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One of the finest examples of books presenting the American landscape of ca. 1870; from the library of Sir Edward Tate View picture(s) 1 BRYANT, William Cullen (Ed.). Picturesque America; or, the land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country. New York, D. Appelton and Company, 1872 & 1874. 2 vols. Folio. Original full brown publisher's roan over beveled boards, decorated in Art Nouveau style with gilt decorated title within blind tooled border on both front covers, spines raised in five compartments with gilt title, gilt and decorated inner dentelles, g.e., marbled endpapers. Vol. I: Full-page steel-engraved frontispiece, steel-engraved title, 22 full-page steel-engraved plates. Vol. II: Full-page steel-engraved frontispiece, steel-engraved title, 23 full-page steel-engraved plates. Numerous steel- and wood engraved illustrations in text. VIII, 568; VI, 576 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America [Central]  Engravings  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important 'Americanum' including an early illustration of the Niagara Falls View picture(s) 2 HENNEPIN, Louis. Nouvelle decouverte d'un tres grand pays situé dans l'Amerique, entre le Nouveau Mexique, et la mer glaciale. Amsterdam, Abraham van Someren, 1698. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. With engraved frontispiece by Caspar Luyken, 2 folding maps and 2 folding engraved plates. [72], 1-312, [10], 313-506 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Central]  America, North  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Dutch edition of a classic work by America's First Man of Letters View picture(s) 3 IRVING, Washington. Ontdekkingsreizen van eenige der vroegere togtgenooten van Columbus. Naar het Engelsch. Haarlem, Wed. A Loosjes, Pz. 1834. Original boards. With large folding engraved map by D. Veelwaard. VIII, 390, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America [Central]  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Maps  Popular Books  Travel & Voyages  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) 4 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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In search of curiosities in the West Indies, Africa and the Holy Land View picture(s) 5 MOCQUET, Jean. De grote nieuw-bereisde wereld: begrypende zes reizen, zo na Lybien, d'Eilanden van Kanarien en Barbaryen; stroom der Amazonen, Karipouzen en en Karibanen; na Marocco; Moren-Land of Ethiopien, Mozambique en Goa; als mede na Syrien en een zeer nauwkeurige beschrijvinge van't Heilig Land ... Den tweden druk. Leeuwarden, Jan Klassen (colophon: printed by Meindert Injema), 1717. 4to. Contemporary vellum. With frontispiece and 3 etched plates. [19], [1 blank], 195, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  America [Central]  America [South]  Holy Land  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare Post-incunable describing of 'German' Europe in the early 16th century, and an early Americanum as well View picture(s) 6 PIRCKHEIMER, Willibald Germaniae ex variis scriptoribus perbrevis explicatio. Augsburg, Heirich Stainer, 1530. 8vo. Modern boards covered with brown marbled paper. Printed title within broad woodcut ornamented border with five dancing putti in the lower section; 2 woodcut historiated initials. (36) lvs., including the last blank; collation: A-D8, E4. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  America [Central]  Americana  Geography  Germany  Post Incunabula  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A 17th-century view on the history of the world View picture(s) 7 SCHOLTENS, Godefreed (or Godfried SCHOLTEN; = Gottfried SCHULTZE). De nieuwe bereysde wereldt ofte een korte en bondige beschryvinghe van alle landen en coningrijcken van dien. Waer inne yder bysonderlijck zijn manieren van leven, religien, huyshoudinge en vruchtbaerheyt haerder landen werden aengewesen: mitsgaders aller pausen, keysers, koningen en vorsten successie, begin en eynde. The Hague, Johannes Tongerloo, 1662. 4to. Modern half morocco, boards covered with marbled paper. With large engraved illustration on title, repeated in text (p. 138), and 3 full-page engraved plates with 9 scenes. (4), 152, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  America [Central]  America [South]  America, North  Asia  Asia Minor  Asia [Far East]  Dutch  Europe  History  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Help save the youth of America View picture(s) 8 TAYLOR, William. Address to Young America, and a Word to the Old Folks. Philadelphia, Perkinpine & Higginsfor the Author, 1864. Sm.8vo. Contemp. black cloth, sides with blind-stamped borders and gilt title on front cover. With wood-engraved frontispiece and 4 full-page wood-engraved plates. 83, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America [Central]  Americana  Children's Books  Imprints  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Attractive American primer View picture(s) 9 [ABC BOOKS]. The young child's A, B, C; or first book. New York, Baltimore, Samuel Wood & Sons, & Co., (ca. 1820). Small 4to. Original wrappers, with a small woodcut farm-scene on frontcover, and woodcut of a bird on back cover. With woodcuts of a girl with a sheep, and birds on title, and woodcut pictorial alphabet at the head of 13 pages. 16 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  ABC Books  America [Central]  Children's Books  Education  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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8 magnificent and very rare suites of 18th-century, uniformly coloured costumes plates View picture(s) 10 [COLOUR PLATE BOOK - COSTUMES]. [Eight suites with a total of 180 engraved coloured costume plates]. Augsburg, Jean André Pfeffel (1), Jeremias Wolff (2-6) & Paris, F. Chereau (7) and Le Rouge (8), [ca. 1720-1750]. 8 suites. Folio. Contemporary half calf with red morocco title label lettered in gold: "Costumes en Couleurs", red painted edges. With two engraved title-pages, one engraved dedication leaf, and 180 costume plates, all uniformly coloured by hand and most of them heightened with gold (ca. 1750), many within yellow painted frame. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America [Central]  America [South]  Costumes  France  Germany  Militaria  Ottoman Empire  Print Series  Switzerland  Turkey  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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The people of the world updated View picture(s) 11 [MOLHUYSEN, Philipp Christiaan]. Aardrijkskundig leesboek tot uitbreiding der kennis van verschillende volken op den aardbol. Tweede verbeterde druk. Deventer, A.J. van den Sigtenhorst, 1838. Contemp. half calf, spine gilt, marbled edges. With large emblematic vignette on engraved title, and illustrations of the costumes of the main peoples of the world on 28 full-page engraved plates. (8), 412 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Central]  America [South]  America, North  China  Costumes  Geography  India  Japan  Middle East  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The only edition of this work to contain the appended essay on coffee and coffee plantations View picture(s) 12 [OLDMIXON, John]. Het Britannische ryk in Amerika, zynde een beschryving van de ontdekking, bevolking, inwoonders, het klimaat, den koophandel, en tegenwoordigen staat van alle de Britannische coloniën, in dat gedeelte der wereldt. Amsterdam, Rudolf & Gerard Wetstein, 1721. 4to. Contemporary full calf with richly gilt and decorated spine with red morocco title-label, marbled edge. Part I: Engraved frontispiece by J. Goeree dated 1720, title in red and black, 5 folding engraved maps, engraving in text, woodcut headpieces and initials. Part II: Engraved frontispiece by J. Goeree dated 1720 (same as in part I), title in red and black, 3 folding engraved maps, folding engraved plate, 2 full-page engraved plates, woodcut head- and endpieces and initials. The maps are by J. Keyser after H(erman) Moll. (26), 300 (i.e. 296); (2), 327 (14, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Central]  America [South]  America, North  Americana  Economy  Geography  Great Britain  History  Maps  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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