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.-
[BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph.]
L’Andrometrie, ou examen philosophique...
Paris, chez Brunet, 1753.
First editions of two scarce works by the...
£2500
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BOYD, Hugh Macauley.
The Indian observer. By the late Hugh Boyd,...
Calcutta, Joseph Cooper, 1795.
Scarce first edition thus of this collection...
£2750
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BREREWOOD, Edward.
Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages,...
London, Printed [by Eliot’s Court Press]...
First edition. Brerewood, professor of...
£3000
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BROOKE, Arthur de Capell, Sir.
Travels through Sweden, Norway, and Finmark,...
London, printed for J. Rodwell, 1831.
Second edition (first 1823) of this account...
£400
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[BROUN, Richard, Sir.]
Memorabilia curliana Mabenensia.
Dumfries, John Sinclair, 1830.
Uncommon first edition of this charming...
£450
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[BRUNEL, Antoine de.]
A journey into Spain.
London, printed for Henry Herringman, 1670.
First edition in English. A free and abridged...
£950
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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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[BUNBURY, Henry William.] ‘GAMBADO, Geoffrey’.
Annals of Horsemanship, containing Accounts...
London, W. Nicholson for W. Baynes, 1808.
Third edition of Bunbury’s satirical...
£475
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[BUNBURY, Henry William.] ‘GAMBADO, Geoffrey’.
An Academy for grown Horsemen, containing...
London, W. Dickinson, S. Hooper, and Messrs...
Limited edition, reprinted from the first,...
£85
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BUONACCORSI, Biagio, and Niccolò VALORI.
Diario de’ successi piu importanti seguiti...
Florence, Filippo & Jacopo Giunta, 1568.
First edition of an insider account of...
£1000
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BURCKHARDT, Johann Ludwig (John Lewis).
Travels in Arabia, comprehending an account...
London, Henry Colburn, 1829.
First edition, in one volume, recounting...
£3750
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BURTON, Richard Francis, and James MACQUEEN.
The Nile Basin. Part I. Showing Tanganyika...
By James M’Queen … London, Tinsley...
First edition, complete with the three...
£2500
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[CAESAR.] RAMUS, Petrus (Pierre de la RAMÉE).
Liber de militia C. Julii Caesaris, cum...
Frankfurt, heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1584.
An attractively bound copy of Ramus’s...
£450
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CAMPBELL, Thomas.
Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale....
London, T. Bensley, for the Author ... 1809.
First edition of Campbell’s most re-printed...
£650
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CAPRA, Alessandro.
Geometria famigliare, et instruttione pratica...
Cremona, Gio[vanni] Pietro Zanni, 1671.
An exceedingly rare extract from the first...
£575
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CARDONNEL, Adam de.
Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …
London: Printed for the Author, and sold...
First edition, the very rare issue with...
£975
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CAREY, Henry Charles.
The Past, the Present and the Future.
Philadelphia, Carey & Hart, 1848.
First edition. Carey vigorously appeals...
£375
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[CAVALRY.]
Cours d’équitation militaire, a l’usage...
Saumur, H. Fournier for A. Degouy and...
First edition of an encyclopædic work...
£225
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[CHINA.]
Précis des nouvelles reçues des missions...
[Paris, Adrien Le Clere, 1819?].
An extremely rare summary of the state...
£180
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[CHINA.]
Peking.
Peking, S[anshichiro] Yamamoto, May 1909.
Second enlarged edition, with ten further...
£2800