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. [STANHOPE, Hester Lucy, Lady.] [MERYON, Charles Lewis, editor.]

    Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as...

    London, [Frederick Shoberl for] Henry...

    First edition, the entertaining memoirs...

    £650

  2. STAVORINUS, Johan Splinter, and Samuel Hull WILCOCKE, translator.

    Voyages to the East-Indies … Translated...

    London, for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798.

    First edition in English of a first-hand...

    £850

  3. SULIVAN, Richard Joseph.

    Philosophical Rhapsodies. Fragments of...

    London, printed for T. Becket … Bookseller...

    First edition of this eccentric travel-inspired...

    £750

  4. [TANGIER.] 

    A Description of Tangier, the Country and...

    London, for Samuel Speed, 1664. 

    Scarce first edition of this entertaining...

    £2750

  5. TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.

    Travels of a consular Officer in North-West...

    Cambridge, University Press, 1921.

    First edition. ‘The following chapters...

    £250

  6. TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.

    Travels of a consular Officer in eastern...

    Cambridge, University Press, 1922.

    First edition, by the diplomat and orientalist...

    £250

  7. THICKNESSE, Philip.

    A Year’s Journey through the Paix Bâs...

    London, 1784.

    First edition, rare, and possibly suppressed,...

    £1850

  8. THOMSON, John.

    Illustrations of China and its People....

    London, Sampson Low &c, 1873–1874.

    A good copy of this rare work (vol. I...

    £32500

  9. TRAVERS, John.

    A Letter to the Editor of the Courier Newspaper,...

    London, Effingham Wilson, 1834.

    Second, expanded edition of this tract...

    £850

  10. ‘WALINCOURT, Vicomte de’ [i.e. FONTAINE DE RESBECQ, Eugène de].

    Voyage à Botany-Bay … suivi d’autres...

    Limoges, Martial Ardant brothers [Louis...

    First edition, very rare, of this light-hearted...

    £475

  11. [WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY.]

    Javanese bride and bridegroom with members...

    Indonesia, late 1860s.

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

    £750

  12. 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

  13. WORDSWORTH, Christopher.

    Greece: pictorial, descriptive, and historical...

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

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

    £2000

  14. [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

  15. WYLD, James.

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

    London, James Wyld, 1859–1860.

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

    £2750

  16. 山下 富吉 YAMASHITA Takayoshi.

    青島寫真帖 Souvenir Tsingtao.

    Tsingtao, Showa 16, [1941].

    A Japanese souvenir of Tsingtao (Qingdao)...

    £300

  17. 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

  18. ZINZERLING, Justus.

    Jodoci Sinceri Itinerarium Galliae, ita...

    Amsterdam, Janson, 1649.

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

    £1250