For the Armchair Explorer: Books on Travel and Exploration
Curated by Julian MacKenzie and Lucinda Boyle, our travel and exploration collection encourages you to travel the globe from the comfort of your own home. Their selections offer an unparalleled escape into the world of adventure, making perfect gifts for the travel-hungry soul or the history enthusiast.
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Travels in Sicily Greece and Albania.
HUGHES, The Rev. Thomas Smart.Original price £1,850.00 - Original price £1,850.00Original price £0.00£1,850.00£1,850.00 - £1,850.00Current price £1,850.00| /Hughes travelled in the Mediterranean and Greece in 1813-14 as tutor to Richard Townley Parker. They visited Spain, Italy, Sicily, Greece and Alba...
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A new history of Ethiopia.
LUDOLF, Hiob.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /The father of modern Ethiopian studies. Scarce English edition. Ludolf (1624-1704), is regarded as the father of modern Ethiopian studies. 'A work ...
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Cape Evans.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /The hut at Cape Evans. Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing the hut at Cape Evans, surrounded...
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Royal Navy Master's logbook recording the tour of HMS Amazon
[RENAUD, Benjamin].Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00| /Watercolours of Singapore and the West Indies. A richly illustrated record of service in the Royal Navy at the height of British maritime supremacy...
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Journal of the rev. Joseph Wolff...
WOLFF, Rev. Joseph.Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £200.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00| /Joseph Wolff (1795-1862) was a Messianic Jewish missionary born in Weilersbach, Germany. His father David was a Rabbi. Joseph left home at 11 and ...
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Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe execute par ordre du roi, pendant les annees 1826-1827-1828-1829.
DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sebastien Cesar.Original price £110,000.00 - Original price £110,000.00Original price £0.00£110,000.00£110,000.00 - £110,000.00Current price £110,000.00| /Rarely found complete. Extremely rare and desirable set of the first edition of d'Urville's voyage in the Astrolabe.The zoology section was produce...
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Voyage autour du Monde,
FREYCINET, Louis-Claude de Saulces de.Original price £135,000.00 - Original price £135,000.00Original price £0.00£135,000.00£135,000.00 - £135,000.00Current price £135,000.00| /A rare complete set of the official account of Freycinet's voyage of scientific exploration. During the nineteenth century, a large part of ornith...
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Portico of the Temple of Dendera.
ROBERTS, David.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00| /In the 1830s tourism in the Holy Land was increasing as the Pasha of Egypt, Muhammad Ali, consolidated his authority and promoted the research int...
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Pisgah-Sight of Palestine
FULLER, Thomas.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £4,500.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /The first true Biblical atlas. Pisgah refers to Mount Pisgah, the mountain in the Bible from which Moses saw the Promised Land for the first time.T...
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A Voyage to the Levant:
BRUYN [BRUIN], Cornelius de.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /With large panoramas including Constantinople and Jerusalem. One of the most spectacular Levant books. De Bruyn (1652-1726/7), the Dutch traveller ...
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The Inside of a Hippah in New Zealand; A Human Sacrifice in a Morai in Otaheite; Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captn. Cook; Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their Habitations.
WEBBER, John; POUNCY, B.T. (etching) & WOOLLETT, W. (aquatinting).Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £0.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00| /Four proof plates before letters from Cook's third voyage. Four proof plates before letters being early states of images from Cook's last voyage, s...
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Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae Navigationum;
SPILBERGEN, Joris Van.Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00| /A book of primary importance in the history of dutch navigation. The first Latin edition of the first circumnavigation to have the official support...
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A Group of Six Bust Portraits of Beauties - Jidai Kagami [Mirror of the Ages].
CHIKANOBU, Yoshu.Original price £4,850.00 - Original price £4,850.00Original price £0.00£4,850.00£4,850.00 - £4,850.00Current price £4,850.00| /Toyohara Chikanobu (1838–1912), better known to his contemporaries as Yōshū Chikanobu, was one of the most successful woodblock print artists of J...
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A Group of Six Bust Portraits of Beauties - Jidai Kagami [Mirror of the Ages].
CHIKANOBU, Yoshu.Original price £4,850.00 - Original price £4,850.00Original price £0.00£4,850.00£4,850.00 - £4,850.00Current price £4,850.00| /Toyohara Chikanobu (1838–1912), better known to his contemporaries as Yōshū Chikanobu, was one of the most successful woodblock print artists of J...
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