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. 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...

    £1750

  2. PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE.

    Which? Have you a reason or only an excuse...

    London, The Abbey Press, 1915.

    A forthright call to the men of London,...

    £250

  3. [RALEIGH, Henry Patrick].

    Must children die and mothers plead in...

    New York, Sakett & Wilhelms Corp., [1918].

    This poster was produced to for the sale...

    £400

  4. RENNIE, Neil.

    Pocahontas, Little Wanton: myth, life and...

    [London], Quaritch, 2007.

    Pocahontas – meaning ‘Little Wanton’...

    £25

  5. ROCCA, Bernardino.

    De’ discorsi di guerra … libri Quattro,...

    Venice, Damiano Zenaro, 1582.

    First edition of Rocca’s military...

    £450

  6. SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley.

    The Speech … in the House of Commons,...

    London: Printed for John Stockdale … 1802

    First edition of Sheridan’s impressive...

    £75

  7. [SINO-JAPANESE WAR, 1894–95.]

    Terrible war of General Sakamoto, leader...

    Tokyo, Sekiguchi Masajiro, 1894.

    A portrait of General Sakamoto at the battle...

    £350

  8. [SINO-JAPANESE WAR, 1894–5.]

    Punitive forces attacking Pyöngyang.

    Tokyo, Tsujiokaya Bunsuke, Meiji 27 [1894].

    First edition. The battle of Pyöngyang,...

    £850

  9. TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.

    Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli...

    First edition, annotated throughout...

    £6750

  10. [TIPU SULTAN.]

    Les Indiens, ou Tippoo-Saïb, fils d’Hyder-Ally,...

    A Londres [i.e. Paris?] et se trouve à...

    The apparently unrecorded first issue...

    £650

  11. TULLOCH, James Dundas Gregorie.

    Small archive relating to his military career.

    1826-1854.

    An interesting set of documents tracing...

    £2000

  12. [UNGER, Salomo Gottlob.]

    Geschichte des Oesterreich-Russischen und...

    Leipzig, Wilhelm Gottlob Sommer, 1792.

    First and only edition, extremely rare,...

    £1250

  13. XENOPHON.

    De Cyri regis Persarum vita atque disciplina,...

    Paris, Andreas Wechel, 1572.

    First edition of Joachim Camerarius’...

    £875