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Greetings from sunny Cuba View picture(s) 241 [CUBA - VIEWS]. Album pintoresco de la Isla de Cuba. [Berlin], B. May & Ca, [1850]. Small oblong folio. Original richly gilt black morocco. With coloured lithographed title-page, and 27 coloured lithographed views of Havana and other parts of the island. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Cuba  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of an important history of Canada View picture(s) 242 [FAILLON, Etienne Michel]. Histoire de la Colonie Française en Canada. Villemarie [= Montréal], Bibliotheque Paroissiale, 1865-1866. 3 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half calf. XIII, [3], XXIII, 551; XXIV, 568; XXIII, 548 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Canada  Cartography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare important description of the French missionaries and of various parts in the Far East (ca. 1666-1670) View picture(s) 243 [FERMANEL DE FAVERY, Luc?]. Relatione delle missioni de' vescovi vicarii apostolici, mandati dalla S. Sede apostolica alli regni di Siam, Cocincina, Camboia, e Tunkino. Rome, Nella stamperia della Sac. Cong. de Prop. Fide., 1677. 4to. Contemporary vellum, spine decorated with brownish dots, with citron morocco title-label lettered in gold, red marbled edges. Woodcut vignette on title and some woodcut ornamental borders throughout text. (14), 254, (2, blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cambodia  Cartography  Vietnam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A former priest exposing all uses and abuses of the Roman Catholic Church View picture(s) 244 [GAVIN, Antoine]. Reyze door Vrankryk, Italien, Duytsland, Switserland, &c., Behelsende, een nette verklaring en beschryving van de regte toestand aller Roomse kerken, kloosters, konventen, en ordens van geestelijken, van allerley zoort… Hier is bygevoegt een kort verhaal van den oorspronk en natuur van het Roomse Jubel-jaar. Uyt 't Engelsch vertaalt. The Hague, Meyndert Uytwerf and Engelbregt Boucquet, 1700. 4to. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine with red title-label. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, and 8 full-page engraved plates by Hillebrand van der Aa. [8], 456, [26] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Europe  France  Germany  Italy  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Basic knowledge of the world and its inhabitants View picture(s) 245 [GEOGRAPHY]. Geographie vivante, ou tableaux raisonnés et comparatifs des principaux habitans du globe, avec leur costume; des animaux divers qui s' y trouvent, et une exacte description de leurs moeurs, de leurs usages et habitudes. Paris, Alexis Eymery, 1823. Oblong 8vo. Contemporary boards covered with green paper with printed title with imprint (Paris A. Eymery, 1821), decorative border and title printed on spine. With an engraved frontispiece, engraved illustration on half-title and printer's device on title,  30 engraved plates with 2 charming illustrations each. (2), II, 194, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  America [Caribbean Islands]  America, North  Asia  Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  Children's Books  China  Costumes  Europe  Geography  Indonesia  Siberia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of an extensive history of the Roman Catholic church in Malabar, India View picture(s) 246 [GOUVEA, Antonio de]. Historia Ecclesiae Malabaricae cum Diamperitana Synodo Apud Indos Nestorianos, S. Thomae Christianos nuncupatos coacta ab Alexio de Menezes Augustinensi An. MDXCIX. Nunc primum e Lusitano in Latinum versa (curia) JO.FACUNDI RAULIN, cui Accedunt, cum Liturgia Malabarica, tum Dissertationes variae: omnia perpetuis animadversionibus illustrata. Roma, Hieronymus Mainardi, 1745. Large 4to. Contemporary vellum, red mottled edges. With title printed in red and black, engraved papal coat-of-arms on title, fine engraved headpiece by Hieronymus Rossi, and 3 large engraved initials. (36), 529, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  India  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare history of Jerusalem with the description of the holy sites View picture(s) 247 [HOLY LAND]. Abregé de l'histoire de la ville de Jérusalem, où on expose succinctement  les états différens où s'est trouvée cette ville, depuis son origine avec les principales révolutions qui y sont arrivées: mais où on traite spécialement de la ville qui porte ce nom par rapport aux mystères de la loi nouvelle, & à l'état où elle se trouve aujourd'hui, &c. Avec l'ordinaire de la messe. Par un missionaire apostolique. Lille, Van Costenoble, 1769. 