Skip to content
AUTHENTICITY GUARANTEED | EXPERT ADVICE
AUTHENTICITY GUARANTEED

The Americas

Embark on an adventure through the Americas with our collection of rare travel books. Featuring works by explorers such as Humboldt, Cabeza de Vaca, and Columbus, discover the continent's diverse cultures and stunning landscapes. Shop now.

Filters

£
£
  • A Voyage round the World,

    ANSON, George.
    Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00
    Original price £0.00
    £2,750.00
    £2,750.00 - £2,750.00
    Current price £2,750.00

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

    View full details
    Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00
    Original price £0.00
    £2,750.00
    £2,750.00 - £2,750.00
    Current price £2,750.00
  • Il Gazzettiere Americano

    [AMERICAS].
    Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00
    Original price £5,000.00
    £5,000.00
    £5,000.00 - £5,000.00
    Current price £5,000.00

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

    View full details
    Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00
    Original price £5,000.00
    £5,000.00
    £5,000.00 - £5,000.00
    Current price £5,000.00
  • Istoria della Conquista del Messico,

    SOLIS, Antonio de.
    Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00
    Original price £750.00
    £750.00
    £750.00 - £750.00
    Current price £750.00

    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...

    View full details
    Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00
    Original price £750.00
    £750.00
    £750.00 - £750.00
    Current price £750.00
  • An Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Chile.

    OVALLE, Alonso de.
    Original price £875.00 - Original price £875.00
    Original price £0.00
    £875.00
    £875.00 - £875.00
    Current price £875.00

    As quoted by Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray. First printed in Rome by Francisco Cavallo in 1649, before being translated into English an...

    View full details
    Original price £875.00 - Original price £875.00
    Original price £0.00
    £875.00
    £875.00 - £875.00
    Current price £875.00
  • Histoire de l'expedition de trois vasseaux,

    [BEHRENS, Carl Friedrich].
    Original price £7,250.00 - Original price £7,250.00
    Original price £0.00
    £7,250.00
    £7,250.00 - £7,250.00
    Current price £7,250.00

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

    View full details
    Original price £7,250.00 - Original price £7,250.00
    Original price £0.00
    £7,250.00
    £7,250.00 - £7,250.00
    Current price £7,250.00
  • Journal de la navigation autour du globe

    BOUGAINVILLE, Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien (Baron de).
    Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00
    Original price £0.00
    £15,000.00
    £15,000.00 - £15,000.00
    Current price £15,000.00

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

    View full details
    Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00
    Original price £0.00
    £15,000.00
    £15,000.00 - £15,000.00
    Current price £15,000.00
  • Voyage autour du monde sur la Frégate La Vénus

    DU PETIT-THOUARS, Abel.
    Original price £65,000.00 - Original price £65,000.00
    Original price £0.00
    £65,000.00
    £65,000.00 - £65,000.00
    Current price £65,000.00

    With the rare Atlas Hydrographique. One of the most important and complete records of the Mexican period in California. 'This voyage, ostensibly t...

    View full details
    Original price £65,000.00 - Original price £65,000.00
    Original price £0.00
    £65,000.00
    £65,000.00 - £65,000.00
    Current price £65,000.00
  • Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae Navigationum;

    SPILBERGEN, Joris Van.
    Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00
    Original price £0.00
    £20,000.00
    £20,000.00 - £20,000.00
    Current price £20,000.00

    The first Latin edition of the first circumnavigation to have the official support of the Dutch government. A book of primary importance in the h...

    View full details
    Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00
    Original price £0.00
    £20,000.00
    £20,000.00 - £20,000.00
    Current price £20,000.00
  • The History of America.

    ROBERTSON, William.
    Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00
    Original price £0.00
    £2,500.00
    £2,500.00 - £2,500.00
    Current price £2,500.00

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

    View full details
    Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00
    Original price £0.00
    £2,500.00
    £2,500.00 - £2,500.00
    Current price £2,500.00
  • Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des européens dans les deux Indes.

    RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas.
    Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00
    Original price £0.00
    £9,500.00
    £9,500.00 - £9,500.00
    Current price £9,500.00

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

    View full details
    Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00
    Original price £0.00
    £9,500.00
    £9,500.00 - £9,500.00
    Current price £9,500.00
  • Bradford on Mount Fairweather

    WASHBURN, Bradford.
    Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00
    Original price £0.00
    £150.00
    £150.00 - £150.00
    Current price £150.00

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

    View full details
    Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00
    Original price £0.00
    £150.00
    £150.00 - £150.00
    Current price £150.00
  • Polymetis:

    SPENCE, Joseph.
    Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00
    Original price £0.00
    £1,500.00
    £1,500.00 - £1,500.00
    Current price £1,500.00

    Images from Polymetis were consulted during the creation of the seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia.'Joseph Spence (1699 – 1748) was an English s...

    View full details
    Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00
    Original price £0.00
    £1,500.00
    £1,500.00 - £1,500.00
    Current price £1,500.00
  • The Travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke,

    LEWIS, Meriwether.
    Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00
    Original price £0.00
    £2,750.00
    £2,750.00 - £2,750.00
    Current price £2,750.00

    Compiled from previously published sources, this 'Apocryphal' narrative remained a prime source of information about the Lewis and Clarke expediti...

