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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.

 

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  1. 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
  2. First edition. Folio, viii, 484 pp., 16 folding maps (occasional short tears to folds), 16 plates, illustrations in the text, contemporary blue half roan, marbled boards, lightly faded, neat restoration to extremities, an excellent copy.

    £2,500
  3. First English edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, xxxii, 335; xiv, 303 pp., coloured lithographed frontispiece, maps, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, some slight spotting, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, top edges gilt, an excellent set.

    £575
  4. First English edition, 8vo (21.4 x 14.4 cm), xx, 118, 2 (publisher's ads) pp., engraved folding map by Thomas Kitchin hand-coloured in outline and engraved title vignette and half title, contemporary half calf with armorial crest on the spine, neat repairs to extremities, an attractive example.

    £4,000
  5. First edition, 4to, edition deluxe, limited to 500 copies signed by Peary and Bob Bartlett, xii, 326 pp., 4 photogravures, 112 tipped-in photographic illustrations, large coloured map, modern full blue morocco gilt, gilt pictorial roundel to upper cover, slipcase, a fine example.

    £2,500
  6. 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
  7. First edition, 8vo,16, xxxvi, 374, [ii] pp., frontispiece, 2 maps, publisher's blindstamped blue cloth gilt, rebacked in blue calf gilt, endpapers renewed, corners worn, blindstamp to title and frontispiece, a very good copy.

    £400
  8. 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
  9. First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, viii, 413; vii, [1], 426 pp., 32 pages ads end vol. I, 2 coloured lithograph frontispieces, 8 lithograph plates, folding coloured map, handsome modern dark blue half morocco gilt, old crease page vi vol. I, original cloth sides bound-in at end, neat restoration to outer edge first three leaves (circa 3 mm), a very good set.

    £2,850
  10. 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
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