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The most important author on Surinam of the mid-nineteenth century View picture(s) 121 KAPPLER, August. Sechs Jahre in Surinam oder Bilder aus dem Militärischen Leben dieser Colonie, und Skizzen zur Kenntniss seiner Socialen und Naturwissenschaftlichen Verhältnisse. Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart, 1854. 8vo. Original half calf. VI, 282 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Surinam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The main source of early knowledge of the Pelew Islands in Micronesia in a Dutch translation View picture(s) 122 KEATE, George. Beschryving van de Pelew Eilanden, gelegen in het westlyk gedeelte van den Stillen Oceaan, opgesteld  uit de dagverhalen en mondelinge berigten van den Kaptein  Henry Wilson en sommigen van zyne officieren, welke  in Augustus 1783 aan dezelven schipbreuk geleden hebben met de Antelope, een paketboot, in dienst van de Engelsche Oostindische Maatschappy. Rotterdam, Gerard Abraham Arrenberg, 1789. 4to. Contemporary boards. With 4 full-page portraits, large folding map of the Northern Pacific, and 3 folding views, all engraved. XXXII, 365, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Discovery & Exploration  Exploration  Pacific  Shipwrecks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Piracy in the South Seas View picture(s) 123 KEPPEL, Henry. A visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H.M. ship Maender with portions of the private journal of Sir James Brooke, K.C.R. London, Richard Bentley, 1853. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary purple cloth. With a large folding engraved chart of the Indian Archipelago showing the track of H.S. ship Maender by J. & C. Walker, 8 coloured lithographed plates by Oswald W. Brierley. XV, 301; VIII, 286 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  China  Discovery & Exploration  Exploration  Piracy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First French edition with newly engraved plates by Simon Fokke View picture(s) 124 KOLBE, Peter. Description du Cap de Bonne-Esperance; Ou l'on trouve tout ce qui concerne l'Histoire-Naturelle du Pays; La Religion, les Moeurs & les Usages des Hottentots; et l'Establissement des Hollandois. Tirées des Memoires. Amsterdam, Jean Catuffe, 1741. 3 parts in 2 vols. Small 8vo. Contemporary calf, spines ribbed and richly gilt, with gilt crowned monogram CE or EC in centre on front covers, peacock fashion painted edges. With engraved vignette on 3 titles, titles printed in red and black, fine engraved allegorical frontispiece, 5 folding engraved maps, and 25 full-page engraved plates, one folding. (24), 370, (2); (14), 228; (20), 280 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Cartography  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With a description of the Russian settlement in California View picture(s) 125 KOTZEBUE, Otto von. Neue Reise um die Welt, in den Jahren 1823, 24, 25 und 26. Weimar, Wilhelm Hoffmann, 1830. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. Contemporary cloth. With 2 hand-coloured etched frontispieces, folding engraved chart of the Bay Mattaway near Tahiti, and 2 large folding engraved charts of groups of islands in the Pacific. XXII, 191; 176; 177, 34 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [North]  America [South]  Cartography  Chile  Circumnavigation  Northern Passage  Philippines  Tahiti  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Memoirs of a French Jesuit in South-East Asia View picture(s) 126 LA BISSACHÈRE, Pierre-Jacques Lemounier de, (MONTYON, Antoine de). Etat actuel du Tunkin, de la Cochinchine, et des royaumes de Camboge, Laos et Lac-Tho. Traduit d'apres les relations originales de ce voyageur. Paris, P. A. Belin for Galignani, 1812. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt, with red and green title labels, gilt binding edges, marbled endpapers, green sprinkled edges. 4, (II), 325, (1); (4), 342, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cambodia  Cartography  China  Vietnam  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Presentation copy by the author View picture(s) 127 LA CONDAMINE, Charles Marie de. Relation abrégée d' un voyage fait dans l' interieur de l Amerique Méridionale. Depuis la Côte de la Mer du Sud, Jusqu' aux Côtes du Brésil & de la Guiane, en descendant la riviere des Amazones; lûe á l`Assemblée publique de l`Académie des Sciences, le 28 avirl 1745. Paris, widow Pissot, 1745. 8vo. Original marbled wrappers. Folding engraved map of the Amazon region titled: 'Carte du cours du Maragnon ou de la grande riviere des Amazones', engraved by G.N. Delahaye. (4), XVI, 216, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Brazil  Cartography  Peru  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a voyage to India View picture(s) 128 LA FLOTTE, M. de. Essais historiques sur l'Inde, précédés d'un journal de voyages et d'une description géographique de la Côte de Coromandel. Paris, Herissant le Fils, 1769. