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The deterioration and restoration of Russo-Japanese relations 1811-1813

GOLOVNIN, Vasilii Mikhailovich. Memoirs of a captivity in Japan, during the years 1811, 1812, and 1813; with observations on the country and the people ... second edition.
Including:
-RIKORD, Petr Ivanovich. Account of voyages to the coasts of Japan; and of negotiations with the Japanese, for the release of Captain Golownin and his companions.
-Account of the voyages of Messrs. Chwostoff & Dawidoff.
London, Henry Colburn & Co., 1824. 3 volumes. 8vo. With an additional facsimile map, copied from the French edition of 1818, inserted in volume 2. Modern red cloth. IV, 315, [1 blank]; [2], 356, [2]; VIII, LXXXIX, [1 blank], 302 pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Alaska Circumnavigation Eastern Europe Japan & Far East Law & Politics Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific
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Rare first edition of official French Revolutionary decree for Voltaire’s reïnterment

GOSSIN, Pierre-François. Décret sur la translation des cendres de Voltaire à Sainte-Geneviève, précédé du Rapport fait par M. Gossin, au nom du Comité de Constitution, le 30 Mars 1791.
[Paris], by order of the Assemblée Nationale, [1791]. 8vo. Modern red half morocco. 3, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
France Law & Politics Philosophy & Humanism
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First edition of the Dutch translation of the main historical works of the "infant prodigy of Delft";
including his famous "Mare liberum"

GROOT, Hugo de. Nederlandtsche jaerboeken en historien, sedert het jaer 1555 tot het jaer 1609; ...
Amsterdam, the widow of Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgangk and Hendrik & Dirk Boom, 1681. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 20 full-page engraved portraits, and 27 double-page plates, views, and plans, a title page printed in red and black, decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces.
Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with the manuscript author and title on the spine. [44], 591, [1 blank], [76]; 19, [1 blank]; [6], 74 pp. Full description
€ 6,500
History / 17th Century Law & Politics Netherlands
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Rare dissertation printed on silk, in a red velvet binding

HANSWYK, Nicolaas Johannes van. Dissertatio juridica inauguralis de substitutione vulgari.
Leiden, Gerard Corts, 1764. 4to. With the title printed in red and black within an attractive engraved ornamental border by Noach van der Meer. Contemporary red velvet binding, blue silk endpapers. 35, [13], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Bindings Book History, Printing & Typography Law & Politics
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An impassioned defense of Jay's Treaty translated into Portuguese

HARPER, Robert Goodloe. Reflexoens sobre a questaõ entre os Estados Unidos e a França.
Philadelphia, London, 1798. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine with a red morocco title label lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. 322 pp. Full description
€ 5,000
France Law & Politics Military History (18th Century) Naval History North America UK - United Kingdom USA - United States of America
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