Recent Acquisitions

A HAOLO [= BATES, George Washington]. Sandwich Island notes.
New York, Harper & Brothers, 1854. 8vo. Full-page wood-engraved frontispiece portrait of Alexander Liholiho and 21 wood-engraved illustrations (9 full-page) in text. 20th-century blue half cloth. Full description

ARVIEUX, Laurent d'. Reis naar de legerplaats van den Grooten Emir, en beschrijving van de zeeden en gewoonten der woestijn-bewoonende Arabieren ... Tweede druk.
Dordrecht, A. Blussé & Zoon, 1802. 8vo. With 3 full-page engraved plates and 1 engraved illustration in text. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf, shell-marbled sides. Full description

BRINKMAN, J. Verzameling van korte Nederlandsche reisbeschrijvingen, een leesboek voor de jeugd.
Leiden, David du Mortier and son, 1823. 8vo. Contemporary blue wrappers. Full description

BRYDONE, Patrick. Voyage en Sicile et a Malthe.
Amsterdam, D.J. Changuion, 1776. 2 volumes. 12mo. With folding engraved map by A.v. Krevelt, and an engraved plate. Contemporary half calf, sprinkled paper sides. Full description

CAMUS, Armand-Gaston. Mémoire sur la collection des grands et petits voyages, et sur la collection des voyages de Melchisedech Thevenot.
Paris, Baudouin, 1802. 4to. Contemporary boards, rebacked with cloth. Full description

COMBIER, Cyprien. Voyage au golfe de Californie.
Paris, Arthus Bertrand, [1864]. 8vo. With folding map of Sonora by Malte-Brun, hand-coloured in outline. Modern half calf. Full description

COOK, James. Reizen rondom de waereld door James Cook vertaald door J. D. Pasteur met kaarten en plaaten.
Leiden, Jan & Abraham Honkoop; Amsterdam, Johannes Allart; The Hague, Isaak van Cleef, 1803. 13 general text volumes (8vo) and 1 atlas volume (folio). With engraved title-pages to the 13 text volumes and 4 letterpress folding tables. With all illustrations in a separate plate volume, including an engraved portrait of James Cook, 134 engraved plates and 52 engraved maps.
With: (2) CHEVALLERAEU, Willem. Bladwijzer der voorvallen en ontmoetingen van den Kapitein James Cook, op zijne drie togten, en der onderscheidene landen, enz. door hem op die togten waargenomen of nieuwelings ontdekt.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1809. 1 volume (8vo).
The 14 text volumes bound in contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spines; the plate volume in modern cloth. Full description

ENS, Gaspar. Indiae Occidentalis historia: in qua prima regionum istarum detectio, situs, incolarum mores, aliaque eo pertinentia, breviter explicantur. Ex varius auctoribus collecta, opera & studio.
Köln, Wilhelm Lutzenkirchen, 1612. 8vo. With a letterpress title in an elaborate engraved border. 19th-century calf; rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down. Full description

FORSTER, Georg. Reisen van George Forster in den jaare MDCCXC. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald.
Haarlem, Christiaan Plaat, 1792-1793. 8vo. 4 volumes. Original publisher's letterpress printed stiff wrappers. Full description

FRYER (FREYER), John. Negenjaarige reyse door Oostindien en Persien.
The Hague, Abraham de Hondt, Jacobus van Ellinkhuysen and Meyndert Uytwerf, 1700. 4to. With engraved frontispiece, engraved author's portrait, 3 folding engraved maps and 7 folding engraved plates and views. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, modern flyleaves. Full description