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. KERKHERDERE, Jan Gerard.

    De situ Paradisi Terrestris ... Praecedit...

    Leuven, Martin van Overbeke, 1729.

    First edition of this work attempting to...

    £550

  2. [KERNER, Johann Georg.]

    Reise über den Sund.

    Tübingen, in der J.G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung,...

    Rare first edition of this historical,...

    £250

  3. KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.

    Travels from Berlin, through Switzerland,...

    London, Richard Phillips, 1804.

    First edition in English, quickly translated...

    £500

  4. KOTZEBUE, Otto von.

    A voyage of discovery into the South Sea...

    London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and...

    First edition in English, translated from...

    £3000

  5. LAET, Joannes de, editor.

    De imperio Magni Mogolis sive India vera...

    Leiden, ‘ex officina Elzeviriana’, 1631.

    Pocket-sized Elzevir edition (one of two...

    £950

  6. LAING, John.

    An account of a voyage to Spitzbergen;...

    [Balfour for], London, J. Mawman and David...

    First edition of Laing’s account of his...

    £850

  7. LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward.

    The Mint. A Day-Book of the R.A.F. Depot...

    London: The Alden Press for Jonathan Cape,...

    First British edition, the trade issue....

    £120

  8. LEE, Edwin.

    The Principal Baths of Germany [– The...

    London, Whittaker & Cp., Paris, Galignani...

    First edition, scarce, of Edwin Lee’s...

    £350

  9. LELAND, John.

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

    London, Centaur Press Ltd, 1964.

    The authoritative edition of Leland’s...

    £50

  10. [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

  11. LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude.

    The Tupí-Cawahíb.

    Washington, United States Government Printing...

    A set of offprints of four articles by...

    £300

  12. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    Filibusters in Barbary (Record of a Visit...

    London, Grayson & Grayson, [1932].

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

    £500

  13. LIVINGSTONE, David.

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

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

    First appearance in French of Livingstone’s...

    £250

  14. LIVINGSTONE, David. 

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South...

    London, John Murray, 1857. 

    First edition.  ‘Livingstone’s services...

    £500

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

    Relazioni varie cavate da una traduzione...

    Florence, Piero Matini, 1693.

    First edition in Italian of one of the...

    £1750

  16. [LOQUET, Marie-Françoise].

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

    Paris, Charles-Pierre Berton, 1781.

    First edition of this rare utopian voyage...

    £1500

  17. [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

  18. [MAP.]

    Henan quansheng yutu 河南全省輿圖...

    [China, c. 1835.]

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

    £1800

  19. [MAP.]

    Karte von Ost-China. Hankau.

    [Berlin,] Kartographische Abtheilung der...

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

    £550

  20. 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