London: Wm. H. Allen and Co. Leadenhall Street, 1837. First edition. "An officer in the Bengal Horse Artillery, Bacon recounts his assignment to India with vivid descriptions of life in the cantonments, travels along the Ganges River, and observations of the peoples he encountered. He also enjoyed hunting wild boar..... Read More about First Impressions and Studies from Nature in Hindostan; embracing an outline of the voyage to...

Paris: Henri Plon, 1869. First edition. In 1866, at the age of 19, Ludovic de Beauvoir undertook with his childhood friend, the Duke of Penthièvre, a trip around the world, which inspired three works: this one devoted to Australia, the second on Java, Siam and Canton and the third, published..... Read More about Australie. Voyage autour du Monde

London: Foulis for E. and C. Dilly, 1768. First edition, with cancels at E2 & Z3. First edition in contemporary binding of Boswell's first major work — an account of his trip to Corsica and his meeting with General Pasquale Paoli, leader of the Corsican independence movement. "With its reports..... Read More about An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to that Island and memoirs of Pascal Paoli

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. First edition. Inscribed to Edward Steichen. Inscribed on the half-title: "For Edward Steichen/ I couldn't do a book/ without sending it to you./ Maggy." Read More about Halfway to Freedom. A Report on the New India in the Words and Photographs of …

London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1855-56. First edition. "In 1852 Burton proposed to the Royal Geographical Society that he make the hajj, or pilgrimage, to the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina. Forbidden to non-Muslims, less than half a dozen Europeans were known to have visited them and..... Read More about Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah

London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893. Memorial Edition & Fourth Edition. Read More about Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah. Edited by His Wife, Isabel Burton

London: sold by A. Manson, P. Denham, W. Robertson, and F. Nicholson, n.d. [ca. 1766-69?]. First edition. This Journal of the circumnavigation of the Dolphin in 1764-6 starts out as a seafaring account of travel from Plymouth to Madeira to Brazil, and the claiming of the Falkland Islands for the..... Read More about A Journal of a Voyage round the world, in His Majesty’s ship the Dolphin, commanded by the...

Montreal: Dominion News Co, [1883]. The recto of the folding plate comprises maps of Montreal and Quebec; the verso with 17 woodcut vignette views. Read More about Strangers Guide to Montreal & Quebec, with Maps of both Cities, and Illustrations

London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1785. Third edition. Cook's first voyage. Third edition of this chronicle of important English south-seas expeditions, including Cook's monumental first voyage, which is covered in volumes 2-4. The aim of Cook's first voyage was to sail to Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus;..... Read More about An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries...

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: printed by W[illiam] S[tansby for the author], 1611. First edition. The First Grand Tour, One of the Great English Literary Curiosities. In 1608 Thomas Coryate, something of an unofficial court jester in the house of Henry, Prince of Wales, undertook a journey across the continent, much of it by..... Read More about Coryats crudities; hastily gobled up in five moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia...

Rouen: Robert Machuel le jeune & Eustache Heraul, 1715. Attractive set of the first collected edition of Dampier in any language to include the related accounts of Cowley, Sharp and Wood. Read More about Nouveau voyage autour du Monde, où l'on décrit en particulier l'Isthme de l'Amerique, plusieurs...

[London]: c.1872. A rare survival. This image appears in William Bradford's fabled book of photographs Arctic Regions. It was taken by either Dunmore or Critcherson, the two professional photographers from Boston who accompanied Bradford on his 1869 expedition to the Arctic on the steamship Panther. It was probably taken at..... Read More about Esquimaux Winter Hut and Its Occupants. The Entrance is seen on the Left