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Stunning double-tinted views of the Middle East, after drawings made in 1838 and 1839,
with 250 plates

ROBERTS, David, George CROLY and William BROCKEDON. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia.
London, Day & son (vol. 3: New York, D. Appleton & Co.), 1855-1856. 6 volumes bound as 3. Imperial 8vo (30 x 22 cm). With 250 numbered plates (including 6 tinted lithographed title-pages, 2 stone-engraved maps and 239 tinted and double-tinted lithographed and 2 chromolithographed views). Contemporary, richly gold-tooled reddish-brown morocco, gold-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt and gauffered edges. With thin paper guard leaves facing each plate. Full description
€ 18,000
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Egypt North Africa Saudi Arabia Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Middle East
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"Pioneer Portuguese Jesuit missionary to Japan"

RODRIGUES GIRÃO, João. Litterae Iaponicae annorum M.DC.IX et X. ad R. admodum piae mem. p. Claudium Aquavivam generalem praepositum Societatis Iesu A.R.P. Provinciali eiusdem in Iapone Societ. Missae.
Antwerp, Petrus and Johannes Bellerus, 1615. 8vo. With woodcut printer's device on title-page. Modern limp parchment, gilt edges. [24], 111, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 4,750
Japan & Far East Jesuits
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Reflections on seafaring by a Dutch minister on his way to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies

ROMAN, Johannes. Scheeps-bedenckingen, gevallen over verscheyde saken die den zee-varenden plachten te ontmoeten ...
Haarlem, Adriaen Roman, 1649. 4to. With a large woodcut printers device on the title page, a large woodcut portrait of Laurens Janszoon Coster (printer's device of A. Roman, dated 1630 in the block) on the final page, 3 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece. Later black and orange painted paper wrappers showing a floral design. [1], [1 blank], [2], 23, [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Broadsides & Pamphlets Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Naval History VOC
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The complete scientific reports from the private German expedition to the Arctic Ocean in 1898

RÖMER, Fritz and Fritz SCHAUDINN (editors). Fauna Arctica. Eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898. Herausgegeben von F. Römer und F. Schaudinn.
Jena, G. Fischer, 1902-1933. 6 volumes. Large 4to (36 x 28 cm). With 2 photogravure portraits (of both editors), 8 lithographed maps, 49 (a few chromo-) lithographed plates and 609 figures in the text. Contemporary half cloth (volumes II-IV & VI) & wrappers (volumes I and V). Full description
€ 1,350
Arctic & Antarctic Faunas & General Zoology Marine Biology & Oceanography Shells & other Invertebrates
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First and only publication of the original text of the primary logbook of the first Dutch expedition
to the Arabian Gulf by Cornelis Cornelisz Roobacker

[ROOBACKER, Cornelis Cornelisz.] A. HOTZ (publ.). Cornelis Cornelisz Roobacker's scheepsjournaal Gamron-Basra (1645); de eerste reis der Nederlanders door de Perzische Golf. Uitgegeven, met inleiding en noten, door A. Hotz.
In: BEEKMAN, A.A. etc. (eds.), Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap gevestigd te Amsterdam. Tweede serie Deel XXIV. No. 3 (15 Mei).
Leiden, Brill, 1907. 8vo. One folding table and 3 folding maps (1 belonging to another article in the journal). Brown paper wrappers, with title information of the journal on the front and spine, and the contents on the back wrapper. 289-405 [=117] pp. Full description
€ 750
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Iran / Persia Kuwait Travel & Voyages Middle East VOC
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Rare Dutch adaptation of the account of the second voyage of captain John Ross, with 6 plates

ROSS, John. De reizen en lotgevallen van kapitein John Ross, op zijne ontdekkings togten naar de Noordpools gewesten. Voor jonge lieden ... Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald.
Amsterdam, Ten Brink & De Vries, 1837. 8vo. With the title-page, 6 plates (including frontispiece) and folding map of the Arctic region all lithographed. Slightly later half cloth. VIII, 247, [1 blank], pp. Full description
€ 400
Arctic & Antarctic Children's Books North America Travel & Voyages North America
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Unique copy in a sumptous Viennese binding

RUDOLF, Archduke of Austria and Hungary. Voyage en Orient. Traduit de lAllemand. Illustrations daprès les dessins originaux de Franz von Pausinger.
Vienna, Imprimerie Imperiale et Royale de la Cour et de lÉtat, 1885. Folio. With 37 etched plates.Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled front board, spine label, gilt edges. [8], 168, [2] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
Bindings North Africa Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Middle East
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"Of the utmost importance for the study of Brazilian life" (Borba de Moraes)

RUGENDAS, Johann Moritz. Voyage pittoresque dans le Bresil ... Traduit de l'Allemand par Mr. de Golbery.
Paris, Engelmann & Cie., 1835. 4 parts in 1 volume. Imperial folio (54 x 36 cm). With lithographed half-title and title-page showing a wide variety of decorative lettering, 100 full-page lithographed plates by V. Adam, Villeneuve, Bonnington, A. Joly and others after Rugendas, numbered in 4 parts (30, 20, 30, 20). Contemporary half red sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [2], 48; 34; 51; 32 pp. Full description
€ 45,000
Anthropology & Ethnography Brazil Latin America Slavery South America Travel & Voyages South America
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Adventurous travels in the Dutch East Indies, beautifully illustrated with 15 plates, including 3 on elephant hunting and 1 on crocodile hunting

SAAR, Johann Jacob. Ost-Indianische Funfzehen-Jährige Kriegs-Dienst und wahrhaftige Beschreibung ...
Nuremberg, printed by Wolfgang Eberhard Felssecker and sold by Johann Tauber, 1662. Oblong 8vo. With an engraved title page of a ship engaged in a sea battle, an engraved portrait of the author, and 15 engraved plates. Further with woodcut tailpieces, woodcut decorated initials, and headpieces built up from typographic ornaments. Set in fraktur type with incidental schwabacher, roman, and italic. Contemporary vellum. [12], 50, 170, "20" [= 18], [12] pp. Full description
€ 17,500
Ceylon India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Travel & Voyages Asia VOC
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