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. LAING, John.

    An account of a voyage to Spitzbergen;...

    [Balfour for], London, J. Mawman and David...

    First edition of Laing’s account of his...

    £850

  2. LATHAM, Simon.

    Latham’s Falconry: or, the Faulcons Lure,...

    London, Printed by Thomas Harper, for...

    First collected edition (third edition...

    £8500

  3. LAWRENCE, Richard.

    The complete Farrier and British Sportsman,...

    London, W. Clowes for Thomas Kelly, [c. 1816].

    Likely first edition, dedicated ‘to the...

    £250

  4. LAWRENCE, Richard.

    The complete Farrier and British Sportsman,...

    London, W. Clowes for Thomas Kelly, [c. 1823].

    A sporting compendium, dedicated ‘to...

    £180

  5. LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward.

    The Mint. A Day-Book of the R.A.F. Depot...

    London: The Alden Press for Jonathan Cape,...

    First British edition, the trade issue....

    £120

  6. LEAKE, Stephen Martin.

    Heraldo Memoriale, or Memoirs of the College...

    The Roxburghe Club, 1981.

    Stephen Martin Leake was Garter principal...

    £100

  7. LEE, Edwin.

    The Principal Baths of Germany [– The...

    London, Whittaker & Cp., Paris, Galignani...

    First edition, scarce, of Edwin Lee’s...

    £350

  8. LEE, Henry.

    [Cover title:] The White Whale …

    London, R. K. Burt & Co. … 1878.

    First edition, an account of the white...

    £225

  9. LELAND, John.

    The Itinerary of John Leland, in or about...

    London, Centaur Press Ltd, 1964.

    The authoritative edition of Leland’s...

    £50

  10. [LE MERCIER DE LA RIVIÈRE, Pierre Paul].

    Die glückliche Nation, oder der Staat...

    Leipzig, Voss, 1794.

    Very rare first German edition of Le Mercier...

    £1250

  11. LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude.

    The Tupí-Cawahíb.

    Washington, United States Government Printing...

    A set of offprints of four articles by...

    £300

  12. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    Filibusters in Barbary (Record of a Visit...

    London, Grayson & Grayson, [1932].

    First edition, scarce in the dust-jacket,...

    £500

  13. LIST, Friedrich.

    Das nationale System der politischen Oekonomie...

    Stuttgart, J.G. Cotta, 1841.

    First edition, the first work to articulate...

    £8000

  14. LIVINGSTONE, David.

    Explorations dans l’intérieur de l’Afrique...

    Paris: Imprimerie de Ch. Lahure et Cie...

    First appearance in French of Livingstone’s...

    £250

  15. LIVINGSTONE, David. 

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South...

    London, John Murray, 1857. 

    First edition.  ‘Livingstone’s services...

    £500

  16. [LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION.]

    By-laws, orders, and rules, for the good...

    London, [n.p.], 1722.

    First edition of the by-laws of the London...

    £550

  17. [LOQUET, Marie-Françoise].

    Voyage de Sophie et d’Eulalie, au Palais...

    Paris, Charles-Pierre Berton, 1781.

    First edition of this rare utopian voyage...

    £1500

  18. [MABBUT, George].

    Sir Isaac Newton’s tables for renewing...

    London, printed for Thomas Astley, 1742

    Sixth edition, first published in 1686,...

    £125

  19. MADDEN, Dodgson Hamilton.

    The Diary of Master William Silence: A...

    London, New York, & Bombay, Longmans,...

    First edition of Madden’s reimagination...

    £120

  20. [MAISTRE, Xavier de.]

    Voyage autour de ma chambre par M. le Chev....

    Turin, 1794 [Lausanne, Isaac Hignou, 1795].

    First edition, rare, of the celebrated...

    £2800