A frank account of conditions in the region. In addition to the customary account of the peoples, customs, and natural history of the area, the au...

Scarce account of a party of amateurs sending out on an expedition in the Spitzbergen area. Hunting and dining seem to be their major concerns in ...

Important assembly of three key texts on India. The first volume contains the geography of Hindustan by the Portuguese Jesuit missionary, Joseph T...

Scarce. COPAC lists BL, Edinburgh University, and SOAS only.A thorough survey of the district.First edition. 8vo, xi, 369 pp., errata slip, mounte...

Fine publisher's richly gilt decorative cloth binding. One of the foremost topographical illustrators of the period, Bartlett (1809-1854) travelled...

Crawfurd was sent on an envoy mission to Burma in 1826, by Hastings's successor Lord Amherst, in the aftermath of the First Anglo-Burmese War. It ...

De Veer (1570-1598), was a Dutch officer on Willem Barentsz' second and third voyages of 1595 and 1596 respectively, in search of the Northeast Pa...

The second part of Buckingham's overland journey to India from Egypt in 1816-17.First octavo edition, 2 volumes, 8vo., xx, [ii], 479; vi, [ii], 53...

Parker Snow (1817-1895), an eccentric English explorer, was working as a writer in New York when he claimed to have had a paranormal vision of the...

This volume contains papers relating to an expedition under the command of Captain Phipps commissioned by the Government of the day. These papers ...

'Jean François Albanis Beaumont, (1755–1812), engraver and landscape painter, may have been a son of, or related to, the Piedmontese artist Claudi...

Plate XII from Twenty-Four Views in St Helena, The Cape, India, Ceylon, The Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt, original hand-coloured aquatints, 495 x ...

Scarce. Natal Colony, Durban, and the Umgeni and Umvoti Rivers.First edition. 8vo., [viii], 40 pp., original tan printed wrappers, spine defective...

Beiruit to Beijing - the Citroen Central Asia Expedition. Finely produced portfolio of illustrations by the official artist of the Citroen Central ...

Werne (1822-1874), a German adventurer, took part in the second European exploratory mission to discover the source of the White Nile, under the l...

The first Protestant mission to Arabic-speaking Muslims. Rare. Anthony Norris Groves (1795-1853), travelled with his family to Baghdad in 1829 wher...