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Only Dutch translation of the 1824-1825 farewell tour of general Lafayette, the hero of the American Revolution View picture(s) 21 LEVASSEUR, Auguste. Reis door de Vereenigde Staten van Noord-Amerika in de jaren 1824 en 1825 door den generaal Lafayette. Zutphen, W.J. Thieme, 1831. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary boards with pasted title-label on spine, uncut. With lithographed portrait of Lafayette for frontispiece to volume 1. 8, 254, [1, 1 blank]; [1, 1 blank], 223, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America [North]  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A key historical text on the Tonga Islands View picture(s) 22 MARINER, William and John MARTIN (editor). An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. With an original grammar and vocabulary of their language. Second edition, with additions. London, John Murray, 1818. 2 volumes. 8vo. 19th-century half calf. With engraved frontispiece portrait of Mariner by Bragg after Mouchet, and a folding engraved map of the Tonga Islands. LIV [of LVI, lacking half-title], 444; [2], 344, [148] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Cook  Pacific  Piracy  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare Tahitian imprint concerning astronomy View picture(s) 23 MAZIMANN, P. De l'utilité dont serait un cerlcle [sic] a pied parallactique pour l'observation des distances lunaires. Tahiti, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, 1858. 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers. 14, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy  Astronomy & Cosmography  Maritime History  Navigation  Pacific  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic Jesuit account of the West Indies & French Guyana View picture(s) 24 PELLEPRAT, Pierre. Relation des missions des pp. de la compagnie de Jesus dans les isles, & dans la terre ferme de l'Amerique Meridionale. With: (2) PELLEPRAT, Pierre. Introduction a la Langue des Galibis, Sauvages de la Terre Ferme de l'Amerique Meridionale. Paris, Sebastien and Gabriel Cramoisy, 1655. 2 works in 1 volume as issued, the first in 2 parts. 8vo. Modern marbled calf. The first work with engraved armorial headpiece and engraved initial letter for the dedication. [16], 93, [1 blank]; [2], 121, [4], [3 blank]; 30, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Jesuits  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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'The newly discovered lands in the West' ... one of the earliest mentions of America (1508) View picture(s) 25 PERIEGETES, Dionysius. Situs orbis Dionysij Ruffo avieno interprete. Vienna, Johann Winterberger, 1508. 4to. 19th-century red morocco with triple gilt lines along the edges, spine gilt in compartments with the title lettered in gold in the second compartment, inner dentelles, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (EMILE ADUSSELLE). Roman type. 28 lines to a page. [26] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Americana  Austria  Geography  Greek & Latin  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the famous Huet library View picture(s) 26 PROCLUS and Francesco BAROZZI (editor). Procli Diadochi in primum Euclidis elementorum librum commentariorum ad universam mathematicam disciplinam principium eruditionis tradentium libri IIII. summa opera, cura, ac diligentia cunctis mendis expurgati: scholiis, & figuris, quae in graeco codice omnes desideranbantur aucti: primum iam Romanae linguae venustate donati, & nunc recens editi. Padua, Gratiosus Perchacinus, 1560. Folio. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum, sides with gilt fillet borders, corner ornaments and central ornament, gilt edges. In dropback box with gillt title. With large woodcut emblem on title, woodcut printer's device on last blank, full-page woodcut portrait of Barozzi on verso of title, numerous geometrical illustrations in text, all pages set within red ruled woodcut borders. [16], 272, [24] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Humanism  Mathematics  Perspective  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The history of Hawaii: only edition in Hawaiian and French View picture(s) 27 REMY, Jules (translator). Ka Mooolelo Hawaii. Histoire de l'archipel Havaiien (Iles Sandwich). Texte et traduction précédés d'une introduction sur l'état physique, moral et politique du pays. Including: REMY, Jules (translator). Moolelo Hawaii - Histoire Havaiienne. Paris and Leipzig, printed by J. Claye for A. Franck and Franck'sche Verlags-Buchhandlung, 1861-1862. