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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The highlands of Æthiopia.
HARRIS, Major William Cornwallis.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Captain Harris, the British envoy to King Sahla of Shawa, landed at Tjurah in 1841 and remained in the country until 1843. 'The author gives us in...
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The life and adventures of...
PEARCE, Nathaniel.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00On the departure of Henry Salt in 1810, his servant Nathaniel Pearce remained in Ethiopia until 1819, becoming fluent in Tegrenya and Amharic. 'A ...
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An account of the English Mission
PORTAL, GeraldOriginal price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Rare privately printed edition.In 1887 Portal was ordered to attempt a reconciliation between the King of Abyssinia and the Italian Government, fo...
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[Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...
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[Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...
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Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...
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[Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...
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[Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth-century China.A fine group o...
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Narrative of a journey through Abyssinia in 1862-3.
DUFTON, Henry.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00Scarce. Dufton's work contains one of the first and best accounts of the Ethiopian ruler Emperor Tewodros, whom he met at Dabra Tabor. It also des...
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The autobiography of ...
WALDMEIR, Theophilius.Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £0.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00An account of ten years life in Abyssinia; and sixteen years in Syria.First edition. 8vo, xiv, 339 pp., wood engraved frontispiece, numerous engra...
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The captive missionary:
STERN, Rev. Henry A.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00An account of the country and people of Abyssinia. Embracing a narrative of King Theodore's life, his captivity at Magdala, and the treatment of p...
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Group of Four Views: Tempio Canova and the new road.
LUISON, SebastianoOriginal price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00Antonio Canova (1757-1822), the great neo-classical sculptor was born in Possagno. He chose to erect what became known as the Tempio Canoviano on ...
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Picturesque tour of the River Thames.
WESTALL, William; OWEN, Samuel.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00Large paper copy with plates in two states. Fine set of classic Thames views. Large paper copy with the plates in 2 states, and superior colouring....
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Travels in Abyssinia and the Galla country
PLOWDEN, Walter Chichele.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00Rare. Plowden, appointed British Consul in 1848, served first at Masawa and later in the interior where he befriended Ras Ali and later Emperor Té...
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Exploration of the Nile tributaries of Abyssinia.
BAKER, Samuel.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00The present work complements his earlier book The Albert Ny'anza, Great Basin of the Nile, by giving a summary of the Nile system derived from Ba...
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The True History of Cara Mustapha,
[PRECHAC, Jean de].Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00First English edition. One of several novels by the French writer Jean de Préchac (d.1720) based on real historical figures. Kara Mustafa Pasha (d....
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Three Years in Tibet
KAWAGUCHI, Ekai.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00Kawaguchi Ekai was a Japanese Buddhist monk and the first recorded Japanese citizen to travel in Nepal and Tibet. He gives a detailed account of R...
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The Italian Expedition to the Himalaya, Karakoram
FILIPPI, Filippo de.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00First edition in English. Chapters by leading mountaineers G. Dainelli and J.A. Spranger are also included and provide a remarkable overview of thi...
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The itinerary of Greece
GELL, Sir William.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00Inscribed presentation copy. Inscribed: Rev Dr Parr / From the Author/ June 1814. Samuel Parr (1747-1825) was a renowned figure in late 18th and e...
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