New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1932. First edition. As New. Sharp copy of a lavishly produced volume which stands as one of the landmarks of twentieth-century exploration. Andrews (1884-1960) was a figure larger than life who served as the model for Indiana Jones.The standard biography is by..... Read More about The New Conquest of Central Asia. A Narrative of the Explorations of the Central Asiatic...

London: John Murray, 1878. Life on Ascension Island with her husband Scottish Astronomer David Gill to measure the solar parallax-the distance between the Earth and the Sun-by observing Mars, which was then the closest to Earth than it had been for a century. Read More about Six Months in Ascension. A Unscientific Account of a Scientific Expedition

VP including Ladysmith, Geluk Farm, Vluchfontein et al: 28 October 1899 - 5 April 1901. FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH. A fine group of letters by an English intelligence officer steadily rising through the ranks. In 1899 he is "sleep[ing] in the open air, only one blanket &..... Read More about 20 Letters reporting events at Ladysmith, the Transvaal, Bloemfontein and elsewhere

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1878. First edition. In 1877, Burton sought to raise money from the Khedive of Egypt for a project to revive the gold mines at Midian near the Red Sea cost. “Burton took a ‘preliminary canter’ into Midian to size up the ground and assess..... Read More about The Gold Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities. A Fortnight’s Tour in North-western...

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1879. First Edition. This is Burton's second expedition to Midian (Saudi Arabia). He mapped and explored over 600 miles of territory and discovered many sites. The hope of a gold discovery didn't happen and Burton lost his potential backer, the Egyptian Khedive. Read More about The Land of Midian (Revisited

Paris: chez l'auteur ... et chez Ponce, 1788. First editions. First editions, beautifully and fully engraved. The first volume is on the life of Confucius, the second details notable events in the reigns of various Chinese emperors. The plates were made after a series of drawings by the Jesuit missionary..... Read More about Abrégé Historique des Principaux Traits de la Vie de Confucius, Célèbre Philosophe Chinois....

London: Printed for Stanfield Parkinson, 1773. First edition with the very rare "Explanatory Remarks" by Fothergill and postscript. With The Rare Explanatory Remarks by Fothergill. First edition of this important account of Cook's first voyage, based on the journal of Parkinson, who had been engaged by Sir Joseph Banks to..... Read More about A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's Ship, The Endeavour. Faithfully...

London: Longman, Hurst [&c.], 1810. First edition. Thomas Daniell, accompanied by his nephew William, left England on the China-bound Indiaman in 1785, returning to England by way of India in 1794. The journey, financed in part by the sale of oil paintings of their travels, was documented in William’s journal..... Read More about A Picturesque Voyage to India, by the Way of China

London: John Murray, 1861. First edition. The most celebrated work by Paul Du Chaillu (1835-1903), the explorer whose travels in Central Africa documented the existence of the "Monstrous and ferocious ape, the gorilla." This first expedition into Central Africa, supported by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, commenced in 1856..... Read More about Exploration and Adventures in Equatorial Africa. With Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the...

London: John Murray, 1847. Fortune was a famous Scottish botanist plant hunter and traveller, best known for stealing tea plants from China in the employment of the British East India Company. Read More about Three Years Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China. Including a visit to the Tea, Silk,...

Madrid: Juan de la Cuesta, 1606. First edition. IMPORTANT SPANISH NAVIGATION MANUAL, 1606. THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT SPANISH NAVIGATION MANUAL, including documents relating to the dispute with Portugal on the demarcation line between Spanish and Portuguese America first set by Papal decree in 1493.Garcıá de Céspedes, Royal..... Read More about Regimiento de Navegacion q. mando hazer el Rei nuestro señor por orden de su Consejo Real de las...

London: Methuen, 1898. First edition. Hedin's first expedition during 1893-1897 in the Pamirs, Tarim Basin, the Taklamakan Desert, Lake Kara Koshun, Lake Bosten and northern Tibet. Read More about Through Asia. (Translated by J.T. Bealby

London: John Murray, 1836. First edition. Read More about Journey through Arabia Petraea To Mount Sinai, The Excavated City Of Petra, The Edom Of The...

London: Golden Cockerel Press, [1939]. First edition, Number 367 of 1000 copies. Read More about Secret Despatches from Arabia by T. E. Lawrence. Published by Permission of the Foreign Office....

London: John Murray, 1820. Third edition. McLeod was ship's surgeon on the Alceste in Amherst's failed mission embassy to China. Places visited include Liu-Kiu (Okinawa), Korea, Manila, Macao. The Alceste was wrecked on the return voyage and the men, left on an island while Amherst sailed to Batavia to get..... Read More about Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste to China, Korea to the Island of Lewchew; with an account...

