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Unveiling Australia and the New World

HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de. Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis. Nieuwe werelt, anders ghenaempt West-Indien.
Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1622.
With:
(2) ORDONNEZ DE CEVALLES, Pedro. Eyghentlijcke beschryvinghe van West-Indien, hoe die landen en provintien gheleghen zijn op wat maniere dat men die door reysen sal: ende wat rijckdommen van gout en silver elcke plaetse begrijpt.
Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1621.
(3) [LE MAIRE, Jacques]. Spieghel der Australische navigatie door den wijt vermaerden ende cloeckmoedighen zee-heldt Jacob Le Maire, president ende overste over de twee schepen, d' Eendracht ende Hoorn, uytghevaren den 14 Junii 1615.
Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1622.
3 works in 1 volume. Small folio. With an engraved title, 17 engraved folding maps, an engraved portrait, 5 engraved plates in text, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine. [6], 111; 29; [16], 98 pp. Full description
€ 25,000
Circumnavigation Middle America Pacific Islands South America Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific Travel & Voyages South America West Indies
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The origins of the American Indians, proposing a migration via a land bridge across the Bering Strait

HORNIUS (HORN), Georgius. De originibus Americanis libri quatuor.
The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq (colophon: printed by Philippe de Croy, Leiden), 1652. 8vo. With title page in red and black with De Croy's(?) woodcut tree device. Late 19th-century binding made from an early music manuscript on sheepskin parchment. [20], 282 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Alaska Anthropology & Ethnography Latin America North America South America
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The origins of the American Indians, together with the life and teaching of David Joris

HORNIUS (HORN), Georgius. De originibus Americanis. Libri quatuor.
The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq (colophon: printed by Phillipe de Croy, Leiden), 1652.
With: (2) BLESDIJK, Nicolaas van. Historia, vitae, doctrinae, ac rerum gestarum Davidis Georgii haeresiarchae. Conscripta ab ipsius genero Nicolao Blesdikio. Nunc primum prodit in lucem ex musaeo Iacobi Revii.
Deventer, Nathanael Cost, 1642. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. [9], [11], 282; [8], 189 pp. Full description
€ 6,500
Humanism & Reformation Language & Linguistics Latin America Middle America North America Philosophy & Humanism South America
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Massive navigational directory for the East

HORSBURGH, James. The India directory, or, directions for sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, Brazil, and the interjacent ports ... third edition.
London, printed for the author and sold by Kingsbury, Parbury and Allen, booksellers to the East India Company (back of title-page: printed by Plummer & Brewis), 1826-1827. 2 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half calf, rebacked with the original backstrips laid down. [8], XXVI, 503, [1], 16; [8], 642, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 15,000
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Australia China India & Sri Lanka Navigation Southeast Asia Southern Africa UAE - United Arab Emirates
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Updated edition of a massive directory providing essential information
for navigating in the Southern and Eastern hemispheres

HORSBURGH, James. The India directory, or, directions for sailing to and from the East Indies, China, Australia, and the interjacent ports of Africa and South America ... Seventh edition.
London, Wm. H. Allen & Co. (back of the title pages: printed by Cox and Wyman), 1855. 2 volumes. Large 4to (28 x 23 cm). Contemporary half calf, re-backed with the original backstrips laid down. XII, XXXIV, [2], “681” [= 683], [1 blank]; VIII, 978 pp. Full description
€ 18,000
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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
Caribbean Islands Economic History & Trade Geology Middle America Slavery
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Humboldt asks to borrow a map from the Paris Académie des Sciences

HUMBOLDT, Alexander von. [Autograph letter to Le Chevalier de Rossel, director of the Dépôt des Cartes of the Paris Académie des Sciences].
[Paris, 1818?]. 4to (23 x 18.5 cm) Letter in black ink on laid paper, in Humboldt's somewhat cramped but still legible hand. Formerly folded for posting, with the address written on the otherwise blank final page and with traces of a paper seal. [1], [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
Autographs & Letters Charts & Maps Latin America South America
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1970s Palestine support

[ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT]. [Collection of publications from organisations around the world who support Palestine, from the 1970s]
Beirut, Paris, and San Francisco, [various publishers], 1968-1975.
Comprising (in chronological order):
(1) LE COMITÉ D'INFORMATION DES FEMMES ARABES DES "AMIS DE JERUSALEM". Faits et réalités. Le problème Palestinien, No. 2, Avril 1968.
(2) THE LEBANESE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION ON PALESTINE. Facts. Today in the Middle East, No. 5, June-July 1974. Beirut, 1974.
(3) IDEM. Facts. Today in the Middle East, No. 6, August 1974. Beirut, 1974.
(4) IDEM. Facts. Today in the Middle East, No. 7, October 1974. Beirut, 1974.
(5) CALIFORNIA MIDDLE EAST PEACE COALITION. The Middle East peace organizer April 1975. San Francisco, 1975.
(6) IDEM. The Middle East peace organizer June 1975. San Francisco, 1975.
(7) IDEM. The Middle East peace organizer August 1975. San Francisco, 1975.
(8) IDEM. The Middle East peace organizer Sept. - Oct. 1975. San Francisco, 1975.
(9) EUROPEAN COORDINATING COMMITEE OF FRIENDSHIP WITH THE ARAB WORLD. Eurabia, no. 3, October 1975. Paris, 1975.
9 volumes (4 publications). All approximately A4-sized (ca. 28 x 22 cm). Original printed paper wrappers, stapled. Full description
€ 750
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