Books
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.
(81 results)
Index to Rouge’s Mitchell Map
LE ROUGE, George Louis, 1777.
£10,000
Cook in Parts!
ANDERSON, George William pseud., 1785.
£750
Joseph Huddart’s Certificate of Admittance to Trinity House, the Lighthouse Authority
HUDDART, Joseph; Charles WILDBORE; and Hector ROSE, 1790.
£3,500
Rare first edition of woodworker’s manual
BERGERON, [Louis-Eloy] [but Louis-Georges-Isaac SALIVET], 1792.
£1,000
A guide to sailing to Jamaica
GAULD, George, 1795.
£6,000
An innovative globe
COVENS, Cornelius, 1802.
£3,000
The first scientific analysis of the American Southwest
HUMBOLDT, Alexander von [and] Aime J.A. BONPLAND, 1811.
£45,000
Catalogue of maps and atlases published by the Spanish Admiralty
REAL DIRECCION DE TRABAJOS HIDROGRAFICOS, 1815.
£12,000
The Towneley sale catalogue
[HOLLAR]. KING, Thomas., 1818.
£2,500
‘One of the world’s finest collections of graphic art’
KRAUSS, George Friedrich, 1822.
£210,000
Bigge’s damning report of Macquarie’s tenure as emancipist Governor of the Colony of New South Wales
BIGGE, John Thomas; and Governor Lachlan MACQUARIE, 1822.
£8,000
Inquiry in the Poyasian Fraud
CODD, Edward, 1824.
£4,000
A hydrographer’s library
BUACHE, Jean Nicolas, 1826.
£850
A Frankfurt publisher
WILMANS, Frederic, 1829.
£250
First inklings of self-government and nationhood for Australia
WENTWORTH, William Charles, and Sir Ralph DARLING, 1830.
£2,000
Murchison’s seminal work on the Silurian System
MURCHISON, Roderick Impey, 1839.
£10,000
“All Smell is Disease”
THE GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH, 1855.
£15,000
“The largest fleet that has ever been seen to act in concert, for any purpose whatsoever, since the world began”
MAURY, Matthew Fontaine, 1855.