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A French historian on ancient and modern India View picture(s) 101 GUYON, Claude-Marie. Histoire des Indes Orientales, anciennes et modernes. Paris, J. H. Butard, 1744. 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with light brown title label, gilt binding edges, red painted edges. With 2 large engraved folding maps by Desbruslins of India and Indonesia, and several nice woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. (22), 396; (2), 353 (1); (2), 471, (9) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  India  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The English in Venezuela in 1817 View picture(s) 102 HACKETT, James. Relation de l'expedition partie d'Angleterre en 1817 pour joindre les patriotes de Vénézuéla, comprenant des particularités sur sa formation, son histoire et son sort, suivie d'observations et de renseignemens authentiques sur le caractère de la querelle, la manière de faire la guerre, l'état des armées, etc., etc., etc. Traduite de l'Anglais par N. Perrin. Paris, Librairie de Gide fils, 1819. Contemporary half red morocco, spine gilt. xviii, 159, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautiful views of the Netherlands View picture(s) 103 HAVARD, Henry. La Hollande à Vol d'Oiseau. Paris, G. Decaux, A. Quantin, 1881. Large 8vo. Contemporary half morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, top gilt, uncut, orig. wrappers preserved. With lithographed map of the Netherlands, printed in black and blue, double suite of 24 etched plates, showing views of the main Dutch cities, one suite in proof-state, one suite with the printed text, and numerous wood-engraved views and illustrations in text, by Maxime Lalanne. (8), 400 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic travel literature View picture(s) 104 HEARNE, Samuel. Voyage du Fort du Prince de Galles dans la Baie de Hudson, a l'Océan Nord, Entrepris par ordre de la Compagnie de la Baie de Hudson, dans les années 1769, 1770, 1771 et 1772, et exécuté par terre, pour la découverte d'un passage au Nord-Quest. Traduit de l'Anglais. Paris, Patris, An VII, (=1798). 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. With large folding map of the Hudson Bay, engraved by Blanchard, and 8 folding engraved plans and views. LVIII, 373, (1 blank); 332, XXIX, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Northern Passage  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Charming lithographes View picture(s) 105 HÉDOUIN, [Pierre]. Souvenirs Historiques et Pittoresques du Nord de la  France, ou Collection des plus belles Vues et des plus  beaux Monumens, de cette partie de la France. Paris, Dondey-Dupré, Père et Fils, 1830. Folio. Modern half calf, old boards. With 25 full-page fine lithographed views of Northern France by Langlumé after various artists. (56) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  France  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very nice volume on the Low Countries in the famous Elzevier series of the 'Republics' View picture(s) 106 HEGENITIUS, Gotfridus, Abraham ORTELIUS & Johannes VIVIANUS. Itinerarium Frisio-Hollandicum, et abr. Ortelii Itinerarium Gallo-Brabanticum. In quibus quae visu, quae lectu digna. Leiden, Ex officina Elzeviriana (Bonaventura and Abraham), 1630. 18mo. Contemporarry vellum with turned edges. Title printed in red and black, with the Elzevier printer's device, some woodcut tailpieces. 177(178), (8), 183-343 (344), (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Belgicana  Cartography  Friesland  Groningen  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With etching by Rembrandt View picture(s) 107 HERCKMANS, Elias. Der Zee-vaert lof, handelende van de gedenck-waerdigste zee-vaerden met de daeraenklevende op en onder-ganghen der voornaemste heerschappijen der gantscher wereld: zedert haere beginselen tot op den dagh van huyden. In VI boecken beschreven. Amsterdam, Jacob Pietersz. Wachter, 1634. Folio. Contemporary vellum. With richly engraved allegorical title, and 18 large etchings in text, including an original etching by Rembrandt: an allegorical scene of the "Ship of Fortune", the others by W. Basse. [20], 236, [8] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Cartography  East Indies  Literature  Rembrandt  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Celebrating the Chinese New Year in Manado View picture(s) 108 HICKSON, Sydney John. A naturalist in North Celebes. A narrative of travels in Minahassa, the Sangir and Talaut Islands, with notices of the fauna, flora and ethnology of the districts visited. London, John Murray, 1889. 