8vo. Marbled half calf, spine gilt, red morocco title label lettered in gold. With one folding engraved plate of a city plan of Jerusalem with a printed table of the 49 sites indicated and numbered on the plate, all places relating to the life of Jesus. Interesting engraved head- and tailpieces. (8), XVI, 5-203, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  Holy Land  Middle East  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extensive discussion of Japan and the Japanese View picture(s) 248 [JAPAN]. Neuestes Gemälde, von Japan und den Japanern. Nach den neuesten Reisen eines Krusenstern, Langsdorf und Golownin, mit steter Vergleichung der ältern Berichte von Kämpfer, Thunberg und andern. Nebst einem Abriß der zweyjährigen Gefangenschaft Golownins und seiner Gefährten in diesem Lande. Pesth, Hartlebens Verlag, 1821. 2 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary marbled boards. With a folding engraved frontispiece depicting Japanese women in their library and 14 engraved plates (7 in each volume). [4], 264; [4], 234, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Cartography  Japan  Russia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Jesuit letters from Japan View picture(s) 249 [JESUITS - JAPAN]. Cartas que los Padres y Hermanos de la Compañia de Jesus, que andan en los Reynos de Japon, escrvieron a los dela misma Compania, desde el año de mil y quinientos y quarta y nueve, hasta el de mil y quinientos y setenta y uno. En las quales se da noticia de las varias costumbres y idolatrias de aquella gentilidad: y se cuenta el principio y successo y bondad de los Christianos de aquellas partes. Alcala, Juan Iñiguez de Lequerica, 1575. 4to with quires of 8 lvs. Contemporary limp vellum with rest of ties, title label pasted on spine. Woodcut of the Crucifixion on verso of the colophon (first unnumbered lv. at the end), charming woodcut initials and woodcut characters of the Japanese alphabet in text. (10), 315, (5) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Cartography  Japan  Mission  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The mission in 1624 View picture(s) 250 [KIRWITZER, Wenceslas Pantaléon]. Histoire de ce qui s'est passé au royaume de la Chine en l'annee 1624. Tirée des letres écrites & adressées au P.P. Mutio Viteleschi, general de la Compagnie de Iesus. Traduite de l'Italien en François par un Père de la mesme Compagnie. Paris, Sebastien Cramoisy, 1629. 8vo. 19th century half calf, spine ribbed and gilt. Woodcut vignette on title. (4), 102 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  China  Jesuits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First system of depth contour lines on a printed map View picture(s) 251 [MAP - NETHERLANDS - MAAS]. CRUQUIUS, Nicolaas. De Rivier de Merwede, ... (The Hague, National Printing Office, 1730). Framed. An engraved map of the river Merwede or Maas between the cities of Gorinchem and Dordrecht, the main map (in 2 parts, each 54 x 64 cm) on 2 Imperial sheets at a scale of 1:10,000 and a third Imperial sheet with an overview map (22 x 63 cm) and diagrams showing river depth and dike profiles, and tidal and seasonal changes in the water level. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Cartography  Dutch  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A rare and very early account of Captain Cook's first circumnavigation View picture(s) 252 [MATRA, James (attributed to)]. Supplément au voyage de M. De Bougainville; ou journal d'un voyage autour du monde, fait par MM. Banks & Solander, Anglois, en 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771. Traduit de l'Anglois, par M. De Fréville. Paris, Le Breton for Saillant & Nyon, 1772. 8vo. Marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red edges. [2], XVI, 362, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Cook  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare first Dutch edition of a richly illustrated topography of Switzerland View picture(s) 253 [MERIAN, Matthäus &] Martin ZEILLER. Topographia Helvetiae Rhaetiae et Valesiae. Dat is Een Beschryvinge en Eygentlyke Afbeeldinge der Steden en Plaetsen vant loffelyke Eetgenootscap anders Schweitserland, Graubunters, Wallissers en toegehorige plaetsen.- SIMLER, J. Een Historische Beschrijvinge van Switser-landt. Begrijpende Den Oorsprong van alle haer Verbonden, Victorien, en andere ghedenckwaerdige Gheschiedenissen, vanden tijdt van Rudolphus van Habsburgh, tot op Keyser Karel de vijfde. Amsterdam, C. Danckers, 1644. 