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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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Malton’s rare work inscribed by a relative of the author to Queen Victoria’s obstetrician
MALTON, Thomas, 1810.
£5,000
The first scientific analysis of the American Southwest
HUMBOLDT, Alexander von [and] Aime J.A. BONPLAND, 1811.
£45,000
Catalogue of maps and atlases published by the Spanish Admiralty
REAL DIRECCION DE TRABAJOS HIDROGRAFICOS, 1815.
£12,000
The Towneley sale catalogue
[HOLLAR]. KING, Thomas., 1818.
£2,500
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.
£10,000
“All Smell is Disease”
THE GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH, 1855.
£15,000
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
Book supplier to the King of Italy
MAGGI, Giovanni Battista, 1862.
£1,200
The largest floating dock in the world
BERMUDA, 1870.