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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. 

  • [Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.

    [CHINESE SCHOOL].
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    Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...

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  • [Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.

    [CHINESE SCHOOL].
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    Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...

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  • [Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.

    [CHINESE SCHOOL].
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    Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...

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  • [Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.

    [CHINESE SCHOOL].
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    Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...

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  • [Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.

    [CHINESE SCHOOL].
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    Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...

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  • Allerneuester Geographisch- und Topographischer

    HEYDT [aka HEIJDT], Johann Wolfgang.
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    Important early iconography of Jakarta. Heydt's Ost-Indien provides us with an extensive and important work with regard to the town planning and ge...

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  • Splendor Magnificentissimae Urbis Venetiarum Clarissimus;

    GRAEVIUS, Johann Georg.
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    A rare and lavishly illustrated work devoted entirely to the city of Venice, issued as part of the monumental Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiaru...

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  • Flights over the ancient cities of Iran.

    SCHMIDT, Erich F.
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    Special publication of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A fine record of some the great archaeological sites of Iran as seen f...

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  • Amurath to Amurath.

    BELL, Gertrude Lowthian
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    Bell's account of her five-month journey along the Euphrates. Scarce.Second edition, 8vo. xvii, 370 pp., frontispiece and 235 illustrations, large...

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  • Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido;

    KEPPEL, Capt. the Hon Henry.
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    The suppression of piracy off Borneo. Henry Keppel's Expedition to Borneo is a primary account for the suppression of piracy off Borneo.'In August ...

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  • A Voyage round the World,

    ANSON, George.
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    A landmark of eighteenth-century English circumnavigation. Anson's voyage recounts the expedition made to cut off Spanish supplies of wealth from S...

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  • A description of the East and some other countries [bound with]

    POCOCKE, R.
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    One of the most important books on the Eastern Mediterranean. The first volume contains a description of Egypt, with volume two describing Palestin...

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  • Route of Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Nightingall, K.C.B.

    HANSON, Captain [James].
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    First and only edition. Hanson, 'Late Assistant Quarter-Master-General with the Field Army of the Madras Establishment', acted as ADC to Sir Miles...

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  • Collection des costumes Espagnols anciens et modernes.

    CRUZ CANO Y OLEMEDILLA, Juan de la.
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    With 72 hand-coloured plates. First French edition of Cruz Cano Y Olemedilla's popular Spanish work, with 72 hand-coloured plates. The collection o...

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  • Recueil des differens costumes des principaux officiers et magistrats de la porte; et des peoples sujets de l'empire othoman.

    [TURKISH COSTUME]; [WOLFGANG, Andreas Matthäus].
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    Two extremely rare works bound in a single volume: the first work illustrating the costume of the Ottoman court and the Ottoman empire, almost cer...

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  • Mexican people.

    Shapero Rare Books
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    Representation of 18 different figures similar to "cries". Male and female figures, one child. 4 native indians of Latin America, in traditional c...

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  • Il Gazzettiere Americano

    [AMERICAS].
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    A crisp copy of this wide-ranging topographical dictionary of the New World, in the preferred Italian version. Published in English a year earlier...

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  • Westminster from Waterloo Bridge.

    BOYS, Thomas Shotter.
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    Tinted Lithograph.Abbey Scenery 239. From 'London As It Is'.

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