London: Alexander Strahan, 1866. First edition. Travels in Serbia, Albania, Bulgaria and Montenegro. Read More about Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey-in-Europe

Vp: ca. 1900. Jackson Hole & Nepal Together. Evelyn John Mardon (1867-1958) went to Clifton College in Bristol, then in 1886 went to Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating with a degree in law. He was a high-ranking administrator in the India Service as Inspector General of Registration, Commander of Excise and..... Read More about Photograph Album of Sporting Trips to India, Wyoming and Idaho, New Brunswick and Turkey

London: Henry Colburn, 1827. First edition. Account of Buckingham’s travels in Ottoman lands in 1816, in Asia Minor and from Aleppo to Baghdad, with discussion of the ruins of Nineveh, Babylon, Ctesiphon, and Seleucia. Includes a lengthy appendix dealing with Buckingham’s legal travails with W.J. Bankes. Read More about Travels in Mesopotamia

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 men …...

London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the Author; and sold by G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, 1799. Second edition. The classic of African exploration, a fresh copy of the second edition, published in the same year as the first. Read More about Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed under the Direction and Patronage of the...

London: Constable, 1922. First edition. Fascinating account of travel in Central Arabia, before the opening of the peninsula to oil exploration.Phildby made the second crossing of the Empty Quarter, departing Ojair on the Gulf and crossing to the Red Sea port town of Jiddah. He was preceded only by Bertram..... Read More about The Heart of Arabia. A Record of Travel and Exploration

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. First Edition. The fourth Everest expedition. Read More about Everest 1933

Agra: Printed by T.W. Brown, at the Agra Ukhbar Press, 1844. First Edition. Early account of the Nainee Tal hill station (now Nainital) in the Kumaon region of Uttarkhand in north India, and extensive travels to Kedarnath and other sites in the Himalayan foothills and passes. These “Notes” were “originally..... Read More about Notes of Wanderings in the Himmala. Containing descriptions of some of the grandest scenery of...

London: John Murray, 1871. Read More about Visits to High Tartary, Yarkand, and Kashghar (formerly Chinese Tartary), and Return Journey over...

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First edition, de Luxe edition printed on thicker paper with extra illustrations, designated in red Author's Special Copy and signed by the author, #246 of 250 copies. AUTHOR'S SPECIAL COPY. Stanley's Darkest Africa is unquestionably one of the greatest travel books ever written. He..... Read More about In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria

London: printed by W. Bulmer and Co., for G. Nicol, 1798. Second edition, corrected. 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..... Read More about Authentic Account of an Embassy to the Emperor of China.. Taken chiefly from the papers of His...

London: Rowland Ward, 1904. Siberian Sport & Travel in 1903. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Captain H. W. Seton-Karr, who accompanied Swayne on this trip, and who has inserted 25 larger photographs, approx. 3 x 5 inches (often inserted on the blank verso of the printed plates, including..... Read More about Through the Highlands of Siberia

London: Macmillan and Co, 1877. First edition. Thomson's account of the voyage round the world in the Challenger, a steamship: "chiefly an abstract of the less technical portions of my own journal for the first year of the voyage of the Challenger (1873), and the early part of the fourth..... Read More about The Voyage of the 'Challenger.' The Atlantic. A Preliminary Account of the general results of the...

Nairobi, British East Africa: The Caxton (B.E.A.) Printing and Publishing Co, 1912. R. J. Cunninghame's Copy. From the library of R. J. Cunninghame or Cunningham (1871-1925), (here signed with a terminal "e') who led numerous safaris in British East Africa starting in 1905. In 1909, he led Theodore and Kermit..... Read More about Handbook of British East Africa

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1845. First trade edition, limited to 1000 copies. A landmark of 19th-century exploration: the voyages led by Wilkes were the most ambitious scientific undertaking to that date and encompassed the Antarctic, the Pacific islands, and the American northwest coast. Extensive exploration of the Antarctic proved impossible..... Read More about Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition during the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841,...

London: Letts and Son, 1868. "In 1867, Royal Navy lieutenant E. D. Young trekked to Africa to find the great missionary-explorer David Livingstone who was reported to be lost while searching for the origins of the Nile. Henry Faulkner joined the expedition primarily to hunt. His efforts collecting elephant, buffalo..... Read More about The Search for Doctor Livingstone [ a Diary Kept during the Investigation of his Reported Murder