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"One of the most influential maps of America ever made"

[TODESCHI, Pietro]. [Nova et accurata totius Americae tabula auct. G. I. Blaeu] America quarta pars orbis quam plerunq, nuvum orbem apellitant primo detecta est anno 1492 a Christophoro Columbo...
[Bologna, Giuseppe Longhi?, 1673]. Ca. 86 x 110 cm. A hand-coloured engraved wall map, printed on 4 joined sheets. Full description

€ 65,000

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Chinese botany and agriculture, North America, Linnaeus and Benjamin Franklin

TORÉN, Olof. Voyage de Mons. Olof Torée[,] Aumonier de la Compagnie Suedoise des Indes Orientales, fait à Surate, à la Chine &c.
Milan, Reycends brothers, 1771.
With:
(2) ECKEBERG, Carl Gustaf. Précis historique de l'économie rurale des Chinois.
Milan, Reycends brothers, 1771.
(3) BLACKFORD, Dominique de. Précis de l'état actuel des colonies Angloises dans l'Amérique Septentrionale.
Milan, Reycends brothers, 1771. 3 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary French mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. 92; [4], 47, [1 blank]; 99, [1] pp. Full description

€ 3,250

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First lavishly illustrated description of Chile with 10 lithographs and more than 200 engravings

TORNERO, Recaredo Santos. Chile ilustrado. Guia descriptivo del territorio de Chile de las capitales de provincia, de los puertos principales.
Valparaiso, Librerias i ajencias del Mercurio, 1872. 4to. Double-tinted lithographed frontispiece with portrait of president Frederico Errazuriz by Lasnier and printed by Lemercier, 9 double-tinted lithographs lithographed by Lasnier or F. Sorrieu and printed by Lemercier of some important Chilean people and buildings, and more than 200 engravings in the text: views, landscapes, building, natives, costumes, etc. Contemporary grained cloth. IX, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 495, [1] pp. Full description

€ 1,600

Chile City Plans, Topography & Views Latin America South America

Establishment of a colony at Port Phillips (Melbourne) and the foundation of Hobart

TUCKEY, James Hingston. Bericht von einer Reise nach Neu-Süd-Wallis um zu Port-Philipp in der Bass's Strasse eine Kolonie anzulegen. Gethan in dem Schiffe Kalkutta in den Jahren 1802, 1803 und 1804.
Weimar, Im Verlage des F.G. priv. Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs 1805. 8vo. Contemporary blue paper over boards. VI, 136 pp. Full description

€ 500

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One of the major 18th-century works on South America

ULLOA, Antonio de and Jorge JUAN SANTACILIA. Historische reisbeschryving van geheel Zuid-America; gedaan op bevel des konings van Spanje, door Don George Juan ... en door Don Antonio de Ulloa ...
Goes, Jacobus Huysman (colophon: printed in The Hague by Jacobus van Karnebeek), 1771-1772 (colophon volume 2: 1773). 2 volumes. Large 4to (ca. 28.5 x 22 cm). With both title-pages printed in red and black with engraved vignettes by H. Vinkeles, an engraved allegorical frontispiece by H. Vinkeles in volume 1, a head-piece above the dedication by J. Huysman after S. Fokke, 15 folding maps and plans (including a large map of the Pacific by J. van Jagen, dated 1771), 2 folding engraved plates, 8 full page engraved plates, and many head pieces built up from typographical ornaments and several woodcut tail pieces. Contemporary half sprinkled calf. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [4], XXIV, 428; [1], [1 blank], VIII, IV, 406, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 5,000

Latin America South America Travel & Voyages South America

First edition of Vadianus’ important description of the world, including the very rare map

VADIANUS, Joachim (Joachim von WATT). Epitome trium terrae partium, Asiae, Africae et Europae compendiariam locorum descriptionem continens ...
Zürich, Christoph Froschauer, 1534. Folio. With woodcut printer's device on title-page, numerous decorated woodcut initials and a double page woodcut world map "Typus cosmographus universalis" after Sebastian Münster. Modern calf. [44], 273, [1] pp. Full description

€ 38,500

Charts & Maps Early Printing - 16th century Iran / Persia Latin America Middle America South America USA - United States of America

"This work ranks with the voyages of Cook and La Pérouse among the most important of the 18th and 19th centuries"

VANCOUVER, George. Reisen nach dem nördlichem[!] Theile der Südsee während der Jahre 1790 bis 1795. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen begleitet von Joh. Friedr. Wilh. Herbst.
Berlin, (colophon: printed by Johann Wilhelm Schmidt) for the Vossische Buchhandlung, 1799-1800. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a large folding engraved map (52 x 42 cm) by Ferdinand Sprögel (Berlin, 1800) of the northwest coast of America, and 2 folding aquatints. Contemporary half calf. [2], 386; VIII, 406 pp. Full description

€ 2,950

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One of the earliest works on California

VÉNEGAS, Miguél and Andrés Marcos BURRIEL. Histoire naturelle et civile de la Californie, contenant une description exacte de ce pays, de son sol, de ses montagnes, lacs, rivières & mers, de ses animaux, végétaux, minéraux, & de sa fameuse pêcherie des perles; les moeurs de ses habitans, leur religion, leur gouvernement, & leur façon de vivre avant leur conversion au Christianisme; un detail des différens voyages, & tentatives qu'on a faites pour s'y établir, & reconnoître son Golfe & la côte de la Mer du Sud.
Paris, Durand, 1767. 3 volumes. 8vo. With a folding engraved map of California. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spines, gold-tooled binding edges. [2], XXIV, 360; VIII, 375; VIII, 354, [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,400

Faunas & General Zoology North America Travel & Voyages North America

Early photographic facsimile of Amerigo Vespucci's report, one of 10 copies printed on vellum

VESPUCCI, Amerigo. Be [! = De] ora Antarctica per regem Portugallie pridem inventa.
[Paris, Tross, 1872]. Facsimile of the 1505 edition with 1 diagram constructed from rules and type. Printed on vellum. Wrapper made from 18th-century French marbled paper backed with (and the book interleaved with) 19th-century wove paper. [11], [1 blank] pp. plus interleaving. Full description

€ 4,500

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Horrifying account of a shipwreck, bound together with the travels of Pierre Poivre

VIAUD, Pierre (and Jean Garpard DUBOIS-FONTANELLE). Naufrage et aventures de M. Pierre Viaud; natif de Rochefort, capitaine de navire.
Bordeaux, the Labottiere brothers; Paris, Lejay, 1780.
With: (2) [POIVRE, Pierre]. Voyage d'un philosophe, ou observations sur les moers & les arts des peuples de l'Afrique, de l'Asie et de l'Amerique.
Yverdon, 1768. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled tree calf, richly gold-tooled spine; very subtly rebacked, preserving original backstrip. XXIV, 307, [4], [1 blank]; 140, [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,950

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