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Important essay on geography View picture(s) 1 ANVILLE, [Jean-Baptise Bourguignon d']. Considerations générales sur l'étude et les connoissances que demande la compostion des ouvrages de géographie. Paris, Imprimerie Lambert, 1777. 8vo. Original pink wrappers, with title in manuscript on frontcover. Woodcut headpiece. 111, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Education  French  Geography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous sundial with the form of a poplar leaf, with beautiful woodcuts View picture(s) 2 APIANUS, Petrus. Folium populi. instrumentum hoc a Petro Apiano iam rfcens [sic] inventum, et in figuram folii populi rfdactum [sic] per radios solis toto orbe horas cõmunes ostendit, ex quibus horæ ab ortu & occasu solis, deinde etiam horæ judeorum, ... In disem newen Instrument, das die Form unnd Gestalt hat eines Blats, werden durch den Sonnen scheyn, in der gantzen Welt gefunden die gemaine Stunden des Tages, und auß der Selbigen, vermittels dises Blats magst du die Stunden vom Auff und Nidergang der Sonnen, des geleichen die Judenstund ... leichtlich erkhennen. [colophon:] Ingolstadt, [Petrus Apianus], 22 October 1533. Folio (30 x 20.5 cm). Modern boards with the original fly-leaves preserved. With the text in Latin and German, title-page in red and black with a large and finely executed woodcut by Hans Brosamer showing a diagram of the instrument flanked by a European and an Ottoman astronomer, each holding an astronomical instrument; a nearly full-page woodcut of the coat of arms of the dedicatee, J.G. of Loubenberg; a large woodcut diagram printed twice (in the Latin and in the German text); and 7 decorative initial letters. Without the folding plate included in a very small number of copies. [22] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy  Geography  Horology  Science  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Plan for a canal from Altamaha River to Brunswick Harbour in Georgia View picture(s) 3 BALDWIN, Loammi. Report on the Brunswick Canal and Rail Road, Glynn County, Georgia. With an appendix containing the charter and commissioner's report. Boston, John H. Eastburn, 1837. 8vo. Original printed green paper wrappers. With engraved folding plate (ca. 73 x 20.5 cm), with plan and profiles for the canal, engraved by H. Morse after H.K. Curtis. 48 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  Geography  Railways  Transport  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Dutch edition of an entertaining travel book on Africa View picture(s) 4 BLANCHARD, Pierre. Lotgevallen van eenen reiziger in Afrika. Naar het Fransch. Deventer, A.J. van den Sigtenhorst, [1828]. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm.). Original boards. With engraved title, 3 full-page engraved plates. IV, 263 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Africa  Children's Books  Geography  Popular Books  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Maps and costumes from all over the world View picture(s) 5 BLANCHARD, Pierre. Reisje rondom de wereld; geschikt om jonge lieden tot de Aardrijkskunde op te leiden. Naar het Fransch. Rotterdam, J. Immerzeel, 1821. Sm.8vo. Orig. yellow boards, uncut. With 6 full-page fine engraved maps and plates. VI, 201, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Costumes  Education  Geography  Imaginary Voyages & Utopias  Maps  Travel & Voyages  World Maps  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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All main information about all countries and continents of the world View picture(s) 6 BOHN, Henry George. A Pictorial hand-Book of modern geography, on a popular plan, compiled from the best authorities, English and foreign, and completed to the present state; with numerous tables and a general index London, Henry G. Bohn, 1861. Sm.8vo. Orig. green cloth, richly blind-stamped, with gilt title and publisher's address on spine. With 51 steel-engraved maps, one folding, and 150 wood-engraved views and illustrations in text. X, (2), 529, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Encyclopædic Works  English  Geography  Manuals  Popular Books  Provenance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early 17th-century edition of famous work by Botero, with political and geographical descriptions of countries around the world View picture(s) 7 BOTERO, Giovanni. Le relationi universali, divise in quattro parti. Nella prima parte si contiene la descrittione dell' Europa, dell' Asia, e dell' Africa; et i costumi, richezze, negotij, & industria di ciascuna natione. Et si tratta  del continente del Mondo Nuovo. Nella seconda, si da contezza de' maggiori Prencipi del mondo. Nella terza, si tratta ancor de popoli d'ogni credenza. Nella quarta, si tratta delle superstitioni. Nuovamente ristampate, & corrette. Venice, Nicolo Polo, e Compagni, 1602. