Pedro Fernández de Quirós (1563–1614) was a Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain. He is best known for leading several Spanish voyages of ...

The first English translation of the Roteiro or Journal made during Gama's first voyage.Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (c.1460s-1524), was...

Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), known as El Inca, was a chronicler and writer born in the Viceroyalty of Peru. Sailing to Spain at 21, he w...

This is the first translation of the fifth letter of Cortés into English.From 1524 to 1526 Cortés headed an expedition to Honduras where he defeat...

Gonzalo Pizarro (1510-1548) was a Spanish conquistador and brother of Francisco Pizarro, who led the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.In 1539 G...

With autograph letter to the engraver. First book edition, originally issued in parts between 1841 and 1842, with a loosely inserted autograph lett...

Internationally renowned flower painter. First edition of this attractively designed travel memoir by Marian Ellis Rowan (1848-1922), 'one of Austr...

Supplying orchid-mania. First edition of the memoir of prominent Victorian orchid collector Albert Millican, uncommon in trade. This copy with the ...

Art nouveau publisher's cloth. A lovely copy of this 1910s edition of Thoreau's Excursions (originally published in 1863) with elaborate Art Nouvea...

A scarce first edition of this personal account of Lady Montefiore's travels in the Levant, published anonymously and dedicated to her husband.The...

A most charming set of the poems by one of the great Romantic poets.5 vols, 8vo (177 x 120); frontispiece portrait of the poet to first vol., some...

A bright and smart copy of this account of Sydney John Hickson's (1859-1940) time journeying through the Celebes Sea and northern Celebes (Sulawes...

The first book to be published on the history of Peterhof, complete with 33 views of the palace and two plans. The author, General von Heiroth ser...

A fresh example of this album with eighteen views of St Petersburg and its famous landmarks including the Winter Palace, St Isaac's, Nevsky Prospe...

Last edition of this title.Third edition; pp x, [38], one page of corrections dated 1912, publisher's errata slip, 229, 24 adverts dated 1911-1912...

Scarce Ashkenazic rite Selichot prayer book, not listed in the Vinograd bibliography.The Proops family were a dynasty of well known Hebrew printer...

Handsome prize binding. Ninth edition one of the most influential books by astronomer John Herschel, in a handsome red red calf prize binding. This...

A handsome set of Sir John Rutherford Alcock's (1809-1897) account of his time as the first British diplomatic representative to reside in Japan.A...