Cartography, Exploration & Voyages

ALBERDINGK THIJM, Catharina & Josephus Albertus ALBERDINGK THIJM. Notice de mes souvenirs d'un voyage à Paris, écrite pour mes chers enfans.Amsterdam, 1838. Small 8vo. Manuscript in French, written in ink in a regular and readable hand on 7 quires of writing-paper, some with a slight green cast.
With: ALBERDINGK THIJM, Josephus Albertus. Decemberliedtjen op tantes feest, in 1878. Manuscript poem, signed J.A.Th. 4to. Folded.Loose quires in a contemporary red morocco portfolio with gold-tooled title and ornamental frames on covers, richly gold-tooled turn-ins and silk paste-downs. With 3 pairs of green silk ties. 135, [4 blank]; 4 pp. Full description

ALBERTI, Lodewyk and Ludwig Gottlieb PORTMAN. Zuid-Afrikaansche gezichten.
Amsterdam, Maaskamp, [1810]. 3 works in 2 volumes. Oblong 1mo (ca 47 x 62 cm). With a letterpress leaf, a watercolour (ca. 35 x 44 cm), and 4 large aquatint views of the same size, engraved by L. Portman with letterpress captions underneath, all coloured by a contemporary hand.
With: (2) [WATERCOLOUR]. Bijeenkomst van den Hoog. Ed. Gestr. Heer Generaal J. W. Janssens ... met het Opperste Hoofd der Kaffers.
(3) ALBERTI, Lodewyk. De Kaffers aan de zuidkust van Afrika, natuur en geschiedkundig beschreven ... Met platen en kaarten.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1810. 8vo. With engraved title-page, aquatint folding plan, with coastal view, of Algoa Bay, and 2 stipple-engraved plates, all but the title-page coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary gold-tooled calf; rebacked, with new endpapers.The plates are housed in a later box of brown quarter calf, grey cloth sides, and a brown calf title label on the front, lettered in gold. [1] l. text + 4 plates and 1 watercolour; [8], VIII, [4], 260, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

ALBERTI, Lodewyk and Ludwig Gottlieb PORTMAN. [Drop-title:] Zuid-Afrikaansche gezichten.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, [1810]. 2 works in 2 volumes. Oblong 1mo (45 x 60 cm). Letterpress text leaf with drop-title and 4 large aquatint plates (image size: 30 x 41.5 cm) coloured by a contemporary hand, engraved by Ludwig Gottlieb Portman after drawings by Jacob Smies and Christopher Howen. Each plate with the imprint of Evert Maaskamp, Koninklijke kunsthandelaar, Amsterdam. Contemporary stiff, marbled paper wrappers, kept in a modern green half morocco clamshell box. With:
ALBERTI, Lodewyk. Description physique et historique des Cafres, sur la côte méridionale de l'Afrique ...Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1811. 8vo. With engraved title-page, aquatint folding plan, with coastal view, of Algoa Bay, and 2 stipple-engraved plates, all but the title-page coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, richly gold-tooled spine, marbled boards and marbled edges. [1] l. text + 4 plates; XII, [4], 255, [1 blank] pp. Full description

ALBUQUERQUE, Alfonso de. Commentarios do grande Afonso Dalboquerque capitao geral que foi das Indias orientaes em tempo do muito poderoso rey D. Manuel o primeiro deste nome.
Lisbon, Regia officina typografica, 1774. 4 volumes. Small 8vo. With a woodcut of Albuquerques coat of arms on all four title-pages, engraved portrait, an engraved illustration above the dedication, large engraved folding map and woodcut illustration in text. The map reaches from Egypt and Madagascar in the west to the Philippines and New Guinea in the east, including the Arabian Peninsula, the south of China, the east coast of Africa and most of the East Indies. Contemporary Portuguese mottled sheepskin with gold-tooled spines with red title labels, blue sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers. [6], XXX, [14], 343, [1]; [12], 285, [1], [2 blank]; [12], 289, [1], [2 blank]; [12], 256 pp. Full description

ALCOCK, Sir Rutherford. The capital of the tycoon: a narrative of a three years' residence in Japan.
London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green (colophons: printed by Spottiswoode & Co.), 1863 [reissued with publisher's advertisements dated April 1875]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 2 chromolithographed frontispieces, 2 folding engraved maps (partly coloured), 14 tinted, double-tinted and chromolithographed plates (at least one highlighted with silver colour) drawn mostly by Charles Wirgman (1832-1891) and lithographed by Hanhart, 2 black & white wood-engraved plates (engraved by Pearson) and numerous wood-engraved illustrations in text (some signed by Pearson). Original publisher's gold- and blind-blocked green cloth. XXXII, 469, [2]; X, 539 pp. Full description

