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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.,, xviii, 488 pp, 31 full-page plates, 2 folding maps, illustrations and maps in text, contemporary Clapham College prize binding, blue morocco gilt, all edges gilt, a fine copy.

    £375
  2. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xvi, 381; vii, 447 pp., 4 hand-coloured aquatint plates, occasional light spotting, decorated endpapers, bookplate, contemporary half calf gilt, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, a very attractive example.

    £2,000
  3. First edition, 8vo (24 x 16 cm), 25 illustrations, map, light browning throughtout some foxing in places; publisher's brownl cloth, somewhat faded, head and tail of spine slightly bumped and with small tears; some foxing to edges; pp. XVI, 528; overall an attractive copy

    £475
  4. First edition, 8vo, xvi, 310 pp., numerous photographic illustrations throughout, drawings in text by Bip Pares, decorated endpapers, publisher's black cloth, black lettered, original pictorial dust-wrapper, a fine copy.

    £2,250
  5. Privately printed. 8vo (22 x 17 cms). 40pp., 2 photographic illustrations, presentation slip tipped in on front pastedown 'With the compliments of Mrs George Beetham, 7 Wetherby Gardens, London S.W.5', bookplate, slightly foxing to fore-edge, publisher's green printed cloth, some very minor wear to corners; an attractive copy.

    £400
  6. First edition, folio (57 x 39.5 cm), viii, 82, [ii] pp., engraved map, 10 fine aquatint plates after drawings by the author, uncut in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards.

    £2,500
  7. First edition. Large 8vo, xiii, 390, pp., 59 plates including frontispiece, 4 folding maps, original blue cloth gilt, pictorial dust-wrapper, a fine bright example.

    £950
  8. First edition. 8vo, xvi, 295pp., 63 black and white photographic illustrations and 2 folding coloured maps, original blue cloth gilt, original pictorial dust-jacket (tiny chips to head of spine), a fine bright example.

    £950
  9. Large paper edition, no. 54 of 100 copies, 2 volumes, 4to (32 x 25 cm), xxii, 278; x, 295pp., two photogravure frontispieces and 72 photogravure plates, all printed on thin paper and mounted, 4 folding maps, 3 folding photographic panoramas, 2 other photographic plates reprinted from the Royal Geographical Society. Original vellum-backed buckram, top edges gilt, others uncut, some marks to spines, corners bumped, covers slightly faded, a very good set.

    £4,000
  10. First edition. 8vo, x, 341pp., 6 wood-engraved plates by Edward Whymper, folding map, original bluish-green cloth gilt, upper cover ruled in gilt, corners bumped, light stains to covers, a very good copy.

    £250
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