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary vellum. With woodcut printer's device on all 4 title-pages and 4 folding engraved maps (ca. 25 x 18.5 cm), of Europe, Asia (including Japan), Africa and America, by Poro. [32], 240; [20], 152; 183, [9]; [16], 79 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  America, North  Cartography  Geography  Japan  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Reading book about the Dutch explorers View picture(s) 8 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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A French description of the world with 18 maps View picture(s) 9 BUFFIER, Claude. Géographie universelle, exposée dans les differentes métodes qui peuvent abréger l'étude & faciliter l'usage de cette sience. Avec le secours des vers artificiels. Sixième édition. Revue, corrigée & augmentée des changemens de domination arivés récemment dans les Etats de'l'Europe: 2. d'une préface sur la méthode d'aprendre la Géographie ... 3. d'une table des noms de pays en françois & en latin ... Paris, Pierre-François Giffart, 1739. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title-label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red painted edges, marbled endpapers. 18 engraved folding maps, 12 of which are signed by 'Desbruslins' and three are dated 1744: World, Europe, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, German Empire, Rhine, Italy, Spain, England, Scandinavia, Poland, Turkish Empire, Greece, Asia, Middle East, Africa and the two America's. XXIV, 413 (3), (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  America, North  Antarctica  Asia  Atlases [General]  Atlases [Pocket]  Cartography  Engravings  Europe  France  Geography  Jesuits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Geographical schoolbook on islands, mountains and volcanos View picture(s) 10 CAILLOT, Antoine. Natuur- en geschiedkundige schoonheden der eilanden, bergen en vulkanen. Naar het Fransch. Rotterdam, Mensing, Van Westreenen, 1824. Sm.8vo. Orig. boards. With engraved illustration on title and fine engraved frontispiece by R. Vinkeles. X, 187 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Geography  Greece  Iceland  Mountaineering  Schoolbooks  Sicily  Volcanos  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the main earlier works on the ancient history and geography of the Low Countries - the copy of Heribert Rosweyde View picture(s) 11 CLUVERIUS, Philippus. Commentarius de tribus Rheni alveis, et ostiis; item. De Quinque populis quondam accolis; scilicet de Toxandris, Batavis, Caninefatibus, Frisiis, ac Marsacis. Opus novum, ex veteri historia ac geographiâ contra aliorum errores, quibus antiquitas dictorum populorum perindignè hactenus obscurata fuit, summo studio atque diligentiâ collectum. Leiden, Johannes Balduinus for Ludovicus Elzevier, 1611. 4to. Contemporary plain vellum, title later stamped on spine. With one double-page and 2 full-page maps, the double-page map coloured in outlines. Printer's device on the verso of the last lv ('Concordia res parvae crescunt Ao. 1595'). (16), 232, (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Geography  History  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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18th-century complete description of the world View picture(s) 12 CROIX, A. Phérotée de la. Algemeene weereld-beschryving, nae de rechte verdeeling der landschappen, plaetsen, zeeën, rivieren, &c. Geographisch, politisch, historisch, chronologisch en genealogisch ... in 't Fransch beschreeven, ... In de Hoogduitsche tael overgebraght, met veel' aenmerkingen en verbeteringen, door ... Hieronimus Dicelius. Nu vertaeld nae den tweeden druk; met veel' aenmerkens waerdige byvoegzelen opgehelderd, ... door S. De Vries. Met naaukeurige landkaarten van den heere N. Sanson. Amsterdam, François Halma, 1705. 3 volumes. 4to. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with the early 19th-century bookplate of A. F. Malfait fils "sculpteur statuaire." With 3 title-pages (the first in red and black), each with an engraved publisher's device, each volume with an engraved frontispiece, in total 98 maps and plates, 2 engraved headpieces, 1 large engraved initial, and numerous woodcut initials. [36], 436, [80]; [8], 612, [72]; [8], 480, [74] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  Geography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the first European plans of Peking View picture(s) 13 DE L'ISLE (or DELISLE), Joseph-Nicolas & PINGRÉ. Description de la ville Peking, pour servir à l'intelligence du Plan de cette Ville, gravé par les soins de M. de l'Isle. Paris, 1765. 4to. Half brown morocco, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold. With woodcut vignette on title, a large woodcut headpiece on first page, 6 folding plates of which the largest (485 x 250 mm) is a "plan de la ville tartare de Peking" and is signed Dheulland graveur du Roi, the first (235 x 195 mm) is a "plan general des deux villes qui composent Peking", the third (185 x 100 mm) a "plan du Ti-ouang-miao, the fourth (185 x 105 mm) a "plan du koue-tse-kien-ouen-miao", the fifth (185 x 150 mm) a "plan du Tien-Kan, ou temple dédié au souverain Seigneur du Ciel", and the sixth (160 x 120), "plan du Ti-Tan ou du Temple dédié au souverain Seigneur de la Terre", all five signed Lattré. (2), 44, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Cartography  China  Geography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Mexico in the '80s of the 19th century, with atlas volume including 13 chromolithographed maps and 1 general map of Mexico View picture(s) 14 GARCIA CUBAS, Antonio. Cuadro geográfico, estadístico, descriptivo é histórico de los estados unidos Mexicanos. Obra que sirve de texto al Atlas pintoresco. Including: Atlas Pintoresco e Historico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. México, Fomento & Debray, 1885. 