Hafinae & Lipsiae [Copenhagen and Leipzig]: Printed By Pelt, Friedrich Christian, 1766. Early Reprint. Full Leather. Fourth Edition, in Latin, of one of the most popular eighteenth-century utopian novels (second only to Gulliver's Travels), eventually reaching some 60 editions in 13 different languages. Small 8vo: [10],360pp, with portrait frontispiece, engraved..... more

Amsterdam: Chez Thomas Lombrail, marchand libraire, dans le Beurs-Straat, M D CC VII [1707]. Full Calf. First French-language Edition (another French language edition was printed in Orleans, but bearing a Paris imprint, the same year, with no priority definitively established), translated from the English, of the first history of the..... more

Boston: George W. Light, Lyceum Press, 3 Cornhill, 1834. Original Cloth. Scarce First Edition (rare both in commerce and in institutional collections) of this account of the Canary Islands by the nineteenth-century Boston naturalist. Crown 8vo (186 x 111mm): 140pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece ("Peak of Tenerife from Ycod del Alto")..... more

London: printed by Mary Matthews, for Awnsham Churchill, and sold by William Taylor, in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXXII [1722]. Full Calf. A pinnacle of English scholarship, the first comprehensive topographical survey of Great Britain, complete in two tall folio volumes, mainly printed in two numbered columns: [66]pp,cclxviii columns,[2]pp,696 columns; [2],697-1526 columns,[176, appendices..... more

London: printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red-Lyon, in Pater-Noster-Row ; and W. Mears, at the Lamb, without Temple-Bar, M.DCC.XXV [but 1724]. Full Calf. First Edition, in two parts, of "perhaps Defoe's best travel book," an imaginary voyage of circumnavigation, intending to discover uncharted lands in the South Pacific. (Earle)..... more

Paris: chez Jean-Geoffroy Nyon, quay de Conti, au coin de la rue Guenegaud, au Nom de Jesus, Etienne Ganeau, rue Saint Jacques, aux Armes de Dombes, vis-à-vis la Fontaine de S. Severin, Jacque Quillau, imprimeur-juré-libraire, rue Galande, aux Armes de l'Université, MDCCXVI [1716]. First Edition. A defective first edition (missing..... more

London: Published by John Murray, 1853. First Edition. Morocco. First Edition of this truly fascinating account, important for its descriptions of the manners, customs, and culture of the Inuit and other native tribes, particularly the Chukchi (Tuski) people. Thick 8vo: xv,[1],417,[1]pp, with 4 full-page tinted lithographs (by J. Brandard after..... more

Geneva: Printed for the author by Manget and Cherbuliez, MDCCCXX [1820]. Three-Quarter Calf. First Edition of this rare, privately printed homage to Cicero, with account of his villas and proposals for a monument in the Amalthea at Arpino and a footbridge in his honor over the Fibrenus (both illustrated). Crown..... more

London: Groombridge and Sons, Paternoster Row, 1853. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of this scarce and unusual geography primer. Foolscap 8vo (161 x 98mm): x,100pp, with engraved folding frontispiece depicting the globe's hemispheres. Original publisher's burgundy cloth stamped in gilt and blind, citron yellow end papers. Spine sunned, first few leaves..... more

London: printed for B. White and Son, at Horace’s Head Fleet-Street; and J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1788. First Edition. Full Calf. First edition. 8vo: iv,183,[1]pp (p.142 mispaginated 147), with folding copper-engraved frontispiece of a view of the island Bananas and large folding map of part of the coast of Africa, from..... more

London: printed for the author, Charles-street, ST. Jame’s-square; and William Faden [replaced by R. Faulder in vol. II], Charing-cross, M.DCC.XCII. [1792]. First Edition. Half-Calf. First Edition, complete in two royal octavo volumes: [2],xv,[1],154; vii,[1],190,[2]pp, with 65 aquatint plates in sepia "beautifully engraved and resembl[ing John] Carey's work" (Cox) and 11..... more

London: Printed for P. Elmsly, in the Strand, M.DCC.LXXIX [1779]. Half-Calf. A superb First Edition (in period binding) of this account of a sojourn to Spain, "an exact investigation of the soil, cultivation, government, commerce, and manners." 4to (283 x 220mm): xv,[1],427,[15]pp, with folding engraved map and 18 plates (five..... more