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Important account of a journey through North America

KALM, Peter. Travels into North America.
London, T. Lowndes, 1772. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a large folding map (ca. 57×76.5 cm) of northeastern America depicting New England, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, and parts of Virginia and Canada; an engraved view, and 5 plates of birds and mammals. Polished, tan calf (ca. 1800), with gold-tooled spine and board edges. [2], XII, 414; IV, 423, [8]. Full description
€ 1,750
Birds - Ornithology Canada & Greenland Charts & Maps North America Travel & Voyages North America USA - United States of America
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Very rare first and only Dutch edition of Kotzebue's account of his first major expedition in search of a northwest passage

KOTZEBUE, Otto von (Pieter Gerardus WITSEN GEYSBEEK, translator). Ontdekkingsreis in de Zuid-zee en naar de Bering-straat in de jaren 1815, 1816, 1817 en 1818, onder het bevel van Otto von Kotzebue, luitenant der Russisch-keizerlijke marine.
Amsterdam, Johannes van der Hey, 1822. 3 volumes. 8vo. Volume 1 with an engraved title-page showing a view of the Kotzebue-sound engraved by D. Veelwaard after L. Choris, a hand-coloured engraved plate and an engraved folding map; volume 2 with an engraved title-page showing a view of Airick Island by Veelwaard after Choris, 3 hand-coloured engraved portraits, 2 engraved folding plates and 4 engraved folding maps, including one large map showing the route of the entire voyage; volume 3 with an engraved title-page showing a hand-coloured "Vanessa Tammeamea" butterfly by Veelwaard after Eschbach, an engraved folding map signed by C. v. Baarsel and son, and an engraved folding plate showing skulls. Half brown calf and brown decorated paper sides, with gold- and blind-tooled spines. VIII, 428, [2 blank], [1], [1 blank]; IV, 413, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank]; VIII, 492, [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
Arctic & Antarctic Latin America Middle America North America Pacific Islands South America Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific Travel & Voyages South America
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Rare enlarged second edition of De Laet's important account of the Americas, with 14 maps

LAET, Johannes de. Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien ... Tweede druck.
Leiden, Elzevier, 1630. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, 14 folding engraved maps, and many text illustrations. Contemporary vellum. [28], 622, [17, 1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 25,000
Brazil Canada & Greenland Charts & Maps Chile Latin America Mexico Middle America North America Peru South America Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages South America USA - United States of America WIC West Indies
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Illustrated ethnographic description of the Iroquois in Canada

LAFITEAU, Joseph-François. De zeden der wilden van Amerika. Zynde een nieuwe uitvoerige en zeer kurieuse beschryving van derzelver oorsprong, godsdienst, manier van oorlogen, huwelyken, opvoeding, oeffeningen, feesten, danzeryen, begravenissen, en andere zeldzame gewoonten.
The Hague, Gerard vander Poel, 1731. 2 volumes bound as 1. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, engraved map of North and South America and 41 engraved plates. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine. [6], 36, [18], 300; [4], 301-555 [= 560] pp. Full description
€ 3,750
Canada & Greenland Jesuits North America USA - United States of America
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First Dutch translation of voyages in search of a Northwest Passage by Munk, Frobisher and Lindenau, illustrated by Van Sichem

[LA PEYRÈRE, Isaac de]. [MUNK, FROBISHER and LINDENAU]. Drie voyagien gedaen na Groenlandt, om te ondersoecken of men door de Naeuwte Hudson soude konnen seylen; om alsoo een doorvaert na Oost-Indien te vinden...
Amsterdam, Gillis Joosten Saeghman, [ca. 1665]. 4to. With woodcut vignette on title-page, 16 further woodcuts on integral leaves and a woodcut ship in a cartouche, woodcut decorated initials, and decorative bands built up from cast fleurons. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. Late 19th-century vellum, spine with title stamped in black. 32 pp. Full description
€ 28,500
Arctic & Antarctic Canada & Greenland Fishery & Whaling
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Italian edition of Martens's important account of a whaling voyage

MARTENS, Friedrich. Viaggio di Spizberga o' Gronlanda fatto da Federico Martens Amburghese l' anno 1671...
Bologna, Giacomo Monti, 1680. 12mo. With 2 folding engraved plates and 3 woodcut illustrations. Contemporary limp parchment. 264 pp. Full description
€ 6,500
Arctic & Antarctic Canada & Greenland Faunas & General Zoology Fishery & Whaling Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages North America
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On the conduct of the Hudson's Bay Company, inscribed by the author

MARTIN, Robert Montgomery. The Hudson's Bay territories and Vancouver's island, with an exposition of the chartered rights, conduct, and policy of the Honorable Hudson's Bay Corporation.
London, T. Brettell for T. and W. Boone, 1849. 8vo. With a large folding lithographed map by James Wild, hand-coloured in outline, and a woodengraving of an "Indian village at the Red River settlement". Original publisher's blind-blocked brown cloth. VII, 175 pp. [added: [26] pp.]. Full description
€ 950
Canada & Greenland Economic History & Trade USA - United States of America
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A Swedish edition of John Meares's voyages to the North Pacific, China and Hawaii

MEARES, John. Tvänne resor från Ostindien till Americas nordvåstra kust, åren 1786, 1788 och 1789.
Stockholm, printed by J.S. Ekmanson for I. Utters, 1797. 8vo. 19th-century half scheepskin, gold-tooled spine with red morocco title label, marbled sides. [12], 404 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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On French-English relations and hostilities early in the French and Indian War:
rare 4to edition with a false Paris imprint

[MOREAU, Jacob-Nicolas]. Lettres d'un François a un Hollandois au sujet des differends survenus entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne, touchant leurs possessions respectives dans l'Amerique Septentrionale.
"Paris" [The Netherlands?], "P. La Rive", 1755. 4to. Early 20th-century half cloth, with the original marbled wrappers bound in. 90 pp. Full description
€ 4,000
Canada & Greenland France Law & Politics Military History (18th Century) North America UK - United Kingdom
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Oil painting of ships in search of a Northwest Passage in 1845/46

[NORTHWEST PASSAGE - PAINTING]. [The ships Erebus and Terror in the Arctic].
[England?, ca. 1850?]. Oil painting on canvas (65.5 x 91 cm), showing 2 ships in a rough sea amid dangerous rocks and ice. Later mounted on another canvas and stretched over a wooden frame, with a handwritten note about the painting pasted on the back. Full description
€ 9,500
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