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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.
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A monumental record of Britain’s ecclesiastical architecture
DUGDALE, sir William & Roger DODSWORTH, 1655.
£3,500
The first separate map of Barbados
LIGON, Richard, 1657.
£12,000
All creatures great and small
HOLLAR, Wenceslaus, 1663.
£20,000
The most up-to-date practical knowledge on navigation and information on foreign countries
THEVENOT Melchisédec, 1666.
£35,000
Among the finest illustrated books of the seventeenth century with over 100 engravings
VIRGIL & HOLLAR, Wenceslaus, 1668.
£4,000
Blaeu’s user’s manual for globes, spheres and sundials
BLAEU, Willem, 1669.
£3,500
Rumours of a Northwest Passage from an Amsterdam Tavern
MOXON, Joseph, 1676.
£3,500
First edition
SANDFORD, Francis, 1677.
£1,500
Blome’s Jamaica
BLOME, Richard, 1678.
£15,000
The Wardington “vade-mecum for English gentlemen”
SELLER, John, 1678.
£25,000
Visscher family catalogue
VISSCHER, Nicolaes, 1682.
£10,000
Rare complete set of “the most valuable 18th-century source on Jesuit activities in frontier regions throughout the world” (Hill, ‘Collection Of Pacific Voyages’).
LE GOBIEN, Charles; Jean-Baptiste du HALDE; Father Patouillet; and Father Ambrose MARECHAL [eds.,], 1702.
£15,000
With the Arms of the Sun King
LA HIRE, Philippe de, 1704.
£10,000
The Sea Venture founders
HAWKINS, Sir Richard, 1706.
£2,400
The first printed English signals book
GREENWOOD, Jonathan, 1715.
£8,000
“a true and exact representation of the Earth and Heavens”
SENEX, John, 1718.
£1,200
Eighteenth century Oxford
WILLIAMS, William, 1732.
£10,000
The most vocal supporter of the Northwest Passage
DOBBS, Arthur, 1744.