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. MERCURIALE, Girolamo. 

    De arte gymnastica libri sex, in quibus...

    Venice, [Lucantonio II] Giunta, 1587. 

    Third edition of ‘the first illustrated...

    £2750

  2. RAIMONDI, Eugenio.

    Delle caccie … libri Quattro, aggiuntovi’n...

    [Naples, Lazzaro Scoriggio, 1626.]

    Second edition, expanded and extended,...

    £2500

  3. LATHAM, Simon.

    Latham’s Falconry: or, the Faulcons Lure,...

    London, Printed by Thomas Harper, for...

    First collected edition (third edition...

    £8500

  4. GARDINER, John Smallman. 

    The Art and the Pleasures of Hare-Hunting. ...

    London: Printed by R. Griffith … 1750. 

    First edition, scarce, of this eloquent...

    £1250

  5. [BOYER de Bandol, Ange-François-Hilaire-Auguste de.]

    Mémoire … contre Messire Jean-Baptiste...

    [Paris,] C.F. Simon, 1754.

    Two seemingly unrecorded legal documents...

    £225

  6. [POETRY.] 

    ‘Trattato della [poesia Toscana]’. 

    [Asti?, 1780-1782.] 

    A manuscript treatise on the method of...

    £750

  7. OSBALDISTON, William Augustus.

    The British Sportsman, or Nobleman, Gentleman,...

    London, J. Stead for the Proprietor, and...

    First edition, issued in forty-two parts,...

    £650

  8. [LABOURS OF THE MONTHS &c.] 

    Januarius.  Februarius.  Merz.  April … 

    Nuremberg, Joh. Andreae Endterische Handlung,...

    A scarce popular print depicting the labours...

    £475

  9. [BUNBURY, Henry William.] ‘GAMBADO, Geoffrey’.

    Annals of Horsemanship, containing Accounts...

    London, W. Nicholson for W. Baynes, 1808.

    Third edition of Bunbury’s satirical...

    £475

  10. LAING, John.

    An account of a voyage to Spitzbergen;...

    [Balfour for], London, J. Mawman and David...

    First edition of Laing’s account of his...

    £850

  11. LAWRENCE, Richard.

    The complete Farrier and British Sportsman,...

    London, W. Clowes for Thomas Kelly, [c. 1816].

    Likely first edition, dedicated ‘to the...

    £250

  12. WILLIAMSON, Thomas; Samuel HOWITT, illustrator.

    Oriental Field Sports; being a complete,...

    London, J. McCreery for H. R. Young, 1819.

    Second quarto edition, one of the most...

    £3250

  13. LAWRENCE, Richard.

    The complete Farrier and British Sportsman,...

    London, W. Clowes for Thomas Kelly, [c. 1823].

    A sporting compendium, dedicated ‘to...

    £180

  14. ALLEN, John.

    Principles of modern Riding for Gentlemen,...

    London, C. & C. Whittingham for Thomas...

    First and only edition of an uncommon riding...

    £350

  15. [BROUN, Richard, Sir.] 

    Memorabilia curliana Mabenensia. 

    Dumfries, John Sinclair, 1830. 

    Uncommon first edition of this charming...

    £450

  16. [ALKEN, Henry.]

    The Beauties & Defects in the Figure of...

    Boston, Carter & Hendee, 1830.

    First American edition, the second and...

    £1200

  17. SURTEES, Robert Smith.

    The Horseman’s Manual, being a Treatise...

    London, M.A. Pittman for Alfred Miller, 1831.

    First edition of Surtees’s first work,...

    £1250

  18. BERENGER, Charles Random de.

    Helps and Hints how to protect Life and...

    London, J. & C. Adlard for T. Hurst ‘for...

    First edition, with advice on riding and...

    £180

  19. [APPERLEY, Charles James.] ‘NIMROD’, and Henry ALKEN (illustrator).

    The Chace, the Turf, and the Road.

    London, A. Spottiswoode for John Murray, 1837.

    First edition of a series of articles first...

    £350

  20. MARKHAM, ‘J.’ [Gervase], G. JEFFERIES, ‘and Experienced INDIANS’, [and C.D. LESHER (editor)].

    The Citizen and Countryman’s experienced...

    Chambersburg, Thomas J. Wright, [c. 1839].

    Undated Chambersburg edition. Among the...

    £250