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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.

The second and best edition, with a frontispiece portrait of Captain Maxwell and five fine hand-colored aquatint plates, including a plate not present in the first editio...

$1000 / ≈ €881
Maker / Publisher: MAC-LEOD, John.
Place & Date: London, John Murray, 1818

 


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...

$3000 / ≈ €2643
Maker / Publisher: KIRCHER, A.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1670

 


Quinta Etas Mundi. Folium.XCIII.

The Latin text page is illustrated with depictions of Caius Julius Caesar, Octavian (Octavianus) Augustus and Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius). VERSO : A wonderful woodcut (...

$150 / ≈ €132
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours. (Calendar month of August)

RECTO : Calendar month of August with a 2-line initial in liquid gold on colored ground. colorful panel border in the left margin of acanthus leaves and flowers, with bla...

$450 / ≈ €396
Maker / Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1450