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.-
[COLUMBUS.] QUARITCH, Bernard, and Michael KERNEY.
The Spanish Letter of Columbus … A facsimile...
[London,] Quaritch, 2006.
Over the centuries, booksellers have contributed...
£60
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SPILBERGEN, Joris van, and Jacob LE MAIRE.
Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae...
Leiden, Nicolaes van Geelkercken, 1619.
First Latin edition of one of the classic...
£20000
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SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley.
The Speech … in the House of Commons,...
London: Printed for John Stockdale … 1802
First edition of Sheridan’s impressive...
£75
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HARDY, Campbell.
Sporting Adventures in the New World; or,...
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1855.
First edition of this most interesting...
£575
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RICCI, Giovanni, and Ercolano PORTA.
Storia della missione francescana e del...
Bologna, Stabilimenti tipografici riuniti,...
First and only edition of this history...
£750
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HUBER, Victor Aimé; James Robertson CRAUFURD, translator.
Stories of Spanish life, from the German...
London, Henry Colburn, 1837.
First edition in English; rare. In his...
£525
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SMITH, Albert Richard.
The Story of Mont Blanc …
London, David Bogue, 1853.
First edition of Smith’s famous book...
£1275
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[COOK, James, and Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de la PÉROUSE.]
Tableau des decouvertes du Capne. Cook,...
S. Sauveur, l’an 7 de la République...
A splendid hand-coloured engraving depicting...
£1500
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HURRY, Thomas.
Tables of interest, from one pound to five...
[Yarmouth], Printed for the author, and...
One of two editions published in 1786,...
£150
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UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION.
The Tariff. A Bibliography. A select list...
Washington, U. S. Government Printing...
First edition of a prodigiously comprehensive...
£200
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[SINO-JAPANESE WAR, 1894–95.]
Terrible war of General Sakamoto, leader...
Tokyo, Sekiguchi Masajiro, 1894.
A portrait of General Sakamoto at the battle...
£350
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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
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TOOKE, Thomas.
Thoughts and Details on the high and low...
London, John Murray, 1823.
First edition of Tooke's first work, discussing...
£750
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[COLOGNE and KOBLENZ.]
Three hotel advertising cards with lithographic...
[Cologne and Koblenz, c. 1870.]
An attractive group of advertising cards...
£100
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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
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BRYDONE, P[atrick].
A Tour through Sicily and Malta. In a...
London, W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1775.
Fourth edition of ‘one of the most successful...
£250
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GEE, Joshua.
The trade and navigation of Great-Britain...
London, A. Bettesworth, C. Hitch … and...
Fourth edition of Gee’s most important...
£250
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NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.
Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...
Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...
Scarce first edition, one of the most important...
£3750
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NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.
Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...
Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...
Scarce first edition, one of the most important...
£4750
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[POETRY.]
‘Trattato della [poesia Toscana]’.
[Asti?, 1780-1782.]
A manuscript treatise on the method of...
£750