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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. 

  • Alt-Christliche Baudenkmale von Constantinopel vom V. bis XII. Jahrhundert.

    SALZENBERG, Wilhelm.
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    An excellent example of this celebrated second edition, limited to only a few copies, of this important work on christian architecture in Constant...

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  • Antverpia Totius Inferiorisæ Primaria Urbs

    VRIENTS, Jan Baptist.
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    A rare and finely engraved prospect of Antwerp viewed from the Scheldt, first published by Vrients in 1610, under a privilege issued by Albert and...

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  • A mission to Gelele, King of Dahome.

    BURTON, Richard Francis.
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    One of Burton's more sensational books. Dahomey had the reputation of being the most bloodthirsty land in Africa. Burton had wished to visit whils...

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  • Porte-feuille geographique et ethnographique

    ENGELMANN, Godefroy (1788-1839); G. Berger.
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    Engelmann's superbly illustrated world geography is undoubtedly one of the most elegant of the early nineteenth century.. The text contained in the...

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  • A Supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry's Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, in 1819-20.

    [PARRY'S FIRST AND SECOND VOYAGE]. PARRY, William Edward.
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    All three works inscribed by Parry. all three works inscribed on the title-pages to Acheson Maxwell, the first 'A. Maxwell Esq. with Captain Parry'...

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  • Voyage de la Pérouse

    LA PÉROUSE, Jean-François de Galaup (Comte de).
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    The first scientific voyage to California, with royal provenance. The first edition of one of the most important scientific explorations ever under...

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  • Travels in Sicily Greece and Albania.

    HUGHES, The Rev. Thomas Smart.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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].
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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