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. LEE, Edwin.

    The Principal Baths of Germany [– The...

    London, Whittaker & Cp., Paris, Galignani...

    First edition, scarce, of Edwin Lee’s...

    £350

  2. LELAND, John.

    The Itinerary of John Leland, in or about...

    London, Centaur Press Ltd, 1964.

    The authoritative edition of Leland’s...

    £50

  3. [LE MERCIER DE LA RIVIÈRE, Pierre Paul].

    Die glückliche Nation, oder der Staat...

    Leipzig, Voss, 1794.

    Very rare first German edition of Le Mercier...

    £1250

  4. LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude.

    The Tupí-Cawahíb.

    Washington, United States Government Printing...

    A set of offprints of four articles by...

    £300

  5. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    Filibusters in Barbary (Record of a Visit...

    London, Grayson & Grayson, [1932].

    First edition, scarce in the dust-jacket,...

    £500

  6. LIVINGSTONE, David.

    Explorations dans l’intérieur de l’Afrique...

    Paris: Imprimerie de Ch. Lahure et Cie...

    First appearance in French of Livingstone’s...

    £250

  7. LIVINGSTONE, David. 

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South...

    London, John Murray, 1857. 

    First edition.  ‘Livingstone’s services...

    £500

  8. [LOQUET, Marie-Françoise].

    Voyage de Sophie et d’Eulalie, au Palais...

    Paris, Charles-Pierre Berton, 1781.

    First edition of this rare utopian voyage...

    £1500

  9. [MAISTRE, Xavier de.]

    Voyage autour de ma chambre par M. le Chev....

    Turin, 1794 [Lausanne, Isaac Hignou, 1795].

    First edition, rare, of the celebrated...

    £2800

  10. [MAP.]

    Henan quansheng yutu 河南全省輿圖...

    [China, c. 1835.]

    Extremely rare map of the province of Henan,...

    £1800

  11. [MAP.]

    Karte von Ost-China. Hankau.

    [Berlin,] Kartographische Abtheilung der...

    A map from the Royal Prussian Land Survey’s...

    £550

  12. [MAPS.]

    ‘Carte du Vicariat Apost. de Péking...

    [China], 1896.

    Two handsome maps providing a snapshot...

    £1800

  13. McWILLIAM, James Ormiston.

    Medical History of the Expedition to the...

    London: C. Adlard for John Churchill, 1843.

    First edition. A classic treatise on the...

    £600

  14. MENDES PINTO, Fernão. 

    The Voyages and Adventures of Fernand Mendez...

    London, Printed by J. Macock, for Henry...

    First edition in English, translated by...

    £6500

  15. MENNIE, Donald.

    Glimpses of China. A Series of Vandyck...

    Watson & Co. Ltd, [1920?].

    First edition, scarce, with thirty images...

    £1200

  16. [MISSIONARIES.]

    Shopping list of Christian texts, signed...

    [China, c. 1850.]

    A shopping list of Chinese Christian texts...

    £1500

  17. M’LEOD, John.

    Voyage of His Majesty’s Ship Alceste,...

    London, John Murray, 1818.

    Second edition (first 1817), with five...

    £275

  18. MONETA, José Manuel, and Robert Keith HEADLAND, (ed.).

    Four Antarctic Years in the South Orkney...

    London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2017.

    One man’s fascinating record of four...

    £50

  19. [MONTANUS, Arnoldus.]

    Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie...

    Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1680.

    First edition in French of an important...

    £3500

  20. [MOREAN WAR.]

    Journal of the Venetian Campaigne, A.D. 1687. under...

    London, H.C. for R. Taylor, 1688.

    First edition of an important account of...

    £2500