Cartography, Exploration & Voyages

MONTFAUCON, Bernard de (editor). Collectio nova patrum et scriptorum Graecorum, Eusebii Caesariensis, Athanasii, & Cosmae Aegyptii.
Paris, Claudius Rigaud, 1707. 2 volumes. Folio. With 4 engraved plates, and 3 woodcut illustrations in the text. Each volume with an engraved headpiece, the first incorporating the coat of arms of Pope Clement XI, and the second that of Jean-Paul Bignon. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine and binding edges. [14], XL, [1], [1 blank], 732, [26], [2 blank]; [16], LXVIII, 112, [2], I-XXIV, 113-593, [26], [1 blank] pp. Full description

MORRELL, Abby Jane. Narrative of a voyage to the Ethiopic and South Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Chinese Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, in the years 1829, 1830, 1831.
New York, J. & J. Harper, 1833. Large 8vo (ca. 19.5 x 11 cm). With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary (browned) pink cloth with a printed title label mounted on the spine, in a later clamshell box. 230, 9, [1], pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - SHIP'S JOURNAL]. MORSE, Edward George. A journal of remarks and observations as kept by E. G. M. . ..
[mostly on board the barque Sarah of London], April 1831-14 March 1833 (with additions to 1835). with an engraved view as frontispiece, 15 full-page, 1 nearly full-page and 1 smaller manuscript maps and coastal profiles, plus a small engraved view ("Tomb of Napoleon") mounted on 1 page.
Including: MORSE, Edward George. Lecture Book [notes on anatomical lectures by Joseph Constantine Carpue].
[London], November-December 1828. with a matching pair of engravings of a scull on and facing the title-page, and 27 pencil and/or ink anatomical drawings (including 2 full-page), some also with red. 4to (19.5×16.5 cm). Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [191] ll. Including paste-downs and about 55 blanks. Full description

MOUCHERON, Isaac de. Plan ou veüe de Heemstede, dans la province d'Utrecht | Afbeeldinge van Heemstede, in de provincie van Utrecht.
[Amsterdam], Nicolas Visscher, [ca. 1700]. Very large etched bird's-eye view of the Heemstede estate and gardens (99 x 71 cm) engraved by Daniël Stoopendaal and printed on 2 2/3 sheets from 2 copper plates. Framed. Full description

MOUCHEZ, Amédée Ernest Barthélemy. Observations chronométriques faites pendant la campagne de circumnavigation de la corvette La Capricieuse, commandée par M. Roquemaurel, capitaine de vaisseau.
Paris, Firmin Didot frères, 1855. With 4 folding plates.
With:
(2) MOUCHEZ, Amédée Ernest Barthélemy. Longitudes chronométriques des principaux points de la cote du Brésil, rapportées au premier méridien de Rio-Janeiro. Paris, Paul Dupont, 1863.
(3) MOUCHEZ, Amédée Ernest Barthélemy. Positions géographiques des principaux points de la cote orientale de l'Amérique du Sud comprise entre la Guyane Française et le Paraguay. Paris, Paul Dupont, 1868.
3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary grained red half sheepskin. VIII, 139, [1]; 32; [4], 35, [1] pp. Full description

[MOUNTAINEERING]. [A collection of brochures and folders on mountaineering].
[Austria and Switzerland, ca. 1920- ca. 1980]. Ca. 653 brochures (including a few duplicates and variant issues).
With: [A collection of books relating to mountaineering].
[Globally, ca. 1830- ca. 2000]. Ca. 875 books (including a few duplicates and variant issues, and several multiple-volume titles). Full description

MOXON, Joseph. Ein kurtzer Discours von der Schiff-Fahrt bey dem Nord-Pol nach Japan, China, und so weiter. Durch drey Erfahrungen dargethan und erwiesen, nebenst Beantwortungen aller Einwürffe, welche wieder die Fahrt auff diesen Weg können eingewendet worden; Als 1. durch eine Schiffahrt von Amsterdam in den Nord-Pol. 2. durch eine Schiffahrt von Japan, nach den Nord-Pol. 3. durch einen Versuch den der Großfürst in der Moskau thun lassen, worduch erscheinet, daß gegen Norden von Nova Zembla eine frey und offene See ist biß nach Japan China und so weiter; Sampt einer Land-Charte so alle Länder nechst dem Polo anweiset; Aus dem Englischen ins Hochdeutsche übersetzet.
Hamburg, Johan Naumann and Georg Wolff, 1676. 4to. With the last leaf folding, and with a woodcut map of Nova Zembla and the Kara Sea at foot and a large map engraved by Jochim Wichmann on the verso, showing the North Pole and the lands around it including Newfoundland, Baffin's Bay, Hudson Straits, Nova Francia, Nova Anglia, and Japan. Later gold-tooled crushed morocco, with a double fillet border with corner pieces on both boards, spine in compartments with gilt decoration, gold-tooled turn-ins. [4] ll. Full description

MÜLLER, Christian Gottlieb. Verzeichnis von Nürnbergischen topographisch-historischen Kupferstichen und Holzschnitten.
Nuremberg, printed for the author, 1791. 4to. Later boards. 208, [2] pp., interleaved. Full description

MÜNSTER, Sebastian. Cosmographia, das ist: Beschreibung der gantzen Welt, …
Basel, heirs of Sebastian Henricpetri, 1628. Folio (38 x 24.5 cm). With an engraved title page, letterpress title page printed in red and black with woodcut portrait of Münster on the back, 26 numbered double-page woodcut maps on inserted bifolia (each with a woodcut headpiece, the letterpress title, some text and the map number, i-xxvi, on the first recto, a letterpress heading above the map and in one case a woodcut diagram with letterpress text on the second verso), 72 double-page woodcut maps, plans and views on integral leaves, and about 1500 woodcut illustrations in the text (including repeats) showing maps, plans, views, plants, animals, monsters, etc. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title and year on spine, red edges. [24], “1752” [= 1748] , [12] pp. Full description

MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich. Voyages et découvertes faites par les Russes le long de côtes de la Mer Glaciale et sur l'Océan Oriental, tant vers le Japon que vers l'Amérique. On y a joint l'histoire du fleuve Amur et des pays adjacens.
Amsterdam, Marc Michel Rey, 1766. 2 volumes. 12mo. With a large folding engraved map of the Russian Far East, from Novaya Zemlya to Kamchatka, with parts of Japan and North America. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. X, [2], 388; IV, 207, [25] pp. Full description