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Apparently the second recorded copy of the Kanagawa Treaty, negotiated by Mathew C. Perry and effectively opening Japan to trade with the West View picture(s) 1 (JAPAN). Treaty between the United States of America and the Empire of Japan. Concluded March 31, 1854; Ratified August 7, 1854; Proclaimed June 22, 1855. (Washington, D.C., 1855). Folio. Original printed self-wrappers, stitched. Signed in type by Franklin Pierce as President and by W. L. Marcy as Secretary of State. 5 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Discovery & Exploration  Economy  Japan  Pacific  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Nice pocket-atlas View picture(s) 2 (MAPS FOR A GEOGRAPHICAL GRAMMAR). Edinburgh, for Alexander Kincaid, 1790). Modern half grey calf, with old title-label mounted on spine. With 33 folding engraved maps, by McIntyre, T. Conder, and some by J. Fraser after A. Kincaid. 1 leaf with manuscript index. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Atlases  Discovery & Exploration  England  English  Games & Pastimes  Maps  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The lives of 44 naval heroes View picture(s) 3 VIES DES MARINES Célèbres anciens et modernes Français et etranger. Nouvelle edition revue et augumentée avec portraits Paris, B. Renault, 1836. 12mo. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt with red morocco title label. Engraved frontispiece of Michiel de Ruyter and four engraved portraits of Cornelis Tromp, Bougainville, Nelson and La Touche Tréville. (5), 318 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Discovery & Exploration  French  Maritime History  Piracy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two rare accounts of travels to the arctic regions and an important source on whaling, with a frontispiece by Jan Luyken View picture(s) 4 WEERELD, DE NOORDSCHE-. Vertoond in twee nieuwe, aenmercklijcke, derwaerts gedaene reysen. D'eene, van de heer Martiniere, door Noorweegen, Lapland, Boranday, Siberien, Samojessie, Ysland, Groenland en Nova-Zembla. Met beschryvingh van der inwoonderen seeden, gewoonten, overgeloven, gestalte, dragten, en huysen. De koophandel, met haer gedreven. En dwalingh der weereld-beschrijvers, soo in de plaetsingh als uytstreckingh van Groenland en Zembla. D'andere, van de Hamburger Frederick Martens, verright nae Spitsbergen, of Groenland, in 't jaer 1671. Met nauwkeurige aenteeckeningh van de gelegenheyd dese lands, en desselven uyterste deelen. Van de zee, 't ys, de lught, de daer wassende verscheydene kruyden, de sigh daer onthoudende vogelen, dieren, visschen, walvisschen en zee-qualmen. Vertaeld en doorgaens met toedoeningen verrijckt door S. De Vries. Amsterdam, Aert Dircksz. Ooszaen, 1685. 4to. Contemporary vellum, ms. title in ink on spine. Engraved frontispiece by Jan Luyken, 14 engraved full-page plates (numbered I-IV, each with 4 illustrations; E-O), 1 engraved folding world map, 6 engraved double-page or folding plates (A-D, P-Q), and 1 woodcut illustration in text. 4 plates are signed by C. Decker (A-D) and 3 plates signed by J. Harrewijn, dated 1685 ((N-P). The plates depict scenes of the lives of the described inhabitants, animals and plants, whales and whaling scenes. (10), 334, (18) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Botany  Cartography  Discovery & Exploration  Engravings  Exploration  Fishing  Iceland  Ichthyology  Natural History  Norway  Scandinavia  Siberia  Whaling  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early extremely rare primary source for the Portuguese in India View picture(s) 5 (FREIRE DE ANDRADE, Jancinto). Primor e honra da vida soldadesca no estado da India. Livro excellente, antigament5e composto ... sem nome de Autor, & hora posto em orden de sair a luz, com hum Elogio sobre elle, pello P.M. Fr. Antonio Freyre da Ordem de Santo Agostinho, deputado do Santo Officio de Inquisiçao de Lisboa. Lisbon, Jorge Rodrigues, 1630. 4to. Contemporary brown mottled calf, gilt spine with red morocco title label lettered in gold. Woodcut vignette on title with 'S. Thome padroeiro da India Oriental', woodcut tail pieces and woodcut initials. (8), 133 (=132: misnumb.: 87, 89); 58; (4) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Discovery & Exploration  India  Portugal  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Searching for the Northwest Passage (1577-1619) View picture(s) 6 (MONNICK, Ioan, Marten FROBISHER & Gotske LINDENAU). VOYAGIEN, DRIE-, gedaen na Groenlandt, om te ondersoecken of men door de naeuwe Hudson soude konnen seylen; om alsoo een doorvaert na Oost-Indien te vinden. Alle ten versoecke van Christianus de III, Koningh van Denemarken, &c. de eerste door Ioan Monnick, de tweede door Marten Frobisser, ende de derde door Gotske Lindau. Als mede een beschrijvinghe, hoe, en op wat wijse men walvisschen vanght. Item een korte beschrijvingh van Groendlandt met de manieren en hoedanicheden der inwoonderen aldaer. Amsterdam, Gillis Joosten Saeghman, (ca. 1665). 