Cartography, Exploration & Voyages / Geography, Topography & Views

ALBERTI, Lodewyk and Ludwig Gottlieb PORTMAN. [Drop-title:] Zuid-Afrikaansche gezichten.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, [1810]. 2 works in 2 volumes. Oblong 1mo (45 x 60 cm). Letterpress text leaf with drop-title and 4 large aquatint plates (image size: 30 x 41.5 cm) coloured by a contemporary hand, engraved by Ludwig Gottlieb Portman after drawings by Jacob Smies and Christopher Howen. Each plate with the imprint of Evert Maaskamp, Koninklijke kunsthandelaar, Amsterdam. Contemporary stiff, marbled paper wrappers, kept in a modern green half morocco clamshell box. With:
ALBERTI, Lodewyk. Description physique et historique des Cafres, sur la côte méridionale de l'Afrique ...Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1811. 8vo. With engraved title-page, aquatint folding plan, with coastal view, of Algoa Bay, and 2 stipple-engraved plates, all but the title-page coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, richly gold-tooled spine, marbled boards and marbled edges. [1] l. text + 4 plates; XII, [4], 255, [1 blank] pp. Full description

ALKEMADE, Cornelis van, and Pieter van der SCHELLING. Beschryving van de stad Briele, en den Lande van Voorn, behelzende, I. De beschryving zelf... II. De historie, genealogie, en successie van de heeren, en vrouwen van Voorn ... III. De politike regering, nevens de regten, ... mitsgaders de regtspleging ... omtrent het jaar MCCCC in de stad Briel, en 't Land van Voorn in gebruik geweest zynde. IV. De privilegien, octroyen ... betreffende de stad Briele, en den Lande van Voorn ...
Rotterdam, Philippus Losel, 1729. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With the title page printed in red and black with an engraved printer's device, a double-page plan of Den Briel, 3 folding engraved maps of different parts of Voorne (each ca. 50 x 70.5 cm), and an additional folding map (33 x 38 cm) of the southwestern part of South Holland. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf by the so-called Stag Bindery in Rotterdam, sewn on 6 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a black morocco author and title label on the spine lettered in gold, the coat of arms of Den Briel in the centre of both boards, surrounded by two ornamental borders, gold-tooled board edges, mottled edges. [28], 1-224, [8], 225-376; [8], 1-306, [20] pp. Full description

ALKEMADE, Cornelis van and Pieter van der SCHELLING. Beschryving van de stad Briele, en den lande van Voorn, ...
Rotterdam, Philippus Losel, 1729. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a double-page engraved plan of Den Briel and 3 folding engraved maps of different parts of Voorne (each ca. 50 x 70.5 cm). Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [28], 224, [8], 225-376; [8], 306, [20] pp. Full description

ALTING, Menso. Descriptio secundum antiquos, agri Batavi & Frisii una cum conterminis sive notitia Germaniae Inferioris, cis & ultra Rhenum, quà hodie est in dicione VII Foederatorum. ... [Volume 2 with title:] Descriptio Frisiae inter Scaldis portum veterem & Amisiam, ...
Amsterdam, Henricus Wetstein (vol. 2 adds Rudolf & Gerard Wetstein), 1697-1701. 2 volumes bound as 1. Large folio (37.5 x 24 cm). Richly engraved frontispiece by Jan Goeree, 2 letterpress title-pages in black and red, volume I with 6 double-page engraved maps,3 full-page engraved plates and a letterpress table, and numerous engravings in text; volume II with 9 double-page engraved maps by Gerard de Broen and a double-page letterpress table. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [24], 132, [20], 18, [2]; [32], 216, [40] pp. Full description

