Forum Rare Books

Rare folio edition with accounts of the most important voyages
undertaken by Western Europeans in the early modern period

AA, Pieter van der. De aanmerkenswaardigste en alomberoemde zee- en landreizen der Portugeezen, Spanjaarden, Engelsen en allerhande natiën: zoo van Fransen, Italiaanen, Deenen, Hoogh- en Nederduitsen, Als van veele andere volkeren. Voornaamenlyk ondernomen tot ontdekking van de Oost- en West-Indiën, mitsgaders andere verafgelegene gewesten des aardryks.
The Hague and Leiden, widow of Engelbrecht Boucquet and sons, Jan van der Deyster, and Boudewijn and Pieter van der Aa, 1727. 8 volumes. Folio. With a general title page printed in red and black, 8 engraved allegorical frontispieces, 4 engraved dedications, 116 engraved maps, 7 full-page engraved plates, and 502 engravings in the text. Further with 8 title pages with a vignette, and another 128 separate divisional title pages with a vignette. Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled marbled calf, with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold on each of the spines. Full description

€ 45,000

Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages South America Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia

The harmony of faith and logic

AVERROES (Muhammad IBN AHMAD IBN RUSHD). [Tahafut al-Tahafut - latine: Destructiones destructionum philosophi Algazelis]. Eutyci Augustini Niphy Philotei Suessani in librum destructio destructionum Averroys com[m]entationes ad Dominicum grimanum cardinalem maximum.
With: NIPHUS, Augustinus. De sensu agente.
[Venice, Bonetus Locatellus] for the heirs of Octavianus Scotus, [ca. 1500]. Small folio. With numerous woodcut initials. Printed in Gothic type, in 2 columns. Near contemporary limp vellum. 130 ll. Full description

€ 35,000

Islam & Qurans Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)

First edition of the magnificent work on the Dutch colony of Brazil,
the folio edition, complete with all plates and maps

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

€ 30,000

Atlases & Globes Brazil Latin America South America WIC

"The greatest and finest atlas ever published", with 610 maps, plans and views,
coloured by a contemporary hand

BLAEU, Joan. Grooten atlas, oft werelt-beschryving, in welcke t aerdryck, de zee, en hemel, wort vertoont en beschreven.
Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1664-1665. 9 volumes. Imperial folio (55.5 × 36.5 cm). With 9 engraved title pages, an engraved frontispiece and 610 engraved maps, views, plans, etc., mostly double-page (53.5 × 64 cm, plate size ca. 42 × 53 cm), 7 larger folding, a few single-page and a few smaller, many including additional inset maps, plans and views, and decorated with coats of arms, human & mythological figures, animals, produce, etc. With the engraved title-pages, frontispiece, other engravings (except for the compass rose and 2 inscriptions), woodcut devices on 4 title-pages and 1 woodcut initial coloured by a contemporary hand (the maps mostly in outline but with their decorations fully coloured) and some (mostly the engraved title-pages) with extensive use of gold. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum. Full description

€ 675,000

Atlases & Globes Charts & Maps VOC

One of the most important pilot guides of the 17th century

BLAEU, Willem Jansz. Zeespiegel, inhoudende een korte onderwijsinghe inde konst der zeevaert, en beschryvinghe der seen en kusten van de Oostersche, Noordsche, en Westersche schipvaert. ...
Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1627. 3 parts in 1 volume, parts 2 and 3 consist of 6 books each. Folio. With 108 numbered engraved charts, 2 half-page engraved charts, 2 volvelles, a woodcut vignette on the divisional title page of each part, and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary overlapping vellum. The work is preserved in a gold-tooled half red morocco clamshell box, with two green morocco title labels, lettered in gold, red buckram sides, and a green felt lining. [16], 64; 39, [1], 43, [1], 48, 32, 28, 24; 32, 52, 46, 43, [1], 40, 23, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 120,000

Arctic & Antarctic Charts & Maps Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Navigation North Africa Scandinavia & Arctic West Africa

Recreating 1527 in the 18th century: a celebrated and elusive Venetian facsimile of the “Ventisettana”

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Il Decamerone nuovamente corretto et con diligentia stampato.
Florence, Heirs of Filippo Giunta, "14 April 1527" [= 1729]. 4to. With a woodcut device on the title page and the final leaf. 18th-century vellum. [7], [1 blank], 284 ll. Full description

€ 1,250

Italian Literature Italy

Bound in contemporary red morocco, from the library of Charles de Lorraine;
primary French source-books on Vietnam, Siam (Thailand), and the Far East

BOURGES, Jacques de. Relation du Voyage de Monseigneur l'evesque de Beryte, Vicaire Apostolique du Royaume de la Cochinchine
Paris, Charles Angot, 1683.
With: (2) PALLU, Francois. Relation abregee des mission et des voyages aux Royaumes de la Chine, Cochinchine, Tonquin & Siam.
Paris, Charles Angot, 1682. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. 18th-century gold-tooled sang-de-boeuf calf, with a triple fillet border on both boards, spine richly gilt in compartments, gilt edges. VIII, 168; 51 pp. Full description

€ 7,500

China Church History & Missions Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southeast Asia

Spain at the end of the 18th century

[BOURGOING, Jean François de]. Nouveau voyage en Espagne, ou tableau de l'état actuel de cette monarchie.
Paris, chez Regnault, 1789. 3 volumes. 8vo. Volume 1 with a folding general map of Spain coloured in outline (23.8 x 28.4 cm) as a frontispiece, a folding plan of Madrid (23 x 33.8 cm), both engraved by P.F. Tardieu, 4 folding and 2 full-page engraved plates; volume 3 with a folding plan of Cadiz by Tardieu and 3 folding engraved plates. Contemprary gold-tooled mottled calf. [1], [1 blank], IV, 368, [1], [1 blank]; [1], [blank], [1], [1 blank], 382; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 404, [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Spain Travel & Voyages Europe

Images of everyday life and lessons for the soul in a Dutch emblem book

BRUNE, Johannes de. Emblemata of zinne-werck: voorgestelt, in beelden, ghedichten, en breeder uijt-legginghen, tot uijt-druckinghe, en verbeteringhe van verscheijden feijlen onser eeuwe.
Amsterdam, Jan Evertsen Kloppenburch, 1624 (colophon: Middelburg, printed by Hans vander Hellen, 1624). 4to. With an engraved emblematic title page, and 51 emblems in text, engraved by W. Passe, Cr. le Blon, J. Gelle, A. Poel, and J. Swelinck after designs by Adriaen van de Venne, some woodcut initials and headpieces. Contemporary vellum. [12], 360 pp. Full description

€ 2,950

Emblems

First edition of a sumptuous account of a voyage to Russia, Persia and the East Indies, with large folding views of Moscow and Isfahan (194 x 42 cm.)

BRUYN (LE BRUN), Cornelis de. Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie: verrykt met driehondert konstplaten, vertoonende de beroemste lantschappen en steden, ook de byzondere dragten, beesten, gewassen en platen, die daer gevonden worden ...
Amsterdam, Willem and David Goeree for the author, 1711. Folio (40 x 25.5 cm). With engraved frontispiece by Bernard Picart, engraved author's portrait, 2 folding engraved maps, 109 engraved plates (13 folding, 55 double-page, 41 full-page) and 36 engraved illustrations in text. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [8], 472, [12] pp. Full description

€ 9,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Eastern Europe India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Iran / Persia North Africa Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia Turkey & Ottoman Empire West Asia

The greatest collection of travel writings on the Americas assembled in early modern Europe

BRY, Theodor de. [The great voyages in Latin].
Frankfurt am Main and Oppenheim, Johann Wechel, Matthias Becker, Johann Feyrabend, Hieronymus Galle and Johannes Hofer, 1590-1620. 11 parts in 3 volumes. Folio (ca. 33 x 23.8 cm). With 11 maps (mostly folding), 300 engraved plates (double-page, full-page and in text), engraved title pages to each part, numerous decorated woodcut initials, and numerous woodcut head- and tailpieces. 18th-century gold-tooled Dutch red morocco, bound by the Double Drawer Handle Bindery in Amsterdam, gold-tooled spines, with green morocco title labels lettered in gold, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. Full description

€ 240,000

Bindings Early Printing - 16th century North America South America Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages South America

Highly important collection of travel writings on Africa and Asia, in a contemporary binding

BRY, Theodor de. [The small voyages in Latin].
Frankfurt, Wolfgang Richter, Matthaeus Becker, 1598-1613. 10 parts in 2 volumes. Folio. With an engraved title page for each part, 11 maps (folding and double-page), 243 engraved plates (double-page, full-page and in text), and numerous decorated woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary vellum with overlapping fore edge, the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of closing ties. Full description

€ 165,000

India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia

The classic book of Biblical travels: the first edition to be accompanied
by the complementary Lower Saxon chronicle in contemporary, richly blind-tooled Saxon pigskin

BÜNTING, Heinrich and Matthias HASAERT. Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, das ist Ein Reisebuch uber die gantze Heilige Schrifft ...
Including:
[BÜNTING, Heinrich]. Itinerarium Novi Testamenti. Das ist: Ein Reisebuch over das Newe Testament.
BÜNTING, Heinrich. De monetis et mensuris sacrae scripturae. Dass ist: Ein eigentliche ausrechnung und beschreibung aller Müntz und Masse in heiliger Schrift. ...
Magdeburg, Paul Donat for Ambrosius Kirchner, 1585. With 3 title pages, 7 double-page and 2 full-page woodcut maps
With: (2) BÜNTING, Heinrich. Braunschweigische und Luneburgische Chronica.
Including:
Das ander Theil Braunschweigischen Chronica, gehet auff das Land Lüneburg
Das dritte Theil, der Braunschweigischen und Lüneburgischen Chronica, ...
Das vierte Theil dieses Buches, gehet insonderheit auff das Fürstenthumb Grubenhagen, füret ... den geburts Stam des fürstlichen Hauses Braunschweig und Lüneburg.
Magdeburg, Paul Donat for Ambrosius Kirchner, 1584-1585. General title page in red and black with the woodcut coat of arms of Julius of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, further with numerous finely detailed woodcut illustrations
2 works in 3 and 4 volumes, bound as 1. Folio. Contemporary, richly blind-tooled pigskin, possibly by Nikolaus Müller in Wittenberg. With a matching pair of panel stamps in the central fields: portraits of Martin Luther (front board, 83 x 44 mm) and Phillip Melanchthon (back board, 81 x 45 mm), each with the date 1556 and text below. Ad 1: [16], “141” [= 242], [18]; [6], 110, [9] [3 blank]; [6], “34” [= 33], [1 blank] pp.; ad 2: [14], “150” [= 151], [1 blank]; “46” [= 47]. [1 blank]; [1], 47-82, [1 blank]; [1], “82”-“113” [= 83-109] ll. Full description

€ 27,500

Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Bindings Early Printing - 16th century Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)

Beautifully illustrated expeditions searching for ancient Egyptian antiquities

CAILLIAUD, Frédéric and Bernardino DROVETTI. Voyage a l'Oasis de Thèbes et dans les déserts situés a l'orient et a l'occident de la Thébaïde, fait pendant les années 1815, 1816, 1817 et 1818.
Paris, Royal press, 1821.
With: (2) IDEM. Voyage a l'Oasis de Syouah ... pendant leurs voyages dans cette oasis, en 1819 et en 1820.
Paris, Rignoux, 1823. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. Ad 1: with 24 numbered engraved plates, including 2 engraved maps (1 folding), 1 plate coloured by hand and 1 double-page. Ad 2: with 20 numbered plates (1 engraved map and 19 lithographed plates). Contemporary green goatskin morocco, richly gold-tooled spine, chemical-marbled sides, marbled edges. [2 blank], XVII, [1], 120; [12], 28 pp. Full description

