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. TUCKER, Josiah.

    Betydande frågor om handelen, wid tilfålle...

    [v. Oelreich], 1763.

    First Swedish edition, scarce, of this...

    £200

  2. TULLOCH, James Dundas Gregorie.

    Small archive relating to his military career.

    1826-1854.

    An interesting set of documents tracing...

    £2000

  3. [UNGER, Salomo Gottlob.]

    Geschichte des Oesterreich-Russischen und...

    Leipzig, Wilhelm Gottlob Sommer, 1792.

    First and only edition, extremely rare,...

    £1250

  4. UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION.

    The Tariff. A Bibliography. A select list...

    Washington, U. S. Government Printing...

    First edition of a prodigiously comprehensive...

    £200

  5. WALTON, Izaak, and James THORPE, illustrator.

    Complete Angler or contemplative man’s...

    London & Edinburgh, T.N. Foulis, [1925].

    A very attractive illustrated edition of...

    £500

  6. [WARD, Edward, and VOLTAIRE.] 

    The Humourous and Diverting Story of Two...

    6, Punderson’s-Place, Bethnal-Green-Road’,...

    Seemingly unrecorded edition of this humorous...

    £450

  7. [WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY.]

    Javanese bride and bridegroom with members...

    Indonesia, late 1860s.

    A portrait of a ‘wedding couple’ in...

    £750

  8. WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY.

    Three documents concerning the financing...

    London, 1799–1810.

    Three key documents concerning the financing...

    £1350

  9. WILLIAMSON, Thomas; Samuel HOWITT, illustrator.

    Oriental Field Sports; being a complete,...

    London, J. McCreery for H. R. Young, 1819.

    Second quarto edition, one of the most...

    £3250

  10. WINES, Enoch Cobb.

    A Peep at China, in Mr. Dunn’s Chinese...

    Philadelphia, for Nathan Dunn, 1839.

    Scarce first edition of a guide to the...

    £1250

  11. WORDSWORTH, Christopher.

    Greece: pictorial, descriptive, and historical...

    London, William S. Orr and Co., 1840.

    First edition, one of the rare copies in...

    £2000

  12. [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

  13. WYLD, James.

    Map of the islands of Japan, Kurile &c....

    London, James Wyld, 1859–1860.

    Rare four-sheet map of Japan, the Russian...

    £2750

  14. 山下 富吉 YAMASHITA Takayoshi.

    青島寫真帖 Souvenir Tsingtao.

    Tsingtao, Showa 16, [1941].

    A Japanese souvenir of Tsingtao (Qingdao)...

    £300

  15. YAMAZAKI Kane’ichirō 山崎 鋆一郎.

    满洲の展望 [Manshū no tenbō, i.e....

    Dalian, Kane’ichirō Yamazaki for Kinjirō...

    A highly illustrated photobook on Manchuria...

    £650

  16. ZINZERLING, Justus.

    Jodoci Sinceri Itinerarium Galliae, ita...

    Amsterdam, Janson, 1649.

    William Beckford’s copy of a later edition...

    £1250