Very scarce. Printed for subscription only to raise money for Fawckner who had fallen on hard times. An account of the author's travels in West Af...

Rare privately printed journal of Davidson's attempt to cross the Western Sahara from Tangier to Timbuktoo which ended with his murder in November...

A personal account of travel and adventure and a famous eye-witness report of the Russian campaign against Khiva in 1873; MacGahan was a correspon...

Calvert promoted and financed this expedition, under the command of Lawrence Allen Wells, to explore unknown portions of inland Western Australia ...

Bertrandon de la Broquière (aka Brocquiere, c. 1400-1459) was a Burgundian spy and pilgrim to the Middle East in the years 1432–33. He wrote at th...

A rare survival announcing the appointment of Young as Lieutenant governor of the Eastern Districts, at a time when it was the urgent wish of the ...

An uncommon account. M'Queen, the owner of plantations in Grenada in the West Indies, collected extensive information, principally from slaves but...

Vialla de Sommieres spent six years in Montenegro, circa1806-12, as governor of Cattaro, during the French occupation of Dalmatia in the Napoleoni...

Important illustrated history of Jerusalem. A fine example, in an attractive contemporary binding, of the first edition in Latin of this important ...

The great traveller and explorer of the Nile at the very beginning of his career abroad. In 1763 Bruce was appointed the British Consul at Algiers...

In 1873 the Admiralty began planning an expedition to find a route to the North Pole through Smith Sound, the passage between Greenland and Canada...

Scarce account by a professional travel writer, who later produced works on the Sandwich Islands, the Levant, and Central & South America.Firs...

Rare engraving of the city of Amsterdam depicting the coat-of-arms of the city's burgomasters during the years spanning the Dutch Golden Age. The ...

Born on the island of Skye, off the West coast of Scotland, Campbell (1802-1877) joined the East India Company in 1820. In 1834 he was ordered to...

A lovely variety of Chinese official costumes, in fine condition and bright colours.Pith seems not to have been adopted for painting until about 1...

Attractive original watercolour which we can safely attribute to Mayer (fl. 1755-1803), the celebrated Italian orientalist who travelled extensive...

A fine watercolour view of Constantinople taken from Bulgarlu above Scutari, in the foreground two men smoking, another walking past with a donkey...

William Bullock was a showman, collector and naturalist. In 1809 he moved his growing collection of 'natural curiosities' from Liverpool to London...

Particularly scarce hand-coloured as here. Rare first edition with hand-coloured illustrations depicting the river Niger.A scarce book in any forma...

The account of Speke's third and final expedition to Africa. This took place in 1860 with James Grant.Their purpose was to explore the Victoria Ny...

"Perhaps the most famous of all African exploration books, this recounts Dr. Livingstone's travels through South Africa, with the discovery of Lak...