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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

Manuscript description of the captivity of the Jesuit Fathers and their journey from Brazil to Genoa in 1760

[MANUSCRIPT - JESUITS - BRAZIL - PORTUGAL]. Relazione della cattura, e del viaggio del Brasile a Lisbona, e da Lisbona a Genova de PP. Gesuiti da Provincia del Brasile.
[En route from Brazil to Lisbon, ca. 1760]. 4to. Manuscript in Italian written in a neat cursive in brown/black ink on laid paper. [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,950

Brazil Jesuits Manuscripts & Documents Portugal Religion (18th Century) Travel & Voyages South America

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

Charts & Maps World Atlases & Maps

The foundations of violin playing, in type and sound - by the father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

MOZART, Leopold. Grondig onderwys in het behandelen der viool.
Haarlem, Johannes Enschede, 1766. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author by Johannes Enschede as a frontispiece, a large armorial and allegorical engraving at the start of the dedication, and 3 full-page engraved plates by C. van Noorde, a large folding engraved sheet of music, and numerous smaller and larges pieces of music with printed scores in text. Further with a woodcut vignette ("musica dis curae est") on the title page, several small woodcut illustrations in the text, a woodcut headpiece at the start of the introduction incorporating a view of the Dutch city of Haarlem, a few woodcut initials, several headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, and some woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf. [1], [1 blank], [18], 259, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,250

Education & Pedagogy Music, Theatre & Dance

Maps, plans, and descriptions of the military defenses of Holguín, Cuba, shortly before Cuban independence

NAVA Y ORTEGA, Henriques. Campo Atrincherado de Holguin. Documento no. 1. Memoria descriptiva.
Holguín, 1 September 1898.
With: IDEM. Campo Atrincherado de Holguin. Documento no. 2. Planos.
Holguín, 1 September 1898. 2 documents. Folio. With a double-page manuscript map, 2 full-page manuscript maps, and 4 manuscript plans on tissue paper. Ad 1: Original wrappers, side stiched through 3 holes, with the manuscript title on the front. Ad 2: unbound. [16] pp. Full description

€ 4,950

Battle Plans & Siegecraft Caribbean Islands Military History (19th Century) Spain

Very rare (first?) edition of an Ottoman-French treaty that solidified French influence in the Ottoman Empire during the 18th century

[OTTOMAN CAPITULATIONS OF 1740]. [Kitabi-i ahdname-i hümayun-u saadet-makrun].
[Paris or Istanbul?], [1816 or 1835?]. Large 4to (31.5 x 24 cm). The text of an Ottoman-French treaty, set in the Ottoman Turkish alphabet, a version of the Arabic script. Half calf, marbled paper sides, gold-tooled spine. 45, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 12,000

France Law & Politics Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Amsterdam unfolded: a panorama of the city as seen from the IJ

[PANORAMA - AMSTERDAM]. Johan Conrad GREIVE jr. (illustrator). Panorama dAmsterdam.
[Amsterdam], [printed by R. de Vries for] François Buffa & Sons, [ca. 1860]. Oblong (ca.16.4 x 24.6 cm. per leaf). The panorama is made up of 8 numbered lithographed views, printed in monochrome with beige tone block. The viewer looks southward from the IJ over the city from the Oosterdok (eastern dock) and the Oosterkerk (eastern church) along the docks and wharfs, via the recognisable towers of several churches and the view of the Royal Palace, to the Westerdok (western dock), a large factory, and the Blauwhoofd, the northwestern-most bulwark of the city. Original brown blind-stamped wave-grained cloth with the title and imprint information lettered in gold on the front board in a rococo frame, yellow endpapers. 8 numbered views folded making 24 pages. Full description

€ 3,750

Amsterdam City Plans, Topography & Views

Two famous series of Bible illustrations by Bernard Salomon: “Un pur chef d’oeuvre de l’école lyonnaise”

[PARADIN, Claude & Bernard SALOMON]. Quadrins Historiques de la bible. Reveus, & augmentés dun grand nombre de figures.
Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1583.
With:
(2) [FONTAINE, Charles & Bernard SALOMON]. Figures du nouveau testament.
Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1579. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with the title in an ornamental woodcut border with the printers device including two vipers, 233 half-page woodcut illustrations, and 2 woodcut vignettes. Ad 2: with the title in a historiated woodcut border (Cartier "Nains") with the same woodcut printers device (Cartier, Vipères I,1) and 96 half-page woodcut illustrations, including one repetition, arabesque headpieces, and a large woodcut on the last page (Cartier, "Lac damour). 18th- or 19th-century elaborately gold-tooled pebble-grained dark greenish-blue sheepskin, with the titles and place and year of publication for both titles lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. [131]; [52] ll. Full description

€ 2,750

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

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