€ 19,500

Archaeology Architecture Charts & Maps Classical Antiquity Egypt North Africa Travel & Voyages Africa

First and only edition of a primary source for the early history
and church history of Southern Italy, in particular of Naples

CARACCIOLI, Antonio and Francesco BOLVITO (editor). De Sacris Ecclesiae Neapolitanae Monumentis Liber Singularis ... Opus posthumum Francisci Bolviti ... Studio, et industria in lucem editum. Qui cuncta digessit: stylum alicubi mutavit: omissas ab Auctore curas secundas adiecit: et innumeras penè hiantes lacunas implevit.
Naples, Ottavio Beltrani, 1645. Folio. With large engraved coat of arms of the dedicatee Pope Innocent X on the title page, 2 half-page engravings of the martyrdom of S. Maximus Levita from Cumma (5th century; ca. 153 x 103 mm), many woodcut tailpieces and initials.19th-century half vellum. [20], 365, [14], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

History / 17th Century Italy Religion (17th Century)

Navigation and astronomical research in present-day Canada

CHABERT, Joseph Bernard. Voyage fait par ordre du Roi en 1750 et 1751, dans l'Amérique septentrionale, pour rectifier les cartes des côtes de l'Acadie, de l'Isle Royale & de l'Isle de Terre-Neuve; et pour en fixer les principaux points par des observations astronomiques.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1753. 4to. With an engraved printer's vignette on the title page, an engraved headpiece at the beginning of the first chapter, 6 folding engraved maps, a folding engraved plate showing geometrical figures, and a large folding table with calculations for the position of the sun and the moon. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco. [2], VIII, 288, [10] pp. Full description

€ 12,500

Astronomy & Cosmography Bindings Navigation North America Travel & Voyages North America USA - United States of America

One of the finest books on the North Pacific

CHORIS, Louis. Voyage pittoresque autour du monde, avec des portraits de sauvages d'Amerique, d'Asia, d'Afrique et des iles du Grand Ocean; des paysages, des vues maritimes, et plusieurs objets d'histoire naturelle.
Paris, Firmin Didot, 1820-1822. Folio. With a lithographed portrait of Count Romanzoff as a frontispiece and 104 lithographed plates, including 25 natural history plates in fine contemporary hand-colouring. Further with 1 folding map and 2 plans. Contemporary elaborately decorated Russia leather(?) binding, ornately gold- and blind-tooled decorated boards with a gold- and blind-tooled green straight-grained morocco panel, with dark-blue/black morocco inlays on the gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, blue marbled endpapers, the blank free endpapers with a Russian watermark dated 1824. Full description

€ 80,000

Alaska Circumnavigation Hawaii North America Pacific Islands Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific

Splendid views of Brazil, Chile, Hawaii, and Polynesia

CHORIS, Louis. Vues et paysages des régions équinoxiales, recueillis dans un voyage autour du monde.
Paris, Paul Renouard, 1826. Folio (ca. 45 x 30 cm). With 24 hand-coloured, full-page, numbered lithographic plates. Contemporary blind-tooled quarter brown goat leather, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, brown marbled paper sides, marbled end papers. [6], 32 pp. Full description

€ 28,000

Brazil Chile Circumnavigation City Plans, Topography & Views Hawaii Pacific Islands Prints & Print Series South America Travel & Voyages Pacific Travel & Voyages South America

Hitherto considered unobtainable: the spectacular series of more than 200 photographs
of the Middle East and Spain by Louis De Clercq, uniformly bound

CLERCQ, Louis De. Voyage en Orient - Voyage en Espagne, 1859-1860.
[Paris, France], J. Blondeau et Antonin, 1860. 6 volumes bound in 5 albums. Oblong 1mo (ca. 45 x 60 cm). With 218 (of 222) photographs, albumen prints from waxed paper negative, including 23 panoramas, all mounted on cardboard, each plate with a lithographed number and caption. Album I contains photos of cities, monuments, and other picturesque views of Syria (49 prints including 11 panoramas); II: castles from the time of the Crusaders in Syria (36 (of 37) prints including 5 panoramas); III: views of Jerusalem and holy places in Palestine (29 (of 30) prints including 1 panorama); IV (bound together with III): the stations of the cross along the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem (14 prints); V: monuments and picturesque sites in Egypt (40 (of 41) prints including 1 panorama); VI: cities, monuments, and other picturesque views in Spain (50 (of 51) prints including 5 panoramas). The sizes of the albumen prints vary from ca. 20 x 27 cm. to ca. 112 x 20 cm. Uniform, original red leather-grained cloth with the title and name of the author lettered in gold on the front board. Full description

€ 385,000

Egypt North Africa Photography Prints & Print Series Spain Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Middle East West Asia

Collecting Latin voices: Amati’s monumental Pisaurian anthology of poetry and fragments

[COLLECTIO PISAURENSIS]. Collectio Pisaurensis omnium poematum, carminum, fragmentorum Latinorum, sive ad Christianos, sive ad ethnicos, sive ad certos, sive ad incertos poetas, a prima Latinae linguae aetate ad sextum usque Christianum seculum & Longobardorum in Italiam adventum pertinens, ab omnium poetarum libris, collectionibus, lapidibus, codicibus exscripta.
Pisauri (Pesaro), Ex Amatina Chalcographia (Paschalis Amatus), 1766. 6 volumes. 4to. With an engraving on the title page, and some woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces in the first volume. The fifth volume with 9 folding tables printed in red and black, all volumes with some woodcut initials and tailpieces.
Contemporary half calf, sprinkled paper boards, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, with the title and volume number lettered on the spine, and red sprinkled edges. LII, 522; [1], [1 blank], XXXV, [1 blank], 480; [1], [1 blank], XXIV, 529, [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], LXXIV, 514; [1], [1 blank], XVIII, 388; [1], [1 blank], XII, 306 pp. Full description

€ 950

Greek & Roman Classics

Beautiful copy of the most important collection of Dutch voyages of the 17th century

[COMMELIN, Isaac]. Begin ende voortgangh, van de Vereenigde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie. Vervattende de voornaemste reysen, by de inwoonderen der selver provincien derwaerts gedaen. Alles nevens de beschrijvinghen der rijcken, eylanden, havenen, revieren[!], stroomen, rheeden, winden, diepten en ondiepten; mitsgaders religien, manieren, aerdt, politie ende regeeringhe der volckeren; oock meede haerder speceryen, drooghen, geldt ende andere koopmanschappen, met veele discoursen verrijckt: nevens eenighe koopere platen verciert.
[Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius], 1646. 21 parts in 2 volumes. Oblong 4to. With a richly engraved allegorical frontispiece in each volume (one by J. van Meurs, the other unsigned), and 229 engraved maps, views and plates illustrating the voyages, several double-page or folding, including a large folding map of the world. Modern vellum. 71, [1 blank], 112, 56, 31, [1 blank], 56, 20, 51, [1 blank], 31, [1 blank], 27, [1 blank], 62, 88, [10]; 91, [1 blank], 191, [1 blank], 48, 214, [2 blank], 110, 112, 118, 79, [1 blank], 94, 217, [17] pp. Full description

€ 45,000

Circumnavigation Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia VOC

Very rare first account of the death of Captain Cook

[COOK, James (subject)]. Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Seereisen des berühmten Capitain Cook.
Reval [= Tallinn, Estonia] & Leipzig, Albrecht und Compagnie, 1780.
With: (2) Briefe aus England historisch-statistisch und artistischen Inhalts. 1s Heft.
Reval [= Tallinn, Estonia] & Leipzig, Albrecht und Compagnie, 1780.
2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut ship on the title-page of ad 2 and woodcut headpieces in both works. Contemporary half calf, brown sprinkled paper sides, brown morocco spine label with title in gold. 48; [14], [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 148,500

Pacific Islands Travel & Voyages Pacific USA - United States of America

Remarkable copy of this early history of Frisia, enriched with curious original drawings of its rulers
after the series in Winsemius' Chronique

[CORNELIUS, Andreas]. Croniicke, ende warachtige beschryvinghe van Vrieslant. Beginnende nae des werelts scheppinghe drie duysent ende tseventich jaer: ende deurende voorts tot na de gheboorte Christi, duysent, vijf-hondert, vijf en tsestich ...
Leeuwarden, Jacob Jansen, sold by Cornelis Claesz in Amsterdam, 1597. (colophon: printed in Amsterdam, Nicolaes Biestkens, 1596). Folio. With a half-page engraved map of old-Friesland, "Veterum Frisiorum Habitus" with the coat of arms of Friesland at the top, the map is flanked by 8 full-length portraits of inhabitants of old-Friesland; a double-page engraved map of Friesland and Groningen, "Frisiae Occidentalis Typus" by Cornelis Claesz (= first state, first appearance); a double-page plan of Leeuwarden, "Lewardum Occidentalis Frisiae Opp.", and full page plan of Franeker, "Franicher" with text on its verso. Further with woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. With nine extra drawings (made after 1622) after the well-known series of etched illustrations of Frisian rulers by Simon Frisius in the first edition of Pierius Winsemius, Chronique ofte Historische Geschiedenisse van Vrieslant ...
Original dark brown polished calf over beveled wooden boards. [2 with drawings], [8], "124" [= 122], [2] ll. Full description

€ 2,500

Drawings & Watercolours Drente. Friesland & Groningen Early Printing - 16th century

French translation of William Dampier's travels in the south seas,
including the first successful English landing in Australia

DAMPIER, William. Nouveau voyage autour du monde, où l'on décrit en particulier l'Isthme de l'Amerique, plusieurs côtes & isles des Indes Occidentales, les Isles du Cap Verd, le passage par la Terre del Fuego, les côtes meridionales du Chili, du Perou, & du Mexique; l'Isle de Guam, Mindanao, & des autres Philippines, les isles orientales qui sont prés de Cambodie; de la Chine; Formosa, Luçon, Celebes, &c. la Nouvelle Hollande, les isles de Sumatra, de Nicobar, & de Sainte Helene & le Cap de Bonne Esperance.
Amsterdam, Paul Marret, 1698. 2 volumes. 12mo. With the same engraved frontispiece in both volumes, 6 engraved maps (including 4 folding), and 7 engraved plates (including 3 folding). Contemporary sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges. [10], 315; [1 blank]; [2], "316", [1], 317-616, [4] pp. Full description

€ 9,500

Australia China Circumnavigation Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Latin America Mexico Middle America Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Peru Philippines South America Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Australia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages Pacific Travel & Voyages South America Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia

First European biography of Timur derived from an Arabic source

DU BEC-CRESPIN, Jean. The historie of the great emperour Tamerlan wherein are expressed, encounters, skirmishes, battels, sieges, assaults, skalings, taking of cities and strong places, defended, and assaulted, with diverse stratagems of warre, the which this great and renowned warriour hath conducted and accomplished, during his raigne of fortie or fiftie yeares: with other instructions for the warre, which should not be unknowen of them that would attaine unto the knowledge of armes. Drawen from the auncient monuments of the Arabians, by messire Jean du Bec, abbot of Mortimer. Newly translated out of French into English, for their benefite which are ignorant in that language. by H.M.
London, R. Field for Willam Ponsonby, 1597. 4to. With a woodcut device on the title page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces.17th-century calf, 19th century gold-tooled spine. [4], 265, [1] pp. Full description

€ 25,000

Bibliography & Biography History / 16th Century India & Sri Lanka Military History (16th Century)

Large paper copy of the original edition of the most comprehensive survey of China printed in the 18th century,
from the library of the Earls of Macclesfield

DU HALDE, Jean-Baptiste du. Description géographique historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoise, enrichie des cartes générales et particulieres de ces pays, de la carte générale & des cartes particulieres du Thibet, & de la Corée.
Paris, P.G. le Mercier, 1735. 4 volumes. Folio (ca. 43 x 28 cm). With 43 engraved maps (folding, double-page and full-page), 21 engraved plates (folding, double-page and full-page), numerous decorated woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled mottled calf. [4], VIII, LII, IV, 592; [4], IV, 725, [1]; [4], IV, 564, IX-[XII]; [4], II, 520 pp. Full description

