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A roving San Francisco correspondent in Hawaii View picture(s) 1 A HAOLO [= BATES, George Washington]. Sandwich Island notes. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1854. 8vo. 20th-century blue half cloth, marbled boards. With full-page wood-engraved frontispiece portrait of Alexander Liholiho and 21 wood-engraved illustrations (of which 9 full-page) in text. 493, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Americana  Hawaii  Medicine  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two first editions, contemporarily bound together View picture(s) 2 ARTHUS, Gothard. Historia Indiae Orientalis, ex variis auctoribus collectae, et iuxta seriem topographicam regnorum, provinciarum & insularum, per Africae, Asiaeque littora, ad extremos usque Iaponios deducta, qua regionum et insularum situs & commoditas ; regum & populorum mores & habitus; religionum & superstitionum absurda varietas; Lusitanorum item Hispanorum & Batavorum res gestae atque commercia varia ... describuntur. Cologne, Wilhelm Lutzenkirch, 1608. Small 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum. With finely engraved allegorical borders on title of the second work. (14, 2 blank), 616, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Africa  Americana  Asia  East Indies  Travel & Voyages  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On America and Oceania View picture(s) 3 AURAY, Jean d'. Promenades autour du monde. En Amérique et en Océanie. Paris, T. Lefèvre et Cie & E. Guérin, [ca. 1890]. 4to. Original chromo-lithographed boards. With chromo-lithographed frontispiece and 11 chromo-lithographed plates outside collation. [24] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America [Central]  America [South]  America, North  Americana  Chromolithography  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The middle of South America at the end of the 18th century View picture(s) 4 AZARA, Don Félix de. Voyages dans l'Amérique Méridionale, depuis 1781 jusqu'en 1801; contenant la description géographique, politique et civile du Paraguay et de la rivière de La Plata;... Paris, Dentu, 1809. 4 text volumes: 8vo and one atlas: folio. Modern half black calf, gilt spine. With 3 folding tables and 25 engraved maps, plans, views and plates of animals and birds. LX, 389; [4], 388-562; [4], II, 479; [4], 380 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  America, North  Americana  Cartography  Natural History  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Plan for a canal from Altamaha River to Brunswick Harbour in Georgia View picture(s) 5 BALDWIN, Loammi. Report on the Brunswick Canal and Rail Road, Glynn County, Georgia. With an appendix containing the charter and commissioner's report. Boston, John H. Eastburn, 1837. 8vo. Original printed green paper wrappers. With engraved folding plate (ca. 73 x 20.5 cm), with plan and profiles for the canal, engraved by H. Morse after H.K. Curtis. 48 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  Geography  Railways  Transport  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of the most important work on the Dutch in Brazil View picture(s) 6 BARLAEUS (VAN BAERLE), Caspar. Rerum per octennium in Brasilia et alibi nuper gestarum, sub praefectura illustrissimi Comitis. I. Mauritii Nassau ... Historia. Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1647. Folio. Contemporary blind-stamped calf, gilt spine with raised bands. Woodcut printer's device on title, engraved frontispiece, full-page engraved portrait, and 56 finely engraved double-page maps, plans and views on 58 sheets. All but the portrait (which is in black and white) in later handcolouring. [12, incl. title, frontispiece and portrait], 340, [8] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  America [South]  Americana  Brazil  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The last voyage of Captain Cook explained to children View picture(s) 7 CAMPE, Joachim Heinrich. Nuttig en Leerzaam Onderhoud, in fraaije Verhalen voor de Lieve Jeugd. Tweede vermeerderde en verbeterde druk. Amst., Ten Brink & De Vries, 1827. Sm.8vo. Orig. boards. With illustration of natives on engraved title and 2 full-page engraved plates by D. Sluyter after H.P. Oosterhuis. VIII, 96 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Americana  Australia & New Zealand  Children's Books  Cook  Dutch  German  Native Americans  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch edition of accounts of two travels to 'Virginia' View picture(s) 8 CANNER, Thomas. Scheeps-togt van Martin Pringe, gedaan in 't jaar 1603. Van Bristol na 't noorder-gedeelte van Virginien. Including: Een tweede reys in 't selfde jaar 1603. Na Virginien, gedaan van Kap. Bartholomeus Gilbert. Leyden, Pieter van der Aa, 1706. 