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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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HAKLUYT, Richard.
The Principall Navigations, Voiages and...
London, ‘George Bishop and Ralph Newberie,...
First edition, a fine copy, with the world...
£350000
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THOMSON, John.
Illustrations of China and its People....
London, Sampson Low &c, 1873–1874.
A good copy of this rare work (vol. I...
£32500
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[BARCLAY FAMILY.]
Album of letters, maps, accounts, and reports...
Mostly Philadelphia and London, 1794–1854.
A large and coherent archive relating to...
£32500
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MORE, Thomas, Sir.
De optimo reip. statu deque nova insula...
Basel, [(colophons:) Johann Froben, March...
Third edition of More’s Utopia,...
£27500
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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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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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CROMPTON, Henrietta Matilda.
Sketchbook of a tour through southern Germany...
July, 1836.
An extremely attractive plein-air...
£8750
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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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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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STEIN, Aurel.
Report of archaeological Survey Work in...
Peshawar, Government Press, 1905.
Scarce first edition of this significant...
£6000
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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
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SPON, Jacob.
Voyage d’Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece,...
Lyons, Antoine Cellier, 1678.
Very rare first edition of ‘one of the...
£4750
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NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.
Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...
Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...
Scarce first edition, one of the most important...
£4750