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The Dutch East Indies explained to children View picture(s) 1 AA, Abraham Jacob van der. Lotgevallen van Willem Heenvliet vooral ook op Borneo en Bali; voor Jonge Lieden bewerkt. Amst., G. Theod. Bom, (1850). Original gilt and blind-stamped cloth with large gilt central ornament on front cover. With illustration on lithographed title and 3 full-page lithographed plates by H.L. van Hoogstraten after A.P.C.  Hoffmann. X, 274 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Dutch  East Indies  Education  Indonesia  Schoolbooks  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important voyages by the English View picture(s) 2 AA, Pieter van der (editor) and Johan Lodewijk GOTTFRIED. De wijd-beroemde voyagien na Oost- en West-Indiën, mitsgaders andere gedeeltens des werelds, gedaan door de Engelsen... Alles onlangs uyt het Engels in 't Nederlands getrouwelijk vertaalt... Nu alder-eerst op ordre van Hoog edele gebiedende Heeren, dusdanig in twee deelen afgescheyden, in ' Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, [ca. 1706]. 2 volumes. Folio. Contemporary blind-stamped vellum. Volume 1 with French title in black and full-page engraved dedication to Abraham van Riebeek; each volume with full-page engraved title and printed title in red and black with engraved vignette; part-title with engraved vignette to each of the 53 voyages contained in these volumes; in total 35 engraved maps (17 leaves each with 2 maps, 1 leaf with 1 map), 2 engraved plates, 115 engravings in text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  China  Discovery & Exploration  England  Ottoman Empire  Russia  Travel & Voyages  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The discovery of America View picture(s) 3 ABBOTT, John Stevens Cabot. 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 & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A classic work on Japan View picture(s) 4 ALCOCK, Sir Rutherford. The capital of the tycoon: a narrative of a three years' residence in Japan. With maps and numerous illustrations in chromolithography and on wood. London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary green cloth with richly gilt decorated spine with blind stamped covers and on binding of volume I gilt centre piece of a Japanese samoerai and on binding of volume II a Gheisa. Two frontispieces, 2 folding maps, 14 coloured full-page plates and 2 black & white and numerous illustrations in text. XXXII, 469, (2); X, 539 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: England  English  Japan  Politics  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Article on the journey through the province of Hida in Japan by a professor of law at the university of Tokyo View picture(s) 5 APPERT, Georges. Un coin du Japon. La province de Hida. Extrait de la Revue de Géographie. Paris, Institut Géographique, Ch. Delagrave, 1890. 8vo. Original green wrappers. Lithographed map in text. 31 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  France  Japan  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two first editions, contemporarily bound together View picture(s) 6 ARTHUS, Gothard. Historia Indiae Orientalis, ex variis auctoribus collectae, et iuxta seriem topographicam regnorum, provinciarum & insularum, per Africae, Asiaeque littora, ad extremos usque Iaponios deducta, qua regionum et insularum situs & commoditas ; regum & populorum mores & habitus; religionum & superstitionum absurda varietas; Lusitanorum item Hispanorum & Batavorum res gestae atque commercia varia ... describuntur. Cologne, Wilhelm Lutzenkirch, 1608. Small 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum. With finely engraved allegorical borders on title of the second work. (14, 2 blank), 616, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Africa  Americana  Asia  East Indies  Travel & Voyages  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Encounters with the native Indians: adventures in South and Middle America and the Wild West View picture(s) 7 BADE, Theodor. Der Scalpjäger. Abenteurer-Fahrten im Westen oder der amerikanische Robinson. Erlebnisse, Natur- und Sittenschilderungen aus dem amerikansischen Jagd-, Kriegs-, Reise- und Waldleben. Herausgegeben von Th. Bade. Mit vielen Tonbildern und Originalzeichnungen von H. Leutemann, sowie mit 100 in den  Text gedruckten Abbildungen, einem Titelbilde, Frontispice etc. Leipzig, Giesecke & Devrient for Otto Spamer, 1857. 8vo. Half calf, marbled boards. With wood-engraving on title-page, hand-coloured frontispiece, 5 full-page wood-engravings and numerous wood-engravings in the text after the drawings by Heinrich Leutemann (1824-1905). VIII, 264 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America, North  Robinson Crusoe  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the second Burmese war View picture(s) 8 BAKER, Thomas Turner. The recent operations of the British forces at Rangoon and Martaban. London, Harrison for Thomas Hatchard, 1852. 8vo. Original blindstamped cloth with gilt title on spine: "Rangoon", made by J. DEAN, at the Strand. Lithographed frontispiece in a beautiful colouring showing the Burmese deputation presenting the King of Ava's letter, one lithographed plate of a vessel which the Burmese gave th name "Yathunah-gee-mhou", meaning "Precious, Sleek, Excellent sailing ship" and two folding lithographed plates, one being a coastal view of the town of Rangoon and the other showing the attack of the Dunnoo Stockade, all platesd lithographed by Martin & Hood. VII, 78 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Burma  Colonial History  Colour Platebooks  England  India  Militaria  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first Dutch circumnavigation View picture(s) 9 BALEN, Johan 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 & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Human behaviour View picture(s) 10 BAUMEISTER, Joseph Edlem 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 & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A celebrated American author touring Europe View picture(s) 11 BEECHER STOWE, Harriet. Herinneringen uit Vreemde Landen. Uit het Engelsch van de Schrijfster van De Negerhut. Amsterdam, Wed. L. van Hulst en Zoon, 1855. 