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First and only edition of a radical political pamphlet built around an imaginary voyage.
A spin-off from Neville's 1668 "Isle of Pines"

[IMAGINARY VOYAGE]. Verhael van den wonderlijken oproer, voorgevallen in de provincie van Mallanbruino, gelegen een graed bezuiden het eyland Pines: ende hoe de zelve is gestilt. t'Samenspraek tusschen drie persoonen te wacht zijnde, Arent, Gijsbert, Dirck.
[Holland?], 1672. 4to. Later blue/grey paper wrappers. 8 pp. Full description

€ 6,850

Imaginary Voyages & Utopias Law & Politics Netherlands Pacific Islands

The main source of early knowledge of the Pelew or Palau Islands in Micronesia, in Dutch translation

KEATE, George. Beschryving van de Pelew Eilanden ...
Rotterdam, Gerard Abraham Arrenberg, 1789. 4to. With 8 plates: 4 mixed technique (partly stipple-engraved) portraits, 1 large folding engraved map of the Palau Islands and western equatorial Pacific, and 3 folding engraved views. Contemporary boards. XXXII, 365, [1] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Charts & Maps China Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Pacific Islands Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages Pacific

World atlas including one 6-sheet and eleven 4-sheet wall maps

KITCHIN, Thomas and others. Kitchin's general atlas, describing the whole universe.
London, Robert Laurie, James Whittle, 1808. Imperial folio (53 x 39.5 cm). With 28 engraved maps (numbered in 41 parts) assembled from 67 sheets. Most include elaborate cartouches with pictorial decoration. With the maps coloured in outline. Contemporary half calf. 1 leaf plus maps. Full description

€ 18,000

Atlases & Globes Charts & Maps USA - United States of America World Atlases & Maps

The original and best edition of an important circumnavigation and Russian expedition
to the Bering Strait during the years 1815-1818

KOTZEBUE, Otto von. Entdeckungs-Reise in die Süd-See und nach der Berings-Strasse zur Erforschung einer nordöstlichen Durchfahrt. Unternommen in den Jahren 1815, 1816, 1817 und 1818, auf Kosten Sr. Erlaucht des Herren Reichs-Kanzlers Grafen Rumanzoff auf dem Schiffe Rurick unter dem Befehle des Lieutenants der Russisch-Kaiserlichen Marine Otto von Kotzebue.
Weimar, Hoffmann Brothers, 1821. 3 parts in 1 volume. Large 4to. With 6 engraved maps, 4 folding double-page etched aquatints by Paul Anton Skerl and Carl Ermer after Ludwig Choris, 4 hand coloured full-page engraved portraits of indigenous men and women (of which 3 facing the title-pages of the 3 parts), 11 hand coloured full-page engraved plates (numbered I-XI in the plate) of butterflies by Carl Ermer after Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz, 1 full-page engraved plate of skulls, 2 folding printed tables, and several tables and schemes in the text. With a divisional title-page for parts 2 and 3. Contemporary half marbled leather. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 91, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [93]-168 pp.; 176 pp.; [1], [1 blank], "240" [= 241], [4], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], XVIII pp. Full description

€ 18,500

Alaska Arctic & Antarctic Circumnavigation North America Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific Travel & Voyages South America

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, a hand-coloured engraved plate and an engraved folding map; volume 2 with an engraved title page, 3 hand-coloured engraved portraits, 2 engraved folding plates and 4 engraved folding maps, including one large map; volume 3 with an engraved title page, an engraved folding map, 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

Dutch translation of Kotzebue's second voyage in the Pacific

KOTZEBUE, Otto von. Nieuwe ontdekkingsreize rondom de wereld, in de jaren 1823, 24, 25 en 26 ondernomen door den ridder Otto von Kotzebue, scheepsbevelhebber in Russisch-Keizerlijke dienst.
Haarlem, widow of Adriaan Loosjes, 1830. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a lithographed frontispiece in each volume, and 3 folding engraved maps. Contemporary half cloth. VII, [1], 254; [6], 274 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Eastern Europe Hawaii North America Pacific Islands Philippines Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific

