We guarantee the authenticity and completeness of all items (unless otherwise described), and are happy to provide a certificate to this effect. All items can be assumed to be in good condition, with any defects being described in our description.
We guarantee the authenticity and completeness of all items (unless otherwise described), and are happy to provide a certificate to this effect. All items can be assumed to be in good condition, with any defects being described in our description.
Karl Baedeker was head of a successful publishing business, when in 1832 he acquired the publishing house of Franz Röhling which four years earlier had published a travel guide Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln: Ein Handbuch für Schnellreisende by Professor...
The great thing about collecting books is that they were produced as multiples giving lots of collectors a chance to own a copy. To distinguish between copies the most desirable factors are condition and provenance and for me the greatest...
In anticipation of the approaching London Antiquarian book fairs, this May, we are spotlighting rare African exploration works. Featured, are four first editions, with inscriptions linking them to historical figures, enhancing their collectability.
The public perception of the East India Company, an organisation which was to become one of Britain's most notorious colonial ventures, was mediated by a collective of artists. Diplomatic wrangling, imperial posturing, trade and warfare became the subjects of a significant artistic movement, aimed at depicting and dissecting the Company’s involvement in the political and social life of the period.
Watching the news and seeing the disruption to shipping in the Red Sea, I was reminded of how the possibility of using this route so excited travellers in earlier days.
'His travels to Medina and Mecca make thrilling reading. Attacked by bandits in the Pilgrims Pass on the way to Medina, Burton then had a 36-hour non-stop rush to Medina, which he found to be "like a vision in the Arabian Nights"'.
On the birthday of Captain Cook, we look back at an article from the archive by our Travel expert (and fount of bibliographic knowledge), Julian Mackenzie, in which he explored how Cook changed the face of exploration forever.
They say that good things come in threes and for booksellers it doesn’t get much better than buying three 19th-century Calcutta-printed books on the Northwest Frontier.
When we think of Captain Scott and his fateful last journey to the Antarctic, it is inevitable that we see him, his crew, and the continent itself, through the eyes of Herbert Ponting, the official photographer to the expedition.
This route has its origins in the pre-Christian era as a means for China to export silk, precious stones, and other valuables, and later paper and gunpowder, thus changing the cultural and political history of Europe.
The Elgin Marbles, Benin Bronzes, Pharaonic remains, the list of British ‘souvenirs’ from overseas ventures is long and controversial. Amongst the most prolific of these Culture Vultures was Sir Marc Aurel Stein, a Hungarian-born explorer employed by the British in India.
