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A catechism in French and Carib

BRETON, Raymond. Petit catechisme ou sommaire des trois premieres parties de la doctrine chrestienne. Traduit du françois, en la langue des Caraibes Insulaires.
Auxerre, Gilles Bouquet, 1664. 8vo. With a small woodcut on the title page showing the Virgin and a woodcut of the Crucifixion on p. 16. Modern half maroon morocco, gold-tooled spine. 70 pp. Full description
€ 19,500
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Rare Dutch translation of a work on Spanish America, with 4 maps

CAMPBELL, John. De tegenwoordige staat der volken van het Spaansche ryk in Amerika, met een byzonder verhaal, van den koophandel uit Oud-Spanje, met de galjoenen, flota, &c.; en van den verboden handel der Hollanders, Engelschen, Franschen, Deenen en Portugezen, in de West-Indiën.
Amsterdam, Bernardus Mourik, [ca. 1745 or ca. 1748]. 8vo. With 4 folding engraved maps, showing the city and harbours of Veracruz, Havana, Portobelo and Cartagena. Contemporary red half sheepskin (roan). [8], 328 pp. Full description
€ 1,200
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On the representation of the Spanish colonies in the Cortes, a call for equal treatment in parliament

CARDENAS DE MONTE-HERMOSO, Marques de [= Antonio María de CÁRDENAS Y ZAYAS-BAZÁN]. [Drop title:] Señor. Llegó el dia tan deseado y venturoso. La España logró su libertad, y por una feliz y justificada revolucion vió restablecer la Constitucion política de la Monarquía, promulgada en Cádiz en 18 de marzo de 1812 ...
[Colophon:] Madrid, Imprenta de Ibarra, 1820. Folio (ca. 30 x 21 cm). Disbound (previously sewn through 2 holes). 8 pp. Full description
€ 1,950
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Detailed description of Trinidad & Tobago and the coast of Venezuela

DAUXION-LAVAYSSE, Jean-François. Reise nach den Inseln Trinidad, Tabago und Margaretha, so wie in verschiedene Theile von Venezuela. Aus dem Französischen.
Weimar, Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, 1816. 8vo. with a large folding engraved map (23.5 x 41.5 cm). Modern black half sheepskin, marbled sides, with black labels on spine. XXIV, 594 pp. Full description
€ 750
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One of the very few contemporary sources on pirates in the seventeenth century

EXQUEMELIN, Alexandre Olivier. Histoire des avanturiers qui se sont signalez dans les Indes ...
Paris, Jacques le Febvre, 1686. 4 parts in 2 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved title page in vol. 1, 3 engraved folding maps (the Caribbean, the Bay of Maracay in Venezuela, and the Isthmus of Panama), 4 engraved plates outside of collation, 5 decorated woodcut initials, 5 woodcut headpieces, and 4 woodcut tailpieces.
Contemporary gold tooled mottled brown calf. [32], 342, [22]; [6], "384"[=390], [24] pp. Full description
€ 8,500
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Testing chronometers by Harrison's leading French rival

FLEURIEU, Charles Pierre Claret, Count d'Eveux de. Voyage fait par ordre du Roi en 1768 et 1769, à différentes parties du monde, pour éprouver en mer les horloges marines inventées par M. Ferdinand Berthoud. Première[-seconde] partie, ...
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1773. 2 volumes. Large 4to (27 x 20.5 cm). With 5 numbered folding engraved plates in volume 1 (4 maps of the Atlantic Ocean, the Canaries, the Azores, etc., and 1 plate with topographic diagrams), 1 folding engraved plate with geometrical figures illustrating the determination of latitude[!], and 5 folding letterpress tables in volume 2. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. [2], LXXIX, [1 blank], 803, [1 blank]; [2], 622, XL, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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Early work on the discovery of the West Indies

GERALDINUS, Alexander. Itinerarium ad regiones sub aequinoctiali plaga constitutas. Opus antiquitates, ritus, mores, & religiones populoru[m], Aethiopie[a], Africae, Atlantici Oceani, Indicarumque regionum complectens.
Rome, Guglielmo Facciotti, 1631. 8vo. With engraved title-page and engraved illustration on the letterpress title-page. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [16], 284, [36] pp. Full description
€ 5,750
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Description of Curaçao with a folding map and a folding plate

HERING, Johannes Hermanus. Beschryving van het eiland Curaçao, en de daar onder hoorende eilanden ...
Amsterdam, Johannes van Selm, 1779. 8vo. With 2 folding engraved plates, one providing a map of Curaçao and plan of Fort Amsterdam and its surroundings, and the other showing the spectacular explosion of the warship Alphen on 15 September 1778. Green cloth (ca. 1930?) by George Fredrik Lodewijk Ophof in Rotterdam. [6], 89, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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On the prosperity of Cuba

HUBER, Bertrand. Aperçu statistique de l'île de Cuba, précédé de quelques lettres sur la Havane, et suivi de tableaux synoptiques, d'une carte de l'île, et du tracé des côtes depuis la Havane jusqu'a Matanzas.
Paris, P. Dufart, 1826. 8vo. With 6 folding letterpress tables and 2 engraved maps (1 folding), depicting Cuba and surrounding islands. Contemporary half calf, black- and gold-tooled spine. 331, [1] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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