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  • The history of trauayle in the West and East Indies and other countreys lying eyther way towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes : as Moscouia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Aegypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan : with a discourse of the Northwest passage.

    # 13335

    ANGHIERA, Pietro Martire d’ (1457-1526); OVIEDO Y VALDES, Gonzalo Fernández de (1478-1557); EDEN, Richard (c.1520-1576); WILLES, Richard (1546-1579)

    The history of trauayle in the West and East Indies and other countreys lying eyther way towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes : as Moscouia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Aegypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan : with a discourse of the Northwest passage.

    Imprinted at London : By Richarde Iugge, 1577. Small quarto, later crushed red morocco (possibly for Walpole, who favoured it, as noted in the Strawberry Hill catalogue), panels with gilt rule and ornament; spine in compartments ruled and lettered in gilt; edges with pale marbling; ff. [11 including first blank and title], 466, [6], pp. …

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  • Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI. : Selectarum item ex India epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV. Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita.

    # 13321

    Maffei, Giovanni Pietro, 1533-1603

    Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI. : Selectarum item ex India epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV. Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita.

    Coloniæ Agippinæ : in Officina Birckmannica, sumptibus Arnoldi Mylii, MDXCIII. [Cologne : Arnold Mylius, 1593]. Second Cologne edition. Small folio, contemporary calf with embossed armorial device to boards, ruled in blind; rebacked, spine with raised bands; edges stained blue; later endpapers; title with woodcut printer’s device, manuscript inscription to lower margin; pp 541, [35], folding world …

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  • Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae navigationum.

    # 42374

    SPILBERGEN, Joris van (1568-1620)

    Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae navigationum.

    Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden] : Jodocus Hondius for Nicolaus van Geelkercken, 1619. Small oblong quarto (190 x 250 mm), contemporary limp vellum with early manuscript title and collection number to spine; title with large engraved vignette (early ownership signature to upper margin); pp. [4 blank], 175, [5 blank]; with a folding engraved world map and …

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  • Histoire de la Navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois, aux Indes Orientales.

    # 38432

    LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van (1563-1611)

    Histoire de la Navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois, aux Indes Orientales.

    Contenant diverses descriptions des lieux jusques à présent descouverts par les Portugais: observations des Coustumes & singularitez de delà, & autres declarations … … Troisieme édition, augmentée. Amsterdam : Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638. Three parts in one volume, folio (310 x 200 mm), contemporary mottled calf (rubbed), spine in compartments with ornate gilt decoration and lettering; edges …

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  • Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, &c. &c. :

    # 47371

    CLARK, John Heaviside (c.1770-1863); [LEWIN, John William, 1770-1819, artist, attributed]

    Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, &c. &c. :

    from drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch, &c. Containing one hundred plates. With a supplement of New South Wales. London : Published and sold by Edward Orme, 1814. Large quarto, contemporary blind-tooled straight grained morocco, ornamental gilt edging, spine lettered in gilt with gilt tooling, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, front pastedown with ex …

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  • Croquis et Souvenirs d’un Artiste, ou détails les plus curieux d'un Voyage Autour du Monde.

    # 40288

    LETAILLE, Charles

    Croquis et Souvenirs d’un Artiste, ou détails les plus curieux d’un Voyage Autour du Monde.

    Récreation instructive. Dédiée à la jeunesse par Chles. Letaille. Paris : chez les Principaux Mds. de nouveautés pour Etrennes et Cadeaux [Charles Letaille, 30 rue Saint-Jacques], [c.1855]. Original box of papered card, 265 x 200 x 30 mm, the lid with embossed gilt border and hand-coloured lithographed onlay depicting a New Zealand scene with Māori; the box …

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  • Mattachine Review. Vol. VII, No.10, October 1961

    # 47732

    CALL, Harold L. (editor)

    Mattachine Review. Vol. VII, No.10, October 1961

    San Francisco : Mattachine Society, 1961. Octavo, lettered wrappers (lightly toned), rusted staples, pp. 32, a very good copy of this scarce and important periodical from one of the first gay rights groups in the United States. This edition issue includes the articles ‘The queen who almost become kind of the United States’, ‘Toward an …

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  • Mattachine Review. Vol. VI, No.4, April 1960

    # 47731

    CALL, Harold L. (editor)

    Mattachine Review. Vol. VI, No.4, April 1960

    San Francisco : Mattachine Society, 1960. Octavo, lettered wrappers (lightly toned), rusted staples, pp. 32, a very good copy of this scarce and important periodical from one of the first gay rights groups in the United States. This edition issue includes the articles ‘Never pay blackmail’, ‘Research report: Inversion v. homosexuality’, ‘Sunny side up – …

