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. 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

  2. HOOPER, William.

    ‘Liverpool Independence Cricket Club....

    [Liverpool, 3 April to 2 October 1880.]

    A pocketbook record of matches for the...

    £250

  3. [JOCKEY CLUB.] HERVEY, John.

    Racing in America, 1922-1936, written for...

    New York, Scribner Press for the Jockey...

    First edition of the first volume to be...

    £350

  4. [JOCKEY CLUB.] HERVEY, John.

    Racing in America, 1665-1865 … written...

    New York, Scribner Press for the Jockey...

    First edition, limited, numbered 323 of...

    £720

  5. [JOCKEY CLUB.] KELLEY, Robert F.

    Racing in America, 1937-1959, written for...

    New York, North River Press for the Jockey...

    First edition, limited, numbered 474 of...

    £180

  6. [LABOURS OF THE MONTHS &c.] 

    Januarius.  Februarius.  Merz.  April … 

    Nuremberg, Joh. Andreae Endterische Handlung,...

    A scarce popular print depicting the labours...

    £475

  7. LAING, John.

    An account of a voyage to Spitzbergen;...

    [Balfour for], London, J. Mawman and David...

    First edition of Laing’s account of his...

    £850

  8. LATHAM, Simon.

    Latham’s Falconry: or, the Faulcons Lure,...

    London, Printed by Thomas Harper, for...

    First collected edition (third edition...

    £8500

  9. LAWRENCE, Richard.

    The complete Farrier and British Sportsman,...

    London, W. Clowes for Thomas Kelly, [c. 1816].

    Likely first edition, dedicated ‘to the...

    £250

  10. LAWRENCE, Richard.

    The complete Farrier and British Sportsman,...

    London, W. Clowes for Thomas Kelly, [c. 1823].

    A sporting compendium, dedicated ‘to...

    £180

  11. LEE, Henry.

    [Cover title:] The White Whale …

    London, R. K. Burt & Co. … 1878.

    First edition, an account of the white...

    £225

  12. MADDEN, Dodgson Hamilton.

    The Diary of Master William Silence: A...

    London, New York, & Bombay, Longmans,...

    First edition of Madden’s reimagination...

    £120

  13. MARKHAM, ‘J.’ [Gervase], G. JEFFERIES, ‘and Experienced INDIANS’, [and C.D. LESHER (editor)].

    The Citizen and Countryman’s experienced...

    Chambersburg, Thomas J. Wright, [c. 1839].

    Undated Chambersburg edition. Among the...

    £250

  14. MERCURIALE, Girolamo. 

    De arte gymnastica libri sex, in quibus...

    Venice, [Lucantonio II] Giunta, 1587. 

    Third edition of ‘the first illustrated...

    £2750

  15. [NAPOLEONIC ITALY.] 

    Alla società delle gentilissime signore...

    Turin, Giacomo Fea, 1799.

    An unrecorded sonnet addressed to the to...

    £375

  16. OSBALDISTON, William Augustus.

    The British Sportsman, or Nobleman, Gentleman,...

    London, J. Stead for the Proprietor, and...

    First edition, issued in forty-two parts,...

    £650

  17. RAIMONDI, Eugenio.

    Delle caccie … libri Quattro, aggiuntovi’n...

    [Naples, Lazzaro Scoriggio, 1626.]

    Second edition, expanded and extended,...

    £1850

  18. [SANDOW, Eugen, pseud. (i.e. Friedrich Müller).]

    Manuscript manual of exercises for use...

    [France, c. 1920].

    A seemingly unpublished French manuscript...

    £850

  19. [SPANISH FISHING.]

    Artes, aparejos e instrumentos de pesca...

    [Madrid, Artes Gráficas ‘Mateu’?, 1920?]

    First and only edition, very rare, a striking...

    £2000

  20. 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