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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, 121, [3]pp., contemporary calf, spine with raised bands, compartments tooled in gilt with acorn device, original red label titled in gilt, a fine copy.

    £3,000
  2. 8vo [12], 91, 96-173, [3] pp., additional engraved title, 15 engraved plates and maps, (2 folding), some cut close, by Van der Gucht after drawings by Froger; lightly browned, scattered spotting. Contemporary calf, worn, rebacked, a very good copy of a scarce title.

    £3,500
  3. First edition. 2 volumes, 4to, xvii, [vii], 488; [iv], 535, [xxiii], viii, 143 [i] pp., 4 folding maps by Thomas Kitchin, 1 folding plate, small repairs to upper margin pp 133-135 vol I, not touching text, maps and plates foxed, occasional light foxing to text, contemporary polished calf gilt, red and green morocco labels, joints cracked but firm, a very good set.

    £2,500
  4. 8vo, ix, 309 pp., engraved folding map by Samuel Neele (very light waterstain), contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, vellum tips, red morocco lettering piece, light wear, an excellent copy.

    £2,750
  5. First edition. 2 vols, 8vo, I: viii, [2] (list of illustrations, blank), 351, [1](blank), 32 (publisher's ads)pp., with frontispiece, 4 plates, and 13 in-text illustrations (of which one full-page), II: [2](blank), vi, 423, [1](blank)pp., with frontispiece, 3 plates, and 20 in-text illustrations; a few leaves creased, minor spotting to early leaves; publishers brown cloth gilt by Edmonds & Remnants; corners and edges bumped, rubbed, a few marks, endpapers dust-stained, nonetheless a good copy.

    £1,400
  6. First edition. 8vo, xl, 530 pp., folding coloured map, 8 coloured lithograph plates, later blue half morocco gilt, top edge gilt, lightly rubbed, a little light foxing, an excellent example.

    £1,500
  7. 2 volumes in 1, 8vo, xii, 432; viii, 436pp., 2 engraved frontispieces, large folding map (small neat repair to verso), original blue blind-stamped cloth gilt, pictorial vignette to upper cover, all edges gilt, lightly rubbed, a very good copy.

    £850
  8. First English edition, 2 vols in one, 8vo, xvi, 320; xii, 253 pp., folding coloured map, folding plan, bound as a Stow College leaving gift, contemporary polished calf gilt, red morocco label, an excellent copy.

    £450
  9. First Dublin edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., vii, [1], 463; viii, 415 pp., contemporary sprinkled calf, morocco lettering pieces, raised bands, short split (3 cm) to top of upper joint vol. 1, a fine fresh set.

    £750
  10. 1. Class I. No. [619] ... Grant of 30 acres ... 2. Class K. No. [274] ... Grant of 20 acres ... [London, 28th April 1834]. Certificates, printed on single sheets of paper. Folio (40.5 x 50cm) printed text in two columns in English and French, engraved arms at head of sheet (repeated on blank verso), each with manuscript signatures of Gregor MacGregor at foot and three trustees (dated London 28 April 1834), negligible wear along old folds, very good.

    £1,400
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