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Guide for the perfect emigrant View picture(s) 221 WIDOWSON, Henry. Present state of Van Diemen's Land; comprising an account of its agricultural capabilities, with observations on the present state of farming, &c. &c. pursued in that colony: and other important matters connected with emigration. London, Merriman for S. Robinson, W. Joy, J. Cross, J. Birdsall, 1829. 8vo. Later half calf, spine gilt with black title-label. Folding map of Van Diemen's land. XV, (3), 200 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Documenting the colonial era View picture(s) 222 WILLIAMSON, Hugh. The History of North Carolina. Philadelphia, Thomas Dobson, 1812. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary full calf, with the supralibros of the Signet Library. With folding engraved map of the state of North Carolina. XX, 289, (1 blank with mounted Errata-leaf); VIII, 289, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The travel adventures of a famous book and art collector View picture(s) 223 WILLIGEN, Adriaan van der. Aanteekeningen op eene reize van Parijs naar Napels, door het Tirolsche, en van daar door Zwitserland en langs de Rhijn, terug naar Holland. Haarlem, A. Loosjes Pz., 1811-1813. 4 parts in 2 vols. Large 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with orange title-labels. With large stipple-engraved medallion portrait of the author by Velyn after a painting by W. Hendriks on engraved general title, 3 separate titles, and 13 full-page engraved views and costume-plates by J. P. Visscher Bender after H. Gotta, J. Grandjean, etc., incl. several after his own designs, all versos blank. VIII, 269, (1); IV, 292; VIII, 322; VIII (=6), 405, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Dutch  Germany  Italy  Literature  Popular Books  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important history of Peru View picture(s) 224 ZARATE, Augustin de. Histoire de la découverte et de la conquête du Perou. Paris, Compagnie des Libraires, 1742. 2 volumes. 12vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt. With engraved frontispiece, folding engraved map of Peru, and 11 (of 13) engraved plates (of which one folding). XL, 360; VIII, 480 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Cartography  Colonial History  History  Peru  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First French translation of a classic work on the discovery and conquest of Peru View picture(s) 225 ZARATE, Augustin de. Histoire de la decouverte et de la conquete du Perou. Amsterdam, J. Louis de Lorme, 1700. 2 vols. 12vo. Nineteenth century red morocco, spine gilt, triple gilt fillets on sides with small floral ornaments in the corners, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (DEROME). With engraved frontispiece, folding engraved map of Peru, and 12 engraved plates, two folding. (36), 307, (1 blank); (6), 408 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  America [South]  Cartography  Colonial History  History  Peru  Spanish  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A unique and reliable source for all matter concerning the Amsterdam Lutheran community View picture(s) 226 ZESEN, Philipp von. Beschreibung der Stadt Amsterdam. Darinnen von derselben ersten Ursprunge bis auf gegenwärtigen Zustand, ihr unterschiedlicher Anwachs, herliche Vorrechte, und in 60 Kupferstücken entworfene führnehmste Gebeue, zusamt ihrem Stahtswesen, Kaufhandel, und ansehnlicher Macht zur See, wie auch wass ich in und mit derselben märkwürdiges zugetragen, vor Augen gestellet werden. Hier ist auch beigefügt, ein Appendix oder Beschreibung der neuen Auslage der Stadt Amsterdam, samt den Kupferstücken. Amsterdam, Markus Wilhelmsen Doornik, 1664. 12mo. Contemporary vellum with written title on spine. Frontispiece, 2 full page plates, 4 folding plates and 52 double-page plates. (22), 567 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Amsterdam  Cartography  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Medieval view on India View picture(s) 227 [ACHILLINI, Alexander]. Secreta secretorum Aristotelis. (Lyon), L. M(artin), 1528. Sm. 8vo. Contemporary blind-stamped tooled vellum over wooden boards, remnants of clasps. Title-page decorated with woodcut border, some woodcut initials and woodcut printer's device on verso last page. LXXXIII leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Anatomy  Asia  Cartography  Earth Sciences [Mineralogy]  History  India  Medicine  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A virtually encyclopaedic history and description of Spain and Portugal View picture(s) 228 [ALVAREZ DE COLMENAR, Juan]. Beschryving van Spanjen en Portugal; Waar in, Op het naauwkeurigste, al het geene, dat, zoo ten opzigte van hunnen ouden, als tegenwoordigen staat, aanmerkens-waardig, noodig en vermaakelijk om te weeten is, verhaald en door kunstige Print-verbeeldingen en Land-kaarten aangeweezen werd; Dienende daar-en-boven, voor een kort begrijp der voornaamste Geschiedenissen, Staats-gevallen, Regten,  Zeden en Gewoontens deezer magtige Koningrijken, En eyndelijk, tot een duydelijke Weg-wijzer, om alle der zelver landschappen, grens-paalen, steeden, vlekken en dorpen, op het kortste, veyligste en gemakkelijkste, te bereyzen. Leyden, Pieter vander Aa, 1707. 