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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The first English Guide Book to the Continent
ROWLANDS [alias VERSTEGAN], Richard
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The rebirth of classical geography: the first extant geographical work in Latin, from the library of Abraham Ortelius
MELA, Pomponius; SOLINUS, Julius; POSTELLO, Guglielmo
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the lyne is the speedier and the most commodious and also of most antiquitie
LEIGH, Valentyne [Valentine]
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“The definitive geographies of the sixteenth century” with the first printed map devoted toNew England
RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista
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Blagrave’s great universal instrument
BLAGRAVE, John
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Adrichom’s Holy Land in superb contemporary hand-colour
ADRICHOM, Christiaan van
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De Bry’s seminal description of Virginia in contemporary colour
BRY, Theodore de.
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The fourth edition of Leigh’s science of surveying
LEIGH, Valentine
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To Abraham Ortelius, “the most brilliant and best of good friends”
BRAUN, G[eorg]