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Rare Travel Books

Step into the shoes of intrepid explorers and adventurers with our captivating collection of books. Each page takes you on a journey to distant lands, allowing you to experience the thrill of discovery, the allure of the unknown, and the resilience of those who dared to wander. Immerse yourself in their tales and explore the world through their eyes.
  • A View of Ossoore.

    DANIELL, William [after BLAGDON, Francis William].
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    Aquatint by J.C. Stadler, with original hand-colour.

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  • Scenery of Portugal and Spain.

    VIVIAN, George.
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    A sequel to Vivian's volume on Spain, this series of lithographs is largely devoted to Portugal, including views of Lisbon, Cintra, Setubal, Arrab...

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  • Scenery of Portugal and Spain.

    VIVIAN, George.
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    A sequel to Vivian's volume on Spain, this series of lithographs is largely devoted to Portugal, including views of Lisbon, Cintra, Setubal, Arrab...

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  • Ismailia:

    BAKER, Samuel White.
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    Rare inscribed copy. A rare inscribed copy of Baker's Ismailia, the account his suppression of the slave trade in the Nile Basin. Inscribed:'The La...

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  • Commemorative portrait.

    [SCOTT, Capt. Robert Falcon].
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    A rare and very decorative large portrait of Captain Scott.60.9 x 45.7cm, a commemorative chromolithograph portrait of the late Captain Scott, R.N...

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  • Through Masai Land:

    THOMSON, Joseph.
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    Presentation copy. presentation copy on the half-title "to David McIntosh with the Author's Compliments. Lokoja. March 27th."David McIntosh was an ...

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  • Arabian Sands.

    THESIGER, Wilfred.
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    Thesiger's classic narrative of his years spent amongst the Bedouin of Southern Arabia, travelling on foot.First edition, first impression; 8vo, x...

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  • In Darkest Africa

    STANLEY, Henry Morton.
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    Deluxe edition of Stanley. The deluxe edition of Stanley's remarkable account of his expedition from the East Coast through the heart of Africa to ...

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  • Asiatic costumes;

    SMITH, Captain Robert (illustrator).
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    The Abbey copy. Rare. Robert Smith, a Scot, served in India. The plates are of a high quality, depicting a full range of Indian trades and society,...

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  • Al-Haram Al-Ibrahami Al-Khalil

    SUPREME MOSLEM COUNCIL.
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    A guide to the fourth holiest site in Islam, sacred to both Muslims and Jews. Includes a geographical and historical review of Hebron and the Cave...

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  • The Straits Times Annual

    SINGAPORE
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    A good pictorial record of Singapore before the Japanese invasion.First edition. Folio. illustrated throughout, original wrappers, light wear, a v...

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  • A Voyage to the South-Seas, in the years 1740-1.

    BULKELEY, John.
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    Scarce Dublin edition of 'one of the principal accounts of the Wager, which was wrecked off the southern coast of Chile after rounding Cape Horn. ...

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  • The navigations, peregrinations and voyages made into Turkie

    NICOLAY, Nicolas de.
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    The rare first English edition of Nicolay's Navigations, a work whose illustrations helped shaped the West's popular imagination of the Islamic wo...

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  • Album of photographs and sketches

    [NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION].
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    Very scarce. 'the most impressive publication to have resulted from any British experience in the Antarctic' (Taurus).'This glorious and most popu...

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  • Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa;

    LIVINGSTONE, David.
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    Presentation copy of Livingstone's first expedition. A presentation copy 'Sir Thomas Dyke Acland/ with the kindest salutations/ of his friend/ Davi...

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  • The Bengal Directory and General Register for the Year 1834,

    [BENGAL].
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    Annotated by an officer of the bengal army. Rare. The Bengal Directory contains details of the 'British and Indian Governments', 'Supreme Court Bri...

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  • The caravan route

    SALVATOR, Ludwig, Archduke of Austria.
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    The account of an expedition undertaken in March 1878 by the Archduke, to investigate the possibility of a coastal railway in southern Palestine. ...

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  • The worst journey in the world.

    CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley.
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    The best written and most enduring account of exploits in the Antarctic.' - Taurus. 'It was perhaps the only real stroke of luck in Scott's ill-fa...

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  • The Yangtze Gorges in pictures and prose.

    LE PALUD, A. M.
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    With the rare dust-wrapper. Le Palud's account of a journey from Chungking to Ichang illustrated with fine photographs4to, [iv], xviii pp., large ...

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  • Travels, researches, and missionary labours,

    KRAPF, Rev Dr. J.
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    Krapf was the first European to see Mounts Kilimanjaro and Kenya. Important account by the German missionary who during his travels collected info...

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  • Coomassie and Magdala:

    STANLEY, Henry Morton.
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    Stanley's lively account, written whilst special correspondent for the New York Herald, of the British Expedition against the Ashantis in Africa u...

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  • The game of British East Africa

    STIGAND, Capt. C[hauncey] H[ugh].
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    'A handsome volume that examines wild game, its habitat, and spoor within Kenya, Uganda, and the eastern Congo regions. Stigand observes game trai...

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  • A walk across Africa

    GRANT, James Augustus.
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    Inscribed to the author's mother. inscribed "To my dearest Mother," and dated 8 December 1864.One of the scarcest Nile accounts and a monumental wo...

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