2 works in one vol. Folio. Contemporary vellum. With engraved title, folding engraved general map of Switzerland by J. Janssonius and 74 engraved maps, plans and views on 54 engraved plates, one full-page, 51 double-page, and 2 folding, and engraved view on title-page of the second work. (6), 48; 81, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Atlases [General]  Cartography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Only edition of a Calcutta printed poem View picture(s) 254 [NAVAL HISTORY - JAVA]. The lay of Cornelis, in three Cantos. By an Officer who was present at the storm of the French Camp, at that place, 26th August, 1811. Calcutta, Telegraph press, 1812. Contemporary half red morocco, spine gilt. With original folding manuscript map of the battle. IV, 64 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  India  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare complete set of the Novara expedition View picture(s) 255 [NOVARA EXPEDITION]. Reise der oesterreichische Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857-1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllersstorf-Urbair. Vienna, Kaiserliche Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1861-1875. 21 volumes bound as 18. 3 large 8vo and 15 large 4to. 12 volumes in green library cloth; 3 in original publisher's green cloth, gold and blind-blocked (2 re-backed); 3 (8vo) in contemporary tanned half goatskin, cloth sides. With 80 maps, 491 lithographed plates, including 148 finely hand-coloured and 67 tinted, and ca. 150 illustrations in the text. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Austria  Cartography  Circumnavigation  Natural History  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A still very important biography of her late husband View picture(s) 256 [RAFFLES, Lady Sophia]. Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, f.r.s. &c. particularly in the government of Java, 1811-1816, and of Bencoolen and its dependencies, 1817-1824; with details of the commerce and resources of the Eastern archipelago, and selections from his correspondence. London, John Murray, 1830. 4to. Contemporary half red morocco, spine ribbed and compartments elaborately gilt with floral ornaments, green morocco title label. Lithographed mezzotint portrait of Sir Raffles, 4 engraved maps of which 3 folding, 6 uncoloured aquatint lithographed plates. XVI, 724 (last blank), 100 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  East Indies  Indonesia  Java  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important description of the Antilles View picture(s) 257 [ROCHEFORT, Charles de]. Histoire naturelle et morale des Iles Antilles de l'Amérique. Enrichie de plusieurs belles figures des raretez les plus considérables qui y sont décrites. Avec un vocabulaire Caraïbe. Rotterdam, Arnould Leers, 1658. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spine ribbed and gilt with red morocco title label, gilt fillet borders on sides, gilt binding edges, blue marbled edges. With full-page engraved frontispiece, engraved printer's device with the motto 'labore et vigilantia' on title, full-page engraved portrait of Jaques Amproux, and 43 engravings, of which some full-page, of all kinds of plants, trees, animals and costumes from the Antilles in the text. (16), 527, (13) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Royal Charter of the Royal Philippine Company View picture(s) 258 [ROYAL PHILIPPINE COMPANY]. Real cedula de ereccion de la Compañia de Filipinas de 10 de Marzo de 1785. Madrid, Pedro Marin, (1785). Folio. Contemporary wrappers in half morocco slipcase. With full-page engraved Royal Arms. (4), 58 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America, North  Cartography  Philippines  Spain  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Three lists of ships and their whereabouts in 1735 View picture(s) 259 [SHIPS & SHIPBUILDING]. Lyst van scheepen, welke volgens tydinge (ingekomen in de maanden January en February, 1735.)...- Lyst van scheepen ... voor de maand Maart 1735.- Lyst van scheepen ... voor de maand April 1735. Amsterdam, Widow of J. van Egmont, 1735. Three parts in one volume. 4to. 20th-century half vellum. 18; 12; 12 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Cartography  Navigation  Netherlands  Ships & Shipbuilding  Shipwrecks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting work on slavery by an anonymous Frenchman View picture(s) 260 [SLAVERY - AFRICA - BRAZIL]. Journal d'un voyage sur les costes d'Afrique et aux Indes d'Espagne; avec une description particuliere de la riviere de la Plata, de Buenosayres, & autres lieux; commencé en 1702 & fini en 1706. Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1730. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco title label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. With woodcut frontispiece of a "Sauvage du Perou", woodcut vignette on title, title printed in red and black. (2), 372 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Argentina  Brazil  Cartography  Slavery  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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