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Browse our collection of rare books and first editions specialising in travel and discovery, including the works by explorers such as Columbus, Cook, Darwin, Drake, Krusenstern, La Perouse, Scott, and Vancouver.
(108 results)
Antonio Canovas del Castillo’s copy
ORDONEZ DE CEVALLOS, Pedro, 1614.
£8,500
“…one of the most important contributions to surveying in the seventeenth century”
RATHBORNE, Aaron, 1616.
£5,000
“The first town plan of anywhere in the present-day United States”
HERRERA [Y TORDESILLAS], A de, [JACOB Le Maire, Willem CORNELIS SCHOUTEN, Giovanni Battista BOAZIO], et al., 1622.
£255,000
“The earliest scholarly treatment of Scottish weights and measures”
HUNTAR, Alexander, Burges of Edinburgh, 1624.
£8,000
“…most conducible for surueyers, landmeaters, joyners, carpenters, and masons”
DIGGES, Leonard, 1625.
£15,000
An album of engravings from the most famous natural history artists of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, collected and bound for an English patron
WOUTNEEL, Hans; Crispin de PASSE, the elder and younger; and VISSCHER, Claez Jansz, after Jacob and Joris HOEFNAGEL, Assuerus van LONDERSEEL, Nicolaes de BRUYN, and Adrian COLLAERT, 1630.
£75,000
“One of the most famous contemporary descriptions of the natural history of the New World” (Streeter)
LAET, Johannes de, 1633.
£12,000
“The occasions and dangers of Planting, Graffing, and Gardening”
ANONYMOUS, 1640.
£4,000
Leybourn’s rare pamphlet on surveying
WALLINBY, Oliver [LEYBOURN, William], 1650.
£12,500
“The commons are, in fact, nurseries of thieves and horse-stealers”
T[AYLOR], S[ilvanus], 1652.
£5,000
Blaeu’s user’s manual for globes, spheres and sundials
BLAEU, Willem, 1652.
£3,500
Blaeu’s user’s manual for globes, spheres and sundials
BLAEU, Willem, 1652.
£4,500
“A Protractor is an Instrument by which you may protract”
LEYBOURN, William, 1653.
£5,000
The first European to enter Mecca and Medina
VARTHEMA, Ludvico di, 1654.
£20,000
The first separate map of Barbados
LIGON, Richard, 1657.
£12,000
A lavishly bound composite album or ‘recueils factices’ of views of seventeenth century Paris
PERELLE, Adam; Israel SILVESTRE, 1670.
£15,000
The Sea Venture founders
HAWKINS, Sir Richard, 1706.