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.-
[CHINA.]
Notes of a Journey from Canton to Wu-chow-fu.
S.l., [c. 1862].
Extremely rare account of an early journey...
£450
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[CHOISY, François Timoléon, Abbé de.]
Journal ou suite de voyage de Siam. En...
Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1687.
Amsterdam edition, issued the same year...
£300
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CHOPPIN, Henri.
La cavalerie française … illustrée...
Paris, Garnier brothers, 1893.
First edition of a well illustrated history...
£175
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CHURCHILL, Winston S.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples,...
London, Cassel & Company Ltd, [1956; –...
First editions, with dust-jackets, of Churchill’s...
£200
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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
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[CLIFFORD, Jeronimy].
The case of Jeronimy Clifford, merchant...
[London, n.p., 1711].
First extended account of Clifford’s...
£650
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CLÜVER, Philipp.
Introductio in universam geographiam tam...
Wolfenbüttel, Caspar Johann Bismarck...
The 1686 edition of perhaps the most important...
£2500
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[COAL].
The miner’s journal. Coal statistical...
Pottsville, PA, Miners’ Journal Office, 1869.
First edition, rare. A synopsis of the...
£125
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[COLOGNE.]
Hôtel de Belle Vue à Deutz vis-à-vis...
[Cologne, c. 1880.]
An ambitious lithographic advertisement...
£250
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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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[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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[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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COPPERTHWAITE, R.H.
The Turf and the Racehorse, describing...
London, Day & Son, 1865.
First edition of a scarce account of mid-nineteenth-century...
£160
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[CRIMEAN WAR.]
Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....
Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].
First and only edition, rare, of this unusual...
£375
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DAMPIER, William, et al.
A Collection of Voyages. In four volumes....
London, for James and John Knapton, 1729.
The first collected edition, ‘considered...
£9500
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[DARIEN EXPEDITION].
A perfect list of the several persons residenters...
Glasgow, reprinted by Hutchinson & Brookman,...
First edition of this reprint of the list,...
£50
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DAVID, [Pierre Drapeyron de].
A History of the Campaigns of General Pichegru,...
London, for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1796.
First edition in English, printed in the...
£185
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DENNYS, Nicholas Belfield, editor.
The Treaty Ports of China and Japan. A...
Shortrede and Co., 1867.
First edition, complete with all twenty-nine...
£4750
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DEVILLE, Albéric.
Voyage aux grottes d’Arcy, suivi de poésies...
Paris, Munier for Gérard, an XI (1802-3).
Scarce first edition, presented by the...
£250
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DIKREITER, Otto, and Renée SINTENIS (illustrator).
Du und Dein Pferd: Ein anmutiges, belehrendes,...
Berlin, Königsberg, & Leipzig, Kanter...
First edition (seventh to tenth thousand)...
£80