Cartography & Exploration / Geography, Topography & Views

[STOOPENDAAL, Daniël and Andries de LETH]. De zegepraalende Vecht, vertoonende verscheidene gesichten van lustplaatsen, heeren huysen en dorpen; beginnende van Uitrecht en met Muyden besluytende.
Including: [BRUIN, Claas]. Speelreis langs de Vechtstroom, op de uitgegeevenen gezichten van de zeegepraalende Vecht.
Amsterdam, Widow of Nicolaus Visscher, 1719. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, 1 engraved map of the river Vecht and 102 engravings on 51 leaves (numbered 1-98). Contemporary red half sheepskin. [2], 16, 37, [1 blank] pp Full description

TAYLOR, Ellen M. Madeira: Its scenery and how to see it. With letters of a year's residence, and lists of the trees, flowers, ferns, and seaweeds.
London, Edward Stanford, 1882. 8vo. With a wood-engraved frontispiece, a lithographed folding map of the island of Madeira and a lithographed folding plan of the city of Funchal. Also with a publisher's advertisement at the end with "books useful for visitors to Madeira" from the publisher Trübner and Co., London. Original publisher's black- and gold-blocked green cloth. XVI, 261, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

THÜMMEL, Hans Wilhelm von. Historische, statistische, geographische und topographische Beiträge zur kenntniss des herzogthums Altenburg.
Altenburg, 1818. Folio. With 38 hand-coloured engraved portraits (a few with signatures of the subjects), 1 uncoloured engraved portrait, engraved map of the area by L. Michaelis after A. Krehan, small engraved map in text showing the districts Paditz and Kotteritz, and 1 engraved text. Contemporary boards. 3-112, 8, [4] pp. Full description

TIMKOWSKI, Egor Fedorovitch. Voyage à Peking, à travers la Mongolie en 1820 et 1821.
Paris, Dondey-Dupré père et Fils, 1827. 2 text volumes (8vo) and one atlas volume (folio). With lithographed title-page, 3 lithographed maps and plans, 8 lithographed plates with copies after Chinese and other drawings. Text volumes in contemporary half calf and atlas in original brown wrappers. [8], XII, 480; [4], 459; 32 pp. Full description

VELDE, Charles William Meredith van de. Gezigten uit Neêrlands Indië, naar de natuur geteekend en beschreven.
Amsterdam, Frans Buffa en Zonen (printed by C.A. Spin), [1844-45]. Large folio (52 x 35 cm). With woodengraved view of the Palace at Buitenzorg on title, signed by P. Lauters and W. Brown, and 50 full-page lithographed views and plates (ca. 22 x 31 cm) by P. Lauters after the designs by the author. Contemporary green half morocco. [8], 87, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[VIEW - NETHERLANDS - AMSTERDAM]. BAST, Pieter. Amstelredam.
[Antwerp], Pieter Bast, 1599. Large engraved panorama on 2 sheets (ca. 27 x 76 cm as assembled). Framed. Full description

[VIEW - NETHERLANDS - AMSTERDAM]. OTTENS, Reinier and Josua OTTENS. Amsterdam.
[Amsterdam], Reinier and Josua Ottens, [ca. 1730]. Large engraved panorama on 4 sheets (ca. 42 x 218 cm as assembled). With title in banner at top centre, arms of the city at top right, city seal at top left and the primary locations with captions. Mounted and framed. Full description

[VODDIGEL, Jan Simon & Ferdinand Karl KLIMSCH]. [Album von Wiesbaden].
Wiesbaden, C.W. Kreidel, [1852]. Small oblong folio (30 x 23 cm). Suite of 10 steel-engraved views, all finely hand-coloured and highlighted with gum arabic, tipped onto thick brown leaves with printed decorative borders and captions. Contemporary decorated red cloth, gold-tooled spine, new endpapers. [10] engraved views. Full description

VRIES, Klaas de; Evert FLORYN (editor); S. HOLLANDER (compiler). Schat-kamer of kunst der stuurlieden, inhoudende: een duidelyke onderwysinge in de navigatie, aangaande het gene de stuurlieden noodwendig behooren te weten.
Amsterdam, widow of Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1812.
With: (2) FLORYN, Evert. Tafelen, bevattende de sinussen, tangenten en secanten, van minuut tot minuut voor ieder boog van het quadrant, in hunne natuurlyke getallen, op een' radius van 10.000.000, ... als mede de logarithmen der gewoone getallen, in hunne natuurlyke orde van opvolging, van 1 tot 10.000.
Amsterdam, widow of Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1815.With: (3) Geographische tafel behelzende de graden der breedte op poolshoogte en lengte of middag-cirkel van de meest bekende steden, rivieren, kapen, baayen. ...
Amsterdam, widow of Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1812.
3 works in 1 volume, the first in 2 parts. Large 8vo. Ad 1: with 4 folding plates (1 of a compass and the other 3 on drawing "flat" maps and maps with an enlarged latitude), many mathematical and geographical woodcuts in the text, some tables in the text. Ad 2: the whole work consisting of tables and with some woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary goatskin parchment over stiff boards, blue sprinkled edges. [6], XVI, 296; 220; [239], [1 blank]; 41, [3 blank] pp. Full description

[WOUDENBERG]. WICART, Nicolaas. [View of Woudenberg].
[Netherlands, ca. 1780]. Drawing (24.5 x 36 cm) in black ink with grey watercolour washes on laid paper (37.5 x 49 cm), signed at the foot left: ''N. Wicart, ad vivum'', with on the back in a 19th-century hand: "'t dorp Woudenberg''. Full description