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Found 49 books for Rare Early Travel Books (9-16 of 49)Click on the Book Title for large photos and detailed book description.

Travel Books
Rare Early Travel Books
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Book by George William Anderson - A New Authentic and Complete Account of Voyages Round the World
Anderson, George William;
A New Authentic and Complete Account of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority. Containing an Authentic, Entertaining, Full, and Complete History of Captain Cook's First, Second Third and Last Voyages . . . London: Alexander Hogg, 1784-1786. Folio, pp. iv, 5-655, directions to binder, 4 pages list of subscribers, 2 pages of ads, frontispiece portrait of Cook., 156 copper plates and maps including large folded map as called for in "directions to binder". In contemporary calf boards with later spine and gilt titles, text , maps and plates are very clean and bright, free of foxing or tears, a very clean copy. $8200.
PRICE: $8,200.00
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Book by Herndon, Lt. Wm. Lewis & Gibbon, Lardner; Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon. 1854
Herndon, Lt. Wm. Lewis & Gibbon, Lardner; Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon made under Direction of the Navy Department, by William Lewis Hendon and Lardner Gibbon. Part I by Lieut. Hendon. Part II by Lieut. L. Gibbon. 33rd. Congress, HED #33, Washington, 1854.
PRICE: $750.00
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Book by John Lewis Burckhardt; Travels in Nubia; by the late John Lewis Burckhardt. Published by the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. 2nd ed., London. John Murray. 1822.
Burckhardt, John Lewis; Travels in Nubia; by the late John Lewis Burckhardt. Published by the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. 2nd ed., London. John Murray. 1822.
PRICE: $1,400.00
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Book by Johnston, Brevet Lt. Col. Joseph E., et.al.; Reports of the Secretary of War, with Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonio to El Paso
Johnston, Brevet Lt. Col. Joseph E., et.al.; Reports of the Secretary of War, with Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonio to El Paso . . . Also the Report of Capt. R. B. Marcy's Route from Fort Smith to Santa Fe; and the Report of Liet. J. H. Simpson on an Expedition into the Navajo Country; and the Report of Lt. W. H. C. Whitig's Reconnaissances of the Western Frontier of Texas. Washington, 31st Congress, 1st Sess., SED #64, 1850. Quarto, pp. 250, 72 plates (some colored, (#'s 2, 21 & 39 never issued)), 2 folded maps.
PRICE: $1,300.00
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Book by Kendall. George W.; Narrative of an Expedition across the Great South-western Prairies from Texas to Santa Fe. London, David Bogue, 1845.
Kendall. George W.; Narrative of an Expedition across the Great South-western Prairies from Texas to Santa Fe. London, David Bogue, 1845. Octavo, vol. 1, pp. 432, folded map, frontispiece; vol. 2, pp. 436, frontispiece.
PRICE: $650.00
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Book by Keppel, Capt. Henry; A Visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H. M. Ship Meander: with Portions of the Private Journal of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. 2 volumes, London, Richard Bentley, 1853.
Keppel, Capt. Henry; A Visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H. M. Ship Meander: with Portions of the Private Journal of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. 2 volumes, London, Richard Bentley, 1853. London 1853. Quarto, two volumes bound in one, pp. xiv, 301, tinted frontispiece, 3 tinted lithographed plates, and pp. viii, 286, tinted frontispiece, 3 tinted lithographed plates, illustrated by O. W. Brierley.
PRICE: $1,200.00
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Book by Keppel, Capt. Henry; The Expedition to Borneo
Keppel, Capt. Henry; The Expedition to Borneo of H. M. S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: with extracts from the Journal of James Brooks, Esq of Sarawk. 3rd Edition with an additional Chapter Comprising Recent Intelligence by Walter K. Kelly. In 2 vols. London, Chapman and Hall, 1846-1847. Octavo, vol. 1, pp. xiv, 429, frontispiece, 4 tinted plates, 2 folded maps, Vol. 2, viii, 2, 230, cii, 16 (ads), 4 folded maps and plans, 8 plates.
PRICE: $1,100.00
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Book by Khan, Mirza Abu Taleb; The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa, and Europe, during the years 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, and 1803.
Khan, Mirza Abu Taleb; The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa, and Europe, during the years 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, and 1803. Written by himself in the Persian language. Translated by Charles Stewart, Esq., M.A.S., Professor of Oriental Languages in the Hon.East India Company's College, Herts. Ist edition, 2 volumes, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme 1810. Octavo, vol. 1, pp. viii, 16, 320, frontispiece portait of author. Vol. 2, pp. 418. In contemporary half calf over marbled boards. gilt spine titles, moderate foxing throughout, light rubbing to binding corners, edges, very good. Very rare.
PRICE: $1,100.00
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