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. LEE, Henry.

    [Cover title:] The White Whale …

    London, R. K. Burt & Co. … 1878.

    First edition, an account of the white...

    £225

  2. LELAND, John.

    The Itinerary of John Leland, in or about...

    London, Centaur Press Ltd, 1964.

    The authoritative edition of Leland’s...

    £50

  3. [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

  4. LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude.

    The Tupí-Cawahíb.

    Washington, United States Government Printing...

    A set of offprints of four articles by...

    £300

  5. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    Filibusters in Barbary (Record of a Visit...

    London, Grayson & Grayson, [1932].

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

    £500

  6. LIST, Friedrich.

    Das nationale System der politischen Oekonomie...

    Stuttgart, J.G. Cotta, 1841.

    First edition, the first work to articulate...

    £8000

  7. LIVINGSTONE, David.

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

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

    First appearance in French of Livingstone’s...

    £250

  8. LIVINGSTONE, David. 

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South...

    London, John Murray, 1857. 

    First edition.  ‘Livingstone’s services...

    £500

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

    Relazioni varie cavate da una traduzione...

    Florence, Piero Matini, 1693.

    First edition in Italian of one of the...

    £1750

  10. [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

  11. [LOQUET, Marie-Françoise].

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

    Paris, Charles-Pierre Berton, 1781.

    First edition of this rare utopian voyage...

    £1500

  12. [MABBUT, George].

    Sir Isaac Newton’s tables for renewing...

    London, printed for Thomas Astley, 1742

    Sixth edition, first published in 1686,...

    £125

  13. MACDONALD, Alexander.

    ‘Instructions and regulations for the...

    [England, 1827.]

    Scarce manuscript of an unpublished work...

    £1500

  14. MADDEN, Dodgson Hamilton.

    The Diary of Master William Silence: A...

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

    First edition of Madden’s reimagination...

    £120

  15. [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

  16. [MAP.]

    Henan quansheng yutu 河南全省輿圖...

    [China, c. 1835.]

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

    £1800

  17. [MAP.]

    Karte von Ost-China. Hankau.

    [Berlin,] Kartographische Abtheilung der...

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

    £550

  18. [MAPS.]

    ‘Carte du Vicariat Apost. de Péking...

    [China], 1896.

    Two handsome maps providing a snapshot...

    £1800

  19. 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

  20. MARZAGLIA, Gaetano.

    Fascetto di pratiche matematiche spiegate...

    Verona, Dionisio Ramanzini, 1780.

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

    £650