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Strabo de situ orbis.
Rare post-incunable 1502 sixth edition of Strabo’s Geographica, translated from Ancient Greek to Latin as De Situ Orbis by Guarino da Verona and Gregorio Tifernate.The ...
Place & Date: Venice, Bartolomeo de Zanis,14th day of January 1502
Descrittione di M. Lodovico Guicciardini patritio Fiorentino, di tutti i Paesi Bassi,...
Second Italian edition (variant B) and first Plantin edition (1st Silvius 1567) and the most sought-after edition of the famous description of the Low Countries, updated ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Plantin, 1581
Cruydt-Boeck van Remberus Dodonaeus. . .
Scarce, the last edition of Dodoens' Cruydt-Boeck, one of the most influential and important botanical works of the 16th and 17th centuries. With richly engraved frontisp...
Place & Date: Leyden, 1612
Deliciae Batavicae.
It is a charming book illustrated with portraits of Willem of Orange and Prince Maurits and eight engraved armorial plates. Followed by 30 engraved views or scenes of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1618
Histoire de la Navigation.
A fine example of Linschoten's classic illustrated travelogue to the East and West Indies, termed by Lach “the most important of the firsthand accounts published indepe...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638
Traduzida palabra por palabra de la verdad Hebrayca, por muy excelentes letrados.
Complete title : Traduzida palabra por palabra de la verdad Hebrayca, por muy excelentes letrados. Vista y examinad a per el officio de la Inquisicion. Con Privilegio del...
- $8500 / ≈ €7954
Place & Date: Ampsterdam, Gillis Ioost, 1647
Tweevoudigh onderwiis van de Hemelsche en Aerdsche Globen; Het een Na de meyning van Ptolemeus met een vasten Aerdkloot...
Tweevoudigh onderwiis van de Hemelsche en Aerdsche Globen; Het een Na de meyning van Ptolemeus met een vasten Aerdkloot; Het ander Na de Natuerlijcke stelling van N. Cope...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655
An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China deliver'd by their excellencies, Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking. . .
Very rare first English text edition of this most important and early resource on China and the Chinese. Three parts in one folio by John Macock for the author.Part I: An...
Place & Date: London : Printed by the Author at his house in White-Friers, 1669
La Chine d'Athanase Kirchere de la compagnie de Jesus, illustrée de plusieurs monuments tant sacrés que profanes et de quantité de recherches de la nature. . .
Athanasius Kircher, S.J., (1601 or 1602-1680) was a 17th-century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geol...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1670
Reiß in das Gelobte Land ... Mit nach dreyen andern Reißbeschreibungen vermehret, und schönen Kupfern gezieret.
Very rare first illustrated edition of collected travel accounts by citizens of Zürich, containing : Hans Jacob Amman, "Narrative of a trip to Palestine". The ...
Place & Date: Zürich, M. Schauffelberger Erbin, 1678
Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes orientales des Provinces Unies vers les empereurs du Japon.
First edition in French of this important work on Japan, a work whose illustrations "represent a high-water mark in book illustrations of the 17th century" (Lac...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
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Hern Johann Baptisten Taveniers..Vierzig Jaehrige Reize..
This German edition includes Tavernier's map of Japan in a reduced form (210x315mm) and contains legends about the country's nature, e.g., where gold is mined and plottin...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1681
Het gezandtschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, Den tegenwoordigen Keizer van China. . .
Third edition of this beautifully illustrated work on China. The first edition was published in 1665.Jan Nieuhof was a "Dutch traveler and adventurer" (1618-72)...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W. Waasberge, 1693
Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English with Large Additions and Improvements.
Splendid copy fully original colored (inclusive title-cartouche) of the first edition of Gibson's translation.Illustrated with an engraved portrait of Camden by R. White,...
Place & Date: London, F. Collins for A. Swalle and A. / J. Churchill, 1695
Histoire des Plantes qui naissent aux environs d'Aix et dans plusieurs autres endroits de la Provence.
One of the most attractive early French local floras, with delightful engraved plates. The work describes the flora of the Provence, especially the plants growing near Ai...
Place & Date: Aix, J. David, 1715
![Recueil de costumes. Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Suivi de: [Augsburger Kleidertrachten].](/uploads/cache/48425-250x250.jpg)
Recueil de costumes. Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Suivi de: [Augsburger Kleidertrachten].
Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Dedicate all'Illmo et Ecc.mo Sig.r Andrea da Leze Degnis.mo Proc.tor di S: Marco....
Place & Date: Venezia, Ragheno, 1702 / Augsbourg, J. Wolff, ca. 1715
Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, ...
FIRST ISSUE of this biting and vulgar satire on the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles and an extraordinary visual record with 78 plates of the first banking crash, show...
- $7500 / ≈ €7018
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Vertoog van het regt, Dat de Vereenigde Nederlandsche Oost-Indische maatschappye Heeft op de Vaart en Koophandel naar Oost-Indiën, Tegen de inwooners van de Spaanse, nu de Oostenrykse Nederlanden.
Dutch translation of the Latin edition, published in 1723. Westerveen was the secretary of the Dutch East India Company and writes on the right of the VOC to trade as wel...
- $1200 / ≈ €1123
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1724
Histoire Naturelle, Civile, Et Ecclésiastique..'
First French edition, published by P. Gosse, J. Neaulme and B. Lakeman. The basic work on Japan from the second half of the 17th century when it was still forbidden for f...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1729
Rare collection of costume plates.
Rare collection of costume plates published in Augsburg by the famous publishers Martin Engelbrecht, Ioh. Georg Hertel and the Jeremias Wolff Heirs.Composition :2 plates ...
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1730
Lo Stati Presente di Tutti i Paesi e Popoli del Mondo..
