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From India overland to London, by the son of the Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV View picture(s) 21 FITZCLARENCE, George Augustus Frederick. Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818. London, Thomas Davison for John Murray, 1819. 4to. Contemporary calf with blind-tooled border and gilt fillet along the edges, edges marbled, marbled endpapers. With a large folding partly coloured map of the seat of war in India, a full-page map of Egypt with the route through the desert and down the Nile taken by Fitzclarence to reach Alexandria, 12 full-page aquatints (9 coloured, 2 uncoloured) and 5 full-page plans (4 partly coloured plans of battlefields in India; 1 of a temple). XXIV, 502 [including p. 168-169*] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Discovery & Exploration  Egypt  England  India  Militaria  Piracy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the history of the Jesuits on the Marianne Islands in the Pacific View picture(s) 22 GARCIA, Francisco. Istoria della conversione all nostra Santa fede dell' isole Mariane, dette prima de' Landroni, nella vita, predicatione, e morte gloriosa per Christo del venerabile P. Diego Luigi di Sanvitores, e d'altri suoi Compagnia di Giesù ... E tradotta nell'Italiano dal Padre Ambrosio Ortiz. Napels, Camillo Cavallo & Michele Luigi Mutii, 1686 (Colophon: 1687). 4to. Contemporary vellum. Woodcut headpieces and initials. Engraved portrait by F. Pesche of Diego Luigi di San Vitores being murdered by the 'barbari' on the 2nd of April 1672. (23), 663, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Discovery & Exploration  Italy  Jesuits  Mission  Pacific  Spain  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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"By far the best work" on the Guyana's and Surinam View picture(s) 23 HARTSINCK, Jan Jacob. Beschryving van Guiana, of de wilde kust, in Zuid-America, betreffende de aardrykskunde en historie des lands, de zeeden en gewoontes der inwooners, de dieren, vogels, visschen, boomen en gewassen, als mede de eerste ontdekking dier kust, de bezittingen der Spanjaarden, Franschen en Portugeezen en voornaamelyk de volkplantingen der Nederlanderen, als Essequebo, Demerary, Berbice, Suriname, en derzelver rivieren, met de noodige kaarten en afbeeldingen der forten. Waarby komt eene verhandeling over den aart en de gewoontes der neger-slaaven. Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg, 1770. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary three quarter calf with spine richly gilt decorated, red morocco title label and a green morocco volume label. 6 folding engraved maps and plans, 6 engraved full page plates and 2 engraved folding views, 1 engraving in text. 1 blank, (2), XII, (4), 520; (2), 521-962, (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America [South]  Brazil  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Slavery  Surinam  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Dutch edition of a classic work by America's First Man of Letters View picture(s) 24 IRVING, Washington. Ontdekkingsreizen van eenige der vroegere togtgenooten van Columbus. Naar het Engelsch. Haarlem, Wed. A Loosjes, Pz. 1834. Original boards. With large folding engraved map by D. Veelwaard. VIII, 390, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America [Central]  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Maps  Popular Books  Travel & Voyages  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) 25 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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Shipwreck in the Pacific View picture(s) 26 KEATE, George. Relation des Iles de Pelew, situées dans la partie occidentale de l'océan pacifique; Composée sur les journaux et les communications de Capitaine Henri Wilson, et de quelques-uns de ses Officiers ... Paris, Le Jay and Maradan, 1788. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. With engraved portrait medallion of Wilson on frontispiece, folding map of the Palau Islands, Philippines and the Chinese Sea, 12 folding engraved plates with views of local scenery and utensils, 3 full-page portraits of local population. [4], 282; [4], 274, [6] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Discovery & Exploration  Pacific  Shipwrecks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Piracy in the South Seas View picture(s) 27 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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The manners of the North American Indians View picture(s) 28 LAFITEAU, Joseph François. De zeden der wilden van Amerika zynde een nieuwe uitvoerige en zeer kurieuse beschrijving van derzelver oorsprong, godsdienst, manier van oorlogen, huwelyken, opvoeding, oeffeningen, feesten, danzeryen, begravenissen, en andere zeldzame gewoonten. The Hague, Gerard vander Poel, 1731. 2 volumes bound as 1. Folio. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. With title-pages printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, full-page engraved map of the America's, and 41 full-page engraved plates. [6], 36, [18], 300; [4], 301-555 [= 560] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America, North  Canada  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  France  Jesuits  Native Americans  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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South Africa at the beginning of the 19th century View picture(s) 29 LATROBE, Rev. C.I. Journal of a visit to South Africa in 1815, and 1816. With some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope. London, W. M'Dowall for L.B. Seeley and R. Ackermann, 1818. 