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Very rare and most important account of a missionary voyage to Maranhao in Northern Brazil View picture(s) 1 ABBEVILLE, Claude d'. Histoire de la Mission des Peres Capucins en l'Isle de Maragnan et terres circonvoyines, ou est traicte des singularitez admirables & des Meurs merveilleuses des Indiens habitans de ce pais Avec les missives et advis qui ont este envoyez de nouveau. Paris , Francois Huby, 1614. Small 8vo. Modern brown morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with gilt triple fillet borders on sides and inner panel with small arabesque ornaments at the four corners, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. With richly engraved allegorical title, full-page engraved plate of the erection of the cross at Maranhao by L. Gauthier, and 6 full-page portraits of the Indians brought to Paris, three clad in native and three in European dress. (8), 395, (17) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Brazil  Cartography  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Jesuit missions in Brazil, Asia, and Mozambique View picture(s) 2 ABREU, Sebastiao d'. Vida, e Virtudes do Admiravel Padre Joam Cardim da Companhia de Jesu Portuguez natural de Vianna de Alentejo. Évora, University Press, 1659. 4to. Contemporary vellum, title on spine, red marbled edges. With engraved portrait of the Jesuit Joao Cardim, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and woodcut initials. [14], [2 blank], 440, [8] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Biography  Brazil  Jesuits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Exploring the Amazon River from Quito to the east with the extremely rare map View picture(s) 3 ACUÑA, Cristóbal Diatristán de. Relation de la Riviere des Amazones traduite par feu Mr de Gomberville de l'Académie Françoise. Avec un  dissertation sur la riviere des Amazones pour servir de Preface. Paris, Claude Barbin, 1682. 4 parts in 2 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine with red morocco title-label, red edges. With a folding engraved map of the Amazon River. 199, [1; 4], 218; 238, [2 blank]; 206 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Brazil  Cartography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic in the field of Portuguese discoveries, settlements and sea-borne empire View picture(s) 4 ANDRADA, Francisco d'. Cronica do muyto alto e muito poderoso Rey destes Reynos de Portugal dom Ioão o III. deste nome. Dirigida ha C. R. M. del Rey dom Felipe o III. deste nome nosso senhor. Lisbon, Jorge Rodriguez for the author & Francesco Lopez livreiro, 1613. Folio. Contemporary vellum over boards, spine with four raised bands and two (later) red morocco labels lettered in gold, blind fillets and stamped centre-piece on both sides. Title in ornamental woodcut border with a vignette of the coat of arms of Portugal, many charming woodcut initials. (19), 113, 134, 131, 155 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Brazil  India  Portugal  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the famous voyage of Captain Louis Freycinet View picture(s) 5 ARAGO, Jacques Etienne Victor. Souvenirs d'un aveugle, voyage autour du monde. Ouvrage enrichi de soixante dessins et de notes scientifiques. Paris, Hortet et Ozanne, 1839. 4 vols. Large 8vo. Contemp. half green morocco, spines gilt. With 2 engraved portraits, one of Jacques Arago and the other of François Arago, and 60 full-page lithographed plates with portraits, costumes and scenes of the life and customs of the peoples of New Zealand, Timor, New Guinea, Hawaii, the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, etc., all after drawings by the author. (4), 400; (4), 423 (1 blank); (4), 399, (1 blank); (4), 451, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Brazil  Cartography  Hawaii  Pacific  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Presentation copy by the author View picture(s) 6 AVEZAC-MACAYA, Armand D'. Considérations géographiques sur l'histoire du Brésil. Examen critique d'une nouvelle histoire générale du Brésil recemment publiée en portugais a Madrid par M. François-Adolphe de Varnhagen chargé d'affaires du Brésil en Espagne. Rapport fait à la société de géographie de Paris dans ses séances des 1er Mai et 5 Juin 1857. Paris, L. Marinet, 1857. 8vo. Modern three quarter red morocco with marbled boards and gilt & ribbed spine; the original wrappers are bound in. With two folding maps. [4], 271, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Brazil  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Everything you always wanted to know about Santa Catharina, Brazil View picture(s) 7 AZAMBUJA, Bernardo Augusto NASCENTES DE. Descripçao topographica do mappa da provincia de Santa Catharina, organisada na Commissao do Registro geral e Estatistica das terras publicas e possuidas, etc. Lithographado e publicado por ordem do Governo imperial. Rio de Janeiro, Typographia Franco-Americana de A Sisson, 1873. 8vo. Half brown cloth with green printed boards. Large folding lithograph map in colour (600x865 mm) of the province St. Catharina, printed by A. Sisson at Rio de Janeiro. 