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Fine collection of 16th-century Italian cartography from the school of Antonio Lafreri

[LAFRERI - DUCHETTI - FLORINI - MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS - ITALY]. [Large album with 16th-century maps and engravings of Italy].
[Italy, late 16th and early 17th century]. Large oblong folio (ca. 59 x 42.3 cm). With 76 full-page engravings, and 12 full-page etchings. 17th-century gold-tooled brown calf, sewn on 6 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco title label on the spine with the title "Novissim[a] urbis Romae descript[io]" lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges. Full description

€ 150,000

Architecture Art & Art History Charts & Maps City Plans, Topography & Views Classical Antiquity Italy Prints & Print Series

The seven penitential psalms with early printed and manuscript additions

LAPIDANUS, Guilielmus. Meditationes in septem psalmos poenitentiae.
(Colophon:) Louvain, Henricus Baers, 1530. 8vo (13.2 x 9.4 cm). With a woodcut frame on the title page, a full-page woodcut device at the end partially coloured green, some woodcut decorated initials throughout, and the manuscript section rubricated in red. Modern vellum, red edges. [56], [4] ll. Full description

€ 5,000

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

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

€ 60,000

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

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

€ 110,000

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

Seminal guide to the East and West Indies, with 42 double-page and folding plates, including 6 maps, all engravings beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen van. Histoire de la navigation ... aux Indes Orientales ... Avec annotations de B. Paludanus, ... Troixiesme edition augmentee.
Including:
LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen van. Le grand routier de mer, ...
[LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van]. Description de l'Amerique & des parties d'icelle, ...
Amsterdam, Evert Cloppenburg, 1638. Folio (32.5 x 21 cm). With 3 title pages (2 from the same full-page engraving and 1 letterpress with an engraving of a ship in a cartouche with 4 inset city views), a nearly full-page engraved portrait of the author in a cartouche with 4 inset views, 42 engraved plates including 6 maps (31 double-page & 11 larger folding). All plates coloured by a contemporary hand. Near contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. [8], 206 pp.; [4], 181, [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], “86” [= 80], [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 170,000

India & Sri Lanka Middle America Navigation Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia USA - United States of America West Indies

By order of the Pope: Jesuits and other missionaries in the Far East renounce the Chinese rites;
from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps

[MANUSCRIPT - CHINESE RITES CONTROVERY - Lourenço de SANTA MARIA E MELO et al]. [Collection of manuscript anti-Rites oaths, from the years 1746-1767].
[Goa?, 1746-1767]. Folio. With 19 manuscript documents (18 in Latin, 1 in Italian) in different sizes, some with a papered seal.
19th-century brown paper boards from Thomas Phillipps' Middle Hill Press, with the manuscript title on the spine. The work is housed in a clamshell box of gold-tooled quarter brown calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, yellow cloth sides, and a brown paper lining. [51] ll. Full description

€ 75,000

China Church History & Missions Jesuits Manuscripts & Documents Religion (18th Century)

Scurvy and contagion between the Cape of Good Hope and Batavia:
medical reports of the Dutch East India Company

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH - VOC - HEALTH]. Ziekten aan boord der uitvarende schepen naar Indië 1774-1783.
1774-1783. Folio. Loosely inserted in contemporary wrappers with the manuscript title on the front. The work is kept in a brown cloth folder, with a red morocco title label on the front, lettered in gold. [5] ll. Full description

€ 8,500

Manuscripts & Documents Medicine & Pharmacy (18th Century) Naval History Southern Africa Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia VOC

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

The first printed biography of a pirate: Claes Compaen and the ambiguities of Dutch freebooting

[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 Kennemerlandt. vervattende sijn wonderlijcke, vreemde landts schadelijcke drijf-tochten. waer in vertoont wordt hoe hy met weynigh schepen de zee onveyligh ghemaeckt, een ongelooflijcken buyt, en groot getal van schepen, van alle landen gerooft, en af geloopen heeft.
Amsterdam, Michiel de Groot, 1675. 4to (19.1 x 14.5 cm). With a large woodcut illustration of a Dutch merchant ship on the title page, 3 woodcut illustrations in the text (including a repeat of the woodcut on the title page), and a large decorated woodcut initial. Contemporary multicolour brocade paper wrapper, covered with protective clear plastic. [6], 42 pp. Full description

€ 7,500

Bibliography & Biography Caribbean Islands Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks West Africa

The largest surviving wall-map of the World to this date published in England

MORDEN, Robert. This new map of ye Earth and water according to Wrights alias Mercator's projection drawn according to ye more exact celestial observations and the more accurate discoveries.
London, Robert Morden, 1699 (map); William Mount and Thomas Page, [ca. 1734-1745] (text). 123 x 246 cm. The map shows the world from the North Pole to the South Pole and from California at the left to Australia at the right, with a detailed projection of the norther hemisphere with the North Pole at the centre in the upper right corner, the whole map nicely hand-coloured in outline, and with explanatory printed text leaves mounted underneath in 16 columns. 12 engraved sheets joined to form the large wall-map, with the printed text mounted below, the whole mounted on linen mounted between two black wooden rods at the head and foot of the map. Full description

€ 325,000

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