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Fine untrimmed copy of a pilot guide, with coloured maps and aquatint profiles

BOUGARD, René and John Thomas SERRES. The little sea torch: or, true guide for coasting pilots.
London, J. Debrett for the "author" [Serres], G. & W. Nicol, et al. [printed by T. Rickaby], 1801. Large folio (47 x 30 cm). With 20 numbered aquatint plates containing 137 coastal profiles, and 12 partly numbered engraved plates containing 24 maps of port cities, harbours, islands and the Strait of Gibraltar. All coastal profiles and maps beautifully and subtly coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary boards. VI, 144, [5] pp. Full description
€ 14,500
Atlases & Globes Charts & Maps Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Malta Navigation
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Extremely rare Spanish edition of a classic military treatise

BRANCACCIO, Lelio (Ildefonso SCAVINO, translator). Cargos y preceptos militares. Para salir con brevedad famoso, y valiente soldado, assi en la infanteria, cavalleria, como artilleria ...
Mechelen, John Jaye, 1671 Small 4to. With woodcut device above colophon. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, sewn on 5 supports. [8], 262, [2] pp. Full description
€ 1,800
Military History (17th Century) Spain
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Remarkable Spanish theoretical treatise on painting and the liberal arts in Spain

BUTRON, Juan Alonso de. Discursos apologeticos, en que se defiende la ingenvidad del arte de la pintura; que es liberal, de todos derechos, no inferior a las sie te que comunmente te se reciben.
Madrid, Luis Sanchez, 1626. 4to. With an engraved architectural title-page by Juan Schorquens. Early 19th-century Spanish gold-tooled, sheepskin (root or maroquin pattern). [36], 122, [37] pp. Full description
€ 5,500
Art & Art History Spain
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The gloating Spanish: relishing in the disastrous fate of the Anglo-Dutch fleet
near Dunkirk on their way to Cádiz in 1625

[CÁDIZ EXPEDITION]. Relacion verdadera de la extraordinaria tormenta que ha tenido la armade Olandesa, y Inglesa, que estava sobre Dunquerque, y de como los nuestros le tomaron, y destruyeron toda su pescaria, y otros varios successos.
Lisbon, Pedro Craesbeeck, 1625. Folio. Not bound. [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,000
Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets History / 17th Century Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Naval History Spain
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The future King Philip II of Spain’s travels from Spain to the Low Countries: eye-witness account by his tutor

CALVETE DE ESTRELLA, Juan Cristóbal. El felicissimo viaje d'el muy alto y muy poderoso Principe Don Phelippe, hijo d'el Emperador Don Carlos Quinto Maximo, desde España à sus tierras dela Baxa Alemaña: con la descripcion de todos los estados de Brabante y Flandes. Escrito en quatro libros, ...
Antwerp, Martinus Nutius I, 1552 (colophon 25 May 1552). Small folio (27 x 19.5 cm). With the woodcut arms of Charles V on title-page, a full-page woodcut triumphal arch erected in Ghent for Philip's entry, Nutius's woodcut device at the end, and dozens of woodcut decorated initials (4 series). Near contemporary limp vellum, with 6 fragments of a 16th-century manuscript reinforcing the spine of the bookblock, blind- and (later) gold-tooled spine. [8], 335, [19] ll. Full description
€ 9,000
Belgium Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks Early Printing - 16th century Germany Italy Netherlands Spain Travel & Voyages Europe Travel Low Countries
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Rare collected works of Portugal's greatest poet

CAMÕES (CAMOENS), Luis de & João Franco BARRETO. Obras de Luis de Camoès principe des poetas Portugueses. Com os argumentos do Lecenceado João Franco Barreto & por elle emédadas em esta nova impressaõ, que comprehende todas as obras, que deste insigne autor se achàraõ impressas, & manuscritas, com o index dos nomes proprios. Offerecidas a D. Francisco de Sovsa capitão da guarda do Principe N.S.
Lisbon, Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello, 1666-1669. 8vo. With 8 woodcut tailpieces. Later mottled calf, red spine labels, red edges. 376, 368, 208, 108, [22], [ 2 blank]. Lacks the individual title-pages. Full description
€ 9,500
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States History / 17th Century India & Sri Lanka Literature Portugal
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Rare relation of a sea engagement in the Levant, between 14 Ottoman ships against 1 Spanish vessel

CAMPO, Luis del. Relacion de la refriega que tuvo con catorce navios de Turcos a la vista de Tarifa, y Tanger el Capitan Don Luis del Campo ... qui yba a Levante, a cargo del General Roque Centeno, con su navio solo llamado Sanson.
Madrid, Diego Diaz de la Carrera, 1638. Folio (28 x 20 cm). With a small woodcut decorated initial on the first page. [4] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets History / 17th Century Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Naval History Spain Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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Rare contemporary biography of the last emperor of Brazil

CAMPOS, Joaquim Pinto de. O Senhor D. Pedro II imperador do Brasil, biographia.
Porto, typographia Pereira da Silva, 1871. 8vo. With a small portrait (5.5 x 9 cm) of the emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro II, pasted on a separately inserted leaf before the title-page. The original orange publisher's printed paper wrappers show the title, author and imprint information set in a decorative frame on the front wrapper and a similar frame with an ornamental centre-piece on the back wrapper. Gold-tooled calf with the author, title, and year of publication lettered in gold on the front board. Bound with the original orange printed paper wrappers. [1], [1 blank], VIII, 96, [1 blank], [1] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
Bibliography & Biography Brazil Latin America Portugal South America
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Extremely rare copy of a 19th-century work on the cochineal

[CANARY ISLANDS - Santiago de la CRUZ Y GONZALEZ]. Cochenille-teelt op het eiland Groot Canarien, volgens een werkje, aldaar op den 1n. Januarij 1846, in het licht verschenen.
Paramaribo, J.C. Muller, 1846. 13.2 x 11.2 cm. Contemporary blue wrappers. 49 pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Agriculture Caribbean Islands Economic History & Trade Insects & Spiders North Africa South America Spain Surinam West Africa
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