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Natural history of Switzerland with ca. 90 extra illustrations and manuscript letter View picture(s) 1 ANDREAE, Johann Gerhard R. Briefe aus der Schweiz nach Hannover geschreiben, in dem Jare 1763. Zweiter Abdruk. Zurich & Winterthur, Johann Casper Fussli Sohn, 1776. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf with gold-tooled spine and red edges. With engraved map of Switzerland on the title-page, 10 engravings in the text, and 18 engraved plates (including 3 folding), partly signed by Joh. Rod. Schellenberg, the first being a large folding plate by J. R. Holzhalb after J. C. Vogler of the wooden roofed bridge of Schaffhausen. XXII, 245 [=345], [3] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Switzerland  Topography  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Journey through Saxony View picture(s) 2 APELBLAD, Jonas. Rese-Beskrifning öfwer Saxen. Stockholm, L. Salvius, 1759. Small 8vo (19 x 11.5 cm). Modern marbled boards, largely untrimmed. 176, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Germany  Sweden  Travel & Voyages  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Account of a very important voyage of exploration, with beautiful lithographs View picture(s) 3 ARAGO, Jacques Etienne Victor. Promenade autour du monde (pendant les années de 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, sur les corvettes du Roi l'Uranie et la Physicienne, commandées par M. Freycinet). Paris, Béthune & Plon for Leblanc, [1822]. 2 text volumes in 8vo and 1 folio atlas. Text volumes in contemporary half calf, spine ribbed and tooled in gold and black, atlas in contemporary grey boards, with printed title pasted on front cover, uncut. With a lithographed map of the world and 25 lithographed plates in the atlas, 2 concerning Rio de Janeiro, 5 the Sandwich Islands and 3 Australia. [4], XXX, 452; [4], 506 pp.; [28] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  Circumnavigation  Hawaii  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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By the first priest ordained in the United States View picture(s) 4 BADIN, Stephen Theodore. Origine et progrès de la mission du Kentucky. Paris, Adrien le Clere, 1821. 8vo. Modern marbled boards, with red moroco title label on spine, lettered in gold. With woodcut title vignette. (4), 32 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Jesuits  Mission  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The story of an Irish convict in the penal colony of New South Wales View picture(s) 5 BARRINGTON, George. Voyage a Botany-Bay, avec une description du pays, des moeurs, des coutumes et de la religion des natifs. Paris, Desenne, 1798. 8vo. Modern grey boards, black title label on spine. XVI, 192 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With two original photographs of Aboriginal Australians View picture(s) 6 BEAUVOIR, Ludovic. Australie, voyage autour du monde. Second edition. Paris, Henri Plon, 1869. 8vo. Contemporary half red morocco with gilt spine. With 2 photographs of Aboriginals, and 2 folding coloured maps. [2], X, 363 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Marquis de Beauvoir in East Asia View picture(s) 7 BEAUVOIR, Ludovic. Java, Siam, Canton. Voyage autour du monde. Quatrième édition. Paris, Henri Plon, 1870. 8vo. Contemporary half light brown pigskin, spine gilt. With a large folding coloured map, 13 full page plates, of which 3 folding. [4], 452 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  China  Circumnavigation  East Indies  Indonesia  Java  Thailand  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dedication copy by the author View picture(s) 8 BORGET, Auguste. Fragments d'un voyage autour du monde. Moulins, P.A. Desrosiers, (1850). Oblong 4to. Original boards with lithographed title on front cover. Lithographed title page, 12 full-page tinted lithographs by A. Borget. 11 text lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  America, North  China  Lithographs  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare first edition of the German translation View picture(s) 9 BOSWELL, James. Beschreibung von Corsica nebst vielen wichtigen Nachrichten und Anecdoten vom Pascal Paoli dem General der Corsen. Leipzig, Caspar Fritsch, 1768. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt-tooled, with red title label, red painted edges. With an engraved folding map of Corsica. (14), 346 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Italy  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Reading book about the Dutch explorers View picture(s) 10 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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The memoires of an English missionary in the Pacific View picture(s) 11 BUZACOTT, Aaron & James Povey SUNDERLAND. Mission life in the islands of the Pacific. Being a narrative of the life and labours of the rev. A. Buzacott, missionary of Rarotonga, for some time co-worker with the rev. John Williams, martyr of Erromanga. London, Harrild for John Snow and Co., 1866. Small 8vo. Modern half red hard-grained morocco, spine ribbed with title lettered in gold, sprinkled edges. With an original pasted-in photographical portrait of Buzacott with his signature underneath as a frontispiece, 7 full-page woodcut plates and some woodcut illustrations in the text. (2), XXII, 288 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  Mission  Pacific  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early American voyages for children in rare German edition View picture(s) 12 CAMPE, Joachim Heinrich. Die Entdeckung von Amerika. Ein Unterhaltungsbuch für Kinder und junge Leute. Neue verbesserte Auflage. Vienna, B. Ph. Bauer, 1813. 