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Browse our collection of rare books, antique books and first editions. Specialising in travel and discovery, including antiquarian books and works by explorers such as Columbus, Cook, Darwin, Drake, Krusenstern, La Perouse, Scott, and Vancouver.

Precipitous prospectus for Lewis and Clark’s monumental work,… a whole seven years before it was finally published

LEWIS, Meriwether; and William CLARK, 1018.

£2,500

A sea of stories

COMMIN, Vincent, probable translator, 1552.

£24,000

One of only two known examples complete with maps

ANANIA, Giovanni Lorenzo d’, 1573.

£35,000

To Abraham Ortelius, “the most brilliant and best of good friends”

BRAUN, G[eorg], 1595.

£30,000

Ortelius writes to his “most brilliant and dearest nephew”

ORTELIUS, Abra[ham], 1595.

£50,000

“all the knowledge and learning related to the East and West Indies” (Hill)

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van, 1598.

£125,000

“the great prose epic of the Elizabethan period” with both the Wright-Molyneux world map and the rare suppressed ‘Voyage to Cadiz’

HAKLUYT, Richard, and WRIGHT, Edward, 1599.

£800,000

Antonio Canovas del Castillo’s copy

ORDONEZ DE CEVALLOS, Pedro, 1614.

£8,500

“The first town plan of anywhere in the present-day United States”

HERRERA [Y TORDESILLAS], A de; [Jacob Le MAIRE; Willem CORNELIS SCHOUTEN; Giovanni Battista BOAZIO]; et al., 1622.

£255,000

An album of engravings from the most famous natural history artists of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, collected and bound for an English patron

WOUTNEEL, Hans; Crispin de PASSE, the elder and younger; and VISSCHER, Claez Jansz, after Jacob and Joris HOEFNAGEL, Assuerus van LONDERSEEL, Nicolaes de BRUYN, and Adrian COLLAERT, 1630.