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. MENDES PINTO, Fernão. 

    The Voyages and Adventures of Fernand Mendez...

    London, Printed by J. Macock, for Henry...

    First edition in English, translated by...

    £6500

  2. MENNIE, Donald.

    Glimpses of China. A Series of Vandyck...

    Watson & Co. Ltd, [1920?].

    First edition, scarce, with thirty images...

    £1200

  3. [MISSIONARIES.]

    Shopping list of Christian texts, signed...

    [China, c. 1850.]

    A shopping list of Chinese Christian texts...

    £1500

  4. M’LEOD, John.

    Voyage of His Majesty’s Ship Alceste,...

    London, John Murray, 1818.

    Second edition (first 1817), with five...

    £275

  5. 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

  6. [MONTANUS, Arnoldus.]

    Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie...

    Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1680.

    First edition in French of an important...

    £3500

  7. [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

  8. MORE, Thomas, Sir.

    De optimo reip. statu deque nova insula...

    Basel, [(colophons:) Johann Froben, March...

    Third edition of More’s Utopia,...

    £27500

  9. MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich.

    Voyages from Asia to America, for completing...

    London, T. Jefferys, 1764.

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

    £6500

  10. [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

  11. NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández. 

    Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...

    Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...

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

    £3750

  12. NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.

    Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...

    Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...

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

    £4750

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

    Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae chamum...

    Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1668. 

    First edition in Latin, beautifully illustrated,...

    £5000

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

    L’ambassade de la compagnie orientale...

    Leiden, Jacob de Meurs, 1665. 

    Lavishly illustrated first French edition...

    £3500

  15. [NOVA SCOTIA.]

    A Fair Representation of His Majesty’s...

    London: Printed by Edward Owen … 1756.

    First edition. ‘Résumé très bien fait...

    £750

  16. OWEN, Robert.

    Robert Owen’s Journal. Explanatory of...

    London, James Watson, 1850-1.

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

    £350

  17. PACIFICUS, Sacerdos.

    Two letters signed regarding religious...

    [?Hong Kong, 1846.]

    Two interesting letters referring to paintings...

    £1100

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. PARK, Mungo.

    The journal of a mission to the interior...

    London, John Murray, 1815.

    Second edition, revised and expanded. Park...

    £400