8vo. Contemporary brown morocco, ribbed & gilt spine, gilt vignette of Owen's School 'Cambridge local examination honours. First class' on front cover. Coloured lithographed frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 6 full-page lithographed plates, and 29 views and plates in text. XV, 392 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Pacific  Philippines  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Pittoresque views from the Low Countries View picture(s) 109 HILLS, Robert. Sketches in Flanders and Holland; with some account of a Tour through Parts of those Countries, shortly after the Battle of Waterloo; in a Series of Letters to a friend. London, J. Haines, J. Turner for John Booth, R. Ackerman, W.H. Pyne, 1816. 4to. Modern calf spine, old title-label mounted, contemporary board covers with old calf corners preserved. With 36 fine engraved aquatint plates, one large folding, 5 in full colours, with views of Brussels, Ghent, Bruges, several of Waterloo, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Leyden, The Hague, Rijswijk, Delft, and Rotterdam, several with 2 or 3 views to one plate, the 5 plates in colours showing costumes, Flemish implements of husbandry, carriages and dilligences. VIII, 215, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Netherlands  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The constitution and description of the Dutch republic and the ancient history of the Netherlands till 836 View picture(s) 110 HOUVE, Matthijs vander. Hantvest of chartre Chronyck van de landen van Oud-Batavien, Oud-Vriesland, Oud-Francenland. Nu Holland, Zeeland, West-Vriesland, ende andere Vrieslanden, Gelderland, Utrecht ende Over-Ysel. Maeckende het Vrye Heerschende Vereenighde Neder-Land, t' samenghevought ende verbonden van dese seven vrye provincien, Gelderland, Holland-West-Friesland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Vriesland, Over-Ysel, Groeningen ende Vriesche-Omlanden. Leyden, Joannes Maire, 1636 (vol.1); The Hague, Dirck Maire 1638 (vol.2). 2 vols. Folio. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. Two different printer's devices of Joannes Maire (Breugelmans, ill. 2, nr. 8 in vol. 1, and an unrecorded variant in vol. 2) on titles, woodcut initials, 4 woodcut illustrations in text of vol. 1: a plan of the Brittenburg near Katwijk, and 3 siege machines. (8), 190; (4), 452 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  History  Netherlands  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the prosperity of Cuba View picture(s) 111 HUBER, Bertrand. Aperçu statistique de l'île de Cuba, précédé de quelques lettres sur la Havane, et suivi de tableaux synoptiques, d'une carte de l'île, et du tracé des côtes depuis la Havane jusqu'a Matanzas. Paris, Dufart, 1826. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine tooled in blind, gold and black, with black title label, red painted edges. With 6 folding tables and 2 maps, one full-page and one folding, depicting Cuba and surrounding islands. 331, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Cuba  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Stimulating immigration to New South Wales View picture(s) 112 HUTCHINGSON, Frank. La Nouvelle-Galles du Sud "La colonie-mère des Australies". Sydney, Charles Potter, 1896. 8vo. Original red cloth, with gilt title and royal arms on spine, and richly gilt and black decorated title with illustrations in roundels and royal arms on front cover, with the notice "Publié par Autorité". Frontispiece with 10 portraits of the ministers of the province, a large folding tinted panoramic view (23,5 x 96 cm) of Sydney Harbour, a map of New South Wales, a folding temperature map of N. S. W., a map of Port Jackson, large folding maps of the City of Sydney (52 x 72 cm) and the State Railways (67 x 76 cm), 52 plates and views, almost all full-page, a folding diagram, and many tables in the text. XIV, 338 (last blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a celebrated work on Persia in a splendid binding View picture(s) 113 HYDE, Thomas. Historia religionis veterum Persarum, eorumque magorum ubi etiam nova Abrahami, & Mithrae, & vestae, & Manetis, &c. Historia, atque Angelorum officia & praefecturae ex veterum parsarum sententia...Zoroastris vita, ejusque et aliorum vaticinia de Messiah Persarum aliorumque monumentis eruuntur...atque magorum liber Sad-der, (Zoroastris praecepta seu religionis canones continens,) e Persico traductus exhibetur...Dantur veterum Persarum scripturae & linguae... specimina... Oxford, E theatro Sheldoniano, 1700. 4to. Late 18th-century blue morocco, spine ribbed in 6 compartments, of which 2 with title lettered in gold, on both covers a border of beautifully crafted flowers within double-lined borders, with shell-shaped ornament in every corner, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (BOZERIAN). 