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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Alexandrie. Vue generale et le Colonne Pompee. [General View of Alexandria and Pompei Column].
Photoglob.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /Albumen print, loose. Dimensions 20 x 26 cm. Title and photographer's credit in negative.
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Une arabe faisant toilette.
Photoglob.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /Albumen print, loose. Dimensions 20 x 26 cm. Title and photographer's credit in negative.
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Marche de Mastons.
FRERES, Abdullah.Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £0.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00| /Photograph by the Abdullah Freres, Ottoman-Armenian brothers and official photographers to the Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the 34th Sultan of the Ottom...
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Tempio antico volgarmente detto della Salute
PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /State 1.Engraving with etching and dry point, watermark. of 'Bracciano'Hind 71 i.
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Group portrait.
[Photographer unknown].Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £225.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00| /Albumen print. Good tonal range and in fair condition.
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The Taj Mahal, Agra, Uttar Pradesh.
SACHE, John Edward.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £250.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition.
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Marble Cupola, tomb of Itimad-ud-Daula, Agra, Uttar Pradesh.
SACHE, John Edward.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £250.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /Agra. Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition.
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Oil prospecting.
[Photographer unknown].Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /Uncommon album featuring more than one hundred fine photographs that record development of oil industry in the begining of XX century. They show v...
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Cruises in the Bering Sea.
NIEDIECK, Paul.Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00| /Scarce. 'In his voyage to the Bering Sea, Niedeck split his time between Kamchatka and Alaska. Landing at Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatkan coast, h...
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Son of Maharaja Sri Teen Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana.
HERZOG AND HIGGINS.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /This portrait belongs to one of 12 sons of the fifth Prime Minister of Nepal (1863–1929) from the Rana dynasty, who is known for abolishing slaver...
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Turkestan, die Wiege
SCHWARZ, Franz von.Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £0.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00| /Account of a fifteen-year stay in Turkestan, where the author, a German doctor, worked as an astronomer at an observatory in Tashkent.First editio...
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Sport in the Crimea and Caucasus.
PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY, Clive.Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £0.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00| /The author, the British vice-consul at Ketch on the Black Sea, enjoyed considerable sport on the Crimean peninsula and in the Caucasus Mountains -...
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Seventeen trips through Somaliland.
SWAYNE, Capt. Harald George Carlos.Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £0.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00| /'An excellent game shot, Swayne describes his seventeen journeys into Somaliland's interior... An important work of sport and exploration' (Czech)...
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Egypt, the Soudan
PETHERICK, John.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /Petherick, a contemporary of Baker, Burton, and Speke, travelled along the Nile Valley through Kordofan and into the unknown region beyond. Contai...
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Chinese Turkestan with caravan and rifle.
CHURCH, Percy W.Original price £325.00 - Original price £325.00Original price £0.00£325.00£325.00 - £325.00Current price £325.00| /The author and his hunting companion J.V. Phelps journeyed from Srinagar to Leh, through Yarkand and into the Tekkes Valley collecting Altai Wapit...
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An English Creamware Commemorative Jug.
[NAPOLEONIC WARS].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| /Commemorative jug issued to celebrate the great naval victory won by Admiral Lord Nelson over the allied French and Spanish fleets at the Battle ...
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Volcano Crater, Java.
[Photographer unknown].Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £350.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Indonesia. Albumen print. Very good tonal range and in good condition, pasted on original album sleeve.
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The Great Bell, Chion-in Temple, Kyoto
[Photographer unknown].Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £750.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /Japan. Albumen print. Very good tonal range and in very good condition, pasted on original album sleeve.
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The Vienna Prater.
Izis [BIDERMANAS Israelis].Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /France. Israëlis Bidermanas (1911–1980), who worked under the name of Izis, was a Lithuanian photographer who worked in France and is best known fo...
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View of the south and east sides of the Erechtheion, Athens.
[ATHANASIOU, Konstantine (attributed to)].Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /Greece. Large-format albumen print. Fair tonal range and in fair condition.
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Archer, Surinam.
[Photographer unknown].Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £450.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /South America. Woodburytype. Good condition, printed title, plate 16 from 'L'Exposition d'Amsterdam et la Belgique aux Pays-Bas' by Theophile Fumiere.
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The Trans-Caucasian Campaign of the Turkish army
OLIPHANT, Laurence.Original price £575.00 - Original price £575.00Original price £0.00£575.00£575.00 - £575.00Current price £575.00| /Oliphant had been acting as a correspondent for The Times during this campaign. He had accompanied Lord Stratford to the Crimea from Constantinopl...
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Nepalese Royal Family.
[Photographer unknown].Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £1,500.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Hand-coloured albumen print. Fine colouring and in good condition, mounted on thick card.
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Tractatus de globis et eorum usu.
[GLOBES]. MARKHAM, Clements R; James Gairdner; E. M. Morgan.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /Hakluyt Society, first series, 79a & 79b. The two bound together but separately paginated.The first contains the text of the English translati...
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