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. [ATO PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION.]

    Album of 100 gelatin silver prints of Fuzhou...

    [1930s.]

    Includes panoramas of Fuzhou apparently...

    £2500

  2. BALLOU, Adin.

    Practical Christian Socialism: a conversational...

    Hopedale and New York, by the author and...

    First exposition of Ballou’s most important...

    £450

  3. BARCLAY, Alexander.

    Part-printed commission as Comptroller...

    5 August, 1749.

    After a dissolute youth and a period in...

    £850

  4. BARING-GOULD, Sabine.

    Iceland: its Scenes and Sagas ... With...

    London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1863.

    First edition of this account of a visit...

    £350

  5. BARRINGTON, George.

    A Voyage to Botany Bay with a Description...

    London, C. Lowndes for H.D. Symonds, [c....

    First and only combined edition, second...

    £875

  6. [BARSANTI, Pier Vincenzo.]

    Della futura rinnovazione de’ cieli e...

    [Florence,] Stamperia Bonducciana, 1780.

    First edition of this polemical utopia...

    £675

  7. BEAUMONT, Joseph.

    Psyche: or Loves Mysterie in XX. Canto’s:...

    London, Printed by John Dawson for George...

    First edition of this lengthy religious...

    £1250

  8. [BEIJING.]

    Album of Beijing and environs.

    [1920s.]

    A meticulously presented and captioned...

    £1500

  9. [BEIJING.]

    [Cover title:] ‘The most interesting...

    [c. 1900–1920.]

    A very good example of a commercial souvenir...

    £1750

  10. [BEIJING.]

    [Cover title:] ‘The most interesting...

    [C. 1900–1910.]

    A very unusual commercial album of Beijing,...

    £2000

  11. BELL, Walter Dalrymple Maitland.

    The wanderings of an elephant hunter.

    London, The Offices of “Country Life”...

    First edition of Bell’s first work, describing...

    £275

  12. BENTHAM, Jeremy.

    Plan of Parliamentary Reform, in the Form...

    London: Printed in the Year 1817. Re-printed...

    First edition thus of an inexpensive reprint...

    £225

  13. BERENGER, Charles Random de.

    Helps and Hints how to protect Life and...

    London, J. & C. Adlard for T. Hurst ‘for...

    First edition, with advice on riding and...

    £180

  14. BERGERET, [Guillaume].

    Advertisement of M. Bergeret, Bookseller.

    [Bordeaux, c. 1787.]

    A very rare advertisement card of a provincial...

    £75

  15. BERKELEY, Grantley F., and John LEECH and G.H. JALLAND (illustrators).

    Reminiscences of a Huntsman … a new Edition...

    London and New York, R. & R. Clark for...

    Second edition, with John Leech’s original...

    £120

  16. BLAINE, Delabere Pritchett.

    An Encyclopaedia of rural Sports, or, complete...

    London, Spottiswoodes and Shaw for Longman,...

    Second edition of Blaine’s comprehensive...

    £275

  17. BLANFORD, William Thomas.

    Observations on the Geology and Zoology...

    London, Macmillan and Co., 1870.

    First edition of the geologist and naturalist...

    £300

  18. BONNARD, Camille Marie.

    Le pélerin, ou souvenirs de Rome. Tome...

    Paris, Camille Bonnard, 1829.

    Rare first and only edition of this handsomely...

    £1500

  19. BOSWELL, James.

    The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides,...

    London, Printed by Henry Baldwin, for...

    First edition. The text of the Journal...

    £375

  20. [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