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. [BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph.]

    L’Andrometrie, ou examen philosophique...

    Paris, chez Brunet, 1753.

    First editions of two scarce works by the...

    £2500

  2. [BOXING.]

    The Art of manual Defence; or, System of...

    London, G. Kearsley, ‘1799’ [but 1789].

    Third edition, scarce, of an early illustrated...

    £2750

  3. [BOYER de Bandol, Ange-François-Hilaire-Auguste de.]

    Mémoire … contre Messire Jean-Baptiste...

    [Paris,] C.F. Simon, 1754.

    Two seemingly unrecorded legal documents...

    £225

  4. BREREWOOD, Edward. 

    Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages,...

    London, Printed [by Eliot’s Court Press]...

    First edition.  Brerewood, professor of...

    £3000

  5. BROOKE, Arthur de Capell, Sir.

    Travels through Sweden, Norway, and Finmark,...

    London, printed for J. Rodwell, 1831.

    Second edition (first 1823) of this account...

    £400

  6. [BROUN, Richard, Sir.] 

    Memorabilia curliana Mabenensia. 

    Dumfries, John Sinclair, 1830. 

    Uncommon first edition of this charming...

    £450

  7. [BRUNEL, Antoine de.]

    A journey into Spain.

    London, printed for Henry Herringman, 1670.

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

    £950

  8. 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 successful...

    £250

  9. [BUNBURY, Henry William.] ‘GAMBADO, Geoffrey’.

    Annals of Horsemanship, containing Accounts...

    London, W. Nicholson for W. Baynes, 1808.

    Third edition of Bunbury’s satirical...

    £475

  10. [BUNBURY, Henry William.] ‘GAMBADO, Geoffrey’.

    An Academy for grown Horsemen, containing...

    London, W. Dickinson, S. Hooper, and Messrs...

    Limited edition, reprinted from the first,...

    £85

  11. BURCKHARDT, Johann Ludwig (John Lewis).

    Travels in Arabia, comprehending an account...

    London, Henry Colburn, 1829.

    First edition, in one volume, recounting...

    £3750

  12. BURTON, Richard Francis, and James MACQUEEN.

    The Nile Basin. Part I. Showing Tanganyika...

    By James M’Queen … London, Tinsley...

    First edition, complete with the three...

    £2500

  13. [CAESAR.]  RAMUS, Petrus (Pierre de la RAMÉE). 

    Liber de militia C. Julii Caesaris, cum...

    Frankfurt, heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1584. 

    An attractively bound copy of Ramus’s...

    £450

  14. CAMPBELL, Thomas.

    Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale....

    London, T. Bensley, for the Author ... 1809.

    First edition of Campbell’s most re-printed...

    £650

  15. CARDONNEL, Adam de.

    Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …

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

    First edition, the very rare issue with...

    £975

  16. CAREY, Henry Charles.

    The Past, the Present and the Future.

    Philadelphia, Carey & Hart, 1848.

    First edition. Carey vigorously appeals...

    £375

  17. [CAVALRY.]

    Cours d’équitation militaire, a l’usage...

    Saumur, H. Fournier for A. Degouy and...

    First edition of an encyclopædic work...

    £225

  18. CHIANG Yee.

    The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh.

    [Edinburgh, Constable, for] London, Methuen,...

    First edition, signed, of this unusual...

    £180

  19. [CHINA.]

    Peking.

    Peking, S[anshichiro] Yamamoto, May 1909.

    Second enlarged edition, with ten further...

    £2800

  20. [CHINA.]

    Notes of a Journey from Canton to Wu-chow-fu.

    S.l., [c. 1862].

    Extremely rare account of an early journey...

    £450