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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.
(100 results)
The first European to enter Mecca and Medina
VARTHEMA, Ludvico di, 1654.
£20,000
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
First edition
SANDFORD, Francis, 1677.
£1,500
Visscher family catalogue
VISSCHER, Nicolaes, 1682.
£10,000
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 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
Hollar’s first catalogue raisonné
[HOLLAR] VERTUE, George (ed.)., 1745.
£4,500
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.