4to. Contemporary three quarter calf, spine raised in 6 compartments with decorated ornaments and author's name and tiltle in gilt. Marbled sides. Folding map with red and blue lines of the route of the journey of the Southern division of the Cape of Good Hope colony, engraved for Latrobe's journal, (53 x 27 cm). 12 full page coloured aquatints by J. Bluck after R. Cocking from the original sketches by Latrobe, 4 full page engravings of coastal views. VII, (1), 406, (2). Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Aquatints  Discovery & Exploration  Illustrated Books  Mission  South Africa  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Discovering the American West: the famous Lewis & Clarke expedition View picture(s) 30 LEWIS, Meriwether & William CLARKE. Travels to the source of the Missouri River and across the American continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by order of the government of the United States, in the years 1804, 1805, and 1806. A new edition. London, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1815. 3 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary calf. With 6 engraved maps signed Neele (1 large folding, 5 full-page). XXVI, [2], 411, [1]; X [of XII], 434; XII, 394 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America, North  Americana  Discovery & Exploration  Native Americans  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With large folding school-prize certificate by the 'Instituut Baudet-de Regt' in Arnhem View picture(s) 31 LIVINGSTONE, David & Carles LIVINGSTONE. Explorations dans l'Afrique Australe et dans le bassin du Zambèse depuis 1840 jusqu'à 1864. Ouvrage traduit par Henriette Loreau. Abrégé par J. Belin-de Launay. Paris, L. Hachette & Cie, 1869. Contemp. richly gilt and blind-stamped red cloth, g.e. With folding map of Livingstone's voyage through Africa, and 20 full-page wood-engraved plates and views, including the frontispiece-portrait of David Livingstone. XX, 339 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Discovery & Exploration  French  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Children's book on the first Dutch voyage in search of the Northern Passage View picture(s) 32 LOUWERSE, Pieter. Kloek volk met kloeken moed, of de overwintering der Nederlanders op Nova-Zembla in de jaren 1596-1597. Geschiedkundig verhaal voor 't jonge Nederland. Leiden, D. Noothoven van Goor, (1873). Orig. richly gilt and blind-stamped cloth. With 8 full-page chromo-lithographed plates. VIII, 196 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Northern Passage  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Richly illustrated French edition of the account of the famous Polar expedition of Fridtjof Nansen View picture(s) 33 NANSEN, Fridtjof. Vers le Pôle. Traduit et abrégé par Charles Rabot. Paris, Flammarion, [1897]. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. With 200 wood-engraved maps, views, plates and illustrations, including frontispiece portrait of the author. VIII, 424 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Arctic  Discovery & Exploration  French  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Dutch embassy to the Chinese emperor in 1655: breaking the age-old policy of keeping foreigners out of the country View picture(s) 34 NIEUHOF, Joan. Het gezantschap der Neêrlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen keizer van China: waar in de gedenkwaerdighste geschiedenissen, die onder het reizen door de Sineesche Landtschappen, Quantung, Kiangsi, Nanking, Xantung en Peking, en aan het keizerlijke hof te Peking, sedert den jare 1655. tot 1657. zijn voorgevallen, op het bondigste verhandelt worden. Beneffens een naukeurige beschrijving der Sineesche steden, dorpen, regeeringh, Wetenschappen, hantwercken, zeden, godsdiensten, gebouwen, drachten, schepen, bergen, gewassen, dieren, etc. en oorlogen tegen de Tarters. Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1670. Folio. Contemporary vellum with blind ruling and centre-piece on both sides, ribbed spine. Engraved title with the Chinese emperor sitting on a throne with his left arm resting on a globe and with a convicted criminal laying at his feet, title printed in red and black, full-page engraved portrait of Nieuhof with engraved poem by Jan Vos underneath, one large folding map of China, 34 double-page engraved plates and views on Batavia, Kanton, Macao, Nankan, Nankin, Peking,  etc., and 110 half-page engraved views and plates of religious and public ceremonies, costumes, animals, fishes and plants in the text with captions in Dutch, Dutch and Latin, or Dutch and French, or Dutch, French and Latin. (8), 208, 258, (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  China  Discovery & Exploration  East Indies  Indochina  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The voyage for the discovery of the Magellan Straits View picture(s) 35 NODAL, Bartholome Garcia DE & Gonzalo. Relacion del viage, que por orden de su magestad y acuerdo de el real consejo de Indias hicieron los capitanes Bartholome Garcia de Nodal, y Gonzalo de Nodal, hermanos, naturales de Pontevedra, al desubrimiento del estrecho nuevo de San Vicente, que hoy es nombrado de Maire, y reconocimiento del de Magallanes. Reimpresso de orden del  Sr. D. Joachin Manual de Villena y Guadalfaxara, Marques del real thesoro, cavellero del orden de S. Juan, del consejo de S.M. Gefe de Esquadra de la Real Armada, y presidente de la Real Audiencia, y casa de la contratacion a las Indias; En utilidad del hospicio de la Santa Charidad de la cuidad de Cadiz. Lleva anadido las derrotas de la America Occidental de unos puertos a otros, que dio a luz el theniente de navio de la Real Armada don Manuel de Echavelar. Cadiz, Don Manuel Espinosa de los Monteros, Impressor de la Real Marina, (1766- or 1769). 