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. LIST, Friedrich.

    Das nationale System der politischen Oekonomie...

    Stuttgart, J.G. Cotta, 1841.

    First edition, the first work to articulate...

    £8000

  2. LIVINGSTONE, David.

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

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

    First appearance in French of Livingstone’s...

    £250

  3. LIVINGSTONE, David. 

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South...

    London, John Murray, 1857. 

    First edition.  ‘Livingstone’s services...

    £500

  4. [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

  5. [LOQUET, Marie-Françoise].

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

    Paris, Charles-Pierre Berton, 1781.

    First edition of this rare utopian voyage...

    £1500

  6. [MABBUT, George].

    Sir Isaac Newton’s tables for renewing...

    London, printed for Thomas Astley, 1742

    Sixth edition, first published in 1686,...

    £125

  7. MADDEN, Dodgson Hamilton.

    The Diary of Master William Silence: A...

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

    First edition of Madden’s reimagination...

    £120

  8. [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

  9. [MAP.]

    Henan quansheng yutu 河南全省輿圖...

    [China, c. 1835.]

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

    £1800

  10. [MAP.]

    Karte von Ost-China. Hankau.

    [Berlin,] Kartographische Abtheilung der...

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

    £550

  11. [MAPS.]

    ‘Carte du Vicariat Apost. de Péking...

    [China], 1896.

    Two handsome maps providing a snapshot...

    £1800

  12. 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

  13. MARZAGLIA, Gaetano.

    Fascetto di pratiche matematiche spiegate...

    Verona, Dionisio Ramanzini, 1780.

    A lovely copy of the second edition, considerably...

    £650

  14. 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

  15. MEGUSCHER, Francesco.

    Memoria … in risposta al quesito additare...

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

    Uncommon first edition of this comprehensive...

    £950

  16. MENDES PINTO, Fernão. 

    The Voyages and Adventures of Fernand Mendez...

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

    First edition in English, translated by...

    £6500

  17. MENNIE, Donald.

    Glimpses of China. A Series of Vandyck...

    Watson & Co. Ltd, [1920?].

    First edition, scarce, with thirty images...

    £1200

  18. MERCURIALE, Girolamo. 

    De arte gymnastica libri sex, in quibus...

    Venice, [Lucantonio II] Giunta, 1587. 

    Third edition of ‘the first illustrated...

    £2750

  19. [MILDMAY, William, Sir.]

    The Laws and Policy of England, relating...

    London, printed and sold by T. Harrison...

    First edition, an unjustly neglected study...

    £350

  20. [MILITARIA.]

    Instruction provisoire arrêtée par le...

    Montauban, Vincent Teulières, 1788.

    A seemingly unrecorded edition of these...

    £750