Highlights

AGUILAR, José de. El intérprete chino. Colección de frases sencillas y analizadas para aprender el idioma oficial de China.
Madrid, Manuel Anoz, 1861. 8vo. The text is printed in two columns. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter purple sheepskin. [2], IV, 242, [1 blank], [2] pp. Full description

BONTIUS, Jacobus (Jacob de BONDT), Willem PISO and Georg MARKGRAF. Oost- en West-Indische warande. Vervattende aldaar de leef- en genees-konst. Met een verhaal van de speceryen, boom- en aard-gewassen, dieren &c. in Oost- en West Indien voorvallende.
Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1694.
With: (2) Johannes VERBRUGGE. De nieuwe verbeterde chirurgyns scheeps-kist, sijnde een catalogus ofte lijste der medicamenten die yder chirurgijn naer Oost- of West Indiën gemeenlyk mede-voert.
Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1693.2 works in 1 volume. 8vo (14.4 x 9.1 cm). Ad 1 with an engraved title page, erroneously mentioning the year 1693, a small fleur-de-lis woodcut vignette on the title page, a woodcut decorated initial and a woodcut tail-piece. Ad 2 with a large woodcut vignette on the title page, and three woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [8], 304, [7], [1 blank], 96 pp. Full description

BROECKE, Pieter van den. Vijf verscheyde journalen [...], behouden op zijne reysen, na Cabo-Verde, Angola en Guinea, Doch voornamentlijck na Oost-Indien, waer in hem, soo in schip-breuck, als in't door-reysen van't landt, seer veel vreemde dingen ontmoet zijn.
Amsterdam, Gillis Joosten Saeghman, [1663]. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, an engraved full-page portrait of the author by Adriaen Matham after Frans Hals, and 23 illustrations (18 woodcuts, 5 engravings) in the text. Contemporary quarter vellum. 112 pp. Full description

CAILLIAUD, Frédéric. Voyage a Méroé, au fleuve blanc, au-delà de fâzoql dans le midi du royaume de Sennâr, a Syouah et dans cinq autres oasis; fait dans les années 1819, 1820, 1821 et 1822, ... Dédié au roi.
Paris, Debure, Tillard and Treuttel & Wurtz, 1826-1827. 4 text volumes (8vo) and 1 atlas volume in 2 parts (folio). With a woodcut vignette on the title pages, 12 full-page hand-coloured costume plates, and 150 full-page lithographs in the atlas volume. Contemporary half calf, gold- and blind-tooled spine, marbled edges. [4], XV, [1], 429 pp; [4], 442 pp; [4], 431, [1] pp; [4], 416 pp; [32], [150], [20], [150] pp. Full description

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de (Jacob Campo WEYERMAN translator; Antoine COYPEL illustrator). De voornaamste gevallen van den wonderlyken Don Quichot, door den beroemden Picart den Romein ... in XXXI kunstplaaten, na de uitmuntende schilderyen van Coypel in't koper gebragt ...
The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1746. Large folio (42 x 27 cm). Title in red and black with an engraved vignette (Quixote and the windmill), and 31 engraved illustration plates, all coloured by a contemporary hand, heightened with gold and set in in a gilt frame. Further with large woodcut initials and tailpieces, and each text page in an ornamental frame built up from typographic ornaments (the frames not in the 4to issue). Contemporary, richly gold-tooled dark red morocco by the so-called Van Damme bindery in Amsterdam, sewn on 7 supports, each board with Van Dammes typical hourglass- or vase- or flask-shaped central cartouche with a starry sky on a black ground, here showing a short-stemmed chalice or goblet with fire or flame-like leaves (like a snake plant, Dracaena trifasciata) in the cartouche and a basket of flowers topping the cartouche, the whole in an elaborate frame built up from hundreds of impressions of numerous small tools, the spine-title in gold on a black ground in the 2nd of 8 compartments, each of the other 7 with flowers, other decorations and a small flower in a pot, gilt edges. With a tissue guard-leaf before each plate. [2], XXVI, 420 pp. Full description

[CHINESE SCHOOL PAINTING] [Interior tea drinking scene].
[China, ca. 1820]. 47 x 61 cm. (picture); 61 x 74.5 cm. (frame). Oil painting on canvas, in a black lacquered Chinese export frame. Full description

[COELHO, Gaspar? and others]. Lettere del Giapone, et della Cina de gl'anni M.D.LXXXIX & M.D.XC. Scritte al R.P. Generale della Compagnia di Giesu.
Rome, [Giacomo Tornieri for?] Luigi Zannetti, 1591. 8vo. 17th-century limp vellum. “114” [= 214] pp. Full description

COLQUHOUN, Patrick. A treatise on the wealth, power, and resources, of the British Empire, in every quarter of the world, including the East Indies: the rise and progress of the funding system explained; ...
London, 1814. 4to. With many letterpress tables in text. Contemporary tree calf, gold-tooled spine; rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down. XII, 451, [1 blank], 91, [1 blank] pp. Full description

CONDAMINE, Charles Marie de la. Journal du voyage fait par l'ordre du roi, a l'équateur, servant d'introduction historique a la mesure des trois premiers degre's du me'ridien.
Paris, de l'imprimerie royale, 1751. 4 parts in 2 volumes. 4to. With 5 foldings plans, views and maps, including one large map of the Quito province, a folding woodcut table, a full-page engraving, and an engraving in the text; an engraved vignette of a globe on the title page, 2 engravings in the text, several woodcut tables, and 3 engraved plates depicting several measurement results and a measuring instrument. With: (2) IDEM. Mesure des trois premier degre's du me'ridien dans l'hemisphere Austral, tirée des observations de Mrs. de l'académie royale des sciences, envoyés par le roi pour l'équateur.
Paris, de l'imprimerie royale, 1751.
(3) IDEM. Supplément au journal historique du voyage a l'equateur, et au livre de la mesure des trois premiers degrés du meridien: servant de réponse à quelques objections.
Paris, Durand et Pissot, 1752.
(4) IDEM. Supplément au journal historique (...): pour servir de réponse aux objections de M.B.
Paris, Durand et Pissot, 1754.
Contemporary gold-tooled tree-marbled calf. XXXVI, 280, XV, [1 blank]; [12], 266, X; [4], VIII, 52; [8], "222" (=220), XXVIII, [2] pp. Full description

[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