THE DISCOVERY OF MANKIND: ATLANTIC ENCOUNTERS IN THE AGE OF COLUMBUS
Written by David Abulafia.
Stock no. 1831326
Published by Yale University Press. 2008. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Book Club Edition. Emphasizing contact between peoples rather than the discovery of lands, and using archaeological findings as well as eyewitness accounts, David Abulafia explores the social lives of the New World inhabitants, the motivations and tensions of the first transactions with Europeans, and the swift transmutation of wonder to vicious exploitation. Lucid, readable, and scrupulously researched, this is a work of humane engagement with a period in which a tragically violent standard was set for European conquest across the world. Dark grey paper boards, silver title to spine. A few b/w plates. xxvi and 379 pages including index. ISBN: 9780300125825. Light concave reading crease to spine. Slight lean to spine. Text block grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustswrapper is lightly edge-worn and scuffed.

EDWARD WILSON OF THE ANTARCTIC: NATURALIST AND FRIEND
Written by George Seaver; Apsley Cherry-Garrard.
Stock no. 1830946
Published by John Murray. 1948. Very good condition.

Polar icon, doctor and naturalist, who died with Scott on the return home from the 'Terra Nova' ill-starred expedition to the South Pole. Includes a Memoir of Oriana Wilson. Introduction by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Cheap Edition. Grey cloth boards, blue title to spine. Colour frontis and b/w illustrations. xxxiv and 310 pages including index. Spine cocked and lightly browned. A few minor marks to boards. Text block browned. Personal inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers browned, contents generally clean.

AUREL STEIN ON THE SILK ROAD
Written by Susan Whitfield.
Stock no. 1830222
Published by Serindia Publications. 1st 2004. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Evocatively illustrated account of the intrepid adventures and amazing discoveries of the great explorer and archaeologist Sir Marc Aurel Stein, who travelled the Silk Road nearly a century ago in the footsteps of Alexander the Great and the seventh-century Buddhist pilgrim monk Xuanzang. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. 143 pages including index. ISBN: 1932476113. 1cm crease to cloth at top front edge of spine else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine and lightly scuffed.

CAPTAIN COOK'S VOYAGES 1768-1779
Written by Captain Cook; Glyndwr Williams.
Stock no. 1830205
Published by Folio Society. 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

Selected and introduced by Glyndwr Williams. Elaborately decorated blue cloth with gilt. Colour illustrations. Top edge blue. xxxiv and 522 pages including index. Second printing. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is scuffed and lightly bumped at corners.

THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO
Written by Marco Polo; Ronald Latham.
Stock no. 1830201
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1968. Very good condition.

Translated and introduced by Ronald Latham. Black cloth spine with gilt title, burgundy paper boards. Maps to endpapers. Colour plates (illuminated manuscripts) reproduced taken from The Bodleian Library. 310 pages including index. Top edge red. Spine lightly scuffed, boards very lightly faded. Contents clean. Contained in publisher's slipcase which is worn at edges and starting to split at one edge, scuffed.

LIFE AND EXPLORATIONS OF FRIDTJOF NANSEN
Written by J. Arthur Bain.
Stock no. 1830084
Published by Walter Scott Ltd.. 1898. Almost very good condition.

New edition revised and considerably enlarged. Fridtjof Nansen was a Scandinavian Arctic explorer, scientist, diplomat, and humanitarian. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles and vignettes. B/w photos. xix and 449 pages plus publisher adverts to rear. Board edges rubbed, worn and frayed at corners. Prize plate to front pastedown. Text block browned. Some grubby marks to contents.

ORDEAL BY ICE: SHIPS OF THE ANTARCTIC
Written by Rorke Bryan.
Stock no. 1829810
Published by Sheridan House. 1st 2011. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Antarctica is surrounded by some of the world's most hazardous seas and wass first sighted less than three centuries ago. Since then, ships have been of vital importance in Antarctic exploration. This is the story of these ships - some specially designed, some plucked from obscurity - and the critical role they played in opening up the continent. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. Colour & b/w photos, line drawings. vii and 536 pages including index. ISBN: 9781574093124. Light rubbing to top & tail of spine and corners. Else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-rubbed and lightly scuffed.

SOME TRIUMPHS OF MODERN EXPLORATION
Written by B. Webster Smith.
Stock no. 2132964
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Grey cloth with black titles and decoration. 6 b/w plates. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing and marks to endpapers and outer page edges. All plates present. Wrapper is price-cut with large tears and chips; some loss; very creased.

THE CHILD'S LIVINGSTONE
Written by Mary Entwistle. Illustrated by Ernest Prater.
Stock no. 1507690
Published by Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Beige matt boards with large pictorial onlay and dark titles, 8 x 7.25". Illustrated with 6 colour and 6 b/w full page illustrations, incl. front cover. 32 pages. Minimal bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few fox spots to covers and contents. Endpapers browned. Dustwrapper is edge worn, chipped and slightly grubby, front panel and spine darkened.

STANLEY: SORCERER'S APPRENTICE
Written by Frank McLynn.
Stock no. 2118550
Published by Constable. 1st 1991. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Second Volume of Frank McLynn's biography of Henry Morton Stanley. It covers the years 1877 to 1904. ISBN: 0094702209. Wrapper is edge-chipped with small chip/nick to base of spine, which is also faded.

THE DEVIL DRIVES AND OTHER TRUE STORIES
Written by Jasper De Beijer. Illustrated by Jasper De Beijer.
Stock no. 1711647
Published by Nai Publishers. 2006. Very good condition.

Dual language; English and Dutch. The first book to offer an overview of the remarkable work of the promising young artist Jasper de Beiger (1973). Colour photos. Large format. Card wraps. ISBN: 9789056625122.

GREAT EXPLORERS
Written by A.A. Bass. Illustrated by Clarke Hutton.
Stock no. 1308383
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1965. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Young Learner Books series edited by J.C.Gagg, History. Pictorial boards. 30 pages. Colour illustrations. Minimal bumping to spine. Rear panel of wrapper is just a little grubby from scuffing.