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. BROOKE, Arthur de Capell, Sir.

    Travels through Sweden, Norway, and Finmark,...

    London, printed for J. Rodwell, 1831.

    Second edition (first 1823) of this account...

    £400

  2. [BROUN, Richard, Sir.] 

    Memorabilia curliana Mabenensia. 

    Dumfries, John Sinclair, 1830. 

    Uncommon first edition of this charming...

    £450

  3. [BRUNEL, Antoine de.]

    A journey into Spain.

    London, printed for Henry Herringman, 1670.

    First edition in English. A free and abridged...

    £950

  4. BRYDONE, P[atrick]. 

    A Tour through Sicily and Malta.  In a...

    London, W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1775. 

    Fourth edition of ‘one of the most successful...

    £250

  5. [BUNBURY, Henry William.] ‘GAMBADO, Geoffrey’.

    Annals of Horsemanship, containing Accounts...

    London, W. Nicholson for W. Baynes, 1808.

    Third edition of Bunbury’s satirical...

    £475

  6. [BUNBURY, Henry William.] ‘GAMBADO, Geoffrey’.

    An Academy for grown Horsemen, containing...

    London, W. Dickinson, S. Hooper, and Messrs...

    Limited edition, reprinted from the first,...

    £85

  7. BUONACCORSI, Biagio, and Niccolò VALORI.

    Diario de’ successi piu importanti seguiti...

    Florence, Filippo & Jacopo Giunta, 1568.

    First edition of an insider account of...

    £850

  8. BURCKHARDT, Johann Ludwig (John Lewis).

    Travels in Arabia, comprehending an account...

    London, Henry Colburn, 1829.

    First edition, in one volume, recounting...

    £3750

  9. BURNET, Gilbert.

    Bishop Burnet’s Travels through France,...

    London, T. Payne, 1750.

    Later edition of Burnet’s account of...

    £150

  10. BURTON, Richard Francis, and James MACQUEEN.

    The Nile Basin. Part I. Showing Tanganyika...

    By James M’Queen … London, Tinsley...

    First edition, complete with the three...

    £2500

  11. [CAESAR.]  RAMUS, Petrus (Pierre de la RAMÉE). 

    Liber de militia C. Julii Caesaris, cum...

    Frankfurt, heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1584. 

    An attractively bound copy of Ramus’s...

    £450

  12. CAMDEN, William.

    Britain, or a chorographicall Description...

    London, Francis Kingston, Robert Young,...

    Second edition in English (first 1610)...

    £4500

  13. CAMPBELL, Thomas.

    Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale....

    London, T. Bensley, for the Author ... 1809.

    First edition of Campbell’s most re-printed...

    £650

  14. CARDONNEL, Adam de.

    Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …

    London: Printed for the Author, and sold...

    First edition, the very rare issue with...

    £975

  15. CAREY, Henry Charles.

    The Past, the Present and the Future.

    Philadelphia, Carey & Hart, 1848.

    First edition. Carey vigorously appeals...

    £375

  16. [CAVALRY.]

    Cours d’équitation militaire, a l’usage...

    Saumur, H. Fournier for A. Degouy and...

    First edition of an encyclopædic work...

    £225

  17. CHIANG Yee.

    The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh.

    [Edinburgh, Constable, for] London, Methuen,...

    First edition, signed, of this unusual...

    £180

  18. [CHINA.]

    Peking.

    Peking, S[anshichiro] Yamamoto, May 1909.

    Second enlarged edition, with ten further...

    £2800

  19. [CHINA.]

    Notes of a Journey from Canton to Wu-chow-fu.

    S.l., [c. 1862].

    Extremely rare account of an early journey...

    £450

  20. [CHOISY, François Timoléon, Abbé de.]

    Journal ou suite de voyage de Siam. En...

    Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1687.

    Amsterdam edition, issued the same year...

    £300