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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.
(95 results)
A triumph of Venetian rococo book design
ZATTA, Antonio [VISENTINI, Antonio], 1761.
£50,500
£40,400
Catalogue of Louis-Charles Desnos
DESNOS, [Louis-Charles], 1765.
£1,000
£800
Manuscript inventory for an important Spanish cartographical library
DE AGUIRRE, Domingo; and others, 1773.
£6,000
£4,800
D’Anville’s maps of China
D’ANVILLE, [Jean Baptiste Bourguignon], 1776.
£4,500
£3,600
One of the earliest European chronicles of the American War of Independence
KORN, Christoph Heinrich [attr.], 1777.
£8,000
£4,800
Index to Rouge’s Mitchell Map
LE ROUGE, George Louis, 1777.
£10,000
£8,000
Zatta do nicely
ZATTA, Antonio, 1780.
£1,500
£1,200
Cook in Parts!
ANDERSON, George William pseud., 1785.
£750
£600
Unrecorded chart of the Billiton Strait
INSKIP, John, 1788.
£750
£600
Joseph Huddart’s Certificate of Admittance to Trinity House, the Lighthouse Authority
HUDDART, Joseph; Charles WILDBORE; and Hector ROSE, 1790.
£3,500
£2,800
An innovative globe
COVENS, Cornelius, 1802.
£3,000
£2,400
Malton’s rare work inscribed by a relative of the author to Queen Victoria’s obstetrician
MALTON, Thomas, 1810.
£5,000
£3,000
The first scientific analysis of the American Southwest
HUMBOLDT, Alexander von [and] Aime J.A. BONPLAND, 1811.
£45,000
£27,000
Catalogue of maps and atlases published by the Spanish Admiralty
REAL DIRECCION DE TRABAJOS HIDROGRAFICOS, 1815.
£12,000
£9,600
The first edition of John Smith voyages to be published in Virginia
SMITH, Captain John, 1819.
£850
£680
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
£6,400
Inquiry in the Poyasian Fraud
CODD, Edward, 1824.
£4,000
£2,400
A hydrographer’s library
BUACHE, Jean Nicolas, 1826.