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.-
AH FONG, photographer.
The Sino-Japanese Hostilities 1937.
Shanghai, Nanking Road, 1937.
Excellently preserved copy of this rare...
£3750
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[ALDERLEY EDGE.]
Alderley Edge and its Neighbourhood.
Macclesfield, J. Swinnerton, [1843].
First edition of this locally printed...
£175
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ALEXANDER, William, attributed.
The Costume of the Russian Empire, illustrated...
London, ‘printed for William Miller...
A later reprint of a handsome costume...
£950
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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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[ALKEN, Henry.]
The Beauties & Defects in the Figure of...
Boston, Carter & Hendee, 1830.
First American edition, the second and...
£1600
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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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ALVAREZ DE ARENALES, Jose.
Noticias historicas y descriptivas sobre...
Montevideo, [Imprenta del Comercio del...
Rare second edition, after the first of...
£100
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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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ANDREWS, Mark E.
The Science and Engineering of Materials:...
Toronto, AE Publications, 2023.
An extraordinary survey of four centuries...
£85
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[ANGLO-SOVIET DIPLOMACY.]
Papers regarding the Anglo-Soviet Negotiations...
London, His Majesty’s Stationery Office,...
A proof copy, complete with typed errata...
£750
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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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[ATLAS.]
School Atlas; or, Key to Goldsmith’s...
London, Richard Phillips, [1810–11].
First edition(?), very rare. The...
£475
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[ATO PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION.]
Album of 100 gelatin silver prints of Tianjin...
[Circa 1930s.]
An attractive example of the commercially...
£2500
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[ATO PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION.]
Album of 100 gelatin silver prints of Fuzhou...
[1930s.]
Includes panoramas of Fuzhou apparently...
£2500
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BARCLAY, Alexander.
Part-printed commission as Comptroller...
5 August, 1749.
After a dissolute youth and a period in...
£850
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BARRINGTON, George.
A Voyage to Botany Bay with a Description...
London, C. Lowndes for H.D. Symonds, [c....
First and only combined edition,...
£875
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[BARSANTI, Pier Vincenzo.]
Della futura rinnovazione de’ cieli e...
[Florence,] Stamperia Bonducciana, 1780.
First edition of this utopia by the...
£675
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BEAUMONT, Joseph.
Psyche: or Loves Mysterie in XX. Canto’s:...
London, Printed by John Dawson for George...
First edition of this lengthy religious...
£1250