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.-
[STANHOPE, Hester Lucy, Lady.] [MERYON, Charles Lewis, editor.]
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by...
London, [Frederick Shoberl for] Henry Colburn … 1845.
First edition, the entertaining memoirs of the Middle East traveller Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839). Having looked after her uncle, William Pitt, during most of her youth and run his household while he was Prime Minister for the second time, Stanhope left for the Levant in 1810. She took with her...
£650
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STAVORINUS, Johan Splinter, and Samuel Hull WILCOCKE, translator.
Voyages to the East-Indies … Translated from...
London, for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798.
First edition in English of a first-hand account of two VOC voyages by Stavorinus (1739–1788): the first, 1768–71, to Batavia, Bantam and Bengal; the second, 1774–78, to Samarang, Macassar, Amboyna, Surat, and the Malabar Coast, corrected thanks to the translator’s connection to the author’s...
£850
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STEIN, Aurel.
Report of archaeological Survey Work in the North-West Frontier Province and Baluchistan for the Period from January...
Peshawar, Government Press, 1905.
Scarce first edition of this significant report from Stein’s period as Inspector-General of Education and Archaeological Surveyor of the North-West Frontier Province and Baluchistan, to which combined post he had been appointed in July 1903.
£6000
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STEIN, Aurel.
Sand-buried Ruins of Khotan. Personal Narrative of a Journey of archaeological and geographical exploration in Chinese...
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1904.
‘Cheaper edition’ (published a year after the first) of Stein’s account of his first expedition to Central Asia in 1900–1901.
£500
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SULIVAN, Richard Joseph.
Philosophical Rhapsodies. Fragments of Akbur of Betlis. Containing Reflections on the Laws, Manners, Customs...
London, printed for T. Becket … Bookseller to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and their Royal Highnesses the Princes, 1784–5.
First edition of this eccentric travel-inspired treatise drawing upon the author’s experience in India and his travels in Europe.
£750
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[TANGIER.]
A Description of Tangier, the Country and People adjoyning. With an account of the person and government of Gayland,...
London, for Samuel Speed, 1664.
Scarce first edition of this entertaining account of Tangier, in north-western Morocco, during the English occupation of the city, which had begun in 1661 following Charles II’s marriage to Catherine of Braganza, and which would come to an end in 1684.
£2750
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TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.
Travels of a consular Officer in North-West China . . . With original Maps of Shensi and Kansu and...
Cambridge, University Press, 1921.
First edition. ‘The following chapters give some account of a series of journeys through the North-Western Provinces of China, undertaken in connection with the Anglo-Chinese Opium Treaty and other matters requiring investigation on the spot in conjunction with Chinese officials … Shensi and Kansu...
£250
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TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.
Travels of a consular Officer in eastern Tibet. Together with a History of the Relations between China,...
Cambridge, University Press, 1922.
First edition, by the diplomat and orientalist Sir Eric Teichman (1884–1944), ‘one of British diplomacy’s dashing characters, [a] flamboyantly enigmatic explorer-cum-special agent’ (Winchester, The Man who loved China, 2008, p. 73).
£250
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THICKNESSE, Philip.
A Year’s Journey through the Paix Bâs and Austrian Netherlands … Vol. I [all published].
London, 1784.
First edition, rare, and possibly suppressed, of a typically idiosyncratic account of a ‘quarrel-ridden tour’ of the Netherlands and Belgium by ‘the most irascible individual within the arena of late eighteenth-century print culture’ (ODNB), with a graphic depiction of the 1762 execution...
£1850
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THOMSON, John.
Illustrations of China and its People. A Series of two Hundred Photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the...
London, Sampson Low &c, 1873–1874.
A good copy of this rare work (vol. I marked second edition, the rest first editions), showing superb images of Imperial China including rare portraits of high government officials as well as a large number of architectural and scenic views; this item ranks amongst the most spectacular photographically...
£32500
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TRAVERS, John.
A Letter to the Editor of the Courier Newspaper, in Reply to an Article inserted in that Journal of the 22d August,...
London, Effingham Wilson, 1834.
Second, expanded edition of this tract on reforming the duties on tea imported from China to Britain, this copy presented to the Sinologist Sir George T. Staunton, member of the Select Committee on Tea Duties and author of the letter appended here, likely with his annotations and corrections; bound...
£850
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‘WALINCOURT, Vicomte de’ [i.e. FONTAINE DE RESBECQ, Eugène de].
Voyage à Botany-Bay … suivi d’autres épisodes.
Limoges, Martial Ardant brothers [Louis and Eugène Ardant], [1865?].
First edition, very rare, of this light-hearted tale of a journey to Australia, in an attractive cartonnage binding.
£475
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[WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY.]
Javanese bride and bridegroom with members of the wedding party, likely royalty.
Indonesia, late 1860s.
A portrait of a ‘wedding couple’ in the Javanese city of Bantam, dressed in elaborate wedding outfits.
£750
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WINES, Enoch Cobb.
A Peep at China, in Mr. Dunn’s Chinese Collection; with miscellaneous Notices relating to the Institutions...
Philadelphia, for Nathan Dunn, 1839.
Scarce first edition of a guide to the remarkable collection of Chinese artefacts accumulated by the American businessman Nathan Dunn (1782–1844).
£1250
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WORDSWORTH, Christopher.
Greece: pictorial, descriptive, and historical … With upwards of three hundred and fifty Engravings...
London, William S. Orr and Co., 1840.
First edition, one of the rare copies in quarto format with the plates and in-text woodcuts on India paper.
£2000
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[WUHAN.]
武汉影集 [Wuhan yingji; ‘Wuhan Album’].
Wuhan, 国营长虹摄影图片社 [State Changhong Photographic Agency], [1950s].
Exceptionally rare promotional photobook depicting views of Wuhan with a striking cover and twelve gelatin silver prints tipped in.
£150
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WYLD, James.
Map of the islands of Japan, Kurile &c. and part of the Chinese dominions and a sketch of the river Amoor and the...
London, James Wyld, 1859–1860.
Rare four-sheet map of Japan, the Russian Far East, Mongolia and Southern Siberia, Korea, and China’s central coast, by James Wyld the younger (1812–1887), published just a few years after the end of Japan’s long isolationist period.
£2750
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山下 富吉 YAMASHITA Takayoshi.
青島寫真帖 Souvenir Tsingtao.
Tsingtao, Showa 16, [1941].
A Japanese souvenir of Tsingtao (Qingdao) published during the second period of Japanese occupation of the city.
£300
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YAMAZAKI Kane’ichirō 山崎 鋆一郎.
满洲の展望 [Manshū no tenbō, i.e. Views of Manchuria].
Dalian, Kane’ichirō Yamazaki for Kinjirō Hamai, 10 May Shōwa 7 [1932].
A highly illustrated photobook on Manchuria published soon after the Japanese invasion.
£650