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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.

Rare complete set of “the most valuable 18th-century source on Jesuit activities in frontier regions throughout the world” (Hill, Collection Of Pacific Voyages).

£15,000

A sea of stories

COMMIN, Vincent, probable translator, 1552.

£24,000

The rare works of Cieza de Leon and Gomara bound in one volume

CIEZA DE LEON, Pedro, and LOPEZ DE GOMARA, Francisco, 1560.

£20,000

One of only two known examples complete with maps

ANANIA, Giovanni Lorenzo d’, 1573.

£35,000

Ortelius writes to his “most brilliant and dearest nephew”

ORTELIUS, Abra[ham], 1595.

£50,000

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

BRAUN, G[eorg], 1595.

£30,000

“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

Bongars rare work on the Crusades — complete with the rare map of the Levant depicting Cyprus

BONGARS, Jacques, 1611.

£25,000

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.