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.
(67 results)
Michele Marieschi’s suite of views of Venice from the library of Louis XV
MARIESCHI, Michele
£120,000
Hollar’s first catalogue raisonné
[HOLLAR] VERTUE, George (ed.).
£4,500
A triumph of Venetian rococo book design
ZATTA, Antonio [VISENTINI, Antonio]
£20,000
Manuscript inventory for an important Spanish cartographical library
DE AGUIRRE, Domingo; and others
£6,000
D’Anville’s maps of China
D'ANVILLE, [Jean Baptiste Bourguignon]
£4,500
Index to Rouge’s Mitchell Map
LE ROUGE, George Louis
£10,000
Cook in Parts!
COOK, Captain James; and George William ANDERSON, pseud.
£750
Rare first edition of woodworker’s manual
BERGERON, [Louis-Eloy] [but Louis-Georges-Isaac SALIVET]
£1,000
A guide to sailing to Jamaica
GAULD, George
£6,000
The first scientific analysis of the American Southwest
HUMBOLDT, Alexander von [and] Aime J.A. BONPLAND
£45,000
“A very extensive, most interesting and valuable collection” (Huth catalogue)
NELSON, John