This is an image of the cover of Blackwood's Magazine from 1899, in which the first installment of Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' (1899) is included, a story which is based, in part, on Conrad's voyage along the River Congo.
This is the cover for John Murray's 1871 travel guide 'Handbook for Travellers in Turkey in Asia including Constantinople, the Bosphorus, Dardanelles, Brousa and Plain of Troy.'
Originally written in the second century CE, Pausanias' Description of Greece is shown here in a fifteenth century manuscript, and tells the cultural geography of Greece from a Roman perspective.