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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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Second (first illustrated) edition, 8vo, viii, 424 pp., large folding maps (tears to folds), 3 wood-engraved plates, original pictorial brown cloth gilt, a very good copy.
£650 -
First edition. 4to, xvi, 287 [i] pp., two engraved folding maps, 11 aquatint plates (2 in colour), several folding, glossary at end, scattered light foxing, offsetting from plates, contemporary tree calf, sometime rebacked, red morocco lettering piece, a very good copy.
£1,250 -
2 volumes, 8vo, I viii, 432; viii, 408 pp., 7 lithographs on india paper after drawings by the author (light spotting), original green paper over drab boards, paper labels, short splits to joints repaired, an excellent set.
£950 -
First edition. 8vo, xix, 264 pp., engraved frontispiece (lightly foxed), original brown blind-stamped cloth gilt, a fine, fresh copy.
£275 -
First edition. 8vo.,, xviii, 488 pp, 31 full-page plates, 2 folding maps, illustrations and maps in text, contemporary Clapham College prize binding, blue morocco gilt, all edges gilt, a fine copy.
£375 -
First edition. 28 x 19 cm., xii, 183 pp., 24 pages ads at end, 2 portraits, 4 tinted lithographs, one monochrome illustration of an obelisk, original green cloth gilt, upper cover decorated in gilt and blind to a Moorish design, all edges gilt, bevelled edges, corners bumped else a fine clean copy.
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First edition. 12mo, 2 parts in 1 vol., licence leaf at beginning, divisional titles, early ink ownership inscription to title, contemporary sheep, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, light wear to extremities, rubbed, an excellent copy.
£3,000 -
First edition. 8vo, xvi, 299 pp., 2 pages ads at end, Folding map, 3 hand-coloured plates ( 1 with short tear to blank inner margin), contemporary tree calf, spine richly gilt morocco label, a fine copy.
£850 -
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., xii, 482pp., 4 page subscription list at beginning, 16 pages ads at end, large folding map at end, original red blind-stamped cloth gilt, spine faded, lacks free endpaper, inner hinges repaired, a very good copy.
£600
