Cartography, Exploration & Voyages

MORRIS, James [later known as (Catherine) Jan MORRIS]. Sultan in Oman.
London, Faber and Faber, 1957. 8vo. With a photo in colour of the fort of Nizwa in Oman as a frontispiece, 2 half-page maps of the Middle East and Muscat and Oman, and 16 pages (outside of collation) with 23 photos of the Sultan's journey through his Sultanate, showing desert scenes, Sheikhs, forts, and other views of Nizwa, Ibri, and Muscat. Bright orange-red cloth. 165, [1 blank] pp. Full description

MOUCHERON, Isaac de. Plan ou veüe de Heemstede, dans la province d'Utrecht | Afbeeldinge van Heemstede, in de provincie van Utrecht.
[Amsterdam], Nicolas Visscher, [ca. 1700]. Very large etched bird's-eye view of the Heemstede estate and gardens (99 x 71 cm) engraved by Daniël Stoopendaal and printed on 2 2/3 sheets from 2 copper plates. Framed. Full description

MOUCHEZ, Amédée Ernest Barthélemy. Observations chronométriques faites pendant la campagne de circumnavigation de la corvette La Capricieuse, commandée par M. Roquemaurel, capitaine de vaisseau.
Paris, Firmin Didot frères, 1855.
With:
(2) MOUCHEZ, Amédée Ernest Barthélemy. Longitudes chronométriques des principaux points de la cote du Brésil, rapportées au premier méridien de Rio-Janeiro.
Paris, Paul Dupont, 1863.
(3) MOUCHEZ, Amédée Ernest Barthélemy. Positions géographiques des principaux points de la cote orientale de l'Amérique du Sud comprise entre la Guyane Française et le Paraguay.
Paris, Paul Dupont, 1868. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With 4 folding plates. Contemporary grained red half sheepskin. VIII, 139, [1]; 32; [4], 35, [1] pp. Full description

[MOUNTAINEERING]. [A collection of brochures and folders on mountaineering].
[Austria and Switzerland, ca. 1920- ca. 1980]. Ca. 653 brochures (including a few duplicates and variant issues).
With: [A collection of books relating to mountaineering].
[Globally, ca. 1830- ca. 2000]. Ca. 875 books (including a few duplicates and variant issues, and several multiple-volume titles). Full description

MÜLLER, Christian Gottlieb. Verzeichnis von Nürnbergischen topographisch-historischen Kupferstichen und Holzschnitten.
Nuremberg, printed for the author, 1791. 4to. Later boards. 208, [2] pp., interleaved. Full description

MÜNSTER, Sebastian. Cosmographia, das ist: Beschreibung der gantzen Welt, …
Basel, heirs of Sebastian Henricpetri, 1628. Folio (38 x 24.5 cm). With an engraved title page, letterpress title page printed in red and black with woodcut portrait of Münster on the back, 26 numbered double-page woodcut maps on inserted bifolia (each with a woodcut headpiece, the letterpress title, some text and the map number, i-xxvi, on the first recto, a letterpress heading above the map and in one case a woodcut diagram with letterpress text on the second verso), 72 double-page woodcut maps, plans and views on integral leaves, and about 1500 woodcut illustrations in the text (including repeats) showing maps, plans, views, plants, animals, monsters, etc. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title and year on spine, red edges. [24], “1752” [= 1748] , [12] pp. Full description

MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich. Voyages et découvertes faites par les Russes le long de côtes de la Mer Glaciale et sur l'Océan Oriental, tant vers le Japon que vers l'Amérique. On y a joint l'histoire du fleuve Amur et des pays adjacens.
Amsterdam, Marc Michel Rey, 1766. 2 volumes. 12mo. With a large folding engraved map of the Russian Far East, from Novaya Zemlya to Kamchatka, with parts of Japan and North America. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. X, [2], 388; IV, 207, [25] pp. Full description

NAU, Michel. Voyage nouveau de la Terre-Sainte, enrichi de plusieurs remarques particulieres qui servent à l'intelligence de la Sainte Ecriture. Et de diverses reflexions Chrétiennes qui intruisent les Ames devotes dans la conoissance & l'amour de J.C.
Paris, Andre Pralard, 1702. 12mo. Woodcut printer's device and several woodcut headings and endings. Two bookplates (one of 1933) on silk inner side and first leaf. 19th-century red morocco, spine ribbed with 6 compartments of which 4 are richly ornamented with very fine gilt flowers, gilt bordered dentelles, inside boards lined with silk and gilt inside dentelles and gilt edges, the binding is signed "P. BOZERIAN". [20], 661, [3] pp. Full description

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DIVISION. [MASON, Kenneth, a.o.]. Iraq and the Persian Gulf. September 1944. B.R. 524 (restricted) geographical handbook series for official use only.
[Oxford,] Naval Intelligence division, 1944. 8vo. With numerous diagrams, reproductions of photographs and maps, including a loose map in the pocket at the back. Publisher's green cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover. 682 pp. Full description

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DIVISION. Persia. Geographical handbook series for official use only.
(colophon:) Oxford, University Press, September 1945. Large 8vo. With 1 large folding map of Iraq, Arabia and Persia bound at the end of the book, 11 smaller folding maps and 50 illustration figures in the text (smaller maps, current and wind charts, sections, diagrams on the rainfall, etc.). Also with 337 half-tone photographs, inserted on separate leaves and all numbered and captioned. Original publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettering on front board and spine. XIX, [1 blank], 638 pp. Full description