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First edition of a sumptuous account of a voyage to Russia, Persia and the East Indies,
with large folding views of Moscow and Isfahan (194x42 cm)

BRUYN (LE BRUN), Cornelis de. Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie: verrykt met driehondert konstplaten, vertoonende de beroemste lantschappen en steden, ook de byzondere dragten, beesten, gewassen en platen, die daer gevonden worden ...
Amsterdam, Willem and David Goeree for the author, 1711. Folio (40x25.5 cm). With engraved frontispiece by Bernard Picart, engraved author's portrait, 2 folding engraved maps, 109 engraved plates (13 folding, 55 double-page, 41 full-page) and 36 engraved illustrations in text. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [8], 472, [12] pp. Full description

€ 9,000

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Highly important collection of travel writings on Africa and Asia, in a contemporary binding

BRY, Theodor de. [The small voyages in Latin].
Frankfurt, Wolfgang Richter, Matthaeus Becker, 1598-1613. 10 parts in 2 volumes. Folio. With an engraved title page for each part, 11 maps (folding and double-page), 243 engraved plates (double-page, full-page and in text), and numerous decorated woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary vellum with overlapping fore edge, the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of closing ties. Full description

€ 225,000

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First printed record of Abu Dhabi and Dubai: the first Latin edition

DE BRY, Theodor; Johann Israel DE BRY and Joris VAN SPILBERGEN. Indiae Orientalis pars septima [...].Including: Icones, hoc est verae variorum populorum et regum, ceremoniarum item, superstitiosorum rituum et rerum aliarum, ...
Frankfurt, Wolfgang Richter, 1606. Folio (32.5 x 20 cm). With the letterpress title in an engraved architectural border, a separate letterpress title-page for the Icones, an engraved coat of arms on the dedication leaf, 20 engravings in text and 2 double-page engraved plates. 20th-century green half morocco. [4], 126, [2 blank] pp.; 26 ll. Full description

€ 28,000

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The first illustrated flora of Sri Lanka

BURMANN, Johannes [and Carl LINNAEUS]. Thesaurus Zeylanicus, exhibens plantas in insula Zeylana nascentes. Inter quas plurimae novae species, & genera inveniuntur. Omnia iconibus illustrate, ac descripta ...
Amsterdam, Hendrik & Maria Janssonius van Waesberge and Salomon Schouten, 1737. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With the etched portrait of the author by Jacob Houbraken, 111 full-page numbered etchings, an engraved allegorical title vignette by Adolf van der Laan, several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled "Cambridge panel" binding in brown calf, with the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, red sprinkled edges. [16], 235, [15], [4], 33, [1] pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Floras & General Botany India & Sri Lanka

Stunning lithographic illustrations and a detailed route map of a voyage
through Persia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and India

BURNES, Alexander. Voyages de l'embouchure de l'Indus a Lahor, Caboul, Balkh et a Boukhara; et retour par la Perse, pendant les années 1831, 1832 et 1833 ... Atlas.
Paris, Arthus Bertrand (colophon on back wrapper: Imprimerie et Fonderie de Fain), [1835]. 3 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. 8vo. With 11 numbered lithographed plates (1 folding) showing costumes of the regions, medals and engraved stones, topographic views, archaeological sites, etc., and a large folding engraved map with the routes hand-coloured in red and orange. Contemporary gold-tooled half sheepskin (text volumes), original publisher's letterpress-printed brown paper wrappers (atlas volume). [3], [1 blank] pp. plus plates. Full description

€ 3,500

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One of the first maps to clearly depict the Abadan Petroleum Refinery, the first oil refinery in the Middle East

[OIL-PETROLEUM HISTORY]. [ABADAN]. BURRARD, Sidney Gerald (ed.). [Map with the Abadan Petroleum Refinery, the first oil refinery in the Middle East]
Calcutta, Survey of India, 1912-1915. 59 x 46.5 cm. Heliozincograph in colour. Full description

€ 3,500

Economic History & Trade India & Sri Lanka West Asia

Inscribed by the author in Arabic

BURTON, Sir Richard Francis. Falconry in the valley of the Indus.
London, Van Voorst, 1852. 8vo. With a tinted lithographed frontispiece, 3 plates and with an 8-page publishers catalogue at the end. Original publisher's cloth. [16], 107, [1]; 8 pp. Full description

€ 25,000

Falconry, Fishing & Hunting India & Sri Lanka

Rare collected works of Portugal's greatest poet

CAMÕES (CAMOENS), Luis de & João Franco BARRETO. Obras de Luis de Camoès principe des poetas Portugueses. Com os argumentos do Lecenceado João Franco Barreto & por elle emédadas em esta nova impressaõ, que comprehende todas as obras, que deste insigne autor se achàraõ impressas, & manuscritas, com o index dos nomes proprios. Offerecidas a D. Francisco de Sovsa capitão da guarda do Principe N.S.
Lisbon, Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello, 1666-1669. 8vo. With 8 woodcut tailpieces. Later mottled calf, red spine labels, red edges. 376, 368, 208, 108, [22], [ 2 blank]. Lacks the individual title-pages. Full description

€ 9,500

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Manuscript warrant to guarantee the rental of a house to British forces
during the occupation of Mauritius and Bourbon

CAMPBELL, Alexander. [Warrant to authorize the occupation of a house for His Majesty's forces in Mauritius and Bourbon].
Port-Louis, 24 June 1813. 4to. Manuscript warrant written in ink on paper, signed. Loosely inserted in a later orange paper folder. [1] leaf. Full description

€ 1,250

India & Sri Lanka Manuscripts & Documents

Two accounts of the Far East and the Malabar region in India

CARDIM, Antonio Francesco. Relation de la province du Japon.
Including: BARRETTO, Francesco. Relation des missions de la province de Malabar, de la comp: de Jesus.
Tournay, Adrien Quinqué, 1645. Small 8vo (14.5×9 cm). Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, later endpapers. [10], 308 pp. Full description

€ 8,500

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