€ 40,000

Atlases & Globes China Geography Jesuits Korea

Extremely rare Dutch collection of early voyages, including Pelsaert’s account of Australia

[DUTCH VOYAGES - Joost HARTGERS (publisher)]. Oost-Indische voyagien door dien begin en voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlandtsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie. Vervatende de voornaemste reysen, by de inwoonderen der selver provintien derwaerts ghedaen ... Eerste deel. daer in begrepen zijn 16 voyagien.
Amsterdam, [printed by Adriaen Hermansz. Roest for] Joost Hartgers, 1648.
Comprising:
(1) [VEER, Gerrit]. Verhael van de eerste schip-vaert der Hollandische ende Zeeusche schepen, door 't Way-gat ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(2) [HOUTMAN, Cornelis]. Eerste schip-vaert der Hollanders naer Oost-Indien ... anno 1595.
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(3) [NECK, Jacob van en Wybrand van WARWIJCK]. Waerachtigh verhael van de schip-vaert op Oost-Indien ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(4) [NOORT, Olivier van and Jacob van NECK]. Wonderlijcke voyagie by de Hollanders gedaen, door de Strate Magalanes ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(5) [SPILBERGEN, Joris van and Steven vander HAGEN]. Historis journael van de voyage gedaen met 3 schepen ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(6) [MATELIEF, Cornelis]. Journael, ende historische verhael, van de treffelijcke reyse ghedaen naer Oost-Indien ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(7) [BROECKE, Pieter van den]. Wonderlijcke historische ende journaelsche aenteyckeningh ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(8) [SPILBERGEN, Joris van]. Oost- en West-Indische voyagie, door de Strate Magallanes naer de Moluques ...
Including: [SCHOUTEN, Willem Cornelisz. and Jacob le MAIRE]. Journael, ofte beschrijvinge van de wonderlijcke reyse ghedaen door Willem Cornelisz. Schouten van Hoorn. In de jaren 1615, 1616, 1617 ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(9) HEREMITE, Jacques l' and Gheen Huygen SCHAPENHAM]. Journael vande Nassausche vloot ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(10) [BONTEKOE, Willem Ysbrantsz.]. Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinge van de Oost-Indische reyse van Willem Ysbrantsz. Bontekoe van Hoorn ...
Including: [RAVEN, Dirck Albertsz.]. Journael ofte beschrijvinge van de reyse ghedaen by den Commandeur Dirck Albertsz. Raven, na Spitsberghen ...
"Sardam, Willem Willemsz., 1648." [= Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648?].
(11) [PELSAERT, François and Jeremias van VLIET]. Ongeluckige voyagie, van 't schip Batavia, nae Oost-Indien ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(12) TWIST, Johan van. Generale beschrijvinge van Indien ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(13) CARON, François. Beschrijvinge van het machtigh coninckrijcke Japan ...
Including:
- GYSBERTSZ., Reyer. Historie der martelaren ...
- KRAMMER, Coenraad. Verhael van de groote pracht ... op den feest ghehouden in de stadt van Meaco ...
- CAMPEN, Leonart. Kort verhael van 't profijt, dienst, ende nuttigheydt dat de Oost-Indische vereenighde Nederlandtsche Compagni in Japan soude genieten, by so verre sy den Chineesen handel bequaemen.
- SCHOUTEN, Joost. Beschrijvinghe van de regeeringe, macht, religie, costuymen, traffijcquen, en[de] andere remercquable saken, des Coninghrijcx Siam. Gestelt inden jare 1636 ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648. 13 works in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved general title page for the whole collection, a typographical general title page with a woodcut illustration of ships at sea, each part of the collection has its own title page (in some cases two) with a woodcut illustration (the majority the same as on the general title page). Further with 11 folding woodcut illustrations, several woodcut tailpieces, and woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties. A detailed list of contents is available upon request. Full description

€ 80,000

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How to design and inscribe sundials

ERZEY, Adrianus. Wiskonstige beschryving der reguliere lichamen, aantoonende hoe men die uit massieve stoffe kan maaken, hun inhoud berekenen, en op dezelven zonnewyzers beschryven.
Amsterdam, Jan Morterre, 1764. 8vo. With the title page printed in red and black, 12 folding engraved plates showing mathematical figures by F. de Bakker, and several woodcut tailpieces. Modern half green buckram. [10], 164, [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Astronomy & Cosmography Mathematics

Eyewitness account of the American revolution, discrediting the actions of count d'Estaing

[ESTAING, Charles Hector count d' (subject)]. Extrait du journal d'un officier de la marine de l'escadre de M. le comte d'Estaing.
[Paris?], 1782. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Charles Henry Comte d'Estaing, a woodcut device on the title page, and a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary grey wrappers. 126 pp. Full description

€ 1,750

France Military History (18th Century) North America Travel & Voyages North America

Ship building for the French navy on the eve of the French Revolution

FORFAIT, Pierre Alexandre Laurent. Traité élémentaire de la mâture des vaisseaux, à l'usage des élèves de la marine, composé & publié, d'après les ordres de monsigneur le Maréchal De Castries, ministre et secrétaire d'Etat au Département de la Marine.
Paris, Clousier, 1788. 4to. With 190 illustrations and figures on 24 folding engraved plates, by Benard. Contemporary mottled calf. XL, 294 pp. Full description

€ 1,250

France Ships & Shipbuilding

Re-issue of a greatly enlarged edition of a pharmaceutical work with over 800 recipes

FRAUNDORFFER, Philipp. Tabula smaragdina medico-pharmaceutica; in qua octingentorum, contra omnis generis morbos probatissimorum selectissimorumque medicamentorum, in nullo dispensatorio obviorum, sed partim ex optimis & hoc tempore celeberrimis practicis desumptorum, partim ab amicis communicatorum, partim ex privatis manuscriptis erutorum, partim denique propria industria inventorum, fidelis & accurata descriptio, ordine, ut vocant, alphabetico, insculpta legitur. Cum indice morborum & medicamentorum. Opus & medicis, & chirurgis, & & pharmacopoeisperutile. Revidit, emendavit, auxit Joh. Abraham. Mercklinus.
Nuremberg, Johann Fr. Rüdiger, printed by Leonhard Singer, 1726. Narrow 12mo. With a folded title page printed in red and black, and some headpieces built up from typographical ornaments.19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine, with dark green title-label. [22], 468, [48] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Medicine & Pharmacy (18th Century)

The official printed record of the most important 19th-century exploratory expedition into Indochina

GARNIER, Francis. Voyage d'exploration en Indo-Chine effectué pendant les années 1866, 1867 et 1868 par une commission Française présidiée par M. le capitaine de frégate Doudart de Lagrée et publié dans les ordres du ministre de la marine sous la direction de M. le lieutenant de vaisseau Francis Garnier avec le concours de M. Delaporte, lieutenant de vaisseau et de MM. Joubert et Thorel, médécins de la marine, membres de la commission.
Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1873. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas volume in 2 parts. Large 4to text volumes, and folio atlas. With a lithographed portrait of Doudart de Lagrée, 53 full-page maps and views, and 157 illustrations in the text. The atlas with 69 lithographed maps, plans and views. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled quarter red morocco, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, red cloth sides with blind tooled borders on the front and back, gilt edges, watered silk end papers. V, [3], 580, [4]; [6], 523, [5]; [6], XII pp. Full description

€ 35,000

Floras & General Botany Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia

The customs and legends of Malta, Syria, Lebanon, Jerusalem and Egypt

GENTIL, Emile. Souvenirs d'Orient. Anecdotes de voyage. - Légendes. - Moeurs, coutumes, etc. Détails nouveaux sur Malte, le Liban, la Syrie & l'Egypte, avec un grand nombre de dessins inédits, et les plans des principaux sanctuaires de Terre-Sainte.
Paris, Lyon, Metz, Librairie Catholique de Pétisse frères, 1856. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With 2 engravings and 4 engraved plans, one of which folding, and numerous illustrations in text by J. Verronnais after the original drawings by Emile Gentil. Original brown half morocco, gilt spine, title on spine lettered in gold. 580 pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Egypt Mediterranean Regions North America Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Middle East West Asia

First edition of Godinho's important account of his journey through India and the Middle East

GODINHO, Manuel. Relação do novo caminho que fez por terra, e mar, vindo da India para Portugal no anno de 1663.
Lisbon, Henrique Valente de Oliveira, 1665. 4to (19.5 x 14.5). With an engraved coat of arms of the dedicatee Luís de Vasconcelos e Sousa (1636-1720), 3rd Count of Castelo Melhor, at the head of the dedication, and with numerous woodcut decorated initials. 20th-century gold-tooled sprinkled brown calf, bound by the Lisbon bookbinder Frederico de Almeida. [1], [1 blank], [10], 188 pp. Full description

€ 25,000

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Attractive edition with hand-coloured personified flowers, engraved after Grandville

GRANDVILLE, Jean-Ignace-Isidore. Les fleurs animées. Texte par Alph. Karr, Taxille Delord & Le Cte Foelix. Nouvelle edition avec planches très-soigneusement retouchées pour la gravure et le coloris par M. Maubert.
Paris, Garnier Frères, 1867. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With 2 hand-coloured frontispieces, 52 steel engravings, of which 50 hand-coloured, by Ch. Geoffroy after Grandville and numerous wood-engraved vignettes in the text. Contemporary blind-tooled dark green buckram. [4], 339, [5]; [4], 324, [2] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Caricature & Satire France

Treatise on comets inspired by the Great Comet of 1811

GRUITHUISEN, Franz von Paula. Ueber die Natur der Kometen, mit Reflexionen auf ihre Bewohnbarkeit und Schicksale - Bey Gelegenheit des Kometen von 1811.
Munich, Ignatz Joseph Lentner, 1811. 8vo. With an aquatint frontispiece showing 5 illustrations above a 2-line verse by Schiller, 3 folding engraved plates, and 2 folding letterpress tables. Contemporary gold tooled mottled half sheepskin. 368 pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Astrology & Occult Astronomy & Cosmography

Captivating view of 19th-century Macao

[GUANGZHOU SCHOOL]. [A bird's-eye view of Macao].
[Macao, ca. 1849-1865]. Painting 350 x 150 cm. Watercolour on paper on contemporary wooden roll. Full description

€ 85,000

China Drawings & Watercolours

Beautiful manuscript course on projections and perspective

GUILLOT, P. Cours de dessin géométrique. Projections et perspective.
De Villeneuve, Les Béziers, 1878. Oblong large folio (31.4 x 48.7 cm). With manuscript title in black and grey ink and 39 full-page manuscript plates with beautifully drawn and professionally executed washed pendrawings and watercolours of the projections of solid bodies and of plans and designs on perspective for architects and stone cutters, all versos blank. Contemporary half red calf. [1 blank], [40], [2 blank] ll. Full description

€ 4,500

Architecture Drawings & Watercolours Education & Pedagogy Manuscripts & Documents Optics & Perspective

A spurned doctor's account of a voyage of exploration

GUILLOU, Élie le [and Jules DUMONT D'URVILLE]. Voyage autour du monde de l'Astrolabe et de la Zélée.
Paris, Brequet et Pétion, 1842. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. With 31 lithographed plates, including engraved frontispieces for both volumes and a reproduction of a letter. Contemporary gold-tooled deep purple morocco with the large gold-tooled coat of arms of the Emperor of Brazil, with the title etc. lettered in gold on the spine ("J. Arago - Voyage du Monde"), gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges, watered silk endpapers. [4], IV, 381, [1]; [4], 382, [2] pp. Full description

