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Everything you want to know about 18th century Surinam View picture(s) 81 FERMIN, Philip. Nieuwe algemeene beschryving van de colonie van Suriname. Behelzende al het merkwaardige van dezelve, met betrekkinge tot de historie, aardryks- en natuurkunde. Harlingen, V. van der Plaats junior, 1770. 2 parts in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with title label. Large folding engraved map of Surinam showing all plantations, accompanied by a list of their names and owners, first part, and 3 folding engraved plates, one large folding showing a Surinam tent-boat, and the other two showing the working of a mill by water and by horses in the second part. (4), XX, 228; (4), 323, (5) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Slavery  Surinam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Study of a 17th-century manuscript travel diary View picture(s) 82 FIERVILLE, Charles. Voyage anonyme et inédit d'un Janséniste en Hollande et en Flandre en 1681. Etude historique d'après un manuscrit de la bibliothèque du Havre. Paris, Champion, 1889. 8vo. Contemporary half dark green morocco, spine ribbed with gilt title and gilt coat-of-arms of the marquis des Roys. 76, (2, last blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Colonization in full detail View picture(s) 83 FORSTER, Anthony. South Australia, its progress and prosperity. London, Harrild for Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1866. 8vo. Original red cloth, gilt spine, blind-tooled sides. With a folding map of South Australia, coloured in outlines. XII, 474, [2], 16 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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French edition of a voyage to North-Eastern Europe in the company of Alex. von Humboldt, by a companion of James Cook View picture(s) 84 FORSTER, Johan Georg Adam. Voyage philosophique et pittoresque, sur les rives du Rhin, a Liège, dans la Flandre, le Brabant, la Hollande, l'Angleterre, la France, etc. fait en 1790. Traduit de l'Allemand, avec des notes critiques sur la physique, les moeurs, l'histoire naturelle et les arts, par Charles Pougens Paris, F. Buisson & Charles Pougens, 1800 (l'an VIII). 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with two red morocco title labels lettered in gold, yellow painted edges. With a folding map of Great Britain and 9 folding views of famous English buildings. (4), XVI, 408; (4), 446; 8, 407 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Belgicana  Cartography  England  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A botanist family in the company of Captain Cook View picture(s) 85 FORSTER, Johann Reinhold and George. Characteres generum plantarum, quas in itinere ad insulas Maris Australis, collegunt, descripserunt, delinearunt, annis 1772-1775. Beschreibung der Gattungen von Pflanzen, auf einer Reise nach den Inseln der Sud-See gesammelt, beschrieben und abgezeichnet, während den Jahren 1772 bis 1775. Aus dem Lateinischen übersetzt durch Johann Simon Kerner. London, B. White,T. Cadell, P. Elmsly, 1776. 4to. Later half calf. With illustrations of plants from the Pacific on 78 engraved plates. [14], VIII, 150, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Cartography  Cook  Pacific  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two famous voyages in search of a North-West passage View picture(s) 86 FRANKLIN, [John] & [William Edward] PARRY. Histoire des deux Voyages entrepris par ordre du Gouvernement Anglais; L'Un par terre, dirigée par le Capitaine Franklin; L'Autre par mer, sous les ordres du Capitaine Parry, pour la Découverte d'un Passage de l'Océan Atlantique dans la Mer Pacifique. Traduit de l'Anglais. Paris, Librairie de Gide Fils, 1824. Small 8vo. Contemporary half leather. With large folding circular engraved map of the arctic regions with the route of the two voyages and their discoveries. 299 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Often praised work on South America View picture(s) 87 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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Valuable account of the customs, natural history, politics and trade of India and Persia View picture(s) 88 FRYER, John. Negenjarige Reyse door Oostindien en Persien ... Begonnen met den jaare 1672 en geeyndigt met den jaare 1681. In acht brieven geschreven door d'Heer Johan Freyer. Uyt het Engels vertaalt. The Hague, A. de Hondt, etc. 1700. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, red sprinkled edges. With engraved frontispiece, engraved author's portrait, 3 folding maps and 7 folding engraved plates and views. [8], 566, [26] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  East Indies  Middle East  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ceylon as seen by the great expert on Ceylon and father of the inventor of the Geiger-counter View picture(s) 89 GEIGER, Wilhelm Ludwig. Ceylon. Tagebuchblätter und Reiseerinnerungen. Wiesbaden, C. W. Kreidel's Verlag, 1898. 8vo. Original blue cloth, decorated with a 'Jugendstil' flower design. With decorated title and 23 illustrations of which several full-page and one printed in two columns. XI, [1], 213, [7] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  Ceylon  India  Photography  Voyages  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) 90 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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Important for the history of Sulawesi (Celebes) View picture(s) 91 GERVAISE, Nicolas. Description historique du Royaume de Macaçar. Divisée en trois livres. Augmentée de diverses pièces curieuses. Regensburg, Erasme Kinkius, 1700. 3 parts in 1 vol. Small 8vo. Modern half calf, spine ribbed and gilt, red sprinkled edges. With engraved frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title and several woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. (10), 280 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Indonesia  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare work on the early days of Peru View picture(s) 92 GONZALEZ VIGIL, Francisco de Paula. A sus Conciudadanos. Lima, T. Lopez, 1833. 4to. 20th-century calf, gilt title on spine. 33 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America [South]  Cartography  Peru  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Nicely illustrated travel account of "sights" and sacred places in the Holy Land View picture(s) 93 GOUJON, Jacques. Histoire et voyage de la Terre-sainte, où tout ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable dans les saints lieux, est tres exactement descrit. Lyon, Pierre Compagnon & Robert Taillandier, 1671. