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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, 8vo, xiv, 249 pp., 2 folding tables, inscribed copy, contemporary half calf, marbled sides and edges, joints cracked, spine rubbed, a very good clean copy.

    £2,500
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. First edition, 2 parts and supplement in 1 vol; folio (45 x 32.5 cm); hand-coloured double-page map by G. Guerra and 59 engraved hand-coloured plates after Pietro Fabris, the plates edged in black with grey washed margins including two engraved titles; contemporary red morocco, richly gilt, covers with gilt dentelles. NB. lacks first leaf of text in vol. I, else an excellent example.

    £110,000
  7. Third Dutch edition, large paper copy, 2 volumes in 2 parts in 4 volumes, folio (59 x 37 cm); Dutch text; 4 letterpress titles printed in red and black, 4 engraved titles in 3rd state, 4 engraved portraits (one of which double-page), engraved plate of coat-of-arms, double-page genealogical table, 136 engraved maps, plans, bird's-eye views, or plates, together with the additional single-page plate of the monument to Charles Emmanuel II on the Voie Sarde, engraved head- and tailpieces and initials (occasional very light and insignificant browning, a few plates with some scattered light spotting confined to extreme margins). Contemporary Dutch panelled mottled calf, richly gilt, spine with raised bands forming 9 compartments, morocco labels in second and third, gilt edges.

    £30,000
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xvi, 470; xii, 512 pp., large folding map in pocket at end, 197 illustrations after photographs and sketches by the author, 15 other maps and plans, author's presentation inscriptions 'To Charles Waldstein/ [in Greek]/ from his friend, the author/ June 1901', original blue and cream buckram gilt, foxing to covers, a very good set.

    £3,500
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