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. [LE MERCIER DE LA RIVIÈRE, Pierre Paul].

    Die glückliche Nation, oder der Staat...

    Leipzig, Voss, 1794.

    Very rare first German edition of Le Mercier...

    £1250

  2. LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude.

    The Tupí-Cawahíb.

    Washington, United States Government Printing...

    A set of offprints of four articles by...

    £300

  3. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    Filibusters in Barbary (Record of a Visit...

    London, Grayson & Grayson, [1932].

    First edition, scarce in the dust-jacket,...

    £500

  4. LIST, Friedrich.

    Das nationale System der politischen Oekonomie...

    Stuttgart, J.G. Cotta, 1841.

    First edition, the first work to articulate...

    £8000

  5. LIVINGSTONE, David.

    Explorations dans l’intérieur de l’Afrique...

    Paris: Imprimerie de Ch. Lahure et Cie...

    First appearance in French of Livingstone’s...

    £250

  6. LIVINGSTONE, David. 

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South...

    London, John Murray, 1857. 

    First edition.  ‘Livingstone’s services...

    £500

  7. [LOBO, Jerónimo; Lorenzo MAGALOTTI, translator.]

    Relazioni varie cavate da una traduzione...

    Florence, Piero Matini, 1693.

    First edition in Italian of one of the...

    £1750

  8. [LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION.]

    By-laws, orders, and rules, for the good...

    London, [n.p.], 1722.

    First edition of the by-laws of the London...

    £550

  9. [LOQUET, Marie-Françoise].

    Voyage de Sophie et d’Eulalie, au Palais...

    Paris, Charles-Pierre Berton, 1781.

    First edition of this rare utopian voyage...

    £1500

  10. [MABBUT, George].

    Sir Isaac Newton’s tables for renewing...

    London, printed for Thomas Astley, 1742

    Sixth edition, first published in 1686,...

    £125

  11. MACDONALD, Alexander.

    ‘Instructions and regulations for the...

    [England, 1827.]

    Scarce manuscript of an unpublished work...

    £1500

  12. MADDEN, Dodgson Hamilton.

    The Diary of Master William Silence: A...

    London, New York, & Bombay, Longmans,...

    First edition of Madden’s reimagination...

    £120

  13. [MAISTRE, Xavier de.]

    Voyage autour de ma chambre par M. le Chev....

    Turin, 1794 [Lausanne, Isaac Hignou, 1795].

    First edition, rare, of the celebrated...

    £2800

  14. [MAP.]

    Henan quansheng yutu 河南全省輿圖...

    [China, c. 1835.]

    Extremely rare map of the province of Henan,...

    £1800

  15. [MAP.]

    Karte von Ost-China. Hankau.

    [Berlin,] Kartographische Abtheilung der...

    A map from the Royal Prussian Land Survey’s...

    £550

  16. MARKHAM, ‘J.’ [Gervase], G. JEFFERIES, ‘and Experienced INDIANS’, [and C.D. LESHER (editor)].

    The Citizen and Countryman’s experienced...

    Chambersburg, Thomas J. Wright, [c. 1839].

    Undated Chambersburg edition. Among the...

    £250

  17. McWILLIAM, James Ormiston.

    Medical History of the Expedition to the...

    London: C. Adlard for John Churchill, 1843.

    First edition. A classic treatise on the...

    £600

  18. MEGUSCHER, Francesco.

    Memoria … in risposta al quesito additare...

    Milan, presso l’I.R. Istituto, 1847.

    Uncommon first edition of this comprehensive...

    £950

  19. MENDES PINTO, Fernão. 

    The Voyages and Adventures of Fernand Mendez...

    London, Printed by J. Macock, for Henry...

    First edition in English, translated by...

    £6500

  20. MENNIE, Donald.

    Glimpses of China. A Series of Vandyck...

    Watson & Co. Ltd, [1920?].

    First edition, scarce, with thirty images...

    £1200