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Illustrated by the author after designs by Jan en Caspar Luyken View picture(s) 41 WEIGEL, Johann Christoph. Ethica naturalis, seu documenta moralia e variis rerum naturalium proprietatibus virtutum vitiorumque symbolicis imaginibus collecta. Nuremberg, [ca. 1700]. 4to. 19th-century gilt-stamped brown morocco, gilt inner dentelles, gilt edges. With engraved title, 100 engraved emblems (ca. 10.5 x 12 cm) by Jan and Caspar Luyken, versos blank. Each emblem with letterpress title, motto and a 10-line Latin verse in letterpress. [101] ll., including title. Full description >> Related Subjects: Emblem Books  German  Illustrated Books  Shipwrecks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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"Rare and highly desirable" (Lada-Mocarski) View picture(s) 42 ZIMMERMANN, Heinrich. Reise um die Welt, mit Capitain Cook. Mannheim, E. F. Schwan, 1781. 8vo. Contemporary boards. With a silhouette portrait on the title page, as Forbes suggests of Cook, but probably of Zimmermann, woodcut head- and endpiece. 110 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Circumnavigation  Cook  German  Hawaii  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare Italian translation of series of seven letters regarding Confucian rites controversy View picture(s) 43 [ALEXANDRE, Noel]. Lettera di un dottore dell'ordine di S. Domenico, sopra le cerimonie della China. Cologne [=Amsterdam?], heirs of Cornelis van Egmond, 1700. 8vo. Contemporary sheepskin parchment, red sprinkled edges. 116 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  China  Italy  Jesuits  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare engraved handkerchief celebrating the independence of America View picture(s) 44 [AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE]. [Engraved handkerchief celebrating the independence of America]. [England, ca. 1783]. (69 x 65 cm). Engraving on linen. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Americana  History  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting collection of autograph letters from the Maritime Prefect at Toulon, one of the leading French naval figures of the 19th century View picture(s) 45 [AUTOGRAPH]. BAUDIN, Charles. [Collection of 14 original letters]. Toulon, 1843-47. 8vo and 4to. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  France  Manuscripts  Maritime History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Letter by Bougainville to wife of Paris naval minister, French Ambassador to the United States View picture(s) 46 [AUTOGRAPH]. BOUGAINVILLE, Hyacinthe-Yves-Philippe Potentien, Baron de. [Letter to Baroness Hyde de Neuville (Anne Marguerite Henriette de Marigny Hyde de Neuville]. [Brest?, 1820-1822]. (20.6 x 16.5 cm). Signed. [3, 1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Autographs, Letters & Documents  Circumnavigation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Manuscript notes on Abel Tasman View picture(s) 47 [AUTOGRAPH]. DOZY, Charles Marius. [Notes, annotations and references, written while preparing an important article on Abel Tasman, which was published in 1887]. [Amsterdam, Batavia, etc., shortly before 1887]. Various sizes, mainly folio . 15 ll. with notes and annotations; 2 letters; 3 postcards. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Discovery & Exploration  East Indies  Indonesia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Letter by famous Scottish explorer of the Korean coasts and parts of China View picture(s) 48 [AUTOGRAPH]. HALL, Basil. [Letter to Aaron Louis Frédéric Regnault, Baron de la Susse]. Smyrna (Izmir, Turkey), 27 June, 1842. (18 x 11 cm). In brown ink on paper. Signed letter in English. [1,3 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Autographs, Letters & Documents  China  Discovery & Exploration  Korea  Travel & Voyages  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the first marriage of the founder of Rensselaerswijck (now Albany, NY) View picture(s) 49 [AUTOGRAPH]. RENSSELAER, Kiliaen and Hillegonda van BYLER (BYLLAER). [4 letters preceding a marriage in 1616]. Frankfurt and Utrecht, 1615-16. Folio and 8vo. 4 autograph letters, 3 of which with red wax-seals and gold threat. Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  Autographs, Letters & Documents  Diamonds  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Discussing the survey of the West coast of Africa View picture(s) 50 [AUTOGRAPH]. ROUSSIN, Admiral Albin Reine. [Lette to M. Louis-Marie Bajot]. Rochefort, 31 August 1818. Folio. Signed letter, in French. Double-leaf with text on the recto and verso of the first leaf (single leaf: 31.3 x 20 cm.). Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Africa  Maritime History  Surveying  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extensive collection of stage show announcements from first half of 19th-century View picture(s) 51 [BROADSHEET - STAGE SHOWS]. [Collection of over 130 English, German, Italian etc. broadsides announcing theatreplays, operas, and circus acts]. [England: London. Germany: Munich etc. Prague, Italy], 1831-1868. 1mo (27.5 x 14.5 cm to 63 x 28.5 cm. 19th-century half calf with title on gilt and ribbed spine: 'Gesammelte Theaterzettel von 1831-1841'. Over 130 theatre broadsides mainly printed in black, some in blue and/or red, and on blue, yellow, grey, light green, or pink (thin) paper, and ca. 10 program leaflets. Some with wood-engraved illustrations printed in black or blue. Full description >> Related Subjects: Ballooning  Circus  Magic & Conjuring  Opera  Poster  Prints - Games & Pastimes  Prints- Festivals, Ceremonies & Fireworks  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Imperial mail steamers to Australia View picture(s) 52 [BROADSHEET]. [KELLER, WALLIS & COMPANY]. North German Lloyd Imperial mail steamers to Australia. Via Suez Canal. These fine steamers, of the highest class and speed, will leave regularly every four weeks for Adelaide, Melbourne & Sydney, under mail contract with the German Government, and take the shortest route... to Australia. London, Howard and Jones, [18]89. 