Travel & Exploration

  • Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les Hollandois;

    # 49454

    LODEWIJCKSZ, Willem

    Premier livre de l’histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les Hollandois;

    et des choses a eux advenues: ensemble les conditions, les meurs, & manieres de vivres des Nations, par eux abordees. Plus les Monnoyes, Espices, Drogues, & Marchandises, & le pris d’icelles … … Amstelredam [Amsterdam] : Cornille Nicolas [Cornelius Nicolaius], 1598. Folio, later full polished calf (sunned and lightly marked), spine with raised bands and …

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  • Diarivm vel descriptio laboriosissimi, & molestissimi itineris, facti à Gvilielmo Cornelii Schovtenio, Hornano, annis 1615. 1616. & 1617. Cum à parte Australi freti Magellanici, novum ductum, aut fretum, in Magnum Mare Australe detexit, totumq[ue] Orbem terrarum circumnavigavit. Quas Insulas, & regiones, & populos viderit, & quæ pericula subierit.

    # 16547

    SCHOUTEN, Willem Corneliszoon (c.1567-1625)

    Diarivm vel descriptio laboriosissimi, & molestissimi itineris, facti à Gvilielmo Cornelii Schovtenio, Hornano, annis 1615. 1616. & 1617. Cum à parte Australi freti Magellanici, novum ductum, aut fretum, in Magnum Mare Australe detexit, totumq[ue] Orbem terrarum circumnavigavit. Quas Insulas, & regiones, & populos viderit, & quæ pericula subierit.

    Amsterdami : apud Petrum Kærium, 1619. Second Latin edition. Small quarto, contemporary papered boards (rubbed); pp [8], 1-24, 17-71, nine folding maps and plates; title with large vignette of ships and a city and original owner’s annotation ‘This is in Dutch in ye. long booke pa : 145, 3 G.’; as in other copies, pages 14 and …

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  • Ongeluckige voyagie, van’t schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien.

    # 48371

    PELSAERT, Francois (c.1595-1630)

    Ongeluckige voyagie, van’t schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien.

    Amsterdam : Jan Jansz, 1647. First edition. Small quarto, papered boards; title-leaf, pp. 118, lacking final blank (as in most copies); six folding copperplates (plate V provided in expert facsimile); some very pale marginal water stains, tiny worm hole to margin of first few leaves; a clean and well preserved copy, housed in a calf …

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  • Relations de divers voyages curieux,

    # 48825

    THÉVENOT, Melchisédec (1620-1692)

    Relations de divers voyages curieux,

    qui n’ont point esté publiees, ou qui ont esté traduites d’Hacluyt, de Purchas, & d’autres Voyageurs Anglois, Hollandois, Portugais, Allemands, Espagnols; et de quelques Persans, Arabes & autres Orientaux. Enrichies de Figures de Plantes non décrites, d’Animaux inconnus à l’Europe, et de Cartes Geographiques de Pays dont on n’a point encore donné de Cartes. Paris : Jacques Langlois, …

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  • À Madame L. de Freycinet.

    # 49674

    [FREYCINET, Rose de] MALLAC, Jacques

    À Madame L. de Freycinet.

    Île-de-France [Mauritius, Port-Louis] : Imprimerie de Mallac frères, 25 May 1818. Quarto (250 x 194 mm), 2 pp., letterpress, recto and verso of a single loose leaf; light horizontal fold, a fine example. This extremely rare and precious document – one of only three copies known – is a poetic tribute to the adventurer Rose …

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  • Diario del teniente de navio D. Francisco Xavier de Viana, trabajado en el viage de las corbetas de S.M.C. “Descubierta” y “Atrevida” en los años de 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792 y 1793.

    # 49798

    VIANA, Francisco Javier de (1764-1820)

    Diario del teniente de navio D. Francisco Xavier de Viana, trabajado en el viage de las corbetas de S.M.C. “Descubierta” y “Atrevida” en los años de 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792 y 1793.

    [Also titled: Diario del viage explorador de las corbetas españolas “Descubierta” y “Atrevida”, en los años de 1789 á 1794]. Cerrito de la Victoria [Uruguay] : Imprenta del ejército, 1849. Octavo, quarter crushed morocco over marbled papered boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt (small expert restorations to head and foot of spine); marbled endpapers; …

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  • 天文図解 Tenmon Zukai (= Illustrated Explanation of Astronomy)

    # 49135

    IGUCHI, Jōhan

    天文図解 Tenmon Zukai (= Illustrated Explanation of Astronomy)