AMPZING, Samuel. Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland. in rijm bearbeyd: ende met veele oude en nieuwe stucken buyten dicht uyt verscheyde kronijken, handvesten, brieven, memorien ofte geheugenissen, ende diergelijke schriften verklaerd, ende bevestigd. Mitsgaders Petri Scriverii laure-kranz voor Laurens Koster van Haerlem, eerste vinder vande boek-druckerye. de voor-rede aen den leser geeft enig onderwijs van onse Nederduytsche sprake, ende spellinge, in desen gebruykt, onder den tytel ofte opschrift van Nederlandsch tael-bericht: handeld ook een weynig van rijm-konste, tot nut ende lust der weet-gierigen.
Haarlem, Adriaan Roman, 1628. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With large printer's device at the end of the first part and on title of the second part, richly engraved allegorical frontispiece with view of Haarlem at the top by T. Matham after I. Bouchorst, 3 full-page engraved plates, 1 with the coat-of-arms of Haarlem by J. van Velde, 1 with the seals of the city of Haarlem, and a view of a printing shop, both by J. van Velde after Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, 11 double-page engraved plans and views of Haarlem by J. van Velde and W. Akersloot after designs by Saenredam, and 2 original full-page etchings by Pieter Jansz. Saenredam: of the Houses of Assumberg and of Berkenroede. Ad 2 With a full-page engraved portrait of Laurens Koster after J. van Campen and a second, different view of a printing shop. With:
(2) SCRIVERIUS, Petrus. Crans voor Laurens Coster van Haerlem, eerste vinder vande boeck-druckery.
Haarlem, Adriaan Roman, 1628. Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink. (88), 520; 124, (6) p. Full description

AMPZING, Samuel [and Petrus SCRIVERIUS]. Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland: in rijm bearbeyd ...
Including: SCRIVERIUS, Petrus. Laure-Crans voor Laurens Coster van Haerlem, eerste vinder vande boeck-druckery.
Haarlem, Adriaen Rooman, 1628. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: With an allegorical frontispiece, 16 engraved plates, and a printer's device on the final page, the text is printed in roman, gothic and civilité type. Ad 2: With a woodcut printers device on the title page, a full-page engraved portrait, and a full-page engraved plate of the first printing office in Haarlem. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled overlapping vellum, gold-tooled oval coat of arms of Haarlem in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a blind-tooled single fillet frame, green closing ties, red sprinkled edges. [88], 520, [8]; 1-5, [3], 9, 6-124 pp. Full description

BARLAEUS, Caspar. Rerum per Octennium in Brasilia et alibi nuper gestarum.
Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1647. Folio. With an engraved title page, an engraved portrait of Johan Maurits van Nassau, 25 double-page engraved maps and plans, and 31 double-page engraved plates. Further with a woodcut printer's device on the title page. Contemporary vellum, upper cover ruled in blind with blind-stamped floral vignette in center. [12, including title-page, frontispiece and portrait], 340, [8] pp. Full description

BEATTIE, John Watt. [Album with 32 photographs of Tasmania].
Hobart, [ca. 1895]. Oblong folio (30 x 41cm). With 32 original photographs (ca. 17 x 23 cm), pasted on paperboard. Later gold-tooled red morocco. Full description

[HEUKELOM]. [BEIJER, Jan de]. View of Heukelom.
Heukelom, 8 August, 1750. 13 x 21.5 cm. Original watercolour highlighted with white.Detached from a 19th-century paperboard support with hand drawn decorative frame and cartouche with the title "Heukelom J. de Beijer 1703-1768" (24 x 32 cm). Full description

BENOIT, Pierre Jacques. Voyage a Surinam. Description des possessions néerlandaises dans la Guyane.
Brussels, De Wasme & Laurent (back of half-title: Imprimerie de Societé des Beaux-Arts), 1839. Folio (47.5 x 31 cm). With a lithographed frontispiece, a small wood-engraved illustration on the title-page, and 99 tinted lithographed illustrations on 49 plates. Contemporary half black morocco, black cloth sides, gold-tooled spine. [4], 1-69, [3], 75-76, [2] pp. Full description