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"Pioneering botanical, entomological, and petrographic observations"

TOWNSON, Robert. Travels in Hungary, with a short account of Vienna in the year 1793.
London, G. G. & J. Robinson, 1797 4to. With a folding hand-coloured engraved map, 16 engraved plates (some folding), and a folding engraved table. Modern half calf with gold on red spine label, marbled sides. xviii, [1], 506 pp. Full description
€ 2,000
Austria Central Europe Czech Republic & Slovakia Earth Sciences Floras & General Botany Insects & Spiders Travel & Voyages Europe Wine / Viticulture
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Spanish Infanta Maria Anna's journey to Vienna to marry the King of Hungary and Bohemia,
and future Holy Roman Emperor

[TRAVEL - INFANTA MARIA ANNA]. Relacion del viage de la Señora Reina de Ungria y alegrissimo recebimiento que la cesare magestad del Señor Emperador de Alemania, y Rey de Ungria su esposo le hizieron en primero de março de 1631.
Seville, Simon Faxardo, 1631. Folio. With the engraved Spanish royal coat of arms and a woodcut decorated initial, both on the first leaf. [4] pp. Full description
€ 2,000
Broadsides & Pamphlets Central Europe Spain Travel & Voyages Europe
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Some of the founding documents of the Dutch Republic and memorabilia of the Eighty Years War

[NETHERLANDS - STATES GENERAL - TREATIES]. Recueil van de tractaaten, gemaackt en geslooten tusschen de Hoogh Mog. Heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenighde Nederlanden ter eenre ende verscheyde koningen, princen en potentaaten ter andere zyde. Eerste deel.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, [between 1742 and 1759]. 4to. With a general title page, followed by an index and 73 treaties, nearly all with their own title page containing the original imprint and a woodcut of the Dutch lion (the arms of the States General) and a few with Van Wouw's printer's device of a snail with the motto "Avec le temps paulatim". Contemporary vellum, straight-sewn on 3 vellum tapes laced through the joints, with a hollow back, with manuscript title on spine. Full description
€ 2,950
Belgium France Law & Politics Military History (18th Century) Netherlands Portugal Scandinavia UK - United Kingdom VOC WIC
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Important treaty between France and the Dutch Republic on free trade and tariffs

[FRANCE & THE DUTCH REPUBLIC - TREATY]. Tractaat van commercie, navigatie en marine gemaakt, geslooten en vastgestelt to Versailles den 21 December 1739. Tusschen Syne Majesteit van Vrankryk, en de Heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, 1740. 4to. With the woodcut printer's device of Scheltus and a woodcut initial.19th-century brown wrappers. 43 pp. Full description
€ 225
Economic History & Trade France Law & Politics Netherlands
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Important treaty between France and the Dutch Republic on free trade and tariffs

[TREATY - FRANCE & THE DUTCH REPUBLIC]. Traité de commerce, navigation & marine, fait, conclu & arrêté a Versailles le 21 Decembre de lan 1739, entre sa Majesté Tres-Chretienne, & les Seigneurs Etats Generaux des Provinces Unies du Pais-Bas.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, 1740 4to. With the woodcut printer's device of Scheltus and a woodcut initial. 19th-century brown wrappers. 43 pp. Full description
€ 750
Economic History & Trade France Law & Politics Netherlands
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Commercial treaty between Portugal and Russia

[TREATY]. Tratado de amizade, navegação, e commercio entre as muito altas, e muito poderosas senhoras Dona Maria I, Rainha de Portugal, e Catharina II. imperatriz de todas as Russias, assinado em Petersburgo pelos plenipotenciarios de huma, e outra corte em 9/20 de Dezembro de M.DCC.LXXXVII. e ratificado por ambas as magestades.
Lisbon, Regia Officina Typografica, 1789. 4to. With woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title-page. Contemporary gold brocade paper wrappers. 69, [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 400
Eastern Europe Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Portugal Russia (incl. Siberia)
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Rare first edition of an early work by Trotsky

TROTSKY, Leon. Tuda i Obratno: vmesto predislovija. I. Ot Peterburga do Berezzova. Sovet rabočich deputatov po etapam. II. Moj pobeg. - 800 verst na olenjach. [There and back again] [text in Russian in Cyrillic type].
St. Petersburg, Shipovnik, 1907. With a lithographed device on the front cover. Original publisher's printed wrappers. 123, [1 blank], IV pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Eastern Europe Law & Politics Literature Russia (incl. Siberia)
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Autograph letters, signed, and a draft, by a leading French Republican naval officer

TRUGUET, Comte Laurent Jean François. [Autograph letters, signed, to several recipients, mostly military colleagues and government officials].
Paris, 1815-1839. 8vo (mostly ca. 19 x 13 cm). 10 signed autograph letters in French, plus a draft for another, written in ink on laid and wove paper, 3 with their red wax seals or parts of seals (2 more with traces of former seals), and 6 with recipients' addresses. [24] ll. incl. 2 blanks. Full description
€ 6,500
Autographs & Letters France Military History (19th Century)
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British land and fresh-water shells, with 12 hand-coloured plates

TURTON, William and John Edward GRAY (editor). A manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands, with figures of each of the kinds.
London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1840. 8vo. With 12 hand-coloured engraved plates and some small wood-engraved illustrations in text. Original publisher's gold- and blind-blocked cloth. IX, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 324 pp. Full description
€ 250
Shells & other Invertebrates UK - United Kingdom
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