure, by another outstanding mountaineer.Inscribed and dated by the aut...
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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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A Voyage to Abyssinia,
SALT, Henry.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| /Salt had previously visited Ethiopia in 1805 as part of Viscount Valentia's entourage, visiting Massawa, Aksum, Adwa, and other parts of Tegré.'In...
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L'ancienne Athènes,
PITTAKIS, K[yriákos].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| /Printed in Athens. Dedicated to King Otho, first King of Greece, this is one of the first books describing ancient Athens to be printed in Athens i...
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Voiage de Levant fait par le Commandement du Roy en l'annee 1621.
DESHAYES, Louis, Baron de Courmenin.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /'[It] provides... a clear account of the structure of the Ottoman Empire, as well as the most complete description yet recorded of the Seraglio' (...
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Le tres devot voyage de Ierusalem,
ZUALLART, Giovanni.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| /First French edition of Zuallart's important work. Giovanni Zuallart (a.k.a. Giovanni Zuallardo or Jean Zuallart, 1541-1634) was a Belgian Judge, T...
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Ce qu'on dit et ce qu'on pense.
SCHEFFER, Jean Gabriel.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| /This charming and humorous album depicts French life of the period in caricature. There appears to be only one complete copy of this album with si...
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Damas et le Liban.
PARIS, Louis Philippe d'Orleans, Comte de.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| /Rare. Intended as a limited edition for private circulation, the verso of the half-title has a printed line for the copy number (this copy unnumbe...
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Histoire generale de la religion des Turcs.
BAUDIER, Michel.Original price £1,950.00Original price £1,950.00 - Original price £1,950.00Original price £1,950.00Current price £1,755.00£1,755.00 - £1,755.00Current price £1,755.00| /The most complete treatment of Islam up to its time in France. Baudier was a populariser of knowledge of the Ottoman Empire, giving vivid descript...
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A Journey to Paris in the Year 1698.
LISTER, Dr Martin.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| /Not in the British Library. The first edition of the zoologist and physician Dr. Martin Lister's (d.1712) A Journey to Paris, an account of the aut...
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Lettres écrites sur une dissertation d'un Voyage en Grèce,
GUILLET de SAINT-GEORGE, [Andre Georges].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| /Rare. A rebuttal to Spon's attack on his Athènes ancienne et nouvelle, 1675, which Spon believed to be spurious. The spat produced a small series ...
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Dr. Livingston: his life and adventures.
[LIVINGSTONE]. ADAMS, H.G.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /The scarce first edition. Although undated, the publisher was only active for three years and subsequent editions were published by Blackwood. A c...
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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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Vues de Boulogne sur-Mer.
SINNETT, F.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £0.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00| /Charming album of landscape views of Boulogne. Small landscape album containing 25 lithographed views of Boulogne, each view 13 x 9 cm, manuscrip...
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Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match.
ZOFFANY, Johann.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /With the rare index plate. The contest is between the game-cocks of Colonel Mordaunt and the Nawab Wazir of Oudh, Asafud-dauba, who are seen facing...
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Tauromachia,
PRICE, Lake (illustrator); FORD, Richard.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00| /Bull fighting in Spain. Rare issue hand-coloured on card. A handsome copy of a lively set of bull fighting plates.'A speaker of French, Italian, Sp...
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Narrative of a residence at the Court of Meer Ali Moorad;
LANGLEY, Edward Archer.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| /Provides important details of Indian court life and travel (Czech).'Langley was a political agent in Khairpur and had the rank of a major. Mir Ali...
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