€ 18,000

Armorial Bindings Bindings Brazil Circumnavigation France

Over forty plates of East Africa based on daguerrotypes

GULLAIN, Charles. Documents sur l'histoire, la geographie et le commerce de l'Afrique orientale.
Paris, Arthus Bertrand, [1856-1857]. 3 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. Text volumes: 8vo; atlas volume: folio. With 55 tinted plates. Contemporary leather-backed marbled boards. XXXI, [1], 628; XXIII, [1], 556; [4], 527, [1 blank] pp. Atlas volume: [4] pp. and 55 plates. Full description

€ 35,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States East Africa Economic History & Trade Photography Saudi Arabia Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Middle East

The first complete account of the Le Maire-Schouten expedition

HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de. Novis orbis, sive descriptio Indiae Occidentalis ... Methaphraste C. Barlaeo. Accesserunt & aliorum Indiae Occidentalis descriptiones, & navigationis nuperae Australis Jacobi le Maire Historia, uti & navigationum omnium per Fretum Magellanicum succincta narratio.
Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1622. Folio. With an engraved title, 17 engraved maps (1 folding, 16 double-page), a full-page portrait, and 4 half-page illustrations in the text. Later three-quarter vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, sprinkled paper sides, red edges. [4], "81" [=84], [2], "9" [=10], 11, [1 blank] ll. Full description

€ 20,000

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Unveiling Australia and the New World

HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de. Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis. Nieuwe werelt, anders ghenaempt West-Indien.
Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1622.
With:
(2) ORDONNEZ DE CEVALLES, Pedro. Eyghentlijcke beschryvinghe van West-Indien, hoe die landen en provintien gheleghen zijn op wat maniere dat men die door reysen sal: ende wat rijckdommen van gout en silver elcke plaetse begrijpt.
Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1621.
(3) [LE MAIRE, Jacques]. Spieghel der Australische navigatie door den wijt vermaerden ende cloeckmoedighen zee-heldt Jacob Le Maire, president ende overste over de twee schepen, d' Eendracht ende Hoorn, uytghevaren den 14 Junii 1615.
Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1622.
3 works in 1 volume. Small folio. With an engraved title, 17 engraved folding maps, an engraved portrait, 5 engraved plates in text, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine. [6], 111; 29; [16], 98 pp. Full description

€ 20,000

Circumnavigation Middle America Pacific Islands South America Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific Travel & Voyages South America West Indies

Fine work illustrating the cities, ports, and factories of the Dutch East India Company in Asia and Africa

HEYDT, Johann Wolffgang. Allerneuester Geographisch und Topographischer Schau-Platz, von Africa und Ost-Indien.
Nuremberg, C. Tetschner, 1744. Oblong folio (31 x 36.5 cm). With 115 numbered engraved maps and plates, an engraved frontispiece, and an engraved title page. Contemporary vellum, with the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, red edges. [24], 345, [4] pp. Full description

€ 17,500

City Plans, Topography & Views India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Iran / Persia Southern Africa Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia VOC

Rare collected poetical works of a learned magistrate from Zierikzee

HOFFERUS, Adrianus. Nederduytsche Poëmata ...
Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1635. 4to. With an allegorical title page engraved by Crispijn de Passe the Younger and 22 half-page engraved emblematical plates in a roundel (with a diameter of ca. 12 cm) bordered in squares (of ca. 12 x 12 cm) of which five probably by Crispijn de Passe the Younger (on pp. 17, 19, 116, 283 and 337).
Contemporary overlapping vellum. [40], 400 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Dutch Literature Zeeland

The Dutch East Indies before the introduction of capitalism, dedication copy by the author

HOGENDORP, Carel Sirardus Willem van. Coup d'oeil sur l'ile de Java et les autres possessions Néerlandaises dans l'archipel des Indes.
Brussels, C.J. de Mat, 1830. 4to. With a steel engraved view of Chateau de Buitenzorg, by Lauters after the engraving by Titsingh and 1 folding map, coloured in outlines, of Java and the other Dutch posessions in the Far East, engraved by F. Callens. Contemporary elaborately gold- and blind-stamped dark blue morocco. XII, 422, [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Economic History & Trade History / 19th Century Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Netherlands Southeast Asia

Monumental volume of Hooft’s collected works, published in 1704

HOOFT, Pieter Corneliszoon and David van HOOGSTRATEN (editor). Mengelwerken, ten deele nooit te vooren gedrukt. Nu op veele plaatsen verbetert en vermeerdert.
Amsterdam, Henrik Wetstein en Pieter Scepérus; Leiden, Daniel van den Dalen; and Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1704. Folio. With an engraved title page by A. Bloteling after G. de Lairesse, the typographical title page printed in red and black with a large engraved printers device with the motto "Nutt en Vermaeckelyk" and the initials of the publishers in the oval border of a pastoral scene, by Gilliam van de Gouwe after Joseph Mulder, a full-page engraved portrait of King Henry IV of France, 30 half-page engraved fine emblematic plates for the Minnezinne-beelden (from the same plates as used for the original 1611 edition of the Emblemata amatoria), by Christoph le Blon († 1665), P. Serwouters (1586-1657), or Jan Pinas (1582-1631)? Each emblem with mottoes in Dutch, Latin and French, followed by three distichs in Dutch, Latin (by C.G. Plemp), and French (by R.J. de Nérée); engraved initials. Contemporary half red sheepskin (roan). [44], 1-597, (598-612), 613-758, [2] pp. Full description

€ 400

Dutch Literature

With 16 allegorical etchings by Romeyn de Hooghe

HOOGHE, Romeyn de. Spiegel van staat des Vereenigde Nederlands. Waar in de macht en ''t vry bestier, van yder der Zeven verbonde Provincien en haar byzondere steeden, zo in rechten als regeeringen werd ontvouwd. aanwyzende aan, de in, en uytheemschen, alle de hooge en lage rechbanken, collegien en ampten, dewelke in de zelve, tot dienst van den staat, en het recht, zyn ingesteld.
Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1706-1707. 2 volumes, volume 1 in 6 parts, volume 2 in 8 parts. 4to. With an etched frontispiece at the start of each volume, 16 folding etched allegorical plates, and 2 vignettes in the text. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [14], 480, 55, 143, 44, [4]; [16], 335, 339, [8] pp. Full description

€ 1,350

Law & Politics Netherlands VOC WIC

Containing the world map with the portraits of Vespucci, Drake, Cavendish, and El Cano, first Hulsius illustrated edition of Houtman’s voyage

HOUTMAN, Cornelis de and Levinus HULSIUS (translator). Erste Schiffart. Kurtze warhafftige Beschreibung der Newen Reyse oder Schiffart so die Hollendischen Schiff in den Orientalischen Indien verricht: welche Anno 1595. In Martio, alda aussgefahren und erst im Augusto des verlauffenen 1597. Jahrs wider kommen seind. Darinne der gantz Sueces der Reyse... erzehlt wird.
Nürnberg, In verlegung Levinius Hulsius [printed by Christoph Lochner], 1599. 4to. With a double-page world map, and 11 plates and maps. 19th-century gold-tooled straight-grain green morocco, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, an elaborate gold border on both boards, ornaments on the spine, gold-tooled turn-ins. [4], 76 pp. Full description

€ 12,500

Indonesia / Dutch East Indies

A teenage sailor’s adventures in Arabia, Mumbai and elsewhere

JAMES, Silas. A narrative of a voyage to Arabia, India; &c; ...; with remarks on the genius and disposition of the natives of Arabia Felix; ...
London, printed by William Glindon, sold by the author, [1797]. 8vo. With a frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by William Newman. Modern dark brown calf, gold-tooled spine. “VI” [= VIII], 7, [1 blank], [1], 10-232 pp. Full description

€ 8,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States India & Sri Lanka Iran / Persia Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages Southern Asia

An exquisite example of a "Nanban Byobu" (or "Southern Barbarian screen");
a beautiful visual record of the encounter between the Japanese and the Portuguese

[JAPANESE FOLDING SCREEN - NANBAN BYOBU - THE PORTUGUESE IN JAPAN]. [A Japanese folding screen, specifically a nanban byôbu, depicting the arrival of a Portuguese ship in Japan].
[Japan, late Edo period (1615-1868)]. 104 x 272 cm (each illustrated panel: ca. 90.5 x 44.5 cm). Ink, watercolours, gold paint, and gold leaf on paper. The image is surrounded by a frame of silk brocade (a narrow frame in burgundy and gold and a wider frame in yellow, gold, and black, with a clear floral pattern; together the frame is 5 cm wide), the whole is mounted on six roiro (black) lacquered wood panels, with gilt metal fittings on the outer corners of the outer panels. The panels are backed with decorative paper. [6 panels]. Full description

€ 85,000

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Royal instructions, drafted for the Archbishop of Goa, with anti-Jesuit themes

JOSÉ I, King of Portugal. Instrucçõens com que el Rey meu senhor manda passar ao Estado da India o reverendo Arcebispo de Goa primaz do Oriente.
[Lisbon?, dated 10 February 1774 at the foot of each of the six Instrucçõens]. Folio. Manuscript on paper, written in a neat secretarial hand. Contemporary gold-tooled brown calf. [2 blank], [4], [68], [2], [4 blank] ll. Full description

€ 16,500

India & Sri Lanka Jesuits Portugal Religion (18th Century)

Fascinating album of mid-19th-century drawings of South America, the Pacific, and Tahiti

KERRET, René de. Album de mon voyage en Oceanie.
[Various places: Oceania, South America, etc., 1852-1855]. Oblong 4to (20.6 x 27.5 cm). With 62 full-page drawings, including the title page, including 22 coloured or heightened in white. Numbered 1-61 and 12bis, each inscribed and dated in the lower margin. Contemporary half gold-stamped leather, gold-tooled spine. Full description

€ 40,000

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Spectacular 18th-century Dutch composite sea atlas with 3 detailed manuscript charts,
all charts and the engraved title page expertly coloured by a contemporary hand

[KEULEN, Gerard and Johannes van, and others]. [Composite sea atlas containing 56 detailed charts including 3 manuscript charts].
Amsterdam, [Johannes van Keulen and others, 1700-1753, engraved title page dated 1734]. Large folio (61.5 x40.5 cm). With an engraved allegorical title page by Aernout Nagtegael after Jan Luyken, and 56 detailed sea charts, the whole expertly coloured by a contemporary hand. The atlas includes 22 large folding charts, including 3 highly interesting manuscript charts, 27 double-page charts, 1 full-page chart, and 6 half-page charts, most of them with beautiful cartouches, depicting views, local people, and merchandise. The maps are engraved and originally edited by the most famous Dutch cartographers and map-publishers of the late 17th- and early 18th centuries. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, with green cloth closing ties. Title page and 56 charts. Full description

€ 495,000

Atlases & Globes Charts & Maps China Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Japan & Far East Navigation Southeast Asia

The original and best edition of an important circumnavigation and Russian expedition
to the Bering Strait during the years 1815-1818

KOTZEBUE, Otto von. Entdeckungs-Reise in die Süd-See und nach der Berings-Strasse zur Erforschung einer nordöstlichen Durchfahrt. Unternommen in den Jahren 1815, 1816, 1817 und 1818, auf Kosten Sr. Erlaucht des Herren Reichs-Kanzlers Grafen Rumanzoff auf dem Schiffe Rurick unter dem Befehle des Lieutenants der Russisch-Kaiserlichen Marine Otto von Kotzebue.
Weimar, Hoffmann Brothers, 1821. 3 parts in 1 volume. Large 4to. With 6 engraved maps, 4 folding double-page etched aquatints by Paul Anton Skerl and Carl Ermer after Ludwig Choris, 4 hand coloured full-page engraved portraits of indigenous men and women (of which 3 facing the title-pages of the 3 parts), 11 hand coloured full-page engraved plates (numbered I-XI in the plate) of butterflies by Carl Ermer after Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz, 1 full-page engraved plate of skulls, 2 folding printed tables, and several tables and schemes in the text. With a divisional title page for parts 2 and 3. Contemporary half marbled leather. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 91, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [93]-168 pp.; 176 pp.; [1], [1 blank], "240" [= 241], [4], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], XVIII pp. Full description