8vo. Modern marbled boards. With engraved publisher's device and 2 folding engraved plates. [2], 16, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  America, North  Americana  Colonial History  Discovery & Exploration  Native Americans  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Columbus or Vespucci: who discovered America? View picture(s) 9 CANOVAI, Le Père Stanislao. Elogio d'Amerigo Vespucci che ha riportato il premio della nobile Accademia Etrusca di Cortona nel dì 15. Ottobre dell'anno 1788. Con una dissertazione giustificativa di questo celebre navigatore, del P. Stanislao Canovai. Terza editione. Con illustrazioni ed aggiunte, e con una seconda dissertazione sulle vicende delle longitudini geografische. N.p.(Modena) n.pr., 1790. 4to. Contemporary boards, handwritten title-label on spine. Woodcut vignette on title, sm. elegant woodcut initials. (2), III-XVII, 39; 55; 64 pp. (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Americana  Discovery & Exploration  Italy  Navigation  Travel & Voyages  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A pleasure to read View picture(s) 10 CHALMERS, George. Political Annals of the Present United Colonies, from their Settlement to the Peace of 1763: Compiled chiefly from Records, and authorised often by the Insertion of State-Papers. Book I. London, Printed for the Author, sold by J. Bowen, 1780. 4to. Contemporary calf, with the gilt supralibros of the Signet Library on both sides. (10), 695 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  America, North  Americana  Colonial History  Economy  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Detailed early description on Newfoundland and Labrador View picture(s) 11 CHAPPELL, Lt. Edward. Voyage of His Majesty's ship Rosamond to Newfoundland and the Southern coast of Labrador of which countries no account has been published by any British traveller since the reign of Queen Elisabeth. London, R. Wates for J. Mawman, 1818. 8vo. Contemporary English diced Russia calf, double fillets along the edges of both sides, ribbed spine with black title label. With an engraved frontispiece, 1 folding engraved map coloured in outlines, 2 full-page engraved plates, and 5 engravings in the text. [10], XIX, [1], 270, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Americana  Arctic  Canada  Eskimo  Native Americans  Shipwrecks  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Traveling through America in the 19th century View picture(s) 12 COHEN STUART, Martinus. Zes maanden in Amerika. Haarlem, Kruseman & Tjeenk Willink, 1875. 2 vols. Large 8vo. Contemporary half calf. With 10 tinted lithograph plates, lithographed by Emrik & Binger, and 27 steelengraved  illustrations in text. 8, 366; (8), 332 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America, North  Americana  History  New York  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Exploring the Bay of California View picture(s) 13 COMBIER, C. Voyage au golfe de Californie. Grands courants de la mer.- Courants généraux atmosphériques.- Usages de la vie maritime.- Tempêtes vers le Pôle Austral.- Poissons et oiseaux de la mer.- Description de la Sonora et de ses richesses minérales.- De la basse Californie, ses volcans, ses produits.- Pêche des perles.- La chaîne des cordillères, ses forêts.- Nuits de la zone torride. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, (1864). Large 8vo. Modern half calf, spine gilt and blind-tooled with black morocco title-label, uncut. With folding map of Sonora by V.A. Malte-Brun after the map by A. Garcia y Cubas and American maps, engraved by Erhard and coloured by hand in green and red for borders and roads respectively. XVI, 544 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Americana  Cartography  Mexico  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Captivating essays on life in 18th-century North America View picture(s) 14 CREVECOEUR, [Michel-Guillaume]. Lettres d'un cultivateur Américain addressées à wm. s...on esq. depuis l'année 1770 jusqu'en 1786. Paris, Cuchet Libraire, 1787. 