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Exploration & Travel
In the travel department, we focus on the great explorers from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, such as Cook, Bligh, Livingstone, Stanley, Scott, and Shackleton, whose heroic expeditions and voyages have laid the foundations for our present-day knowledge of geography, ethnography, and the natural world.
Contact Head of Department Julian MacKenzie or travel & guidebook specialist Lucinda Boyle for more information about rare & collectable Travel Books at Shapero Rare Books.
View Vintage Travel Books at Shapero.
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First edition. 4to., viii, 94 pp., 15 folding maps in pocket at end, original red grained cloth gilt, light fade to spine, a very good copy.
£2,500 -
Second edition, 4to, engraved portrait frontispiece of Pardoe, additional engraved title, engraved map and 85 plates, original blue cloth gilt, gilt pictorial vignette to upper cover, all edges gilt, light spotting to frontispiece and engraved title and occasionally elsewhere, generally a clean crisp example.
£750 -
First edition. 8vo., 22, [2]pp., frontispiece portrait, original black stencilled wrappers, photograph of the Nimrod tipped on to upper cover, stitched as issued, a very good example.
£900 -
First edition, 8vo, xiv, 312pp, with a presentation inscription to Albert Armitage, 20 photographic illustrations including frontispiece, four maps in text, occasional scattered light foxing, original blue cloth, gilt lettered and decorated with gilt coat-of-arms on upper cover.
£450 -
First edition, folio (47 x 37.7 cm), title-page and 12 magnificent hand-coloured aquatint plates by R. Havell after Cartwright, plate of Ali Pacha mounted within ruled border, contemporary dark blue polished half calf gilt over cloth boards, lettered in gilt to upper cover, occasional light marginal soiling and spotting, rubbed.
£35,000 -
First edition, signed by the authors, number 386 of an edition limited to 950 copies plus 50 proofs, landscape folio (44.5 x 34 cm), 336 pp., 330 full photographic illustrations and 15 duotones, original fine grey goatskin binding, velvet doublures and flyleaves, linen and velvet-lined archival box, fine.
£1,650 -
First edition, 8vo., 24pp., 8 photographic illustrations, original wrappers printed in red, ads to covers, an excellent example.
£1,250 -
Folio.187-220, v-x pp., photographic illustrations, original wrappers, a fine copy and a rare survival thus.
£1,500 -
First edition. 8vo., xii, 1261 pp., frontispiece, 21 sketch maps (5 full-page), 2 plates, 3 text figures, 2 graphs in text, original maroon cloth gilt faded to tan, most of original tissue wrapper preserved, an excellent example.
£495 -
First edition. 4to., 8 pages including 5 full-page photographs of Antarctic wildlife, original yellow pictorial cover, 1 page flyer loosely inserted, a fine example.
£500
