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.-
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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THOMSON, John.
Illustrations of China and its People....
London, Sampson Low &c, 1873–1874.
A good copy of this rare work (vol. I...
£32500
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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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HAKLUYT, Richard.
The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques...
London, George Bishop, Ralph Newberie,...
Second edition, first issue of ‘Hakluyt’s...
£20000
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DU HALDE, Jean-Baptiste.
A Description of the Empire of China and...
London, T. Gardner for Edward Cave, 1738...
The first complete English translation...
£15000
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SICARDO, José.
Christiandad del Japon, y dilatada persecucion...
Madrid, Francisco Sanz, 1698.
Rare first edition of this important and...
£12000
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DAMPIER, William, et al.
A Collection of Voyages. In four volumes....
London, for James and John Knapton, 1729.
The first collected edition, ‘considered...
£9500
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POCOCKE, Richard.
A Description of the East, and some other...
...
First edition, demy folio issue. A successful...
£8000
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MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich.
Voyages from Asia to America, for completing...
London, T. Jefferys, 1764.
Second edition (first 1761) of this key...
£6500
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GUIGNES, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de.
Voyages à Peking, Manille et l’Île...
Paris, l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.
First edition, the complete four-volume...
£6500
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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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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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[NAGAKUBO] Sekisui [長久保] 赤水.
地球萬國山海輿地全圖說 [Chikyū...
Tōto [Tokyo] and Naniwa [Osaka], Yahei...
An early hand-coloured impression of this...
£5000
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DENNYS, Nicholas Belfield, editor.
The Treaty Ports of China and Japan. A...
Shortrede and Co., 1867.
First edition, complete with all twenty-nine...
£4750
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SPON, Jacob.
Voyage d’Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece,...
Lyons, Antoine Cellier, 1678.
Very rare first edition of ‘one of the...
£4750
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NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.
Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...
Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...
Scarce first edition, one of the most important...
£4750
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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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NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.
Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...
Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...
Scarce first edition, one of the most important...
£3750
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BURCKHARDT, Johann Ludwig (John Lewis).
Travels in Arabia, comprehending an account...
London, Henry Colburn, 1829.
First edition, in one volume, recounting...
£3750