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Exploration & Travel 2023

Curated by our senior specialist Julian MacKenzie, the catalogue features rare travel books on: (1) Voyages, the Americas & Polar Exploration, (2) Africa, (3) Greece, Russia & Europe, (4) Turkey, Middle East & Central Asia, and (5) China, India & South East Asia.

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  • Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile.

    SPEKE, John Hanning.
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    Speke's third and final expedition to Africa. The account of Speke's third and final expedition to Africa. This took place in 1860 with his friend ...

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  • India Past and Present.

    FORBES-LINDSAY, C.H.
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    A handsome set, with illustrations exploring the regions of India through architecture, people, and geography. First edition; 2 vols, 8vo; numero...

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  • Narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825.

    HEBER, Reginald.
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    A valuable description of the culture of India in the 1820s. Heber's tour encompassed a journey through Bihar, Rohilkhand, Rajputana, and Gujarat,...

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  • Narrative of an expedition into the interior of Africa,

    LAIRD, Macgregor; OLDFIELD, R.A.K.
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    Laird was a member of the famous shipbuilding family and the Alburkah, built by his yard, was the first iron vessel to make an ocean voyage. The ...

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  • Notes on Norway;

    HOOKER, William Dawson.
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    Inscribed on the upper wrapper: 'Mrs. W????/ With Wm. Hooker's/ Compliments'.Scarce. William Dawson Hooker (1816-1840), physician and botanist, un...

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  • A Grammar of the Cingalese language.

    CHATER, James.
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    First English grammar of Sinhala. Chater's book is the first English grammar of Sinhala, the major language of Sri Lanka, and the first major book ...

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  • Narrative of a journey through Greece,

    TRANT, Thomas Abercromby.
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    Scarce. Trant began his journey in October 1829, travelling extensively through Greece, before arriving in Constantinople. The work contains 'a li...

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  • New light on dark Africa:

    PETERS, Carl.
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    A German counterpart to Stanley's In Darkest Africa. A German counterpart to Stanley's In Darkest Africa, this represents Peter's journey to find E...

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  • The Story of the Malakand Field Force:

    CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer.
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    Churchill's first book. 'While I was attached to the Malakand Field Force, I wrote a series of letters from the London Daily Telegraph. The favoura...

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  • The Kilima-Njaro Expedition.

    JOHNSTON, Harry Hamilton.
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    Johnston was invited in 1884 on behalf of the Royal Society to undertake a scientific mission to explore Mount Kilimanjaro and its surroundings. T...

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  • The shores and islands of the Mediterranean.

    WRIGHT, George Newenham.
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    Includes views of the Ionian Islands, Malta, Gibraltar and Sicily after drawings by Lieut. Henry Allen, Bartlett and Allom.4to, engraved additiona...

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  • To the Central African Lakes and back:

    THOMSON, Joseph.
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    The expedition was sent by the RGS under its African Exploration Fund scheme. It was led by the cartographer Keith Johnston on a route from Dar es...

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  • Divers voiages du P. Alexandre de Rhodes

    RHODES, Alexandre de.
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    Scarce. Alexandre de Rhodes (1591-1660), 'the father of the romanization of Vietnamese' (Lust), wrote several books relating to his own experience...

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  • Journal d'un voyage de Constantinople en Pologne,

    BOSCOVICH, Ruggiero Giuseppe.
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    Ruggiero Boscovich (1711-1787), an Italian-Croatian Jesuit polymath, travelled to Constantinople in 1761 with the Venetian ambassador Pierre Corre...

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  • Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian

    ADAM, Robert.
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    Foundation work of neo-classical architecture with good architectural provenance. In July 1757, in company with the French architect C.L. Clerissea...

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  • The present state of Hayti (Saint Domingo)

    FRANKLIN, James.
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    A survey of Haiti at an important time, when the island was united under Boyer. Includes chapters on Haitian independence.First edition. 8vo, vii...

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  • With the Abyssinians in Somaliland

    JENNINGS, Major J[ames] Willes; ADDISON, Christopher.
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    Jennings gives an account of the British expedition against Mohamed Abdille Hassan known as the 'Mad Mullah', as well containing much on local cus...

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  • Pilgrimage to the Caaba and Charing Cross.

    AHMAD HASSAN, Hafiz.
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    The author was treasurer and advisor to the Nawab of Tonk, a principality in the northwest of India, now part of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Wh...

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