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Cook's natural historian on his findings during the Second Voyage View picture(s) 201 SPARRMAN, Anders. Tal, om Den tilväxt och nytta, som Vetenkaperne i allmänhet, särdeles Natural-Historien, redan vunnit och ytterligare kunna vinna, genom undersökningar i Söder-haftet, hället för Kongl. Vetenskaps-Academien, vid Praesisii Nedläggande, Den 31 Octob. 1778. Stockholm, George Lange, 1778. 8vo. Without binding. With large engraved vignette on title. 40 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Circumnavigation  Cook  Exploration  Natural History  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Visiting the Cape of Good Hope with Captain Cook View picture(s) 202 SPARRMAN, Anders. Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Espérance, et autour du monde, avec le Capitaine Cook, et principalement dans le Pays des Hottentots et des Caffres. Traduit par M. Le Tourneur. Paris, Buisson, 1787. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary half calf. With large folding engraved map, full-page engraved view of the Cape of Good Hope, and illustrations on 15 engraved plates, of which 5 large folding. XXIV, 478; 462 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Cartography  Cook  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most famous work on Dutch Surinam View picture(s) 203 STEDMAN, John Gabriel. Reize naar Surinamen, en door de binnenste gedeelten van Guiana; Naar het Engelsch. Amsterdam, J. Allart, 1799-1800. 4 vols. Contemporary half calf, spines divided and gilt in 6 compartments, 4 ornamented with gilt flowers, one with volume number and one with orange morocco title-label. With 4 folding engraved maps, folding engraved plan, and 37 engraved views and plates, one large folding, by R. Vinkeles, J. Wijsman, and A. Zurcher, after the English original. XVI, 339; VII, 327 (1); VIII, 351 (1); VIII, 308 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Slavery  Surinam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Romantic travels in Germany, Switzerland and Italy View picture(s) 204 STOLBERG, Friedrich Leopold. Reis door Duitschland, Zwitserland, Italie en Sicilie. Uit het Hoogduitsch. Amsterdam, J. Allart, 1798-1801. 4 vols. + atlas-vol. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines richly gilt, with red title-labels. With 19 folding engraved views by D. Vrijdag after the German originals, and 6 folding leaves with engraved musical scores. XVI, 469, (1); 479, (1); 586, (2); 386, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Europe  Germany  Italy  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Earliest authentic account of the first Australian settlement View picture(s) 205 TENCH, Watkin. Relation d'une expédition a la Baye Botanique, située dans la Nouvelle Hollande, sur la côte Méridionale, nommée par le Capitaine Cook, Nouvelle Galles Méridionale. Avec des observations sur les habitants de cette contrée, & la liste de l'état civil & militaire, au Port Jackson. Paris, Knapen Fils, 1789. Modern half calf. (16), 136 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  Pacific  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early Dutch poetry in Batavia View picture(s) 206 TERKAMP, Hermanus Theodorus. Proeve van minne-dichten, in rymlooze vaarsen. In navolging der Latynsche en Grieksche voetmaaten. Als een geschenk voor zyne vrienden. Batavia, Lodewyk Dominicus, 1778. 8vo. Original wrappers. 16 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  East Indies  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A circumnavigation that ended in failure View picture(s) 207 THOMAS, Pascoe. A true and impartial journal of a voyage to the South-seas, and round the globe in his Majesty's ship the Centurion, under command of commodore George Anson. Wherein all the material incidents during the said voyage, from its commencement in the year 1740 to its conclusion in 1744, are fully and faithfully related...., Together with some historical accounts of Chili, Peru, Mexico, and the empire of China.... London, S. Birt, J. Newbery & J. Collyer, 1745. 8vo. Contemporary calf on sides, two gilt fillets along the edges of the sides, rebacked with red and blue morocco title labels, blind tooled binding edges. (16), 347, 39 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Chile  China  Circumnavigation  Discovery & Exploration  Exploration  Mexico  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Description of American Indians, presentation copy View picture(s) 208 TIXIER, Victor. Voyage aux prairies Osages, Louisiana et Missouri, 1839-40. Clermont-Ferrand & Paris, Perol & Roret, 1844. 8vo. Original printed yellow wrappers, uncut and partly unopened, preserved in a modern red half morocco slipcase, spine gilt. With lithographed frontispiece and 3 plates by Perol after designs by the author, depicting Osage Indians, and one sheet of music. 260, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Native Americans  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the Maratha Empire View picture(s) 209 TONE, William Henry. Voyage chez les Mahrattes, par feu M. Tone, colonel d'un régiment d'infanterie Mahratte, traduit de l'anglais par M. M-L., et publié avec des notes sur l'histoire, le gouvernement, les moeurs et usages des Mahrattes, rédigées en forme de glossaire; par L. Langles, conservateur-administrateur des Mss. orientaux de la bibliothèque du roi, membre de l'institut, etc. Paris, Imprimerie d'Éverat, 1820. 