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Research voyage into inner Surinam, encountering native tribes

MARTIN, Johann Karl Ludwig. Westindische Skizzen. Reise-erinnerungen.
Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1887. 4to. 22 plates, of which 14 chromolithographs and 8 collotypes, and 1 folding lithographed map of the Surinam River by W.L. Loth. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. VII, [1], 186 pp. Full description

€ 375

Caribbean Islands Geology Middle America South America Surinam West Indies

One of the foundational texts for the 1824 Mexican Constitution

[MEXICO - José María BOCANEGRA]. Discurso del diputado Bocanegra. Pronunciado el 10 de enero de 1823, y reproducido por escrito el 6 de febrero del mismo año en sesiones publicas, sobre el proyecto de reglamento politico de gobierno para el imperio Mexicano, presentado a la junta nacional instituyente por su comision especial.
Mexico City, Imprenta del Suprema Gobierno, 1823. 4to. Stitched through 3 holes. 10, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,250

Broadsides & Pamphlets Latin America Law & Politics Mexico Middle America

In search of curiosities in the West Indies, Africa, and the Holy Land

MOCQUET, Jean. De grote nieuw-bereisde wereld: begrypende zes reizen, zo na Lybien, d'Eilanden van Kanarien en Barbaryen; stroom der Amazonen, Karipouzen 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. With an engraved title-page, 3 etched plates, and some woodcut decorated initials and tail pieces. Contemporary vellum, later endpapers. [19], [1 blank], 195, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,950

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Account of a scientific expedition through Central America

MORELET, Arthur. Voyage dans l'Amérique centrale, l'île de Cuba et le Yucatan.
Paris, Gide & J. Baudry, 1857. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 2 pages of letterpress music, a folding lithographed map of Yucatan, Guatemala and Cuba, and 22 wood-engraved illustrations, after drawings by the author, heading each chapter. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers, preserved in modern chemises and slipcase. [4], 337, [3]; [4], 323, [3] pp. Full description

€ 4,500

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On British herbs and the American aloe

MUNTING, Abraham. De vera antiquorum herba Britannica, eiusdemque efficacia contra stomacaccen, seu scelotyrben, Frisiis & Batavis de scheurbuyck. Dissertatio historico-medica.
Amsterdam, Hieronymus Sweerts, 1681.
With: (2) IDEM. Aloidarium, sive Aloës Mucronato Folio Americanae Majoris, Aliarumque ejusdem specie historia. In qua Floridi illius temporis, loci, naturae, culturae, nec non qualitatum ratio paucis enarratur.[Amsterdam], [Hieronymous Sweerts], 1680. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a finely engraved allegorical frontispiece, a full-page engraved portrait of Hendrik Casimier of Nassau, and 24 finely engraved plates with flowering plants in the Herba, and 8 finely engraved plates with various aloës in the Aloidarium. Modern half green morocco. [28], 231, [1 blank]; 33, [19] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

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Maps, plans, and descriptions of the military defenses of Holguín, Cuba, shortly before Cuban independence

NAVA Y ORTEGA, Henriques. Campo Atrincherado de Holguin. Documento no. 1. Memoria descriptiva.
Holguín, 1 September 1898. 2 documents. Folio. With a double-page manuscript map, 2 full-page manuscript maps, and 4 manuscript plans on tissue paper. Including: IDEM. Campo Atrincherado de Holguin. Documento no. 2. Planos.
Holguín, 1 September 1898. Ad 1: Original wrappers, side stiched through 3 holes, with the manuscript title on the front. Ad 2: unbound. [16] pp. Full description

€ 4,950

Battle Plans & Siegecraft Caribbean Islands Military History (19th Century) Spain

Extensive description of the Dutch colony of Curacao, by the first writer to permanently settle on the island

[PADDENBURGH, Gerrit Gijsbert]. Beschrijving van het eiland Curaçao en onderhoorige eilanden. Uit onderscheidene stukken, bijdragen en opmerkingen opgemaakt, door een bewoner van dat eiland.
Haarlem, heirs François Bohn, 1819. 8vo. With folding letterpress table. Contemporary half calf. [4], 90, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

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Monumental bibliography concerning Spanish America

PALAU Y DULCET, Antonio. Manual del librero Hispano-Americano. Bibliografía Española e Hispano-Americana desde la invención de la imprenta hasta nuestros tiempos con el valor comercial de los ompresos descritos, ... Segunda edición, corregida y aumentada por el autor.
Barcelona and Oxford, Librería anticuaria de A. Palau and Dolphin Book Company, 1948-1977.
With: (2) PALAU CLAVERAS, Augustin. Indice alfabetico de titulos-materias, correcciones, conexiones y adiciones del Manual del librero Hispano Americano.
Empúries, Palacete Palau Dulcet; Oxford, Dolphin Book Company, 1981-1987. Ad 1: 28 volumes; ad 2: 7 volumes. 4to (27.5 x 19 cm). Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. Full description

€ 3,500

Bibliography & Biography Latin America Middle America South America Spain

Portuguese classic of practical navigation, with 36 maps and nautical charts

PIMENTEL, Manuel. Arte de navegar, em que se ensinão as regras praticas, e os modos de cartear, e de graduar a Balestilha por via de numeros, e muitos problemas uteis aì navegação, e roteiro das viagens, e costas maritimas de Guineì, Angola, Brazil, Indias, e Ilhas Occidentaes, e Orientaes ...
Lisbon, Miguel Manescal da Costa, 1762. Folio (30 x 20.5 cm). With 21 engraved plates (1 folding), 1 nearly full-page engraving of a compass rose and about 10 woodcut diagrams in the text. Contemporary or near contemporary tanned sheepskin, richly gold-tooled spine, new endpapers. [12], 603, [1] pp. Full description

€ 5,000

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Extensive travel account of Middle and South America

PONS, François Raymond Joseph de. Voyage a la partie orientale de la Terre-Ferme, dans l'Amérique méridionale, fait pendant les années 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804: contenant la description de la Capitainerie générale de Caracas, composée des Provinces de Venezuela, Maracaïbo, Varinas, la Guiane Espagnole, Cumana et de l'Ile de la Marguerite; ...
Paris, F. Buisson (back of half-title: Imprimerie de Fain et compagnie), 1806. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 4 folding engraved maps, including a large map of Caracas and surroundings and 3 smaller showing groundplans of Caracas, Puerto Cabello and La Guaira. All engraved by J.B. Tardieu. Contemporary half calf. [4], 358; [4], 469; [4], 362 pp. Full description