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. [CHINA.]

    Peking.

    Peking, S[anshichiro] Yamamoto, May 1909.

    Second enlarged edition, with ten further...

    £2800

  2. [CHINA.]

    Notes of a Journey from Canton to Wu-chow-fu.

    S.l., [c. 1862].

    Extremely rare account of an early journey...

    £450

  3. [CHOISY, François Timoléon, Abbé de.]

    Journal ou suite de voyage de Siam. En...

    Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1687.

    Amsterdam edition, issued the same year...

    £300

  4. CHOPPIN, Henri.

    La cavalerie française … illustrée...

    Paris, Garnier brothers, 1893.

    First edition of a well illustrated history...

    £175

  5. CLEMENT VII.

    Tröstliche vermanung Bapst Clements des...

    [Augsburg, Alexander Weissenhorn,] 1532.

    First and only edition of this German translation...

    £1500

  6. [CLIFFORD, Jeronimy].

    The case of Jeronimy Clifford, merchant...

    [London, n.p., 1711].

    First extended account of Clifford’s...

    £650

  7. CLÜVER, Philipp.

    Introductio in universam geographiam tam...

    Wolfenbüttel, Caspar Johann Bismarck...

    The 1686 edition of perhaps the most important...

    £1750

  8. [COAL].

    The miner’s journal. Coal statistical...

    Pottsville, PA, Miners’ Journal Office, 1869.

    First edition, rare. A synopsis of the...

    £125

  9. [COLOGNE.]

    Hôtel de Belle Vue à Deutz vis-à-vis...

    [Cologne, c. 1880.]

    An ambitious lithographic advertisement...

    £250

  10. [COLOGNE and KOBLENZ.]

    Three hotel advertising cards with lithographic...

    [Cologne and Koblenz, c. 1870.]

    An attractive group of advertising cards...

    £100

  11. [COLUMBUS.] QUARITCH, Bernard, and Michael KERNEY.

    The Spanish Letter of Columbus … A facsimile...

    [London,] Quaritch, 2006.

    Over the centuries, booksellers have contributed...

    £60

  12. [COOK, James, and Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de la PÉROUSE.]

    Tableau des decouvertes du Capne. Cook,...

    S. Sauveur, l’an 7 de la République...

    A splendid hand-coloured engraving depicting...

    £1500

  13. COPPERTHWAITE, R.H.

    The Turf and the Racehorse, describing...

    London, Day & Son, 1865.

    First edition of a scarce account of mid-nineteenth-century...

    £160

  14. [CRIMEAN WAR.]

    Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....

    Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].

    First and only edition, rare, of this unusual...

    £375

  15. CROMPTON, Henrietta Matilda.

    Sketchbook of a tour through southern Germany...

    July, 1836.

    An extremely attractive plein-air...

    £8750

  16. [CULANT-CIRÉ, René Alexandre, Marquis de.]

    Recueil de fables, contes, epigrammes &...

    ‘The Hague’ [Paris?], 1767.

    First collected edition, very rare, of...

    £650

  17. DAMPIER, William, et al.

    A Collection of Voyages. In four volumes....

    London, for James and John Knapton, 1729.

    The first collected edition, ‘considered...

    £9500

  18. [DANCE.]

    Quadrille Figures, as danced at the Quadrille...

    [St Helier], Ph. Mourant, [1821?].

    Unrecorded pocket dance callbook printed...

    £2500

  19. [DARIEN EXPEDITION].

    A perfect list of the several persons residenters...

    Glasgow, reprinted by Hutchinson & Brookman,...

    First edition of this reprint of the list,...

    £50

  20. [DARTON, William.]

    Little Jack of all Trades, with suitable...

    London, printed and sold by Darton and...

    Extremely rare early editions of this popular...

    £750