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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. 4to., viii, 94 pp., 15 folding maps in pocket at end, original red grained cloth gilt, light fade to spine, a very good copy.

    £2,500
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Five loose leaves, ink and gouache heightened in gold on paper, each leaf c. 85 by 100 mm.; depicting five scenes containing depictions of Krishna, Yashoda, Varaha, Ravana, Garuda and Parashumara, each image ruled in yellow with outer borders painted red, versos blank, some small scuffs and chips to ink, overall very bright and attractive condition; all individually mounted.

    £2,500
  5. 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
  6. Ten parts, landscape elephant folio (39.4 x 51.7 cm), text in German and French, 60 hand-coloured lithographed plates, hand-coloured lithographed pictorial title and dedication page; hand-coloured pictorial wrappers, occasional light spotting.

    £20,000
  7. First edition. 8vo, xxiii, [3], 408 pp, frontispiece, title-page vignette, folding map, 3 plates, 5 illustrations in text, ex libris to pastedown and corresponding ink ownership inscription to endpaper; original green cloth gilt, spine slightly bumped, in a modern green moire slipcase with green morocco corners and entry, gilt ruled, an excellent copy.

    £2,000
  8. Second edition, 8vo, xv, 560 pp., two folding maps, one with tape repairs, both with minor foxing, text block slightly loose from lower cover, contemporary ink ownership inscription to title-page; original red decorated cloth gilt, spine bumped, a good copy.

    £250
  9. First and only edition. 4to (27 x 22 cm). Title +18 pp., Original brown paper wrappers stitched in brown cotton, subscription slip for Unedited Antiquities of Attica, dated 1816, mounted on upper cover.

    £350
  10. First edition, 8vo, large folding map, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, pink endpapers, upper joint cracked but firm, lightly rubbed, early notices affixed to prelims, a very good copy.

    £1,500
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