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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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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
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.
£5,000
Catalogue of maps and atlases published by the Spanish Admiralty
REAL DIRECCION DE TRABAJOS HIDROGRAFICOS, 1815.
£12,000
The first edition of John Smith voyages to be published in Virginia
SMITH, Captain John, 1819.
£850
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
‘One of the world’s finest collections of graphic art’
KRAUSS, George Friedrich, 1822.
£210,000
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.