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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.
(98 results)
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
£4,800
‘One of the world’s finest collections of graphic art’
KRAUSS, George Friedrich, 1822.
£210,000
£126,000
Inquiry in the Poyasian Fraud
CODD, Edward, 1824.
£4,000
£2,400
A hydrographer’s library
BUACHE, Jean Nicolas, 1826.
£850
£680
A Frankfurt publisher
WILMANS, Frederic, 1829.
£250
£200
First inklings of self-government and nationhood for Australia
WENTWORTH, William Charles, and Sir Ralph DARLING, 1830.
£2,000
£1,200
The last throw of the Poyaisian dice
MACGREGOR, Gregor, 1836.
£6,000
£3,600
Murchison’s seminal work on the Silurian System
MURCHISON, Roderick Impey, 1839.
£10,000
£6,000
“All Smell is Disease”
THE GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH, 1855.
£15,000
£12,000
Eighteenth months on Bermuda
WHITTINGTON, Ferdinand, 1857.
£2,300
£1,380
A German stroll around Oxford
RUNDT, Carl, 1859.
£2,000
£1,200
Central Park New York
1860.
£2,000
£1,200
Book supplier to the King of Italy
MAGGI, Giovanni Battista, 1862.
£1,200
£720
The largest floating dock in the world
BERMUDA, 1870.
£2,000
£1,200
“Tourists’ Books and Maps, selected from the stock of Edward Stanford”
STANFORD, Edward, 1883.
£450
£270
Rare Belize Item
1897.
£1,200
£720
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
£1,200
A tree sample book by André Thil, inspector of French forests
THIL, André, 1904.