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. ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.

    Histoire de la mission des peres capucins...

    Paris, François Huby, 1614.

    Second edition, enlarged and revised...

    £30000

  2. [ANON.]

    ‘Voyage en Italie et au Midi de la France...

    [Geneva, c. April 1891].

    A handsome, illustrated travel journal...

    £1600

  3. ANVILLE, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’.

    Considérations générales, sur l’étude...

    Paris, Galeries du Louvres, 1777

    Two first edition works in one volume...

    £500

  4. ATLANTICUS, pseud.

    Ein Blick in den Zukunftsstaat. Produktion...

    Stuttgart, J.H.W. Dietz, 1898.

    First edition of this utopian discourse...

    £100

  5. BARRINGTON, George.

    A Voyage to Botany Bay with a Description...

    London, C. Lowndes for H.D. Symonds, [c....

    First and only combined edition,...

    £875

  6. [BERINGTON, Simon, adapted by Jean-Baptiste DUPUY-DEMPORTES.] 

    Memoires de Gaudence de Luques, prisonnier...

    Amsterdam and Leipzig, Arkstée & Merkus,...

    Second edition of this much expanded...

    £500

  7. BINGFIELD, William, pseud.

    The Travels and Adventures of William Bingfield,...

    London: Printed for E. Withers ... and...

    First edition of one of the most entertaining...

    £2100

  8. BONVALOT, Gabriel.

    Du Caucase aux Indes à travers le Pamir.

    Paris: Librairie Plon, 1889.

    First edition. The French orientalist and...

    £200

  9. BOSWELL, James.

    The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides,...

    London, Printed by Henry Baldwin, for...

    First edition. The text of the Journal...

    £375

  10. [BOUCHET, Jean.]

    Les triu[m]phes de la noble et amoureuse...

    Paris, Estienne Caveiller for Pierre Sergent,...

    Unrecorded issue of Jean Bouchet’s...

    £4500

  11. BOYD, Hugh Macauley.

    The Indian observer. By the late Hugh Boyd,...

    Calcutta, Joseph Cooper, 1795.

    Scarce first edition thus of this collection...

    £2750

  12. BROOKE, Charles, Sir.

    Ten Years in Saráwak … With an introduction...

    London, Tinsley Brothers, 1866.

    First edition, uncommon in the original...

    £1500

  13. [BRUNEL, Antoine de.]

    A journey into Spain.

    London, printed for Henry Herringman, 1670.

    First edition in English. A free and abridged...

    £950

  14. 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...

    £250

  15. BURBURY, John.

    A Relation of a Journey of the Right Honourable...

    London, Printed for T. Collins and I....

    First and only edition of this account...

    £5750

  16. CARDONNEL, Adam de.

    Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …

    London: Printed for the Author, and sold...

    First edition, the very rare issue with...

    £975

  17. CÉSPEDES Y MENESES, Gonzalo de.

    Varia fortuna del soldado Pindaro.

    Lisbon, Geraldo de la Viña, ‘626’...

    Rare first edition of this semi-autobiographical...

    £6750

  18. [CHINA.]

    Précis des nouvelles reçues des missions...

    [Paris, Adrien Le Clere, 1819?].

    An extremely rare summary of the state...

    £180

  19. [CHINESE ARTS DEALER.] ISKANDRIAN-HUPEDEN, A.

    [Cover title:] ‘My Treasure Box’...

    Shanghai, Spring 1938.

    A charming and insightful trade catalogue...

    £1600

  20. COLLIE, John Norman.

    Climbing on the Himalaya and other Mountain...

    Edinburgh, T. and A. Constable for David...

    First edition, published in the year that...

    £750