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. STAVORINUS, Johan Splinter, and Samuel Hull WILCOCKE, translator.

    Voyages to the East-Indies … Translated...

    London, for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798.

    First edition in English of a first-hand...

    £850

  2. STEIN, Aurel.

    Sand-buried Ruins of Khotan. Personal Narrative...

    London, Hurst and Blackett, 1904.

    ‘Cheaper edition’ (published a year...

    £500

  3. STEPHANUS of Byzantium; HANNO; Abraham Van BERKEL, editor and translator.

    Genuina Stephani Byzantini de urbibus et...

    Leiden, Daniel van Gaasbeeck, 1674.

    First edition thus, a volume of short and...

    £450

  4. STOURM, Auguste-African, dit Eugène.

    Opinion sur la question des sucres.

    [Paris, Bourgogne & Martinet, n. d.,...

    First and only edition of this work on...

    £100

  5. SULIVAN, Richard Joseph.

    Philosophical Rhapsodies. Fragments of...

    London, printed for T. Becket … Bookseller...

    First edition of this eccentric travel-inspired...

    £750

  6. SURTEES, Robert Smith.

    The Horseman’s Manual, being a Treatise...

    London, M.A. Pittman for Alfred Miller, 1831.

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

    £1250

  7. [SURTEES, Robert Smith,] and John LEECH (illustrator).

    Handley Cross series.

    London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1899-1900.

    Limited ‘Master of Foxhounds’ edition,...

    £1200

  8. [TANGIER.] 

    A Description of Tangier, the Country and...

    London, for Samuel Speed, 1664. 

    Scarce first edition of this entertaining...

    £2750

  9. TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.

    Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli...

    First edition, annotated throughout by...

    £6750

  10. TATE, William.

    The modern cambist; forming a manual of...

    London, Effingham Wilson, 1836.

    Third edition, corrected and expanded to...

    £125

  11. TAYLOR, G. Oswald (photographer).

    Promotional photographic brochure celebrating...

    Nottingham, Fine Stocking Manufacturers...

    An unusual coronation souvenir. The details...

    £300

  12. [TEA AND COFFEE.]

    Tea & Coffee Directory of India and the World.

    Baroda (Vadodara), Shri Laxmi Printing...

    An apparently unrecorded Gujarat-printed...

    £750

  13. TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.

    Travels of a consular Officer in North-West...

    Cambridge, University Press, 1921.

    First edition. ‘The following chapters...

    £250

  14. TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.

    Travels of a consular Officer in eastern...

    Cambridge, University Press, 1922.

    First edition, by the diplomat and orientalist...

    £250

  15. THICKNESSE, Philip.

    A Year’s Journey through the Paix Bâs...

    London, 1784.

    First edition, rare, and possibly suppressed,...

    £1850

  16. THOMSON, John.

    Illustrations of China and its People....

    London, Sampson Low &c, 1873–1874.

    A good copy of this rare work (vol. I...

    £32500

  17. [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

  18. TOOKE, Thomas.

    Thoughts and Details on the high and low...

    London, John Murray, 1823.

    First edition of Tooke's first work, discussing...

    £750

  19. TUCKER, Josiah.

    Betydande frågor om handelen, wid tilfålle...

    [v. Oelreich], 1763.

    First Swedish edition, scarce, of this...

    £200

  20. [UNGER, Salomo Gottlob.]

    Geschichte des Oesterreich-Russischen und...

    Leipzig, Wilhelm Gottlob Sommer, 1792.

    First and only edition, extremely rare,...

    £1250