5 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with dark-brown title-label, red mottled edges. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, full-page engraved dedication, and large engraved vignette on title by J. Goeree, title printed in red and black, fine engraved large vignette at the end showing work in the field around a rich corn-barn and put within rich allegorical ornamental borders with in centre of lower border the Dutch Lion holding the coat-of-arms of Leyden, large folding engraved general map  of Spain and Portugal, and 164 almost half-page engravings in  text with regional maps, plans, views, and costumes. (16), 80; 84; 128; 52; 56, (64) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Europe  Portugal  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The roads of the Roman Empire and a late antique 'Michelin guide' of Rome View picture(s) 229 [ANTONINUS PIUS], Vibius SEQUESTER, Publius VICTOR & DIONYSIUS Periegetes. Itinerarium provinciarum Antonini Augusti. Vibius Sequester de fluminum , & aliarum rerum nominibus in ordinem elementorum digestis. P. Victor de regionibus urbis Romae. Dionysius Afer de situ orbis Prisciano interprete. Lyon, Nathias (sic; = Mathias) Bonhomme for the Heirs Simon Vincentius, (between 1535 and 1548). Sm. 8vo. Nineteenth-century vellum, ribbed and gilt spine with brown title label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials, woodcut device (Vera Icon) on last leaf. 206, (1), (1 blank) pp. (collation: A-N8) Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Cartography  Classical Antiquity  Rome  Topography  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Unrecorded Antwerp edition View picture(s) 230 [ATLAS - LOW COUNTRIES]. La description de XVII. Provinces, avec les Terres Circonvoicins, a Scavoir Champagnie, Picardie, Liege, Retelle, &c. Antwerp, Ian Huyssens, 1652. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt. With double-page title within typographical borders, and 39 double-page engraved maps of the Northern and Southern Netherlands by J. Colom, nicely coloured by hand. Full description >> Related Subjects: Atlases [Low Countries]  Cartography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Learn to talk like a sailor View picture(s) 231 [AUBIN, Nicolas]. Dictionaire de marine. Contenant les termes de la navigation et de l'architecture navale. Avec les règles & proportions qui doivent y etre observées. Amsterdam, Pierre Brunel, 1702. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt with red morocco title-label. Engraved allegorical frontispiece showing several workingmen with navigation instruments and 2 "nautical" figures viewing a scene of a harbour in which several ships are being built and repared, title in red & black, 30 engraved plates depicting different kinds of ships and navigation instruments. The text is illustrated with numerous woodcut figures. (12), 776 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Dictionaries  Engravings  Maritime History  Mathematics  Navigation  Science  Ships & Shipbuilding  Technology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Giving a lively picture of why you should emigrate to Australia View picture(s) 232 [AUSTRALIA]. New South Wales. The mother state of Australia. A guide for immigrants and settlers. [Australia], The intelligence department by authority of the gouvernment of the state of New South Wales, [1906]. 4to. Contemporary cloth with gilt title on spine and large decorated gilt title on front cover including a map of Australia flanked by banderoles with texts as: "Hints to immigrants and settlers" and "Industrial possibilities". With a full-colour frontispiece, 3 folding maps, and a "Mean annual rain and isohyets map" of the area, many advertisements printed in black and red and numerous black and white illustrations (photographs) throughout. XVI, [14], 418, XVII-XXXII pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A Franciscan discovering the Holy Land - from the library of king Louis-Philippe View picture(s) 233 [BEAUGRAND, Felix]. Relation fidele du voyage de la Terre Sainte dans laquelle se voit tout ce qu' il y a de remarquable, tant par mer que par terre, depuis le départ de Marseille jusqu' au retour de ce saint voyage. Par un religieux de S. François Observantain, qui a fait le voyage trois fois. Paris, Gabriel Valleyre, 1760. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, yellow morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red painted edges. With a small woodcut vignette on title, several woodcut head- and tailpieces. [4], 248, [10] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Cyprus  Greece  Holy Land  Malta  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Louisiana as seen by a French planter who fled San Domingo because of the slave revolts View picture(s) 234 [BERQUIN-DUVALLON, Pierre Louis]. Vue de la colonie Espagnole du Mississipi, ou des provinces de Louisiane et Floride occidentale, en l'année 1802. Paris, Imprimerie Expéditive, 1803. 