Georg Emanuel Opiz, or Opitz (1775-1841) was born in Prague, but moved to Dresden where he studied painting under Giovanni Battista Casanova. His ...

One of the finest accounts of natural history travels. Henry Bates (1825 1892) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific...

With the rare supplement. The rarely found supplement makes good the omissions from Journal.First edition. 4to., [viii], xxx, [ii half-title], 310,...

The printed record of a weekly newspaper devised by Sabine to uphold morale amongst the crew of Parry's first voyage whilst frozen-in during the A...

Lyon's official account of a search for a Northwest Passage by Hudson Bay. The narrative of the voyage as far as Wager Inlet and Repulse Bay also ...

Journal by an officer on the first expedition commanded by William Parry. Fisher gives especially useful remarks on natural history and ice condit...

The first traversal of the North-west Passage. Even though it was intended as a rescue voyage seeking Franklin survivors, and (by explicit orders) ...

'Kane, on board the Advance, was commander of this expedition, which was financed by Grinnell. Franklin was not found; however, much data concerni...

The first Russian circumnavigation. An important work, being the official account of the first Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe. Kru...

The heroes of Greek Independence. One of the most celebrated collections of illustrations relating to the great events during the long Greek War of...

A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing courtiers.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for small, inexpens...

A 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 ...

Second English edition, published a year after the Harper and Wiley editions.An account of the The Texan Santa Fe Expedition, a commercial and mil...

Important contributions by Diderot. Best edition. Published at Geneva by Pellet in 1780 in two formats, the superior in quarto – as here – the othe...

Apparently an ancestor of the eponymous jazz singer, the author travelled through Egypt and Nubia, together with his family, arriving at Khartoum,...

Blakesley was a clergyman, who, whilst at Cambridge University was a member of the Apostles Club along with Alfred Lord Tennyson. He wintered in A...

'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...

Finely bound in tree calf. Scarce in such handsome condition.First edition. 2 volumes, 4to (28.5cm), xviii, 476; x, 580pp., 2 additional engraved t...

Waddington and Hanbury, both Cambridge fellows, decided to embark on an antiquarian tour of Egypt. They were received by the Governor, Mohammed A...

Signed by the author . Photographs taken by Beaton while Official Photographer for The Ministry of Information: from Beggars to Marharanies.A fine ...