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Letter by famous Scottish explorer of the Korean coasts and parts of China

HALL, Basil. [Autograph letter, signed, to Aaron Louis Frédéric Regnault, Baron de la Susse].
Smyrna (Izmir, Turkey), 27 June 1842. 8vo (18 x 11 cm). Manuscript letter in English, in brown ink on one side of an 8vo double leaf. Signed at the foot by Basil Hall. [1], [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 850
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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
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Popular story of an East Indiaman wrecked off the coast of Bengal

HEYDEN (HEIDEN), Frans Jansz. van der. Vervarelyke schip-breuk van 't Oost-Indisch jacht Ter Schelling, onder het landt van Bengale; ... beneffens een bondige beschryving der Koningryken van Arrakan, Bengale, Martavan, Tanassery, ... Den vyfden druk doorgaens met platen verciert.
Harderwijk, Jan Rampen, 1722. 4to. With 18 woodcut illustrations plus 1 repeat. Modern half vellum. 96 pp. Full description
€ 2,250
Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia VOC
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Fine work illustrating the cities, ports, and factories of the Dutch East India Company in Asia and Africa

HEYDT, Johann Wolffgang. Allerneuester Geographisch und Topographischer Schau-Platz, von Africa und Ost-Indien.
Nuremberg, C. Tetschner, 1744. Oblong folio (31 x 36.5 cm). With 115 numbered engraved maps and plates, an engraved frontispiece, and an engraved title page. Contemporary vellum, with the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, red edges. [24], 345, [4] pp. Full description
€ 17,500
City Plans, Topography & Views India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Iran / Persia Southern Africa Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia VOC
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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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Massive navigational directory, with sections on the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea and the Gulf

HORSBURGH, James, Gerrit KUIJPER and D. BOES LUTJENS. Zeemans-gids, naar, in en uit Oost-Indiën, China, Japan, Australiën, de Kaap de Goede Hoop, Braziliën en tusschenliggende havens, volgens de vierde Engelsche uitgave van James Horsburgh, ...
Amsterdam, C.F. Stemler, (back of half-title: printed in Haarlem by H. Bakels), 1841. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine lettered in gold, marbled sides. I-XII, [2], XIII-XXIV, XXVIII, 1376 pp. Full description
€ 3,750
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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
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Australia Navigation New Zealand South America Southeast Asia Southern Africa Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages South America
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British military terrain map of the Persian Gulf, published in Calcutta

HUNTER, Frederic Fraser (editor); Sir Sidney Gerald BURRARD (director). Southern Asia series - Southern Persia sheet - Persia, Arabia and Turkey in Asia
[Dehradun, Survey of India Office], sold at the Map Record and Issue Office, Calcutta, 1912. 61.5 x 88 cm. Large photozincographed (heliozincographed) folding map on a scale of 1:2,000,000 in black, blue and red, with relief shown by contours, hachures and gradient tints. Folded. Full description
€ 15,000
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