26 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Brazil  Maps  Topography  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) 8 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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Biography of the well-known martyr Ignacio de Azevedo View picture(s) 9 BEAUVAIS, Gilles-François. La vie du venerable pere Ignace Azevedo, de la compagnie de Jesus. L'histoire de son martyre, & de celui de trente-neuf autres de la même Compagnie. Le tout tiré des procès-verbaux dressés pour leur canonisation. Dédiée au Roi de Pologne. Paris, Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1744. 12mo, with quires in 4 & 8. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with ornamental flowers, red morocco title label lettered in gold. With woodcut vignette on title and some head- and tailpieces. XLIII, (5), 300 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Biography  Brazil  Jesuits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The fine and interesting atlas only of the French circumnavigation by Baron De Bougainville View picture(s) 10 BOUGAINVILLE, [H.Y.P. Potentien] de. Atlas (to) Journal de la Navigation Autour du Globe  de la Frégate la Thétis et de la Corvette l'Espérance,  pendant les Années 1824, 1825 et 1826. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1837. Large folio. Contemporary half red morocco. With vignette on lithographed title, 34 full-page lithographed views, 12 full-page colour-printed engraved plates, and 10 double-page engraved maps and plates, one folding, one finely coloured by hand. One leaf with index. Full description >> Related Subjects: Atlases [General]  Australia & New Zealand  Brazil  Cartography  Chile  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Most important scientific expedition to South America in the 19th century. With over 400 hand-coloured plates View picture(s) 11 CASTELNAU, Francis de. Expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud, de Rio de Janeiro à Lima, et de Lima au Para; exécutée par ordre du gouvernement Français pendant les années 1843 à 1847. Paris, P. Bertrand, 1850-1859. 7 parts in 15 volumes. 8vo (6 volumes), 4to (7 volumes), folio (2 volumes). Later gold-tooled red half morocco. With 493 lithographed plates and maps (in black, in two colours or fully coloured, including 401 hand-handcoloured). Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Bolivia  Botany  Brazil  Hydraulics  Meteorology  Natural History  Peru  Science  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A classic work on Brazilian ethnography and exploration View picture(s) 12 EHRENREICH, Paul. Anthropologische Studien über die Urbewohner Brasiliens vornehmlich der Staaten Matto Grosso, Goyaz und Amazonas (Purus-Gebiet). Nach eigenen Aufnahmen und Beobachtungen in den Jahren 1887 bis 1889. Braunschweig, Druck und verlag von Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1897. Large 4to (31.3 x 24 cm.). Red cloth, gilt spine. With 30 tables with photographic illustrations, 9 tables, and 96 illustrations in the text. VIII, 165, [3] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Brazil  Cultural History  Exploration  Social Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An American scientist on the Land of Cocoa View picture(s) 13 EWBANK, Thomas. Life in Brazil; or, a journal of a visit to the land of the cocoa and the palm with an appendix, containing illustrations of ancient South American arts. In recently discovered implements and products of domestic industry, and works in stone, pottery, gold, silver, bronze, &c. New York, Harper & Brothers, publishers, 1856. Large 8vo (24 x 15.5 cm). Publishers embossed cloth, gilt spine. With over one hundred illustrations. XVI, 469 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Applied Arts  Brazil  English  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An encyclopaedic survey of exotic cultures, with 50 plates View picture(s) 14 FRANCISCI (VON FINX), Erasmus. Neu-polirter Geschicht- Kunst- und Sitten-Spiegel ausländischer Völker: fürnemlich der Sineser, Japaner, Indostaner, Javaner, Malabaren, Peguaner, Siammer, Peruaner, Mexicaner, Brasilianer, ... und theils anderer Nationen mehr. Nuremberg, Johann Andreas Endters & the hiers of Wolfgang the Younger, 1670. Folio. Contemporary vellum. With title-page printed in red & black, engraved frontispiece, full-page engraved coat of arms, engraved dedication, and 50 plates (of which 2 double-page) by Cornelis Nicolai Schurtz. [28], 1550, [30] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Central]  America [South]  America, North  Brazil  China  Japan  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Often praised work on South America View picture(s) 15 FREZIER, [Amédée François]. Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud aux cotes du Chili, du Perou, et du Bresil. Fait pendant les années 1712, 1713 & 1714. Amsterdam, Pierre Humbert, 1717. 