    View full details
    Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00
    Original price £0.00
    £2,750.00
    £2,750.00 - £2,750.00
    Current price £2,750.00
  • Seven years' travel in Central America,

    FROEBEL, Julius.
    Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00
    Original price £0.00
    £1,500.00
    £1,500.00 - £1,500.00
    Current price £1,500.00

    Froebel (1805 –1893) was a German geologist and mineralogist, and journalist. He emigrated to the United States, where he became editor of a Germa...

    View full details
    Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00
    Original price £0.00
    £1,500.00
    £1,500.00 - £1,500.00
    Current price £1,500.00
  • Astoria;

    IRVING, Washington; ARMSTRONG, Margaret (binding design & decorations).
    Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00
    Original price £0.00
    £475.00
    £475.00 - £475.00
    Current price £475.00

    An amazing set of the Tacoma Edition of this Oregon Trail classic by Washington Irving, originally published in 1836. The stunning cover design by...

    View full details
    Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00
    Original price £0.00
    £475.00
    £475.00 - £475.00
    Current price £475.00
  • An account of the new Northern Archipelago

    STAEHLIN, J[akob] v[on].
    Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00
    Original price £0.00
    £4,000.00
    £4,000.00 - £4,000.00
    Current price £4,000.00

    Alaska as an island. Fresh copy of the first English edition of 'an important work in the history of north-west coast exploration' (Hill).Preceded ...

    View full details
    Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00
    Original price £0.00
    £4,000.00
    £4,000.00 - £4,000.00
    Current price £4,000.00
  • L'Asia [– Dell'Asia, la seconda deca]

    BARROS, João de; ULLOA, Alfonso(translator).
    Original price £2,850.00 - Original price £2,850.00
    Original price £0.00
    £2,850.00
    £2,850.00 - £2,850.00
    Current price £2,850.00

    One of the first great accounts of European overseas exploration. Second Italian edition of the first and second Decadas of Barros, originally publ...

    View full details
    Original price £2,850.00 - Original price £2,850.00
    Original price £0.00
    £2,850.00
    £2,850.00 - £2,850.00
    Current price £2,850.00
  • Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos

    HERRERA TORDESILLAS, Antonio de.
    Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00
    Original price £0.00
    £25,000.00
    £25,000.00 - £25,000.00
    Current price £25,000.00

    The second Spanish edition of a highly important collection of Spanish narratives of exploration and conquest, drawing on some sources no longer e...

    View full details
    Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00
    Original price £0.00
    £25,000.00
    £25,000.00 - £25,000.00
    Current price £25,000.00
  • A true and impartial Journal of a Voyage to the South-Seas,

    [ANSON'S VOYAGE]. THOMAS, Pascoe.
    Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00
    Original price £0.00
    £1,750.00
    £1,750.00 - £1,750.00
    Current price £1,750.00

    Earliest account of Anson's Voyage. Pascoe Thomas kept a full and faithful daily journal of the incidents of this important four-year voyage. Inclu...

    View full details
    Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00
    Original price £0.00
    £1,750.00
    £1,750.00 - £1,750.00
    Current price £1,750.00
  • Hechos de Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza, quarto margues de cañete.

    SUAREZ DE FIGUEROA, Cristobal.
    Original price £16,000.00 - Original price £16,000.00
    Original price £0.00
    £16,000.00
    £16,000.00 - £16,000.00
    Current price £16,000.00

    First edition of this account of the deeds of Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza (1535-1609), Captain General of Peru and from 1590-1596 Viceroy of Peru. ...

    View full details
    Original price £16,000.00 - Original price £16,000.00
    Original price £0.00
    £16,000.00
    £16,000.00 - £16,000.00
    Current price £16,000.00
  • Relacion del viage que por orden de su Magestad, y acuerdo de el real Consejo de Indias...

    NODAL, Bartolome Garcia de & NODAL, Goncalo.
    Original price £9,000.00 - Original price £9,000.00
    Original price £0.00
    £9,000.00
    £9,000.00 - £9,000.00
    Current price £9,000.00

    The first to include the important Derrotas, the instructions for navigation within the Americas. 'The original edition of the voyage for the disc...

    View full details
    Original price £9,000.00 - Original price £9,000.00
    Original price £0.00
    £9,000.00
    £9,000.00 - £9,000.00
    Current price £9,000.00
  • Viage al estrecho de Magallanes

    SARMIENTO DE GAMBOA, Pedro.
    Original price £9,000.00 - Original price £9,000.00
    Original price £0.00
    £9,000.00
    £9,000.00 - £9,000.00
    Current price £9,000.00

    Illustrious provenance of Straits of Magellan classic. A fine copy of this rare book from the library of Charles de Fleurieu, author of Discoveries...

    View full details
    Original price £9,000.00 - Original price £9,000.00
    Original price £0.00
    £9,000.00
    £9,000.00 - £9,000.00
    Current price £9,000.00
  • Voyage round the World

    KRUSENSTERN, Capt. A.J. von.
    Original price £13,500.00 - Original price £13,500.00
    Original price £0.00
    £13,500.00
    £13,500.00 - £13,500.00
    Current price £13,500.00

    The first Russian circumnavigation. An important work, being the official account of the first Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe. Kru...

    View full details
    Original price £13,500.00 - Original price £13,500.00
    Original price £0.00
    £13,500.00
    £13,500.00 - £13,500.00
    Current price £13,500.00

You've viewed  of 32 items

Your cart is empty

Continue shopping

Basket