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. SICARDO, José.

    Christiandad del Japon, y dilatada persecucion...

    Madrid, Francisco Sanz, 1698.

    Rare first edition of this important and...

    £12000

  2. [SINO-JAPANESE WAR, 1894–95.]

    Terrible war of General Sakamoto, leader...

    Tokyo, Sekiguchi Masajiro, 1894.

    A portrait of General Sakamoto at the battle...

    £350

  3. [SINO-JAPANESE WAR, 1894–5.]

    Punitive forces attacking Pyöngyang.

    Tokyo, Tsujiokaya Bunsuke, Meiji 27 [1894].

    First edition. The battle of Pyöngyang,...

    £850

  4. [SKETCHBOOK.]

    Album of pencil sketches.

    ...

    A charming turn-of-the-century album of...

    £300

  5. SMITH, Albert Richard.

    The Story of Mont Blanc …

    London, David Bogue, 1853.

    First edition of Smith’s famous book...

    £1275

  6. SMITH, Albert Richard.

    The new Game of the Ascent of Mont Blanc.

    London, printed by Hall, 43, South Molton...

    Rare first edition of this attractive board...

    £3750

  7. SMITH, Arthur Henderson.

    Chinese characteristics …

    Shanghai, printed and published at the...

    First edition of this important and influential...

    £550

  8. [SPANISH FISHING.]

    Artes, aparejos e instrumentos de pesca...

    [Madrid, Artes Gráficas ‘Mateu’?, 1920?]

    First and only edition, very rare, a striking...

    £2000

  9. 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

  10. SPON, Jacob.

    Voyage d’Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece,...

    Lyons, Antoine Cellier, 1678.

    Very rare first edition of ‘one of the...

    £4750

  11. SPURR, George Graham.

    The Land of Gold. A Tale of ’49. Illustrative...

    Boston, A. Williams & Company, 1881.

    First edition. ‘This narrative ... is...

    £100

  12. [STANHOPE, Hester Lucy, Lady.] [MERYON, Charles Lewis, editor.]

    Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as...

    London, [Frederick Shoberl for] Henry...

    First edition, the entertaining memoirs...

    £650

  13. STAVORINUS, Johan Splinter, and Samuel Hull WILCOCKE, translator.

    Voyages to the East-Indies … Translated...

    London, for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798.

    First edition in English of a first-hand...

    £850

  14. 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

  15. SULIVAN, Richard Joseph.

    Philosophical Rhapsodies. Fragments of...

    London, printed for T. Becket … Bookseller...

    First edition of this eccentric travel-inspired...

    £750

  16. SURTEES, Robert Smith.

    The Horseman’s Manual, being a Treatise...

    London, M.A. Pittman for Alfred Miller, 1831.

    First edition of Surtees’s first work,...

    £1250

  17. [SURTEES, Robert Smith,] and John LEECH (illustrator).

    Handley Cross series.

    London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1899-1900.

    Limited ‘Master of Foxhounds’ edition,...

    £1200

  18. [TANGIER.] 

    A Description of Tangier, the Country and...

    London, for Samuel Speed, 1664. 

    Scarce first edition of this entertaining...

    £2750

  19. TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.

    Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli...

    First edition, annotated throughout by...

    £6750

  20. TATE, William.

    The modern cambist; forming a manual of...

    London, Effingham Wilson, 1836.

    Third edition, corrected and expanded to...

    £125