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.Original price $2,981.00 - Original price $2,981.00Original price $0.00$2,981.00$2,981.00 - $2,981.00Current price $2,981.00| /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.Original price $497.00 - Original price $497.00Original price $0.00$497.00$497.00 - $497.00Current price $497.00| /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.Original price $1,656.00 - Original price $1,656.00Original price $0.00$1,656.00$1,656.00 - $1,656.00Current price $1,656.00| /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.Original price $1,126.00 - Original price $1,126.00Original price $0.00$1,126.00$1,126.00 - $1,126.00Current price $1,126.00| /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.Original price $994.00 - Original price $994.00Original price $0.00$994.00$994.00 - $994.00Current price $994.00| /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.Original price $3,312.00 - Original price $3,312.00Original price $0.00$3,312.00$3,312.00 - $3,312.00Current price $3,312.00| /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.Original price $2,451.00 - Original price $2,451.00Original price $0.00$2,451.00$2,451.00 - $2,451.00Current price $2,451.00| /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.Original price $1,987.00 - Original price $1,987.00Original price $0.00$1,987.00$1,987.00 - $1,987.00Current price $1,987.00| /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 ...
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The Story of the Malakand Field Force:
CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer.Original price $4,637.00 - Original price $4,637.00Original price $0.00$4,637.00$4,637.00 - $4,637.00Current price $4,637.00| /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.Original price $1,126.00 - Original price $1,126.00Original price $0.00$1,126.00$1,126.00 - $1,126.00Current price $1,126.00| /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.Original price $862.00 - Original price $862.00Original price $0.00$862.00$862.00 - $862.00Current price $862.00| /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.Original price $2,650.00 - Original price $2,650.00Original price $0.00$2,650.00$2,650.00 - $2,650.00Current price $2,650.00| /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.Original price $5,961.00 - Original price $5,961.00Original price $0.00$5,961.00$5,961.00 - $5,961.00Current price $5,961.00| /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.Original price $2,981.00 - Original price $2,981.00Original price $0.00$2,981.00$2,981.00 - $2,981.00Current price $2,981.00| /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.Original price $15,000.00 - Original price $15,000.00Original price $0.00$15,000.00$15,000.00 - $15,000.00Current price $15,000.00| /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.Original price $762.00 - Original price $762.00Original price $0.00$762.00$762.00 - $762.00Current price $762.00| /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.Original price $1,259.00 - Original price $1,259.00Original price $0.00$1,259.00$1,259.00 - $1,259.00Current price $1,259.00| /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.Original price $1,193.00 - Original price $1,193.00Original price $0.00$1,193.00$1,193.00 - $1,193.00Current price $1,193.00| /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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