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.-
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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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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HAKLUYT, Richard.
The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques...
London, George Bishop, Ralph Newberie,...
Second edition, first issue of ‘Hakluyt’s...
£20000
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NIGHTINGALE, Florence.
Notes on Matters affecting the Health,...
London, Harrison and Sons, 1858.
First edition, printed for private circulation...
£18000
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DU HALDE, Jean-Baptiste.
A Description of the Empire of China and...
London, T. Gardner for Edward Cave, 1738...
The first complete English translation...
£15000
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SICARDO, José.
Christiandad del Japon, y dilatada persecucion...
Madrid, Francisco Sanz, 1698.
Rare first edition of this important and...
£12000
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DAMPIER, William, et al.
A Collection of Voyages. In four volumes....
London, for James and John Knapton, 1729.
The first collected edition, ‘considered...
£9500
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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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POCOCKE, Richard.
A Description of the East, and some other...
...
First edition, demy folio issue. A successful...
£8000
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LIST, Friedrich.
Das nationale System der politischen Oekonomie...
Stuttgart, J.G. Cotta, 1841.
First edition, the first work to articulate...
£8000
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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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MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich.
Voyages from Asia to America, for completing...
London, T. Jefferys, 1764.
Second edition (first 1761) of this key...
£6500
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GUIGNES, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de.
Voyages à Peking, Manille et l’Île...
Paris, l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.
First edition, the complete four-volume...
£6500
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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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GALLICO, Paul.
An archive of thirty-four scrapbooks compiled...
1928–1972.
A lovingly and meticulously compiled archive...
£5500
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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
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NIEUHOF, Jan, and Georg HORN (translator).
Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae chamum...
Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1668.
First edition in Latin, beautifully illustrated,...
£5000
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[NAGAKUBO] Sekisui [長久保] 赤水.
地球萬國山海輿地全圖說 [Chikyū...
Tōto [Tokyo] and Naniwa [Osaka], Yahei...
An early hand-coloured impression of this...
£5000
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DENNYS, Nicholas Belfield, editor.
The Treaty Ports of China and Japan. A...
Shortrede and Co., 1867.
First edition, complete with all twenty-nine...
£4750