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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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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 first printed English signals book

GREENWOOD, Jonathan, 1715. 
£8,000

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. 
£950,000

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

Manuscript inventory for an important Spanish cartographical library

DE AGUIRRE, Domingo; and others, 1773. 
£6,000

D’Anville’s maps of China

D’ANVILLE, [Jean Baptiste Bourguignon], 1776. 
£4,500