Literature & Linguistics / Imaginary Voyages & Utopias

BRANT, Sebastiaen. Navis stultorum: oft, Der sotten schip.
Antwerp, Jan II van Ghelen, 1584. Small 4to. With a woodcut of the Ship of Fools on the title-page, woodcut Dutch title-panel, Van Ghelen's large woodcut greyhounds and goat device on the last page, 118 full-page and 2 smaller woodcut illustrations in text, each page (after the title and its verso) in a border built up from arabesque cast fleurons. 18th-century sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges, mottled edges. [2], "234" [= 236], [10] pp. Full description

CAMPE, Joachim Heinrich. El nuevo Robinson. Historia moral reducida a dialogos para instruccion y entretenimiento de ninos y jovenes de ambos sexos. Traducaida al Castellano con varias correcciones por D. Tomas de Iriarte.
Paris, Garnier Hermanos, 1858. 8vo. With wood-engraved frontispiece, 13 full-page wood-engraved plates. Original richly blind-stamped and coloured cloth, gilt edges. XI, [1 blank], 374 pp. Full description

DIOSCORIDES [=Pieter HARTING]. Anno 2065. Een blik in de toekomst, door Dr. Dioscorides. Tweede druk.
Utrecht, J. Greven (back of title-page: printed by P.W. van de Weijer), 1865. 8vo. Modern black calf (faux morocco). 79, [1 blank] pp. Full description

HESE (HESSE), Johannes Witte de. Itinerarius Joannis de Hese presbyteri a Hierusalem describens dispotiones terra[rum] insular[um] montiu[m] et aquar[um]. Ac etiam queda[m] mirabilia et p[er]icula per diversas p[ar]tes mu[n]di continge[n]tia lucidissime enarrans.
(Colophon: Deventer, Jacobus de Breda, 1504). Small 4to (20.5 x 14.5 cm). Rubricated throughout with the blank spaces for initials left open. Including the last blank leaf. Modern calf in period style. [19], [1 blank] ll. Full description

[HOLBERG, Ludvig von]. Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum novam telluris theoriam ac historiam quintae monarchiae adhuc nobis incognitae, exhibens e bibliotheca B. Abelini.
Copenhagen and Leipzig, Friedrich Christian Pelt, 1754. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, folding map and 6 full-page plates, engraved by Brühl. 19th-century boards, covered with marbled paper. [12], 366 pp. Full description

HOLBERG, Ludvig. Leevensbeschryving van den heere Baron Lodewyk Holberg.
Amsterdam, Steven van Esveldt, 1765. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece portrait of Holberg. Brown calf (ca. 1900?), richly gold-tooled spine. [1], [1 blank], IX, [1], 386, [2] pp. plus engraved portrait. Full description

[NEVILLE, Henry]. Oprecht verhaal van t Eiland van Pines, en deszelfs bevolking; of laatste ontdekking van een vierde eiland in Terra Australis, Incognita.
Rotterdam, Joannes Naeranus, 1668. Small 4to. Old half calf, marbled boards. 20 pp. Full description

[SMEEKS, Hendrik]. Beschreibung des mächtigen Königreichs Krinke Kesmes, welches eine grosse Insul, nebst vielen dazugehörigen kleinen Eylanden, in sich fasset, und zusammen ein Theil des unbekannten Südlandes, so unter dem Tropico Capricorni gelegen ist, ..., wegen der ungemeinen Curiosität ins Teutsche übersetzet.
Leipzig, Georg Christoph Wintzer, 1721. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With 2 titles printed in red and black, 1 engraved frontispiece (lacks 1 frontispiece), 6 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary calf. [10], 110, [2], 111-255, [16] pp. Full description

[SWIFT, Jonathan]. Travels into several remote nations of the world. In four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver.
London, Benjamin Motte, 1726. 4 parts in 2 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Gulliver, 5 engraved maps and one engraved plate. 19th-century gold-tooled calf, richly gold-tooled spines, gilt edges. VIII, [4], 148, [6], [149]-310; [6], 54, [8], [155]-353, [1 blank] pp. Full description

VAIRASSE D'ALAIS, Denis. Historie der Sevarambes, volkeren die een gedeelte van het darde vast-land bewoonen, gemeenlyk Zuid-land genaamd, ...
Amsterdam, Willem de Coup, Willem Lamsvelt, Philip Verbeek, and Joannes Lamsvelt, 1701. Small 4to (20 x 16 cm). With engraved frontispiece drawn and engraved by Joannes Lamsvelt and 16 plates engraved for this edition, at least mostly by Lamsvelt, after those of the first Dutch edition. Recased in contemporary(?) vellum, new endpapers. [16], "349" [= 345], [7] pp. incl. integral frontispiece. Full description