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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Voyage round the World
KRUSENSTERN, Capt. A.J. von.Original price £13,500.00 - Original price £13,500.00Original price £0.00£13,500.00£13,500.00 - £13,500.00Current price £13,500.00The first Russian circumnavigation. An important work, being the official account of the first Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe. Kru...
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Album Greichischen heldentums
HESS, Peter von.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £12,500.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00The heroes of Greek Independence. One of the most celebrated collections of illustrations relating to the great events during the long Greek War of...
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[A Group of 12 Watercolours of Courtiers.
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price £11,000.00 - Original price £11,000.00Original price £0.00£11,000.00£11,000.00 - £11,000.00Current price £11,000.00A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing courtiers.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for small, inexpens...
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Side-Lights on Siberia.
SIMPSON, James YoungOriginal price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £300.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00A work in which the author has recorded his impressions during the course of a journey in Siberia, which took place in the summer of 1896. A very ...
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Narrative of an expedition across the great south-western prairies,
KENDALL, George Wilkins.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £850.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00Second English edition, published a year after the Harper and Wiley editions.An account of the The Texan Santa Fe Expedition, a commercial and mil...
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Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des européens dans les deux Indes.
RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas.Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £4,000.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00Important contributions by Diderot. Best edition. Published at Geneva by Pellet in 1780 in two formats, the superior in quarto – as here – the othe...
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Khartoum,
MELLY, GeorgeOriginal price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £850.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00Apparently an ancestor of the eponymous jazz singer, the author travelled through Egypt and Nubia, together with his family, arriving at Khartoum,...
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Four months in Algeria:
BLAKESLEY, Joseph Williams.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £650.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Blakesley was a clergyman, who, whilst at Cambridge University was a member of the Apostles Club along with Alfred Lord Tennyson. He wintered in A...
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Lake Ngami;
ANDERSSON, Charles John.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £1,250.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00'The narrative describes two expeditions, one in which the author was accompanied by Francis Galton in the Ovampo country, and the other when he t...
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The history and topography of the United States.
HINTON, John Howard.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Finely bound in tree calf. Scarce in such handsome condition.First edition. 2 volumes, 4to (28.5cm), xviii, 476; x, 580pp., 2 additional engraved t...
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Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia.
WADDINGTON, George; HANBURY, Rev. Barnard.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £2,000.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00Waddington and Hanbury, both Cambridge fellows, decided to embark on an antiquarian tour of Egypt. They were received by the Governor, Mohammed A...
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An Indian Album.
BEATON, Cecil.Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £675.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00Signed by the author . Photographs taken by Beaton while Official Photographer for The Ministry of Information: from Beggars to Marharanies.A fine ...
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Commemorative Doulton Lambeth brown salt-glazed stoneware jug.
STANLEY, Henry Morton.Original price £900.00 - Original price £900.00Original price £900.00£900.00£900.00 - £900.00Current price £900.00This fine ceramic jug commemorates the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1887-89 and Stanley along with his officers, E. M. Bartelot, W. Bonney, A. J. ...
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A voyage to the East Indies
[NOBLE, Charles Frederick].Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £1,750.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00An early travel account to St Helena, Java and China. Including plates of St Helena, Java (2) and Batavia amongst others. First edition. 8vo, illu...
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Travels in the Morea.
LEAKE, William Martin.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00'A fascinating work, full of interesting detail, as are all Leake's works. Particular attention is paid to Mycenae and Tiryns, and the plates incl...
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Chow-Chow;
FALKLAND, [Amelia Cary] Viscountess.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00The youngest daughter of William, Duke of Clarence (later William IV) and the actress Mrs Jordan, the author married the colonial administrator Vi...
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Journal of an embassy from the Governor-General of India to the court of Ava
CRAWFURD, John.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £1,500.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00By paddle steamer up the Irrawaddy river. Crawfurd was sent on an envoy mission to Burma in 1826, by Hastings's successor Lord Amherst, in the afte...
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An account of the Pelew Islands,
KEATE, George.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £1,250.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00. 'In 1783 the Antelope commanded by Captain Henry Wilson, ran onto a reef near one of the Palau Islands, a previously unexplored group, and was w...
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Memoirs of the War of Independence in Hungary.
KLAPKA, George.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £650.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00One of the key figures in the Hungarian War of Independence (1848-49), György Klapka (1820-1892) went on to be a member of the Hungarian Parliamen...
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Description d'un pave mosaique decouvert dans l'ancienne Ville d'Italica...
LABORDE, Alexandre Louis Joseph (Comte de).Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £5,000.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00One of 160 copies. The first scholarly work by the historian and archaeoloist Alexandre, comte de Laborde (1773-1842). Magnificently illustrated, t...
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