First edition of this important aquatint book on Canada and the Great Lakes, often issued with the plates uncoloured. The plates depict the landma...

A stark account of a journey from London to Peru through Brazil and Argentina that describes the greatly diminished city of Potosi, with costumes ...

A translated abridgement of Mercurio Peruano, a biweekly newspaper published in Lima between 1791 and 1795, a clutch of which fell into the hands ...

Dampier in contemporary panelled calf. Dampier (1651-1715) was the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first pers...

In 1807 the Portuguese royal family and government were forced to flee to their colony of Brazil following Napoleon's invasion of their country. I...

Henry Hudson (c. 1565-1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-da...

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...

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 landmark of eighteenth-century English circumnavigation. Anson's voyage recounts the expedition made to cut off Spanish supplies of wealth from S...

A crisp copy of this wide-ranging topographical dictionary of the New World, in the preferred Italian version. Published in English a year earlier...

A fine copy of the Italian edition of this celebrated history of Mexico, which describes the three years between the appointment of Cortes to comm...

With important Australian provenance. Darwin's first published, and his most widely read book: the account of the most important 19th-century voyag...

Roggeveen's voyage - Europeans discover Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The first French account of Roggeveen's voyage and the European discovery of Rapa...

The official record of Bougainville's voyage around the world. The main intention of the voyage was political: to extend French influence in Indoc...

With the rare Atlas Hydrographique. One of the most important and complete records of the Mexican period in California. 'This voyage, ostensibly to...

A book of primary importance in the history of dutch navigation. The first Latin edition of the first circumnavigation to have the official support...

This was the first sustained attempt to describe the discovery, conquest and settlement of Spanish America since Herrera's Décadas. Robertson inte...

The definitive edition. The final, expanded edition of this radical tour-de-force of global commerce and politics. The definitive version of the te...

Bradford Washburn was one of America's foremost mountaineers. He led many first ascents and established new routes on several Alaskan peaks, often...