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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.
(81 results)
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 Grand Tour in eighteenth century virtual reality!
Publishers BASSET, André Basset, DAUMONT, Jean-Francois, HUQUIER, Jacques-Gabriel Huquier, MAILLET, Nicolas Langlois, MONDARE, Louis Joseph Mondhare, and others, 1740.
£45,000
Michele Marieschi’s suite of views of Venice
MARIESCHI, Michele, 1741.
£150,000
The most vocal supporter of the Northwest Passage
DOBBS, Arthur, 1744.
£18,000
Caught short? Never settle for bog-standard again!
Lavatory Humour, 1750.
£7,500
Louis XV’s intentions in the Caribbean
BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas, 1758.
£6,000
A triumph of Venetian rococo book design
ZATTA, Antonio [VISENTINI, Antonio], 1761.
£50,500
Rare set of sailing directions for ‘Le Neptune Oriental’
After DE MANNEVILLETTE, 1775.
£600
One of the earliest European chronicles of the American War of Independence
KORN, Christoph Heinrich [attr.], 1777.
£8,000
Cook in Parts!
ANDERSON, George William pseud., 1785.
£750
Malton’s rare work inscribed by a relative of the author to Queen Victoria’s obstetrician
MALTON, Thomas, 1810.
£5,000
The first scientific analysis of the American Southwest
HUMBOLDT, Alexander von [and] Aime J.A. BONPLAND, 1811.
£45,000
The first edition of John Smith voyages to be published in Virginia
SMITH, Captain John, 1819.
£850
Bigge’s damning report of Macquarie’s tenure as emancipist Governor of the Colony of New South Wales
BIGGE, John Thomas; and Governor Lachlan MACQUARIE, 1822.
£8,000
Inquiry in the Poyasian Fraud
CODD, Edward, 1824.
£4,000
Travels in French food and wine
DE PÉRIGORD, A.B. [Horace RAISSON and Léon THIESSÉ], 1827.