The first Russian circumnavigation

KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann Crusius von. Voyage autour du monde, fait dans les années 1803, 1804, 1805 et 1806, par les ordres de Sa Majesté Impériale Alexandre Ier, empereur de Russie, sur les vaisseaux la Nadiejeda et la Neva, commandés par M. de Krusenstern, capitaine de vaisseau de la marine impériale.
Paris, Librairie de Gide et Fils, 1821. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas. 8vo and folio atlas. With 30 engraved plates (21 views and portraits, 9 maps and charts, of which 3 folding). Contemporary blind-tooled dark green goatskin, with a dark green morocco title label and a dark green morocco volume label on the spine, dark green buckram sides, marbled end papers. The atlas in contemporary gold- and blind-tooled dark green quarter goatskin, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, blue green cloth sides, marbled end papers. XII, 418, [2 blank]; [2 blank], [4], 531, [1 blank]; [4] pp. + 30 plates. Full description

€ 40,000

Alaska Circumnavigation North America Pacific Islands Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific

A classic of travel literature: the expedition to Australia and surrounding islands
in search of La Pérouse, with the 14 botanical illustrations drawn by Redouté

LA BILLARDIERE, Jacques Julien Houtoe de. Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse, fait par ordre de l'Assemblée constituante, pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere. et la 2e. année de la république Françoise.
Paris, Hendrik J. Jansen, An VIII [= 1799/1800]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With extensive tables at the end giving daily data from the ship's log and vocabulary lists for various indigenous languages. Contemporary half calf, marbled endpapers, red edges.
With: (2) Atlas pour server à la Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse ...
Paris, F. Schoell, 1811. Large folio (51 x 34.5 cm). With an engraved title-page, a large folding map (50 x 73 cm) showing the route taken by the expedition. Also with 43 further plates (ca. 45 x 30 cm), Contemporary half tan sheepskin, "maroquin" chemical-marbled sides. XVI, 440; 332, 109, [3] pp.; [1], 44 engraved ll. Full description

€ 10,000

Australia Expeditions & General Natural History Faunas & General Zoology Travel & Voyages Australia Travel & Voyages Pacific

First edition of Labillardière's famous voyage in search of La Pérouse, with 44 plates, including 14 after Redouté

LABILLARDIÈRE, Jacques Julien Houton de. Relation du voyage a la recherche de la Pérouse.
Including: Atlas pour servir à la Relation du voyage à la recherche de la Pérouse, ...
Paris, H.J. Jansen, An VIII [= 1799/1800]. 3 volumes. 4to (2 text volumes) and folio (atlas). Atlas with engraved title-page, large folding map (59 x 86.5 cm) and 43 full-page engraved plates (numbered 2-44), including 14 botanical plates drawn or completed by Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Modern mottled half calf. XVI, 442; 332, 113, [1] pp. Full description

€ 12,500

Australia Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Pacific Islands Southern Africa Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Australia Travel & Voyages Pacific

Important scientific and trade voyage around the world

LAPLACE, Cyrille Pierre Théodore. Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de Chine ... exécuté sur la corvette de l'état La Favorite pendant les années 1830, 1831 et 1832.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale (views volume: Arthus Bertrand; map volume: Dépôt-Générale de la Marine), 1833-1835. 4 text volumes (8vo), 1 views volume (folio) and 1 atlas volume (1mo, 66 x 51 cm). With 1 folding engraved map in the first text volume, 2 full-page maps and 10 maps on 9 double-page plates in the "atlas hydrographique", and 72 extraordinary aquatint plates (ca. 27 x 36 cm) in the "album historique", most of them with the blind-stamped image of the ship La Favorite (15 x 28 mm). Contemporary half dark green calf, gold-tooled spines. [4], XLI, 558, [2]; [4], 481, [1]; [4], 510, [2]; [4], 480; [4] pp. Full description

€ 69,500

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