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. [ALMANACK.]

    The Daily Journal. Or, the Gentleman's...

    London, R. Baldwin, 1761.

    An interesting and extremely rare account...

    £850

  2. ALVAREZ DE ARENALES, Jose.

    Noticias historicas y descriptivas sobre...

    Montevideo, [Imprenta del Comercio del...

    Rare second edition, after the first of...

    £100

  3. BARCLAY, Alexander.

    Part-printed commission as Comptroller...

    5 August, 1749.

    After a dissolute youth and a period in...

    £850

  4. BERGERET, [Guillaume].

    Advertisement of M. Bergeret, Bookseller.

    [Bordeaux, c. 1787.]

    A very rare advertisement card of a provincial...

    £75

  5. CAPRA, Alessandro.

    Geometria famigliare, et instruttione pratica...

    Cremona, Gio[vanni] Pietro Zanni, 1671.

    An exceedingly rare extract from the first...

    £575

  6. CAREY, Henry Charles.

    The Past, the Present and the Future.

    Philadelphia, Carey & Hart, 1848.

    First edition. Carey vigorously appeals...

    £375

  7. [CLIFFORD, Jeronimy].

    The case of Jeronimy Clifford, merchant...

    [London, n.p., 1711].

    First extended account of Clifford’s...

    £650

  8. [COAL].

    The miner’s journal. Coal statistical...

    Pottsville, PA, Miners’ Journal Office, 1869.

    First edition, rare. A synopsis of the...

    £125

  9. [COLOGNE and KOBLENZ.]

    Three hotel advertising cards with lithographic...

    [Cologne and Koblenz, c. 1870.]

    An attractive group of advertising cards...

    £100

  10. [DARIEN EXPEDITION].

    A perfect list of the several persons residenters...

    Glasgow, reprinted by Hutchinson & Brookman,...

    First edition of this reprint of the list,...

    £50

  11. [FASCISM.]

    Ordinamento Corporativo dello Stato Fascista.

    Padua, Edizione di propaganda corporative,...

    Italian Fascism primarily followed the...

    £2500

  12. FENNING, Daniel.

    The Ready Reckoner; or Trader’s most...

    London, printed for S. Crowder … and...

    First edition thus, edited by the mathematician...

    £250

  13. GIOIA [or GIOJA], Melchiorre.

    Indole, estensione, vantaggi della statistica....

    Risposta alle obbiezioni fatte alle Tavole...

    First and only edition of this rare work...

    £1250

  14. [GOLD and SILVER.] 

    Bando generale per gli orefici, argentieri,...

    Rome, ‘nella stamperia della Rev. Camera...

    Rare edict governing goldsmiths, silversmiths,...

    £475

  15. [GREAT BRITAIN: PARLIAMENT].

    [Drop-head title:] ‘An act for repealing...

    London, Charles Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1787.

    Rare first edition of the consolidation...

    £2750

  16. HURRY, Thomas.

    Tables of interest, from one pound to five...

    [Yarmouth], Printed for the author, and...

    One of two editions published in 1786,...

    £150

  17. [‘HYSON, Timothy’, pseud. Thomas LOWNDES].

    A Letter to Mr. Richard Twining, Tea Dealer,...

    London, [C. Roworth] for the author, 1827.

    Second edition of the Letter to Mr Richard...

    £250

  18. LIST, Friedrich.

    Das nationale System der politischen Oekonomie...

    Stuttgart, J.G. Cotta, 1841.

    First edition, the first work to articulate...

    £8000

  19. [LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION.]

    By-laws, orders, and rules, for the good...

    London, [n.p.], 1722.

    First edition of the by-laws of the London...

    £550

  20. [MABBUT, George].

    Sir Isaac Newton’s tables for renewing...

    London, printed for Thomas Astley, 1742

    Sixth edition, first published in 1686,...

    £125