People and Places

This department deals with who got there, and hopefully back to tell the tale, and why. The scope ranges from classic travelogues and expedition narratives to the description of life and societies in far-flung regions of this globe, friendly and unfriendly encounters (war and imperialism), geopolitics and the sheer bliss of travel.

796 items
  • BULKELEY, John; John CUMMINS. A Voyage to the South Seas, in the Years 1740–1. Containing A Faithful Narrative of the Loss of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager on A Desolate Island … The Whole Compiled by Persons Concerned in the Facts Related.
    £3,000.00
    £3,000.00
  • [VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet]. Histoire de l'Empire de Russie sous Pierre le Grand, par l'auteur de l'histoire de Charles XII.
    £600.00
    £600.00
  • TAYLOR, Charles Edwin. An Island of the Sea. Descriptive of the Past and Present of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies. With a few short Stories about Bluebeard's and Blackbeard's Castles.
    £550.00
    £550.00
  • McCORMICK, Harold F[owler]. From My Experiences Concerning Aviation. Aus meinen Erfahrungen über das Flugwesen.
    £500.00
    £500.00
  • MONTAGU, Lady Mary Wortley. Letters Of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W---y M----e: Written, during her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in different Parts of Europe. Which contain, Among other curious Re…
    £1,000.00
    £1,000.00
  • TRADE CATALOGUE FOR BRITISH INDIA. Treacher & Co., Ltd. General Merchants. Bombay, Byculla & Poona [ cover title ].
    £800.00
    £800.00
  • [GRAHAM, Robert Blackall]. Photographic Illustrations, with a Description of Mandalay & Upper Burmah Expeditionary Force, 1886-87. By a Cavalry Officer.
    £4,500.00
    £4,500.00
  • REGO, Sebastião do. Vida do veneravel padre Joseph Vaz, da congregaçaõ do oratorio de S. Filippe Neri da Cidade de Goa, na India Oriental; Fundador da laboriosa Missaõ, que os Congregados desta Casa tem à sua conta na Ilha de Ceylaõ. Composta pelo padre…
    £2,750.00
    £2,750.00
  • HALDANE, J. B. S. Callinicus. In Defence of Chemical Warfare.
    £1,000.00
    £1,000.00
  • HEYERDAHL, Thor. The Kon-Tiki Expedition. By Raft Across the South Seas, translated by F.H. Lyon.
    £450.00
    £450.00
  • HANNA, Henry Bathurst. The Second Afghan War 1878-79-80. Its Causes, its Conduct and its Consequences.
    £6,250.00
    £6,250.00
  • SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT TRUST. City of Singapore.
    £1,250.00
    £1,250.00
  • MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich. Voyages et découvertes faites par les Russes le long des côtes de la Mer Glaciale & sur l'Océan oriental, tant vers le Japon que vers l'Amérique. Traduit par C. G. F. Dumas.
    £1,200.00
    £1,200.00
  • BEALE, Thomas. The Natural History of the Sperm Whale ... To Which is Added, A Sketch of a South-Sea Whaling Voyage.
    £1,800.00
    £1,800.00
  • ZINEMAN, Jakób [TSINEMAN, Yankev, or Jakub]. Historja Sjonizmu - Pięć tomów - … (Od czasów najdawniejszych aż do najnowszych wydarzeń w roku 1935).
    £650.00
    £650.00
  • SERAFINI, Luigi. Codex Seraphinianus.
    £2,000.00
    £2,000.00
  • HUSSEY, Leonard Duncan Albert. South with Shackleton … With a Foreword by Admiral Lord Mountevans.
    £500.00
    £500.00
  • HARRISON, Ernest John. Peace or War East of Baikal?
    £350.00
    £350.00
  • CALVERT, James. Surface at the Pole. The extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate.
    £250.00
    £250.00
  • FEMINISM - Eccentric Biography; Or, Memoirs of Remarkable Female Characters, Ancient and Modern.
    £1,500.00
    £1,500.00
  • NIXON, Barbara. Raiders Ahead.
    £550.00
    £550.00
  • PRIYA LALL & Sons. Abridged Pictorial Agra … Eleventh Edition [ cover title ].
    £70.00
    £70.00
  • MONCRIEFF, A. R. Hope. Romance & Legend of Chivalry.
    £200.00
    £200.00
  • SQUIRE, Charles. Celtic Myth and Legend. Poetry and Romance.
    £250.00
    £250.00
  • MACKENZIE, Donald Alexander. Myths of Crete & Pre-Hellenic Europe.
    £200.00
    £200.00
  • MACKENZIE, Donald Alexander. Egyptian Myth and Legend. Egyptian Myth and Legend ... With Historical Narrative Notes on Race Problems, comparative Beliefs, etc.
    £250.00
    £250.00
  • BEST, Captain James John. Excursions in Albania; Comprising a Description of the Wild Boar, Deer, and Woodcock Shooting in that Country and a Journey from thence to Thessalonica & Constantinople and up the Danube to Pest.
    £350.00
    £350.00
  • STORCH, Heinrich. Statistische Übersicht der Statthalterschaften des Russischen Reichs nach ihren merkwürdigsten Kulturverhältnissen in Tabellen.
    £750.00
    £750.00
  • WATERLOO - The Battle of Waterloo & Quatre Bras, Ligny & Wavre illustrated with Engravings of the Principal Scenes of Action including Correct Military Plans together with Grand Views of the Battles on large Scale Maps and a Comprehensive History from Of…
    £2,800.00
    £2,800.00
  • [RICHARDSON, William]. Anecdotes of the Russian Empire. In a Series of Letters, written, a few Years ago, from St. Petersburg.
    £300.00
    £300.00
  • MOTTLEY, John. The History of the Life and Reign of the Empress Catharine: Containing a short History of the Russian Empire, from its first Foundation to the Time of the Death of that Princess.
    £400.00
    £400.00
  • [BRENNER, Domokos Antal Ignácz]. Histoire des révolutions de Hongrie, où l'on donne une idée juste de son légitime gouvernement. Avec les mémoires du Prince François Rakoczy sur la guerre de Hongrie, depuis 1703, jusqu'à sa fin. Et ceux du Comte Betlem N…
    £900.00
    £900.00