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. TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.

    Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.

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

    First edition, annotated throughout by...

    £6750

  2. TATE, William.

    The modern cambist; forming a manual of...

    London, Effingham Wilson, 1836.

    Third edition, corrected and expanded to...

    £125

  3. TAYLOR, G. Oswald (photographer).

    Promotional photographic brochure celebrating...

    Nottingham, Fine Stocking Manufacturers...

    An unusual coronation souvenir. The details...

    £300

  4. TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.

    Travels of a consular Officer in North-West...

    Cambridge, University Press, 1921.

    First edition. ‘The following chapters...

    £250

  5. TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.

    Travels of a consular Officer in eastern...

    Cambridge, University Press, 1922.

    First edition, by the diplomat and orientalist...

    £250

  6. THICKNESSE, Philip.

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

    London, 1784.

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

    £1850

  7. THOMSON, John.

    Illustrations of China and its People....

    London, Sampson Low &c, 1873–1874.

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

    £32500

  8. [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 of...

    £650

  9. TOOKE, Thomas.

    Thoughts and Details on the high and low...

    London, John Murray, 1823.

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

    £750

  10. TRAVERS, John.

    A Letter to the Editor of the Courier Newspaper,...

    London, Effingham Wilson, 1834.

    Second, expanded edition of this tract...

    £850

  11. TUCKER, Josiah.

    Betydande frågor om handelen, wid tilfålle...

    [v. Oelreich], 1763.

    First Swedish edition, scarce, of this...

    £200

  12. [UNGER, Salomo Gottlob.]

    Geschichte des Oesterreich-Russischen und...

    Leipzig, Wilhelm Gottlob Sommer, 1792.

    First and only edition, extremely rare,...

    £1250

  13. UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION.

    The Tariff. A Bibliography. A select list...

    Washington, U. S. Government Printing...

    First edition of a prodigiously comprehensive...

    £200

  14. ‘WALINCOURT, Vicomte de’ [i.e. FONTAINE DE RESBECQ, Eugène de].

    Voyage à Botany-Bay … suivi d’autres...

    Limoges, Martial Ardant brothers [Louis...

    First edition, very rare, of this light-hearted...

    £475

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

    Complete Angler or contemplative man’s...

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

    A very attractive illustrated edition of...

    £500

  16. [WARD, Edward, and VOLTAIRE.] 

    The Humourous and Diverting Story of Two...

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

    Seemingly unrecorded edition of this humorous...

    £450

  17. [WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY.]

    Javanese bride and bridegroom with members...

    Indonesia, late 1860s.

    A portrait of a ‘wedding couple’ in...

    £750

  18. WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY.

    Three documents concerning the financing...

    London, 1799–1810.

    Three key documents concerning the financing...

    £1350

  19. WILLIAMSON, Thomas; Samuel HOWITT, illustrator.

    Oriental Field Sports; being a complete,...

    London, J. McCreery for H. R. Young, 1819.

    Second quarto edition, one of the most...

    £3250

  20. WINES, Enoch Cobb.

    A Peep at China, in Mr. Dunn’s Chinese...

    Philadelphia, for Nathan Dunn, 1839.

    Scarce first edition of a guide to the...

    £1250