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. CHOPPIN, Henri.

    La cavalerie française … illustrée...

    Paris, Garnier brothers, 1893.

    First edition of a well illustrated history...

    £175

  2. CHURCHILL, Winston S.

    A History of the English-Speaking Peoples,...

    London, Cassel & Company Ltd, [1956; –...

    First editions, with dust-jackets, of Churchill’s...

    £200

  3. 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

  4. [CLIFFORD, Jeronimy].

    The case of Jeronimy Clifford, merchant...

    [London, n.p., 1711].

    First extended account of Clifford’s...

    £650

  5. CLÜVER, Philipp.

    Introductio in universam geographiam tam...

    Wolfenbüttel, Caspar Johann Bismarck...

    The 1686 edition of perhaps the most important...

    £2500

  6. [COAL].

    The miner’s journal. Coal statistical...

    Pottsville, PA, Miners’ Journal Office, 1869.

    First edition, rare. A synopsis of the...

    £125

  7. [COLOGNE.]

    Hôtel de Belle Vue à Deutz vis-à-vis...

    [Cologne, c. 1880.]

    An ambitious lithographic advertisement...

    £250

  8. [COLOGNE and KOBLENZ.]

    Three hotel advertising cards with lithographic...

    [Cologne and Koblenz, c. 1870.]

    An attractive group of advertising cards...

    £100

  9. [COLUMBUS.] QUARITCH, Bernard, and Michael KERNEY.

    The Spanish Letter of Columbus … A facsimile...

    [London,] Quaritch, 2006.

    Over the centuries, booksellers have contributed...

    £60

  10. [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

  11. COPPERTHWAITE, R.H.

    The Turf and the Racehorse, describing...

    London, Day & Son, 1865.

    First edition of a scarce account of mid-nineteenth-century...

    £160

  12. [CRIMEAN WAR.]

    Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....

    Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].

    First and only edition, rare, of this unusual...

    £375

  13. DAMPIER, William, et al.

    A Collection of Voyages. In four volumes....

    London, for James and John Knapton, 1729.

    The first collected edition, ‘considered...

    £9500

  14. [DARIEN EXPEDITION].

    A perfect list of the several persons residenters...

    Glasgow, reprinted by Hutchinson & Brookman,...

    First edition of this reprint of the list,...

    £50

  15. 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

  16. DENNYS, Nicholas Belfield, editor.

    The Treaty Ports of China and Japan. A...

    Shortrede and Co., 1867.

    First edition, complete with all twenty-nine...

    £4750

  17. 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

  18. DIKREITER, Otto, and Renée SINTENIS (illustrator).

    Du und Dein Pferd: Ein anmutiges, belehrendes,...

    Berlin, Königsberg, & Leipzig, Kanter...

    First edition (seventh to tenth thousand)...

    £80

  19. 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

  20. DONALDSON, Florence.

    Lepcha Land or six Weeks in the Sikhim...

    London, Sampson Low Marston & Company, 1900.

    First edition of Florence Donaldson’s...

    £400