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. HUBER, Victor Aimé; James Robertson CRAUFURD, translator.

    Stories of Spanish life, from the German...

    London, Henry Colburn, 1837.

    First edition in English; rare. In his...

    £525

  2. ‘HURLBUT’ [i.e. HURLBERT], William Henry.

    Pictures of Cuba.

    London: M’Corquodale and Co. for Longman,...

    First British edition, revised and retitled,...

    £150

  3. HURRY, Thomas.

    Tables of interest, from one pound to five...

    [Yarmouth], Printed for the author, and...

    One of two editions published in 1786,...

    £150

  4. HYGINUS Gromaticus, attributed, and POLYBIUS.

    De Castris Romanis, quae extant. Cum notis...

    Amsterdam, Jodocus Pluymer, 1660.

    First edition thus, with annotations by...

    £1000

  5. [‘HYSON, Timothy’, pseud. Thomas LOWNDES].

    A Letter to Mr. Richard Twining, Tea Dealer,...

    London, [C. Roworth] for the author, 1827.

    Second edition of the Letter to Mr Richard...

    £250

  6. IDES, E[vert] Ysbrants.

    Three Years Travels from Moscow over-land...

    London, W. Freeman, J. Walthoe, T. Newborough,...

    First edition in English of this important...

    £2750

  7. [IMAGINARY VOYAGE.]

    Admirable Travels of Messieurs Thomas Jenkins...

    London, ‘for the Benefit of Robert Barker,...

    Rare, a lively chapbook novella of adventures...

    £1500

  8. [IRWIN, Eyles.]

    Eastern Eclogues; written during a Tour...

    London, for J. Dodsley, 1780.

    First edition of these travel-inspired...

    £850

  9. [ISELIN, Isaak].

    Träume eines Menschenfreundes. Erster Theil.

    Basel, Johannes Schweighauser, 1776.

    Uncommon first edition, part one only (very...

    £150

  10. JACOMB, Charles Ernest.

    And a New Earth. A Romance.

    London, George Routledge & Sons, 1926.

    First edition of this post-apocalyptic...

    £75

  11. JEFFERYS, Thomas.

    The theatre of war in the Kingdom of Bohemia,...

    [London], Thomas Jefferys, 6 June 1757.

    This map, issued at the beginning of the...

    £500

  12. [JESUITS.]

    The Travels of several learned Missioners...

    London, for R. Gosling, 1714.

    First English translation of twenty-two...

    £1250

  13. JESUS, Carlos Augusto Montalto de.

    Historic Macao …

    Hong Kong, Kelly & Walsh, 1902.

    First edition of an important history of...

    £950

  14. [JOCKEY CLUB.] HERVEY, John.

    Racing in America, 1922-1936, written for...

    New York, Scribner Press for the Jockey...

    First edition of the first volume to be...

    £350

  15. [JOCKEY CLUB.] HERVEY, John.

    Racing in America, 1665-1865 … written...

    New York, Scribner Press for the Jockey...

    First edition, limited, numbered 323 of...

    £720

  16. [JOCKEY CLUB.] KELLEY, Robert F.

    Racing in America, 1937-1959, written for...

    New York, North River Press for the Jockey...

    First edition, limited, numbered 474 of...

    £180

  17. [JOHNSON, Samuel].

    Rasselas.

    London: J. Bretell for Hector McLean, 1819.

    Third Smirke edition, ordinary-paper issue....

    £300

  18. KEATE, George. 

    An Account of the Pelew Islands, situated...

    Dublin, Luke White, 1788. 

    First Dublin edition of this popular work,...

    £650

  19. KERKHERDERE, Jan Gerard.

    De situ Paradisi Terrestris ... Praecedit...

    Leuven, Martin van Overbeke, 1729.

    First edition of this work attempting to...

    £550

  20. [KERNER, Johann Georg.]

    Reise über den Sund.

    Tübingen, in der J.G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung,...

    Rare first edition of this historical,...

    £250