ALKEMADE, Cornelis van, and Pieter van der SCHELLING. Beschryving van de stad Briele, en den Lande van Voorn, behelzende, I. De beschryving zelf... II. De historie, genealogie, en successie van de heeren, en vrouwen van Voorn ... III. De politike regering, nevens de regten, ... mitsgaders de regtspleging ... omtrent het jaar MCCCC in de stad Briel, en 't Land van Voorn in gebruik geweest zynde. IV. De privilegien, octroyen ... betreffende de stad Briele, en den Lande van Voorn ...
Rotterdam, Philippus Losel, 1729. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With the title page printed in red and black with an engraved printer's device, a double-page plan of Den Briel, 3 folding engraved maps of different parts of Voorne (each ca. 50 x 70.5 cm), and an additional folding map (33 x 38 cm) of the southwestern part of South Holland. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf by the so-called Stag Bindery in Rotterdam, sewn on 6 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a black morocco author and title label on the spine lettered in gold, the coat of arms of Den Briel in the centre of both boards, surrounded by two ornamental borders, gold-tooled board edges, mottled edges. [28], 1-224, [8], 225-376; [8], 1-306, [20] pp. Full description

ALKEMADE, Cornelis van and Pieter van der SCHELLING. Beschryving van de stad Briele, en den lande van Voorn, ...
Rotterdam, Philippus Losel, 1729. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a double-page engraved plan of Den Briel and 3 folding engraved maps of different parts of Voorne (each ca. 50 x 70.5 cm). Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [28], 224, [8], 225-376; [8], 306, [20] pp. Full description

[ALMANAC]. Almanak voor reizigers in het Koningrijk der Nederlanden. Met platen en plattegronden van steden. Eerste jaargang 1819.
Amsterdam, Mortier Covens & son, Ten Brink & De Vries, 1819.
With: [ALMANAC]. Almanak voor reizigers in het Koningrijk der Nederlanden. Met platen en plattegronden van steden. Tweede jaargang 1820.
Amsterdam, Mortier Covens & son, Ten Brink & De Vries, 1820. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With 5 full-page engravings with views of Boskoop, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Texel, and Medemblik by D. Veelwaard, protected by tissue paper guards, 2 full-page maps of the routes in South-Holland (ad 1) and North Holland (ad 2), and 14 city plans of Amsterdam, Leiden, The Hague, Delft, Rotterdam, Gouda (ad 1), Haarlem, Enkuizen, Medemblik, Alkmaar, Purmerend, Monnickendam, Edam, and Hoorn (ad 2), each with an accompanying leaf with explanations. Contemporary gold-tooled straight-grained red morocco, with the rod of Asclepius, a ship, and an anchor on the spine, a floral border on both boards, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, a red morocco pencil holder on the fore edge of the back board, a folding pocket in the back, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. [24], iv, 52, [2], 20; [26], "53-84" [=31], [2], "21-48" [=27], [2] pp. + 43 blank leaves. Full description

ALTING, Menso. Descriptio secundum antiquos, agri Batavi & Frisii una cum conterminis sive notitia Germaniae Inferioris, cis & ultra Rhenum, quà hodie est in dicione VII Foederatorum. ... [Volume 2 with title:] Descriptio Frisiae inter Scaldis portum veterem & Amisiam, ...
Amsterdam, Henricus Wetstein (vol. 2 adds Rudolf & Gerard Wetstein), 1697-1701. 2 volumes bound as 1. Large folio (37.5 x 24 cm). Richly engraved frontispiece by Jan Goeree, 2 letterpress title-pages in black and red, volume I with 6 double-page engraved maps,3 full-page engraved plates and a letterpress table, and numerous engravings in text; volume II with 9 double-page engraved maps by Gerard de Broen and a double-page letterpress table. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [24], 132, [20], 18, [2]; [32], 216, [40] pp. Full description

AMPZING, Samuel [and Petrus SCRIVERIUS]. Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland: in rijm bearbeyd ...
Including: SCRIVERIUS, Petrus. Laure-Crans voor Laurens Coster van Haerlem, eerste vinder vande boeck-druckery.
Haarlem, Adriaen Rooman, 1628. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: With an allegorical frontispiece, 16 engraved plates, and a printer's device on the final page, the text is printed in roman, gothic and civilité type. Ad 2: With a woodcut printers device on the title page, a full-page engraved portrait, and a full-page engraved plate of the first printing office in Haarlem. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled overlapping vellum, gold-tooled oval coat of arms of Haarlem in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a blind-tooled single fillet frame, green closing ties, red sprinkled edges. [88], 520, [8]; 1-5, [3], 9, 6-124 pp. Full description