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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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"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
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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
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