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Rare books and manuscripts of Exploration and Travel across the world. From first editions of Captain Cook to works signed by Ernest Shackleton, and from the plains of India to the deserts of the Sahara, these works chart the history of mankind recording the places and people they saw.

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  • First edition of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone, with the rare coloured frontispiece by West.
    First edition of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone, with the rare coloured frontispiece by West.

    LIVINGSTONE, David.
    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; 1857.
    $1,717.00

  • First edition of A Letter to a Proprietor of the East-India Company, 1750, important pamphlet criticising the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle which ransomed Madras back to the British in 1850.
    First edition of A Letter to a Proprietor of the East-India Company, 1750, important pamphlet criticising the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle which ransomed Madras back to the British in 1850.

    [EAST-INDIA COMPANY]; [MONSON, William].
    A Letter to a Proprietor of the East-India Company. 1750.
    $687.00

  • Rare map showing the expeditions of the Royal l Niger Company, one of whose aims was the suppression of the slave trade, and the Benin Expedition
    Rare map showing the expeditions of the Royal l Niger Company, one of whose aims was the suppression of the slave trade, and the Benin Expedition

    JOHNSTON, W. & A. K.
    Special Map to Illustrate the Niger Expeditions in West Africa. 1897.
    $1,305.00

  • First English edition of Victor Jacquemont's Letters from India, the first publication in English of this scarce account of Jacquemont's journey through India.
    First English edition of Victor Jacquemont's Letters from India, the first publication in English of this scarce account of Jacquemont's journey through India.

    JACQUEMONT, Victor.
    Letters from India; 1834.
    $1,717.00

  • First edition of A Search After Sunshine or Algeria in 1871 by Lady Mary Elizabeth Herbert, a charming work on Algeria as it was under French occupation in the 1870s.
    First edition of A Search After Sunshine or Algeria in 1871 by Lady Mary Elizabeth Herbert, a charming work on Algeria as it was under French occupation in the 1870s.

    HERBERT, Lady [Mary Elizabeth].
    A Search After Sunshine or Algeria in 1871. 1872.
    $275.00

  • First edition of Free Trade or, An Inquiry into the Pretensions of the Directors of the East India Company, a scarce attack on the East India Company's monoply.
    First edition of Free Trade or, An Inquiry into the Pretensions of the Directors of the East India Company, a scarce attack on the East India Company's monoply.

    [EAST-INDIA COMPANY].
    Free Trade or, An Inquiry into the Pretensions of the Directors of the East India Company, 1812.
    $206.00

  • Four pamphlets on the East India company including Original Papers Relative to the rights and Pretensions of the Nabob of Arcot, Political Letters Written in March and April 1784 by a Late Member of Parliament.
    Four pamphlets on the East India company including Original Papers Relative to the rights and Pretensions of the Nabob of Arcot, Political Letters Written in March and April 1784 by a Late Member of Parliament.

    [EAST-INDIA COMPANY - SAMMELBAND].
    Original Papers Relative to the rights and Pretensions of the Nabob of Arcot, 1785.
    $1,168.00

  • First edition of The Question as to the Renewal of the East India Company's Monopoly Examined, 1812, scarce with only 7 UK institutional copies.
    First edition of The Question as to the Renewal of the East India Company's Monopoly Examined, 1812, scarce with only 7 UK institutional copies.

    [EAST INDIA COMPANY].
    The Question as to the Renewal of the East India Company's Monopoly Examined. 1812.
    $206.00

  • First edition of Letters to the Honourable the Court of Directors by Edwars Cotsford, in an attempt to bid for the role of the Governor of Madras.
    First edition of Letters to the Honourable the Court of Directors by Edwars Cotsford, in an attempt to bid for the role of the Governor of Madras.

    [EAST INDIA COMPANY]; COTSFORD, Edward.
    Letters to the Honourable the Court of Directors of the English East-India Company, 1784.
    $206.00

  • Charming commemorative photograph album of the Visit of His Excellency Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy and Governor General of India, to Kashmir 1918, also meeting the Maharajah Jagatjit Singh Sahib Bahadur of Kapurthala in the Punjab.
    Charming commemorative photograph album of the Visit of His Excellency Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy and Governor General of India, to Kashmir 1918, also meeting the Maharajah Jagatjit Singh Sahib Bahadur of Kapurthala in the Punjab.

