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. BUONACCORSI, Biagio, and Niccolò VALORI. 

    Diario de’ successi piu importanti seguiti...

    Florence, Filippo & Jacopo Giunta, 1568. 

    First edition of an insider account of...

    £1000

  2. ROCCA, Bernardino.

    De’ discorsi di guerra … libri Quattro,...

    Venice, Damiano Zenaro, 1582.

    First edition of Rocca’s military treatise,...

    £450

  3. [CAESAR.]  RAMUS, Petrus (Pierre de la RAMÉE). 

    Liber de militia C. Julii Caesaris, cum...

    Frankfurt, heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1584. 

    An attractively bound copy of Ramus’s...

    £450

  4. HYGINUS Gromaticus, attributed, and POLYBIUS.

    De Castris Romanis, quae extant. Cum notis...

    Amsterdam, Jodocus Pluymer, 1660.

    First edition thus, with annotations by...

    £1000

  5. PALAFOX Y MENDOZA, Juan de. 

    The History of the Conquest of China by...

    London, W. Godbid for M. Pitt, 1671. 

    First edition in English of Palafox's Historia...

    £1750

  6. [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

  7. ANNE, Queen.

    Warrant, signed, authorising John Grubham...

    27 January 1708/9.

    An attractive document, bringing together...

    £1750

  8. [ORAN.]

    Diario distinto di tutto il seguito per...

    (Colophon:) Florence, Bernardo Paperini, 1732.

    A daily account in Italian from 20 June...

    £175

  9. [MONASTICISM].

    Risposta ad alcuni aggravi fatti ai monaci...

    Milan, Francesco Agnelli, 1742.

    Only edition of this anonymous response...

    £400

  10. JEFFERYS, Thomas.

    The theatre of war in the Kingdom of Bohemia,...

    [London], Thomas Jefferys, 6 June 1757.

    This map, issued at the beginning of the...

    £500

  11. [RAYNAL, Guillaume-Thomas, Abbé;] Johann Adam HILLER, translator.

    Anecdoten zur Lebensgeschichte berühmter...

    Leipzig, Lankisch, 1762.

    First edition in German of this collection...

    £250

  12. [ISELIN, Isaak].

    Träume eines Menschenfreundes. Erster Theil.

    Basel, Johannes Schweighauser, 1776.

    Uncommon first edition, part one only (very...

    £150

  13. [TIPU SULTAN.]

    Les Indiens, ou Tippoo-Saïb, fils d’Hyder-Ally,...

    A Londres [i.e. Paris?] et se trouve à...

    The apparently unrecorded first issue of...

    £650

  14. [MILITARIA.]

    Instruction provisoire arrêtée par le...

    Montauban, Vincent Teulières, 1788.

    A seemingly unrecorded edition of these...

    £750

  15. [UNGER, Salomo Gottlob.]

    Geschichte des Oesterreich-Russischen und...

    Leipzig, Wilhelm Gottlob Sommer, 1792.

    First and only edition, extremely rare,...

    £1250

  16. [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

  17. DAVID, [Pierre Drapeyron de].

    A History of the Campaigns of General Pichegru,...

    London, for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1796.

    First edition in English, printed in the...

    £185

  18. [FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WARS.]

    Lo Stato Pontificio agli altri incliti...

    [S.l.,] 1797.

    Anonymous anti-French pamphlet, which saw...

    £450

  19. [NILE, Battle of the.]

    View 1st. of the memorable victory of the...

    London, published by G. Riley, 1799.

    This view of Nelson’s victory at the...

    £750

  20. [NILE, Battle of the.]

    ‘View 3d. of the memorable victory of...

    London: Alexander Riley, 1st December 1800.

    This engraving depicts the dramatic escape...

    £600