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  • Mattachine Review. Vol. IV, No.8, August 1958

    # 47730

    CALL, Harold L. (editor)

    Mattachine Review. Vol. IV, No.8, August 1958

    San Francisco : Mattachine Society, 1958. Octavo, lettered wrappers (lightly toned), rusted staples, pp. 28, a very good copy of this scarce and important periodical from one of the first gay rights groups in the United States. This edition issue includes the articles ‘Hetrosexuals fight own compelling homosexual urge’, ‘What’s my type?’, ‘On the suppression …

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  • Mattachine Review. Vol. III, No.11, November 1957

    # 47728

    CALL, Harold L. (editor)

    Mattachine Review. Vol. III, No.11, November 1957

    San Francisco : Mattachine Society, 1957. Octavo, lettered wrappers (lightly toned), rusted staples, pp. 28, a very good copy of this scarce and important periodical from one of the first gay rights groups in the United States. This edition issue includes the articles ‘Sin v. crime’, ‘The wolfenden report’, ‘Changing public opinion’. ‘The Mattachine Society …

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  • Mattachine Review. Vol. III, No. 8, August 1957

    # 47727

    CALL, Harold L. (editor)

    Mattachine Review. Vol. III, No. 8, August 1957

    San Francisco : Mattachine Society, 1957. Octavo, lettered wrappers (lightly toned), rusted staples, pp. 36, a very good copy of this scarce and important periodical from one of the first gay rights groups in the United States. This edition issue includes the articles ‘Values and responsibilities’, ‘Progress to barbarism’, ‘Bibliography on homophile’. ‘The Mattachine Society …

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  • Mattachine Review. Vol. III, No. 6, June 1957

    # 47725

    CALL, Harold L. (editor)

    Mattachine Review. Vol. III, No. 6, June 1957

    San Francisco : Mattachine Society, 1957. Octavo, lettered wrappers (lightly toned), rusted staples, pp. 44, a very good copy of this scarce and important periodical from one of the first gay rights groups in the United States. This edition issue includes the articles ‘The tender trap (conclusion)’, ‘Just between us mothers’, ‘Open letter to a …

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  • Mattachine Review. Vol. I, No. 6, November-December 1955

    # 47724

    [MATTACHINE SOCIETY]

    Mattachine Review. Vol. I, No. 6, November-December 1955

    San Francisco : Mattachine Society, 1955. Octavo, lettered wrappers (lightly toned), rusted staples, pp. 44, a very good copy of this scarce and important periodical from one of the first gay rights groups in the United States. This edition issue includes the articles ‘On the cure if homosexuality’, ‘Sex, religion and myth’, ‘A forgotten commonplace’. …

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  • Mattachine Review. Vol. I, No. 5, September-October 1955

    # 47723

    [MATTACHINE SOCIETY]

    Mattachine Review. Vol. I, No. 5, September-October 1955

    San Francisco : Mattachine Society, 1955. Octavo, lettered wrappers (lightly toned), rusted staples, pp. 48, a very good copy of this scarce and important periodical from one of the first gay rights groups in the United States. This edition issue includes the articles ‘Heterosexual culture and homosexual attitudes’, ‘Homosexuality and the liberal mind’, ‘Take my …

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  • Mattachine Review. Vol. I, No. 4, July-August 1955

    # 47722

    [MATTACHINE SOCIETY]

    Mattachine Review. Vol. I, No. 4, July-August 1955

    San Francisco : Mattachine Society, 1955. Octavo, lettered wrappers (lightly toned), rusted staples, pp. 44, a very good copy of this scarce and important periodical from one of the first gay rights groups in the United States. This edition issue includes the articles ‘On the bisexuality of man’, ‘Oscar Wilde’s crime redeemed’, ‘The homosexual veteran’. …

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  • Mattachine Review. Vol. I, No. 3, May-June 1955

    # 47721

    [MATTACHINE SOCIETY]

    Mattachine Review. Vol. I, No. 3, May-June 1955

    San Francisco : Mattachine Society, 1955. Octavo, lettered wrappers (lightly toned), rusted staples, pp. 24, a very good copy of this scarce and important periodical from one of the first gay rights groups in the United States. This edition issue includes the articles ‘Under honourable conditions’, ‘the problem of appearance’, ‘a Minneapolis father discovers homosexuality’. …

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