€ 12,500

Alaska Arctic & Antarctic Circumnavigation North America Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific Travel & Voyages South America

Autograph of La Pérouse requesting 400 metres of canvas for his schooner

LA PÉROUSE, Jean-François de Galaup de. [Short autograph note signed by La Pérouse].
[At sea, ca. 1781-1785]. Short manuscript note in ink on a small sheet of laid paper (12 x 13.5 cm). Full description

€ 18,500

Autographs & Letters Caribbean Islands Middle America Naval History North America Ships & Shipbuilding Travel & Voyages North America West Indies

The Pacific in your hand, three famous related voyages
all in their first edition in contemporary uniform bindings

LA PÉROUSE, Jean Francois de Galaup de. Voyage autour du monde.
Paris, Imprimerie de la République, An V (= 1797).
With:
(2) LABILLARDIÉRE, Jacques Julien Houton de. Voyage à la recherche de Lapérouse.
Paris, H.J. Jansen, An VIII (= 1799-1800).
(3) ENTRECASTEAUX, Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni, chevalier d'. Voyage envoyé à la recherche de Lapérouse.
Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1808. 9 volumes: ad 1 in 4 volumes; ad 2 in 2 volumes; ad 3 in 2 volumes, with the atlases of the 3 works bound together in 1 volume. 4to (30 x ca. 23 cm.) and large folio (ca. 57 x 40 cm.). Ad 1: with an engraved portrait of De la Pérouse by Tardieu and tables in the text. The atlas contains an engraved title page, 1 large double-page folding map of De la Pérouse's journey, 20 double-page maps, and 48 full-page maps, views, and illustrations. Ad 2: with tables in the text. The atlas contains an engraved title page, 1 double-page map, and 43 full-page plates. Ad 3: with 33 folding engraved plates and with tables in the text. The atlas contains an engraved title page, an engraved table of contents, 37 large double-page folding maps, 2 large double-page folding views, and 10 full-page maps and illustrations. The three atlases for ads 1-3 are bound together in a large folio matching contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf binding. Contemporary uniform gold-tooled marbled calf, richly gold-tooled spines with a red title-label and a small green volume number label, both lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges, marbled endpapers. Full description

€ 85,000

Australia Circumnavigation Pacific Islands Travel & Voyages Australia Travel & Voyages Pacific

First Dutch translation of voyages in search of a Northwest Passage by Munk, Frobisher and Lindenau, illustrated by Van Sichem

[LA PEYRÈRE, Isaac de - VOYAGES OF MUNK, FROBISHER and LINDENAU]. Drie voyagien gedaen na Groenlandt, om te ondersoecken of men door de Naeuwte Hudson soude konnen seylen; om alsoo een doorvaert na Oost-Indien te vinden...
Amsterdam, Gillis Joosten Saeghman, [ca. 1665]. 4to. With woodcut vignette on title-page, 16 further woodcuts on integral leaves and a woodcut ship in a cartouche, woodcut decorated initials, and decorative bands built up from cast fleurons. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. Late 19th-century vellum, spine with title stamped in black. 32 pp. Full description

€ 28,500

Arctic & Antarctic Canada & Greenland Fishery & Whaling Travel & Voyages North America

Important scientific and trade voyage around the world

LAPLACE, Cyrille Pierre Théodore. Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de Chine ... exécuté sur la corvette de l'état La Favorite pendant les années 1830, 1831 et 1832.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale (views volume: Arthus Bertrand; map volume: Dépôt-Générale de la Marine), 1833-1835. 4 text volumes (8vo), 1 views volume (folio) and 1 atlas volume (1mo, 66 x 51 cm). With 1 folding engraved map in the first text volume, 2 full-page maps and 10 maps on 9 double-page plates in the "atlas hydrographique", and 72 extraordinary aquatint plates (ca. 27 x 36 cm) in the "album historique", most of them with the blind-stamped image of the ship La Favorite (15 x 28 mm). Contemporary half dark green calf, gold-tooled spines. [4], XLI, 558, [2]; [4], 481, [1]; [4], 510, [2]; [4], 480; [4] pp. Full description

€ 45,000

Anthropology & Ethnography Brazil Charts & Maps China Circumnavigation City Plans, Topography & Views Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Latin America Pacific Islands Philippines South America Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages Pacific Travel & Voyages South America Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia

Around the world in 1180 days, with 2 folding maps and 31 steel-engraved views

LAPLACE, Cyrille Pierre Théodore. Campagne de circumnavigation de la frégate l'Artémise, pendant les annéees 1837, 1838, 1839 et 1840, ... Tome premier[-sixième].
Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1841-1854. 6 volumes. 8vo. With 2 large folding engraved maps and 31 steel-engraved views. With the maps coloured in outline or partly coloured, and with the routes indicated and coloured. Contemporary boards, covered with the publisher's original green printed paper. XXXIX, [1 blank], 343, [1 blank], [3], [1 blank]; [3], [1 blank], 467, [1 blank], [3], [1 blank]; [3], [1 blank], 548, [1], [1 blank]; [3], [1 blank], 464, [3], [1 blank]; [3], [1 blank], III, [1 blank], 542, [2]; [3], [1 blank], 400 pp. Full description

€ 16,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Circumnavigation Economic History & Trade France Hawaii Pacific Islands Peru Travel & Voyages Pacific

The most important work in American western exploration, with the original folding map

LEWIS, Merriwether and William CLARK. History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri Thence across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean, Performed During the Years 1804-5-6 [with map:] Map of Lewis and Clark's Track, Across the Western Portion of North America from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean
Philadelphia, 1814. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a large folding engraved map, and 5 full-page engraved charts. Modern gold-tooled half calf over cloth-covered boards, faux raised bands to spine, with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold on either spine, further with the volume numbers and place and date of publication lettered in gold on the spine. XXVIII, 470, [2 blank]; IX, [1], 522 pp. Full description

€ 70,000

Charts & Maps North America Travel & Voyages North America USA - United States of America

Under sail and siege: a first-hand account of the Dutch war for Malacca

[L'HERMITE, Jacques]. Breeder verhael ende klare beschrijvinge van tghene den admirael Cornelis Matelief de Jonge inde Oost-Indien voor de stadt Malacca, ende int belegh der zelver wederbaren is: als ooc den vreesselijcken strijdt ter zee / tusschen den admirael voorschreven ende de portugijsen ende andere geschiedenissen meer. overgeschreven by eenen der commisen inde vlote.
Rotterdam, Jan Janssz., 1608. 4to. With a woodcut illustration on the title page representing a fleet arriving at the port of Malacca, one woodcut initial and a woodcut tailpiece. 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco. [9] ll. Full description

€ 18,000

Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Malaysia Military History (17th Century) Naval History Travel & Voyages Asia VOC

Opening the East for trade for the Dutch and the English

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van. Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert, ... naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien ...
Amsterdam, Cornelis Claesz., [1595-] 1596.
With:
(2) IDEM. Reys-gheschrift van de navigatien der Portugaloysers in Orienten ...
Including: IDEM. Een seker extract ende sommier van alle de renten, domeynen, tollen, ... importen, trubuyten, thienden, derde-penninghen en[de] incomsten des coninghs van Spaengien ...
Amsterdam, Cornelis Claesz., 1596 [= 1595].
(3) IDEM. Beschijvinghe van de gantsche custe van Guinea, Manicongo, Angola, Monomotapa, ende teghen over de Cabo de S. Augustijn in Brasilien ...
Amsterdam, Cornelis Claesz., 1596. 4 parts in 1 volume. Small folio (ca. 31 x 21 cm). With 6 folding maps, 36 folding or double-page plates, a full-page author's portrait, and a large illustration on each of the 4 divisional title pages, all engraved. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum over modern boards (?), with the manuscript author, title, and year of publication on the spine, red and blue sprinkled edges. [8], 160; 134, [4], 135-147; [82], [2 blank], [8] pp. Full description

€ 95,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Brazil East Africa Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Navigation North America South America Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages South America Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia West Africa West Indies

Influential guide to the East and West Indies, featuring 42 double-page and folding plates,
including 6 detailed maps.

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van. Histoire de la navigation... aux Indes Orientales. Contenant diverses descriptions des lieux jusques à present descouverts par les Portugais: observations de coustumes & singularitez de delà, & autres declarations. Deuxiesme edition augmentee.
Including: LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen van. Le grand routier de mer, ...
[LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van]. Description de lAmerique & des parties dicelle ...
Amsterdam, Evert Cloppenburg, 1619. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 2 parts. Folio (31 x 21 cm) With an engraved title page for each work, 42 engraved plates (31 double-page and 11 folding), including 6 maps, and a full-page portrait of the author within collation. Near-contemporary gold-tooled calf. [1], [1 blank], [6], "205" [= 206]; [1], [1 blank], [2], 181, [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], "86" [= 80]. Full description

€ 40,000

Brazil China Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Japan & Far East Navigation North America Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific Travel & Voyages South America

Famous work on the Middle East, illustrated with very early photogravures of the Holy Land

LUYNES, Honoré d'Albert de. Voyage d'exploration à la mer Morte, à Petra et sur la rive gauche du Jourdain. ... Oeuvre posthume publiée par ses petit-fils sous la direction de M. le Comte de Vogüé.
Paris, Arthus Bertrand (on back of half-title: printed by E. Martinet (vols. 1-2) and Arnous de Rivière (vol. 3)), [1874]. 3 volumes of text and 1 atlas of plates. Imperial 4to (35.2 x 26.5 cm). With 14 numbered lithographed plates in volume 3 (4 double-page chromolithographed maps, views and geological sections; 2 further geological plates and 8 plates showing archaeological specimens), 85 plates in the atlas volume (including 65 photogravures and double-page chromolithographed maps) and numerous wood-engravings in the text. Set in roman and italic types with occasional passages in Greek and especially Arabic. Text volumes in original publisher's letterpress-printed light blue wrappers, atlas in half cloth portfolio with the original publisher's letterpress-printed paper sides, matching the text volumes; the 4 volumes preserved in 2 modern black half calf clamshell boxes. [8], 388; [6], 226; [4], VI, 326; [4] pp. Full description

€ 35,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Archaeology Colour Printing / Chromolithography Photography Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East

Rare oration announcing the latest Portuguese conquests to the newly elected pope

[MANUEL I, king of Portugal, and Diego PACHEGO]. Emanuelis Lusitan. Algarbior. Africae Aethiopiae Arabiae Persiae Indiae reg. invictiss obedientia.
[Rome, Marcello Silber, 1514]. Small 4to (ca. 19.5 x 14 cm). With the woodcut coat of arms of King Manuel I on the title page, surrounded by a woodcut floral border. 19th-century decorative paper with a pattern of green flowers. [1], [1 blank], [14] pp. Full description

€ 75,000

Early Printing - 16th century East Africa Law & Politics North Africa Portugal Southern Africa

A notable narrative with detailed information on Northwest America, in splendid bindings

MARCHAND, Étienne and Charles Pierre Claret de FLEURIEU. Voyage autour du monde, pendant les anneés 1790, 1791 et 1792, par Étienne Marchand, précédé d'une introduction historique; auquel on a joint des recerches sur les terres Australes de Drake, et un examen critique du voyage de Roggeween.
Paris, De l'imprimerie de la République, [1798-1800]. 6 volumes: 5 text volumes and 1 atlas. Large 8vo (23 x 15 cm) and 4to atlas. With 3 folding tables with vocabulary in 3rd volume and 15 engraved maps and 1 engraved plate in atlas volume. Contemporary light brown calf, gold-tooled spine gilt with star and flower pattern and 2 red morocco title labels, gold-tooled ornamental borders on the boards, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges (COURTEVAL). [4], VIII, CCI, [3], 294, [2]; VII, [1], 529, [1]; [2], VIII, 474, [2]; VIII, 494, [2]; XII, 559, [5]; [2], VIII, 158, [2] pp. Full description

