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Thousands of famous people from all over the world between two covers View picture(s) 221 OETTINGER, Eduard Maria. (Ed.). Bibliographie biographique universelle. Dictionnaire des ouvrages relatifs a l'histoire de la vie publique et pricée des personnages célèbres de tous les temps et de toutes les nations, depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'a nos jours. Enrichi du répertoire des bio-bibliographies générales, nationales, et spéciales par Edouard-Marie Dettinger. Paris, A. Lacroix & Cie, Paul Daffis, 1866. 2 parts in 1 vol. Large 8vo. Half red morocco, spine ribbed with title in gilt. IV pp., 2192 cols. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Bibliography  Biography  France  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An unbiased view on the Dutch East Indies View picture(s) 222 OLIVIER, Johannes. Tafereelen en merkwaardigheden uit Oost-Indië. Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1836-38. 2 volumes. 8vo. 19-century boards covered with marbled paper. With 25 plates (containing 76 numbered steel-engraved illustrations; number 37 is signed by J.W. Kaiser and used as frontispiece to volume I). VIII, 333, [1]; VIII, 346 [= 348] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  East Indies  India  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The children's friend View picture(s) 223 ONDERWATER, Dirk. De Vriend der Kinderen, of een Bundeltje gedichten voor het opkomend geslacht. Derde Druk. Leiden, P.H. Trap, 1817. Small 8vo. Contemporary boards with an engraving of a horseman on  frontcover. With 6 full-page engraved plates, all finely coloured by hand. 68, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Dutch  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Moral poetry for children View picture(s) 224 ONDERWATER, Dirk. Verlustigingen voor de Jeugd, of Bundeltje Gedichten voor het opkomend geslacht. Derde druk. Amst., Gebroeders Koster, 1839. 12mo. Orig. wrappers. With 6 full-page engraved plates, all beautifully coloured by hand. 68, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Dutch  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The history of Zwolle View picture(s) 225 OOSTKAMP, Jan Antonie. Korte Geschiedenis der Stad Zwolle, van derzelver eersten Oorsprong, tot op den Tegenwoordigen Tijd. In Leeslesjes voor de Jeugd. Zwolle, J.L. Zeehuisen, 1817. Sm.8vo. Orig. boards. With folding engraved plan of Zwolle by T. Koning after design by the author. VIII, 133, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  History  Overijssel  Schoolbooks  Zwolle  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a celebrated description of Tibet View picture(s) 226 PALLAS, Peter Simon. Description du Tibet, d'après la relation des Lamas Tangoutes, établis parmi les Mongols; traduit de l'allemand avec des notes, par J. Reuilly. Paris, Bossange, Masson et Besson, 1808. 8vo. Modern half calf, spine gilt with title lettered in gold. With an engraved illustration on title page by Duplessis-Bertaux. (5), VIII-XII, 89 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Asia  Mongolia  Tibet  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch edition of Palmer's 'Journal of Travels' through America in 1817 View picture(s) 227 PALMER, John. Dagverhaal eener reize in de Vereenigde Staten van Noord-America, en Neder-Canada, gedaan in 1817. Uit het Engelsch, met eene inleiding, bevattende een statistisch overzigt der Vereenigde Staten van Noord-America, volgens de beste en nieuwste berigten. Met eene nieuwe kaart. Haarlem, Heirs of François Bohn, 1820. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine with gilt title on red morocco title-label, marbled boards. With newly designed large folding engraved map (ca. 347 x 445 mm) of America, engraved by D. Veelwaard (1766-1851) after Mellishes (Haarlem, Heirs of Bohn, 1820), with borders and outlines in contemporary handcolouring. 44, 318 (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Canada  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the classics of travel literature View picture(s) 228 PARK, Mungo. Reize in de binnenlanden van Afrika, gedurende de jaren 1795, 1796, en 1797. Benevens een aanhangsel, behelzende aardrijkskundige ophelderingen over Afrika; door den Majoor Rennel. Met kaarten en platen. Naar de derde uitgave uit het Engelsch vertaald. The Hague, Joh. Conrad Leeuwestijn, 1801-2. 