4to. 19th century vellum, spine with printed title. Woodcut title vignette showing two ships, full-page woodcut (153x110mm) of a winged ' Fama', blowing a trumpet and holding another trumpet in her left hand, floating above the globe, by Christoffel van Sichem (IV), signed by the well-known CVS monogram with '(S)ichem. fecit." and 8 large and 7 smaller woodcuts in the text of which 6 large and 2 smaller woodcuts have the monogram of van Sichem (IV), and woodcut vignette (used two times) of a ship under sail; some woodcut initials. 32 pp. (Collation: A-D4). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Americana  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Greenland  Northern Passage  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Spanish intrigues at the end of the Eighty Years' War to break the Dutch supremacy View picture(s) 7 (SOUSA COUTINHO, Francisco de). Apologie pour monsieur De Souza Coutinho, ambassadeur de Portugal en France, ou verification du contenu en la lettre qu'íl a écrit de Paris au Sieur de la Chapelle, en date du 4 Mars 1651 contre les calomnies d'Antoine Brun. Paris, (probably The Hague), Pierre Ferrier, 'prez le puis certain', 1651. 4to. Modern brown morocco, gilt title on spine, gilt panelled sides, gilt inner dentelles. (12) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Discovery & Exploration  History  Netherlands  Politics  Portugal  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The discovery of America View picture(s) 8 ABBOTT, J.S.C. Columbus, de ontdekker van Amerika. Naar het Engelsch, vertaald door J.H. Geraets Jr. Amst., W. Versluys, 1887. Orig. richly decorated red cloth. With 11 wood-engraved plates and illustrations. 176 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America, North  Children's Books  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Popular Books  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first Dutch circumnavigation View picture(s) 9 BALEN, J. Hendrik VAN. De avonturen van Jacob Everts. Olivier van Noort. De eerste reis der Nederlanders rondom de wereld. 1598-1601. Amsterdam, Jan Leendertz., (ca. 1870). Sm.8vo. Orig. richly gilt and black-stamped illustrated red cloth. With 4 chromo-lithographed plates by Gebr. Braakensiek. 182, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Circumnavigation  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Human behaviour View picture(s) 10 BAUMEISTER, J.E. VON. Die Welt in Bildern, vorzüglich zum Vergnügen und Unterricht  der Jugend. Fünfter Band. Wien, Seb. Hartl, 1793. 4to. 19th century half calf, with orange title-label. With large engraving on title and 50 full-page engraved plates by Cl. Kohl after Sollerer. (4), 200, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Costumes  Discovery & Exploration  Education  German  Schoolbooks  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a valuable voyage of exploration View picture(s) 11 BEECHEY, F.W. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Straight, to co-operated with the Polar Expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F.W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26,27,28. London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. 2 vols. 4to. Vol. I: Cloth; vol. II: calf with Signet Library stamp on front cover. With 3 lithographed maps, 2 large folding, and 23 full-page steel-engraved views and plates, including a portrait of John Adams, and 4 lithographed plates of fossils and the inside of a Mexican bee-hive. XXI, (3), 392; VII, (1), (393)-742 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Alaska  America, North  Arctic  Discovery & Exploration  Greenland  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of this interesting account of the travels of an adventurous nobleman: exiting enough for a modern TV series View picture(s) 12 BENYOWSKY, Mauritius Augustus Count de. Memoirs and travels; consisting of his military operations in Poland, his exile into Kamchatka, his escape and voyage from that peninsula through the Northern Pacific ocean, touching at Japan and Formosa, to Canton in China, with an account of the French settlement he was appointed to form upon the island of Madagascar. Translated from the original manuscript. London, G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1790. 2 vols. Large 4to. Later three-quarter brown calf, gilt spines with red and light brown labels lettered in gold. With the portrait of the author in roundel on the title of the first vol., engraved by Heath, and 23 (all issued) numbered engraved plates of which 17 are folding, with maps, charts, views and inhabitants of Madagascar etc. 12, (2), XXXIII, 422, (2); (4), 399 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Asia  China  Discovery & Exploration  Formosa  Japan  Maps  Poland  Russia  Slavery  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Presentation copy by the author of the law of Biot-Savant View picture(s) 13 BIOT, Jean-Baptiste Relation du voyage de découvertes, exécuté par ordre des États-Unis d'Amérique, pendant les années 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, rédigée par le lieutenant Charles Wilkes, commandant de l'expédition. Articles de M. J.