Travel

To do an injustice to Tennyson, it’s usually at this time that my fancy turns to get...

What makes a book desirable apart from the important fact that you like it? Rarity pla...

Mary Wollstonecraft SHELLEY Rambles in Germany and Italy, in 1840, 1...

Last week I was fortunate to buy a small quantity of the original 19...

I suppose that whenever people think of the Himalayas, they think of...

Following on from President Erdogan’s December 2021 statement, the...

The Holy Kaaba is the most important site in the Islamic world. The ...

The joy of book collecting is the freedom to form a library exactly ...

PERSIA & AFGHANISTAN. Seen in the light of the past forty years, sinc...

I have always been fascinated by mountains and tra...

Nowadays India is one of the largest and most important centres of printing and publis...

The first thing that needs saying is that not everybody that sets out for Timbuctoo ge...

Today marks the 150th anniversary of one of those moments that scho...

When putting our new travel catalogue together, one of the first ...

The Tibetan plateau, situated at some 15,000 feet (4500 metres), sur...

On the boggy delta of the Neva, Peter the Great founded his ‘windo...

Did they really do that? Some of the greatest feats o...

The other day I received an e-mail offering me a copy of Brand’s H...

The Mutiny on the Bounty William Bligh (1754-1815) wi...

As part of our Books not Borders series, where we're breaking down the barriers to the...

One of the great men of his age, Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) was a true polymath. With an ext...

For the non-collector among us (are there really people who don’t collect books?), the idea t...

Writers and spies - exploring all things cloak and typewriter by delving into the murky world o...

On the anniversary of Cook’s arrival in Botany Bay, we look back at an articl...

Rare Book Review article slicing through the cut-throat stories from the earliest pirate books ...

The great natural history museum collections have at their foundation, specimens collected by 1...

Incredible photos from over 100 years ago show how much our lives have changed.

Dr Philip Mansel's top picks at Shapero Rare Books

Lines in the Ice: Marginalia My recent talk at Shapero Rare Books gave me the opportun...

The discovery of John Franklin's HMS Terror at the bottom of an Arctic bay this September co...

Today we are all too aware of the appalling damage inflicted by ISIS on the ancient sites of Ir...

The extraordinary success of a megalomaniac, an uncharted world, and a team of savant explorers

[vcex_spacing] This Saturday, we were treated with a brilliant talk by John Gimlette fo...

The explorer Sir Richard Burton, after the painting by Lord Leighton.   Frequentl...

Ernest Shackleton, born in County Kildare, Ireland, in 1874, was for many years the forgotten m...

Civil servant, naval secretary, developer, publicist, settler, author and all-round-adventurer ...

Through the nineteenth century, interest in the North Polar region was stimulated by v...

From a workhouse in Wales to establishing one of the ...

The industrial revolution in the United Kingdom spawned a host of great British explo...

One of the greatest legends associated with Africa concerned the source or sources of the River...