Exploration & Travel
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Joseph Banks Esq.
REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua (after); DICKINSON, William (engraver).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| /Sir Joseph Banks as a young man. A beautiful example of this classic image of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) as a young man, at the height of his cel...
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The currencies of China.
KANN, Eduard.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £450.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /Detailed account of the gold bar market; silver; copper coinage. Much improved from the first edition.Second edition revised, xxxiv, [ii], 562pp.,...
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The new atlas of China.
DINGLE, John Edwin; FRUIN, Harold John (editors).Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £3,750.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /Attractive early twentieth century atlas showing the provinces of China. The index has some 10,000 entries. Both the maps and index are bilingual....
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A narrative of an exploratory visit
SMITH, Rev. George.Original price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £1,100.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00| /Includes two views of Hong Kong.Second edition. 8vo., xviii, 532pp., double page map of China, hand-coloured in outline, 12 lithographed plates, o...
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Report on the geological collections made during the voyage of the "Quest"
[SMITH, W. Campbell (editor)].Original price £495.00 - Original price £495.00Original price £495.00£495.00£495.00 - £495.00Current price £495.00| /'Uncommon' (Rosove). The bulk of the published scientific results from Shackleton's last expedition.First edition; 8vo., xii, 1261 pp., frontispie...
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Report on the maps and surveys
DEBENHAM, F.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £2,250.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /The maps from Capt. Scott's Terra Nova expedition. The cartographic record of the British Antarctic Expedition (Terra Nova) 1910-1913.First edition...
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The 100 years Anglo-Chinese calendar,
LOUREIRO, P.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £2,000.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00| /Rare. COPAC lists BL and Cambridge only.The first Anglo-Chinese centennial calendar, covering the period 1776-1876. 'Calendars in somewhat similar...
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The British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913.
PONTING, Herbert G.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| /Rare exhibition catalogue. Invaluable for the documentation of Ponting's photographs.First edition, 8vo., 24pp., 8 photographic illustrations, ori...
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Menus & Souvenir programme from the library of Henry Dunlop,
SHACKLETON. NIMROD EXPEDITION.Original 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| /A rare opportunity to obtain a collection of signed printed ephemera from Shackleton's first Antarctic expedition (1907-1909) during which Shackle...
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Russian travellers in Mongolia and China.
PIASSETSKY, P.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £1,250.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /The author was the artist on Colonel Sosnovsky's scientific expedition across Siberia to Lake Baikal and Mongolia in 1874-75. This was one of the ...
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Zapiski o Mongolii
[FAR EAST]. BICHURIN (Monakh Iakinf).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| /An important, early description of Mongolia; first edition. A lovely example of this rare book, with hand-coloured plates and interesting provenan...
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Histoire Naturelle, Civile, et Ecclésiastique de l'Empire du Japon:
KAEMPFER, Engelbert.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £5,000.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /A history of Japan. A tall copy of the first edition in French of Kaempfer's history of Japan which was a best-seller from the moment it was publis...
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[Life and Medical Treatment in China].
[PIASETSKIY, Pavel Yakovlevich].Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /Pavel Piasetskiy (1843 - 1919) was only a respected doctor but also talented artist and writer. These versatile abilities ensured his participatio...
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China:
ALLOM, Thomas.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /Thomas Allom (1804-1872) the noted topographical artist, at a time of increased interest in China, presented the Western world with the most compl...
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China. Report on the revenue and expenditure of the Chinese Empire.
FOREIGN OFFICE.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £350.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Report 415 in the series Reports on subjects of general and commercial interest. A valuable document compiled by Consul Jamieson to be presented t...
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Correspondence respecting insults in China.
[CHINA]; [PARLIAMENTARY PAPER].Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /The second opium war. Scarce parliamentary paper dealing with the Second Opium War. Includes papers by Sir Henry Pottinger, Sir John Davis, the Ear...
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The Mongols.
HOWORTH, Henry H.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /A monumental compilation and comparison of the knowledge available in European languages in the late nineteenth century. Howorth used, among other...
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