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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Hollar’s first catalogue raisonné

[HOLLAR] VERTUE, George (ed.).
£4,500

A triumph of Venetian rococo book design

ZATTA, Antonio [VISENTINI, Antonio]
£20,000

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

An innovative globe

COVENS, Cornelius
£3,000

The first scientific analysis of the American Southwest

HUMBOLDT, Alexander von [and] Aime J.A. BONPLAND
£45,000