Printed Books, Maps & Documents including Polar Exploration, British Topography & Natural History, Antiquarian Heraldry, Literature & Science

Anson (George). A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV... compiled from papers and other materials... by Richard Walter, 1st...

Bacon (Reginald). Benin, the City of Blood, 1st edition, London & New York: Edward Arnold, 1897, half-title, black & white frontispiece and plates...

Baedeker (Karl). Rheinstein, Erinnerungsblatter fur Alle, welche die Burg besuchen, 1st edition, Koblenz, 1837, 88 pp., some spotting and old dam...

Baker (Samuel White). The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile and Explorations of the Nile Sources, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1866, portrait fro...

Baretti (Joseph). A Journey from London to Genoa, through England, Portugal, Spain, and France, 4 volumes in two, Dublin: Printed by T. Ewing, 177...

Blackwood (Lady Alicia). Scutari, the Bosphorus and the Crimea, 2 volumes, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, 1857, 21 tinted lithographed views including s...

Blainville (J. de). Travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland and Italy..., Translated... by Dr Turnbull, Mr Guthrie, and others, 3 volumes, 1...

Bourgeois (Charles). [Recueil de vues et fabriques pittoresques d'Italie], circa 1810, lacking title and preliminaries, 175 uncoloured engraved vi...

Braun (Georg, and Hogenberg, Franz). Civitates Orbis Terrarum, 3 volumes, [1572 - 1618], facsimile edition, published The World Publishing Company...

Breval (John Durant ). Remarks on Several Parts of Europe, Relating Chiefly to their Antiquities and History. Collected Upon the Spot in Several T...

Brooke (T.H.). A History of the Island of St. Helena, from its discovery by the Portuguese to the year 1806..., printed for Black, Parry, and King...

Campbell (Alexander Duncan). A Grammar of the Teloogoo Language, Commonly Termed the Gentoo, Peculiar to the Hindoos Inhabiting the North Eastern ...

Conolly (Lt. Arthur). Journey to the North of India, Overland from England, through Russia, Persia and Affghaunistaun, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 183...

Cook (James). Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage, to the Pacific Ocean, on Discovery..., a new edition, compared with, and corrected from, the ...

Davis (John Francis). The Chinese: A General Description of the Empire of China and its Inhabitants, 2 volumes, circa 1840, engraved plates, oval...

Desnos (Louis Charles). Atlas General M‚thodique et El‚mentaire pour l'‚tude de la Geographie et de l'Histoire moderne..., published Paris, 1770, ...

Geographica Classica: The Geography of the Ancients so far describ'd as is contain'd in the Greek and Latin Classicks, in the Maps of the Old Worl...

*Goldie (Charles Frederick, 1870-1947). A Warm Day, 1905, chromolithograph, signed and dated in the image, 40.5 x 32.5 cm (16 x 12.75 ins) mount ...

Hall (Captain Basil). Account of A Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island; with an Appendix, containing cha...

Hamilton (Alexander, Madison, James & Jay, John). The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, written in favour of the New Constitution, as agreed upo...

Hillary (Edmund). High Adventure, 1st edition, 1955, colour frontispiece, maps and illustrations, previous owner inscription to front pastedown, o...

*India. Jakatallah & Dodabetta, Cannanore, June 1855, watercolour on paper, signed with initials W.S.H., sheet size 294 x 353 mm (11.5 x 14 ins),...

Johnston (Harry H.). The Uganda Protectorate, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1902, 48 colour plates, nine folding maps, a few spots, top edge gilt, origi...

La Motraye (Aubry de). Travels through Europe, Asia, and into Part of Africa; Containing a Great Variety of Geographical, Topographical, and Polit...

Lattre (Jean). Atlas Moderne ou Collection de Cartes sur toutes les Parties du Globe Terrestre par Plusiers Auteurs, 2 volumes, published Paris, 1...

Liddell (T. Hodgson). China. Its Marvel and Mystery, 1st edition, 1909, 40 colour plates, scattered light spotting, original blue cloth gilt, spin...

*Lindsay (George Topp). View of Port Louis, in the Island of Mauritius, circa 1810, fine coloured aquatint by T. Sutherland after George Topp Lin...

Livingstone (David). Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, ...

