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 edition revised, xxxiv, [ii], 562pp., colour frontispiece, map, 8 plates, folding table,bound without tipped-in errata, original black cloth gilt, an excellent copy.
£450 -
First edition. 8vo.,511 pp , frontispiece, vignette title-page, 3 double-page maps,numerous illustrations, some full-page, bookplate to front free endpaper, original brown pictorial cloth gilt, a little spotting at beginning and end, a very good example.
£650 -
Second edition. 8vo., xviii, 532pp., double page map of China, hand-coloured in outline, 12 lithographed plates, original blindstamped cloth gilt, neatly recased with new endpapers, light spotting to plates, text clean and fresh, a very good example.
£1,100 -
First edition. 8vo., 62 pp., original printed wrappers, a very good copy.
£350 -
First edition. viii, 228pp., original printed blue wrappers, rebacked, light stains to covers, corner wear, a very good copy.
£950 -
Three parts in four volumes, 8vo., xxviii, 743, xxxiv, 1087, x, 776pp, 2 folding maps by E.G. Ravenstein. original green cloth gilt, well preserved in attractive morocco-edged slip cases, an excellent set.
£2,500 -
First edition. 8vo, 312pp., frontispiece, 19 photographic illustrations, map, original black cloth, remains of pictorial dust-wrapper tipped-in, a very good copy.
£325 -
Broadside (31 x 29.5 cm. approx), printed in blue ink with a large pictorial vignette surrounded by an ornamental border.
£950 -
Two text volumes 4to and an atlas folio (56.8 x 41cm). Text with 2 engraved portrait frontispieces of Emperor Tchien Lung and the Earl of Macartney and 26 illustrations of which one full-page; atlas with 44 plates, including one folding, most after W. Alexander, and 7 double-page folding maps; occasional browning and spotting, heavier on 2 plates. Text volumes in contemporary calf, atlas volume in half calf over marbled boards; rebacked in lighter calf to style, a bit rubbed.
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Second edition, 8vo, xvi, 488 pp., 4 engraved plates, 4 folding maps (1 with short tears and neat repair to verso), woodcuts in text, nineteenth century tan half morocco gilt, marbled boards, edges sprinkled red, a fine example.
£1,350