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary three-quarter calf, gilt spine with green morocco title-label lettered in gold, marbled boards and edges. Vol. 1: full-page stipple-engraved author's portrait by Portman, large folding engraved map by C. van Baar after J. Rennell, folding engraved view of the tent of Ali on Benown by R. Vinkeles after J.C. Barrow, full-page engraved plate of a plant (Rhamnus Lotus); vol. 2: folding engraved plate with musical scores ('Muziek voor den Negerinnen-zang'), folding engraved view of Kamalia by R. Vinkeles after J.C. Barrow. Vol. 3: 2 folding engraved maps, folding engraved view of a bridge over the 'Ba-fing, of Zwarte rivier') by R. Vinkeles after J.C. Barrow, folding engraved plate of a plant ('Shea of Boterbloem'), some tables in text. XVIII, 284 (8); (4), 261 (9); XXVIII, 322 (6) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Africa  Cultural History  Geography  Geography & Demography  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The global adventures of an Austrian lady View picture(s) 229 PFEIFFER, Ida. Mijn tweede reis rondom de wereld. Uit het Hoogduitsch. Amsterdam, J.C.A. Sulpke, 1856. 3 volumes. 8vo. Modern half calf with gilt title on spine, marbled boards. Each volume with chromo-lithographed title. XVI, 312; IV, 240; IV, 244 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America [Central]  America [South]  America, North  Americana  Canada  Dutch  East Indies  Indonesia  Travel & Voyages  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Thrilling recollections of a Rotterdam teacher travelling to East Asia View picture(s) 230 PHILIPS, Teunis Hermanus. Hoe ik taalmeester werd. Reisherinneringen. Een souvenir, zijn vrienden hier en elders aangeboden. Rotterdam, W.Wenk, [1871]. 8vo. Blank paper wrappers with pasted photocopied original front wrapper. Wth full-page lithographed author's portrait and 13 full-page lithographed plates, of which 11 tinted en 2 in black & white, all by P. Blommers (The Hague). [6], 226 [5, 1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  China  Dutch  Exploration  History  Indonesia  Lithographs  Philippines  Shipwrecks  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important work on the English penal colonies in Australia View picture(s) 231 PILORGERIE, Jules de la. Histoire de Botany-Bay, etat present des colonies pénales de l'Angleterre, dans l'Australie, ou examen des effets de la déportation, considérée comme peine et comme moyen de colonisation. Paris, Paulin, 1836. 8vo. Original green wrappers. Appendix 1 (= pp. 381-4) with in total four engraved tables on one folding leaf. [4], XIV, 394, [IV] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Australia & New Zealand  Colonial History  French  History  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the library of Willem I, King of the Netherlands View picture(s) 232 POISSONNIER-DESPERRIERES, Gabriel Adrien Marie. Vie politique et militaire, écrite par lui-même, et publiée de son vivant. Paris, C.J. Trouvé for the author, 1824. 8vo. Contemporary full-grained orange morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt with gilt plumed helmets in the compartments and dark-brown title-label, with richly gilt and blind-stamped borders on sides and large richly gilt armorial supralibris of the Dutch King Willem I on both covers. With lithographed frontispiece-portrait of Louis Charles, the French Crownprince, by Constans after a drawing by Eugénie Lebrun. XII, 512 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Bindings  France  History  House of Orange  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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England's secret weapon in the battle of Trafalgar View picture(s) 233 POPHAM, Sir Home Riggs. Telegraphic signals; or marine vocabulary. London, printed for T. Egerton, 1809. 8vo. Contemporary marbled boards. Engraved plate with flags and signals, thumb-indexed. (4), II, 4-113, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  England  Maritime History  Navigation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The library of a Belgian book collector View picture(s) 234 POWIS DE ZOERSEL. Catalogue d'une belle et riche collection de livres rares et précieux, dont nombre d'ouvrages anglais avec magnifique gravures, provenant de la bibliothèque de M. Powis de Zoersel. Bruxelles, F.P. Simon, 1835. 