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.-
[BOUCHET, Jean.]
Les triu[m]phes de la noble et amoureuse...
Paris, Estienne Caveiller for Pierre Sergent,...
Unrecorded issue of Jean Bouchet’s contemplative...
£4500
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TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.
Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli...
First edition, annotated throughout by...
£6750
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BUONACCORSI, Biagio, and Niccolò VALORI.
Diario de’ successi piu importanti seguiti...
Florence, Filippo & Jacopo Giunta, 1568.
First edition of an insider account of...
£1000
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[SEVILLE.]
Mercantile contract between Sebastián...
Seville, 25 July 1576.
A commercial document from the heyday of...
£1200
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ROCCA, Bernardino.
De’ discorsi di guerra … libri Quattro,...
Venice, Damiano Zenaro, 1582.
First edition of Rocca’s military treatise,...
£450
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[CAESAR.] RAMUS, Petrus (Pierre de la RAMÉE).
Liber de militia C. Julii Caesaris, cum...
Frankfurt, heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1584.
An attractively bound copy of Ramus’s...
£450
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FINÉ, Oronce.
Opere di Orontio Fineo … divise in cinque...
Venice, Francesco Franceschi, 1587.
First Italian edition of the works of Finé. ...
£2750
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GONZÁLES DE MENDOZA, Juan, and Robert PARKE, translator.
The Historie of the great and mightie Kingdome...
London, Printed by J. Wolfe for Edward...
First edition in English, rare, of the...
£50000
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HAKLUYT, Richard.
The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques...
London, George Bishop, Ralph Newberie,...
Second edition, first issue of ‘Hakluyt’s...
£20000
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BREREWOOD, Edward.
Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages,...
London, Printed [by Eliot’s Court Press]...
First edition. Brerewood, professor of...
£3000
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ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.
Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins...
Paris, François Huby, 1614.
Second edition, enlarged and revised from...
£30000
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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
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RAIMONDI, Eugenio.
Delle caccie … libri Quattro, aggiuntovi’n...
[Naples, Lazzaro Scoriggio, 1626.]
Second edition, expanded and extended,...
£2500
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LAET, Joannes de, editor.
De imperio Magni Mogolis sive India vera...
Leiden, ‘ex officina Elzeviriana’, 1631.
Pocket-sized Elzevir edition (one of two...
£950
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LATHAM, Simon.
Latham’s Falconry: or, the Faulcons Lure,...
London, Printed by Thomas Harper, for...
First collected edition (third edition...
£8500
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PERUCCI, Francesco.
Pompe funebri di tutte le nationi del mondo,...
Verona, Francesco Rossi, 1639.
First edition of Perucci’s account of...
£975
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BEAUMONT, Joseph.
Psyche: or Loves Mysterie in XX. Canto’s:...
London, Printed by John Dawson for George...
First edition of this lengthy religious...
£1250
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MENDES PINTO, Fernão.
The Voyages and Adventures of Fernand Mendez...
London, Printed by J. Macock, for Henry...
First edition in English, translated by...
£6500
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[OSBORNE, Francis.]
Historical memoires on the reigns of Queen...
London: Printed by T. Grismond, and are...
First edition of Osborne’s history of...
£475
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HYGINUS Gromaticus, attributed, and POLYBIUS.
De Castris Romanis, quae extant. Cum notis...
Amsterdam, Jodocus Pluymer, 1660.
First edition thus, with annotations by...
£1000