Humboldt Books
Humboldt Books was founded in Milan in 2012 by Alberto Saibene and Giovanna Silva as a travel-book publisher: its stated subject is narratives and experiences of travel, real or imaginary, gathered from international artists, writers, photographers, designers and architects and shown, in its words, through “a new, unconventional gaze”. Each project mixes geography with literature, photography and art, and the house also curates new editions of classic travel literature, so a Humboldt book may be a portrait of a city, a journey to Iceland or an old adventure revisited. Photography is one of the languages in which the journey is told, rarely the only one, and the Milan base shows in how often the city itself is the destination.
- Also publishes
- Travel literature
- Books in Spine Index
- 127, years 2013 – 2026
- Link
- humboldtbooks.com/it/catalogo
Start with
- Claudio Giunta, Giovanna Silva, Tutta la solitudine che meritate. Viaggio in Islanda (2014)
- Emanuele Trevi, Giovanna Silva, Ontani in Bali (English Edition) (2016)
- Alterazioni Video, Gabriele Basilico, INCOMPIUTO (New Edition). The Birth of a Style (2018)
- Carla Cerati, Milano 1963/1973 (2023)
Latest additions
- Andrea De Fusco, Laurana Napoli Eolie (2026)
- Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi, The Arrow of Time (2017)
- Michele Lombardelli, L.A. 1989 Tokyo 1991 (2017)
- Joanna Piotrowska, Frantic (2017)
Recurring authors
- Gabriele Basilico (7)
- Giovanna Silva (3)
- Giorgio Andreotta Calò (3)
- Stefano Graziani (3)
- Nanna Debois Buhl (3)
Shares authors with
- Quodlibet (4)
- Mousse (3)
- Actes Sud (1)
- Art Paper Editions (1)
- Chose commune (1)
Books in the archive
- Alberto Lattuada, Federico Patellani, Matera 1953 (2017)
- Alessandra Spranzi, Nello stesso momento (2015)
- Alexander von Humboldt, Viaggio alle regioni equinoziali del Nuovo Continente (2014)
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Viaggio in America. Stati Uniti e Canada 1831–32 (2023)
- Alterazioni Video, Gabriele Basilico, INCOMPIUTO (New Edition). The Birth of a Style (2018)
- Andrea Branzi, Mosca 1962 (2025)
- Antonio Rovaldi, Orizzonti in Italia (2015)
- Aradhana Seth, Sadak. Hand Painted Street Signs in India (2023)
- Calla Henkel, Max Pitegoff, Berlin, Zürich, Zürich, Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, London (2016)
- Carla Cerati, Milano 1963/1973 (2023)
- Carlo Mollino, Giappone 1970 (2016)
- Carlo Tribbioli, A Season in Slemani (2021)
- Carlos Casas, Cemetery. Journeys to the Elephant Graveyard and Beyond (2020)
- Carsten Höller, "Fara Fara". A Film Not Made (2015)
- Civil Architecture (ed.), Foreign Architecture / Domestic Policy (2022)
- Claudia Losi, How Do I Imagine Being There? (English Edition) (2016)
- Claudio Giunta, Giovanna Silva, Togliatti. La fabbrica della Fiat (2020)
- Claudio Giunta, Giovanna Silva, Tutta la solitudine che meritate. Viaggio in Islanda (2014)
- Cy Twombly, Marocco 1952/1953 (2023)
- Daniela Comani, Planet Earth: 21st Century (2019)
- Various Authors, Salento Moderno. An inventory of private houses in Southern Puglia (2018)
- Di Nofa Elisa, Francesco Paleari, Templi per lombardi laboriosi. Architetture di Mario Galvagni a Inveruno (2024)
- Dino Baldi, Marina Ballo Charmet, Oracoli, santuari e altri prodigi. Sopralluoghi in Grecia (2013)
- Donatella Bernardi (ed.), Into Your Solar Plexus (2016)
- Elisa Di Nofa, Francesco Paleari (eds.), Golfi verdi e parquet panga panga. Milano San Felice (2023)
- Emanuel Christ & Christoph Gantenbein, Victoria Easton (eds.), Mahalla – The Survey (2021)