2 vols. Contemporary half cloth. With tinted lithographed view on 2 titles, one of the Abbey of Melrose and the other of the Casle of Heidelberg, by Ch. Binger after C.C.A. Last. VIII, 321; 348 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America, North  Europe  Literature  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare tourist guide View picture(s) 12 BEQUIGNOLLES, H.V. Wiesbaden und Umgebung. Zürich, Städtebilder-Verlag, (ca. 1890). Small 8vo. Original lithographed wrappers, with view on front cover and plan on back cover. With 12 full-page maps and views, and 31 illustrations in text after E. Reichmann. 78 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Germany  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) 13 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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The imaginary adventures of two sisters on their way Jerusalem View picture(s) 14 BOLSWERT, Boetius A. Voyage de deux soeurs Colombelle et Volontairette vers  leur bien aimé en la cité de Jerusalem: Contenant plusieurs  incidens arrivez pendant leur voyage. Nouvelle Edition, corrigée & chatiée selon le stile  du tems & enrichie de figures en taille douce. Liège, J.F. Broncart, 1734. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt & ribbed spine with gilt red title label, marbled endpapers, red sprinkled edges. Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title showing the two sisters sitting in the foreground with a view of Jerusalem in the background, 27 full-page engraved plates.  (6), 262, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Holy Land  Popular Books  Religion  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare first and only edition of an account of a voyage to India View picture(s) 15 BORGHESI, Giovanni. Lettera scritta da Pondisceri a' 10 di Febbraio 1704. Dal dottore Giovanni Borghesi medico della missione sepedita alla China dalla Santità di N.S. Papa Clemente XI. Nella quale si contengono, oltre a un pieno racconto del Viaggio da Roma fino alle Coste dell' Indie Orientali, varie nuove osservazioni mediche, anatomiche, bottaniche, naturali, e d'altri generi. Rome, Gaetano degli Zenobi, 1705. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, ribbed spine with title in ink: 'Historia dela China'. With folding engraved map, indicating the route to Pondicherry, a folding plate of a compass card, indicating the winds, and six small woodcuts in the text. (XIV), 245, (17) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  India  Mission  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Quixotic adventures in Corsica View picture(s) 16 BOSWELL, James. An account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island; and memoirs of Pascal Paoli. Glasgow, printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis for Edward & Charles Dilly London, 1768. 8vo. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine pasted over, red morocco title label. Engraved coat of arms on title and large engraved folding map (273 x 443 mm) of Corsica engraved in Edingburg by Thomas Phinn in 1768. (5), VI-XXI, (3), 382 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Corsica  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Travel adventures of the first Swedish feminist View picture(s) 17 BREMER, Frederika. Italië in zijn natuur en volksleven, geschets. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald door W.C. Mauve. Haarlem, A.C. Kruseman, 1862. 2 vols. Contemporary boards. With 2 lithographed frontispeces, each showing 2 views, of Rome, Turin, and the mountain Baziglia. VI, 310; VI, 363, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Dutch  Italy  Sweden  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Collected works of a 16th century Austrian ambassador to the Ottoman Empire View picture(s) 18 BUSBECQIUS, Ogier Ghiselin de. Omnia quae extant. Leyden, Ex Off. Elzeviriana, 1633. 12mo. Contemp. red morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with triple gilt filet borders on sides and gilt coat-of-arms with the order of the Golden Fleece in centre, g.e. With engraved allegorical title by C.C. Dusend. 575, (23) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Austria  Cartography  Elzevier  Hungary  Politics  Travel & Voyages  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of the first complete Dutch translation of Caesar's military commentaries View picture(s) 19 CAESAR, Gaius Julius. Aantekeningen der Gallische, burgerlyke, Alexandrynsche, Africaansche, en Hispanische oorlogen. Uyt het Latyn verduitscht door Abraham Bogaert. Amsterdam, Nic. ten Hoorn, 1709. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary blindstamped vellum. With large engraved allegorical vignette on 2 titles, 4 folding engraved views of army camps and of the cities of Alesia and Alexandria, and illustrations of sieges and walls of fortifications, etc. on 8 full-page engraved plates, incl. one plate with a portrait of Pompey, and another plate showing the wild elks of Gallia. (16), 341, (26, 3 blank); (4), 381, (30, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Militaria  Politics  Rome  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first European to visit Timbuktu View picture(s) 20 CAILLIÉ, René-Auguste. Dagverhaal eener reize naar Temboektoe, van de westkust af van Afrika, door de binnenlanden, over Jenné, Kabra, Arawan en vele andere opmerkelijke plaatsen, de groote woestijn door, op Tanger... Uit het Fransch overgebragt door Herman van Lil. Haarlem, widow A. Loosjes, 1831. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary half cloth. With two engraved frontispieces (author's portrait and a view of Timbuktu) by D. and A. Veelvaard, and a large folding map (41.5 x 28.5 cm) after E.F. Jomard. XVI, 496; [4], 622 [= 582] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Africa  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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