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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, 4to, xii, 364, [xii] pp., 2 large folding maps, contemporary red and green morocco labels, light fade to upper cover, an excellent copy.

    £750
  2. 3 vols, 8vo, 28 wood-engraved plates, occasional light foxing, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rebacked, new endpapers, a very good copy.

    £750
  3. Five loose leaves, ink and gouache heightened in gold on paper, each leaf c. 85 by 100 mm.; depicting five scenes containing depictions of Krishna, Yashoda, Varaha, Ravana, Garuda and Parashumara, each image ruled in yellow with outer borders painted red, versos blank, some small scuffs and chips to ink, overall very bright and attractive condition; all individually mounted.

    £2,500
  4. First edition. 8vo, xxiii, [3], 408 pp, frontispiece, title-page vignette, folding map, 3 plates, 5 illustrations in text, ex libris to pastedown and corresponding ink ownership inscription to endpaper; original green cloth gilt, spine slightly bumped, in a modern green moire slipcase with green morocco corners and entry, gilt ruled, an excellent copy.

    £2,000
  5. Landscape folio (45.1 x 56.9 cm), [4], ii, [2], 146, [4] pp., with 40 hand-coloured aquatint plates; a few short marginal tears, tear to plate I repaired, occasional light dust-staining and spotting; contemporary red straight-grained morocco, borders and lozenge roll-tooled in gilt and blind, spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly in one, all edges gilt; neatly rebacked and recornered, a little worn at extremities, corners bumped, nonetheless a very good copy.

    £15,000
  6. First edition, 3 volumes, 4to (31.5 x 25.5 cm.), large paper copy, half-titles, 3 engraved vignettes, 69 engraved plates and maps, 11 double-page or folding, plate list at beginning of volume 1, advertisement leaf at end of volume 3, modern half calf gilt, a fine clean set.

    £2,750
  7. First edition, 2 vols, royal 8vo, xii, 478, 2(ads); viii, 459pp., 2 chromo-lithograph frontispieces and 30 chromo-lithograph plates, original red cloth gilt, covers and spines with gilt pictorial designs and gilt borders, a fine set.

    £2,000
  8. First edition. 8vo, [iv], iv, 275 pp., without the 'note by the publishers' sheet found in some copies, contemporary mauve cloth, neat repairs to joints, an excellent copy.

    £2,000
  9. First edition. 8vo, xi, 369 pp., errata slip, mounted photograph, 3 folding maps (2 large, hand coloured in outline, 1 with split to fold), modern cloth-backed boards, paper label, an excellent example.

    £1,150
  10. First edition. 8vo, vi, 371pp., large folding map, folding table, neat restoration to blank margin of title, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, light wear to sides and edges, a very good copy of a scarce title.

    £1,250
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