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Rare Dutch translation of a work on Spanish America, with 4 maps

CAMPBELL, John. De tegenwoordige staat der volken van het Spaansche ryk in Amerika, met een byzonder verhaal, van den koophandel uit Oud-Spanje, met de galjoenen, flota, &c.; en van den verboden handel der Hollanders, Engelschen, Franschen, Deenen en Portugezen, in de West-Indiën.
Amsterdam, Bernardus Mourik, [ca. 1745 or ca. 1748]. 8vo. With 4 folding engraved maps, showing the city and harbours of Veracruz, Havana, Portobelo and Cartagena. Contemporary red half sheepskin (roan). [8], 328 pp. Full description
€ 1,200
Argentina Caribbean Islands Charts & Maps Chile City Plans, Topography & Views Economic History & Trade Latin America Mexico Middle America North America South America USA - United States of America
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Magnificent plates of one of Amsterdam's most important monuments

[CAMPEN, Jacob van, Hubert QUELLINUS and Jacob VENNEKOOL]. Architecture peinture et sculpture de la maison de ville d'Amsterdam, representée en CIX. Figures en taille-douce.
Amsterdam, David Mortier, 1719. Royal folio. With a title-page in red and black with an engraved device (a portrait of Erasmus in an elaborate cartouche with allegorical figures), and 124 engraved architectural and sculptural illustrations on 109 numbered plates (6 double-page, 103 full-page).
Contemporary quarter brown sheepskin. 22 pp. + 109 plates Full description
€ 1,950
Amsterdam Architecture Australia Charts & Maps Prints & Print Series Travel & Voyages Australia
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Winds and the weather in the coast of India and the Arabian and Persian Gulf:
first edition of a rare meteorological work

CAPPER, James. Observations on the winds and monsoons; illustrated with a chart and accompanied with notes, geographical and meteorological.
London, Charles Whittingham, 1801 4to. With 1 folding engraved map of the world depicting all the world-wide seas and waters and several tables printed within the text. Later half calf. XXVIII, 29-234 pp. Full description
€ 2,950
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Iran / Persia Mediterranean Regions Navigation North Africa Science West Asia
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Geographical description/atlas of the old world, including the Middle East.
With 33 maps and bound in well-preserved, gold-tooled contemporary calf

CELLARIUS, Christoph. Notitia orbis antiqui, sive geographia plenior, ab ortu rerumpublicarum ad constantinorum tempora orbis terrarium faciem declarans. ... et novis tabulis geographicis ... illustravit.
(Volume 1:) Cambridge, John Owen, 1703; (volume 2:) Amsterdam, Caspar Fritsch, 1706. 2 volumes. 4to. With engraved author's portrait, 33 engraved double-page maps and 1 engraved double-page plate. Contemporary calf, richly gold tooled spines and binding edges, double gilt fillets on sides. [16], 862, [38]; [12], 544; 166, [38] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Charts & Maps Geography Mediterranean Regions
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A rare pocket atlas for officers and travellers, with 25 maps

[ATLAS - EUROPE]. CLEYNHENS, Bernardus. Accuraat geografisch kaart-boekje of zak-atlas van het keyzerryk en geheel Duytsland, de Oostenrykse Nederlanden, ...
Haarlem, Bernardus Cleynhens, [ca. 1747?]. Small 8vo (16 x 10 cm). With 25 double-page engraved maps (2 overview maps), and an engraved plate with 8 scales, all hand-coloured, partly in outline. Half textured red cloth (ca. 1860?). 40, 23, [1 blank] pp. plus maps and plate of scales. Full description
€ 5,000
Atlases & Globes Austria Belgium Central Europe Charts & Maps France Germany Military History (18th Century) Netherlands Poland & Baltic
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Cross-cultural navigation: Turkish-inscribed maritime pilot

COLOM, Jacob Aertsz. [Description de la mer méditerranée].
[Amsterdam, ca. 1670]. Folio (29 x 45 cm). With 9 double-page engraved charts only, each sheet ca. 44 × 55 cm, each mounted on stiff paper with maps back-to-back, with thick red and black ink borderlines. 8 of 9 maps are by Colom, numbered 2-9 in the plates from; plate 1 has been replaced with Johannes de Rams map of the Mediterranean: "Paskaart vande Middelandsche Zee In twee deelen vertoont". Contemporary stiff paper wrappers, with a manuscript label pasted upside down on the back wrapper, reading: "Carta Marinaresca del Mar Mediterraneo". Full description
€ 25,000
Arabic Printing & Calligraphy Atlases & Globes Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus
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Fascinating and thrilling account of the land survey work in Palestine in the 1870s.

CONDER, Claude Reignier. Tent work in Palestine. A record of discovery and adventure.
London, Richard Bentley & Son, New Burlington Street, 1879, 2 vols., Many half- and some full-page Illustrations and maps throughout. Contemporary green morocco, with gold-tooling to boards and spine. XXVI, 381, [1]; VII, 352 pp. Full description
€ 500
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Charts & Maps Geography
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Only Portuguese edition of Crasset's history of the Jesuits in Japan, the only edition with a map of Japan

CRASSET, Jean and Maria Antonia de Saõ Boaventura MENEZES (translator). Historia da Igreja do Japaõ, . . .
Lisbon, Manoel da Sylva (vols. 1-2), Manoel Soares (vol. 3), 1749-1751. 3 volumes. 4to. With 5 folding engraved plates, 1 folding engraved map of Japan (28×42 cm) and 1 engraved illustration in the text. Contemporary tanned sheepkin, gold-tooled spines. Full description
€ 9,000
Charts & Maps Church History & Missions Japan & Far East Jesuits
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