- Emanuele Trevi, Giovanna Silva, Ontani in Bali (English Edition) (2016)
- Enrico Peressutti, URSS 1941 (2022)
- Enrique Vila-Matas, Marienbad elettrico – Bastian Schneider (2018)
- Ernesto Schick, Railway Flora (English Edition). Botanical observations on the area around the international marshalling yard of Chiasso, 1969–1978 (2025)
- Ettore Favini, Arrivederci (2016)
- Federico Lodoli, Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli, Towards the Altar of a God Unknown. Liberian Notes (2018)
- Federico Patellani, Stromboli 1949
- Fosbury Architecture (ed.), SpazialeOgnuno appartiene a tutti gli altri
- Francesca Berardi, Detour in Detroit
- Francesco Jodice, American Recordings (2015)
- Francesco M. Cataluccio, Non c'è nessuna Itaca. Viaggio in Lituania (2022)
- Gabriele Basilico, Non recensiti (2021)
- Gabriele Basilico, Free Zone 2006 (2018)
- Gabriele Basilico, Glasgow 1969 (2017)
- Gabriele Basilico, Marocco 1971 (2016)
- Gabriele Basilico, Iran 1970 (2015)
- Gabriele Basilico, Gabriele Basilico fotografa Aldo Rossi (2026)
- Gabriele Mastrigli (ed.), ROOM(S) (2015)
- Gae Aulenti, Cina 1974 (2023)
- Gianni Berengo Gardin, Sicilia 1966/2008 (2024)
- Giorgio Andreotta Calò, In girum imus nocte (2024)
- Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Genova Ventimiglia Genova (2013)
- Giorgio Vasta, Ramak Fazel, Palermo. Un'autobiografia nella luce (2022)
- Giorgio Vasta, Ramak Fazel, Absolutely Nothing. Storie e sparizioni nei deserti americani (2016)
- Giulio Squillacciotti, A War Play (2025)
- Guillaume De Sardes, The Sense of Nature (English Edition). Contemporary Art in the Mirror of Poussin (2026)
- Gustave Flaubert, Lettere dall'Egitto (2021)
- Hamed Khosravi, Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin, Filippo LaFleur (eds.), Aesthetics and Politics of Logistics (2019)
- Hamish Fulton, Michael Höpfner, From Here to Tibet. A Conversation Between Two Walking Artists, March 2019 – July 2020 (2022)
- Haris Epaminonda, Chapters I–XXX (Limited Edition) (2014)
- Hilario Isola, Oh...My God! Bamboo Scaffolding on Myanmar Pagoda (2017)
- Hinrich Sachs, Fredrik Ehlin (eds.), Fog Friend Font. Ways of Doing Multilingual Sense (2019)
- Invernomuto, Black Med (2022)
- Invernomuto, Negus (2014)
- Jacopo Valentini, Concerning Dante. Autonomous Cell (2022)
- Jonas Mekas, Transcript 04 44'34''. Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR (2020)
- Jonathan Monk, One Hundred Meals Between Rome and Berlin (Limited Edition) (2016)
- Josef Albers, Messico 1935-1956 (2021)
- Julia (ed.), Habitats (2018)
- Keren Cytter, Antonio Grulli, Tel Aviv – Jerusalem Diaries (2019)
- Kersten Geers, Jelena Pančevac (eds.), Everything I · V (2021)
- Lele Saveri, Hong Kong Barricades (2019)
- Linda Fregni Nagler, Yama No Shashin. Work After Meiji Photographs (2018)
- Lisa Ponti, Io sono un disegno (2023)
- Lisetta Carmi, Genova 1960/1970 (New Edition) (2023)
- Louis De Belle, Cartographies (Special Edition). New York, 10 am – 7 pm (2021)
- Louise E. Carver, Angela Rui (eds.), The Aquarium Is a Listening Glass (2024)
- Luca Lo Pinto (ed.), Editorial: An Exhibition in Words (English Edition) (2021)
- Luca Lo Pinto, Olaf Nicolai (eds.), I Am Only the Housekeeper, but I Don't Know... (2025)
- Luca Trevisani, Water Ikebana. Stories About Solid and Liquid Things (2014)
- Luca Trevisani (ed.), Via Roma 398. Palermo (2018)
- Luca Vitone, Romanistan (2019)
- Ludovico Quaroni, Roma 1968 (2021)
- Luigi Comencini, Italia 1945/1948 (2016)