4 vols. 8vo. Nineteenth-century half dark blue morocco, top-edges gilt. With 3 full-page engraved title-pages with engraved vignette, 1 full-page engraved frontispiece, 5 folding engraved maps, 3 engraved plates, 2 full-page and 1 folding. XXXII, 478, [2]; 438, [6]; 592, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Americana  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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18th-century complete description of the world View picture(s) 15 CROIX, A. Phérotée de la. Algemeene weereld-beschryving, nae de rechte verdeeling der landschappen, plaetsen, zeeën, rivieren, &c. Geographisch, politisch, historisch, chronologisch en genealogisch ... in 't Fransch beschreeven, ... In de Hoogduitsche tael overgebraght, met veel' aenmerkingen en verbeteringen, door ... Hieronimus Dicelius. Nu vertaeld nae den tweeden druk; met veel' aenmerkens waerdige byvoegzelen opgehelderd, ... door S. De Vries. Met naaukeurige landkaarten van den heere N. Sanson. Amsterdam, François Halma, 1705. 3 volumes. 4to. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with the early 19th-century bookplate of A. F. Malfait fils "sculpteur statuaire." With 3 title-pages (the first in red and black), each with an engraved publisher's device, each volume with an engraved frontispiece, in total 98 maps and plates, 2 engraved headpieces, 1 large engraved initial, and numerous woodcut initials. [36], 436, [80]; [8], 612, [72]; [8], 480, [74] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  Geography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Epic poem on the discoveries of Christopher Columbus View picture(s) 16 DUBOCCAGE, Marie Anne. La Colombiade, ou la foi portée au Nouveau Monde. Poëme. Paris, Desaint and Saillant, 1756. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt, front cover with gilt initials ''M.G.'' (= M. Gaillard) dated 1757. With full-page engraved portrait, 10 numbered engraved plates, engraved vignette and head- and endpieces. VIII, 184, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Central]  America [South]  America, North  Americana  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A history of money View picture(s) 17 FLIESSBACH, Ferdinand. Münzsammlung enthaltend die wichtigsten seit dem Westphälischen Frieden bis zum Jahre 1800 geprägten Gold- und Silber-Münzen sämmtlicher Länder und Städte. Mit geographischen, geschichtlichen, statistischen, heraldischen und numismatischen Erläuterungen. Leipzig, Ernst Schäfer, 1855. Contemporary half calf. With illustrations of numerous gold and silver coins printed in gold or silver on 120 strong blue plates. (464) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  Europe  Heraldry  Numismatics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare influential handbook for the conversion of Mexican Indians View picture(s) 18 FOUCHER (FOCHER), Jean. Itinerarium Catholicum proficiscentium, ad infideles couertendos. Fratre Ioãne Focher minorita autore. Nuper summa cura & diligentia auctum, expurgatum, limatum ac praelo mandatum, per fratrem Didacum Valadesium, eiusdem instituti, ac provintiae sancti evangelii in nova Hyspania, professorem. Ad reverendissimum patrem, F. Franciscum Guzmanum, omnium Indiarum maris Occeani commissarium generalem. Hispali (Seville), Alfonsus Scribanus (A. Escrivano), 1574. 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum with title written in ink on spine. With beautiful woodcut initials, full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion with the inscription "Christo confixus sum cruci, vivo ego iam non ego, vivit vero in me Christus. Ad. Gal. 2", woodcut printer's device on last page, and text of leaves 94-99 in red and black. [8], 99, [9] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  America [Central]  Americana  History  Mexico  Mission  Native Americans  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An Englishman in New York View picture(s) 19 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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Signed by the author. Copy from the founder of the Smithsonian Institution's First Ladies Collection View picture(s) 20 GARCIA MÉROU, Martin. Recuerdos literarios. Buenos Aires, Felix Lajouane, 1891. 8vo. Contemporary red morocco, gilt spine, sides gilt with black & floral cornerpieces, gilt ruling & inner dentelles (PAGNANT). 447 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Americana  Argentina  Bindings  Literary History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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