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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A series of fifteen views of Ceylon
O'BRIEN, Captain C.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| /A copy of the first edition of O'Brien's Ceylon with later hand-colouring. O'Brien was employed as Assistant Surveyor in Ceylon, a position which ...
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Reise des Grafen Emanuel Andrasy in Ostindien.
ANDRASY, Graf Emanuel [Mano].Original price £19,500.00 - Original price £19,500.00Original price £0.00£19,500.00£19,500.00 - £19,500.00Current price £19,500.00| /Plates of Hong Kong and Calcutta. Andrasy's Ostindien contains a particularly beautiful set of plates of Hong Kong and Calcutta, elephant, rhinocer...
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Ruins of Mandoo,
HARRIS, Capt. Claudius.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00| /Captain Harris (1826-62) served in the 8th Madras Light Cavalry between 1845 and 1860, becoming a captain in 1858. When his regiment was posted to...
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Nederlandsch-Indië Teekeningen.
RAPPARD, Josias Cornelis (illustrator); PERELAUER, M.T.H; VAN REES, Willem Adriaan.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00| /Rare complete set consisting of Batavia, Java, Buitenzorg, and De Buitenbezittingen (outer possessions). The work presents a romanticised account ...
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Exploration of Kina Balu.
WHITEHEAD, John.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00| /Unique author's presentation copy to his parents with all plates and text illustrations specially hand-coloured. A unique copy of Whitehead's Kina ...
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Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809,
BROUGHTON, Thomas Duer.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /With 10 hand-coloured aquatints. Broughton was Commander of the Resident's Escort at the Court of Scindia. His march commenced in Agra and took in ...
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Egypt, the Sinaitic Desert and the Holy Land.
AGATE, Margaret M.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Scots in the Sinai. Margaret Agate kept a diary of her journey in Egypt between Autumn 1901 and Spring 1902. She made an excursion on the Nile and ...
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Shinkoku Peking Kojo Shashincho - Photographs of Palace Buildings of Peking:
OGAWA, KazumaOriginal price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00| /Produced by the Commission sent to Beijing by the Imperial University of Tokyo shortly after the Boxer Rebellion to investigate the layout and dec...
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The costumes of the various tribes,
RATTRAY, James.Original price £30,000.00 - Original price £30,000.00Original price £0.00£30,000.00£30,000.00 - £30,000.00Current price £30,000.00| /The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan. Rattray's is the finest illustrated book on Afghanistan, of great value for showing us the ways of life...
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Scenery and reminiscences of Ceylon.
DESCHAMPS, John.Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00| /In his preface to Scenery and Reminiscences of Ceylon, Deschamps states that the views he has selected represent some of the most familiar scenes ...
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Desert, Marsh and Mountain
THESIGER, Wilfrid.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /Signed limited edition. Thesiger's splendid look back at his earlier explorations in Abyssinia, the Arabian gulf, Iraq, and Yemen, in a well illust...
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The Autobiography: Traveller's Prelude; Beyond Euphrates; The Coast of Incense; Dust in the Lion's Paw.
STARK, Freya.Original price £1,000.00 - Original price £1,000.00Original price £0.00£1,000.00£1,000.00 - £1,000.00Current price £1,000.00| /Complete set of Stark's autobiography. Freya Stark is one of the most well known female travellers associated with the Middle East. She was one of ...
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The revolt in Arabia.
HURGRONJE, C. Snouck.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Hurgronje's account of The origins of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The booklet is a collection of newspaper arti...
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Portraits of the princes & people of India.
EDEN, Hon. Emily.Original price £40,000.00 - Original price £40,000.00Original price £0.00£40,000.00£40,000.00 - £40,000.00Current price £40,000.00| /Rare hand-coloured issue. The rare hand-coloured issue of Emily Eden's Portraits of the Princes and People of India. The author, Hon. Emily Eden (1...
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The Sundhya or the daily prayers of the Brahmins.
BELNOS, Mrs. Sophia Charlotte.Original price £8,000.00 - Original price £8,000.00Original price £0.00£8,000.00£8,000.00 - £8,000.00Current price £8,000.00| /The rites and rituals of the Brahmin. Mrs Belnos' scarce book on the rites and rituals of the Brahmin.'Relatively little is known about Mrs. Belnos...
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A series of twenty-eight panoramic views of Calcutta,
WOOD, William.Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00| /Wood's early panoramic views of Calcutta. William Wood senior, the artist's father, began selling his son's lithographs in parts in 1831. By the ti...
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[Views of Calcutta].
BAILLIE, William.Original price £45,000.00 - Original price £45,000.00Original price £0.00£45,000.00£45,000.00 - £45,000.00Current price £45,000.00| /Rare views of Calcutta - 12 hand-coloured etchings. Baillie's rare complete suite of twelve views of Calcutta.A Bengal Engineer, William Baillie wa...
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La Chine. Moeurs, usages, costumes, arts et metiers.
MALPIERE, D. Bazin de.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £0.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00| /Botfield copy, superbly bound. Rare. A superbly bound copy of La Chine by Malpiere, a work which is seldom found complete, and which consists 'of a...
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Character & costumes of Afghaunistan.
HART, Capt. Lockyer Willis.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00| /Scarcest of the great illustrated books on Afghanistan. The scarcest of the great illustrated books on Afghanistan, Character & Costumes of Afg...
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Persian Gulf historical summaries.
[ARABIAN GULF].Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /An historical summary of events in the Arabian Gulf concerning British interests from 1907. also includes oil agreements and concessions in the re...
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