Travel

Contact Jonathan Harrison, Alex Day or Andrea Mazzocchi

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. 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

  2. [PAPER TRADE.] 

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

    [Besançon?, 1772?] 

    A seemingly unrecorded issue of this decree...

    £175

  3. PARK, Mungo.

    The journal of a mission to the interior...

    London, John Murray, 1815.

    Second edition, revised and expanded. Park...

    £400

  4. 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

  5. [PASCOLI, Livio.] ‘Vilio LOCASPI’.

    Del modo di mantenere abolita la mendicità,...

    Verona, Mainardi, 1817.

    Only edition, very rare, of this proposal...

    £285

  6. PAXTON, P[eter].

    A Discourse concerning the Nature, Advantage,...

    London, printed by E. P. for R. Wilkin...

    First edition of this important but little-studied...

    £900

  7. PENN, Christopher.

    The Nicholas Brothers & A. T. W. Penn:...

    London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2014.

    An examination of the successful studios...

    £45

  8. PERUCCI, Francesco.

    Pompe funebri di tutte le nationi del mondo,...

    Verona, Francesco Rossi, 1639.

    First edition of Perucci’s account of...

    £975

  9. [PHILIPPINES – HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.]

    Photographs of Manila and Iloilo City banks...

    [Baguio, Manila, Cebu, and elsewhere, 1911.]

    An album documenting the first branches...

    £450

  10. PIRANI, Giovanni.

    Le donne belle del secolo XVIII. Inferme...

    Rimini, Paolo Albertini, 1791.

    Scarce first edition of this ‘libro bizarro’...

    £950

  11. PLAYFAIR, George Macdonald Home.

    The Cities and Towns of China. A geographical...

    Hong Kong, Noronha & Co., 1879.

    First edition of a dictionary of Chinese...

    £600

  12. POCOCKE, Richard. 

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

    ...

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

    £8000

  13. [POETRY.] 

    ‘Trattato della [poesia Toscana]’. 

    [Asti?, 1780-1782.] 

    A manuscript treatise on the method of...

    £750

  14. PONTOPPIDAN, Erich.

    The Natural History of Norway containing...

    London, for A. Linde, 1755.

    First English edition, a nice copy likely...

    £1250

  15. RAIMONDI, Eugenio.

    Delle caccie … libri Quattro, aggiuntovi’n...

    [Naples, Lazzaro Scoriggio, 1626.]

    Second edition, expanded and extended,...

    £2500

  16. [RALEIGH, Henry Patrick].

    Must children die and mothers plead in...

    New York, Sakett & Wilhelms Corp., [1918].

    This poster was produced to for the sale...

    £400

  17. [RAMEAUX, François-Alexis.]

    Edictum pro regis Hou-kuanensis adversus...

    [China], [1840–1] 道光卄年.

    A letter sent by the Department of Justice...

    £3500

  18. [RAMEAUX, François-Alexis.]

    Notice of the death of Rameaux issued by...

    [China, 1845.]

    A circular notifying the Christian community...

    £2000

  19. [RAYNAL, Guillaume-Thomas, Abbé;] Johann Adam HILLER, translator.

    Anecdoten zur Lebensgeschichte berühmter...

    Leipzig, Lankisch, 1762.

    First edition in German of this collection...

    £250

  20. RENNIE, Neil.

    Pocahontas, Little Wanton: myth, life and...

    [London], Quaritch, 2007.

    Pocahontas – meaning ‘Little Wanton’...

    £25