12mo. Original printed wrappers with large illustrations on spine and both sides, preserved in a black morocco gilt slipcase. With engraved frontispiece depicting a Mahrat soldier and his wife, beautifully coloured by hand. (4), XXIV, 350 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  India  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First French edition of the most important work on China of the 17th century View picture(s) 210 TRIGAULT, Nicolas. Histoire de l'expedition Chrestienne au royaume de la Chine, entreprinse par les PP. de la compagnie de Iesus, comprinse en cinq livres, esquels est traicté fort exactement  et fidelement des moeurs, loix, & coustumes du pays, & des  commencemens tres-difficiles de l'église naissante en ce royaume. Tirée des commentaires du Matthieu Riccius, et nouvellement  traduicte en françois par D. F. de Riquebourg-Trigault. Lyons, for Horace Cardon, 1616. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, red sprinkled edges. With richly engraved allegorical title and full-page engraved portrait of prince Philippe Guillaume of Orange, both signed by J. de Fornazeris, and large folding plan of the palace in the suburbs of Peking presented by the king of China to the Jesuits in 1610. [40], 1096 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  China  Jesuits  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Biography of Gaspar Berse, 'the Dutch Xavier' View picture(s) 211 TRIGAULT, Nicolas. La vie du P. Gaspar Barzee Zelandois, de la compagnie de Jésus. Et compagnon du B.P. Xavier aux Indes. Ou les triomphes de la Croix sur les infidèles Turcqs, Sarrazins, Gentils, Schismatiques, Heretiques, Juifs, Athées, &c. En la conqueste d'un nouveau monde à la foy Chrestienne, soubs les estandarts du bon Jésus, en l'Inde Orientale. Douai, Noel Wardavoir, 1612. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum, with ms. title on spine. Woodcut vignette on title. (24), 444, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  India  Jesuits  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An interesting look inside the palaces of the North African Moorish rulers View picture(s) 212 TULLY, [Richard]. Narrative of a ten years' residence at Tripoli in Africa: from the original correspondence in the possession of the family of the late Richard Tully, esq. the British consul. Comprising authentic memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning Bashaw, his family, and other persons of distinction; also, an account of the domestic manners of the Moors, Arabs, and Turks. London, Henry Colburn, 1817. Large 4to. Contemporary calf, spine with title lettered in gold, gilt fillet border on covers, marbled edges. Engraved coloured frontispiece of Sidy Hassan, late Bey of Tripoli, folding engraved map (220 x 390 mm) of the regencies of Tripoli and Tunis, signed "Neele scuplt. Strand", 6 full-page plates of the Triumphal Arch of Tripoli, Arabs recreating in the desert, a Bedouin woman, officers of the Grand Seraglio, a guard of Tripoli, and an Egyptian puppet- shew, all engraved by Hoovell & Son and beautifully coloured by hand. XIII, (2), 376 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Autographs, Letters & Documents  Cartography  Costumes  Islamitica  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare complete set of one of the most important early works on the East Indies, with 2 extra plates View picture(s) 213 VALENTIJN, François. Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën, vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyt in die gewesten, benevens eene wydluftige beschryvinge der Moluccos, Amboina, Banda, Timor, en Solor, Java, en alle de eylanden onder dezelve landbestieringen behoorende; het Nederlands Comptoir op Suratte, en de levens der Groote Mogols; Als ook een keurlyke verhandeling van 't wezentlykste, dat men behoort te weten van Coromandel, Pegu, Arracan, Bengale, Mocha, Persien, Malacca, Sumatra,  Ceylon, Malabar, Celebes of Macassar, China, Japan, Tayouan of Formosa, Tonkin, Cambodia, Siam, Borneo, Bali, Kaap Der Goede Hoop en van Mauritius. Te zamen dus behelzende niet alleen een zeer nette beschhryving van alles, wat Nederlands Oost-Indiën betreft, maar ook 't voornaamste dat eenigzins tot eenige andere Europeërs, in die gewesten, betrekking heeft. Dordrecht; Amsterdam, J. van Braam; G. Onder de Linden, 1724-1726. 5 parts in 8 vols. Folio. Modern half calf, spine ribbed and gilt with red morocco title-labels. