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 ...

This fine ceramic jug commemorates the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1887-89 and Stanley along with his officers, E. M. Bartelot, W. Bonney, A. J. ...

An early travel account to St Helena, Java and China. Including plates of St Helena, Java (2) and Batavia amongst others. First edition. 8vo, illu...

'A fascinating work, full of interesting detail, as are all Leake's works. Particular attention is paid to Mycenae and Tiryns, and the plates incl...

The youngest daughter of William, Duke of Clarence (later William IV) and the actress Mrs Jordan, the author married the colonial administrator Vi...

By paddle steamer up the Irrawaddy river. Crawfurd was sent on an envoy mission to Burma in 1826, by Hastings's successor Lord Amherst, in the afte...

. 'In 1783 the Antelope commanded by Captain Henry Wilson, ran onto a reef near one of the Palau Islands, a previously unexplored group, and was w...

One of the key figures in the Hungarian War of Independence (1848-49), György Klapka (1820-1892) went on to be a member of the Hungarian Parliamen...

One of 160 copies. The first scholarly work by the historian and archaeoloist Alexandre, comte de Laborde (1773-1842). Magnificently illustrated, t...