Highlights

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

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

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