€ 27,500

Alaska Anthropology & Ethnography Bindings Canada & Greenland Charts & Maps Hawaii Navigation North America Pacific Islands Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific

Very rare edition of an extremely popular history of the most famous
and daring Dutch pirate of the 17th century

[MARITIME HISTORY - PIRACY - CLAES COMPAEN]. 't Begin, midden en eynde der zee-rooveryen, van den alder-fameusten zee-roover, Claes G. Compaen, van Oostzanen in Kennemer-landt. Vervattende sijn wonderlijcke vreemde en lands schadelijcke drijf-tochten. Waer in vertoont wordt, hoe hy met weyningh schepen de zee onveyligh gemaeckt, een ongelooflijcke buyt, en groot getal van schepen van alle landen gerooft ende afgeloopen heeft
Amsterdam, widow of Gijsbert de Groot, 1697. 8vo. With a large woodcut illustration of a Dutch merchant ship on the title page, three woodcut illustrations in the text (including 1 repeat of the title page illustration), and one large decorated woodcut initial. Later greyish-brown wrappers. [1], [1 blank], [4], 42 pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Dutch Literature Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks

Japan through the eyes of the last Dutch governor of Deshima (Nagasaki)

MEIJLAN, Germain Felix. Japan. Voorgesteld in schetsen over de zeden en gebruiken van dat ryk, byzonder over de ingezetenen der stad Nagasaky.
Amsterdam, M. Westerman & son, 1830. 8vo. With an engraved title page with a hand-coloured vignette heightened with gold, and 2 folding aquatint plates. Near-contemporary half green cloth. [1], [1 blank], [engraved title page], [10], 190, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,750

Japan & Far East

The first edition of the spectacular Mercator-Hondius atlas, a milestone in cartographic history

MERCATOR, Gerardus and Jodocus HONDIUS (publisher). Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabrica figura. Iam tandem ad finem perductus, quamplurimis aeneis tabulis Hispaniae, Africae, Asiae & Americae auctus ac illustratus à Judoco Hondio. Quibus etiam additae (praeter Mercatoris) dilucidae & accuratae omnium tabularum descriptiones novae, studio et opera Pet. Montani.
Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1606. Folio. With an engraved title page and 144 mostly double-page maps, each with a signature (E-7T) and with explanatory texts on the recto of the first and on the verso of the second fol. (the text pages on the rectos and versos of the maps are paginated 33-354). Original gold- and blind-tooled calf, re-cased, the original leather pasted to the new boards. With a large blind-tooled centrepiece in a blind-tooled lozenge frame, within a blind-tooled rectangle frame, gold-tooled smaller and larger corner pieces and a gold-tooled floral frame along the edges of the boards, both boards show the same design. Further with the title lettered in gold on the spine, and red edges. [16], 354, [12] pp. [+ 8 + 4 + 4 + 8 = 24 pp. for the indexes]. Full description

€ 125,000

Atlases & Globes World Atlases & Maps

Clerical clothing of Regular Canons

MOLINET, Charles du. Figures des differents habits des Chanoines Reguliers en ce siecle. Avec un discours sur les habits anciens et modernes des Chanoines tant seculiers, que reguliers.
Paris, Simeon Piget, 1666. 4to. With an engraved title-page, 2 engraved headpieces, 1 engraved tailpiece, 2 finely engraved initials and 31 full-page engraved illustrations of the clerical clothing of Regular Canons from numerous European countries. All engraved by Le Doyen. Contemporary vellum. [6], "144" [= 140], [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,650

France Religion (17th Century)

The "creation" of descriptive geometry

MONGE, Gaspard. Géométrie descriptive. Cinquième édition; augmentée d'une théorie des ombres et de la perspective, extraite des papiers de l'auteur, par M. Brisson.
Paris, Bachelier (Successeur de Mme Ve Courcier), 1827. 4to. With 53 illustrations on perspective projections of geometrical bodies, in all positions in space and connections with each other, on 28 folding engraved plates by Stevigny after designs by the author. Contemporary half beige morocco. XX, 188 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Mathematics Optics & Perspective

The shipwreck of the floating islands loaded with the vices of the world

[MORELLY, Etienne-Gabriel]. Naufrage des isles flottantes; ou Basiliade du célébre Pilpai. Poéme heroique. Traduit de l'indien par Mr. M******.
A Messine (Paris), Par une Société de Libraires, 1753. 2 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece with the portrait of the "author/translator", both titles printed in red and black, and two engraved title vignettes. Contemporary marbled calf with triple gilt fillet along the edges. (4), XLI, (1), 216; (4), 307 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

France French Literature Imaginary Voyages & Utopias

With the rare map of the North Pole

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, Baffins 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

€ 6,500

Arctic & Antarctic Charts & Maps Travel & Voyages Europe

The wonders of nature

MUNERELLE & LEMAITRE. Les phénomènes et les curiosités de la nature. Texte par Munerelle. Dessins par Lemaitre.
Strasbourg, Paris, Derivaux, Arthus-Bertrand, Martinon, 1856. Large 4to. With lithographed aquatint printed in sepia on title with a view of a burning vulcano, and 37 full-page colour-printed lithographed plates, beautifully finished by hand and glazed, all depicting natural phenomena, such as a sun-rise, a storm, a rainbow, the Niagara Falls, Geysers, The Andes, the Nile, the Vesuvius, a jungle, the steppe, cliffs, mines, the tide, the Poles, a cyclone, an undersea volcano, etc., also including natural disasters, like a flood, an earthquake, and an avalanche. Original gold-stamped half brown leather. [92] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Arctic & Antarctic Bindings Ceylon Children's Books India & Sri Lanka Ireland Museums & Wunderkammer North America Scotland

Detailed and richly illustrated 17th-century description of Brazil and the West and East Indies

NIEUHOF, Johan. Gedenkweerdige Brasiliaense zee- en lant- reize ...
Amsterdam, widow of Jacob van Meurs, 1682.
With: (2) NIEUHOF, Johan. Zee en lant-reize, door verscheide gewesten van Oostindien ... en inzonderheit een wijtloopig verhael der stad Batavia.
Amsterdam, widow of Jacob van Meurs, 1682. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved general title page, 2 typographical title pages for the two works with Van Meurs' woodcut vignette, the first printed in red and black. Ad 1 with a full-page engraved coat of arms of the dedicatee Nicolaas Witsen, a full-page engraved portrait of the author, and 14 engraved plates (1 double-page map, 2 double-page plates, 2 full-page, and 9 half-page in the text). Further with 6 woodcut decorated initials. Ad 2 with 69 engraved plates (3 double-page maps, 26 double-page plates, 16 full-page plates, and 16 half-page plates in the text), 6 woodcut decorated initials, and 1 woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, manuscript title on the spine. [4 blank], [12], "240" [=246], [2]; [4], "308" [=310], [4], [4 blank] pp. Full description

€ 12,500

Brazil Indonesia / Dutch East Indies South America Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages South America Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia

Against Spinoza: fighting a methodical struggle against rationalism

NIEUWENTIJT, Bernard. Gronden van zekerheid of de regte betoogwyse der wiskundige so in het denkbeeldige, als in het zakelyke: ter wederlegging van Spinosaas denkbeeldig samenstel; en ter aanleiding van eene sekere sakelyke wysbegeerte.
Amsterdam, Joannes Pauli, 1720. 4to. With the title printed in red and black with engraved vignette by J. Mulder, woodcut decorated initials and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum. [1], [1 blank], [54], 458 pp. Full description

€ 400

Mathematics Philosophy & Humanism

The first book ever printed in Setúbal

[ORDER OF SANTIAGO - RULES AND STATUTES]. Regra, statutos, e diffinções[!] da ordem de Sanctiaguo.
(Colophon:) Setúbal, Herman de Kempis, 13 December 1509. Folio. With a xylographic title, 4 woodcut illustrations (3 full-page and partly hand-coloured, 1 in the text), the partly hand-coloured woodcut coat of arms of the order as a tailpiece at the end of the text, a decorative woodcut border on the first page of the prologue, and numerous decorated woodcut initials. The first three leaves and fol. XCVI are supplied in facsimile. Late 19th- or early 20th-century gold-tooled quarter brown-burgundy goatskin, burgundy pebble-grained cloth sides, with the title and year of publication lettered in gold on the spine, marbled end papers, red edges. The work is kept in a mottled brown leather slipcase with a front flap, with the title and publication details lettered in gold on the spine. [3], CXV ll. Full description

€ 15,000

Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century Law & Politics Military History (16th Century) Portugal Religion (16th Century)

Ottsens account of the the first Dutch Voyage to South America, Brazil,
and the Rio de la Plata, and the first account of Buenos Aires as known today

OTTSEN, Hendrick. [Journal] Oft dagheliicx-register van de voyagie na Rio de Plata, ghedaen met het schip ghenoemt de Silveren Werelt.
Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1617. Oblong 4to (ca. 23 x 17 cm). With 5 full-page engraved plates. 19th-century citron calf, housed in a quarter morocco with back cloth clamshell case. [2], 54 pp. Full description

€ 25,000

South America Travel & Voyages South America

The Joyous Entry of the Duke of Alençon in Antwerp

[PAMPHLET - DUTCH REVOLT]. Blyde inkomste vanden Hertoghe van Alencon in date den neghenthienden februarij int jaer vijfthien-hondert ende twee-en-tachtentich besloten tot Antwerpen.
The Hague, widow and heirs of Hillebrandt Jacobsz van Wouw, 1634. 4to. Large woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials. Modern beige paper wrappers, with a white label ("574") on the front wrapper. [1], [1 blank], 33, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Antwerp Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks France

One of the first accounts of a Spanish Muslim’s journey to Mecca

PAÑO Y RUATA, Mariano de. Las coplas del peregrino de Puey Monçón viaje á la Meca en el siglo XVI.
Zaragoza, Comas Hermanos, 1897. 8vo. With a facsimile of one page of the Arabic manuscript, a photographic view of the Kaaba, a double-page map and at the end a list of the books available in the Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana. Contemporary black half sheepskin, letterpress title-label on spine. XLVI, [2], 303, [1 blank]; [8] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Arabic Printing & Calligraphy Islamic Art, Culture & Science Spain Travel & Voyages Middle East

A "Histoire secret" or "Roman a clef" of the French during "La 'Régence"

[PECQUET, Antoine]. Memoires secrets pour servir a l'histoire de Perse.
Amsterdam, La Compagnie, 1745. Small 8vo. With a very fine allegorical woodcut vignette on the title page: "Vis Unita Major", the title is printed in red and black. Further with a woodcut headpiece and two woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco. (12), 265, (39) pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Caricature & Satire France History / 18th Century Iran / Persia

Rivals at Encounter Bay: the Baudin–Freycinet expedition and the first printed map of Australia

PÉRON, François Auguste and Louis Claude de Saulses de FREYCINET. Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes, fait par ordre du gouvernement, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste et la goëlette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804 ...
Paris, limprimerie imperial, 1807-16.
With:
(2) IDEM. Voyage de découertes aux Terres Australes navigation et geographe.
Paris, de l'Imprimerie royale, 1815. 4 volumes. Large 4to and folio. With the plate volume, the first part contains 40 plates, including a map, 5 coloured coastal profiles, 14 ethnographic plates, of which 8 are coloured, 8 other views, one of which is coloured and 2 folding, including Lesueurs view of Sydney, 11 natural history plates, 9 coloured, 1 technical plate, and 1 engraved vignette on the title page. The second part contains 14 maps, 2 of which are double-page folding. There is also 1 text volume with a portrait of F. Péron and 2 folding tables. Uniformly bound by Bayntun in 19th-century three-quarter brown morocco, marbled boards, with the title, year, and volume number lettered in gold on the spine. [3], [1 blank], XV, [1 blank], 496, [2]; [2]; XXXI, [1 blank], 471, [1 blank] pp.; plate volume: [60] ll.; ad 2: "VXI" [= XVI], 576 pp. Full description

