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.-
ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.
Histoire de la mission des peres capucins...
Paris, François Huby, 1614.
Second edition, enlarged and revised...
£30000
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ALEMAN, Mateo.
Primera parte de la vida del Picaro Guzman...
Çaragoça, Angelo Tavanno, 1603.
Rare early edition of the prototype...
£2500
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[ALEXANDRIA, Battle of, 1801.]
Plan of the action of the 21st of March...
A detailed plan accurately illustrating...
£650
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ALLEN, John.
Principles of modern Riding for Gentlemen,...
London, C. & C. Whittingham for Thomas...
First and only edition of an uncommon...
£350
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ALLEN, Willam.
Picturesque views on the River Niger, sketched...
London, John Murray, Hodgson & Graves,...
First edition, one of a very few copies...
£5750
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ALMEIDA, Theodoro de.
Lisboa destruida poema, author o P. Theodoro...
Lisbon, Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo,...
First edition of this poem in six cantos,...
£400
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ALVAREZ DE ARENALES, Jose.
Noticias historicas y descriptivas sobre...
Montevideo, [Imprenta del Comercio del...
Rare second edition, after the first of...
£200
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ANDREADES, Andreas Michael.
De la monnaie et de la puissance d’achat...
Liège, Imprimerie H. Vaillant-Carmanne, 1924.
An offprint, with its own title-page and...
£45
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[ANON.]
‘Voyage en Italie et au Midi de la France...
[Geneva, c. April 1891].
A handsome, illustrated travel journal...
£1600
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[ANON.]
Microselene. Curioso viaggio etereo di...
Milan, Angelo Stanislao Brambilla, 1824.
First edition of an innovative early Italian...
£950
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[ANON.]
The History and Adventures of Ben the Soldier,...
London, J. Evans & Son, F. Collins, and...
Scarce moral tale of a soldier returned...
£100
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[APPERLEY, Charles James.] ‘NIMROD’, and Henry ALKEN (illustrator).
The Chace, the Turf, and the Road.
London, A. Spottiswoode for John Murray, 1837.
First edition of a series of articles...
£350
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[APPERLEY, Charles James.] ‘NIMROD’, and Henry ALKEN and GILBERT (illustrators).
The Chace, the Turf, and the Road … second...
London, Vizetelly Brothers & Co. for John...
Second edition, in the publisher’s...
£125
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[ARP.]
County of the Isle of Ely, Public Air Raid...
County Air Raid Precautions Committee,...
A very rare survival from the Second...
£300
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ASTLEY, Philip.
Astley’s System of equestrian Education,...
London, T. Burton for S. Creed, [c. 1801].
Fifth edition of a work on horse-training...
£350
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ATABEY, Sefik E. – Leonora NAVARI.
The Ottoman World. The Sefik E. Atabey...
London: Bernard J. Shapero, 1998.
First and only edition, limited to 750...
£600
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ATLANTICUS, pseud.
Ein Blick in den Zukunftsstaat. Produktion...
Stuttgart, J. H. W. Dietz, 1898.
First edition of this utopian discourse...
£100
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[AULNOY, Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Berneville, Comtesse d’.]
Relation du voyage d’Espagne.
The Hague, Henri van Bulderen, 1691.
Second edition; first published earlier...
£350
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BACON, John Francis.
Six years in Biscay: comprising a personal...
London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1838.
First edition; scarce. The author was an...
£750
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BADCOCK, Lovell Benjamin.
Rough leaves from a journal kept in Spain...
London, Richard Bentley, 1835.
First edition. Lovell Badcock (1786–1861),...
£400