With four-sheet panorama of Athens. A handsomely bound set of Walpole's travels between 1803 and 1808 to which are added accounts by other travelle...

Dodwell made two journeys to Greece, one in company with Sir William Gell touring the Ionian Islands and the Troad. Later with the Italian Simone ...

Originally published in Calcutta. 'The author was an officer of the Bengal Establishment sent to Shiraz for an eight months assignment. An importa...

The 'Arabistan' in the title refers to Khuzestan in Eastern Persia. The author, a member of the Russian legation at Tehran, travelled from Tehran ...

The rare second panorama. A rare example, never bound, with wide margins.A fine panoramic view, entirely different from Mrs. Bracebridge's 1836 pan...

A fine collection of views of the London docks by William Daniell, published between 1802 and 1808 at £2 12s 6d each. The views show the new docks...

Scarce, with only a handful of copies appearing at auction. George Philips (?1599-1696), was employed as secretary to George O'Brien, Second Earl ...

Scarce. Castlemaine was asked by Charles II to keep him informed of events in Europe whilst making a tour. Castelmaine reported to the King by let...

Castellan went out to the Levant as a draughtsman in 1796 with a French engineering mission led by Pierre Ferregau, who hoped to be awarded a cont...

'Patterson revisits the infamous sites of Tsavo, then treks into the Nyika, or wilderness of British East Africa ... there is also a feverish enco...

Important history of this Royal Charter Company including much on relations with Zanzibar and its Sultan.First edition. 8vo, xvi, 382 pp., folding...

The most illustrious name in Ethiopic scholarship. After studying philology at the Erfurt academy and at Leiden, Ludolf travelled in order to incre...

An important account of Ethiopia written by a Portuguese Jesuit, primarily relating to an account of Ethiopia in the second half of the sixteenth ...

The most Important Panorama of London of its period. The magnificent grand panorama of London.Samuel Buck and his brother Nathaniel are among the f...

Hughes travelled in the Mediterranean and Greece in 1813-14 as tutor to Richard Townley Parker. They visited Spain, Italy, Sicily, Greece and Alba...

Coxe, an English priest and historian, at one time based in St. Petersburg, endeavoured to collect the journals of the several voyages relating to...

One of the most valuable sources for the history of exploration in northern Canada.The Nares expedition, so called after its commander George Nare...

Froebel (1805 –1893) was a German geologist and mineralogist, and journalist. He emigrated to the United States, where he became editor of a Germa...

An exciting and detailed diary recording the exploits of an unknown employee at the Bank of Abyssinia and his travel companion, the British army o...