2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. Engraved frontispiece, title in red & black to both vols., 27 engraved plates (19 folding, 8 full-page) showing maps, cityplans, plants and flowers, activities of the local people etc. XX, 1-294; (2), 297-600 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Brazil  Cartography  Circumnavigation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Presentation copy by the author with the 9 extra lithographed plates View picture(s) 16 GENDRIN, Victor-Athanase. Récit historique, exact et sincère, par mer et par terre, de quatre voyages faits au Brésil, au Chili, dans les Cordillères des Andes, à Mendoza, dans le Désert, et à Buénos-Aires. Versailles, Gendrin, auteur-éditeur, 1856 (bound 1858). 8vo. Contemporary green morocco, spine gilt with title lettered in gold, gilt dedication "Offert par V.-A. Gendrin a la Bibliothèque de la ville de Cahors 1858" on front cover and gilt ornamental vignette on back cover, blind tooled borders on sides. With lithographed portrait of the author, "fait la veille de son départ pour le Brésil en 1816, D'après le croquis de Mr Heim, membre de l'Institut", signed 'Lith. Hayet', 1 map of South-America composed according to indications of the author by Lith. Hayet and 8 lithographed plates of events and places of the voyages. Together with the added 15 pp. with lithographed preface by the author, extracts from the reviews of the book and 13 letters of acknowledgement by different receivers of a presentation copy. (12), XX, 571 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Brazil  Cartography  Chile  Commerce  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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"By far the best work" on the Guyana's and Surinam View picture(s) 17 HARTSINCK, Jan Jacob. Beschryving van Guiana, of de wilde kust, in Zuid-America, betreffende de aardrykskunde en historie des lands, de zeeden en gewoontes der inwooners, de dieren, vogels, visschen, boomen en gewassen, als mede de eerste ontdekking dier kust, de bezittingen der Spanjaarden, Franschen en Portugeezen en voornaamelyk de volkplantingen der Nederlanderen, als Essequebo, Demerary, Berbice, Suriname, en derzelver rivieren, met de noodige kaarten en afbeeldingen der forten. Waarby komt eene verhandeling over den aart en de gewoontes der neger-slaaven. Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg, 1770. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary three quarter calf with spine richly gilt decorated, red morocco title label and a green morocco volume label. 6 folding engraved maps and plans, 6 engraved full page plates and 2 engraved folding views, 1 engraving in text. 1 blank, (2), XII, (4), 520; (2), 521-962, (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America [South]  Brazil  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Slavery  Surinam  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the few books of the time to describe the Rio Grande del Sul View picture(s) 18 ISABELLE, Arsène. Voyage a Buénos-Ayres et a Porto -Alègre, par la Banda-Oriental, les missions d'Uruguay et la province de Rio-Grande-Do-Sul (de 1830 a 1834). Suivi de considérations sur l'état du commerce Français à l'extérieur, et principalement au Brésil et au Rio-de-la-Plata. Le Havre, Imprimerie J. Morlent, 1835. 8vo. Contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt in compartments, title lettered in gold. With lithographed frontispiece of Buenos Aires signed Formentin & Cie, an engraved vignette on title with the inscription 'Viva la patria!', 3 lithographed plates, of the porteña or costume for Church, the porteña for a walk, and a gaucho enlacing an ox, and 1 folding map (460 x 380 mm) engraved on stone by L. Bouffard, Imprimerie de Benard, of Uruguay and the province of Rio Grande-do-Sul or São Pedro, including the course of the Uruguay river and the Rio de la Plata, drawn up by Levasseur under the direction of the author. (4), 618, (6) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Brazil  Cartography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Presentation copy by the author View picture(s) 19 LA CONDAMINE, Charles Marie de. Relation abrégée d' un voyage fait dans l' interieur de l Amerique Méridionale. Depuis la Côte de la Mer du Sud, Jusqu' aux Côtes du Brésil & de la Guiane, en descendant la riviere des Amazones; lûe á l`Assemblée publique de l`Académie des Sciences, le 28 avirl 1745. Paris, widow Pissot, 1745. 8vo. Original marbled wrappers. Folding engraved map of the Amazon region titled: 'Carte du cours du Maragnon ou de la grande riviere des Amazones', engraved by G.N. Delahaye. (4), XVI, 216, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Brazil  Cartography  Peru  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First and only English edition on the chorography of Brazil View picture(s) 20 MACEDO, Joaquin Manoel DE. Notions on the chorography of Brazil. Translated by H. Le Sage. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1873. 8vo. Contemporary three-quarter calf with gilt title on spine. With 8 folding tables. VI, 576 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Brazil  Cultural History  Geography  Geography & Demography  Surveying  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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