4to. Contemp. limp vellum with leather ties, spine with printed title. One folding map of the Magellan Straits designed and engraved by D.M. de Rueda dated 1769, woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut initials. (20), 162 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Discovery & Exploration  Spanish  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch edition of Palmer's 'Journal of Travels' through America in 1817 View picture(s) 36 PALMER, John. Dagverhaal eener reize in de Vereenigde Staten van Noord-America, en Neder-Canada, gedaan in 1817. Uit het Engelsch, met eene inleiding, bevattende een statistisch overzigt der Vereenigde Staten van Noord-America, volgens de beste en nieuwste berigten. Met eene nieuwe kaart. Haarlem, Heirs of François Bohn, 1820. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine with gilt title on red morocco title-label, marbled boards. With newly designed large folding engraved map (ca. 347 x 445 mm) of America, engraved by D. Veelwaard (1766-1851) after Mellishes (Haarlem, Heirs of Bohn, 1820), with borders and outlines in contemporary handcolouring. 44, 318 (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Canada  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With the signature of the author, one of the greatest explorers of the Arctic View picture(s) 37 PARRY, William Edward. Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819-20, in his Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper. With an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations. Second edition. London, William Clowes for John Murray, 1821. Large 4to. Contemporary calf with richly gilt decorated covers, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers and edges; together with the added vol. preserved in a modern slip-case. With 4 large folding charts by J. Walker of (1) The track of the ships Hecla and Griper from the Orkneys to Melville Island, North Georgia (1819/1820), (2)  of the discoveries & route of the ships in search of the North-West passage (after John Buchnan, with an extra folding part pasted to the chart), (3) of a part of the western coast of Baffins Bay (1820), and (4) of the inlet called the River Clyde, West coast of Baffins Bay (1820); 2 full-page maps by J. Walker, 9 full-page lithographed plates by W. Westtall after F.W. Beechey and Hoppner (1) of the positions of the ships in summer and in winter harbour, a bull and eskimo's; and 5 engraved plates of coastlines by I. Clark after F.W. Beechey; many figures and printed tables in the text, of which 1 folding. (8), XXIX, 310, (2), CLXXIX pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Discovery & Exploration  English  Northern Passage  Pacific  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of Phipps's expedition to the North Pole View picture(s) 38 PHIPPS, Constantine John. A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command 1773. London, printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols for J. Nourse, 1774. Large 4to (29 x 22 cm). Contemporary marbled calf. With 16 large engraved double-page and folding plates and maps, and many tables in the text. VIII, 253 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Cartography  Discovery & Exploration  Northern Passage  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the earliest sources on Congo and Central Africa, complete with its plates and maps View picture(s) 39 PIGAFETTAF, Filippo. Relatione del reame di Congo et delle circonvicine contrade tratta dalli scritti & ragionamenti di Odoardo Lopez. Rome, Bartolomeo Grassi, (1591). 4to. Contemporary vellum with title written on spine. Engraved title within rich architectural border, with the coat of arms of Antonio Migliore, bishop of San Marco, to whom the book is dedicated, large folding engraved map of Congo, large folding engraved general map of Africa, 8 numbered folding engraved plates of plants, animals and inhabitants of the country by Natalis Bonifazio, woodcut endpiece and initials. (8), 82, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Africa  Congo  Discovery & Exploration  Italy  Mission  Travel & Voyages  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On Egypt and the Near East in the first Dutch translation View picture(s) 40 POCOCKE, Richard. Beschryving van het Oosten, en van eenige andere landen. Uit het Engelsch overgezet en met aantekeningen voorzien, door Ernst Willem Cramer. Utrecht, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, G.T. en A. van Paddenburg, J. Bosch and R. Arrenberg, and M. de Bruyn, 1776-1786. 3 parts in 6 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spines with 5 raised bands gilt ruled with green morocco title labels lettered in gold. With 205 folding engraved maps, plans, views and plates of temples, antiquities, plants, animals, etc. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Egypt  Greece  Middle East  Ottoman Empire  Syria  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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