The 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...

First English edition. One of several novels by the French writer Jean de Préchac (d.1720) based on real historical figures. Kara Mustafa Pasha (d....

Kawaguchi 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...

First edition in English. Chapters by leading mountaineers G. Dainelli and J.A. Spranger are also included and provide a remarkable overview of thi...

Inscribed presentation copy. Inscribed: Rev Dr Parr / From the Author/ June 1814. Samuel Parr (1747-1825) was a renowned figure in late 18th and e...

'An important work' (Blackmer) detailing the author's travels in 1858 in which he describes the state of the countryside and includes much politic...

This edition contains many plates and material not published earlier.The atlas includes plates of Corfu, Zante, Ithaca, and Athens, in addition to...

'The botanist Pitton de Tournefort was sent on a mission to the Levant by Louis XIV in 1700. He was accompanied by the artist Claude Aubriet and t...

Scarce early account of North Africa. The first book on Africa written by an African. The woodcut illustrations include personifications of Africa...

First English edition. The first edition in English of Fumée's Histoire des troubles de Hongrie (1594). In his address to the reader, the translato...

First published in 1693 ,Slezer's book was the earliest series of town prospects to be published in Britain.John Slezer, a German military enginee...

The photographs include: The Acropolis, Temple of Jupiter, Gate of Adrian, Theatre of Herodes Atticus, Propylea, Temple of Nike Apteros, Parthenon...

Alaska as an island. Fresh copy of the first English edition of 'an important work in the history of north-west coast exploration' (Hill).Preceded ...

Scarce. Written by a British Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards who disembarked at Massawa in 1874 on a hunting trip in northern Ethiopia and left...

A comprehensive work covering the geography of the Himalayas with general hints on stalking and hunting in the Himalayas. Combines the natural his...

Apart from his marriage in London 1729 or 1730, very little is known of Nebot's life, although he is generally thought to have been of Spanish bir...

Scarce. Entertaining narrative of a journey across Mongolia and Siberia, mostly by sled. Hong Kong to St. Petersburg via Canton, Shanghai, Peking,...

Richard Chandler, classical scholar and traveller, was introduced to the Society of Dilettanti by Robert Wood, editor of The Ruins of Palmyra, and...