    ALIMCHAND, Dewan (photographer).
    Visit of His Excellency Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy and Governor General of India, to Kashmir 1918. [1919].
    $5,151.00

  • First edition of On the Territorial Government and Commerce of the East India Company, concerning the revocation of the Company's monopoly in China.
    First edition of On the Territorial Government and Commerce of the East India Company, concerning the revocation of the Company's monopoly in China.

    [EAST-INDIA COMPANY].
    On the Territorial Government and Commerce of the East India Company. 1829.
    $206.00

  • First edition of Adamantia by Augustus Lindley, examining the discovery of diamonds in the Orange Free State of Southern Africa in 1870.
    First edition of Adamantia by Augustus Lindley, examining the discovery of diamonds in the Orange Free State of Southern Africa in 1870.

    LINDLEY, Captain Augustus F.
    Adamantia. The truth about the South African Diamond Fields: 1873.
    $275.00

  • First edition of An Authentic Account of the Debates in the House of Lords, scarce and important pamphlet recounting the debates in the House which would result in Pitt's India Act of 1784.
    First edition of An Authentic Account of the Debates in the House of Lords, scarce and important pamphlet recounting the debates in the House which would result in Pitt's India Act of 1784.

    [EAST INDIA COMPANY].
    An Authentic Account of the Debates in the House of Lords, 1783.
    $687.00

  • A Letter to Captain Eastwick,

    [EAST-INDIA COMPANY]; STRACHAN, J. M.
    A Letter to Captain Eastwick, 1858.
    $172.00

  • Report of the Debates in the House of Commons upon the Tenth, Fifteenth, and Eighteenth Days of July 1806 on the East India Budget.
    Report of the Debates in the House of Commons upon the Tenth, Fifteenth, and Eighteenth Days of July 1806 on the East India Budget.

    [EAST-INDIA COMPANY].
    Report of the Debates in the House of Commons upon the Tenth, Fifteenth, and Eighteenth Days of July 1806 on the East India Budget. 1806.
    $275.00

  • A View of the Present State and Future Prospects of the Free Trade & Colonization of India.
    A View of the Present State and Future Prospects of the Free Trade & Colonization of India.

    [EAST-INDIA COMPANY]; [CRAWFURD, John].
    A View of the Present State and Future Prospects of the Free Trade & Colonization of India. 1829.
    $275.00

  • British India.
    British India.

    [EAST-INDIA COMPANY].
    British India. 1839.
    $138.00

  • Letters of the Marquis Wellesley, Respecting the College of Fort William.
    Letters of the Marquis Wellesley, Respecting the College of Fort William.

    [EAST-INDIA COMPANY].
    Letters of the Marquis Wellesley, Respecting the College of Fort William. 1812.
    $378.00

  • Remarks on the Plans of Finance Lately Promulgated by the Honourable Court of Directors,

    [EAST-INDIA COMPANY]; TUCKER, Henry St. George.
    Remarks on the Plans of Finance Lately Promulgated by the Honourable Court of Directors, 1821.
    $241.00

  • An Appeal to England Against the New Indian Stamp Act;
    An Appeal to England Against the New Indian Stamp Act;

    [EAST-INDIA COMPANY].
    An Appeal to England Against the New Indian Stamp Act; 1828.
    $172.00

  • Reply to a Pamphlet, Entitled "India & Lord Ellenbrough."
    Reply to a Pamphlet, Entitled "India & Lord Ellenbrough."

    [EAST-INDIA COMPANY]; ZETA (pseud. FROUDE, James Anthony).
    Reply to a Pamphlet, Entitled "India & Lord Ellenbrough." 1845.
    $241.00

  • Speech of the Right Hon. George Canning,
    Speech of the Right Hon. George Canning,

    [EAST INDIA COMPANY].
    Speech of the Right Hon. George Canning, 1819.
    $241.00

  • The Travels of the Chevalier D'Arvieux in Arabia the Desart;
    The Travels of the Chevalier D'Arvieux in Arabia the Desart;

    ARVIEUX, Laurent d'; ROQUE, Jean de la (editor).
    The Travels of the Chevalier D'Arvieux in Arabia the Desart; 1732.
    $3,434.00

  • First edition with dust jacket, of Peter Fleming's Bayonets to Lhasa, the story of Younghusband's military expedition to Tibet which had been conceived by Lord Curzon as part the 'Great Game' against Russia.
    First edition with dust jacket, of Peter Fleming's Bayonets to Lhasa, the story of Younghusband's military expedition to Tibet which had been conceived by Lord Curzon as part the 'Great Game' against Russia.

