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.-
MORE, Thomas, Sir.
De optimo reip. statu deque nova insula...
Basel, [(colophons:) Johann Froben, March...
Third edition of More’s Utopia,...
£27500
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TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.
Travels of a consular Officer in eastern...
Cambridge, University Press, 1922.
First edition, by the diplomat and orientalist...
£250
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[BOUCHET, Jean.]
Les triu[m]phes de la noble et amoureuse...
Paris, Estienne Caveiller for Pierre Sergent,...
Unrecorded issue of Jean Bouchet’s contemplative...
£4500
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DONI, Anton Francesco.
Mondi celesti, terrestri, et infernali,...
Venice, Domenico Farri, 1567.
A handsome copy of the second edition of...
£850
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[SEVILLE.]
Mercantile contract between Sebastián...
Seville, 25 July 1576.
A commercial document from the heyday of...
£1200
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FINÉ, Oronce.
Opere di Orontio Fineo … divise in cinque...
Venice, Francesco Franceschi, 1587.
First edition in Italian of the works of...
£2750
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GONZÁLES DE MENDOZA, Juan, and Robert PARKE, translator.
The Historie of the great and mightie Kingdome...
London, Printed by J. Wolfe for Edward...
First edition in English, rare, of the...
£50000
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HAKLUYT, Richard.
The Principall Navigations, Voiages and...
London, ‘George Bishop and Ralph Newberie,...
First edition, a fine copy, with the world...
£350000
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HAKLUYT, Richard.
The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques...
London, George Bishop, Ralph Newberie,...
Second edition, first issue of ‘Hakluyt’s...
£20000
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BREREWOOD, Edward.
Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages,...
London, Printed [by Eliot’s Court Press]...
First edition. Brerewood, professor of...
£3000
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ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.
Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins...
Paris, François Huby, 1614.
Second edition, enlarged and revised from...
£30000
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SPILBERGEN, Joris van, and Jacob LE MAIRE.
Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae...
Leiden, Nicolaes van Geelkercken, 1619.
First Latin edition of one of the classic...
£20000
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LAET, Joannes de, editor.
De imperio Magni Mogolis sive India vera...
Leiden, ‘ex officina Elzeviriana’, 1631.
Pocket-sized Elzevir edition (one of two...
£950
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BEAUMONT, Joseph.
Psyche: or Loves Mysterie in XX. Canto’s:...
London, Printed by John Dawson for George...
First edition of this lengthy religious...
£1250
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ZINZERLING, Justus.
Jodoci Sinceri Itinerarium Galliae, ita...
Amsterdam, Janson, 1649.
William Beckford’s copy of a later edition...
£1250
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MENDES PINTO, Fernão.
The Voyages and Adventures of Fernand Mendez...
London, Printed by J. Macock, for Henry...
First edition in English, translated by...
£6500
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[TANGIER.]
A Description of Tangier, the Country and...
London, for Samuel Speed, 1664.
Scarce first edition of this entertaining...
£2750
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NIEUHOF, Jean, and Jean LE CARPENTIER (translator).
L’ambassade de la compagnie orientale...
Leiden, Jacob de Meurs, 1665.
Lavishly illustrated first French edition...
£3500
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NIEUHOF, Jan, and Georg HORN (translator).
Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae chamum...
Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1668.
First edition in Latin, beautifully illustrated,...
£5000
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[BRUNEL, Antoine de.]
A journey into Spain.
London, printed for Henry Herringman, 1670.
First edition in English. A free and abridged...
£950