Rare Books
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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A volume containing three works concerned with the Delisle-Buache controversy over the geography of the North Pole
DELISLE, Joseph-Nicolas and Philippe BUACHE
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A Scottish Sammelband
VARIOUS
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Panoramic Views of London
SCOULOUDI, Irene
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Binding
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Precipitous prospectus for Lewis and Clark’s monumental work,… a whole seven years before it was finally published
LEWIS, Meriwether; and William CLARK
£2,500
The first illustrated printed travel book
BREYDENBACH, Bernhard von
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… the first hint of Columbus’s discoveries on a printed world map.
REISCH, Gregor
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The first book to name America
WALDSEEMULLER, Martin
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The first map devoted to the New World
MARTYR d'ANGHIERA, Peter.
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Agricultural secrets of the sixteenth century
ZOPPINO, Niccolò