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Extremely rare first German edition of Acosta's survey of America, with 20 maps View picture(s) 1 ACOSTA, Jose de. America, oder wie mans zu Teutsch nennet, die Neuwe Welt, oder West India. Oberursel, Cornelius Sutor, 1605. Folio. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, with 2 clasps. With 20 fine full-page engraved maps (text on versos), title-page with woodcut printer's device, P2v with two small marginal woodcut diagrams, decorative woodcut initials and headpieces. [8] 266, [2 blank], [80] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Central]  America [North]  America [South]  The price of this book is only available on request, it cannot be ordered online. Please contact us for more information. E-mail a Friend

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Two masterpieces of Dutch hydraulic engineering View picture(s) 2 BARNARD, John Gross. Report on the North Sea Canal of Holland; and on the improvement of navigation from Rotterdam to the sea; to the chief of engineers, United States army. (Professional papers of the corps of engineers, U.S. army. No. 22). Washington D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1872. 4to. Contemporary brown half morocco, reddish-brown cloth sides gold-blocked with the title and the coat of arms of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. With 12 plates numbered as 11 (all but 1 folding and 1 printed in red and black) containing maps, plans, sections, construction drawings of equipment and locks, etc.. Further with a half title, title-page, preface, and list of plates. 77, [3 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [North]  Hydraulics  Maps - 19th Century  Rotterdam  Science  Technology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Americanum by one of the writers employed by De Bry to contribute to his collection of voyages View picture(s) 3 ENS, Gaspar. Indiae Occidentalis historia: in qua prima Regionum istarum detectio, situs, incolarum mores, aliaque eo pertinentia, breviter explicantur. Ex varius auctoribus collecta, opera & studio. Cologne, Wilhelm Lutzenkirchen, 1612. Small 8vo. 19th-century calf. With richly engraved allegorical title. [8], 370, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [North]  America [South]  America, North  Cartography  Travel & Voyages  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An Englishman in New York View picture(s) 4 FOWLER, John. Journal of a tour in the state of New York, in the year 1830; with remarks on agriculture in those parts most eligible for settlers: and return to England by the Western Islands, in consequence of shipwreck in the Robert Fulton. London, Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1831. 8vo. Modern half leather with marbled paper boards. (2), VI, 7-333 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America [North]  Americana  New York  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Volcanoes around Quito and Mexico with 12 engraved plates View picture(s) 5 HUMBOLDT, Alexander von. Volcans des Cordillères de Quito et du Mexique. Paris, Gide and J. Baudry (colophon: printed by E. Thunot & Co.), 1854. Oblong 4to. Half cloth, original printed boards. With 12 engraved plates, of which 9 tinted views, 2 plans and 1 cross section. 15, [1] p. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America [North]  Earth Sciences [Geology]  France  Mexico  Volcanos  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With a description of the Russian settlement in California View picture(s) 6 KOTZEBUE, Otto von. Neue Reise um die Welt, in den Jahren 1823, 24, 25 und 26. Weimar, Wilhelm Hoffmann, 1830. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. Contemporary cloth. With 2 hand-coloured etched frontispieces, folding engraved chart of the Bay Mattaway near Tahiti, and 2 large folding engraved charts of groups of islands in the Pacific. XXII, 191; 176; 177, 34 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [North]  America [South]  Cartography  Chile  Circumnavigation  Northern Passage  Philippines  Tahiti  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare enlarged second edition of De Laet's important account of the Americas, with 14 maps View picture(s) 7 LAET, Johannes de. Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien ... Tweede druck. Leyden, Elzevier, 1630. Folio. Contemporary vellum. With engraved frontispiece, 14 folding engraved maps, and many text illustrations. [28], 622, [17, 1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Central]  America [North]  America [South]  West Indies  The price of this book is only available on request, it cannot be ordered online. Please contact us for more information. E-mail a Friend

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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) 8 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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An eyewitness account of the American Revolution View picture(s) 9 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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Rare 18th-century pamphlet relating to French America View picture(s) 10 [CANADA - FRANCE]. Arrest du Conseil d'Etat du Roy et lettres patentes sur icelui. Portan règlement pour empêcher les abus & fraudes sur les marchandises du commerce des Iles, qui jouisset du bénéfice de restitution des droits lorsqu'elles sont portées à l'étranger, & sur celles qui jouissent de la faculté du transit dans le Royaume. [No place, no publisher, 1744]. 4to. Unbound as issued. 11, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [North]  Canada  Law  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The adventures of a black servant in Ireland and Wales View picture(s) 11 [FARRAR, Eliza]. The adventures of Congo in search of his master; a tale. Containing a true account of a shipwreck. Second edition. London, John Harris, [ca. 1823]. 12mo. Original roan-backed printed boards. With 24 hand-coloured engraved illustrations on 12 plates. X, 191, [1], [2 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [North]  Shipwrecks  Slavery  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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19th-century English travel journal visiting Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and North America View picture(s) 12 [MANUSCRIPT - TRAVEL JOURNAL]. LINGARD-MONK, James Boughey. The world 1894-5. Journal, 8 November 1894 - 11 May 1895. 4to (ca. 24 x 18 cm). Contemporary calf, with two clasps. With illustrated title-page and 2 certified copies (1982) of the registration of the author's marriages, with Diana Caroline Walpole (1876) and Ellen Heburn (1894). [2], 277, [4 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America [North]  Australia & New Zealand  Hawaii  Manuscripts  New Zealand  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With a map showing California as an island View picture(s) 13 [OLDMIXON, John]. Het Britannische ryk in Amerika, zynde eene beschryving van de ontdekking, bevolking, inwoonders, het klimaat, den koop-handel, en tegenwoordigen staat van alle de Britannische coloniën, in dat gedeelte der wereldt ... Amsterdam, R. and G. Wetstein, 1721. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. Contemporary vellum. With 2 title-pages printed in red and black, 2 (repeated) full-page engraved frontispieces, 8 folding engraved maps, 1 folding engraved plate with 3 illustrations of the coffee plant, 1 half-page engraved vignette on dedication. [26], 300; [2], 1-327, [14] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [North]  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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