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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)
The first printed English signals book
GREENWOOD, Jonathan, 1715.
£8,000
£4,800
The most cited source on forest law
NELSON, William [after MANWOOD, John], 1717.
£350
£210
“a true and exact representation of the Earth and Heavens”
SENEX, John, 1718.
£1,200
£960
“A pigmy mounted on the shoulder’s of giants…”
WYLD, Samuel, 1725.
£1,200
£720
The fourth edition of Wyld’s Practical Surveyor
WYLD, Samuel, 1725.
£300
£180
The second edition of Wyld’s Practical Surveyor
WYLD, Samuel, 1725.
£500
£400
“Regular irregularity” in landscape gardening
LANGLEY, Batty, 1728.
£5,000
£3,000
Timber for “the last Age of the World”
LANGLEY, Batty, 1728.
£2,500
£1,500
Michele Marieschi’s suite of views of Venice
MARIESCHI, Michele, 1741.
£200,000
£160,000
A Batty guide to planting
LANGLEY, Batty, 1741.
£750
£450
The most vocal supporter of the Northwest Passage
DOBBS, Arthur, 1744.
£18,000
£14,400
Caught short? Never settle for bog-standard again!
Lavatory Humour, 1750.
£7,500
£6,000
The universal planisphere
DUNN, Samuel, 1759.
£14,000
£8,400
A triumph of Venetian rococo book design
ZATTA, Antonio [VISENTINI, Antonio], 1761.
£50,500
£40,400
“Very excellent practical instructions on raising and planting different forest trees”
[HAMILTON, Thomas] The Earl of Haddington, 1761.
£1,600
£960
Rare set of sailing directions for ‘Le Neptune Oriental’
After DE MANNEVILLETTE, 1775.
£600
£360
One of the earliest European chronicles of the American War of Independence
KORN, Christoph Heinrich [attr.], 1777.
£8,000
£4,800
I’m yelling timber
AGRICOLA [ANDERSON, James], 1777.