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Modern brown half morocco, with the original printed wrappers bound in. With original Hawaiian text on the left and the French translation on the right page. [4], LXXV, [1 blank]; 254, [2 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Hawaii  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Of the utmost importance on the knowledge of leprosy in the Dutch East Indies, written by the first Deshima doctor to describe the medicine and culture of Japan to the West View picture(s) 28 RHYNE, Willem ten. Verhandelinge van de Asiatise melaatsheid, na een naaukeuriger ondersoek ten dienste van het gemeen. Amsterdam, Abraham van Someren, 1687. With a woodcut fleuron on the title-page. [18], 181, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Japan  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An eyewitness account of the American Revolution View picture(s) 29 ROBIN, Abbé. Nieuwe reize door Noord-Amerika in den jaare 1781. Amsterdam, Allart and Holtrop, 1782. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, boards covered with decorated paper. With folding engraved map of the United States of America (20.5 x 23 cm) facing page 1, hand-coloured in outline. VI [of VIII, lacking half-title], 283, [3] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America [North]  Dutch  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First work on stage design ever published View picture(s) 30 SABBATTINI, Nicola. Pratica di fabricar scene, e machine ne'teatri. Pesaro, Flaminio Concordia, 1637. 4to. Original flexible boards covered with decorated, painted, paper. With the woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee Cardinal Grimaldi on the title and 49 woodcut geometrical diagrams and illustrations of decors and stage settings in the text. [4], 89, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Italy  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare work on decorative printing, with manuscript signature of the author View picture(s) 31 SAVAGE, William. Practical hints on decorative printing. London, published for the proprietor by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown etc., 1822 [-23]. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary dark blue half morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. With 59 (of 60: lacking plate 3, the dedication) illustrations including the title-page: 53 full-page plates and 6 headpieces, of which some coloured. Plate 58 (listed in Abbey as a defaced Cottage and Landscape) is in this copy replaced by a defaced 'River Scene' (cf. Abbey's plate 39). Plates 52-53, 54-55, 56-57 and 58-59 are printed on the recto and verso of one leaf. [4, of 6]; [1 prospectus] ll.; 116 (of 118) pp.; [6] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Printing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Experiments with snails View picture(s) 32 SCHAEFFER, Jacob Christian. Erstere und fernere Versuche mit Schnecken, nebst einem Nachtrage. Regensburg, Joh. Christoph Keyser, 1770. With 7 hand-coloured engraved plates by J.G. and J.M. Fridrich after Loibel. [4], 68 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Natural History  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important manuals on land surveying by pupils of Simon Stevin View picture(s) 33 SEMS, Johan and Jan Pietersz. DOU. Pracktijck des lantmetens. Leerende alle rechte ende cromsijdige landen, bosschen, boomgaerden, ende ander velden meten, soo wel met behulp des quadrants, als sonder het selve. Midtsgaders alle landen deelen in ghelijcke ende ongelijcke deelen op verscheyden manieren, met eenighe nieuwe ghecaculeerde tafelen daer toe dienende. Leyden, Jan Bouwenszoon, 1600. With a large engraved illustration of surveyors at work on title, many woodcut diagrams and printed tables in text. [8], 303, [5] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Netherlands  Surveying  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A famous history of the conquest of Mexico View picture(s) 34 SOLIS, Antonio de. Histoire de la conqueste du Mexique, ou de la Nouvelle Espagne par Fernand Cortez. Paris, Compagnie des Libraires, 1730. 