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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.
(95 results)
The first European to enter Mecca and Medina
VARTHEMA, Ludvico di, 1654.
£20,000
£12,000
The first separate map of Barbados
LIGON, Richard, 1657.
£12,000
£7,200
The most up-to-date practical knowledge on navigation and information on foreign countries
THEVENOT Melchisédec, 1666.
£35,000
£28,000
Oxford from above extra-illustrated with Richard Rallingson’s ‘Ichnographia Oxoniae’, 1648 plan of the defences of Oxford during the civil war
LOGGAN, David, 1675.
£15,000
£12,000
Visscher family catalogue
VISSCHER, Nicolaes, 1682.
£10,000
£8,000
One of only three examples known
FEUILLE, Jacob de la, 1696.
£3,000
£2,400
With the Arms of the Sun King
LA HIRE, Philippe de, 1704.
£10,000
£8,000
The Sea Venture founders
HAWKINS, Sir Richard, 1706.
£2,400
£1,920
The first printed English signals book
GREENWOOD, Jonathan, 1715.
£8,000
£4,800
“a true and exact representation of the Earth and Heavens”
SENEX, John, 1718.
£1,200
£960
Eighteenth century Oxford
WILLIAMS, William, 1732.
£10,000
£8,000
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
£36,000
Michele Marieschi’s suite of views of Venice
MARIESCHI, Michele, 1741.
£150,000
£120,000
The most vocal supporter of the Northwest Passage
DOBBS, Arthur, 1744.
£18,000
£10,800
Caught short? Never settle for bog-standard again!
Lavatory Humour, 1750.
£7,500
£6,000
The Laird U. Park example of Lewis Evans’s treasonous defense of his controversial 1755 map
EVANS, Lewis, 1756.
£45,000
£36,000
John Rocque’s rare index to his large wall map of Dublin, including a price list of all Rocque’s published works
ROCQUE, John, 1756.
£1,200
£960
Louis XV’s intentions in the Caribbean
BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas, 1758.