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. HARLINGUE, L. [Albert].

    'Baktiaris Persans'.

    [Iran, c. 1905-1911].

    An impressive press image of the Bakhtiari...

    £1500

  2. HERSHBERGER, H.R.

    The Horseman: A Work on Horsemanship, containing...

    New York, R. Craighead for Henry G. Langley,...

    First edition of a rare military manual...

    £450

  3. HYGINUS Gromaticus, attributed, and POLYBIUS.

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

    Amsterdam, Jodocus Pluymer, 1660.

    First edition thus, with annotations by...

    £1000

  4. [ISELIN, Isaak].

    Träume eines Menschenfreundes. Erster Theil.

    Basel, Johannes Schweighauser, 1776.

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

    £150

  5. 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

  6. LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward.

    The Mint. A Day-Book of the R.A.F. Depot...

    London: The Alden Press for Jonathan Cape,...

    First British edition, the trade issue....

    £120

  7. LEAKE, Stephen Martin.

    Heraldo Memoriale, or Memoirs of the College...

    The Roxburghe Club, 1981.

    Stephen Martin Leake was Garter principal...

    £100

  8. [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

  9. [MILITARIA.]

    Instruction provisoire arrêtée par le...

    Montauban, Vincent Teulières, 1788.

    A seemingly unrecorded edition of these...

    £750

  10. [MONASTICISM].

    Risposta ad alcuni aggravi fatti ai monaci...

    Milan, Francesco Agnelli, 1742.

    Only edition of this anonymous response...

    £400

  11. [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

  12. NIEL, Adolphe.

    Autograph note signed.

    [No place], 19 March [1851 or 1852].

    A brief note in which the French army general...

    £150

  13. NIGHTINGALE, Florence.

    Notes on Matters affecting the Health,...

    London, Harrison and Sons, 1858.

    First edition, printed for private circulation...

    £18000

  14. [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

  15. [NILE, Battle of the.]

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

    London: Alexander Riley, 1st December 1800.

    This engraving depicts the dramatic escape...

    £600

  16. [ORAN.]

    Diario distinto di tutto il seguito per...

    (Colophon:) Florence, Bernardo Paperini, 1732.

    A daily account in Italian from 20 June...

    £175

  17. 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

  18. PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE.

    Which? Have you a reason or only an excuse...

    London, The Abbey Press, 1915.

    A forthright call to the men of London,...

    £250

  19. [RALEIGH, Henry Patrick].

    Must children die and mothers plead in...

    New York, Sakett & Wilhelms Corp., [1918].

    This poster was produced to for the sale...

    £400

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

    Anecdoten zur Lebensgeschichte berühmter...

    Leipzig, Lankisch, 1762.

    First edition in German of this collection...

    £250