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. ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.

    Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins...

    Paris, François Huby, 1614.

    Second edition, enlarged and revised...

    £30000

  2. [ABC.]

    Petite géographie amusante abécédaire...

    C. Lehuby, ‘Librairie de l’enfance...

    A charming and very rare ABC intended...

    £3750

  3. ADRICHEM, Christian van; Francesco BALDELLI, translator.

    Gerusalemme e suoi dintorni ai tempi di...

    Genoa, Tipografia arcivescovile, 1882.

    Scarce first edition thus of Baldelli’s...

    £200

  4. ALEXANDER, William, attributed.

    The Costume of the Russian Empire, illustrated...

    London, ‘printed for William Miller...

    A later reprint of a handsome costume...

    £950

  5. ANDERSEN, Hendrik Christian.

    ...

    Paris, 1913.

    First French editions of both parts...

    £2250

  6. [ATLAS.]

    [Cover title:] School Atlas; or,...

    London, Richard Phillips, [1810–11].

    Likely first edition, very rare, of...

    £475

  7. [ATO PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION.]

    Album of 100 gelatin silver prints of Tianjin...

    [Circa 1930s.]

    An attractive example of the commercially...

    £2500

  8. [ATO PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION.]

    Album of 100 gelatin silver prints of Fuzhou...

    [1930s.]

    Includes panoramas of Fuzhou apparently...

    £2500

  9. BALLOU, Adin.

    Practical Christian Socialism: a conversational...

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

    First exposition of Ballou’s most...

    £450

  10. BARCLAY, Arthur Kett.

    ‘Journal of a Tour through Cornwall and...

    18 July–13 October 1826.

    A most interesting diary recording a...

    £3500

  11. BARING-GOULD, Sabine.

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

    London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1863.

    First edition of this account of a visit...

    £350

  12. BARRINGTON, George.

    A Voyage to Botany Bay with a Description...

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

    First and only combined edition,...

    £875

  13. [BARSANTI, Pier Vincenzo.]

    Della futura rinnovazione de’ cieli e...

    [Florence,] Stamperia Bonducciana, 1780.

    First edition of this polemical utopia...

    £675

  14. BEAUMONT, Joseph.

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

    London, Printed by John Dawson for George...

    First edition of this lengthy religious...

    £1250

  15. [BEIJING.]

    Album of Beijing and environs.

    [1920s.]

    A meticulously presented and captioned...

    £1500

  16. [BEIJING.]

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

    [c. 1900–1920.]

    A very good example of a commercial...

    £1750

  17. [BEIJING.]

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

    [C. 1900–1910.]

    A very unusual commercial album of Beijing,...

    £2000

  18. BELL, Walter Dalrymple Maitland.

    The wanderings of an elephant hunter.

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

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

    £275

  19. BONNARD, Camille Marie.

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

    Paris, Camille Bonnard, 1829.

    Rare first and only edition of this...

    £1500

  20. BOSWELL, James.

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

    London, Printed by Henry Baldwin, for...

    First edition. The text of the Journal...

    £375