This most uncommon work provides an interesting focus on the dissemination of the outline of Japan provided by Kaempfer. Beside the description of Japan, the book include...
Place & Date: Venice, 1734
Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise.
Cornerstone of any collection of books on China, which is also among the rarest and most desirable of important Americana.This, "the first definitive European work o...
Place & Date: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, (vol. 1-3) 1770 / (vol.4),1735
Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise.
First edition of this cornerstone of any collection of books on China, which is also among the rarest and most desirable of important Americana, included in Rare American...
Place & Date: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, 1735
Le Petit atlas maritime. Recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde, en cinq volumes.
FIRST EDITION. A large paper copy, in attrictive original colors. Jacques Nicolas Bellin held offical status as royal hydrographer and ingéniuer géographe de la marine ...
- $45000 / ≈ €42107
Place & Date: Paris, 1764
![Grond-beginzels der stuurmans-konst. . . [bound with] De tafelen sinuum tangentium en secantium. [Bound with] Tafelen logarithmi der hoekmaaten, raaklynen en snylynen.](/uploads/cache/33119-250x250.jpg)
Grond-beginzels der stuurmans-konst. . . [bound with] De tafelen sinuum tangentium en secantium. [Bound with] Tafelen logarithmi der hoekmaaten, raaklynen en snylynen.
An early instruction boek for the sailor prepared by Pybo Steenstra, who the official examinator of the V.O.C.. Published by Joannes van Keulen and sons. It is clear that...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Joannes van Keulen, n.d. 1766
Neue und vollständige Topographie der Eidgnossschaft, in welcher die in den dreyzehen und zugewandten auch verbündeten Orten und Landen dermal befindliche Städte, Bischthümer, Stifte, Klöster, Schlösser, Amts-Häuser, Edelsitze und Burgställe...
The first edition of Herrliberger's work on the topography of Switzerland. - The rarest book on Switzerland rarely found complete.Illustrated with an engraved allegorical...
- $5500 / ≈ €5146
Place & Date: Zurich, Johann Kaspar Ziegler, 1754-1773
![Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, behelzende een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Tafelen bevattende De Sinussum, tangenten en Secanten. . . [bound with] Geographische Tadfel...](/uploads/cache/33112-250x250.jpg)
Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, behelzende een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Tafelen bevattende De Sinussum, tangenten en Secanten. . . [bound with] Geographische Tadfel...
Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, behelzende een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Tafelen bevattende De Sinussum, tangenten en Secanten. . ....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J. v. Keulen en Zoonen, 1777
Les Navires des anciens, considérés par rapport à leurs voiles et à l'usage qu'on en pourroit faire dans notre marine, ouvrage servant de suite à celui qui a pour titre ela Marine ...
First edition. The book is giving a description of the different ship types of all parts of the world from its early times till present (1780). Illustrated with 3 folding...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Paris, Nyon, 1783
![Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, inhoudende Een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Geographische Tadfel vande Graaden.. Voornaamste Zee-haavens. . .](/uploads/cache/33114-250x250.jpg)
Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, inhoudende Een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Geographische Tadfel vande Graaden.. Voornaamste Zee-haavens. . .
Rare and important manual originally prepared by Klaas de Vries and improved by Evert Floryn and S.Hollander of the "Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden" (Tr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Wed. Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1802
Nouveau voyage pittoresque de la France Orné de trois cent soixante gravures exécutées sur des dessins fait d'après nature, et représentant des Vues des principales Villes de France, ...
Large paper copy, printed on quarto format (210x235mm.) on heavy paper. Illustrated with 360 engraved plates, many by Jean-Jerome Baugean. Without the large folding map....
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Paris, 1817
Voyage of his majesty’s ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew, with an account of her subsequent shipwreck, by John M’LEOD. Surgeon of the Alceste.
Second and best edition, with frontispiece portrait of Captain Maxwell and five fine hand-colored aquatint plates, including a plate not present in the first edition of t...
Place & Date: London, John Murray, 1818
Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea.
BRITAIN'S FIRST ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF KOREA & OKINAWANS. With an appendix containing charts and various hydrographical and scientific notices by captain Basil Hall and ...
Place & Date: London, 1818
Geographie Universelle dite de Crozat.
A nice geographical dictionair with maps of the world and the continents and maps of European countries. Lacks the maps of France and of the Turkish empire.
Place & Date: Paris, 1823
System of Penal Law, prepared for the State of Louisiana , comprising codes of offenses and punishments, of procedure, of prison discipline, and of evidence applicable as well to civil as to criminal cases.
The "Enquiries" of Rush and Bradford and the Pennsylvania movement toward abolition of the death penalty had a little immediate impact on the practices of other...
- $2500 / ≈ €2339
Place & Date: New-Orleans, Benjamin Levy, 1824
Guide de Florence et de ses environs Redige´ sur un plan entierement nouveau par l'Abbé A. Bulgarini et Traduit en français par A. Le Rendu. Deuxième édition.
Second edition. With 1 engr. folding plan (Pianta della Citta di Firenze. I. Balatri inc. e scris.) and 12 copper plates with views in Florence. The folding plan has meas...
- $550 / ≈ €515
Place & Date: Florence, Gaspard Ricci, 1839
Antiguedades Peruanas (Atlas).
Atlas illustrated with 60 chromolithographic and tinted lithograph plates including illustrated title page.This atlas volume was produced to accompany a landmark collabor...
- $1800 / ≈ €1684
Place & Date: Vienna (Austria), 1851
The theory and practice of layout en Page.
The First English Edition of the lavishly printed Bible of "Moderne", soon to be called art deco. Thanks to Tolmer's work the deco style persisted until the Sec...
- $1100 / ≈ €1029
Place & Date: London, The Studio, 1931