Rare Travel Books
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Arabian Sands.
THESIGER, Wilfred.Original price £165.00 - Original price £165.00Original price £0.00£165.00£165.00 - £165.00Current price £165.00| /Thesiger's classic narrative of his years spent amongst the Bedouin of Southern Arabia, travelling on foot.First edition, first impression; 8vo, x...
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Al-Haram Al-Ibrahami Al-Khalil
SUPREME MOSLEM COUNCIL.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /A guide to the fourth holiest site in Islam, sacred to both Muslims and Jews. Includes a geographical and historical review of Hebron and the Cave...
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The Straits Times Annual
SINGAPOREOriginal 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 good pictorial record of Singapore before the Japanese invasion.First edition. Folio. illustrated throughout, original wrappers, light wear, a v...
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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa;
LIVINGSTONE, David.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| /Presentation copy of Livingstone's first expedition. A presentation copy 'Sir Thomas Dyke Acland/ with the kindest salutations/ of his friend/ Davi...
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The Bengal Directory and General Register for the Year 1834,
[BENGAL].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| /Annotated by an officer of the bengal army. Rare. The Bengal Directory contains details of the 'British and Indian Governments', 'Supreme Court Bri...
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The caravan route
SALVATOR, Ludwig, Archduke of Austria.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /The account of an expedition undertaken in March 1878 by the Archduke, to investigate the possibility of a coastal railway in southern Palestine. ...
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The worst journey in the world.
CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley.Original price £6,750.00 - Original price £6,750.00Original price £0.00£6,750.00£6,750.00 - £6,750.00Current price £6,750.00| /'The best written and most enduring account of exploits in the Antarctic.' - Taurus. 'It was perhaps the only real stroke of luck in Scott's ill-f...
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The Yangtze Gorges in pictures and prose.
LE PALUD, A. M.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /With the rare dust-wrapper. Le Palud's account of a journey from Chungking to Ichang illustrated with fine photographs4to, [iv], xviii pp., large ...
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Travels, researches, and missionary labours,
KRAPF, Rev Dr. J.Original price £1,850.00 - Original price £1,850.00Original price £0.00£1,850.00£1,850.00 - £1,850.00Current price £1,850.00| /Krapf was the first European to see Mounts Kilimanjaro and Kenya. Important account by the German missionary who during his travels collected info...
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Coomassie and Magdala:
STANLEY, Henry Morton.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| /Stanley's lively account, written whilst special correspondent for the New York Herald, of the British Expedition against the Ashantis in Africa u...
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The game of British East Africa
STIGAND, Capt. C[hauncey] H[ugh].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| /'A handsome volume that examines wild game, its habitat, and spoor within Kenya, Uganda, and the eastern Congo regions. Stigand observes game trai...
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A walk across Africa
GRANT, James Augustus.Original price £9,000.00 - Original price £9,000.00Original price £0.00£9,000.00£9,000.00 - £9,000.00Current price £9,000.00| /Inscribed to the author's mother. inscribed "To my dearest Mother," and dated 8 December 1864.One of the scarcest Nile accounts and a monumental wo...
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Through South Africa...
STANLEY, Henry Morton.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /Inscribed copy. Rare inscribed copy of Stanley's final book. It consists of articles originally published in the journal, South Africa. Stanley had...
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Narrative of a voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe, and along the shores of the Mediterranean,
WILDE, William Robert Wills.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /Sir William Robert Wills Wilde, surgeon and Irish antiquary, was the father of Oscar Wilde. Wilde travelled for nine months as medical attendant t...
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Sand-buried ruins of Khotan.
STEIN, Sir Marc Aurel.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /The general narrative of Stein's first exploration of Central Asia, 1900-01. Crossing the Karakoram and the Pamirs he entered Chinese Turkestan an...
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On ancient Central-Asian tracks.
STEIN, Marc Aurel.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /A comprehensive summary of the results of Stein's first three Central Asian expeditions and of his researches carried out during the years 1900-16...
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The Desert King.
HOWARTH, David.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /Howarth's life of Ibn Saud provides a lucid portrait of a legendary warrior, and way of life unique in the twentieth century.First edition. 8vo, 2...
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The life of Sir Richard Burton.
[BURTON, Richard Francis] WRIGHT, Thomas.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /Wright's biography of Burton was very popular going through three printings in one year. It proved controversial for mentioning Burton's shortcomi...
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Narrative of a journey round the World,
SIMPSON, Sir George.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| /Simpson was head of the Hudson Bay Company and the dominant figure in the American fur trade in the nineteenth century. The narrative documents Si...
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The history of Nadir Shah,
FRASER, JamesOriginal 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| /Blackmer copy. Fraser was Resident at Surat from 1730-40 and then returned as Factor for the East India company, 1743-9. This work is important for...
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