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Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1872. First edition Privately printed for the author's family (as stated in the biographcal preface). Read More about A Child's Poems from October to October, 1870-1871. [Introductory note by William Cullen Bryant
Price: $150
London: John Murray, 1857. First edition, Bradlow variant 2. "Livingstone's services to African geography ... are almost unequalled ... he explored vast regions of central Africa, many of which had never been seen by white men before" (PMM). One of the great classics of African travel. When Livingstone returned to England..... Read More about Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence...
Price: $900
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition. Read More about The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
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London & Leipsig: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912. First edition. This work is an account of the 1908-9 expedition from Taiyuan in Northern Shanxi to the Shensi and Kansu provinces of northern China, paid for by Robert Sterling Clark, heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. Clark was joined by the..... Read More about Through Shên-Kan. The Account of the Clark Expedition in North China 1908-9
Price: $700
London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1870. First edition. Read More about Reconnoitring in Abyssinia: A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Reconnoitring Party, Prior to...
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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1863. First edition. A classic of exploration. Notes the D.N.B., “The importance of Speke's discoveries can hardly be overestimated. In discovering the source reservoir of the Nile he succeeded in solving the problem of all ages.” Speke was the first European to see Lake Victoria..... Read More about Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
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London: Wm. H Allen, 1852. First edition. Read More about Narrative of the Burmese War, in 1824-26, as originally compiled from official documents
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London: Heinemann, 1909. First edition. A finely bound copy of this classic of Antarctic exploration. Read More about The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. With...
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London: Andrew Melrose, 1913. Special deluxe edition limited to 280 numbered copies only (this copy is no. 219). SIGNED BY AUTHORS AND SHACKLETON. Read More about Antarctic Days. Sketches of the homely side of Polar life by two of Shackleton's...
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London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1875. First edition. First edition of this important account of the slave trade in Africa, Asia and South America. With chapters on the Cuban civil war, the Zanzibar treaty, and Livingstone's final exploratory expedition. Read More about The Lost Continent; or, Slavery and the Slave-trade in Africa, 1875. With observations on the...
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London: printed by W. Bulmer and Co., for G. Nicol, 1797. First edition. The official account of Lord Macartney's voyage and embassy to the Qianlong emperor in 1792-94, “compiled by the Secretary (and Minister Plenipotentiary in the absence of the Ambassador) Sir George Leonard Staunton. Macartney’s chief object was to..... Read More about Authentic Account of an Embassy to the Emperor of China.. Taken chiefly from the papers of His...
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London: J. Hatchard and Son, 187, Piccadilly, 1844. First edition. Read More about Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
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New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. First American edition. "Popular account of three and a half years' explorations in the Pamirs, the deserts of Takla Makan and Lob-nor region, Tsaidam and Southern Tibet in 1893-97" (Yakushi). Read More about Through Asia
Price: $300
Boston: J.E. Tilton and Company, 1864. First Edition. Read More about Wax Flowers
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London: Methuen, 1898. "The Matablele Rebellion which broke out in March 1896 had spread by June to Mashonaland. While the Matabele Relief under Col. Plumer went into action a force of Mounted Infantry originally sent from Britain to serve in Matabeleland arrived in Mashonaland for a five-month campaign to subdue..... Read More about With the Mounted Infantry and the Mashonaland Field Force 1896
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Portland: Sanborn & Carter, 1837. Second edition. First published Boston, 1837,Numerous reprintings. The "most popular American compilation on this subject" (Howes) Second edition of this enormously popular book on piracy, the "most popular American compilation on this subject" (Howes). The first edition appeared the same year n Boston; the work went..... Read More about The Pirates Own Book or Authentic Narratives of the Lives, Exploits, and Executions of the Most...
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London: Constable & Co. Ltd, 1913. First Robinson edition. Read More about Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales with Illus. by Heath Robinson
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London, Paris & New York: Cassell Petter & Galpin, 1877. First edition. Read More about Turkey in Europe
Price: $300
Lonon: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906. Second edition. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. Read More about Napoleon's Last Voyages
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London: Church Missionary Society, 1915. Ernest Neve and his brother Arthur were appointed directors of the Medical Mission in Srinagar in 1886. Includes an account of the ascent of Tastticooti, and two chapters on Kashmiri Tibet (Ladakh) and the Upper Indus valley. Read More about Beyond the Pir Panjal. Life and Missionary Enterprise in Kashmir
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London: Sands, 1901. First edition. The extensive travels of the botanizing Miss Doughty, who “makes the glaciers and peaks of the Himalaya sound as tame as the South Downs … And after cataloguing the pleasures and perils of a Kashmiri holiday she has the effrontery to insist that any ‘idle..... Read More about Afoot through the Kashmir Valleys
Price: $375
New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1888. First edition. Read More about The Capitals of Spanish America
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London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. Browne, H.K. First edition, bound from the parts. ‘Fog everywhere. Fog up the river …’. Attractively bound copy of this Dickens classic. Read More about Bleak House
Price: $500
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1926. First London edition, from the American sheets. Read More about Roving through Southern China
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. First edition. INSCRIBED TO HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW. Presentation copy of the first edition of the first James Bond novel, inscribed on the flyeaf by Fleming to his brother-in-law Hugo Charteris, "To Hugo, This sitting bird, from, the author." Charteris (1922-1970), a novelist and screenwriter, was the brother of..... Read More about Casino Royale
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