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. NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández. 

    Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...

    Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...

    Scarce first edition, one of the most important...

    £3750

  2. NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.

    Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...

    Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...

    Scarce first edition, one of the most important...

    £4750

  3. NIEL, Adolphe.

    Autograph note signed.

    [No place], 19 March [1851 or 1852].

    A brief note in which the French army general...

    £150

  4. NIEUHOF, Jan, and Georg HORN (translator). 

    Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae chamum...

    Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1668. 

    First edition in Latin, beautifully illustrated,...

    £5000

  5. NIEUHOF, Jean, and Jean LE CARPENTIER (translator). 

    L’ambassade de la compagnie orientale...

    Leiden, Jacob de Meurs, 1665. 

    Lavishly illustrated first French edition...

    £3500

  6. NIGHTINGALE, Florence.

    Notes on Matters affecting the Health,...

    London, Harrison and Sons, 1858.

    First edition, printed for private circulation...

    £18000

  7. [NILE, Battle of the.]

    View 1st. of the memorable victory of the...

    London, published by G. Riley, 1799.

    This view of Nelson’s victory at the...

    £750

  8. [NILE, Battle of the.]

    ‘View 3d. of the memorable victory of...

    London: Alexander Riley, 1st December 1800.

    This engraving depicts the dramatic escape...

    £600

  9. [NOVA SCOTIA.]

    A Fair Representation of His Majesty’s...

    London: Printed by Edward Owen … 1756.

    First edition. ‘Résumé très bien fait...

    £750

  10. [ORAN.]

    Diario distinto di tutto il seguito per...

    (Colophon:) Florence, Bernardo Paperini, 1732.

    A daily account in Italian from 20 June...

    £175

  11. OSBALDISTON, William Augustus.

    The British Sportsman, or Nobleman, Gentleman,...

    London, J. Stead for the Proprietor, and...

    First edition, issued in forty-two parts,...

    £650

  12. [OSBORNE, Francis.]

    Historical memoires on the reigns of Queen...

    London: Printed by T. Grismond, and are...

    First edition of Osborne’s history of...

    £475

  13. OWEN, Robert.

    Robert Owen’s Journal. Explanatory of...

    London, James Watson, 1850-1.

    The first 23 issues of Robert Owen’s...

    £350

  14. PACIFICUS, Sacerdos.

    Two letters signed regarding religious...

    [?Hong Kong, 1846.]

    Two interesting letters referring to paintings...

    £1100

  15. PAGNINI, Giovanni Francesco; Francesco BALDUCCI PEGOLOTTI; Giovanni da UZZANO.

    Della decima e di varie altre gravezze...

    Lisbon and Lucca, (vols. 3–4: ‘e...

    First edition, scarce on the market, of...

    £5500

  16. PALAFOX Y MENDOZA, Juan de. 

    The History of the Conquest of China by...

    London, W. Godbid for M. Pitt, 1671. 

    First edition in English of Palafox's Historia...

    £1750

  17. PALMER, Robert Stafford Arthur, the Hon.

    A Little Tour in India.

    London: Unwin Brothers, Limited, The Gresham...

    First edition. Palmer was the son of the...

    £50

  18. [PAPER TRADE.] 

    Arrest du conseil d’état du roi, portant...

    [Besançon?, 1772?] 

    A seemingly unrecorded issue of this decree...

    £175

  19. PARK, Mungo.

    The journal of a mission to the interior...

    London, John Murray, 1815.

    Second edition, revised and expanded. Park...

    £400

  20. PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE.

    Which? Have you a reason or only an excuse...

    London, The Abbey Press, 1915.

    A forthright call to the men of London,...

    £250