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. ALEXANDER, William, attributed.

    The Costume of the Russian Empire, illustrated...

    London, ‘printed for William Miller...

    A later reprint of a handsome costume...

    £950

  2. [ATLAS.] 

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

    London, Richard Phillips, [1810–11]. 

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

    £475

  3. [ATO PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION.]

    Album of 100 gelatin silver prints of Tianjin...

    [Circa 1930s.]

    An attractive example of the commercially...

    £2500

  4. [ATO PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION.]

    Album of 100 gelatin silver prints of Fuzhou...

    [1930s.]

    Includes panoramas of Fuzhou apparently...

    £2500

  5. BARRINGTON, George.

    A Voyage to Botany Bay with a Description...

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

    First and only combined edition,...

    £875

  6. [BARSANTI, Pier Vincenzo.] 

    Della futura rinnovazione de’ cieli e...

    [Florence,] Stamperia Bonducciana, 1780. 

    First edition of this utopia by the...

    £675

  7. BEAUMONT, Joseph.

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

    London, Printed by John Dawson for George...

    First edition of this lengthy religious...

    £1250

  8. [BEIJING.]

    Album of Beijing and environs.

    [1920s.]

    A meticulously presented and captioned...

    £1500

  9. [BEIJING.]

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

    [c. 1900–1920.]

    A very good example of a commercial...

    £1750

  10. [BEIJING.]

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

    [C. 1900–1910.]

    A very unusual commercial album of Beijing,...

    £2000

  11. [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

  12. BOSWELL, James.

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

    London, Printed by Henry Baldwin, for...

    First edition. The text of the Journal...

    £375

  13. [BOUCHET, Jean.]

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

    Paris, Estienne Caveiller for Pierre Sergent,...

    Unrecorded issue of Jean Bouchet’s...

    £4500

  14. BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph. 

    L’Andrometrie, ou examen philosophique...

    Paris, chez Brunet, 1753. 

    First editions of two scarce works by...

    £2500

  15. BOYD, Hugh Macauley.

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

    Calcutta, Joseph Cooper, 1795.

    Scarce first edition thus of this collection...

    £2750

  16. BREREWOOD, Edward. 

    Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages,...

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

    First edition.  Brerewood, professor...

    £3000

  17. BROOKE, Arthur de Capell, Sir.

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

    London, printed for J. Rodwell, 1831.

    Second edition (first 1823) of this...

    £400

  18. [BRUNEL, Antoine de.]

    A journey into Spain.

    London, printed for Henry Herringman, 1670.

    First edition in English. A free and abridged...

    £950

  19. BRYDONE, P[atrick]. 

    A Tour through Sicily and Malta.  In a...

    London, W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1775. 

    Fourth edition of ‘one of the most...

    £250

  20. BURCKHARDT, Johann Ludwig (John Lewis).

    Travels in Arabia, comprehending an account...

    London, Henry Colburn, 1829.

    First edition, in one volume, recounting...

    £3750