-B. Biot. Extraits du Journal des Savants (Cahiers de novembre et décembre 1848, février 1849). Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1848, 1849. Orig. blue wrappers. With one folding map of the Antartic, including parts of South America, Australia and New-Zeeland, on which new discoveries have been indicated, including this voyage by Wilkes. 57, (3)pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America, North  Cartography  Commerce  Discovery & Exploration  Navigation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Surinam illustrated with photographed portraits and colourful lithographs 14 BONAPARTE, Prince Roland. Les habitants de Suriname Notes recueillies a l'exposition coloniale d'Amsterdam en 1883. Paris, A. Quantin, 1884. Large folio (44 x 31 cm). Original green cloth, title and eagle gold-stamped on front cover, 3 black-stamped fillets along edges, title and author's name gold-stamped on spine, marbled endleaves. Title-page printed in red, black and brown with lithographed vignette, full-page lithographed frontispiece, 61 monochrome photographs, 13 chromo-lithographed plates, 1 double-page and 1 folding lithographed, coloured map, most plates interleaved with tissue paper, 4 monochrome photographs in text, 9 lithographed initials in text, 1 additional plate with 3 monochrome photographs. (4), VIII, 226, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colonial History  Discovery & Exploration  Exhibitions  Lithographs  Napoleon  Photography  Surinam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The early Dutch explorers of the East Indies from a French perspective View picture(s) 15 BONAPARTE, Prince Roland. Les premiers voyages des Néerlandais dans l'Insulinde. (1595-1602). Versailles, E. Aubert, 1884. Small 4to. Original wrappers. Folding engraved colourplate with a map of the islands of Indonesia (''Insulinde'') (ca. 280 x 340 mm). (8), 39 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Discovery & Exploration  Indonesia  Napoleon  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Reading book about the Dutch explorers View picture(s) 16 BRINKMAN, J. Verzameling van korte Nederlandsche reisbeschrijvingen, een leesboek voor de jeugd. Leyden, D. du Mortier en Zoon, 1823. Sm.8vo. Orig. wrappers. 118 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Africa  Circumnavigation  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  East Indies  Education  Geography  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Popular biography of Sir Francis Drake View picture(s) 17 BROWN, Robert. Der Englische Held und Ritter Franciscus Dracke. In einer ausführlichen Beschreibung von dessen Leben, Thaten und See-Reisen, darunter besonders die Reise un die Welt sehr merckwürdig. Welcher ein Anhang beybefüget von dem erstaunens-würdigen Schiffbruch des Ost-Indischen Jagdt-Schiffes, der Schelling genannt. Leipzig, Wolffgang Deer, 1726. 8vo. Original boards. With engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Francis Drake mounted. 472 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Discovery & Exploration  English  Exploration  Piracy  Shipwrecks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First illustrated edition View picture(s) 18 CAMPE, J.H. Belangrijke reisverhalen. 2e druk. Amst., M. Westerman & Zoon, (ca. 1830). Sm. 8vo. Orig. boards. With illustration of Patagonians on engraved title, coloured by hand, and 2 full-page engraved plates by D. Sluijter after J. Steyn. (2), 249 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Schoolbooks  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The tragic faith of Willem Barentsz in full colour View picture(s) 19 CAMPE, J.H. Tafereelen uit het Noorden. 2e druk. 's-Grav., S. de Visser, 1828. Sm.8vo. Orig. boards. With 8 illustrations on 4 engraved plates, all nicely coloured by hand. 143, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Arctic  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Northern Passage  Russia  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Exciting stories about the voyage of Willem Barendsz and the wintering of four Russian sailors at Spitsbergen View picture(s) 20 CAMPE, J.H. Tafereelen uit het Noorden; voorgesteld in de Noordelijke ontdekkingsreis van Jacob Heemskerk en Willem Barendsz; benevens de merkwaardige lotgevallen van vier Russische bootslieden, op Spitsbergen. Naar het Hoogduitsch. 's-Gravenhage, S. de Visser, 1825. Small 8vo. Original boards. With 8 illustrations on 4 engraved plates, all finely coloured by hand. 143, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Children's Books  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Education  Northern Passage  Russia  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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