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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, 8vo, viii, 87pp., original printed wrappers, a fine copy.

    £450
  2. First edition, copy 388 of 1000. Folio, [8], 40 pp., [2 (part-title)], 66 mounted photographic plates, each with border and title printed in brown, [4 (limitation, blank)], with woodcut initials printed in red and black; minimal spotting to preliminaries; publisher's blue silk gilt, blue ribbon page-marker; rubbed and cracked, repairs to corners and joints, otherwise a very good, internally clean copy.

    £2,500
  3. First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, [2], vi, xxii, [2], 487, [1]; [6], 507, [3]pp., illustrated with 6 folding engraved maps and plates, woodcut initials and head pieces; contemporary speckled calf, covers with double gilt fillet, spines in six compartments, red morocco label, gilt numbered direct, raised bands framed by double gilt fillet, an attractive set.

    £1,500
  4. First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo (23.4 x 1.47 cm). Title, 559pp.; title, III, 562 - 1122, 4, XVIIIpp, with 24 lithographed plates after drawings by the author (12 in each volume); lacks map, pp. 881-896 bound after p.912, clean tear across pp. 1-2, occasional light foxing. Contemporary Russian half morocco, flat spines; spines rubbed, joints rubbed.

    £1,850
  5. First edition. Two vols in one, 8vo. xii, 231pp with 5 hand-coloured lithographed plates; vi, 339 pp., folding engraved map with hand-coloured outlines. Later half-calf over dark red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover; spine a bit faded.

    £9,500
  6. Octavo. Title, 89 pp.; lower margin of title and some leaves slightly cut not affecting text. Late green cloth spine over marbled boards.

    £375
  7. First edition, folio (32.5 x 21 cm), additional engraved title (with Amsterdam imprint), portrait of the author, 2 folding maps, 22 plates and illustrations within the text, 2pp. ad at end, occasional staining or spotting, contemporary vellum, stained, occasional light toning, generally a very good fresh copy.

    £7,500
  8. First edition. Large paper copy, 8vo., xlvii, 128; xxxii, 152 [ii]; xix, 110, [ii], pp., 8 pages ads at end, pictorial general title printed in violet, original green cloth, original paper label, a fine copy.

    £850
  9. First edition. 2 volumes, 4to., xxlll, 620; xxvi, 620-1350 pp., 63 distribution maps, 20 plates, illustrations on text, original orange cloth lettered in black, vol i with dust-wrapper, an excellent set.

    £3,000
  10. Album (24.5 x 13.5 cm) comprising 70 watercolours on paper, many heightened with gold, with inscriptions in Chinese, modern green calf-backed slipcase.

    £25,000
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