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. NIGHTINGALE, Florence.

    Notes on Matters affecting the Health,...

    London, Harrison and Sons, 1858.

    First edition, printed for private circulation...

    £18000

  2. TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.

    Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli...

    First edition, annotated throughout by...

    £6750

  3. AH FONG, photographer.

    The Sino-Japanese Hostilities 1937.

    Shanghai, Nanking Road, 1937.

    Excellently preserved copy of this rare...

    £3750

  4. FORSTER, E. M.

    Small archive of correspondence sent to...

    Britain, 1943–1970.

    An important collection of unpublished...

    £3000

  5. [MOREAN WAR.]

    Journal of the Venetian Campaigne, A.D. 1687. under...

    London, H.C. for R. Taylor, 1688.

    First edition of an important account of...

    £2500

  6. LANCINA, Juan Alfonso Rodríguez de.

    Historia de las reboluciones del Senado...

    Madrid, Por Julian de Paredes, impressor...

    First and only edition of this rare account...

    £2250

  7. PALAFOX Y MENDOZA, Juan de. 

    The History of the Conquest of China by...

    London, W. Godbid for M. Pitt, 1671. 

    First edition in English of Palafox's Historia...

    £1750

  8. ANNE, Queen.

    Warrant, signed, authorising John Grubham...

    27 January 1708/9.

    An attractive document, bringing together...

    £1750

  9. HARLINGUE, L. [Albert].

    'Baktiaris Persans'.

    [Iran, c. 1905-1911].

    An impressive press image of the Bakhtiari...

    £1500

  10. MACDONALD, Alexander.

    ‘Instructions and regulations for the...

    [England, 1827.]

    Scarce manuscript of an unpublished work...

    £1500

  11. CLEMENT VII.

    Tröstliche vermanung Bapst Clements des...

    [Augsburg, Alexander Weissenhorn,] 1532.

    First and only edition of this German translation...

    £1500

  12. [UNGER, Salomo Gottlob.]

    Geschichte des Oesterreich-Russischen und...

    Leipzig, Wilhelm Gottlob Sommer, 1792.

    First and only edition, extremely rare,...

    £1250

  13. HYGINUS Gromaticus, attributed, and POLYBIUS.

    De Castris Romanis, quae extant. Cum notis...

    Amsterdam, Jodocus Pluymer, 1660.

    First edition thus, with annotations by...

    £1000

  14. [SINO-JAPANESE WAR, 1894–5.]

    Punitive forces attacking Pyöngyang.

    Tokyo, Tsujiokaya Bunsuke, Meiji 27 [1894].

    First edition. The battle of Pyöngyang,...

    £850

  15. BUONACCORSI, Biagio, and Niccolò VALORI.

    Diario de’ successi piu importanti seguiti...

    Florence, Filippo & Jacopo Giunta, 1568.

    First edition of an insider account of...

    £850

  16. [NILE, Battle of the.]

    View 1st. of the memorable victory of the...

    London, published by G. Riley, 1799.

    This view of Nelson’s victory at the...

    £750

  17. DITTRICH, Max, and Max HENZE, artist.

    Der Deutsch-Französische Krieg 1870 und...

    Dresden and New York: ‘Druck & Verlag...

    Fortieth edition and 25th anniversary ‘Jubel-Ausgabe’....

    £750

  18. [MILITARIA.]

    Instruction provisoire arrêtée par le...

    Montauban, Vincent Teulières, 1788.

    A seemingly unrecorded edition of these...

    £750

  19. [ANGLO-SOVIET DIPLOMACY.]

    Papers regarding the Anglo-Soviet Negotiations...

    London, His Majesty’s Stationery Office,...

    A proof copy, complete with typed errata...

    £750

  20. [TIPU SULTAN.]

    Les Indiens, ou Tippoo-Saïb, fils d’Hyder-Ally,...

    A Londres [i.e. Paris?] et se trouve à...

    The apparently unrecorded first issue of...

    £650