A rare series of legal notices published during WW II by the British Military, setting out laws to be observed in Ethiopia after the British and t...

The first edition of 'possibly the finest set of engravings that has ever been produced of the West Indes' (Maclean).Cazabon was born on 20th Sept...

The first travel book best-seller. Rare 16th-century Italian edition of the world's first best-selling travel book. Although largely fictitious, th...

First edition of Stanley's famous account of his travels in the Congo, prompted by a meeting with King Leopold of the Belgians in 1879. In 1879 St...

Keppel, a special correspondent of The Times, was on the North-West frontier and covered the activity of the Mekran Field force which was set up t...

Rutter, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, travelled extensively in Arabia visiting the Holy cities including Mecca.First edition. 8vo, 2...

A bibliography of travels to the Holy Land, covering books in all languages totalling about 2,500 works on Palestine and the Near East, originally...

Fine lithographic views of China. Borget's fine lithographic views of China, including five of Hong-Kong, and others relating to Macao and Canton. ...

The first British embassy to China. The most celebrated and finely illustrated account of the first British embassy to China, which was to lead to ...

Belcher's voyage was the last officially sent in search of Sir John Franklin, who disappeared during an Arctic expedition in 1845. Belcher, in his...

An important work. Baron de Tott (1733-1793) went to Constantinople in 1755 and stayed until 1763, at first with his father and then with de Verge...

Mounteney-Jephson accompanied Stanley on his expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, the German-born Eduard Schnitzer, who had succeeded Gordon as govern...

Charles Bell entered Lhasa in 1920 as the first European diplomat. The book gives a history of Tibet from the fifteenth century, its land and peop...

Scarce complete set of the secret reports on China compiled for Naval Intelligence.Comprises sections on physical geography, history, peoples, mod...

Marvin's popular account of some of the more famous explorers and explorations of Central Asia in the 1860s-1880s such as Vambery, Burnaby, MacGre...

Thomson's most significant work. Thomson's most significant work, made as he travelled through China between 1868 and 1872.Richard Ovenden has argu...

Signed by Tenzing. This volume contains tales of Norgay Tenzing's various travels and climbs following his historic ascent of Everest with Sir Edmu...

Philby's scarce final book. A history of the oil industry in Arabia from the end of WWI, by the renowned Arabist.First edition, 8vo, 134pp., a por...

The most famous archaeological discovery of the twentieth century. First edition of the three-volume Tut-Ankh-Amen, Howard Carter's account of the ...

Markham's voyage to the Barents Sea during the navigable season in order to ascertain the best route for future Polar discovery. Markham's view th...

William Scoresby junior, the great Arctic explorer, was actively engaged on scientific research into magnetism and published several papers on the...