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Rare follow-up to a curious account of the daily life of a French salesman in South America

GENDRIN, Victor-Athanase. Récits historiques, exacts et sincères, des sept voyages par mer & par terre. Faits au Brésil, au Cap-Horn, au Chili, aux Cordillères des Andes, à Mendoza, dans le Désert et à Buénos-Ayres ... Extrait de la publication de 1856.
Versailles, Gendrin (colophon: imprimerie Cerf), 1860. 8vo. With lithographed portrait of the author as frontispiece, 36 (32 numbered followed by 4 unnumbered) pages with lithographed reproductions of letters, and 9 lithographed plates. Contemporary cloth. 24, [4], 32, [4] pp. Full description
€ 2,450
Brazil Economic History & Trade Latin America South America Travel & Voyages South America
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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
Caribbean Islands Latin America Middle America South America Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages South America West Indies
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The deterioration and restoration of Russo-Japanese relations 1811-1813

GOLOVNIN, Vasilii Mikhailovich. Memoirs of a captivity in Japan, during the years 1811, 1812, and 1813; with observations on the country and the people ... second edition.
Including:
-RIKORD, Petr Ivanovich. Account of voyages to the coasts of Japan; and of negotiations with the Japanese, for the release of Captain Golownin and his companions.
-Account of the voyages of Messrs. Chwostoff & Dawidoff.
London, Henry Colburn & Co., 1824. 3 volumes. 8vo. With an additional facsimile map, copied from the French edition of 1818, inserted in volume 2. Modern red cloth. IV, 315, [1 blank]; [2], 356, [2]; VIII, LXXXIX, [1 blank], 302 pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Alaska Circumnavigation Eastern Europe Japan & Far East Law & Politics Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific
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Goos' West-Indische paskaert in its very rare first state: a monumental nautical chart of the Atlantic Ocean in Mercator projection on vellum, used by the Dutch West Indian Company (WIC)

GOOS, Pieter. West-Indische Paskaert waer in de graden der breedde over wederzijden van de middellijn wassende so vergrooten dat die geproportioneert sijn tegen hunne nevenstaende graden de lengde. Vertonende behalve[n] Europaes zuydelijcste alle de zeekusten van Africa en America begrepen in 't Octroy bij de H.M.H. Staten Generael der vereenichde Nederl. verleent aende Generale West Indische Compagnie. Mitsgaders die van Peru en Chili inde groote Zuyd-Zee.
Amsterdam, Pieter Goos, [ca. 1660]. Printed on vellum (ca. 80 x 98 cm) from one large copperplate engraving, partly coloured by a contemporary hand. Full description
€ 185,000
Charts & Maps Latin America Middle America Navigation North America South America WIC West Africa
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One of the best 18th-century collections of travels and descriptions of various parts of the world,
with the fine Bowen maps

HARRIS, John. Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca. Or, a complete collection of voyages and travels. Consisting of above six hundred of the most authentic writers, beginning with Hackluit, Purchass, &c. in English Ramusio, Alamandini, Carreri, &c. in Italian ... Together with such other histories, voyages, travels, of discoveries, as are in general esteem; ... containing whatever has been observed worthy of notice in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America ...
London, Printed for T. Woodward, A. Ward, S. Bird (and 12 others), 1744-48. 2 volumes. Large folio (41 x 25 cm). With the title-pages printed in red and black, 22 maps (16 folding, 6 full-page), 2 full-page plans, 37 full-page plates, and numerous decorated woodcut initials and head- and tail pieces. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled brown calf, richly gold-tooled spines with red morocco title labels lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges, red edges. [12], XVI, [4], 984; [10], 1056, [10] pp. Full description
€ 20,000
Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Australia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific Travel & Voyages South America
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Beautiful album of 12 tinted lithographic views of Argentina and Uruguay

HASTREL, Adolphe d'. Album de la plata.
Paris, Gihau(l)t frères (printed by Auguste Bry, Lemercier and Thierry), [1846]. 1mo (55 x 38 cm). 12 tinted lithographs (22 x 35 cm), depicting views in and around Montevideo, Buenos Aires, etc. Mid-19th-century binding, rebacked in green morocco. 12 lithographed plates. Full description
€ 30,000
Anthropology & Ethnography Argentina City Plans, Topography & Views Latin America Prints & Print Series South America
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Hearne's expedition to the Arctic in a rare Dutch edition

HEARNE, Samuel and Johann Reinhold FORSTER (editor). Landreis van 't Prins van Wallis Fort aan Hudson Baai, naar den Noorder-Oceaan.
The Hague, J.C. Leeuwenstijn, 1798. 2 volumes. 8vo. With folding map, hand-coloured in outline (41.5×50.5 cm), a folding map of the Coppermine River, and 2 folding views, all engraved and etched. Contemporary half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. 16, 247, [1 blank]; [4], 289, [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Arctic & Antarctic Canada & Greenland Charts & Maps North America Travel & Voyages North America USA - United States of America
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Including the first illustration of Niagara Falls and first engraving of an American bison

HENNEPIN, Louis. Nouvelle decouverte d'un tres grand pays situé dans l'Amerique, entre le Nouveau Mexique, et la mer glaciale.
Amsterdam, Abraham van Someren, 1698. 12mo. With engraved frontispiece by Caspar Luyken, 2 folding engraved maps and 2 folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. [72], 1-312, [10], 313-506 pp. Full description
€ 8,000
Canada & Greenland Charts & Maps Latin America Middle America North America South America Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages South America
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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
Caribbean Islands Charts & Maps Middle America
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