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. van Buysen after C. Mulder, engraved vignette on general title, 8 separate titles, folding engraved portrait of the author by J. Houbraken, engraved dedication to Egidius van den Bempden, 8 folding tables, 24 engraved maps, most of them folding, 265 engraved plans, views, portraits and plates of plants, animals, costumes, etc., of which many are double-page and/or folding and 78 engravings in text. This copy with 2 extra double-page engraved plates by M. Sallieth. Together ca. 3500 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  East Indies  Indonesia  Java  Natural History  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the earliest works on California View picture(s) 214 VÉNEGAS, Miguél & Andrés Marcos BURRIEL. Histoire naturelle et civile de la Californie, contenant une description exacte de ce pays, de son sol, de ses montagnes, lacs, rivières & mers, de ses animaux, végétaux, minéraux, & de sa fameuse pêcherie des perles; les moeurs de ses habitans, leur religion, leur gouvernement, & leur façon de vivre avant leur conversion au Christianisme; un detail des différens voyages, & tentatives qu'on a faites pour s'y établir, & reconnoître son Golfe & la côte de la Mer du Sud. Paris, Durand, 1767. 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spines ribbed and gilt, with red and brown title labels, gilt binding edges, blue marbled edges. With an engraved folding map of California in vol. 1, and several woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. (2), XXIV, 360; VIII, 375; VIII, 354, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Mission  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The other way around: North-America and Europe seen through the eyes of a Chilean historian View picture(s) 215 VICUÑA MACKENNA, Benjamin. Pájinas de mi diario durante tres años de viajes. 1853-1854-1855. California, Mexico, Estados-Unidos, Canada, Islas Britanicas, Francia, Italia, Alemania, Paises-Bajos, Costas del Brasil, Provincias del Plata. Santiago, Imprenta del Ferrocarril, 1856. 4to. Half green morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt, title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers and edges. (8), 454 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Chile  Europe  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare travel account of a voyage to Madagascar View picture(s) 216 VINSON, Auguste. Voyage a Madgascar au couronnement de Radama II. Saint-Cloud & Paris, Widow Belin for Roret (changed in Eugène Belin/Belin frères), 1865. Large 8vo. Original yellow printed wrappers. With 7 engraved plates of animals and insects by Annedonce and Debray after J. Huet and A. Vinson, all beautifully coloured by hand by Mme. Migneaux. (8), 575, 7, 4, 6, 48 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Cartography  Natural History  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The historiographer of Philip II on the Siege of Malta - with a rare woodcut map of Malta View picture(s) 217 VIPERANO, Giovanni Antonio. De Bello Melitensi Historia. Perusiae (=Perugia), Andrea Brixiani, 1567. 4to. Modern half vellum. With woodcut printer's device on title, and large folding woodcut map of Malta. [4, 1 blank], 38 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Cartography  History  Malta  Ottoman Empire  Turkey  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Written on the occasion of the visit of France by six Osages View picture(s) 218 VISSIER, Paul. Histoire de la tribu des Osages, peuplade sauvage de l'Amérique septentrionale, dans l'état du Missouri, l'un des États-Unis d'Amérique. Écrite d'après les six Osages actuellement a Paris. Suivi de la relation du voyage de ces sauvages, et d'une notice historique sur chacun de ces Indiens célèbres dans leur tribu par leurs exploits guerriers. Paris & Rennes, Charles Béchet & Duchesne, 1827. 8vo. Provisionally bound with the original printed wrappers, uncut. 92 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Native Americans  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The private library of the French Baron Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1771–1852), conservator of the map collection of the Royal Library in Paris View picture(s) 219 WALCKENAER, Le Baron Charles Athanase. Catalogue des livres et cartes géographiques de la bibliothèque de feu M. le Baron Walckenaer, membre de l'Institut, secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres, conservateur adjoint de la Bibliothèque Impériale, Officier de la Légion d'Honneur, etc., etc. Paris, L. Poitier, 1853. 8vo. Half red morocco. XV, 550 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Bibliography  Book History  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Cartography  France  Libraries & Collections  Maps  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Valuable account of the hardships and wonders experienced during the journey to and first settlement in Australia View picture(s) 220 WHITE, John. Voyage à la Nouvelle Galles du Sud, a Botany-bay, au Port Jackson, en 1787, 1788, 1789. Ouvrage où l'on trouve de nouveaux détails sur le caractère et les usages des habitans du cap de Bonne-Espérance, de l'île de Ténériffe, de Rio-Janeiro et de la Nouvelle Hollande, ainsi qu'une description exacte de plusieurs animaux inconnus jusqu'à présent. Paris, Guillaume, 1798. 2 parts in one vol. 8vo. Original red wrappers. With 2 full-page stiple-engraved plates by Clément after the drawings by Monnet. XII, 206, (2); 256, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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