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Captain's journal of the voyage of the steam ship "Cornelis Dirks" to Africa and South America

KOOPMAN, J.F. Verslag van eene reize naar de westkust van Afrika, Rio de Janeiro en Rio de la Plata, door Z.M. schroef-stoomschip Cornelis Dirks, ...1859-1860.
[Amsterdam, widow of G. Hulst van Keulen, 1863]. 8vo. Contemporary blue paper wrappers. [2 blank], [2], 127, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Argentina Brazil Latin America Naval History South America Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages South America West Africa
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The original and best edition of an important circumnavigation and Russian expedition
to the Bering Strait during the years 1815-1818

KOTZEBUE, Otto von. Entdeckungs-Reise in die Süd-See und nach der Berings-Strasse zur Erforschung einer nordöstlichen Durchfahrt. Unternommen in den Jahren 1815, 1816, 1817 und 1818, auf Kosten Sr. Erlaucht des Herren Reichs-Kanzlers Grafen Rumanzoff auf dem Schiffe Rurick unter dem Befehle des Lieutenants der Russisch-Kaiserlichen Marine Otto von Kotzebue.
Weimar, Hoffmann Brothers, 1821. 3 parts in 1 volume. Large 4to. With 6 engraved maps, 4 folding double-page etched aquatints by Paul Anton Skerl and Carl Ermer after Ludwig Choris, 4 hand coloured full-page engraved portraits of indigenous men and women (of which 3 facing the title-pages of the 3 parts), 11 hand coloured full-page engraved plates (numbered I-XI in the plate) of butterflies by Carl Ermer after Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz, 1 full-page engraved plate of skulls, 2 folding printed tables, and several tables and schemes in the text. With a divisional title-page for parts 2 and 3. Contemporary half marbled leather. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 91, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [93]-168 pp.; 176 pp.; [1], [1 blank], "240" [= 241], [4], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], XVIII pp. Full description
€ 18,500
Alaska Arctic & Antarctic Circumnavigation North America Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific Travel & Voyages South America
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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
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Dutch translation of Kotzebue's second voyage in the Pacific

KOTZEBUE, Otto von. Nieuwe ontdekkingsreize rondom de wereld, in de jaren 1823, 24, 25 en 26 ondernomen door den ridder Otto von Kotzebue, scheepsbevelhebber in Russisch-Keizerlijke dienst.
Haarlem, widow of Adriaan Loosjes, 1830. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a lithographed frontispiece in each volume, and 3 folding engraved maps. Contemporary half cloth. VII, [1], 254; [6], 274 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Eastern Europe Hawaii North America Pacific Islands Philippines Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific
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The first Russian circumnavigation

KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann Crusius von. Voyage autour du monde, fait dans les années 1803, 1804, 1805 et 1806, par les ordres de Sa Majesté Impériale Alexandre Ier, empereur de Russie, sur les vaisseaux la Nadiejeda et la Neva, commandés par M. de Krusenstern, capitaine de vaisseau de la marine impériale.
Paris, Librairie de Gide et Fils, 1821. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas. 8vo and folio atlas. With 30 engraved plates (21 views and portraits, 9 maps and charts, of which 3 folding). Contemporary blind-tooled dark green goatskin, with a dark green morocco title label and a dark green morocco volume label on the spine, dark green buckram sides, marbled end papers. The atlas in contemporary gold- and blind-tooled dark green quarter goatskin, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, blue green cloth sides, marbled end papers. XII, 418, [2 blank]; [2 blank], [4], 531, [1 blank]; [4] pp. + 30 plates. Full description
€ 40,000
Alaska Circumnavigation North America Pacific Islands Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific
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Detailed and lavishly illustrated memoirs of travels in the Caribbean

LABAT, Jean-Baptiste. Nieuwe reizen naar de Franse eilanden van America.
Amsterdam, Balthasar Lakeman, 1725. 4 volumes bound as 2. 4to. With 2 engraved frontispieces, 11 folding engraved maps and plans, and 83 full-page plates. Contemporary polished half calf. [2], 18, 350; [1 blank], [1], 404; [2], 235, 254; [1 blank], [4], 200, 167, [32] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
Anthropology & Ethnography Caribbean Islands Charts & Maps Faunas & General Zoology Gastronomy Latin America Middle America Slavery South America Technology Travel & Voyages South America West Indies
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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
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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
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History of Dutch America

LAMBRECHTSEN, Nicolaas Cornelis. Korte beschrijving van de ontdekking en der verdere lotgevallen van Nieuw-Nederland, weleer eene volkplanting van het gemeenebest der Vereenigde Nederlanden in America.
Middelburg, S. van Benthem, 1818. 8vo. With a large folding map (plate size 54.5 x 42 cm). Contemporary paper wrappers, with parts of the publisher's original printed-paper spine. [6], 102, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Charts & Maps Economic History & Trade North America VOC
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