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt. With 3 full-page engraved plates. [4], 360, [12] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  India  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous work on Spain and Portugal View picture(s) 129 LABORDE, Alexandre de. Voyage pittoresque et historique de l'Espagne. Paris, l'imprimerie de Pierre Didot l'aine, avec les caractères de Bodoni, 1806-1820. 2 parts in 4 vols. Elephant folio. Contemporary half green morocco. Engraved frontispiece by Du Parc, after Charles Percier, 2 engraved medals on title-page of first volume, memorial stone on the title of the second volume, coat of arms of Granada on the third volume's title-page, and engraved medals again on the title of the fourth volume. Ca. 350 engraved views, plans, architectural plates, etc. of towns, villages and buildings in Spain and Portugal, on 272 plates, and 2 large double-page engraved maps of Spain and Portugal. xlvi, 72, (2); 73-132; xlv, (1 blank), 33, (1 blank, 2); xci (=lxxxi), (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Cartography  Portugal  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Dutch East Indies described by a Frenchman View picture(s) 130 LANDES, Charles-Célestin-Anthony. Les Indes orientales Neerlandaises. Conférences faites au Collège des Interprètes.- (IDEM). Ngo Bao An abandonne sa famille pour sauver son ami.- (IDEM). L'heureuse rencontre su tableau des hibiscus. Saigon, Collège des Interprètes, 1885-1886. Large 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with red and black morocco title-labels, gilt upper edges. (4), 108; (4), 50 (last blank); (4), 60 (51-110) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  East Indies  Indochina  Literary History  Vietnam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The splendour of Istria and Dalmatia View picture(s) 131 LAVALLÉE, Joseph. Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de l'Istrie et Dalmatie. Paris, Vilain, An X - 1802. Large folio. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt and blind-stamped, g.e. Large view on engraved title, engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved headpieces, engraved double-page map of Istria & Dalmatia, 66 fine engraved plans, maps, views, and ornaments, fine and clean with beautiful impressions of the plates. VIII, 190, (1, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Yugoslavia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Treatise by the favourite astronomer of King Louis XV on a wide range of subjects View picture(s) 132 LE MONNIER, Pierre-Charles. Mémoires concernant diverses questions d'astronomie et de physique. Lûs et communiqués à l'Académie Royale des Sciences, &c. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1781. 4to. Modern half brown mottled calf, spine gilt, red morocco title label lettered in gold. With woodcut vignette on title, woodcut head-and tailpieces and one engraved folding plate with 3 illustrations of eclipses, signed Y. le Gouaz. VIII, XXIV, 34 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Cartography  France  Physics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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19th century tourist guide View picture(s) 133 LEHNHARDT, J. Holland, Belgium, The Rhine and the Northern and Eastern part of Germany. Illustrations to the Hand-Book for Travellers on the Continent: contained in a Series of Maps of the most frequented Roads through Holland, Belgium and Germany, with the By-Roads through the most interesting and picturesques Districts and with a great number of Plans of the Principal Towns.- Appendix, containing: 1) A List of the Principal Hotels and Inns. 2) The taxe for posthorses, postillons and Waggonmasters.  3) A table of the comparative value of German and foreign coins. Frankfurt, Ch. Jugel, Sold also by J. Murray, London, Amyot, Paris, Ch. Mucquardt, Brussels, 1842. 8vo. Original boards, with title in English on front cover and title in German on back cover. With double-page index map, 21 double-page folding lithographed maps, hand-coloured in outlines and with city-plans at either side, and 8 full-page lithographed plans of the major towns. 32 pp. Appendix in English and German. Full description >> Related Subjects: Belgicana  Cartography  Germany  Guide Books  Netherlands  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First-hand information on the journey of La Pérouse View picture(s) 134 LESSEPS, Jean-Baptiste-Barthelemy, Baron de. Voyage de Lapérouse, rédigé d'après ses manuscrits originaux, suivi d'un appendice renfermant tout ce que l'on a découvert depuis le naufrage jusqu'à nos jours, et enrichi de notes par M. de Lesseps, consul général de France à Lisbonne, et seul débris vivant de l'expédition dont il était interprète; accompagné d'une carte générale du voyage, orné du portrait et d'un fac-simile de Lapérouse. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, Delaunay, 1831. 