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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First edition. 8vo., xvi, 383 pp., 21 plates (some photographic), folding map, several illustrations in the text, original green pictorial cloth gilt, with design of convict on upper board in gilt, corners bumped, a very good copy.
£300 -
First English edition. 8vo., xii, 251pp., 32 pages ads at end dated October 1878, 2 coloured folding maps (1 large with tears to folds), original olive cloth gilt blocked in black, a very good copy.
£1,600 -
First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xl, 456; xvi, 512 pp., 4 pages ads end vol. i, 2 pages ads end vol. ii, 3 folding maps, numerous full-page and other illustrations, some double-page, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, light fading to spine, a very good set.
£975 -
First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., folding map, 2 folding plans, 2 tinted lithographed frontispieces, engraved plates and vignettes, contemporary calf gilt, a very handsome example.
£750 -
First edition, 8vo., xxiv, 686 pp., folding frontispiece, 3 folding plans (1 with tear at fold), 2 large folding plans at the end, 10 full-page plates, 4 by S.C. Malan, wood-cut illustrations in the text,
£850 -
First edition. 8vo., xii, 383pp., 24 illustrations, 2 maps (1 folding), original beige cloth lettered in black, original dust-wrapper, a fine copy.
£850 -
First English edition. 8vo, x, 438 pp., 2 pages ads at end, frontispiece, title-page vignette, colour folding map, 30 wood-engraved illustrations, original red pebble-grained cloth gilt, large gilt pictorial vignette to upper cover, bevelled edges, a fine copy.
£850 -
First edition, 8vo., xvi, 277pp., 2 pages of advertisments at end, 5 engraved plates and a folding map, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rebacked preserving spine, occasional light browning, an excellent copy.
£1,350 -
First edition. 2 volumes in 1, 8vo., xv, 458; xvi, 432 pp., engraved frontispiece, large folding map (tear repaired), original blindstamped purple cloth gilt, spine faded, a very good copy of a scarce item.
£850 -
First edition, 4to, xv, 564pp., frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 201 photographic illustrations, original green cloth gilt, spine faded to tan,
£450
