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.-
PHIPPS, Constantine John.
A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken...
London, W. Bowyer and J. Nicols for...
First edition of Phipps’s account of...
£2500
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‘FLORENT DE SALES’, pseud.
Vrai systême du monde physique et moral.
[Switzerland,] 1797.
Only edition, rare, of this utopia, the...
£1500
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BELL, Walter Dalrymple Maitland.
The wanderings of an elephant hunter.
London, The Offices of “Country Life”...
First edition of Bell’s first work, describing...
£275
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ANNE, Queen.
Warrant, signed, authorising John Grubham...
27 January 1708/9.
An attractive document, bringing together...
£1750
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[WUHAN.]
武汉影集 [Wuhan yingji; ‘Wuhan Album’].
Wuhan, 国营长虹摄影图片社 [State...
Exceptionally rare promotional photobook...
£150
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THICKNESSE, Philip.
A Year’s Journey through the Paix Bâs...
London, 1784.
First edition, rare, and possibly suppressed,...
£1850