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.-
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
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HAKLUYT, Richard.
The Principall Navigations, Voiages and...
London, ‘George Bishop and Ralph Newberie,...
First edition, a fine copy, with the world...
£350000
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THOMSON, John.
Illustrations of China and its People....
London, Sampson Low &c, 1873–1874.
A good copy of this rare work (vol. I...
£32500
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[BARCLAY FAMILY.]
Album of letters, maps, accounts, and reports...
Mostly Philadelphia and London, 1794–1854.
A large and coherent archive relating to...
£32500
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ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.
Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins...
Paris, François Huby, 1614.
Second edition, enlarged and revised from...
£30000
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MORE, Thomas, Sir.
De optimo reip. statu deque nova insula...
Basel, [(colophons:) Johann Froben, March...
Third edition of More’s Utopia,...
£27500
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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
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HAKLUYT, Richard.
The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques...
London, George Bishop, Ralph Newberie,...
Second edition, first issue of ‘Hakluyt’s...
£20000
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NIGHTINGALE, Florence.
Notes on Matters affecting the Health,...
London, Harrison and Sons, 1858.
First edition, printed for private circulation...
£18000
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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
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SICARDO, José.
Christiandad del Japon, y dilatada persecucion...
Madrid, Francisco Sanz, 1698.
Rare first edition of this important and...
£12000
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DAMPIER, William, et al.
A Collection of Voyages. In four volumes....
London, for James and John Knapton, 1729.
The first collected edition, ‘considered...
£9500
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CROMPTON, Henrietta Matilda.
Sketchbook of a tour through southern Germany...
July, 1836.
An extremely attractive plein-air...
£8750
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LATHAM, Simon.
Latham’s Falconry: or, the Faulcons Lure,...
London, Printed by Thomas Harper, for...
First collected edition (third edition...
£8500
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POCOCKE, Richard.
A Description of the East, and some other...
...
First edition, demy folio issue. A successful...
£8000
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LIST, Friedrich.
Das nationale System der politischen Oekonomie...
Stuttgart, J.G. Cotta, 1841.
First edition, the first work to articulate...
£8000
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TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.
Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli...
First edition, annotated throughout by...
£6750
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MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich.
Voyages from Asia to America, for completing...
London, T. Jefferys, 1764.
Second edition (first 1761) of this key...
£6500
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GUIGNES, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de.
Voyages à Peking, Manille et l’Île...
Paris, l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.
First edition, the complete four-volume...
£6500
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MENDES PINTO, Fernão.
The Voyages and Adventures of Fernand Mendez...
London, Printed by J. Macock, for Henry...
First edition in English, translated by...
£6500