Travel books

Superb work gathering the portraits and the life of representative men of India at the end of the 19th century.

"The best editions of Arrien are those of Jacques Gronovius, Leiden 1704 [...] with a Latin translation by Bonaventure Vulcanius."

First edition of one of the greatest scientific expeditions of the 18th century.

First edition of this long and interesting scientific voyage to the East Indies and the Indian Ocean.

Exemplaire de Ferdinand Ier (1793-1875), Empereur d’Autriche, Roi de Lombardie-Vénétie, couronné en septembre 1838.

"In accordance with the bibliophilic taste of the 18th century, the in-4 format is considered the most desirable."

Important work telling the story of the exiles in New South Wales in the early 19th century.

« one of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publishing, and it was the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph » (Abbey Travel).

Very rare first French edition of this History of the conquest of Mexico by Antoine de Solis.

The French translations by Jean Baudouin and P. Richelet of the History of the Incas and the History of the Conquest of Florida by the first great Peruvian writer Garcilaso de La Vega, followed by the Discovery of a country larger than Europe, situated in America between New Mexico and the Icy Sea, by Louis Hennepin.