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Two first editions, contemporarily bound together View picture(s) 1 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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Indispensable to the 'De Bry & Thévenot' collectors View picture(s) 2 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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Condemnation of the Spanish conquerors View picture(s) 3 CASAS, Bartholomeo DE LAS. Conquista dell' Indie Occidentali di monsignor Fra Bartolomeo dalle Case o Casaus, Sivigliano, Vescouo di Chiapa. Venice, Marco Ginammi, 1645. 4to. Later half red morocco, gilt & ribbed spine with title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials. 8, (4), XVII, (1), 31-184 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Discovery & Exploration  Spain  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Attempt to supress the pirates in the East Indies View picture(s) 4 DOWNING, Clement. A compendious history of the Indian wars; with an account of the rise, progress, strength, and forces of Angria the Pyrate... [Drop-title on page 1]: A succinct history of the Indian wars:... London, for T. Cooper, 1737. 12mo. Contemporary calf, re-backed. IV, 238, [2 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Piracy  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Americanum by one of the writers employed by De Bry to contribute to his collection of voyages View picture(s) 5 ENS, Gaspar. Indiae Occidentalis historia: in qua prima Regionum istarum detectio, situs, incolarum mores, aliaque eo pertinentia, breviter explicantur. Ex varius auctoribus collecta, opera & studio. Cologne, Wilhelm Lutzenkirchen, 1612. Small 8vo. 19th-century calf. With richly engraved allegorical title. [8], 370, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [North]  America [South]  America, North  Cartography  Travel & Voyages  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The adventurous life of a black abolitionist View picture(s) 6 EQUIANO, Olaudah. Merkwaardige levensgevallen van Olaudah Equiano of Gustavus Vassa, den Afrikaan. Door hem zelven beschreeven. Amsterdam, Pieter Holsteyn, 1790. 8vo. 19th-century cloth-backed marbled boards. With hand-coloured aquatint portrait. [16], 365, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Africa  America [Caribbean Islands]  Arctic  Enlightenment  Greenland  Slavery  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare enlarged second edition of De Laet's important account of the Americas, with 14 maps View picture(s) 7 LAET, Johannes de. Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien ... Tweede druck. Leyden, Elzevier, 1630. Folio. Contemporary vellum. With engraved frontispiece, 14 folding engraved maps, and many text illustrations. [28], 622, [17, 1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Central]  America [North]  America [South]  West Indies  The price of this book is only available on request, it cannot be ordered online. Please contact us for more information. E-mail a Friend

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The most complete edition of this celebrated work on 'the Indies', esp. on Brazil and Japan View picture(s) 8 MAFFEI, Joan Petri. Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI. Selectarum, item, ex  India epistolarum libri IV. Accessit liber recentiorum epistolarum; à Ioanne Hayo ... Antwerp, Ex officina Martini Nutij, 1605. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum with ink lettering on spine and small gilt stamp of a rooster in centre of covers, rests of ties. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials. (72), 478, (2, blank); 401, (7) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Asia  Brazil  East Indies  History  Japan  Jesuits  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In search of curiosities in the West Indies, Africa and the Holy Land View picture(s) 9 MOCQUET, Jean. De grote nieuw-bereisde wereld: begrypende zes reizen, zo na Lybien, d'Eilanden van Kanarien en Barbaryen; stroom der Amazonen, Karipouzen en en Karibanen; na Marocco; Moren-Land of Ethiopien, Mozambique en Goa; als mede na Syrien en een zeer nauwkeurige beschrijvinge van't Heilig Land ... Den tweden druk. Leeuwarden, Jan Klassen (colophon: printed by Meindert Injema), 1717. 