José de Acosta (c.1540-1600) was a sixteenth-century Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist in Latin America. His deductions regarding the ill e...

Pedro Cieza de León (c.1520-1554) was a Spanish conquistador and chronicler of Peru and Popayán. He is known primarily for his extensive work, Cró...

Hernando de Soto (c.1497-1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula. He ...

Pascual de Andagoya (1495–1548) was a Spanish Basque conquistador. At just 19 he became a conquistador, eventually founding Panama City in 1519 wi...

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...

A superb set comprising Brooke's highly influential first collection of poetry published when he was only 23, from a print-run comprising 500 copi...

The classic children's story of Fern and her favourite pig. A Newbery Honor book for 1953 and winner (along with White's Stuart Little) of the 197...

Zokushin is Tsuchida's first book, containing photographs taken between 1968 and the mid-1970s. Contemporaneous with the Provoke photographers, Ts...

Private View offers an intimate glimpse into the 1960s London art world, featuring Snowdon's portraits of eighty-one painters and sculptors, inclu...

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...

Scarce in the jacket. First edition, first impression and scarce in the dust jacket. To Persia for Flowers is the chronicle of a 1935 trip made by ...

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...

Handsomely bound by Bickers & Son. An attractive copy of Home and Garden, Jekyll's follow-up to her extremely popular first book Wood and Garde...

Four Days in LA accompanied Steven Meisel's 2001 exhibition at White Cube Gallery, London. These large-format photographs were originally made for...