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A previously unobtainable complete set of magnificent wall maps by Nicolas de Fer

FER, Nicolas de. [Set of five wall maps: America (1698), Africa (1698), Asia (1696), Europe (1695), and the World (1695)].
Paris, chez lauteur / van Loon, 1695-1698. Approximately 114 x 165 cm each. Copperplate engravings in original outline colour, tissue-backed for stability, laid down to modern cartographic linen. All with title banner dated 1698 with the Royal Privilege, and text panels dated 1703. Each map printed on four joined sheets with title surmounted and engraved text panels at sides and bottom. Full description
€ 850,000
Charts & Maps World Atlases & Maps
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Beautifully illustrated account of the first Earl of Munster's journey overland from India via Egypt to England

FITZCLARENCE, George Augustus Frederick. Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England in a latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818.
London, printed by Thomas Davidson for John Murray, 1819. Large 4to. With 12 plates, including one of "Pettah the Citadel etc." as a frontispiece and 7 maps and plans, including 1 folding, with 3 additional explanatory letterpress leaves for maps 2-4 (Jubbulpoor [Jabalpur], Nagpoor [Nagpur], Meinpoor [Mahidpur]). 9 of 12 plates are hand-coloured aquatints and 5 of 7 maps and plans are coloured in outline. Contemporary gold-tooled calf with a blind-tooled decorative border. XXIV, [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 502 pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Egypt India & Sri Lanka North Africa Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia
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Testing chronometers by Harrison's leading French rival

FLEURIEU, Charles Pierre Claret, Count d'Eveux de. Voyage fait par ordre du Roi en 1768 et 1769, à différentes parties du monde, pour éprouver en mer les horloges marines inventées par M. Ferdinand Berthoud. Première[-seconde] partie, ...
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1773. 2 volumes. Large 4to (27 x 20.5 cm). With 5 numbered folding engraved plates in volume 1 (4 maps of the Atlantic Ocean, the Canaries, the Azores, etc., and 1 plate with topographic diagrams), 1 folding engraved plate with geometrical figures illustrating the determination of latitude[!], and 5 folding letterpress tables in volume 2. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. [2], LXXIX, [1 blank], 803, [1 blank]; [2], 622, XL, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
Caribbean Islands Charts & Maps France Instruments & Microscopy Middle America Navigation Technology Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Europe West Africa
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Description of the plants collected by the Danish Arabia expedition, with an original drawing

FORSSKÅL, Peter and Martin VAHL. Symbolae botanicae, sive plantarum, tam earum, quas in itinere, inprimis orientali, collegit Petrus Forskål, quam aliarum, recentius detectarum, exactiores descriptiones, nec non observationes circa quasdam plantas dudum cognitas.
Comprising:
(1) Symbolae botanicae, sive plantarum ... Pars prima.
(2) Symbolae botanicae, sive plantarum ... Pars secunda.
(3) Symbolae botanicae, sive plantarum ... Pars tertia.
Copenhagen, for the author by Nicolaus Möller and son, 1790, 1791, and 1794. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio (40 x 25 cm). With 75 numbered, full-page plates (74 engraved, 1 ink drawing). Near contemporary half mottled calf. [8], "81" [=85], [1 blank]; [2], 105, [3]; [4], 104, [2] pp. + 75 plates Full description
€ 35,000
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Egypt Floras & General Botany West Asia
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Letters on the celebrated voyage of "l'Uranie" by Rose de Freycinet, secretly smuggled aboard by her husband and the great explorer Louis de Freycinet

FREYCINET, Rose de (Charles DUPLOMB, ed.). Campagne de l"Uranie" (1817-1820). Journal de madame Rose de Saulces de Freycinet daprès le manuscrit original accompagné de notes par Charles Duplomb.
Paris, Société d'Éditions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales (colophon: Chartres, printed by Durand), 1927. Large 4to (28.5 x 23 cm). With 1 map and 25 full-page plates, 13 colour-printed and 3 double-page (plate 7, 24 and 25), all after designs by Jacques Arago, the official artist of the voyage. Original publisher's paper wrappers. [2 blank], XIII, [1 blank], 190, [2] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Circumnavigation France Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Australia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Pacific
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"one of the most renowned nineteenth-century photobooks"

FRITH, Francis. Egypt and Palestine. Photographed and described.
London, James S. Virtue, [1858-1859]. 2 volumes. Folio (44.5 x 32.5 cm). With 76 photographs on plates by Francis Frith (ca. 14.5-16.5 x 21.5-23 cm), each with a separate leaf of text. Contemporary red morocco, gold-tooled spines and boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Full description
€ 40,000
Egypt North Africa Photography
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2 offprints discussing De Frobervilles researches on languages and races in sub-equatorial East Africa,with an autograph letter from De Froberville

FROBERVILLE, Eugène de, and [Louis BOUTON]. Analyse d'un mémoire de M. Eugène de Froberville sur les langues et les races de l'Afrique Orientale au sud de l'equateur.
[Port Louis, Mauritius], [Société dHistoire Naturelle de Maurice], [1846]. Offprint, with its own pagination, from Procès-verbaux de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Ile Maurice, du 6 octobre 1842 au 28 août 1845, [1846].
With: (2) FLOURENS, Pierre, [Louis-Isidore?] DUPERREY and Etienne SERRES. Rapport sur les races nègres de l'Afrique Orientale au sud de l'équateur, observées par M. de Froberville.
(Colophon: Paris, printed by Bachelier, [1850]). Offprint, with its own pagination, from Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Sciences, XXX (1850).
2 works in 1 volume. Small folio & large 8vo. 19th-century black half morocco, with the blue paper back wrapper of the second offprint bound in. Full description
€ 1,950
Anthropology & Ethnography Autographs & Letters Language & Linguistics Literature Slavery Travel & Voyages Africa
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French commerce via Egypt and the Red Sea before the opening of the Suez Canal

FROMENT, Dominique. Du commerce des Europeens avec les Indes, par la Mer Rouge et par l'Egypte.
Paris, Dugour et Durant, an VII [= 1799]. 8vo. With a very large, folding map showing the fastest route from France to India (via the Mediterranean, Egypt, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean), 7 folding tables, and a woodcut illustration at the head of the first chapter. Contemporary dark blue paper wrappers, protected by a semi-opaque coated paper dust jacket. [2], XIV, 211, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
East Africa Economic History & Trade Egypt France India & Sri Lanka North Africa
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On the conquest of Africa and the Ottoman corsair Dragut

FUENTES, Diego de. Conquista de Africa donde se hallaran agora nuevamente recopiladas muchas y muy notables hazanas de particulares cavalleros.
Antwerp, Philippo Nutio, 1570.
With (bound before ad 1): (2) VALLES, Pedro. Historia del fortissimo, y prudentissimo Capitan Don Hernando de Avalos Marques de Pescara con los hechos memorables de otros siete ... Capitanes del Emperador Don Carlos V.
Antwerp, Philippo Nutio, 1570. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a printer's device on the title page, and several decorated woodcut initials. Late-19th-century gold-tooled brown morocco "71" [= 72]; [8], "255" [=354], [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 2,750
Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century Military History (16th Century) Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks North Africa Spain Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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