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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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Blaeu’s user’s manual for globes, spheres and sundials
BLAEU, Willem
£4,000
The first European to enter Mecca and Medina
VARTHEMA, Ludvico di
£20,000
All creatures great and small
HOLLAR, Wenceslaus
£20,000
The most up-to-date practical knowledge on navigation and information on foreign countries
THEVENOT Melchisédec
£35,000
First edition
SANDFORD, Francis
£1,500
Visscher family catalogue
VISSCHER, Nicolaes
£10,000
Scarce first edition of Loggan’s magnificent views of Cambridge
LOGGAN, David
£50,000
Rare complete set of “the most valuable 18th-century source on Jesuit activities in frontier regions throughout the world” (Hill, ‘Collection Of Pacific Voyages’).
LE GOBIEN, Charles; Jean-Baptiste du HALDE; Father Patouillet; and Father Ambrose MARECHAL [eds.,]
£15,000
With the Arms of the Sun King
LA HIRE, Philippe de
£10,000
The first printed English signals book
GREENWOOD, Jonathan
£8,000
“a true and exact representation of the Earth and Heavens”
SENEX, John
£1,200
The Grand Tour in eighteenth century virtual reality!
[Publishers BASSET, André Basset, DAUMONT, Jean-Francois, HUQUIER, Jacques-Gabriel Huquier, MAILLET, Nicolas Langlois, MONDARE, Louis Joseph Mondhare, and others].
£45,000
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