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. MONETA, José Manuel, and Robert Keith HEADLAND, (ed.).

    Four Antarctic Years in the South Orkney...

    London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2017.

    One man’s fascinating record of four...

    £50

  2. [MONTANUS, Arnoldus.]

    Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie...

    Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1680.

    First edition in French of an important...

    £3500

  3. [MOREAN WAR.]

    Journal of the Venetian Campaigne, A.D. 1687. under...

    London, H.C. for R. Taylor, 1688.

    First edition of an important account of...

    £2500

  4. MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich.

    Voyages from Asia to America, for completing...

    London, T. Jefferys, 1764.

    Second edition (first 1761) of this key...

    £6500

  5. [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

  6. NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández. 

    Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...

    Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...

    Scarce first edition, one of the most important...

    £3750

  7. NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.

    Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...

    Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...

    Scarce first edition, one of the most important...

    £4750

  8. NIEUHOF, Jan, and Georg HORN (translator). 

    Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae chamum...

    Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1668. 

    First edition in Latin, beautifully illustrated,...

    £5000

  9. NIEUHOF, Jean, and Jean LE CARPENTIER (translator). 

    L’ambassade de la compagnie orientale...

    Leiden, Jacob de Meurs, 1665. 

    Lavishly illustrated first French edition...

    £3500

  10. [NOVA SCOTIA.]

    A Fair Representation of His Majesty’s...

    London: Printed by Edward Owen … 1756.

    First edition. ‘Résumé très bien fait...

    £750

  11. OWEN, Robert.

    Robert Owen’s Journal. Explanatory of...

    London, James Watson, 1850-1.

    The first 23 issues of Robert Owen’s...

    £350

  12. PACIFICUS, Sacerdos.

    Two letters signed regarding religious...

    [?Hong Kong, 1846.]

    Two interesting letters referring to paintings...

    £1100

  13. PALAFOX Y MENDOZA, Juan de. 

    The History of the Conquest of China by...

    London, W. Godbid for M. Pitt, 1671. 

    First edition in English of Palafox's Historia...

    £1750

  14. PALMER, Robert Stafford Arthur, the Hon.

    A Little Tour in India.

    London: Unwin Brothers, Limited, The Gresham...

    First edition. Palmer was the son of the...

    £50

  15. PARK, Mungo.

    The journal of a mission to the interior...

    London, John Murray, 1815.

    Second edition, revised and expanded. Park...

    £400

  16. [PASCOLI, Livio.] ‘Vilio LOCASPI’.

    Del modo di mantenere abolita la mendicità,...

    Verona, Mainardi, 1817.

    Only edition, very rare, of this proposal...

    £285

  17. PENN, Christopher.

    The Nicholas Brothers & A. T. W. Penn:...

    London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2014.

    An examination of the successful studios...

    £45

  18. [PHILIPPINES – HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.]

    Photographs of Manila and Iloilo City banks...

    [Baguio, Manila, Cebu, and elsewhere, 1911.]

    An album documenting the first branches...

    £450

  19. PIRANI, Giovanni.

    Le donne belle del secolo XVIII. Inferme...

    Rimini, Paolo Albertini, 1791.

    Scarce first edition of this ‘libro bizarro’...

    £950

  20. PLAYFAIR, George Macdonald Home.

    The Cities and Towns of China. A geographical...

    Hong Kong, Noronha & Co., 1879.

    First edition of a dictionary of Chinese...

    £600