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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, 8vo, viii, 121, [3]pp., contemporary calf, spine with raised bands, compartments tooled in gilt with acorn device, original red label titled in gilt, a fine copy.
£3,000 -
First edition. 8vo, title-page and list of maps on conjoined sheet, 8 large folding maps drawn by Chas. C. Smith under the direction of J. G. Barnard, loose as issued in original blindstamped green cloth gilt, occasional short tears to folds, light stains to covers, an excellent example.
£1,250 -
First edition. 8vo., xv, 256 pp., original drab boards sometime rebacked with green cloth, boards rubbed and worn, internally clean and fresh.
£475 -
First edition, 2 vols, 8vo (23 x 13.5cm.), xx, 592pp.; viii, 730pp., 2 large folding engraved maps, 13 aquatint or lithographed plates [most folding, 1 hand-coloured], contemporary black half morocco, full gilt spines, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, maps somewhat offset and with short tear, a fine set with good margins.
£950 -
Folio. 3pp., unbound as issued, light fold mark to centre.
£250 -
Copper engraving, in original wash colour, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into the original green marbled slipcase with paper label, the map, widest: 491 x 615 mm.
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Second edition in Italian, 4to., [16], 624pp., engraved portrait frontispiece and seven other plates, contemporary vellum, a very good copy.
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First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, with portrait frontispiece, 5 folding maps, and 2 double-page illustrations, original blue cloth pictorial gilt, 1 corner bumped, small snag at foot of vol. i., else a fine clean copy.
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First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xvi, 288; xi, 263 pp., 16 pages ads dated November 1851, 2 additional etched titles, 5 etchings after the author, original red pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt, neat repairs to extremities and inner hinges, a very good set.
£650