18 engraved plates, of which 1 double page and 3 folding. (30), 556 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Bindings  Cartography  History  Middle East  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A British view of the Low Countries View picture(s) 114 IRELAND, Samuel. A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France, made in the autumn of 1789. The second edition, with additions; and with an entire new set of copper-plates in aqua-tinta, from drawings made on the spot. London, for T. Egerton, etc., 1796. 2 vols. Large 8vo. Contemporary dark blue morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt double filet borders on sides, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. With different coloured aquatint illustration on 2 titles, 2 letterpress titles, and 48 beautifully coloured aquatint plates, including two large portraits after altarpieces by Anthony van Dijck, etched by the author and finely coloured by hand, both dated 1795. XX, 217, (1 blank); IV, 211, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Aquatints  Cartography  Colour Platebooks  Netherlands  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Human sacrifice among Indians View picture(s) 115 IRVING, John Treat. Indian sketches, taken during an expedition to the Pawnee and other tribes of American Indians. London, A. Spottiswoode for John Murray, 1835. 2 vols. 12mo. Original boards, paper title label on spine. XI, (1), 273, (3); VIII, 301, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America, North  Americana  Cartography  Native Americans  Travel & Voyages  Voyages  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) 116 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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Containing all the official notices issued in 1805 by the last Dutch governor-general of the South-African colony View picture(s) 117 JANSSENS, Jan Willem. Collected proclamations, advertisements and notices in Dutch, addressed to the colonists of Cape of Good Hope. Cape Town, the Press at the Castle, 1805. 38 pieces in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary half roan. All pieces with the autograph signature of the governor-general, Janssens, and/or his Secretary J.A. Truter. 28 lvs., interleaved with blanks Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Cartography  Commerce  Economy  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The beginning of the renewed contacts between France and Persia View picture(s) 118 JAUBERT, Pierre-Amédée Emilien. Voyage en Arménie et en Perse, fait dans les années 1805 et 1806. Suivi d'une notice sur le Ghilan et le Mazenderan, par M. le colonel Trezel. Paris, Pélicier et Nepveu, 1821. 8vo. Contemporary half green morocco, spine with gilt ornaments and title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. 10 lithographed plates showing portraits, costumes and views, most of them designed by Orlowski and Preaux and lithographed by Aubry, Paris and H. Vernet, one large engraved folding map showing the region between Constantinople and Teheran engraved by Flahaut after Lapie and dated 1821. (2), XII, 506, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armenia  Asia  Cartography  Middle East  Napoleon  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare work, including the hardly ever found map, with curious account of last voyage by De la Salle, exploring the river Missisippi View picture(s) 119 JOUTEL, Henri. Journal historique du dernier voyage que feu M. De la Sale fit dans le Golfe de Mexique, pour trouver l'embouchure & le cours de la Riviere de Missicipi, nommée à présent la rivière de Saint Louis, que traverse la Louisiane. Où on voit l'histoire tragique de sa mort, & plusieurs choses curieuses du nouveau monde. Paris, Estienne Robinot, 1713. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine with gilt ornamented compartments and red morocco title-label, red sprinkled edges. Beautiful large folding engraved map. XXXIV, 386 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the best descriptions of South America View picture(s) 120 JUAN, Jorge. & Antonio ULLOA. Historische Reisbeschryving van geheel Zuid-America; gedaan op bevel des Konings van Spanje. Goes, J. Huysman, 1771. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary wrappers. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, large engraved vignette on 2 titles, large engraved allegorical head-piece to the dedication, and 25 engraved maps and plates, several folding, by H. Vinkeles, J. van Schley, etc. XXIV, 428; IV, 406, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America [South]  Cartography  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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