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. NIEUHOF, Jan, and Georg HORN (translator). 

    Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae chamum...

    Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1668. 

    First edition in Latin, beautifully illustrated,...

    £5000

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

    L’ambassade de la compagnie orientale...

    Leiden, Jacob de Meurs, 1665. 

    Lavishly illustrated first French edition...

    £3500

  3. NIGHTINGALE, Florence.

    Notes on Matters affecting the Health,...

    London, Harrison and Sons, 1858.

    First edition, printed for private circulation...

    £18000

  4. [NILE, Battle of the.]

    View 1st. of the memorable victory of the...

    London, published by G. Riley, 1799.

    This view of Nelson’s victory at the...

    £750

  5. [NILE, Battle of the.]

    ‘View 3d. of the memorable victory of...

    London: Alexander Riley, 1st December 1800.

    This engraving depicts the dramatic escape...

    £600

  6. [NOVA SCOTIA.]

    A Fair Representation of His Majesty’s...

    London: Printed by Edward Owen … 1756.

    First edition. ‘Résumé très bien fait...

    £750

  7. [ORAN.]

    Diario distinto di tutto il seguito per...

    (Colophon:) Florence, Bernardo Paperini, 1732.

    A daily account in Italian from 20 June...

    £175

  8. OSBALDISTON, William Augustus.

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

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

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

    £650

  9. [OSBORNE, Francis.]

    Historical memoires on the reigns of Queen...

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

    First edition of Osborne’s history of...

    £475

  10. OWEN, Robert.

    Robert Owen’s Journal. Explanatory of...

    London, James Watson, 1850-1.

    The first 23 issues of Robert Owen’s...

    £350

  11. PACIFICUS, Sacerdos.

    Two letters signed regarding religious...

    [?Hong Kong, 1846.]

    Two interesting letters referring to paintings...

    £1100

  12. 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

  13. PALAFOX Y MENDOZA, Juan de. 

    The History of the Conquest of China by...

    London, W. Godbid for M. Pitt, 1671. 

    First edition in English of Palafox's Historia...

    £1750

  14. [PALIN, Nils Gustaf.]

    De l’étude des hiéroglyphes. Fragmens....

    Paris, Fain for Delaunay, Colnet, Treuttel,...

    First edition of this curious work on Egyptian...

    £2500

  15. PALMER, Robert Stafford Arthur, the Hon.

    A Little Tour in India.

    London: Unwin Brothers, Limited, The Gresham...

    First edition. Palmer was the son of the...

    £50

  16. [PAPER TRADE.] 

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

    [Besançon?, 1772?] 

    A seemingly unrecorded issue of this decree...

    £175

  17. PARK, Mungo.

    The journal of a mission to the interior...

    London, John Murray, 1815.

    Second edition, revised and expanded. Park...

    £400

  18. [PASCOLI, Livio.] ‘Vilio LOCASPI’.

    Del modo di mantenere abolita la mendicità,...

    Verona, Mainardi, 1817.

    Only edition, very rare, of this proposal...

    £285

  19. [PATERSON, William].

    Proposals and reasons for constituting...

    Edinburgh, [n. p.], 1701.

    First edition of a plan for the setting...

    £1200

  20. 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