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Dutch translation of an important work on Lapland, with 17 engraved plates by Jan Luyken

SCHEFFER, Johannes Gerhard. Waarachtige en aen-merkens-waardige historie van Lapland: ... Met noch een kort bericht van den toestand der Finnen.
Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1682. 4to. With engraved frontispiece and 16 engraved plates by Jan Luyken, and 1 folding engraved map. Contemporary vellum. [6], 99; 146; 73, [7] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Anthropology & Ethnography History / 17th Century Scandinavia & Arctic Travel & Voyages Europe
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Early history of the Arab people and the birth of Islam

SILVESTRE DE SACY, Antoine-Isaac, and others. Mémoires de littérature, tirés des registres de l'Academie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.... tome quarante-huitième.
Including: SILVESTRE DE SACY, Antoine Isaac. Mémoire sur divers événemens de l'histoire des Arabes avant Mahomet.
Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1808. 4to. Set in roman, italic, Greek and Arabic type. With a folding engraved plate of a Greek inscription and 5 letterpress tables. Contemporary half calf. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], IV, 775 784 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States
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Dutch translation of a Russian travel account of the US that describes steamboats
and native American dance rituals

SVINYIN, Pavel Petrovic (here Paul SWININ, elsewhere SVIN'IN or SUININE). Tafereelen uit eene reis naar Noord-Amerika.
Haarlem, A. Loosjes Pz., 1818. Large 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides. [4], IV, 127 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Anthropology & Ethnography North America Ships & Shipbuilding USA - United States of America
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Important anthropological study on the original inhabitants of the southern Arabic Peninsula

THOMAS, Bertram. Anthropological observations in South Arabia.
[offprint from:] Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 42 (1932). Large 8vo. With 2 plates (XI-XII) from photographs: (1) two views on the landscapes of the Sands of Dakara and the Qara Mountains, Arabia; (2) 12 portraits of members of the various tribes of Southern Arabia/Jemen. Blue wrappers with printed title label on the front cover. 83-108 pp. Full description
€ 750
Anthropology & Ethnography Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States
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Russian mission to China, with a plan of Beijing

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
€ 4,500
Anthropology & Ethnography China City Plans, Topography & Views Eastern Europe Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia
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An important source on 18th-century Japan

TITSINGH, Isaac. Bijzonderheden over Japan, behelzende een verslag van de huwelijkse plegtigheden, begrafenissen en feesten der Japanezen. De Gedenkschriften der laatste Japansche keizers en andere merkwaardigheden nopens dat Rijk.
The Hague, the widow of J. Allart, 1824-1825. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 4 hand-coloured folding aquatint plates, and a hand-coloured engraved vignette on the title page of each volume. Contemporary marbled boards. XVI, 250; [1], [1 blank], 264 pp. Full description
€ 6,900
Anthropology & Ethnography Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks Japan & Far East
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Written on the occasion of the visit of six Osage people to France

[VISSIER, Paul]. Histoire de la tribu des Osages, peuplade sauvage de l'Amérique septentrionale, dans l'état du Missouri, l'un des États-Unis d'Amérique. Écrite d'après les six Osages actuellement a Paris. Suivi de la relation du voyage de ces sauvages, et d'une notice historique sur chacun de ces Indiens célèbres dans leur tribu par leurs exploits guerriers.
Paris & Rennes, Charles Béchet & Duchesne, 1827. 8vo. With the title on the front wrapper set within a decorative frame, the frame repeated on the back wrapper with a sailing ship as a centerpiece. Original printed paper wrappers, sewn through two holes. 92 pp. Full description
€ 5,500
Anthropology & Ethnography France North America Travel & Voyages North America
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