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Whales, herring, and the Dutch Artic: illustrated maritime classic

[JONG, Dirk de]. De walvischvangst, met veele byzonderheden daartoe betrekkelyk.
Including: Beschryving der haringvisschery.
Amsterdam, Petrus Conradi, and Harlingen, Volkert van der Plaats, 1784-1786. 4 parts bound as 1. 4to. With 6 folding engraved maps and 2 folding engraved plates by H. Kobell and M. Sallieth, 3 additional folding and 10 full-page engraved plates. Every title page features a small woodcut illustration, and several woodcut tailpieces throughout. Contemporary half marbled calf and marbled paper sides. VII, [1], 96; [4], 116; [4], 116; [4], 116 pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Arctic & Antarctic Fishery & Whaling Mammals

Very rare first and only Dutch edition of Kotzebue's account of his first major expedition in search of a northwest passage

KOTZEBUE, Otto von (Pieter Gerardus WITSEN GEYSBEEK, translator). Ontdekkingsreis in de Zuid-zee en naar de Bering-straat in de jaren 1815, 1816, 1817 en 1818, onder het bevel van Otto von Kotzebue, luitenant der Russisch-keizerlijke marine.
Amsterdam, Johannes van der Hey, 1822. 3 volumes. 8vo. Volume 1 with an engraved title page, a hand-coloured engraved plate and an engraved folding map; volume 2 with an engraved title page, 3 hand-coloured engraved portraits, 2 engraved folding plates and 4 engraved folding maps, including one large map; volume 3 with an engraved title page, an engraved folding map, and an engraved folding plate showing skulls. Half brown calf and brown decorated paper sides, with gold- and blind-tooled spines. VIII, 428, [2 blank], [1], [1 blank]; IV, 413, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank]; VIII, 492, [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,950

Arctic & Antarctic Latin America Middle America North America Pacific Islands South America Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific Travel & Voyages South America

Pioneering description & maps of the Americas, printed by Elzevier

LAET, Johannes de. Nieuwe wereldt ofte beschrijvinghe van West-Indien, wt veelderhande schriften ende aen-teeckeninghen van verscheyden natien by een versamelt.
Leiden, Isaac Elzevier, 1625. Folio. With large woodcut printers mark on title page, 10 double-page engraved maps (plate size 28.5 x 36 cm), woodcut decorative initial letters from two series, and a wide variety of printing types. Early 18th-century calf, gold-tooled spine. [24], 510, [16] pp. Full description

€ 48,000

Brazil Canada & Greenland Mexico Middle America North America South America WIC West Indies

Illustrated ethnographic description of the Iroquois in Canada

LAFITEAU, Joseph-François. De zeden der wilden van Amerika. Zynde een nieuwe uitvoerige en zeer kurieuse beschryving van derzelver oorsprong, godsdienst, manier van oorlogen, huwelyken, opvoeding, oeffeningen, feesten, danzeryen, begravenissen, en andere zeldzame gewoonten.
The Hague, Gerard vander Poel, 1731. 2 volumes bound as 1. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, engraved map of North and South America and 41 engraved plates. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine. [6], 36, [18], 300; [4], 301-555 [= 560] pp. Full description

€ 3,750

Anthropology & Ethnography Canada & Greenland Jesuits North America USA - United States of America

First Dutch translation of voyages in search of a Northwest Passage by Munk, Frobisher and Lindenau, illustrated by Van Sichem

[LA PEYRÈRE, Isaac de]. [MUNK, FROBISHER and LINDENAU]. Drie voyagien gedaen na Groenlandt, om te ondersoecken of men door de Naeuwte Hudson soude konnen seylen; om alsoo een doorvaert na Oost-Indien te vinden...
Amsterdam, Gillis Joosten Saeghman, [ca. 1665]. 4to. With woodcut vignette on title-page, 16 further woodcuts on integral leaves and a woodcut ship in a cartouche, woodcut decorated initials, and decorative bands built up from cast fleurons. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. Late 19th-century vellum, spine with title stamped in black. 32 pp. Full description

€ 28,500

Arctic & Antarctic Canada & Greenland Fishery & Whaling Travel & Voyages North America

Captivating manuscript in Dutch, detailing a journey to the Arctic regions

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH - ARCTIC REGION]. [Anonymous eyewitness travel report of a journey to the Arctic region in search of good waters for whaling].
[ca. 1790]. 4to. Manuscript written in Dutch in black ink in one clear, although not very sophisticated, hand on paper (sheets varying in origin and size ca. 20-21 x 14-16 cm). Modern artificial brown leather, marbled pastedowns, with the late-18th-century decorated paper wrappers bound in. [17] ll. Full description

€ 9,500

Arctic & Antarctic Birds - Ornithology Canada & Greenland Faunas & General Zoology Fishery & Whaling Fishes Floras & General Botany Scandinavia & Arctic

A notable narrative with detailed information on Northwest America, in splendid bindings

MARCHAND, Étienne and Charles Pierre Claret de FLEURIEU. Voyage autour du monde, pendant les anneés 1790, 1791 et 1792, par Étienne Marchand, précédé d'une introduction historique; auquel on a joint des recerches sur les terres Australes de Drake, et un examen critique du voyage de Roggeween.
Paris, De l'imprimerie de la République, [1798-1800]. 6 volumes: 5 text volumes and 1 atlas. Large 8vo (23 x 15 cm) and 4to atlas. With 3 folding tables with vocabulary in 3rd volume and 15 engraved maps and 1 engraved plate in atlas volume. Contemporary light brown calf, gold-tooled spine gilt with star and flower pattern and 2 red morocco title labels, gold-tooled ornamental borders on the boards, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges (COURTEVAL). [4], VIII, CCI, [3], 294, [2]; VII, [1], 529, [1]; [2], VIII, 474, [2]; VIII, 494, [2]; XII, 559, [5]; [2], VIII, 158, [2] pp. Full description

€ 27,500

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Italian edition of Martens's important account of a whaling voyage

MARTENS, Friedrich. Viaggio di Spizberga o' Gronlanda fatto da Federico Martens Amburghese l' anno 1671...
Bologna, Giacomo Monti, 1680. 12mo. With 2 folding engraved plates and 3 woodcut illustrations. Contemporary limp parchment. 264 pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Arctic & Antarctic Canada & Greenland Faunas & General Zoology Fishery & Whaling Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages North America

On the conduct of the Hudson's Bay Company, inscribed by the author

MARTIN, Robert Montgomery. The Hudson's Bay territories and Vancouver's island, with an exposition of the chartered rights, conduct, and policy of the Honorable Hudson's Bay Corporation.
London, T. Brettell for T. and W. Boone, 1849. 8vo. With a large folding lithographed map by James Wild, hand-coloured in outline, and a woodengraving of an "Indian village at the Red River settlement". Original publisher's blind-blocked brown cloth. VII, 175 pp. [added: [26] pp.]. Full description

€ 950

Canada & Greenland Economic History & Trade USA - United States of America

A Swedish edition of John Meares's voyages to the North Pacific, China and Hawaii

MEARES, John. Tvänne resor från Ostindien till Americas nordvåstra kust, åren 1786, 1788 och 1789.
Stockholm, printed by J.S. Ekmanson for I. Utters, 1797. 8vo. 19th-century half scheepskin, gold-tooled spine with red morocco title label, marbled sides. [12], 404 pp. Full description

€ 1,250

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