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Novena prayerbook associated with the 1714 image of Christ as patron of La Paz, Bolivia

[PRAYERBOOK - SPANISH AMERICAN]. Novena del Señor de las piedades patron jurado de la valerosa ciudad de La Paz, que se venera en la iglesia auxîliar de los curas rectores, al cuidado del Colegio Seminario de ella. Reimpresa á solicitud de su humilde mayor domo Estavan de Asin.
Buenos Aires, Real Imprenta de Niños Expósitos, 1798. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). Modern red sheepskin. 24 pp. Full description
€ 4,000
Argentina Book of Hours, Missals & Prayerbooks Latin America South America
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One of the greatest of English travel books: the first edition of the "Pilgrimes"
together with the fourth and best edition of the "Pilgrimage" - with many extra plates

PURCHAS, Samuel. Purchas his pilgrimes. In five bookes. ...
London, printed by William Stansby for Henry Featherstone, 1625.
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(2) PURCHAS, Samuel. Purchas his pilgrimage ...
London, printed by William Stansby for Henry Featherstone, 1626.
2 works in 5 volumes, the first in 5 parts, 4 volumes and the second in 4 parts, 1 volume. Folio. Ad 1 with the engraved frontispiece, 5 folding engraved maps, 58 half-page engraved maps by Hondius, 2 full-page engraved plates (including 1 folding), 5 half-page engraved plates, and numerous woodcut illustrations. Further extra illustrated with 94 engravings taken from various late 16th- or early 17th-century travelogues: 1 engraved frontispiece, 1 title-page (with an engraved world map on recto and an engraved portrait of Jacob le Maire on verso), and 92 engraved maps or plates (including 48 half-page and 18 folding). Ad 2 with 1 folding engraved map of China, 1 half-page engraved illustration, and 23 half-page engraved maps by Hondius in the text. Uniform 19th-century black tooled brown morocco (by Hatton, Manchester), spines lettered in gold, gold-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Full description
€ 125,000
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Extremely rare work on the sailing routes in the Caribbean

PURDY, John. The new sailing directory for the Caribbee or West-India Islands, from Porto-Rico to Trinidad, inclusive: with the coasts of Guyana, from the Maranon to the Orinoco, the Colombian or Leeward Isles, from Margarita to Curazao, and the coast of Venezuela, from the Gulf of Paria to La Guayra. Including descriptions of the navigation described in the work, and equally adapted to the particular plans of all the principal harbours, by which the general chart is accompanied.
London, printed [by J. Rider] for R.H. Laurie, chart-seller of the Admiralty, 1839. 8vo. With 12 steel-engraved coastal profiles. Contemporary half black cloth, marbled sides. [6], 184 pp. Full description
€ 1,950
Caribbean Islands Latin America Navigation South America
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Essential information for navigating the coasts of Africa, South America and the islands
in the expansive South Atlantic Ocean

PURDY, John (Alexander George FINDLAY ed.). The new sailing directory for the Ethiopic or Southern Atlantic Ocean; including the coasts of Brasil, etc., to the Rio de La Plata, the Coast Thence to Cape Horn, and the African Coast to the Cape of Good Hope, etc.; including the islands between the two coasts.
London, printed for R.H. Laurie by J. Rider, 1844. 8vo. With Lauries RHL device on the title-page, and 32 small images in the text, mostly coastal profiles. The title-page includes some lines in sans-serif capitals. Half cloth. XLIV, 472 pp. Full description
€ 1,950
Brazil Latin America Navigation South America
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Racine's famous play, for the first time in Portuguese

RACINE, Jean and Antonio José de Lima LEITÃO (translator). Iphigénia tragédia de João Racine. Traduzida em verso portuguez, e offerecida como uma prova da mais sincera gratidão.
Rio de Janeiro, Impressão règia, 1816. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Contemporary blue-grey wrappers. [8], 53, [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
Brazil French Literature Greek & Roman Classics Literature Music, Theatre & Dance Portugal
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Portoviejo joins Bolivár’s Gran Colombia

[RAMÍREZ Y FITA, Cayetano?]. Exposicion que hase [sic] el Canton provincia de Porto-viejo, de los motivos legales y políticos que há tenido para declararse unanimente incorporada a la Republica de Colombia segun la ley fundamental del estado dictada por el Congreso general, y sancionada por el voto de los pueblos.
Lima, San Jacinto, [1822]. 4to. Side stitched. 22, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 8,500
Latin America Law & Politics South America
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Radical critique of European overseas expansion in 10 volumes. Extremely rare second Dutch edition

RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas François. Wysgeerige en staatkundige geschiedenis van de bezittingen en den koophandel der Europeaanen, in de beide Indiën.
Amsterdam, Matthijs Schalekamp, 1792-1803. 10 volumes bound as 9. 8vo. With 2 different engraved author's portraits, 8 engraved plates (5 as frontispieces), 12 engraved folding maps and 23 letterpress folding tables. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. VI, [4], 469, [19]; [8], 533, [1 blank], 11, [1 blank]; [8], 508, [11], [1 blank]; [8], 427, [9], [2 blank]; [8], 365, [9]; [8], 426, [10]; [10], 501, [7]; [8], 458, [11], [1 blank]; [8], 339, [10], [1 blank]; [4], 432, [13], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Brazil Charts & Maps Economic History & Trade India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Iran / Persia Latin America Law & Politics Middle America North America South America Southeast Asia USA - United States of America
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German textbook on zoology, printed in Pottsville, Pennsylvania

REUBELT, John Adam. Kurzgefaßtes Handbuch der Naturgeschichte. Enthaltend wissenschaftliche und populäre Beschreibungen von dem Menschen, den Säugethieren, Vögeln, Amphibien, Fischen, Weich- und Gliederthieren.
Pottsville [Pennsylvania], C.W. Günther and the author, 1848. 8vo. With numerous woodcuts in text, depicting men and animals. Contemporary black half sheepskin. 392 pp. Full description
€ 375
Amphibians & Reptiles Birds - Ornithology Faunas & General Zoology Mammals North America School & Textbooks
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