€ 20,000

Anthropology & Ethnography Australia Charts & Maps Travel & Voyages Australia

Exceptional Portolan chart, likely made by famed cartographer and chart maker, Luis Texeira

[PORTOLAN CHART - Luis TEXEIRA]. [Portolan chart of the Mediterranean basin].
[Iberian peninsula, second half of the 16th century, before 1574?]. 96 x 61 cm. Manuscript nautical chart on a single sheet of vellum, centred on the Mediterranean basin. Full description

€ 325,000

Charts & Maps Early Printing - 16th century Manuscripts & Documents Mediterranean Regions Navigation

The fateful Dutch expedition of the Strait of Magellan

POTGIETER, Barent Janszoon. Historisch ende wijdtloopigh verhael, van 'tghene de vijf schepen (die int jaer 1698 tot Rotterdam toegherust zijn, om door de Straet Magellana haren handel te dryven) wedervaren is, tot den 7. September 1599. op welcken dagh Capiteyn Sebald de Weerdt, met twee schepen door onweder vande vlote versteken ist.
Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1617. Oblong 4to (ca. 24 x 18 cm). With an engraved vignette on the title page, and 8 full-page engraved plates. Later gold-tooled sprinkled calf, with the title and imprint lettered in gold on the spine, a double fillet border on both boards. [1], 73 ll. Full description

€ 11,000

South America Travel & Voyages South America

One of the greatest of English travel books: the first edition of the "Pilgrimes"
together with the fourth and best edition of the "Pilgrimage" - with many extra plates

PURCHAS, Samuel. Purchas his pilgrimes. In five bookes. ...
London, printed by William Stansby for Henry Featherstone, 1625.
With:
(2) PURCHAS, Samuel. Purchas his pilgrimage ...
London, printed by William Stansby for Henry Featherstone, 1626.
2 works in 5 volumes, the first in 5 parts, 4 volumes and the second in 4 parts, 1 volume. Folio. Ad 1 with the engraved frontispiece, 5 folding engraved maps, 58 half-page engraved maps by Hondius, 2 full-page engraved plates (including 1 folding), 5 half-page engraved plates, and numerous woodcut illustrations. Further extra illustrated with 94 engravings taken from various late 16th- or early 17th-century travelogues: 1 engraved frontispiece, 1 title-page (with an engraved world map on recto and an engraved portrait of Jacob le Maire on verso), and 92 engraved maps or plates (including 48 half-page and 18 folding). Ad 2 with 1 folding engraved map of China, 1 half-page engraved illustration, and 23 half-page engraved maps by Hondius in the text. Uniform 19th-century black tooled brown morocco (by Hatton, Manchester), spines lettered in gold, gold-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Full description

€ 110,000

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Magnificent Dutch sea atlas of the world

RENARD, Louis. Atlas van zeevaert en koophandel door de geheele weereldt. Vertoonende in bizondere op elkander volgende kaerten, alle desselfs zeekusten en haevens; met beschryvingen van de natuur, voortbrengsels, handwerksels, godsdiensten, bestier en koophandel van alle gewesten, &c. Voorheen in de Fransche taele uytgegeven door den heer Louis Renard, agent van zyne Majesteit van Groot-Brittannien. En nu alle de kaerten op 't naeukeurigste met hulpe van voornaeme kundigen naer de laetste ontdekkingen vernieuwt; en een groot getal plaetsen neevens verscheide nieuwe kaerten daer ingebragt. Door Reinier en Iosua Ottens. De beschryvingen met veele vereischte zaeken vermeedert, en naer den tegenwoordigen tydt geschikt. By de nieuwe kaerten, beschryvingen gevoegt; en met natuurkundige aenmerkingen over de sterre- en aerdtrykskunde, zeën en winden &c. verrykt. Door Ian van den Bosch Melchiorsz.
Amsterdam, Reinier & Josua Ottens, 1745. Large folio (55 x 36.5 cm). With an engraved title page, a letterpress title page printed in red and black, an engraved dedication, 4 large folding maps (ca. 52 x 90-150 cm) and 28 double page maps, the majority with striking allegorical cartouches and all beautifully contemporary hand coloured in outline and with additional gouache washes. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine in nine compartments with a stamp of an armillary sphere in gold and a red sheepskin title label, lettered in gold, decorated ("marbled") edges. [1], [1 blank], [4], 152 pp. Full description

€ 50,000

Atlases & Globes Navigation VOC

"Of the utmost importance for the study of Brazilian life" (Borba de Moraes)

RUGENDAS, Johann Moritz. Voyage pittoresque dans le Bresil ... Traduit de l'Allemand par Mr. de Golbery.
Paris, Engelmann & Cie., 1835. 4 parts in 1 volume. Imperial folio (54 x 36 cm). With a lithographed half-title and title page showing a wide variety of decorative lettering, 100 full-page lithographed plates by V. Adam, Villeneuve, Bonnington, A. Joly and others after Rugendas, numbered in 4 parts (30, 20, 30, 20). Contemporary half red sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [2], 48; 34; 51; 32 pp. Full description

€ 28,000

Anthropology & Ethnography Brazil Latin America Slavery South America Travel & Voyages South America

Very rare first issue of the first edition of a collection of letters
by the 16th-century Jesuit missionaries in the Far East

[RUTILIUS SOMBERGIUS, Joannes (editor and translator)]. Epistolae Indicae, de stupendis et praeclaris rebus, quas divina bonitas in India & variis insulis, per societatem nominis Jesu, operari dignata est, in tam copiosa gentium ad fidem conversione.
Leuven, Rutger Velpius, 1566.
With:
(2) PAYVA de ANDRADE, Diogo de. De societatis Jesu orgine libellus. ... contra Kemnicii cuiusdam petulante[m] audacia[m].
Including: Societatis Jesu defensio adversus obtrectatores, ex testimonio, & literis Pii Quarti Pontificis Maximi.
Leuven, Rutger Velpius, 1566.
2 works in 1 volume, the second in 2 parts. Small 8vo (ca. 15 x 9.5 cm). Ad 1: with a woodcut headpiece with the title set in its banner and Velpius' woodcut device on the title-page, woodcut decorated initials throughout, and some woodcut tailpieces. Ad 2: With Velpius' woodcut device on the title page, the last page of part 1, and the last page of part 2. The divisional title page for part 2 contains the woodcut coat of arms of Pope Pius IV, with several woodcut decorated initials in both parts. Late-19th-century half brown cloth and marbled paper over boards, with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold on the spine, boards covered with marbled paper. [24], 496; [80]; [32] pp. Full description

€ 18,000

Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Japan & Far East Jesuits

Adventurous travels in the Dutch East Indies, beautifully illustrated with 15 plates, including 3 on elephant hunting and 1 on crocodile hunting

SAAR, Johann Jacob. Ost-Indianische Funfzehen-Jährige Kriegs-Dienst und wahrhaftige Beschreibung ...
Nuremberg, printed by Wolfgang Eberhard Felssecker and sold by Johann Tauber, 1662. Oblong 8vo. With an engraved title page of a ship engaged in a sea battle, an engraved portrait of the author, and 15 engraved plates. Further with woodcut tailpieces, woodcut decorated initials, and headpieces built up from typographic ornaments. Set in fraktur type with incidental schwabacher, roman, and italic. Contemporary vellum. [12], 50, 170, "20" [= 18], [12] pp. Full description

€ 17,500

Ceylon India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Travel & Voyages Asia VOC

Extremely rare complete series of maps, plans and illustrations
of the most extensive Dutch historical, geographical and anthropological description of the world

SALMON, Thomas, Matthias van GOGH, Jan WAGENAAR and others. Hedendaagsche historie of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren.
Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion and his widow, and other places and publishers, 1729-1803. 44 volumes. 8vo. With 35 (of 36) engraved allegorical title pages as published in the 44 volumes and the complete set of 386 engraved maps, plans, views, portraits, tables and other illustrations. Vols. 1-33: contemporary sprinkled calf; vols. 34-37: half calf; vols. 38-41: half calf; vol. 42: contemporary half sprinkled calf; vol. 43: contemporary half calf; vol. 44: contemporary blind-tooled sprinkled calf. All volumes with a a black title label. Full description

€ 22,500

Amsterdam Anthropology & Ethnography Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Balkan & Greece Belgium Brazil Canada & Greenland Caribbean Islands Central Africa Central Asia Central Europe Chile China City Plans, Topography & Views East Africa Eastern Europe Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus France Germany Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Iran / Persia Italy Japan & Far East Latin America Mediterranean Regions Mexico Middle America Netherlands North Africa North America Philippines Poland & Baltic Scandinavia & Arctic South America Southeast Asia Southern Africa Spain Surinam Switzerland Turkey & Ottoman Empire UK - United Kingdom USA - United States of America West Indies

Beautiful aquatint picture book

SAMS, William (publisher). A tour through Paris, illustrated with twenty-one coloured plates, accompanied with descriptive letter-press.
London, William Sams, [ca. 1825]. Folio. With 21 beautifully coloured aquatint plates showing vivid scenes of life in Paris. Contemporary gold-tooled half red sheepskin. [21] ll. letterpress leaves (title page and explanatory text) and 21 plates interleaved with 19 blank ll. Full description

€ 4,000

Costumes, Fashion & Uniforms France Prints & Print Series

18th-century manuscript written in Madras, India, bound in a contemporary floral brocade paper wrapper

SCHULTZE, Benjamin. "Liber Scripturae Balabandu". [Manuscript in Marathi].
[Madras, ca. 1730]. Small 8vo (11.5 x ca. 16 cm). Contemporary (Dutch?) floral "brocade paper" wrapper, with the Latin title on the verso of the upper wrapper. 6 ll. Full description

€ 25,000

India & Sri Lanka Language & Linguistics Manuscripts & Documents

The "first American in Texas"

SEALSFIELD, Charles (pseudonym of Karl POSTL). Nathan, de squatter-regulator, of de eerste Amerikaan in Texas.
The Hague, K. Fuhri, 1852. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. With a lithograph title page in each volume, printed in sepia and lithographed by C.W. Mieling. Original half blue cloth with the title in gold on the spine, marbled paper sides. [4], 254; [6], 192 pp. Full description

€ 950

English & American Literature North America

The Street copy of the first attempted circumnavigation of the globe to be carried out
with the official support of the Dutch government

SPILBERGEN, Joris van. Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae navigationum.
Leiden, Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619. Oblong 4to (ca. 17.7 x 23.6 cm). With an engraved folding world map, and 24 engraved views, maps and plans, including 2 folding maps, 2 double-page maps, 1 folding view and 1 double-page view. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript initials "TSL" and year "1619" on the front board. 175 pp. Full description

€ 25,000

Charts & Maps Circumnavigation

Splendidly illustrated copy, in beautiful hand-colouring, of the first English edition
of the most famous work on Dutch Surinam

STEDMAN, John Gabriel. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the history of that country, and the description of its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & negroes of Guiana ...
London, printed by J. Johnson and J. Edwards, 1796. 2 volumes. Large 4to (ca. 29 x 22.5 cm). With an engraved frontispiece, 2 identical engraved title pages with a vignette, and 80 engraved plates (including 3 folding maps and a large folding view of Paramaribo), all beautifully coloured by hand, and occasionally heightened with gold. Uniform contemporary gold-tooled calf, re-backed with a later gold-tooled spine with two red title labels lettered in gold. XVIII, 407, [9]; IV, 404, [7] pp. Full description

