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Rare narrative of a shipwrecked voyage to India

CONCEIÇÃO, Frei Nuno da. Relaçam da viagem, e sucesso que teve a nao capitania Nossa Senhora do Bom Despacho. De que era Capitaô Francisco de Mello, vindo da India no anno de 1630.
Lisbon, "P. Craesbeeck" [= Antonio Pedrozo Galram?], "1631" [= ca. 1710/20?]. 4to. With woodcut of a ship in heavy seas on the last page, a woodcut basket of flowers on title page and a large woodcut vase of flowers tailpiece.
Earlier vellum with a manuscript cantochon in red and black, new endpapers. [8], 47, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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Fascinating and thrilling account of the land survey work in Palestine in the 1870s.

CONDER, Claude Reignier. Tent work in Palestine. A record of discovery and adventure.
London, Richard Bentley & Son, New Burlington Street, 1879, 2 vols., Many half- and some full-page Illustrations and maps throughout. Contemporary green morocco, with gold-tooling to boards and spine. XXVI, 381, [1]; VII, 352 pp. Full description
€ 500
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Very rare first account of the death of Captain Cook

[COOK, James (subject)]. Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Seereisen des berühmten Capitain Cook.
Reval [= Tallinn, Estonia] & Leipzig, Albrecht und Compagnie, 1780.
With: (2) Briefe aus England historisch-statistisch und artistischen Inhalts. 1s Heft.
Reval [= Tallinn, Estonia] & Leipzig, Albrecht und Compagnie, 1780.
2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut ship on the title-page of ad 2 and woodcut headpieces in both works. Contemporary half calf, brown sprinkled paper sides, brown morocco spine label with title in gold. 48; [14], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 148,500
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Dutch translation of the account of Captain Cook's third and last voyage

COOK, James and James KING. Reis naar den Stillen Oceaan, ... tot het doen van ontdekkingen in het noorder halfrond, ter uitvoering gebragt onder 't bestuur van de bevelhebbers Cook, Clerke en Gore in de jaaren 1776, 1777, 1779 en 1780. Met de schepen de Resolution en Discovery, ...
Rotterdam, Abraham Bothall and Dirk Vis II, 1788. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. XVI, 611, [1 blank] Full description
€ 1,650
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A rare 19th-century Spanish edition of Cook's first voyage

[COOK, James (Don J.M.Y.P. y DON S.C., translator)]. Historia de los viajes del Capitan Cook. Por mar y tierra traducidos al castellano.
Madrid, Doña Teresa Martinez é Hijo, 1853. 8vo. With 4 full-page wood-engraved plates. Modern half black morocco. "211" [= 231], [2 blank], [1] pp. Full description
€ 3,750
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First edition of an important historical work on Macaronesia, especially the Azores

CORDEIRO, Antonio. Historia insulana das ilhas a Portugal sugeytas no oceano occidental.
Lisboa occidental, Na officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1717. Small folio (ca. 28 x 21 cm). With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page, woodcut decorated initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Gold-tooled brown calf from the first half of the 19th century. [1], [1 blank], [14], 528 pp. Full description
€ 7,500
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From the library of Lalande with his numerous manuscript annotations

[CORDOBA, Antonio de]. Relacion del último viage al Estrecho de Magallanes de la Fragata de S.M. Santa María de la Cabeza en los años de 1785 y 1786. Extracto de todos los anteriores desde su descubrimiento impresos y MSS. y Noticia de los habitantes, suelo, clima y producciones del estrecho.
Madrid, la viuda de Ibarra, hijos y compañía, 1788. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Magellan by Ferdinand Selma, dated 1788, 4 large engraved folding maps, and 4 folding tables in ad 1; an engraved folding map and a folding table in ad 2. With: [IDEM]. Apéndice a la relacion del viage al Magallanes de la Fragata de guerra Santa Maria de la Cabeza, que contiene el de los Paquebotes Santa Casilda y Santa Eulalia para completar el reconocimiento del Estrecho en los años de 1788 y 1789.
Madrid, la viuda de D. Joaquin Ibarra, 1793. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled Spanish roan. [6], XVI, 359; [4], 128 pp. Full description
€ 12,500
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Beautiful large paper copy of a highly important work on 17th-century Russia

[COYETT, Balthasar and Coenraad van KLENCK]. Historisch verhael, of beschryving van de voyagie, gedaen onder de suite van den heere Koenraad van Klenk ... en sijn hoogheyt den heere Prince van Oranje
Amsterdam, Jan Claesz. ten Hoorn, 1677. 4to. With an etched frontispiece and 6 double-page etched plates. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title at the head of the spine. [8], "214" [= 220], [2] pp. Full description
€ 18,000
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A great source for Russian history and foreign relations in the 17th century

[COYETT, Balthasar]. Historisch verhael, of beschryving van de voyagie, gedaen onder de suite van den heere Koenraad van Klenk, extraordinaris ambassadeur ... aan zijne zaarsche majesteyt van Moscovien.
Amsterdam, Jan Claesz ten Hoorn, 1677. 4to. With etched frontispiece and 6 etched folding plates by Romeyn de Hooghe. 19th-century boards. [8], 214 [= 220] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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