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. BOSWELL, James.

    The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides,...

    London, Printed by Henry Baldwin, for...

    First edition. The text of the Journal...

    £375

  2. [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

  3. [BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph.]

    L’Andrometrie, ou examen philosophique...

    Paris, chez Brunet, 1753.

    First editions of two scarce works by the...

    £2500

  4. BREREWOOD, Edward. 

    Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages,...

    London, Printed [by Eliot’s Court Press]...

    First edition.  Brerewood, professor of...

    £3000

  5. BROOKE, Arthur de Capell, Sir.

    Travels through Sweden, Norway, and Finmark,...

    London, printed for J. Rodwell, 1831.

    Second edition (first 1823) of this account...

    £400

  6. [BRUNEL, Antoine de.]

    A journey into Spain.

    London, printed for Henry Herringman, 1670.

    First edition in English. A free and abridged...

    £950

  7. BRYDONE, P[atrick]. 

    A Tour through Sicily and Malta.  In a...

    London, W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1775. 

    Fourth edition of ‘one of the most successful...

    £250

  8. BURCKHARDT, Johann Ludwig (John Lewis).

    Travels in Arabia, comprehending an account...

    London, Henry Colburn, 1829.

    First edition, in one volume, recounting...

    £3750

  9. BURTON, Richard Francis, and James MACQUEEN.

    The Nile Basin. Part I. Showing Tanganyika...

    By James M’Queen … London, Tinsley...

    First edition, complete with the three...

    £2500

  10. CARDONNEL, Adam de.

    Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …

    London: Printed for the Author, and sold...

    First edition, the very rare issue with...

    £975

  11. CHIANG Yee.

    The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh.

    [Edinburgh, Constable, for] London, Methuen,...

    First edition, signed, of this unusual...

    £180

  12. [CHINA.]

    Peking.

    Peking, S[anshichiro] Yamamoto, May 1909.

    Second enlarged edition, with ten further...

    £2800

  13. [CHINA.]

    Notes of a Journey from Canton to Wu-chow-fu.

    S.l., [c. 1862].

    Extremely rare account of an early journey...

    £450

  14. [CHOISY, François Timoléon, Abbé de.]

    Journal ou suite de voyage de Siam. En...

    Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1687.

    Amsterdam edition, issued the same year...

    £300

  15. CLÜVER, Philipp.

    Introductio in universam geographiam tam...

    Wolfenbüttel, Caspar Johann Bismarck...

    The 1686 edition of perhaps the most important...

    £2500

  16. [COLUMBUS.] QUARITCH, Bernard, and Michael KERNEY.

    The Spanish Letter of Columbus … A facsimile...

    [London,] Quaritch, 2006.

    Over the centuries, booksellers have contributed...

    £60

  17. [COOK, James, and Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de la PÉROUSE.]

    Tableau des decouvertes du Capne. Cook,...

    S. Sauveur, l’an 7 de la République...

    A splendid hand-coloured engraving depicting...

    £1500

  18. [COSTUME.]

    Dresses of different Nations or the Companion...

    [N.p., 1810s?]

    Very rare costume book, possibly a Scottish...

    £1500

  19. CROMPTON, Henrietta Matilda.

    Sketchbook of a tour through southern Germany...

    July, 1836.

    An extremely attractive plein-air...

    £8750

  20. DAMPIER, William, et al.

    A Collection of Voyages. In four volumes....

    London, for James and John Knapton, 1729.

    The first collected edition, ‘considered...

    £9500