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.-
RICCI, Giovanni, and Ercolano PORTA.
Storia della missione francescana e del...
Bologna, Stabilimenti tipografici riuniti,...
First and only edition of this history...
£750
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RISLEY, Herbert Hope, Sir et al.
The gazetteer of Sikhim. With an introduction...
Calcutta, printed at the Bengal Secretariat...
First edition of this comprehensive survey...
£2500
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ROCCA, Bernardino.
De’ discorsi di guerra … libri Quattro,...
Venice, Damiano Zenaro, 1582.
First edition of Rocca’s military treatise,...
£450
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ROUGEMONT, François de; [Sebastião de MAGALHÃES, translator].
Relacam do estado politico e espiritual...
Lisbon, Joao da Costa, 1672.
First edition in any language of the Dutch...
£2500
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[ROYAL FISHERY COMPANY.]
A Collection of Advertisements, Advices,...
London, printed for H.M. and sold by J....
First edition. The Royal Fishery Company,...
£200
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[ROYAL LUSTRING COMPANY.]
The Report of the Committee of the House...
London, E. Whitlock, 1698.
First edition; a French version appeared...
£275
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SAINT AULAIRE, Achille.
Voyage autour du monde par St. Aulaire.
[Clichy, Maurice Loignon for] Paris, Arnauld...
A hand-coloured copy of this scarce and...
£1250
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[SAINTE-HILAIRE, Émile Marco de.]
Réclamation addressée à S. Ece. Mgr....
Paris, chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1821.
Rare first edition of this work on Parisian...
£850
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[SANDOW, Eugen, pseud. (i.e. Friedrich Müller).]
Manuscript manual of exercises for use...
[France, c. 1920].
A seemingly unpublished French manuscript...
£850
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[SASSOON, Siegfried.] SURTEES, [Robert Smith]; Lionel GOUGH, editor.
Hunting Scenes from Surtees.
London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953.
Sassoon’s proof copy of Hunting Scenes...
£850
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[SERRÉ, Jean-Baptiste-Adrien-Joseph.]
Livre utile aux négocians de l’Europe,...
Paris, chez Valade; Brussels, chez Emmanuel...
£100
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[SEVILLE.]
Mercantile contract between Sebastián...
Seville, 25 July 1576.
A commercial document from the heyday of...
£1200
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SHAGINYAN, Marietta Sergeevna.
Puteshestvie v Veimar [Journey to Weimar].
Moscow & Petrograd, Gosizdat, 1923.
First edition of Shaginyan’s account...
£600
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[SHANGHAI.]
“So–this is Shanghai”.
[Shanghai, A. S. Watson & Co. and Kelly...
Rare first edition of a photographic souvenir...
£350
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[SHANGHAI.]
Shanghai of To-day. A Souvenir Album of...
Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore, Kelly...
Third edition, revised and enlarged (first...
£1250
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SHAW, Thomas.
Travels, or observations relating to several...
London, A. Millar and W. Sandby, 1757.
‘Second and most valued edition’ (ODNB)...
£1200
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SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley.
The Speech … in the House of Commons,...
London: Printed for John Stockdale … 1802
First edition of Sheridan’s impressive...
£75
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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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[SINO-JAPANESE WAR, 1894–95.]
Terrible war of General Sakamoto, leader...
Tokyo, Sekiguchi Masajiro, 1894.
A portrait of General Sakamoto at the battle...
£350
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[SINO-JAPANESE WAR, 1894–5.]
Punitive forces attacking Pyöngyang.
Tokyo, Tsujiokaya Bunsuke, Meiji 27 [1894].
First edition. The battle of Pyöngyang,...
£850