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt. Woodcut vignette on title and 17 folding engraved plates depicting maps, views and plans of regions, mountains and buildings in the holy land, at least one designed by Goujon himself anf one is signed by Derbage ad the executor. (12), 358, (10, last blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Holy Land  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Astronomical and geographical information on regions in China and India View picture(s) 94 GOUYE, (Thomas). Observations physiques et mathematiques, pour servir a l'histoire naturelle & à la perfection de l'astronomie & de la geographie: envoyées des Indes et de la Chine à l'Académie Royale des Sciences à Paris, par les Peres Jesuites. Paris, Jean Anisson, Imprimerie Royale, 1692. 4to. Contemporary calf with gilt spine. Woodcut coat-of-arms on title, 2 double-page engraved maps, one depicting a part of India with the course of the river Ganges and the other one with the course of the river Ava, one engraved plate with the alphabet of Bengalen and the people of Baramas. (4), 114 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Cartography  China  India  Jesuits  Mathematics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Thomas Christians on the Malabar coast View picture(s) 95 GOVEA (or GOUVEA), Antonio & Aleixo de MENEZES. Histoire orientale des grans progres de l' Eglise Cathol. Apost. & Rom. en la reduction des anciens Chrestiens, dit de S. Thomas, de plusieurs autres schismatiques & heretiques a l' union de la vraye Eglise. Conversion encor des Mahometains, Mores et payens. Par les bons devoirs du Don Alexis de Meneses, de l' Ordre des Eremites de S. Augustin, Archevesque de Goa, & Primat de tout l' Orient. Composée en langue Portugaise, & puis mise en Espagnol par venerable P.F. Francois Munoz, & tournée en Francois par F. Jean Baptiste de Glen. Bruxelles, Rutger Velpius, 1609. 8vo. Contemp. brown calf, spine gilt in compartments, title lettered in gold. With a small vignette on title, some woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. (44), 748 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Catholicism  India  Portugal  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A controversial philanthropist at Baltimore and New Orleans View picture(s) 96 GRAILHE, Alexandre. Mémoire à plaider devant la cour suprème de Louisiane, pour les villes de la Nouvelle-Orléans et de Baltimore, dans le procès sur le testament de M. McDonogh. New Orleans, 1852. 8vo. Half brown hard-grained morocco, spine gilt. (2), 323, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An Italian military man depicting the the towns and fortifications in the Low Countries View picture(s) 97 GUALDO PRIORATO, [Galeazzo]. Teatro del Belgio 'o sia descritione delle Diecisette Provincie del Medesimo; Con le Piante delle Città, e Fortezze Principali; da chi al presente possesse; come, in qual modo, & in qual tempo acquistate. Vienna, Michele Thurnmayer, 1673. Folio. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt. With richly engraved frontispiece with the coat-of-arms of all Seventeen Provinces, title within woodcut borders, engraving on title, large folding general map, 2 large folding views of a sea-battle and an army crossing the Rhine, and 120 double-page fortified plans of all main cities of the Netherlands. (14), 148, (6) pp. text within woodcut borders. Full description >> Related Subjects: Atlases [General]  Cartography  Fortification  Low Countries  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Well illustrated popular description of exotic Turkey View picture(s) 98 GUER, Jean Antoine. Moeurs et usages des Turcs, leur religion, leur governement civil, militaire et politique, avec un abrégé de l'histoire Ottomane. Paris, Widow Delatour, for Coustelier, 1746-1747. 2 vols. Large 4to. Contemp. marbled calf, spines richly gilt in compartments, with red title-labels, gilt tripple fillet borders on sides, gilt binding edges, marbled endpapers, g.e. With 2 engraved frontispieces, engraved vignette on 2 titles, beautifully engraved head- and tailpieces, most of them illustrating the text, interesting engraved initials. Large folding view of the Serail in Constantinople (280x920mm, mistakingly bound in vol. 1),  folding view of the city of Constantinople, 4 double-page engraved views and plates, and 22 full-page engraved plates, all within decorative borders, and all engraved by Cl. Duflos, several after F. Boucher and N. Halle. XXIV, 453, (19); VIII, 537, (2, 3 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Costumes  Engravings  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First illustrated description of the Low Countries, enlarged first French edition printed by Plantin View picture(s) 99 GUICCIARDINI, Ludovico. Description de touts les Pais-Bas, autrement appellés la Germanie Inférieure ou Basse Allemagne. Antwerp, Christoffel Plantijn, 1582 Folio. Contemporary overlapping vellum, later ties. With engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved title-pages, 1 engraving in text and 78 engraved plans and views (63 double-page, 5 full-page folding, 2 full-page, 8 half-page). [24], 495, [21] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Cartography  Low Countries  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First original French edition of a magnificent work on travels to, and history of China and the Philippines View picture(s) 100 GUIGNES, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de. Voyages à Peking, Manille et l'Ile de France, faits dans l'intervalle des années 1784 a 1801. Paris, L'Imprimerie impériale (J.J. Marcel), for sale at MM. Treuttel & Würtz, 1808. 4 volumes: 3 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. 8vo (text) and folio (atlas).. Text volumes in19th-century half calf, atlas volume in contemporary half calf. The atlas with 92 engraved illustrations on 61 leaves by De Guines after Deserve and 5 engraved maps of which folding, by D'Houdan. [4], LXIII, 439; [4] 476; [4], 488 pp.; atlas: 4 pp. text (title and index). Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  China  Engravings  Philippines  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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