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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.
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Lavatory Humour, 1750.
£7,500
“La Pomme Verte”
DIDEROT, Denis [and] D’ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond, 1751.
£950,000
The universal planisphere
DUNN, Samuel, 1759.
£8,000
A triumph of Venetian rococo book design
ZATTA, Antonio [VISENTINI, Antonio], 1761.
£50,500
Catalogue of Louis-Charles Desnos
DESNOS, [Louis-Charles], 1765.
£1,000
The Romanov copy of the account of an expedition to the Levant
PLESHCHEYEV, Sergey Ivanovich, 1772.
£16,000
Manuscript inventory for an important Spanish cartographical library
DE AGUIRRE, Domingo; and others, 1773.
£6,000
D’Anville’s maps of China
D’ANVILLE, [Jean Baptiste Bourguignon], 1776.
£4,500
One of the earliest European chronicles of the American War of Independence
KORN, Christoph Heinrich [attr.], 1777.
£8,000
Index to Rouge’s Mitchell Map
LE ROUGE, George Louis, 1777.
£10,000
Cook in Parts!
ANDERSON, George William pseud., 1785.
£750
Unrecorded signal book for use by East India Company ships
EAST INDIA COMPANY, 1790.
£25,000
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
Malton’s rare work inscribed by a relative of the author to Queen Victoria’s obstetrician
MALTON, Thomas, 1810.