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.
View Vintage Travel Books at Shapero.
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![DE LESDAIN, [Jacques], Count.](http://beta.shapero.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1bbe0f863922f091e1b357048c86d01e/6/6/66012.jpg)
First English edition. 8vo ( 22 x 14.5 cms), xii, 297pp,31 photographic plates and a folding map, slightly frayed at edges, heavy spotting to the preliminaries, red library cloth gilt.
£225 -
![PRATT, A[ntwerp] E[dgar].](http://beta.shapero.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1bbe0f863922f091e1b357048c86d01e/1/0/101188.jpg)
First edition, 8vo (24 x 17 cm), xviii, 268pp., folding map, photographic illustrations, previous owner's pencil inscription inside, some light foxing to a few pages; publisher's blue cloth gilt, slightly bumped and rubbed; overall a very good copy.
£450 -
![FEATHERSTONE, B[alford] K[inchant].](http://beta.shapero.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1bbe0f863922f091e1b357048c86d01e/1/0/101185.jpg)
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 -
First edition. 8vo., xvi, 182pp., numerous photographic illustrations, several folding, 2 folding maps, original brown cloth gilt, gilt medallion to upper cover,
£1,250 -
First edition. 8vo., v, 376p., frontispiece, 2 folding maps, numerous illustrations, many full-page, handsomely bound in full blue calf gilt, a very good copy.
£1,150 -
First edition. 8vo, wood-engraved frontispiece, plan, 2 full-page plates, illustrations in the text, 3 large folding maps, original blue cloth gilt, light wear to head of spine, a very good copy.
£1,100 -
Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xii, 411, 24(ads, dated April 1876); 463pp., 2 frontispieces, 2 folding maps, 38 wood-engravings, original red pictorial cloth gilt decorated in black, slightly soiled, a very good set.
£750 -
First edition. 8vo., xvi, 308, xxvi pp., 8 pages of ads at beginning dated March 1842, 2 pages ads at end dated August 1841, folding map in pocket at front, original brown blind-stamped cloth, spine darkened, repairs to extremities, a very good copy.
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8vo, [6], 163, [1]; 146, [16]pp., engraved portrait, folding map, later full polished calf gilt, covers ruled in gilt and blind, flat spine with geometric gilt panels, red morocco label, an excellent copy.
£2,500 -
First edition. 8vo, xvi, 198 pp., folding map, 11 plates, illustrations in text, original yellow cloth gilt, lightly soiled as usual, a very good copy.
£650
