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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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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 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
“La Pomme Verte”
DIDEROT, Denis [and] D’ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond, 1751.
£950,000
The Laird U. Park example of Lewis Evans’s treasonous defense of his controversial 1755 map
EVANS, Lewis, 1756.
£45,000
Louis XV’s intentions in the Caribbean
BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas, 1758.
£6,000
The universal planisphere
DUNN, Samuel, 1759.
£8,000
A triumph of Venetian rococo book design
ZATTA, Antonio [VISENTINI, Antonio], 1761.
£50,500
Catalogue of Louis-Charles Desnos
DESNOS, [Louis-Charles], 1765.
£1,000
The Romanov copy of the account of an expedition to the Levant
PLESHCHEYEV, Sergey Ivanovich, 1772.
£16,000
Manuscript inventory for an important Spanish cartographical library
DE AGUIRRE, Domingo; and others, 1773.