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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, 1714.
£6,000
The first printed English signals book
GREENWOOD, Jonathan, 1715.
£8,000
after Olfert
HALMA, Franciscus; DAPPER, Olfert; and Nicolas SANSON, 1717.
The most cited source on forest law
NELSON, William [after MANWOOD, John], 1717.
£350
“a true and exact representation of the Earth and Heavens”
SENEX, John, 1718.
£1,200
The fourth edition of Wyld’s Practical Surveyor
WYLD, Samuel, 1725.
£300
The second edition of Wyld’s Practical Surveyor
WYLD, Samuel, 1725.
£500
“A pigmy mounted on the shoulder’s of giants…”
WYLD, Samuel, 1725.
£1,200
“Regular irregularity” in landscape gardening
LANGLEY, Batty, 1728.
£5,000
Timber for “the last Age of the World”
LANGLEY, Batty, 1728.
£2,500
A Batty guide to planting
LANGLEY, Batty, 1741.
£750
Michele Marieschi’s suite of views of Venice
MARIESCHI, Michele, 1741.
£200,000
The most vocal supporter of the Northwest Passage
DOBBS, Arthur, 1744.
£18,000
Caught short? Never settle for bog-standard again!
Lavatory Humour, 1750.
£7,500
Louis XV’s intentions in the Caribbean
BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas, 1758.
£6,000
The universal planisphere
DUNN, Samuel, 1759.
£14,000
“Very excellent practical instructions on raising and planting different forest trees”
[HAMILTON, Thomas] The Earl of Haddington, 1761.
£1,600
A triumph of Venetian rococo book design
ZATTA, Antonio [VISENTINI, Antonio], 1761.