    Osaka : Ganshōdō, 1897 (first published in Osaka by Itamiya Mohe Kaihan, 1689). Five volumes, octavo, original printed wrappers (lightly marked); printed title labels, 32, 31, 37, 64, 54 folding leaves, with 60 woodcut illustrations of astronomical diagrams, devices and star maps, including a volvelle in volume three; complete; housed in a modern slipcase. A …

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  • Kunyu quantu [A map of the whole world]

    # 50090

    VERBIEST, Ferdinand (1623-1688)

    Kunyu quantu [A map of the whole world]

    [Korea, between 1860 and 1931; after the original map printed in Peking in 1674]. World map, printed by woodblocks in six sheets, each measuring 182.0 x 57.5 cm; expertly cleaned and lined by paper conservators on Japanese kozo tissue, traces of old fold lines; a superb example with full sheets, untrimmed. A monumental map of …

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  • World Pictures (deluxe edition, with original signed watercolour)

    # 50463

    MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

    World Pictures (deluxe edition, with original signed watercolour)

    London : Adam & Charles Black, 1902. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (spine ruled, light wear), top edge gilt, others uncut, pp. x; 332, illustrated with 100 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, a very good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 500 numbered copies printed on hand-made paper. This is copy …

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  • Carte de l'île de la Réunion, par Bory de S.t Vincent, officier d'État-Major, pour servir à son Voyage dans quatre îles des mers d'Afrique;

    # 50497

    BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT, Jean-Baptiste (1778-1846)

    Carte de l’île de la Réunion, par Bory de S.t Vincent, officier d’État-Major, pour servir à son Voyage dans quatre îles des mers d’Afrique;

    Dédiée à son Excellence le Maréchal Berthier, Ministre de la Guerre. [Paris, Dépôt de la Guerre, 1804]. Engraved map, dissected into eighteen panels and laid on linen,  645 x 860 mm., some light stains and wear along the folds, title label with manuscript Carte de Bourbon, a very good example. The very rare separately issued version …

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  • Cosmographie, in four books. Containing the Chorographie & Historie of the whole World, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles thereof.

    # 50382

    HEYLYN, Peter

    Cosmographie, in four books. Containing the Chorographie & Historie of the whole World, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles thereof.

    by Peter Heylyn. With an accurate and an approved Index of all the Kingdoms, Provinces, Countries, Inhabitants, People, Cities, Mountains, Rivers, Seas, Islands, Forts, Bays, Capes, Forests, &c. of any Remarque in the whole World; Much wanted and desired in the former, and now annexed to this last Impression, Revised and Corrected by the Author himself …

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  • The Chinese Drama from the earliest times until today

    # 50511

    ARLINGTON, L. C.

    The Chinese Drama from the earliest times until today

    A panoramic study of the art in China, tracing its origin and describing its actors (in both male and female roles); their costumes and make-ups, superstitions and stage slang: the accompanying music and musical instruments: concluding with synopses of thirty Chinese plays. Shanghai : Kelly and Walsh, 1930. Quarto, quarter cloth, lettered in gilt, over …

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  • Tropical nature, and other essays

    # 50571

    WALLACE, Alfred Russell (1823 - 1913)

    Tropical nature, and other essays

    London : Macmillan and Co., 1878. Second edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (lightly marked, bruised at head and foot of spine), armorial bookplate of Thomas Merthyr Guest (1838-1904) to front pastedown, hinges slightly cracked, pp. xiii; [iii]; 356; (1 – catalogue); (blank), occasional light foxing, a very good copy of a book difficult to find …

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  • Brittany

    # 50545

    MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

    Brittany

    London : Adam & Charles Black, 1905. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (lightly marked, spine slightly dulled), top edge gilt, others uncut, endpapers lightly foxed, pp. x; 254, illustrated with 75 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, occasional scattered foxing, a very good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 350 numbered copies …

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  • Viti : an account of a government mission to the Vitian or Fijian Islands in the years 1860 - 61

    # 50615

    SEEMANN, Berthold

    Viti : an account of a government mission to the Vitian or Fijian Islands in the years 1860 – 61

    Cambridge : Macmillan & Co., 1862. Octavo, full polished calf, ruled in gilt, edges a little rubbed, spine slightly faded, bound in compartments with raised bands, gilt rule and tooling, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, school prize label to front pastedown and armorial bookplate to front free endpaper …

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  • Studio portrait of Lieutenant Nassau Stephens, RN. Melbourne, December 1872.

    # 50594

    BATCHELDER & CO.

    Studio portrait of Lieutenant Nassau Stephens, RN. Melbourne, December 1872.

    Albumen print photograph in carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Barchelder & Co., Artist Photographers, 41 Collins St. East, Melbourne’, and with a roughly contemporary inscription in ink ‘December 1872’; the print and the mount are both in good condition; the carte is accompanied by a section cut …

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