3 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary boards. With 3 engraved frontispieces and 3 engraved maps of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, Mexico and South America. 321, [1 blank]; 298; 267, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Central]  America [South]  Colonial History  Discovery & Exploration  Mexico  Peru  Schoolbooks  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Indispensable to the 'De Bry & Thévenot' collectors View picture(s) 13 CAMUS, Armand Gaston. Memoire sur la collection des grandes et petites voyages et sur la collection des voyages de Melchisedech Thenevot. Paris, Baudouin, Imprimeur de l'Institut National, 1802. Large 4to. Contemporary marbled boards with title label on spine. With woodcut printer's vignette on title. (8), 401, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibliography  East Indies  Voyages  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Columbus or Vespucci: who discovered America? View picture(s) 14 CANOVAI, Le Père Stanislao. Elogio d'Amerigo Vespucci che ha riportato il premio della nobile Accademia Etrusca di Cortona nel dì 15. Ottobre dell'anno 1788. Con una dissertazione giustificativa di questo celebre navigatore, del P. Stanislao Canovai. Terza editione. Con illustrazioni ed aggiunte, e con una seconda dissertazione sulle vicende delle longitudini geografische. N.p.(Modena) n.pr., 1790. 4to. Contemporary boards, handwritten title-label on spine. Woodcut vignette on title, sm. elegant woodcut initials. (2), III-XVII, 39; 55; 64 pp. (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Americana  Discovery & Exploration  Italy  Navigation  Travel & Voyages  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On Anglo-American commercial relations View picture(s) 15 CLUNY, Alexander & Joseph MANDRILLON. Le voyageur Américain, ou observations sur l'état actuel, la culture, le commerce des colonies Britanniques en Amérique; les exportations & importations respectives entre elles & la Grande-Bretagne, avec un etat des revenus que cette derniere en retire, etc. Adressées par un négociant expérimenté, en forme de lettres, au très-honorable comte de [Chatham]. Traduit de l'Anglois, augmenté d'un précis sur l'Amérique Septentrionale & la République des Treize-États-Unis. Amsterdam, J. Schuring, 1783. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with red morocco title label, gilt binding edges, marbled endpapers, red painted edges. With a large folding map of the thirteen United States of America after Bonne, 3 tables, of which 2 folding, and several elegant head- and tailpieces. VIII, 264 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Exploring the Bay of California View picture(s) 16 COMBIER, C. Voyage au golfe de Californie. Grands courants de la mer.- Courants généraux atmosphériques.- Usages de la vie maritime.- Tempêtes vers le Pôle Austral.- Poissons et oiseaux de la mer.- Description de la Sonora et de ses richesses minérales.- De la basse Californie, ses volcans, ses produits.- Pêche des perles.- La chaîne des cordillères, ses forêts.- Nuits de la zone torride. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, (1864). Large 8vo. Modern half calf, spine gilt and blind-tooled with black morocco title-label, uncut. With folding map of Sonora by V.A. Malte-Brun after the map by A. Garcia y Cubas and American maps, engraved by Erhard and coloured by hand in green and red for borders and roads respectively. XVI, 544 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Americana  Cartography  Mexico  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early Catholic mission in Texas View picture(s) 17 DOMENECH, Emmanuel Henri Dieudonne. Journal d'un missionaire au Texas et au Mexique, 1846-1852. Paris, Gaume Frères, 1857. 8vo. Original publisher's printed wrappers. With a large folding map of Texas by J. Cordova, printed in two colours. XII, 477, [3] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Mexico  Mission  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare work on the history of Bohemia by a Belgian officer serving in the Austrian army View picture(s) 18 DUMONT DE FLORGY. Histoire de Bohème depuis son origine jusqu'à l'extinction de la dynastie de Przémisl. Vienna, Antoine Strauss, 1808-1809. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, gilt borders on sides, gilt binding edges, g.e. 297, (1); 228, (1) pp.297, (1); 228, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Czechia  History  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On Afghanistan View picture(s) 19 ELPHINSTONE, (Mountstuart). Tableau du royaume de Caboul et de ses dépendances dans la Perse, la Tartarie et l'Inde; offrant les moeurs, usages et costumes de cet empire, traduit et abrégé de l'anglais par M. Breton. Paris, Nepveu, 1817. 3 vols. 18mo. Original printed wrappers, richly engraved on all sides, preserved in a modern green morocco gilt box. With 14 full-page copper engraved plates depicting different costumes, all beautifully coloured by hand. XLIV, 189 (3) pp; (4), 222, (2) pp; (4), 223 (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Costumes  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Pirates of the Caribbean. A 17th-century pirate's own account View picture(s) 20 EXQUEMELIN (ESQUEMELIN), Alexandre Olivier. Historie der Boecaniers, of Vrybuyters van America. Amsterdam, Nicolaas ten Hoorn, 1700. 3 parts (paginated as 2) in 1 volume. 4to. Eighteenth-century half vellum, later marbled sides. With an engraved, illustrated title-page, letterpress title-page with woodcut publisher's device, a folding engraved map of South and Central America, and 7 engraved illustration plates (1 folding). Also with 4 decorative woodcut initials. (8), 219, (1), 136, (6) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Caribbean Islands]  Discovery & Exploration  Piracy  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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