MacFarlane (Charles). Our Indian Empire: Its History and Present State, from the earliest settlement of the British in Hindostan, to the close of ...

Madagascar. Remarques sur l'Estat de L'Isle Dauphine au commencem[ent] de l'ann‚e 1668, contemporary manuscript account in French on the situatio...

Madagascar. Journal of a voyage to Madagascar by Lieutenant Samuel Pasfield Oliver, RA and Aide de Camp, 1862, manuscript account written in a cl...

Madagascar. Voyages to Madagascar, also, A History Thereof, during the Reign of Radama and notes made on a voyage to the Island of Mombassa in HM ...

*Mauritius. A group of 4 manuscript abstracts of staff pay relating to the commanding of the Leeward District of the Isle of Mauritius, 1813-15, ...

Mendes Pinto (Fernando). The Voyages and Adventures...during his Travels ...in...Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, ...

Merian (Matthaeus & Martin Zeiler). Topographia Italiae, das ist: Warhaffte und Curiose Beschreibung von gantz Italien, 2 parts in one, Frankfurt,...

O'Reilly (Bernard). Greenland, the Adjacent Seas, and the North-West Passage to the Pacific Ocean, Illustrated in a Voyage to Davis's Strait, Duri...

Pallas (Peter Simon). Travel through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the Years 1793 and 1794, 2 volumes, 1st English edition, 180...

Roberts (Field Marshall Frederick Sleigh of Kandahar). Forty-One Years in India from Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief, 2 volumes, 13th edition, 189...

Said-Ruete (Rudolph). Said bin Sultan (1791-1856), Ruler of Oman and Zanzibar, His Place in the History of Arabia and East Africa, 1st edition, 19...

*Sierra Leone. Three original pencil sketches of British colonial buildings in Sierra Leone, circa 1857, each titled in pencil to verso 'Commanda...

Sleeman (Lieutenant-Colonel W.H.). Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1844, 32 chromolithographed plates, a ...

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Speke (John Hanning). Journal of the Discovery of the Nile, 1st edition, 1863, portrait frontispiece, two folding maps contained in rear pocket (t...

Stanley (Henry M.). In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1890, two folding ma...

The Society of Dilettanti. Ionian Antiquities, volume 1 only, 1st edition, 1769, 28 full-page engraved plates after N. Revett and W. Pars, numero...

Tierra del Fuego. A few particulars relating to a proposed Mission to the Indians in the Straits of Magelhaen, signed by Captain Allen F. Gardiner...

*Transportation to America. Original manuscript payment order by Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745), British Prime Minister, Whitehall, March 7, 1723,...

Vidal (Emeric Essex). Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, Consisting of Twenty-Four Views: Accompanied with Descriptions of...

Warburton (Eliot). The Crescent and the Cross; or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1845, tinted lithograph fronti...

Whitehead (George). In the Nicobar Islands, 1st edition, Seeley, Service & Co., 1924, monochrome plates after photographs, 12 page publisher's li...

World in Miniature. Shoberl (Frederic, editor), Persia, containing a brief description of the country; and an account of its government, laws and ...

Amedeo (Luigi, Duke of the Abruzzi). On the "Polar Star" in the Arctic Sea... translated by William Le Quex, 2 volumes, 1st English edition, 1903,...

Amundsen (Roald). The South Pole. An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912, Translated from the Norwegian by A.G....

Amundsen (Roald). The South Pole. An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram", 1910-1912, translated from the Norwegian by A.G....

Amundsen (Roald). The North West Passage. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Gjoa" 1903-1907, 1st English edition, 2 volumes...

Amundsen (Roald). The North West Passage. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Gjoa" 1903-1907, 2 volumes, 1st edition in Engl...

Arctic Voyages. A collection of Arctic and North-West Passage voyages by William Edward Parry, John Franklin and Frederick William Beechey, 1821-1...

*Arctic Ocean. Three Crowns. W. Spit[s]bergen, Midnight, July 1869, pencil & watercolour on paper of the Three Crown Mountains, Svalbard, Spitsber...

Back (Sir George). Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean in the Y...

Barrington (Daines). The Possibility of Approaching the North Pole Asserted, A New Edition, with an Appendix, containing papers on the same subjec...