8vo. Modern half calf, spine gilt in compartments, with two red title labels. With an engraved frontispiece with a portrait of Lapérouse, a facsimile of one of his letters, and a large engraved folding map. (8), XVIII, 436 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Exploration  La Perouse  Travel & Voyages  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare poetical jesuit work printed in Mexico View picture(s) 135 LOZANO, Francisco Xavier. Verdades eternas, confirmadas con la Sagrada Escritura, y expuestas en decimas castellanas para conservarlas facilmente en la memoria. Mexico, Heirs of Joseph de Jauregui, 1794. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, richly gilt spine with green morocco title label, red painted edges and very interesting marbled endpapers. With a full-page engraving of San Ignacio de Loyola by Aguera and several woodcut borders and endpieces. XIV, 168; 173 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Pedagogy & Didactics  Poetry  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A nobleman's view on Australia View picture(s) 136 LUDWIG SALVATOR, Archduke of Austria. Hobarttown, oder Sommerfrische in den Antipoden. Prague, Heinrich Mercy, 1886. 4to. Original half red cloth, gilt spine. Title repeated on front cover. With a coloured map of F. J. Evans, 23 (of which 1 folding) engravings of landscapes made by Friedrich Hawranek, 22 after drawings by the author and 1 after a photograph by F. Keller Leuzinger, and 6 illustrations in the text. (18), 284, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Topography  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare account of a commercially unsuccessful circumnavigation by Marchand in splendid binding View picture(s) 137 MARCHAND, Etienne. Voyage autour du monde, pendant les anneés 1790, 1791 et 1792. Précédé d'une introduction historique; auquel on a joint des recerches sur les terres Australes de Drake, et un examen critique du voyage de Roggeween par C.P. Claret Fleurieu. Paris, De l'imprimerie de la république, (1798-1800). 6 vols. (5 text vols. and 1 atlas). Large 8vo and 4to atlas. Contemporary light brown calf, spine gilt with star and flower pattern and 2 red morocco titlelabels, gilt ornamental borders on sides, gilt board edges, gilt inner dentelles with meander pattern, g.e. (COURTEVAL). 3 folding tabels with vocabulary in 3rd volume and 15 engraved maps and 1 engraved plate in atlas volume. (4), VIII, CCI, (3), 294, (2); VII, (1), 529, (1); (2), VIII, 474, (2); VIII, 494, (2); XII, 559, (5); (2), VIII, 158, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Cartography  Circumnavigation  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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By the founder of the Geographical Society of Australia View picture(s) 138 MARIN DE LA MESLÉE, Edmond Marie. L'Australie nouvelle. Paris, E. Plon et Cie., 1883. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, uncut. With one large folding view depicting the city and port of Sydney, one large folding map of Australia, printed in colour, and 6 views in black and white, of which 2 double-page and 4 full-page. [7], VIII-XII, 298 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  Earth Sciences [General]  Earth Sciences [Mineralogy]  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Jesuit mission in Tonkin View picture(s) 139 MARINI, Giovanni Filippo de. Delle missioni de padri della Compagnia di Giesu, nella  provincia del Giappone, e particolarmente di quella di Tumkino. Libri cinque. Roma, Nicolo Angelo Tinassi, 1663. 4to. Vellum binding. With folding engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. Clowet, 2 folding engraved costume-plates, and double-page folding engraved plate of a Japanese Emperial galley. (16), 548, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  Japan  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early description of Greenland View picture(s) 140 MARTENS, Friedrich. Viaggio di Spizberga o' Gronlanda fatto da Federico Martens Amburghese l' anno 1671. Ove si descrivono que' remotissimi paesi del settentrione sotto gli 81. gradi, ne' quali soggiorna il Sole per lo spazio di tre Mesi intieri, con una copiosa relazione di quell'agghiacciato clima, e de gli uccelli, quadrupedi, pesci, e piante rare, che vi nascono, colla descrizione delle balene, e lor pesca. Portato nuovamente dalla lingua Alemana nell'Italiana dal Sig. Iacopo Rautenfels gentiluomo Curlandese. Al moltr'illustre, e molto rev. sig. il Signor D. Domenico Bertuzzini. Bologna, Giacomo Monti, 1680. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, ribbed spine with title lettered in gold, green sprinkled edges. With woodcut initials, tailpieces, one woodcut illustration in text of a whale, a crab, and 2 folding plates, one with illustrations of the capture of whales, plants, birds and fishes. 264 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Botany  Cartography  Whaling  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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