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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.
(74 results)
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
Adrichom’s Holy Land in superb contemporary hand-colour
ADRICHOM, Christiaan van, 1590.
£25,000
Ortelius writes to his “most brilliant and dearest nephew”
ORTELIUS, Abra[ham], 1595.
£50,000
Bound in red morocco for “The True Queen of France”
VEER, Gerrit de, 1604.
£50,000
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.
£75,000
“One of the most famous contemporary descriptions of the natural history of the New World” (Streeter)
LAET, Johannes de, 1633.
£12,000
Blaeu’s user’s manual for globes, spheres and sundials
BLAEU, Willem, 1652.
£4,500
Blaeu’s user’s manual for globes, spheres and sundials
BLAEU, Willem, 1652.
£3,500
The first European to enter Mecca and Medina
VARTHEMA, Ludvico di, 1654.
£20,000
The first separate map of Barbados
LIGON, Richard, 1657.
£12,000
A lavishly bound composite album or ‘recueils factices’ of views of seventeenth century Paris
PERELLE, Adam; Israel SILVESTRE, 1670.
£15,000
The Sea Venture founders
HAWKINS, Sir Richard, 1706.