Travel

Contact Jonathan Harrison, Alex Day or Andrea Mazzocchi

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. SULIVAN, Richard Joseph.

    Philosophical Rhapsodies. Fragments of...

    London, printed for T. Becket … Bookseller...

    First edition of this eccentric travel-inspired...

    £750

  2. [TANGIER.] 

    A Description of Tangier, the Country and...

    London, for Samuel Speed, 1664. 

    Scarce first edition of this entertaining...

    £2750

  3. THICKNESSE, Philip.

    A Year’s Journey through the Paix Bâs...

    I [all published]. London: Printed...

    First edition, rare, and possibly suppressed,...

    £1850

  4. THOMSON, John.

    Illustrations of China and its People....

    London, Sampson Low &c, 1873–1874.

    A good copy of this rare work (vol. I...

    £32500

  5. TRAVERS, John.

    A Letter to the Editor of the Courier Newspaper,...

    London, Effingham Wilson, 1834.

    Second, expanded edition of this tract...

    £850

  6. WINES, Enoch Cobb.

    A Peep at China, in Mr. Dunn’s Chinese...

    Philadelphia, for Nathan Dunn, 1839.

    Scarce first edition of a guide to the...

    £1250

  7. [WUHAN.]

    武汉影集 [Wuhan yingji; ‘Wuhan Album’].

    Wuhan, 国营长虹摄影图片社 [State...

    Exceptionally rare promotional photobook...

    £150

  8. WYLD, James.

    Map of the islands of Japan, Kurile &c....

    London, James Wyld, 1859–1860.

    Rare four-sheet map of Japan, the Russian...

    £2750

  9. 山下 富吉 YAMASHITA Takayoshi.

    青島寫真帖 Souvenir Tsingtao.

    Tsingtao, Showa 16, [1941].

    A Japanese souvenir of Tsingtao (Qingdao)...

    £300

  10. YAMAZAKI Kane’ichirō 山崎 鋆一郎.

    满洲の展望 [Manshū no tenbō, i.e....

    Dalian, Kane’ichirō Yamazaki for Kinjirō...

    A highly illustrated photobook on Manchuria...

    £650