Travel

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We stock Western books in European languages, generally – but not exclusively – published before circa 1850. We are especially interested in early travel accounts – from the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries – in all areas beyond Europe.

Geographical regions in which we have tended to specialise include the Pacific and its surrounding countries – South America, the Northwest Coast of America, Japan, China, the maritime regions of Asia, including the Philippines and Indonesia, and Australia. Books on Africa, the polar regions, manuscripts and separately published maps are also handled.
  1. GONZÁLES DE MENDOZA, Juan, and Robert PARKE, translator

    The Historie of the great and mightie Kingdome...

    London, Printed by J. Wolfe for Edward...

    First edition in English, rare, of the...

    £50000

  2. HAKLUYT, Richard.

    The Principall Navigations, Voiages and...

    London, ‘George Bishop and Ralph Newberie,...

    First edition, a fine copy, with the world...

    £350000

  3. THOMSON, John.

    Illustrations of China and its People....

    London, Sampson Low &c, 1873–1874.

    A good copy of this rare work (vol. I...

    £32500

  4. [BARCLAY FAMILY.]

    Album of letters, maps, accounts, and reports...

    Mostly Philadelphia and London, 1794–1854.

    A large and coherent archive relating to...

    £32500

  5. ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.

    Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins...

    Paris, François Huby, 1614.

    Second edition, enlarged and revised from...

    £30000

  6. MORE, Thomas, Sir.

    De optimo reip. statu deque nova insula...

    Basel, [(colophons:) Johann Froben, March...

    Third edition of More’s Utopia,...

    £27500

  7. SPILBERGEN, Joris van, and Jacob LE MAIRE.

    Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae...

    Leiden, Nicolaes van Geelkercken, 1619.

    First Latin edition of one of the classic...

    £20000

  8. HAKLUYT, Richard.

    The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques...

    London, George Bishop, Ralph Newberie,...

    Second edition, first issue of ‘Hakluyt’s...

    £20000

  9. NIGHTINGALE, Florence.

    Notes on Matters affecting the Health,...

    London, Harrison and Sons, 1858.

    First edition, printed for private circulation...

    £18000

  10. DU HALDE, Jean-Baptiste.

    A Description of the Empire of China and...

    London, T. Gardner for Edward Cave, 1738...

    The first complete English translation...

    £15000

  11. SICARDO, José.

    Christiandad del Japon, y dilatada persecucion...

    Madrid, Francisco Sanz, 1698.

    Rare first edition of this important and...

    £12000

  12. DAMPIER, William, et al.

    A Collection of Voyages. In four volumes....

    London, for James and John Knapton, 1729.

    The first collected edition, ‘considered...

    £9500

  13. CROMPTON, Henrietta Matilda.

    Sketchbook of a tour through southern Germany...

    July, 1836.

    An extremely attractive plein-air...

    £8750

  14. LATHAM, Simon.

    Latham’s Falconry: or, the Faulcons Lure,...

    London, Printed by Thomas Harper, for...

    First collected edition (third edition...

    £8500

  15. POCOCKE, Richard. 

    A Description of the East, and some other...

    ...

    First edition, demy folio issue. A successful...

    £8000

  16. LIST, Friedrich.

    Das nationale System der politischen Oekonomie...

    Stuttgart, J.G. Cotta, 1841.

    First edition, the first work to articulate...

    £8000

  17. TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.

    Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli...

    First edition, annotated throughout by...

    £6750

  18. MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich.

    Voyages from Asia to America, for completing...

    London, T. Jefferys, 1764.

    Second edition (first 1761) of this key...

    £6500

  19. GUIGNES, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de.

    Voyages à Peking, Manille et l’Île...

    Paris, l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.

    First edition, the complete four-volume...

    £6500

  20. MENDES PINTO, Fernão. 

    The Voyages and Adventures of Fernand Mendez...

    London, Printed by J. Macock, for Henry...

    First edition in English, translated by...

    £6500