1mo (52 x 29 cm). With large image of steamer at head of sheet, detachable "form of application for ticket" at bottom. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Australia & New Zealand  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ca. 115 shell drawings in ink & coloured washes View picture(s) 53 [DRAWING - SHELLS]. BIRTILL-STUART. Conchology. [England], (ca. 1818 - ca. 1830). 3 sheets. The three main sheets backed with cloth. Two large sheets (41 x 52 cm & 52 x 40 cm) with nearly 100 drawings of shells, plus a large classified table (56 x 52.5 cm) of 36 numbered shell sorts, the numbers referring to the shells in the portrait-format sheet. The landscape-format sheet has its own numbered list of 38 shell sorts. An additional leaf (21 x 18 cm) with 18 more shell drawings has been tipped onto the back of the table. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Conchology  Drawings  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fine 18th-century drawing by a well-known Swiss artist View picture(s) 54 [DRAWING - VIEW - INDIA]. LIPS, Johann Heinrich. [The coast of Coromandel]. [No place, ca. 1790]. (Ca. 10.2 x 6.1 cm). In gilt frame. Pen drawing in brownish ink with washes, signed by the artist 'Greeting of a naval officer by local women and children at the coast of Coromandel'. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  India  Pendrawing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A beautiful passion flower View picture(s) 55 [DRAWING - WATERCOLOUR - BOTANICAL]. VINNE, Jan Janszoon van der. [Watercolour of a passion flower]. [Ca. 1780?]. (42.5 x 27 cm). A passion flower, on verso signed with "J. van der Vinne Jzn."  Watercolour on paper. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Botany  Watercolours  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Watercolour on vellum by a pupil of Redouté View picture(s) 56 [DRAWING - WATERCOLOUR - BOTANICAL]. DELARUE, Claire. [Watercolour with flowers and fruits on vellum, signed]. [Paris, ca. 1840]. (43.5 x 35 cm). Framed. With peaches, raspberries and blue flax. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Botany  Redouté  Vellum  Watercolours  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Tiger lillies View picture(s) 57 [DRAWING - WATERCOLOUR - BOTANICAL]. VINNE, Jan Janszoon van der. [Watercolour of tiger lillies]. [Ca. 1780?]. (Ca. 42 x 27 cm). Watercolour on paper. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Botany  Watercolours  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Five natives from the Sandwich islands educated in New York and Boston View picture(s) 58 [HAWAII - SANDWICH ISLANDS]. A narrative of five youth from the Sandwich Islands, now receiving an education on this country. Published by order of the agents appointed to establish a school for heathen youth. New York, J. Seymour, 1816. 8vo. Sewn, but lacking original printed wrappers. Preserved in half polished calf drop-back box with gilt title on spine. 44 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Hawaii  Mission  Sandwich Islands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Letters from the Jesuit mission in Japan and the East-Indies View picture(s) 59 [JAPAN & THE EAST-INDIES - JESUITS]. Epistolae Indicae et Iapanicae de multarum gentium ad Christi fidem, per Societatem Iesu conversione. Item de Tartarorum potentia, moribus, & totius penè Asiae religione. Tertia editio cum Indice castigatior & auctior. Including: Epistolae Iapanicae, de multorum in variis insulis gentilium ad Christi sidem conversione. Leuven, Rutger Velpius, 1570. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary sheepskin parchment, traces of ties. With general title-page and title-page for the second part, both in a frame built up from fleurons, and both parts with woodcut publisher's device on last blank and numerous decorated woodcut initials. [24], 361[=316], [20]; 401[=399], [25] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Early printing  East Indies  India  Japan  Jesuits  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Mid-18th century scientific correspondence View picture(s) 60 [LIGNAC, Joseph Adrien Le Large de]. Lettres à un Amériquain sur l'histoire naturelle, générale et particuliere de monsieur de Buffon ... [from vol. 4 further:] et sur les observations microscopiques de Mr. Néedham. [From vol. 6:] Suite des lettres a un Amériquain, sur les IVe. & Ve. volumes de l'Histoire naturelle de M. de Buffon; et sur le Traité des animaux de M. l'Abbé de Condillac. "Hambourg" [Paris?], 1751-1756. 9 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary uniform mottled calf, gold-tooled spines (with initials "PV") and turn-ins, red morocco labels, marbled endpapers, red sprinkled edges, green ribbon markers. With woodcut initials, ornaments and decorative lettering. With errata slips in vols. 1, 5 (vols. 6-9 each with an integral errata leaf). [2], 127, [1], 50; [2], 66, [2], 66, [2]; [2], 31, [1], 96, 69, [1]; [2], 78, [2], 92; [2], 185, [1]; 238, [2]; [2], 238, [2]; [2], 258, [2]; [2], 276, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Americana  Cosmography & Navigation  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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