2 volumes. 8vo and oblong large folio (64.5 x 82 cm). Contemporary black cloth with gilt lettering on front cover; the atlas: contemporary half red morocco, gilt title and ornaments on spine. With 2 folding tables and 2 full-page plates in the text volume and in the atlas 13 chromolithographed maps (52 x 69 cm) and a full-page chromolithographed map of Mexico at the end. IV, 474, [3] pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Central]  Colour Platebooks  Ethnography  Geography  Lithographs  Mexico  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Planet earth in full colour View picture(s) 15 GRESSLER, Friedrich Gustav Ludwig. Die Erde, ihr Kleid, ihre Rinde und ihr Inneres, durch Karten und Zeichnungen zur Anschauung gebracht. Dritte Auflage. Langensalza, Schulbuchhandlung des Thür. L.W., 1854. Oblong large 8vo. Orig. half cloth. With 24 full-page lithographed plates, showing geographical  maps and plans, geological formations, climatological maps, glacial zones, animals, the heads of 5 different races, etc., all nicely coloured by hand. 69, (1) pp. text in 2 columns. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Earth Sciences [Geology]  Geography  German  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With unrecorded map depicting the southern hemisphere including Australia View picture(s) 16 HARTSOEKER, Nicolaas. Conjectures physiques. Amsterdam, Henri Desbordes, 1706. With title with woodcut ornament, two engraved headpieces, folding engraved map of the Southern hemisphere, woodcut illustrations in text. 371, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Geography  Optics  Physics  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Dutch "Encyclopaedie d'Alembert" View picture(s) 17 HOOGSTRATEN, David van & Matthaeus Brouérius van NIDEK. Groot algemeen historisch, geographisch, genealogisch, en oordeelkundig woordenboek, behelzende zo het voornaamste, dat vervat is in de Woorden-boeken van Morery, Bayle, Buddeus, enz. als de gehele kerkelyke en wereldlyke geschiedenis...... Amsterdam, Utrecht & The Hague, Brunel, etc., 1733. 7 vols. Folio. Contemporary strong ivory blindtooled vellum. Frontispiece in vol.1 and a portrait of the mayor of Amsterdam Jan Trip. (24), 738; (2) 890; (2) 662; (2) 828; (2) 844; 598; (8) 832 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  Encyclopædic Works  Genealogy & Heraldry  Geography  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A geological description of Java View picture(s) 18 JUNGHUHN, Friedrich Franz Wilhelm. Terugreis van Java naar Europa, met de zoogenaamde Engelse overlandpost, in de maanden september en october, 1848. Zaltbommel, Johannes Noman & Zoon, 1851. 8vo. Modern half cloth with green marbled boards. With 6 lithographed plates (2 folding, 4 chromo-lithographed views). [6], 127, [3] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Chromolithography  Dutch  Earth Sciences [Geology]  Geography  Indonesia  Java  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to construct sundials and mix colours View picture(s) 19 KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Verhandeling van de sphaerische of klootsche zonne-wysers; namelyk, hoe men op een sphæra convexa, of ronde kloot, allerley zonnewysers meetkonstig beschr?ven kan. Als mede om in een sphæra concava of halve holle kloot, veelerley uur- en andere cirkels te beschryven. Mitsgaders een berigt, hoe men de sphæra armillaris gnomonica, of hemel-kring-zonnewyser toestellen kan. Amsterdam, H.A. Chalmot, 1761. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine ribbed and with black title label lettered in gold. Title printed in red & black, with engraved publisher's device by J.C.Philips, 21 engraved folding plates with 50 figures including a sundial drawn on the inside of a hollow half sphere, and a "gnomic" armillary sphere, drawn by Knoop and engraved by J.C. Philips. (8), 244, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art  Geography  Manuals  Mathematics  Painting & Drawing  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Translation into English of a short description of The Netherlands View picture(s) 20 LE PETIT, Jean-François. The Low-Country commonwealth contayninge an exact discription (sic) of the Eight United Provinces, now made free. Translated out of french by Ed. Grimeston. (London), G. Eld, 1609. 8vo. Nineteenth-century full gilt mottled calf, spine gilt with brown title label lettered in gold, gilt inner dentelles (by Riviere), marbled endpapers, g.e. Engraved allegorical title-page with Hollandia, the Dutch Virgin, at the top flanked by 6 provincial coat-of-arms (coat-of-arms of Utrecht not present); underneath a view of a Dutch harbour, woodcut head-piece and initials. (8), 303, (1, blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Geography  History  Low Countries  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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