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.
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An excursion in the Peloponnesus in the year 1858.
WYSE, Sir Thomas.Original price $1,925.00 - Original price $1,925.00Original price $0.00$1,925.00$1,925.00 - $1,925.00Current price $1,925.00| /'An important work' (Blackmer) detailing the author's travels in 1858 in which he describes the state of the countryside and includes much politic...
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Voyage de La Troade, fait dans les annees 1785 et 1786.
LE CHEVALIER, Jean Baptiste.Original price $4,811.00 - Original price $4,811.00Original price $0.00$4,811.00$4,811.00 - $4,811.00Current price $4,811.00| /This edition contains many plates and material not published earlier.The atlas includes plates of Corfu, Zante, Ithaca, and Athens, in addition to...
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Relation d'un Voyage du Levant, fait par ordre du Roy.
TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de.Original price $4,490.00 - Original price $4,490.00Original price $0.00$4,490.00$4,490.00 - $4,490.00Current price $4,490.00| /'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...
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Historiale description de l'Afrique,
LEO AFRICANUS, Johannes.Original price $16,035.00 - Original price $16,035.00Original price $0.00$16,035.00$16,035.00 - $16,035.00Current price $16,035.00| /Scarce early account of North Africa. The first book on Africa written by an African. The woodcut illustrations include personifications of Africa...
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The Historie of the Troubles of Hungarie:
FUMÉE, Martin.Original price $5,132.00 - Original price $5,132.00Original price $0.00$5,132.00$5,132.00 - $5,132.00Current price $5,132.00| /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...
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Theatrum Scotiae.
SLEZER, John.Original price $8,338.00 - Original price $8,338.00Original price $0.00$8,338.00$8,338.00 - $8,338.00Current price $8,338.00| /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...
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Album of 30 photographs.
[ATHENS]. MARION & CO.Original price $5,067.00 - Original price $5,067.00Original price $0.00$5,067.00$5,067.00 - $5,067.00Current price $5,067.00| /The photographs include: The Acropolis, Temple of Jupiter, Gate of Adrian, Theatre of Herodes Atticus, Propylea, Temple of Nike Apteros, Parthenon...
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An account of the new Northern Archipelago
STAEHLIN, J[akob] v[on].Original price $4,800.00 - Original price $4,800.00Original price $0.00$4,800.00$4,800.00 - $4,800.00Current price $4,800.00| /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 ...
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Sport in Abyssinia;
MAYO, Dermot R. W. Bourke, Earl of.Original price $1,604.00 - Original price $1,604.00Original price $0.00$1,604.00$1,604.00 - $1,604.00Current price $1,604.00| /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...
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Big Game hunting in the Himalayas and Tibet.
BURRARD, Major Gerald.Original price $514.00 - Original price $514.00Original price $0.00$514.00$514.00 - $514.00Current price $514.00| /A comprehensive work covering the geography of the Himalayas with general hints on stalking and hunting in the Himalayas. Combines the natural his...
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A market scene with fruit and vegetable sellers in front of a walled town.
NEBOT, Balthasar.Original price $12,187.00 - Original price $12,187.00Original price $0.00$12,187.00$12,187.00 - $12,187.00Current price $12,187.00| /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...
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A land journey from Asia to Europe,
WHYTE, William Athenry.Original price $963.00 - Original price $963.00Original price $0.00$963.00$963.00 - $963.00Current price $963.00| /Scarce. Entertaining narrative of a journey across Mongolia and Siberia, mostly by sled. Hong Kong to St. Petersburg via Canton, Shanghai, Peking,...
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Travels in Asia Minor: or an account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti
CHANDLER, Richard.
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Notice sur la cour du Grande-Seigneur
BEAUVOISINS, Joseph Eugene.Original price $610.00 - Original price $610.00Original price $0.00$610.00$610.00 - $610.00Current price $610.00| /The author was a prisoner-of-war for three years in Greece and Turkey, 1799-1801. This is his account of notices of the family of the sultan and e...
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The voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies,
[LANCASTER, Sir James]; MARKHAM, Clements R. (editor).Original price $449.00 - Original price $449.00Original price $0.00$449.00$449.00 - $449.00Current price $449.00| /Hakluyt Society, first series 56. The abstracts relate to the voyages of Keeling and Hawkins, Sharpie, Middleton, Love, Downton, and Cross. Calend...
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The New Houses of Parliament.
WALKER, E.Original price $642.00 - Original price $642.00Original price $0.00$642.00$642.00 - $642.00Current price $642.00| /Lithograph (overall sheet size 55.5 x 39 cm, image 41 x 26 cm), by Thomas Picken after Walker, printed in colours and finished by hand, captioned...
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Iraq in War Time.
[PHILBY, Harry St. John]Original price $2,309.00 - Original price $2,309.00Original price $0.00$2,309.00$2,309.00 - $2,309.00Current price $2,309.00| /Scarce photo publication of both Iraq and Central Arabia during the Great War, brought out by St John Philby at the end of 1918. Philby had served...
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A Banker in Abyssinia.
PRESS, Edouard(?)Original price $8,338.00 - Original price $8,338.00Original price $0.00$8,338.00$8,338.00 - $8,338.00Current price $8,338.00| /With mention of Evelyn Waugh. An immensely readable and often humorous memoir by a British employee of the Bank of Abyssinia in 1930s Ethiopia. Wit...
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Promenades pittoresques dans Constantinople et sur les rives du Bosphore,
PERTUSIER, Charles.Original price $22,449.00 - Original price $22,449.00Original price $0.00$22,449.00$22,449.00 - $22,449.00Current price $22,449.00| /Important work on Constantinople. The first edition, complete with the text volumes.Pertusier (1779-1836) was in Constantinople from 1812 as aide-d...
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The source of the Blue Nile
HAYES, Arthur J.Original price $1,412.00 - Original price $1,412.00Original price $0.00$1,412.00$1,412.00 - $1,412.00Current price $1,412.00| /A record of a journey through the Soudan to Lake Tsana in western Abyssinia, and of the return to Egypt by the valley of the Atbara.First edition...
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Narrative of the Burmese war,
SNODGRASS, Major [John James].Original price $866.00 - Original price $866.00Original price $0.00$866.00$866.00 - $866.00Current price $866.00| /Contemporary account of the First Burmese War.First edition. 8vo, xii, 319 pp., large folding map (foxed), 2 engraved plates, contemporary half ca...
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The company of adventurers.
BOYES, John.Original price $578.00 - Original price $578.00Original price $0.00$578.00$578.00 - $578.00Current price $578.00| /'Boyes recounts his adventures in East Africa, particularly hunting elephant in the Lado Enclave, and on safari with W.N. McMillan and C.W.l. Bulp...
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