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. CROMPTON, Henrietta Matilda.

    Sketchbook of a tour through southern Germany...

    July, 1836.

    An extremely attractive plein-air...

    £8750

  2. DAMPIER, William, et al.

    A Collection of Voyages. In four volumes....

    London, for James and John Knapton, 1729.

    The first collected edition, ‘considered...

    £9500

  3. DENNYS, Nicholas Belfield, editor.

    The Treaty Ports of China and Japan. A...

    Shortrede and Co., 1867.

    First edition, complete with all twenty-nine...

    £4750

  4. DEVILLE, Albéric.

    Voyage aux grottes d’Arcy, suivi de poésies...

    Paris, Munier for Gérard, an XI (1802-3).

    Scarce first edition, presented by the...

    £250

  5. DONALDSON, Florence.

    Lepcha Land or six Weeks in the Sikhim...

    London, Sampson Low Marston & Company, 1900.

    First edition of Florence Donaldson’s...

    £400

  6. 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

  7. DUNMORE, Charles Adolphus Murray, Earl of.

    The Pamirs; being a Narrative of a Year’s...

    London, John Murray, ‘1893’ [1894]. 

    Second edition (first 1893) recounting...

    £275

  8. FINÉ, Oronce.

    Opere di Orontio Fineo … divise in cinque...

    Venice, Francesco Franceschi, 1587.

    First edition in Italian of the works of...

    £2750

  9. FLEMING, Peter.

    Brazilian Adventure.

    London: Queen Anne Press, 2010.

    First edition thus, no. 120 of 150 copies....

    £125

  10. FLEMING, Peter.

    News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking...

    London: Queen Anne Press, 2010.

    First edition thus, no. 120 of 150 copies....

    £125

  11. FLINDERS, Matthew.

    Narrative of his Voyage in the Schooner...

    [London,] The Golden Cockerel Press, 1946.

    No. 327 of 750 copies, of which the first...

    £650

  12. ‘FLORENT DE SALES’, pseud.

    Vrai systême du monde physique et moral. 

    [Switzerland,] 1797.

    Only edition, rare, of this utopia, the...

    £1500

  13. FORD, Richard (and Ian ROBERTSON, editor).

    A hand-book for travellers in Spain, and...

    [Arundel and London,] Centaur Press, [1966].

    Richard Ford’s classic Hand-book for...

    £120

  14. GARCIA, Gregorio.

    Origen de los Indios de el nuevo mundo,...

    Madrid, Francisco Martinez Abad, 1729.

    Second enlarged edition (first 1607) of...

    £1200

  15. GUIGNES, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de.

    Voyages à Peking, Manille et l’Île...

    Paris, l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.

    First edition, the complete four-volume...

    £6500

  16. HAKLUYT, Richard.

    The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques...

    London, George Bishop, Ralph Newberie,...

    Second edition, first issue of ‘Hakluyt’s...

    £20000

  17. HAKLUYT, Richard.

    The Principall Navigations, Voiages and...

    London, ‘George Bishop and Ralph Newberie,...

    First edition, a fine copy, with the world...

    £350000

  18. HANWAY, Jonas.

    An historical Account of the British Trade...

    London, Dodsley, Nourse, Millar, Vaillant,...

    First edition of Hanway’s narrative of...

    £1400

  19. HARDY, Campbell.

    Sporting Adventures in the New World; or,...

    London, Hurst and Blackett, 1855.

    First edition of this most interesting...

    £575

  20. HAREL, Charles.

    Ménage sociétaire ou Moyen d’augmenter...

    Paris, Bureau de la Phalange, à la librairie...

    First edition of this work by the entrepreneur...

    £975