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Browse our collection of rare books and first editions specialising in travel and discovery, including the works by explorers such as Columbus, Cook, Darwin, Drake, Krusenstern, La Perouse, Scott, and Vancouver.
(107 results)
Agricultural secrets of the sixteenth century
ZOPPINO, Niccolò, 1520.
£9,000
The first text on surveying printed in English
FITZHERBERT, [?Anthony or John], 1539.
£7,000
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
“See that your vines are well married”
COPLAND, Wyllyam [William], 1565.
£40,000
One of only two known examples complete with maps
ANANIA, Giovanni Lorenzo d’, 1573.
£35,000
“the lyne is the speedier and the most commodious and also of most antiquitie”
LEIGH, Valentyne [Valentine], 1577.
£9,000
Adrichom’s Holy Land in superb contemporary hand-colour
ADRICHOM, Christiaan van, 1590.
£25,000
Blagrave’s great universal instrument
BLAGRAVE, John, 1590.
£5,000
The fourth edition of Leigh’s science of surveying
LEIGH, Valentine, 1592.
£5,500
Bound in red morocco for “The True Queen of France”
VEER, Gerrit de, 1604.
£50,000
“But I marvaille how such great persons did before Surveying came up…”
N[ORDEN], J[ohn], 1607.
£10,000
Bongars rare work on the Crusades — complete with the rare map of the Levant depicting Cyprus
BONGARS, Jacques, 1611.
£25,000
“No wood no kingdome”
STANDISH, Arthur, 1611.
£5,000
“Surveyors are odious to farmers”
C[HURCHE], R[ooke], 1612.
£12,000
Taking a Standish against deforestation
STANDISH, Arthur, 1613.
£6,500
Antonio Canovas del Castillo’s copy
ORDONEZ DE CEVALLOS, Pedro, 1614.