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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.
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  1. NIEUHOF, Jean, and Jean LE CARPENTIER (translator). 

    L’ambassade de la compagnie orientale...

    Leiden, Jacob de Meurs, 1665. 

    Lavishly illustrated first French edition...

    £3500

  2. [OSBORNE, Francis.]

    Historical memoires on the reigns of Queen...

    London: Printed by T. Grismond, and are...

    First edition of Osborne’s history of...

    £475

  3. PAGNINI, Giovanni Francesco; Francesco BALDUCCI PEGOLOTTI; Giovanni da UZZANO.

    Della decima e di varie altre gravezze...

    Lisbon and Lucca, (vols. 3–4: ‘e...

    First edition, scarce on the market, of...

    £5500

  4. [PAPER TRADE.] 

    Arrest du conseil d’état du roi, portant...

    [Besançon?, 1772?] 

    A seemingly unrecorded issue of this decree...

    £175

  5. PAXTON, P[eter].

    A Discourse concerning the Nature, Advantage,...

    London, printed by E. P. for R. Wilkin...

    First edition of this important but little-studied...

    £900

  6. [ROYAL FISHERY COMPANY.]

    A Collection of Advertisements, Advices,...

    London, printed for H.M. and sold by J....

    First edition. The Royal Fishery Company,...

    £200

  7. [ROYAL LUSTRING COMPANY.]

    The Report of the Committee of the House...

    London, E. Whitlock, 1698.

    First edition; a French version appeared...

    £275

  8. [SAINTE-HILAIRE, Émile Marco de.]

    Réclamation addressée à S. Ece. Mgr....

    Paris, chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1821.

    Rare first edition of this work on Parisian...

    £850

  9. [SERRÉ, Jean-Baptiste-Adrien-Joseph.]

    Livre utile aux négocians de l’Europe,...

    Paris, chez Valade; Brussels, chez Emmanuel...

    £100

  10. [SEVILLE.]

    Mercantile contract between Sebastián...

    Seville, 25 July 1576.

    A commercial document from the heyday of...

    £1200

  11. SPILBERGEN, Joris van, and Jacob LE MAIRE.

    Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae...

    Leiden, Nicolaes van Geelkercken, 1619.

    First Latin edition of one of the classic...

    £20000

  12. STOURM, Auguste-African, dit Eugène.

    Opinion sur la question des sucres.

    [Paris, Bourgogne & Martinet, n. d.,...

    First and only edition of this work on...

    £100

  13. TATE, William.

    The modern cambist; forming a manual of...

    London, Effingham Wilson, 1836.

    Third edition, corrected and expanded to...

    £125

  14. TAYLOR, G. Oswald (photographer).

    Promotional photographic brochure celebrating...

    Nottingham, Fine Stocking Manufacturers...

    An unusual coronation souvenir. The details...

    £300

  15. TOOKE, Thomas.

    Thoughts and Details on the high and low...

    London, John Murray, 1823.

    First edition of Tooke's first work, discussing...

    £750

  16. TRAVERS, John.

    A Letter to the Editor of the Courier Newspaper,...

    London, Effingham Wilson, 1834.

    Second, expanded edition of this tract...

    £850

  17. TUCKER, Josiah.

    Betydande frågor om handelen, wid tilfålle...

    [v. Oelreich], 1763.

    First Swedish edition, scarce, of this...

    £200

  18. UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION.

    The Tariff. A Bibliography. A select list...

    Washington, U. S. Government Printing...

    First edition of a prodigiously comprehensive...

    £200