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. ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.

    Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins...

    Paris, François Huby, 1614.

    Second edition, enlarged and revised...

    £30000

  2. [ABC.]

    Petite géographie amusante abécédaire...

    C. Lehuby, ‘Librairie de l’enfance...

    A charming and very rare ABC intended...

    £3750

  3. ALEXANDER, William, attributed.

    The Costume of the Russian Empire, illustrated...

    London, ‘printed for William Miller...

    A later reprint of a handsome costume...

    £950

  4. ANVILLE, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’.

    Considérations générales, sur l’étude...

    Paris, Galeries du Louvres, 1777

    Two first edition works in one volume...

    £500

  5. [ATLAS.] 

    School Atlas; or, Key to Goldsmith’s...

    London, Richard Phillips, [1810–11]. 

    First edition(?), very rare.  The...

    £475

  6. [ATO PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION.]

    Album of 100 gelatin silver prints of Tianjin...

    [Circa 1930s.]

    An attractive example of the commercially...

    £2500

  7. [ATO PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION.]

    Album of 100 gelatin silver prints of Fuzhou...

    [1930s.]

    Includes panoramas of Fuzhou apparently...

    £2500

  8. BARRINGTON, George.

    A Voyage to Botany Bay with a Description...

    London, C. Lowndes for H.D. Symonds, [c....

    First and only combined edition,...

    £875

  9. [BARSANTI, Pier Vincenzo.] 

    Della futura rinnovazione de’ cieli e...

    [Florence,] Stamperia Bonducciana, 1780. 

    First edition of this utopia by the...

    £675

  10. BEAUMONT, Joseph.

    Psyche: or Loves Mysterie in XX. Canto’s:...

    London, Printed by John Dawson for George...

    First edition of this lengthy religious...

    £1250

  11. [BEIJING.]

    Album of Beijing and environs.

    [1920s.]

    A meticulously presented and captioned...

    £1500

  12. [BEIJING.]

    [Cover title:] ‘The most interesting...

    [c. 1900–1920.]

    A very good example of a commercial...

    £1750

  13. [BEIJING.]

    [Cover title:] ‘The most interesting...

    [C. 1900–1910.]

    A very unusual commercial album of Beijing,...

    £2000

  14. [BERINGTON, Simon, adapted by Jean-Baptiste DUPUY-DEMPORTES.] 

    Memoires de Gaudence de Luques, prisonnier...

    Amsterdam and Leipzig, Arkstée & Merkus,...

    Second edition of this much expanded...

    £500

  15. BOSWELL, James.

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

    London, Printed by Henry Baldwin, for...

    First edition. The text of the Journal...

    £375

  16. [BOUCHET, Jean.]

    Les triu[m]phes de la noble et amoureuse...

    Paris, Estienne Caveiller for Pierre Sergent,...

    Unrecorded issue of Jean Bouchet’s...

    £4500

  17. BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph. 

    L’Andrometrie, ou examen philosophique...

    Paris, chez Brunet, 1753. 

    First editions of two scarce works by...

    £2500

  18. BOYD, Hugh Macauley.

    The Indian observer. By the late Hugh Boyd,...

    Calcutta, Joseph Cooper, 1795.

    Scarce first edition thus of this collection...

    £2750

  19. BREREWOOD, Edward. 

    Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages,...

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

    First edition.  Brerewood, professor...

    £3000

  20. BROOKE, Arthur de Capell, Sir.

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

    London, printed for J. Rodwell, 1831.

    Second edition (first 1823) of this...

    £400