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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. Third thousand, 8vo, xvii, 427 pp., additional chromolithograph title page, portrait frontispiece, contemporary half roan gilt, marbled boards, a very good copy.

    £450
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 3 vols, 8vo, 28 wood-engraved plates, occasional light foxing, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rebacked, new endpapers, a very good copy.

    £750
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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.

    £1,850
  10. 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
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