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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.
(76 results)
The height of Empire
MARTIN, Robert Montgomery, 1834.
£4,000
Murchison’s seminal work on the Silurian System
MURCHISON, Roderick Impey, 1839.
£10,000
“in no other publication have the sites and buildings famous in sacred history and Eastern legend been so vividly represented. ” (Abbey)
ROBERTS, David; and CROLY, George, 1842.
£355,000
“All Smell is Disease”
THE GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH, 1855.
£15,000
Oxford Cholera — inscribed by the author
ACLAND, Henry Wentworth, 1856.
£500
Entering the Second Opium War
THE ADMIRALTY, 1857.
£1,400
Eighteenth months on Bermuda
WHITTINGTON, Ferdinand, 1857.
£2,300
A German stroll around Oxford
RUNDT, Carl, 1859.
£2,000
Central Park New York
1860.
£2,000
The largest floating dock in the world
BERMUDA, 1870.
£2,000
Rare Belize Item
1897.
£1,200
Early ground-breaking sociological study of the conditions of the African American community in Philadelphia
Du BOIS, W.E. Burghardt; and Isabel EATON, 1899.
£2,000
A tree sample book by André Thil, inspector of French forests
THIL, André, 1904.
£5,000
Rare pilot of the Arabian Gulf with early views of Dubai and Abu Dhabi
THE ADMIRALTY, 1932.
£20,000
Tokyo isotypes
OHASHI, Mitsuyoshi, 1935.
£8,000
Five Go Mapping
DEVERSON, H.J. and LAMPITT, Ronald, 1948.
£500
Shirley’s cartobibliography of the British Isles
SHIRLEY, Rodney, 1973.
£200
The Map Collector Magazine
1977.