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. 山下 富吉 YAMASHITA Takayoshi.

    青島寫真帖 Souvenir Tsingtao.

    Tsingtao, Showa 16, [1941].

    A Japanese souvenir of Tsingtao (Qingdao)...

    £300

  2. XENOPHON.

    De Cyri regis Persarum vita atque disciplina,...

    Paris, Andreas Wechel, 1572.

    First edition of Joachim Camerarius’...

    £875

  3. WYLD, James.

    Map of the islands of Japan, Kurile &c....

    London, James Wyld, 1859–1860.

    Rare four-sheet map of Japan, the Russian...

    £2750

  4. [WARD, Edward, and VOLTAIRE.] 

    The Humourous and Diverting Story of Two...

    6, Punderson’s-Place, Bethnal-Green-Road’,...

    Seemingly unrecorded edition of this...

    £450

  5. WALTON, Izaak, and James THORPE, illustrator.

    Complete Angler or contemplative man’s...

    London & Edinburgh, T.N. Foulis, [1925].

    A very attractive illustrated edition...

    £500

  6. [VALLI, Francesco di Andrea.] 

    Manuscript receipt book. 

    Villa di Vaglie, Cortona, 1735-1767. 

    An interesting manuscript receipt book...

    £375

  7. [UNGER, Salomo Gottlob.]

    Geschichte des Oesterreich-Russischen und...

    Leipzig, Wilhelm Gottlob Sommer, 1792.

    First and only edition, extremely rare,...

    £1250

  8. TULLOCH, James Dundas Gregorie.

    Small archive relating to his military career.

    1826-1854.

    An interesting set of documents tracing...

    £2000

  9. TUCKER, Josiah.

    Betydande frågor om handelen, wid tilfålle...

    [v. Oelreich], 1763.

    First Swedish edition, scarce, of this...

    £200

  10. TOOKE, Thomas.

    Thoughts and Details on the high and low...

    London, John Murray, 1823.

    First edition of Tooke's first work, discussing...

    £750

  11. [TIPU SULTAN.]

    Les Indiens, ou Tippoo-Saïb, fils d’Hyder-Ally,...

    A Londres [i.e. Paris?] et se trouve à...

    The apparently unrecorded first issue...

    £650

  12. THOMSON, John.

    Illustrations of China and its People....

    London, Sampson Low &c, 1873–1874.

    A good copy of this rare work (vol....

    £35000

  13. THICKNESSE, Philip.

    A Year’s Journey through the Paix Bâs...

    I [all published]. London: Printed...

    First edition, rare, and possibly suppressed,...

    £1850

  14. TAYLOR, G. Oswald (photographer).

    Promotional photographic brochure celebrating...

    Nottingham, Fine Stocking Manufacturers...

    An unusual coronation souvenir. The...

    £300

  15. TATE, William.

    The modern cambist; forming a manual of...

    London, Effingham Wilson, 1836.

    Third edition, corrected and expanded to...

    £125

  16. TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.

    Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli...

    First edition, annotated throughout...

    £6750

  17. [TANGIER.] 

    A Description of Tangier, the Country and...

    London, for Samuel Speed, 1664. 

    Scarce first edition of this entertaining...

    £2750

  18. [SURTEES, Robert Smith,] and John LEECH (illustrator).

    Handley Cross series.

    London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1899-1900.

    Limited ‘Master of Foxhounds’ edition,...

    £1200

  19. SURTEES, Robert Smith.

    The Horseman’s Manual, being a Treatise...

    London, M.A. Pittman for Alfred Miller, 1831.

    First edition of Surtees’s first work,...

    £1250

  20. STRABO.

    Strabonis geographicorum lib. XVII ......

    Basel, Johann Walder, 1539.

    Second edition of Strabo’s masterful...

    £2500