    FLEMING, Peter.
    Bayonets to Lhasa. 1961.
    $206.00

  • Second edition but the first to include the Derrotas, the instructions for navigation within the Americas. One of the rarest books of its class.
    Second edition but the first to include the Derrotas, the instructions for navigation within the Americas. One of the rarest books of its class.

    NODAL, Bartolome Garcia de & NODAL, Goncalo.
    Relacion del viage que por orden de su Magestad, y acuerdo de el real Consejo de Indias... [1766] & [1753].
    $12,361.00

  • First edition of this scarce and important work on Tahiti. Morenhout was sometime US Consul in the Pacific Islands and French consul in Tahiti.
    First edition of this scarce and important work on Tahiti. Morenhout was sometime US Consul in the Pacific Islands and French consul in Tahiti.

    MOERENHOUT, Jacques Antoine.
    Voyages aux iles du Grand Ocean. 1837.
    $11,674.00

  • Donald MacIntre's Hindu-Koh is a big game classic. Macintyre travelled from Srinagar to Leh, and then to Chang Chenmo in 1871.
    Donald MacIntre's Hindu-Koh is a big game classic. Macintyre travelled from Srinagar to Leh, and then to Chang Chenmo in 1871.

    MACINTYRE, Donald.
    Hindu-Koh: 1889.
    $790.00

  • A valuable ethnographic work. The author had worked in the Ethnological Museum at Berlin which inspired him to begin his own collection.
    A valuable ethnographic work. The author had worked in the Ethnological Museum at Berlin which inspired him to begin his own collection.

    KOLLMANN, Paul.
    The Victoria Nyanza 1899.
    $1,168.00

  • First edition of Portugal Illustrated by William Morgan Kinsey, containing 21 engraved views and 9 hand-coloured aquatint plates containing 36 costumes.
    First edition of Portugal Illustrated by William Morgan Kinsey, containing 21 engraved views and 9 hand-coloured aquatint plates containing 36 costumes.

    KINSEY, Rev. William Morgan.
    Portugal Illustrated in a Series Of Letters. 1828.
    $1,717.00

  • This title chronicles Whymper's many attempts to climb the matterhorn
    This title chronicles Whymper's many attempts to climb the matterhorn

    WHYMPER, Edward
    The Ascent of the Matterhorn. 1880.
    $825.00

  • Inscribed by Hillary on title-page
    Inscribed by Hillary on title-page

    HILLARY, Edmund
    High Adventure 1955
    $1,031.00

  • First edition Sketches in the Crimea by Henry Charles Cunliffe-Owen, containing 8 hand-coloured lithograph views of Criea, primarily Sevastapol.
    First edition Sketches in the Crimea by Henry Charles Cunliffe-Owen, containing 8 hand-coloured lithograph views of Criea, primarily Sevastapol.

    [CRIMEAN WAR]. CUNLIFFE-OWEN, Major Henry Charles.
    Sketches in the Crimea, 1856.
    $6,181.00

  • The first French edition of Sparrman's account of Cook's second voyage.
    The first French edition of Sparrman's account of Cook's second voyage.

    SPARRMAN, Anders.
    Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Esperance, 1787.
    $1,099.00

  • The first French edition of Rickman's acccount of Cook's third and last voyage, which preceded the official account.
    The first French edition of Rickman's acccount of Cook's third and last voyage, which preceded the official account.

    [RICKMAN, John].
    Troisieme voyage de Cook, 1782.
    $3,777.00

  • The first French edition of Marra's journal of Captain Cook's second voyage.
    The first French edition of Marra's journal of Captain Cook's second voyage.

    [MARRA, John].
    Journal du second voyage du capitaine Cook, sur les vaisseaux La Resolution & L'Aventure. 1777.
    $3,091.00

  • First Spanish edition of Kippis's Life of Cook.
    First Spanish edition of Kippis's Life of Cook.

    [KIPPIS, Andrew]; NAVA PALACIO, Don Cesareo de (translator).
    Historia de la Vida y Viages del Capitan Jaime Cook. 1795.
    $2,061.00

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