€ 14,000

Anthropology & Ethnography Faunas & General Zoology Fishes Floras & General Botany South America Surinam Travel & Voyages South America

The retaking of Bahia from the Dutch by the Spanish and Portuguese fleet,
the official and comprehensive account

TAMAYO DE VARGAS, Tomas. Restauracion de la ciudad del Salvador i Baía de Todos-Sanctos, en la provincia del Brasil.
Madrid, widow of Alonso Martin, 1628. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of King Philip IV of Spain, crowned and with the Order of the Golden Fleece, on the title page and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine, a mark ("Co D Sa") branded into the top edge, and (remnants of) white leather ties. [7], [1 blank], 178, [4] ll. Full description

€ 15,000

Brazil Latin America Military History (17th Century) South America

A history of the kings of Persia and Hormuz, one of the earliest Western books mentioning Qatar

TEIXEIRA, Pedro, [Mir KHWAND and Turan SHAH]. Relaciones de Pedro Teixeira d'el origen descendencia y succession de los reyes de Persia, y de Harmuz, y de un viage hecho por el mismo autor dende la India Oriental hasta Italia por tierra.
Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen, 1610 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page, woodcut decorated initials and some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, both boards with the supralibros of D. Vasco Luís da Gama (1612-1676), 5th Count of Vidigueira. [1], [1 blank], [6], 384, [8], "115" [= 215], [17] pp Full description

€ 45,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States History / 17th Century Iran / Persia Portugal Qatar Spain UAE - United Arab Emirates

The definitive edition of the famous Thevenot collection of voyages

THÉVENOT, Melchisédech. Relations de divers voyages curieux ...
Paris, Thomas Moette, 1696 (1663-1696). 5 parts in 2 volumes. Folio. With the title pages and tables of contents printed in red and black, 11 engraved maps (10 folding, 1 double-page), 25 engraved plates (11 folding, 1 double-page and 13 full-page), 75 illustrations in the text (2 full-page), numerous decorated woodcut initials, ornaments, and headpieces. Contemporary sprinkled calf, richly gold-tooled spines with two red morocco labels lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, red sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers. Full description

€ 30,000

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One of the earliest instructions on the use of glasses for all sorts of viewing at all distances

THOMIN, Marc Mitouflet. Traité d'optique mechanique, dans lequel on donne les règles & les proportions qu'il faut observer pour faire toutes sortes de lunettes d'approche, microscopes simples & composés, & autres ouvrages qui dépendent de l'art. Avec une instruction sur l'usage des lunettes ou conserves pour toutes sortes de vûes.
Paris, Jean Baptiste Coignard, Antoine Boudet, 1749. 8vo. With an engraved vignette on the title page, 4 folding engraved plates showing perspectival and optical diagrams and illustrations of perspectival and optical instruments, incl. a camera obscura. Further with woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces. Modern half marbled calf. XII, 372, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Optics & Perspective

Rare French edition of the adventures of Ulenspiegel,
in black morocco (1849) signed by the great Paris binder Hippolyte Duru

[TILL EULENSPIEGEL]. Histoire de la vie de Tiel Wlespiegle, contenant ses faits & finesses, ses aventures, & les grandes fortunes qu'il a euës, ne s'étant jamais laissé tromper par aucune personne. Nouvelle traduction de l'Alemand en François; où l'on a ajoûté à cette edition, plusieurs pieces qui n'ont point encore paru en François jusques à present.
Amsterdam, Nicolas Chevalier, 1702. 12mo. With engraved title-page showing an owl looking at itself in a mirror with Ulenspiegel wearing a fool's cap watching. Black morocco by Hippolyte Duru, with his stamp ("DURU 1849") on flyleaf, blind-tooled fillets on spine and boards, richly gold-tooled turns ins, gilt edges. [8], 202, [6] pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Bindings French Literature

"One of the most influential maps of America ever made"

[TODESCHI, Pietro]. [Nova et accurata totius Americae tabula auct. G. I. Blaeu] America quarta pars orbis quam plerunq, nuvum orbem apellitant primo detecta est anno 1492 a Christophoro Columbo...
[Bologna, Giuseppe Longhi?, 1673]. Ca. 86 x 110 cm. A hand-coloured engraved wall map, printed on 4 joined sheets. Full description

€ 65,000

Charts & Maps Middle America North America South America

Very early European eyewitness description of India, confirming Marco Polo’s statements

VARTHEMA, Ludivico di. The Navigation and v[o]yages of Lewes Vertomannus, Gentelman of the citie of Rome, to the regions of Arabia, Egypte, Persia, Syria, Ethiopia, and East India, both within and without the ryver of Ganges, etc. In the yeere of our Lorde 1503. Conteynyng many notable and straunge thinges, both hystoricall and naturall. Translated out of Latine into Engylshe, by Richarde Eden.
London, Richard Jugge, 1577. 4to. With historiated woodcut initials. Splendid modern navy blue morocco, (faded) gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled double fillet frame on both boards. [10], 466, [6] ll. Full description

€ 185,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Arctic & Antarctic Imaginary Voyages & Utopias India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Iran / Persia Islamic Art, Culture & Science Religion (16th Century) Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia USA - United States of America

Obsequies "in absentia"

VENUTI, Niccolo Marcello. Esequie di Luigi I, Cattolico Re delle Spagne, celebrate in Firenze nella Chiesa di S. Maria Novella ... il di XXVI di Ottobre ...Florence, nella Stamperia di S.A.R. per li Tartini, e Franchi, 1724. 2 works in 1 volume. Small folio (ca. 29.5 x 20.5 cm). With 5 large, folding engraved plates by Ferdinando Ruggieri. With: BOCCADIFERRO, Camillo Antonio. Delle lodi di Luigi I, Cattolico Re delle Spagne, orazione ... recitata pubblicamente dallautore nellEsequie celebrate in Firenze dal ... Padre Fr. Salvatore Ascanio ...Florence, nella Stamperia di S.A.R. per li Tartini, e Franchi, 1724. Contemporary vellum. xxiii, [1 blank]; 12 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Architecture Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks Italy Prints & Print Series

First edition of the account of Verhuffen’s activities in South East Asia

VERKEN, Johann. Eylffter Schiffart ander Theil: oder kurtzer Verfolg und continuirung der Reise so von den Hollund Seelandern in die Ost Indien mit neun grossen und vier kleinen Schiffen vom 1607. bis in das 1612. Jahr unter der Admiralschafft Peter Wilhelm Verrufen verrichtet worden.
Frankfurt am Main, Levinus Hulsius (widow of) [und] Erasmus Kempfer, 1613. 4to. With 4 folding engraved plates. 19th-century gold-tooled straight-grain green morocco, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, an elaborate gold border on both boards, ornaments on the spine, gold-tooled turn-ins. 167 pp. Full description

€ 9,500

Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia

A rare and magnificent 18th-century portolan chart of the Portuguese Empire,
produced at the time of the Atlantic slave trade

VIANNA, Manoel José. [Manuscript portolan chart of the Atlantic Ocean, including Western Europe, South America, and West Africa].
Porto, 1786. Chart ca. 86 x 68 cm; frame ca. 101 x 83.5 cm. Detailed manuscript portolan chart in ink and paint and/or ink wash in green, yellow, red, and brown on vellum. The chart is drawn within a red washed border and shows the detailed coastlines of the east coast of South America, the west coast of Africa, and the west coast of northwest Europe up to the Netherlands and including Great Britain and Ireland. The coasts are drawn in sections alternatingly in yellow, green, and red ink. Principal regions are added in large decorative script, coastal towns, cities, and capes are added in a small cursive hand. Also depicted are a detailed split graticule indicating longitude and latitude, intricate rhumb lines, islands, dangerous rocky outcrops (marked vegia (= vigia, meaning lookouts)), and inshore shoals. Further decorative elements in the chart are the flags in Brazil (Portuguese coat-of-arms), Algeria (Ottoman Empire?), and West Africa (Dutch flag, upside down); the side view of Elmina Castle in west Africa, two half wind roses, elaborate rococo floral (fleur-de-lis) ornaments at the head of the chart and in South America. The banderole at the bottom of the chart contains the following text: "Manoel Joze Vianna a Fes no Porto" and below the year of production "1786". Framed in a gold-coloured frame and mounted on a cream cloth covered backboard. Full description

€ 135,000

Charts & Maps Portugal Slavery South America West Africa

Large collection of Vietnamese official documents from the 1860s

[VIETNAMESE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS]. [Official documents from the Vietnamese government on the eve of French colonisation.].
[Vietnam, ca. 1860]. 21 documents. Various sizes, most ca. 33 x 20 cm. Written in Classical Chinese on single and double leaves of rice paper. The collection is housed in a light blue paper folder. [41] ll. Full description

€ 18,000

Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents Southeast Asia

23 rare official VOC publications, giving insights into daily life on and around the ships

[VOC]. [Collection of printed VOC orders, resolutions, instructions and other documents, assembled and published with a printed contents list.]
Amsterdam and possibly elsewhere, Nicolaas Byl, Adriaan Wor and others, 1747-1790. Folio. With 2 woodcut illustrations in item 20, 1 leaf inserted in item 23 printed in red, and several items with a woodcut ship on the title page and/or one or more woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary (ca. 1790) sheepskin parchment. Full description

€ 9,500

Ceylon Economic History & Trade India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Navigation Ships & Shipbuilding Southern Africa Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia VOC

The Enlightenment in 92 volumes: Voltaire's Oeuvres from the Société Littéraire Typographique.

VOLTAIRE. Oeuvres completes de Voltaire.
Kehl, Société Littéraire Typographique, 1785-1789. 92 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece and a portrait of the author in volume 1. Further with 18 portraits (including 4 repeats on different paper), 106 plates (including 17 repeats on different paper), 14 folding mathematical plates in volume 31 (on Newtons physics), 1 engraved map, and 10 woodcuts in the text. Contemporary uniform marbled calf. All volumes vary between approximately 350 and 600 pages. The majority have ca. 450-500 pp. Full description

€ 12,000

French Literature History / 18th Century Music, Theatre & Dance Philosophy & Humanism Religion (18th Century) Science

The Stuart Restoration: Charles II's journey through the Netherlands to regain his Crown

[WICQUEFORT, Abraham de]. Verhael in forme van journael, van de reys ende 't vertoeven van den seer doorluchtige ende machtige prins Carel de II, Koning van Groot Britannien, &c. Welcke hy in Hollandt gedaen heeft, zedert den 25 Mey, tot den 2 Junij 1660.
The Hague, Adrian Vlack, 1660. Folio. With the engraved coat-of-arms of Charles II on the title page, an engraved folding portrait of Charles II, 6 double-page engraved plates, an engraved headpiece, and two decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 5 supports laced through the joints, modern green closing ties. [4], "124" [=126], [6] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks Law & Politics Netherlands Travel & Voyages Europe UK - United Kingdom

The work that revolutionised ocean navigation

[ZACUTO, Abraham Ben Samuel]. Ephemerides sive Almanach perpetuu[m].
(Colophon:) Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein, for Johannes Lucilius Santritter, October 1498. 4to. With a woodcut title page and numerous tables. 20th-century limp vellum, sewn on 2 thin vellum straps laced through the joints, with the manuscript name of the (wrong) author and year of publication on the spine. [122] ll. Full description

€ 90,000

Astronomy & Cosmography Early Printing - 15th century Navigation

Extremely rare 1788 Russian edition of Zimmermann's account of Cook's third voyage

ZIMMERMANN, Heinrich. Posliednee puteshestvie okolo svieta Kapitana Kuka s obstoiatel'stvami o ego zhizni i smerti ...
St Petersburg, P.B. [= Peter Bogdanovich], 1788. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled calf. [4], 211, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 18,500

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