8vo. Wrappers. Uncut. VI, 137 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Belgicana  Book History  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Libraries & Collections  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Easily the most popular A B book of all View picture(s) 235 PRINSEN, Pieter Johannes. A. B. C. Boek, zijnde de twee Eerste Tafels van de eerste oefeningen in het Lezen. Negende druk. Haarlem, De Erven Loosjes, 1857. Sm.8vo. Modern blue cloth, gilt-titled on frontcover. With 18 small woodcuts to the vocals, and 17 small woodcuts to the consonants. 11, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  ABC Books  Children's Books  Education  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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New Dutch method of A B teaching View picture(s) 236 PRINSEN, Pieter Johannes. Leerwijze om Kinderen te leeren lezen. Derde Druk. Amst., De Erven H. van Munster en Zoon, 1842. Orig. boards. With engraved plate showing a large upstanding A B letter-case with loose letters arranged on 6 levels, left the vocals and compound vocals and at the right the consonants, with in the middle 6 empty levels to form words. X, 146 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  ABC Books  Children's Books  Dutch  Education  Teaching  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A lengthy voyage to Rio View picture(s) 237 PRIOR, James. Voyage along the eastern coast of Africa, to Mosambique, Johanna, and Quiloa; to St. Helena; to Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and Pernambuco in Brazil, in the Nisus frigate. London, for Sir Richard Philips and Co., 1819. 8vo. Later wrappers. With 2 folding engraved maps and 1 full-page aquatint plate. VI, 114 [i.e. 112] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Anthropology  Brazil  English  Geography  Geography & Demography  Travel & Voyages  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Monumental work on Islamic decoration and architecture View picture(s) 238 PRISSE D'AVENNES, Achille Constant Théodore Émile. L'Art arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire depuis le VIIe siècle jusqu'la fin du XVIIIe. Paris, Morel, [1869]-1877. 1 volume of text (4to) and 3 volumes of plates (large folio). Contemporary half morocco (text volume), plate volumes in matching modern bindings with marbled paper sides, spine with raised bands and gilt morocco label. Text volume with 34 lithographs (all with tissue guards) and 73 illustrations in text; plate volumes all with half title, title and list of contents, and 200 lithographs in total (130 chromo, 48 tinted and 22 black and white), uncut and on strong paper. Text: [1 blank leaf, title leaf], VIII, 296 pp., [1 blank leaf). Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Arabia  Colour Platebooks  Islamitica  Ottoman Empire  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Brazilian plants: Filices (ferns) View picture(s) 239 RADDUS, Josephus (Giuseppe RADDI). Plantarum Brasiliensium nova henera et species nova, vel minus cognitae. Florence, Aloisii Pezzati, 1825. Part 1 (= all published). Folio. 20th-century red cloth, spine with pasted title-label, uncut. With 97 full-page numbered b/w lithographed plates showing numerous species of Brazilian plants (84 plates and 13 bis plates). Some plates are signed by Luisa Ridolfi, Santinaand Carolina Guerrazzi, Piero, Guilia, Luigi and Anna Guiccardini, Domecico VAntini, Orazio and Anna Ambra and Anna Bojti. (4), 101, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America [South]  Botany  Brazil  Discovery & Exploration  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The struggle for an independent black Haiti: the founding of the first independent state in the Americas, by an English admirer View picture(s) 240 RAINSFORD, Marcus. St. Domingo, of het land der zwarten in Hayti en deszelfs omwenteling. Naar het Engelsch. Met platen en kaarten. Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1806. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled boards. With a frontispiece, 8 full-page numbered engraved plates, a folding map of Haiti (20.5 x 44 cm), a folding plan of 'Kaap François', all engraved, and a facsimile of a letter by Toussaint L'Ouverture to Edward Tyrell Smith on 3 folding leaves. XXVIII [= XXVI], 410, [2]; VIII, 416 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Haiti  Slavery  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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