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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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Third thousand, 8vo, xvii, 427 pp., additional chromolithograph title page, portrait frontispiece, contemporary half roan gilt, marbled boards, a very good copy.
£450 -
Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 2 frontispieces, contemporary panelled calf, spines in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece in second, gilt numbered direct in third, lightly rubbed, a very good set.
£375 -
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, 8vo, xii, 328 pp., 12 pages ads at end, frontispiece and 30 photographic illustrations, original pictorial green cloth gilt, publisher's file copy with label to upper cover, an excellent copy.
£325 -
Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xviii, 318; x, 319-659 pp., 2 frontispieces, 120 plates including folding panoramas, 4 folding maps, original blue cloth gilt, an excellent example.
£850 -
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. 4to, xvi, 571 pp., engraved folding map, lithographed plan and plate, wood-engraved illustrations, a little light damp-staining to plates, contemporary burgundy morocco gilt, lightly rubbed, an excellent example.
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First edition. 2 volumes in 1, 8vo., xx, 404; xii, 398 [1]pp., 15 plates (2 folding, 4 tinted lithographs), lightly toned, occasional chipping to edges, 2 folding maps, modern red half morocco gilt, marbled sides, a handsome example.
£2,500