2 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt. With 14 engraved maps, views and plates (of which 12 folding). [32], 606, [26]; [12], 560, [22] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  America, North  Cartography  Mexico  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The famous first journey by Joris van Spilbergen View picture(s) 35 SPILBERGEN, Joris van. T'Historiael journael, van tghene ghepasseert is van weghen drie schepen, ghenaemt den Ram, Schaep ende het Lam, ghevaren uyt Zeelandt vander stadt Camp-Vere naer d'Oost-Indien, onder t'beleyt van Joris van Speilberghen, generael, Anno 1601. den 5. Mey, tot in t'Eylant Celon, vervatende heel schoone gheschiedenissen, die by haer op dese reyse gheschiet zijn, inden tijdt van twee jaer, elff maenden, neghenthien daghen ... Ghecorrigeert verbetert ende vermeerdert. Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1617. Oblong 4to (17.5 x 23.5 cm). 18th-century vellum with double gilt fillets along the edges and gilt floral border with four corner pieces on both sides, gilt edges, ties lacking. With large engraved allegorical plate on title with a native woman sitting on a beach surrounded by all kinds of merchandise, large folding engraved plate of the city Kandi on Ceylon (35 x 39.5 cm), folding engraved map of Ceylon (29.8 x 20.2 cm), 8 full-page and 2 smaller engravings in text. 41, [1] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Ceylon  Dutch  Navigation  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early mentioning of Australia and mirroring early 17th-century Spanish daily life View picture(s) 36 SUAREZ DE FIGUEROA, Christobal (Thomaso GARZONI). Plaza universal de todas ciencias, y artes, parte traduzida de Toscano, y parte compuesta por el doctor Christoval Suearez de Figueroa. A Hieronymo Perarnau cavallero Catalan ... Perpignan, Luis Roure, 1630 (colophon: 1629). 4to. Contemporary mottled calf. With title printed in woodcut border with large woodcut coat of arms; interesting woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. [8], 379, [1 blank] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Encyclopædic Works  Perspective  Printing  Professions  Science  Spanish  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The life of St Francis Xavier in German View picture(s) 37 TORSELLINI, Orazio. Apostolisches Leben und Thaten deß heiligen Francisci, der Francisci Xaverii, der Societet Jesu, Indianer Apostels. Munich, Sebastian Rauch, 1674. 4to. Contemporary vellum with two clasps. With engraved frontispiece by Melchior Küsell after J. M. Tobrias and an extra frontispiece by the same engraver bound in after page 512. [16], 627, [13] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: China  East Indies  Japan  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Dutch translation of a famous biography View picture(s) 38 TORSELLINI, Orazio. Het leven vanden heylighen Franciscus Xaverius die den eersten vande Societeyt Jesu het H. Evangelie in Indien ende Japonien heeft ghepredickt. Ghedeylt in ses boecken. Door den E. P. Horatius Tursselinus in 't Latijn beschreven, ende door den E. P. Franciscus de Smidt verduytscht beyde priesters der Societeyt Jesu. Antwerp, Cornelis Woons, 1646. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. [16], 544 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Japan  Jesuits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Introducing Dutch medicine into Japan View picture(s) 39 UDAGAWA, Genshin. Ihan Teiko. Edo (Tokyo), 1805. 2 volumes: 3 parts in 1 text volume., and 1 atlas volume. Text volume (8vo), atlas vol. large 8vo (30 x 21 cm). Both volumes in contemporary Japanese book-bindings; rice-paper (text) and boards (atlas). With numerous anatomical illustrations on 16 engraved plates, mounted on thick paper, by the Japanese artist Aodo Denzen. [90]; [16] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Japan  Medicine  Rangaku  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first European to enter Mekka and Medina View picture(s) 40 VARTHEMA, Ludvico di. De uytnemende en seer vvonderlijcke zee-en-landt-reyse van de heer Ludovvyck di Barthema, van Bononien, Ridder &c. Gedaen inde Morgenlanden, Syrien, vrughtbaer en woest Arabien, Perssen, Indien, Egypten, Ethiopien en andere. Utrecht, Gerard Nieuwenhuysen & Willem Snellaert, 1654. 4to. Old vellum. With engraved frontispiece and 4 engraved plates. [8], 56, 56 [= 60], 24, [2, 2 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  East Indies  Islamitica  Middle East  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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