Exploration & Travel 2023: Part Two
We are delighted to present our new travel catalogue. Curated by our senior specialist Julian MacKenzie, the catalogue features rare travel books on: (1) Africa, (2) Arabia, Iraq & the Gulf, (3) Greece, Turkey & Crimea, (4) India & South-East Asia, and (5) Polar Regions, and (6) Women Travellers.
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The discovery of the North-West Passage by H.M.S. "Investigator,"
OSBORN, Sherard (editor).Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00The first traversal of the North-west Passage. Even though it was intended as a rescue voyage seeking Franklin survivors, and (by explicit orders) ...
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Chow-Chow;
FALKLAND, [Amelia Cary] Viscountess.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00The youngest daughter of William, Duke of Clarence (later William IV) and the actress Mrs Jordan, the author married the colonial administrator Vi...
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Ice-bound Heights of the Mustagh
WORKMAN, Fanny Bullock; HUNTER, William.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00Account of the authors' 1902-1903 expedition in the Baltistan Himalayas. They explored the Chogo Lungma Glacier and later reached the Nushik La fr...
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British (Terra Nova) Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913. Glaciology.
WRIGHT, C.S. & Priestley R.E.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Remarkable photographic record of the Terra Nova Expedition. Charles Wright was part of Robert Falcon Scott's last expedition, the Terra Nova Exped...
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Six years in Seychelles;
ESTRIDGE, H. Watley.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00Inscribed by the author. Rare. Estridge was collector of taxes in the British colonial administration in the early 1880's, serving as Collector of ...
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Russia and England from 1876 to 1880
[NOVIKOFF, Olga].Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £0.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00At a time when England and Russia were vying for supremacy in Central Asia, the author of this book attempts to show that Russia's aims were peace...
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Remarks on the Scope and Uses of Military Literature and History.
[MILITARY HISTORY].Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Calcutta imprint - very rare. One of three known copies of a Calcutta-printed treatise on the history and 'Science of War'. The words, taken from a...
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A short note on the design and issue of postage stamps
[DOWSON, Sir Ernest Macleod].Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00Special edition for presentation. Rare. This publication was occasioned by the fall of Damascus on the 30th September 1919, and the consequent remo...
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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 £20,000.00Watercolours 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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