4to. Contemporary vellum. With frontispiece and 3 etched plates. [19], [1 blank], 195, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  America [Central]  America [South]  Holy Land  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The voyages of Walter Raleigh and Laurence Keymis to Guiana, a.o. describing the city El Dorado View picture(s) 10 RALEIGH, Walter & Laurens KEYMIS. Grondige ende waerachtige beschryvinge van het groot end gout-rijck koninckrijck van Guiana, geleghen in America, by- noorden de groote rivier Orelliana, vanden vyfden graet by Zuyden totten vyfden graet by- noorden de middel-linie; in welcke beschrijvinge de rechte gelegentheyt vande groote ende rijcke hooft-stadt Manca, Macureguarai ende andere steden derselvigen koninckrijcks ende  van het groot Souten Meyr Parime (zynde omtrent 200 Spaensche mijlen lang) verclaert wort: insgelijcks wat voor rijcke waaren daer te lande  ende daer omtrent vallen. Mitsgaders vande omlegghende rijcke landschappen Emeria, Arromaja ende Topago: in welck laetste krijgs-vrouwen (Amzones genoemt) hare wooninge hebben: as oock van 53 groote rivieren onder welcken Oronoque de voornaemste is, welcke spruyt omtrent 500 Duystche mijlen landwaerts in, niet verre van Quitio een vermaerde hooft-stadt in Peru. Alles ontdeckt beschreven in de jaren 1595-1596. (Amsterdam, Janssonius), 1644. Oblong 4to. Later half mottled calf with gilt title on spine. (49) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Americana  Discovery & Exploration  Low Countries  Voyages  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Jesuits in Florida View picture(s) 11 RIBADENEYRA, Pierre de. La vie du pere Francois de Borja, qui fut duc de Gandia, et depuis religieux, et troisiesme General de la Compagnie de Jesus. Douai, Baltazar Bellère, 1603. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, traces of ties. With woodcut vignette on title. (24), 480 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Biography  Cartography  Jesuits  Religion  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A new passage to the Pacific and state-sponsored piracy View picture(s) 12 SPILBERGEN, Joris van. Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae Navigationum; quarum una Georgii à Spilbergen classis cum potestate Praefecti, altera Iacobi le Maire auspiciis imperioque directa, annis 1614, 15, 16, 17, 18. Exhibens novi in mare Australe transitus, incognitarumque hactenus terrarum ac gentium inventionem: praelis aliquot terra marique commissa, expugnationesque urbium: una cum duabus novis utriusque Indiae historiis, catalogo munitionum Hollandicarum ... Leiden, Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619. Oblong 4to (18.3 x 24 cm). Contemporary blind stamped pigskin over boards, spine with raised bands, marbled edges. Large allegorical engraving on title, with 25 numbered engraved maps and views: 2 large folding maps (one of the world and the one of the East Indian archipelago), one folding, one double-page and 18 full-page plates with several insets, etc. 175 pp., lacking blank leaf (P4), which divides the two narratives but was mistakenly included as pp.119-20 in the continuous pagination. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Brazil  Circumnavigation  Discovery & Exploration  East Indies  VOC  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to understand the "human heart" of soldiers View picture(s) 13 [GRASSE, Francois Joseph Paul DE, Count]. Memorie van den Graave de Grasse betreffende de actien in de West-Indiën voorgevallen. (No place, no publisher, ca. 1790). 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt and ribbed spine red gilt title label, marbled edges. With 8 folding engraved plates a.o. navigation maps. 55 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Maritime History  Navigation  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Exceptionally rare collection of 8 treatises on the cultivation of sugar cane, printed in Jamaica View picture(s) 14 [JAMAICA - SUGAR]. Eight practical treatises on the cultivation of the sugar cane, written in consequence of his excellency the Earl of Elgin's offer of a prize of one hundred pounds in the latter part of 1842. Jamaica (Kingston), Jordon & Osborn, 1843. 8vo. Original half green cloth with marbled boards. With four lithographed plates. (2), III, (1), 185, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  English  Jamaica  Treatises  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Supposed Spanish-catholic plot against Dutch trade in the Indies View picture(s) 15 [MIDDELGEEST, Simon van, and/or Willem USSELINCX?]. ADAMS, Yemant (pseudonym). Raedtsel. Ieghelijck doet geern wat Naer dat Discourssen ende vescheyden Droomen op de Handel vanden Vrede in Neder-landt zijn uytgheghaen: ..., of men niet soude connen raden wat in Spangien tusschen den Coninck ende den Monick omgaet, ... (Amsterdam?, 1608). Small 4to. Modern limp boards. A fictitious secret conversation between a monk and the King of Spain, with a drop-title. (7) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  East Indies  Low Countries  Pamphlets  Spain  Trade  VOC  West Indies  WIC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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