8vo. Modern half red morocco, spine gilt in compartments, with black title label, lettered in gold. 2 engraved folding maps by Blondeau after the designs by Pierre Louis Berquin-Duvallon, depicting lower and upper Louisiana, both coloured by hand. XX, 318, 5, (5) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Native Americans  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A history of the English colonies in North America View picture(s) 235 [BUTEL DUMONT, George Marie]. Histoire et Commerce des Colonies Angloises, dans l'Amerique Septentrionale. Ou l'on trouve l'état actuel de leur population, & des détails curieux sur la constitution de leur gouvernement, principalement sur celui de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, de la Pensilvanie, de la Caroline, & de la Géorgie. Londres, Et se vend a Paris, 1755. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt, with red title-label. XXIV, 336 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Economy  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Contemporary biography of one of the greatest rulers of Persia in a fine armorial binding View picture(s) 236 [CLAUSTRE, André de, or CERCEAU, Jean-Antoine du]. Histoire de Thamas Kouli-Kan, nouveau Roi de Perse, ou histoire de la dernière révolution de Perse, arrivée en 1732. Paris, Briasson, 1742. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, red morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt coat of arms of Louis-Hilaire du Bouchet, comte de Sourches on covers, gilt fillet on binding edges, red painted edges. With beautifully engraved frontispiece of Thamas Kouli-Kan signed Mathey, with the inscription "Thamas Kouli Kan Roy de Perse Ce nouveau Tamerlan, quoi qu' il dise, ou qu' il faße D' un spectacle si grand etonne le Lecteur, Qu' il s' en faut peu qu' en lui le Monarque n' efface La honte de l' Usurpateur" by Pesselier and an engraved folding map (264 x 225 mm) of Persia and the states of the Mogol. (4), 455, (6) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Asia  Cartography  History  Middle East  Persia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Depicting daily business life in Surinam View picture(s) 237 [CLIFFORD, Jeronimy]. The case and replication of the legal representatives of Jeronimy Clifford; a British Subject; and late merchant and planter of Surinam, deceased; to the information of the directors of the Society of Surinam, presented, on the 7th of October 1762, to their High Mightiness the Lords States General of the United Provinces, upon the memorial presented by his Ecellency Sir Joseph Yorke to the Assembly of their High Mightinesses, on the 13th of July 1762. London, C. Say, 1763. Large 8vo. Contemporary blue-greenish morocco, spine gilt, richly gilt borders on sides, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Title printed in red and black, large folding engraved map of Surinam. [4], 478, [2 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Colonial History  English  Surinam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Account of the adventures of a French woman in the jungle of the Amazone View picture(s) 238 [CONDAMINE, Charles Marie de la & GODIN DES ODONAIS]. Lettre de M.D.L.C. à M*** sur le sort des astronomes qui ont eu part aux dernières mesures de la terre, depuis 1735.- Lettre de M. Godin des Odonais, et l'aventure tragique de Madame Godin dans son voyage de la province de Quito, à Cayenne, pas le fleuve des Amazones, à Etoilly, près Ham, en Picardie, 20 Oct. 1773. Maastricht, 1778. 8vo. Contemporary wrappers. 30 pp. (= p. 329-359 of the original work). Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Geography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the library of Lalande with his numerous ms. annotations View picture(s) 239 [CORDOBA, Antonio de]. Relacion del último viage al Estrecho de Magallanes de la Fragata de S.M. Santa María de la Cabeza en los años de 1785 y 1786. Extracto de todos los anteriores desde su descubrimiento impresos y MSS. y Noticia de los habitantes, suelo, clima y producciones del estrecho. IDEM.- Apéndice a la relacion del viage al Magallanes de la Fragata de guerra Santa Maria de la Cabeza, que contiene el de los Paquebotes Santa Casilda y Santa Eulalia para completar el reconocimiento del Estrecho en los años de 1788 y 1789. Madrid, Viuda de Ibarra, 1788-1793. 2 works in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary Spanish roan, spine ribbed and gilt, red title label, gilt binding edges. With engraved frontispiece portrait of Magellan by Ferdinand Selma, dated 1788, 4 large engraved folding maps and 4 folding tables in the first work, and 1 engraved folding map and 1 folding table in the second work. (6), XVI, 359; (4), 128 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Cartography  Chile  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare German children's book on the various peoples of the world View picture(s) 240 [COSTUMES - WORLD]. Kleine Völker Gallerie für Kinder in unterhaltenden Erzählungen von den Sitten, Meinungen, Gebräuchen und Kleidungen fremder Nationen. Cologne, Vom Verfasser der unterhaltenden Erzählungen für das erste Kindesalter, 1811. Small 12mo. Later half red morocco, gilt spine. With 24 engraved illustrations, all coloured in a contemporary hand. Each engraving (ca. 70 x 30 mm) is mounted on a leaf of laid paper. 170 (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  America [Caribbean Islands]  America, North  Asia  Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  Children's Books  China  Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Europe  Geography  Indonesia  Siberia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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