Travel

Contact Jonathan Harrison, Alex Day or Andrea Mazzocchi

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. [JOHNSON, Samuel].

    Rasselas.

    London: J. Bretell for Hector McLean, 1819.

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

    £300

  2. FENNING, Daniel.

    The Ready Reckoner; or Trader’s most...

    London, printed for S. Crowder … and...

    First edition thus, edited by the mathematician...

    £250

  3. [SAINTE-HILAIRE, Émile Marco de.]

    Réclamation addressée à S. Ece. Mgr....

    Paris, chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1821.

    Rare first edition of this work on Parisian...

    £850

  4. [KERNER, Johann Georg.]

    Reise über den Sund.

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

    Rare first edition of this historical,...

    £250

  5. ROUGEMONT, François de; [Sebastião de MAGALHÃES, translator].

    Relacam do estado politico e espiritual...

    Lisbon, Joao da Costa, 1672.

    First edition in any language of the Dutch...

    £2500

  6. BERKELEY, Grantley F., and John LEECH and G.H. JALLAND (illustrators).

    Reminiscences of a Huntsman … a new Edition...

    London and New York, R. & R. Clark for...

    Second edition, with John Leech’s original...

    £120

  7. [ROYAL LUSTRING COMPANY.]

    The Report of the Committee of the House...

    London, E. Whitlock, 1698.

    First edition; a French version appeared...

    £275

  8. [MONASTICISM].

    Risposta ad alcuni aggravi fatti ai monaci...

    Milan, Francesco Agnelli, 1742.

    Only edition of this anonymous response...

    £400

  9. CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer; F. RHODES, editor; Angus McNEILL, illustrator.

    The River War: An Historical Account of...

    [London, Spottiswoode & Co. for] London,...

    First edition of Churchill’s second book,...

    £2500

  10. OWEN, Robert.

    Robert Owen’s Journal. Explanatory of...

    London, James Watson, 1850-1.

    The first 23 issues of Robert Owen’s...

    £350

  11. HOWITT, William.

    The rural and domestic life of Germany:...

    London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,...

    A fine copy of the first edition of Howitt’s...

    £100

  12. GAY, John, and Gordon ROSS (illustrator).

    Rural Sports, together with the Birth of...

    New York, William Edwin Rudge, 1930.

    Limited edition, numbered 94 of 200 copies...

    £160

  13. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Science and Engineering of Materials:...

    Toronto, AE Publications, 2023.

    An extraordinary survey of four centuries...

    £75

  14. [SHANGHAI.]

    Shanghai of To-day. A Souvenir Album of...

    Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore, Kelly...

    Third edition, revised and enlarged (first...

    £1250

  15. [MISSIONARIES.]

    Shopping list of Christian texts, signed...

    [China, c. 1850.]

    A shopping list of Chinese Christian texts...

    £1500

  16. AH FONG, photographer.

    The Sino-Japanese Hostilities 1937.

    Shanghai, Nanking Road, 1937.

    Excellently preserved copy of this rare...

    £3750

  17. [MABBUT, George].

    Sir Isaac Newton’s tables for renewing...

    London, printed for Thomas Astley, 1742

    Sixth edition, first published in 1686,...

    £125

  18. TULLOCH, James Dundas Gregorie.

    Small archive relating to his military career.

    1826-1854.

    An interesting set of documents tracing...

    £2000

  19. [SHANGHAI.]

    “So–this is Shanghai”.

    [Shanghai, A. S. Watson & Co. and Kelly...

    Rare first edition of a photographic souvenir...

    £350

  20. 山下 富吉 YAMASHITA Takayoshi.

    青島寫真帖 Souvenir Tsingtao.

    Tsingtao, Showa 16, [1941].

    A Japanese souvenir of Tsingtao (Qingdao)...

    £300