Exploration & Travel
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East African Campaign proclamation and notices].
[ETHIOPIA.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| /A rare series of legal notices published during WW II by the British Military, setting out laws to be observed in Ethiopia after the British and t...
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Views of Trinadad
CAZABON, Michael John.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| /The first edition of 'possibly the finest set of engravings that has ever been produced of the West Indes' (Maclean).Cazabon was born on 20th Sept...
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Tractato dele più maravigliose cose e più notabile che si trovino in le parte del mondo
MANDEVILLE, Sir John.Original price £18,500.00 - Original price £18,500.00Original price £0.00£18,500.00£18,500.00 - £18,500.00Current price £18,500.00| /The first travel book best-seller. Rare 16th-century Italian edition of the world's first best-selling travel book. Although largely fictitious, th...
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The Congo
STANLEY, Henry Morton.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| /First edition of Stanley's famous account of his travels in the Congo, prompted by a meeting with King Leopold of the Belgians in 1879. In 1879 St...
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Gun running and the North-West Frontier.
KEPPEL, Arnold.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /Keppel, a special correspondent of The Times, was on the North-West frontier and covered the activity of the Mekran Field force which was set up t...
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Triumphant Pilgrimage.
RUTTER, Owen.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /Rutter, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, travelled extensively in Arabia visiting the Holy cities including Mecca.First edition. 8vo, 2...
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Bibliographia Geographica Palaestinae.
TOBLER, Titus.Original price £45.00 - Original price £45.00Original price £0.00£45.00£45.00 - £45.00Current price £45.00| /A bibliography of travels to the Holy Land, covering books in all languages totalling about 2,500 works on Palestine and the Near East, originally...
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Sketches of China and the Chinese.
BORGET, Auguste.Original price £22,500.00 - Original price £22,500.00Original price £0.00£22,500.00£22,500.00 - £22,500.00Current price £22,500.00| /Fine lithographic views of China. Borget's fine lithographic views of China, including five of Hong-Kong, and others relating to Macao and Canton. ...
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An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China [...]
STAUNTON, Sir George Leonard.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| /The first British embassy to China. The most celebrated and finely illustrated account of the first British embassy to China, which was to lead to ...
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The last of the Arctic voyages;
BELCHER, Sir Edward.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /Belcher's voyage was the last officially sent in search of Sir John Franklin, who disappeared during an Arctic expedition in 1845. Belcher, in his...
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Memoirs of the Baron de Tott,
TOTT, Baron de.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /An important work. Baron de Tott (1733-1793) went to Constantinople in 1755 and stayed until 1763, at first with his father and then with de Verge...
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Emin Pasha
MOUNTENEY-JEPHSON A[rthur] J[ermy].Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /Mounteney-Jephson accompanied Stanley on his expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, the German-born Eduard Schnitzer, who had succeeded Gordon as govern...
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Tibet Past & Present.
BELL, Sir Charles.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Charles Bell entered Lhasa in 1920 as the first European diplomat. The book gives a history of Tibet from the fifteenth century, its land and peop...
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China proper.
[GEOGRAPHICAL HANDBOOK SERIES].Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /Scarce complete set of the secret reports on China compiled for Naval Intelligence.Comprises sections on physical geography, history, peoples, mod...
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Reconnoitring Central Asia.
MARVIN, Charles.Original price £875.00 - Original price £875.00Original price £0.00£875.00£875.00 - £875.00Current price £875.00| /Marvin's popular account of some of the more famous explorers and explorations of Central Asia in the 1860s-1880s such as Vambery, Burnaby, MacGre...
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Illustrations of China and its People.
THOMSON, John.Original price £35,000.00 - Original price £35,000.00Original price £0.00£35,000.00£35,000.00 - £35,000.00Current price £35,000.00| /Thomson's most significant work. Thomson's most significant work, made as he travelled through China between 1868 and 1872.Richard Ovenden has argu...
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After Everest.
TENZING, Norgay Sherpa; BARNES, MalcolmOriginal price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /Signed by Tenzing. This volume contains tales of Norgay Tenzing's various travels and climbs following his historic ascent of Everest with Sir Edmu...
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Arabian Oil Ventures.
PHILBY, Harry St. John B.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Philby's scarce final book. A history of the oil industry in Arabia from the end of WWI, by the renowned Arabist.First edition, 8vo, 134pp., a por...
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The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen
CARTER, Howard; MACE, A.C.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /The most famous archaeological discovery of the twentieth century. First edition of the three-volume Tut-Ankh-Amen, Howard Carter's account of the ...
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A Polar reconnaissance.
MARKHAM, Albert Hastings.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /Markham's voyage to the Barents Sea during the navigable season in order to ascertain the best route for future Polar discovery. Markham's view th...
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Journal of a voyage to Australia
SCORESBY, William, Reverend.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /William Scoresby junior, the great Arctic explorer, was actively engaged on scientific research into magnetism and published several papers on the...
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