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. [‘HYSON, Timothy’, pseud. Thomas LOWNDES].

    A Letter to Mr. Richard Twining, Tea Dealer,...

    London, [C. Roworth] for the author, 1827.

    Second edition of the Letter to Mr Richard...

    £250

  2. IDES, E[vert] Ysbrants.

    Three Years Travels from Moscow over-land...

    London, W. Freeman, J. Walthoe, T. Newborough,...

    First edition in English of this important...

    £2750

  3. [IMAGINARY VOYAGE.]

    Admirable Travels of Messieurs Thomas Jenkins...

    London, ‘for the Benefit of Robert Barker,...

    Rare, a lively chapbook novella of adventures...

    £1500

  4. [IRWIN, Eyles.]

    Eastern Eclogues; written during a Tour...

    London, for J. Dodsley, 1780.

    First edition of these travel-inspired...

    £850

  5. [ISELIN, Isaak].

    Träume eines Menschenfreundes. Erster Theil.

    Basel, Johannes Schweighauser, 1776.

    Uncommon first edition, part one only (very...

    £150

  6. JACOMB, Charles Ernest.

    And a New Earth. A Romance.

    London, George Routledge & Sons, 1926.

    First edition of this post-apocalyptic...

    £75

  7. JEFFERYS, Thomas.

    The theatre of war in the Kingdom of Bohemia,...

    [London], Thomas Jefferys, 6 June 1757.

    This map, issued at the beginning of the...

    £500

  8. [JESUITS.]

    The Travels of several learned Missioners...

    London, for R. Gosling, 1714.

    First English translation of twenty-two...

    £1250

  9. JESUS, Carlos Augusto Montalto de.

    Historic Macao …

    Hong Kong, Kelly & Walsh, 1902.

    First edition of an important history of...

    £950

  10. [JOCKEY CLUB.] HERVEY, John.

    Racing in America, 1922-1936, written for...

    New York, Scribner Press for the Jockey...

    First edition of the first volume to be...

    £350

  11. [JOCKEY CLUB.] HERVEY, John.

    Racing in America, 1665-1865 … written...

    New York, Scribner Press for the Jockey...

    First edition, limited, numbered 323 of...

    £720

  12. [JOCKEY CLUB.] KELLEY, Robert F.

    Racing in America, 1937-1959, written for...

    New York, North River Press for the Jockey...

    First edition, limited, numbered 474 of...

    £180

  13. [JOHNSON, Samuel].

    Rasselas.

    London: J. Bretell for Hector McLean, 1819.

    Third Smirke edition, ordinary-paper issue....

    £300

  14. KEATE, George. 

    An Account of the Pelew Islands, situated...

    Dublin, Luke White, 1788. 

    First Dublin edition of this popular work,...

    £650

  15. KERKHERDERE, Jan Gerard.

    De situ Paradisi Terrestris ... Praecedit...

    Leuven, Martin van Overbeke, 1729.

    First edition of this work attempting to...

    £550

  16. [KERNER, Johann Georg.]

    Reise über den Sund.

    Tübingen, in der J.G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung,...

    Rare first edition of this historical,...

    £250

  17. KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.

    Travels from Berlin, through Switzerland,...

    London, Richard Phillips, 1804.

    First edition in English, quickly translated...

    £500

  18. KOTZEBUE, Otto von.

    A voyage of discovery into the South Sea...

    London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and...

    First edition in English, translated from...

    £3000

  19. [LABOURS OF THE MONTHS &c.] 

    Januarius.  Februarius.  Merz.  April … 

    Nuremberg, Joh. Andreae Endterische Handlung,...

    A scarce popular print depicting the labours...

    £475

  20. LAET, Joannes de, editor.

    De imperio Magni Mogolis sive India vera...

    Leiden, ‘ex officina Elzeviriana’, 1631.

    Pocket-sized Elzevir edition (one of two...

    £950