North America
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# 49795
SMITH, Patti (1946 - )
Just kids. (Signed deluxe edition)
New York : Ecco (Harper Collins), 2010. Octavo, silver lettered. blue cloth, ribbon marker, decorated endpapers, pp. xii; 280; (12), photographically illustrated, housed in a silver lettered blue cloth folding clamshell box, with an additional broadside Reflecting Robert loosely enclosed. The deluxe edition, limited to 1000 hand numbered copies signed in pen by Patti Smith. …
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# 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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# 49588
"Mark Twain" (CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne, 1835 - 1910)
The Mississippi Pilot
London : Ward, Lock, and Tyler, [1877]. bound with : “Jinny” by Bret Harte. London : George Routledge and Sons. Octavo, half roan over marbled boards (heavily rubbed), text block cracked, pp. [vi]; 142; (2 – catalogue), 124; (4 – catalogue), occasional light foxing, a good copy. First edition thus of The Mississippi Pilot by …
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# 38393
LOPEZ DE GOMARA, Francisco
Primera y secunda parte de la historia general de las Indias
cõ todo el descubrimiento, y cosas notables que han acaescido donde que se ganaron hasta el año de 1551. Con la conquista de Mexico, y dela nueva España. Medina del Campo : Guillermo de Millis, 1553. Second edition.Two parts in one, folio (275 x 200 mm), contemporary vellum over boards, original ties partially intact, spine with early title …
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# 48656
MEDINA, Pedro de
L’arte del navegar, in laqual si contengono le regole, dechiarationi, secreti, & avisi, alla bona navegation necessarij.
Composta per l’Eccel. Dottor M. Pietro da Medina, & tradotta de lingua Spagnola in volgar Italiano, à beneficio, & utilità de ciascadun Navigante. Venice : Aurelio Pincio for Gioanbattista Pedrezano, 1554. First Italian edition, first issue (with date of 1554 on title-page and in colophon). Small quarto, early vellum over marbled papered boards, spine with …
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![[VIRGINIA] Historien und Bericht von dem newlicher Zeit erfundenen Königreich China,](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/09/2025_DSFB_5850-300x300.jpg)
# 48547
González de Mendoza, Juan (1545-1618); Hariot (Harriot), Thomas (c.1560-1621); Dresser, Matthaeus (1537-1607) (compiler)
[VIRGINIA] Historien und Bericht von dem newlicher Zeit erfundenen Königreich China,
wie es nach umbstenden, so zu einer rechtmessigen Beschreibung gehören, darumb beschaffen : item, von dem auch new erfundenen Lande Virginia : jetzund auffs newe ubersehen, unnd mit einem Zusatz vermehret, nemlich, wie es umb die Religion in Perser unnd Mohrenland, unter Priester Johan bewand sey. Jn Druck verfertiget / durch MATTHAEVM DRESSERVM D. der …
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# 48826
HAKLUYT, Richard (1552?-1616)
The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation, made by Sea or ouer-land,
to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the Earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres, diuided into three seuerall Volumes, according to the positions of the Regions, whereunto they were directed. The first Volume containeth the worthy Discoueries, &c. of the English toward the North and Northeast by Sea … …
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# 42374
SPILBERGEN, Joris van (1568-1620) and Jacob LE MAIRE (c.1585-1616)
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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# 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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![[MANUSCRIPT] A Journal or Narrative of the Proceedings betweene the Commissioners appointed by His Majestie, and the Commissioners Deputed by the States Generall, pursuant to the Treaty of Peace made at Westminster 9/19 Ffebruary 1673/4 Concerning a Treaty Marine to be observed throughout all the World. And also an Article particularly relateing to the English and Dutch East India Companyes Concluded in the yeare 1674.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/05/09135912/2017_DSFB_1491-300x300.jpg)
# 38366
[MANUSCRIPT] A Journal or Narrative of the Proceedings betweene the Commissioners appointed by His Majestie, and the Commissioners Deputed by the States Generall, pursuant to the Treaty of Peace made at Westminster 9/19 Ffebruary 1673/4 Concerning a Treaty Marine to be observed throughout all the World. And also an Article particularly relateing to the English and Dutch East India Companyes Concluded in the yeare 1674.
[London, 1674-75]. Folio (300 x 200 mm), old mottled calf gilt, spine with raised bands, gilt ornament, and contrasting title labels lettered in gilt; all edges gilt; manuscript written in English, Latin, Dutch and French in several contemporary secretarial hands; ff 269; clean and fresh throughout. An important contemporary manuscript record of the Mixed Commission established to draw up …
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# 42451
DIXON, George
A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the north-west coast of America: performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon.
Dedicated, by permission, to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., by Captain George Dixon. London : Published by Geo. Goulding, 1789. Second edition. Quarto, full diced russia, ruled in gilt, masterfully rebacked, spine in compartments with raised bands, elaborate gilt ornamentation and contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles; marbled edges and endpapers; presentation inscription …
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# 46581
Anonymous.
Breve resumen de la vida y martyrio del inclyto mexicano y proto-martyr del Japón, el Beato San Felipe de Jesús.
Añadidas algunas obvias reflecciones en honor del mismo Héroe esclarecido, y de esta dichosísima Ciudad felize en ser su Patria. Por un Eclesiástico de este Arzobispado … … México : En la Oficina Madrileña de la Calle de Sto. Domingo y Esquina de Tacuba, 1802. Octavo (195 x 140 mm), contemporary full mottled calf (very good, with some minor staining and edge wear), spine with gilt decoration, …
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# 42450
BROUGHTON, William Robert (1762-1821)
A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean … Performed in His Majesty’s Sloop Providence and her Tender, in the years 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798.
London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. Quarto, full contemporary calf, spine renewed in period style; pp. xx, 393, [1], [2 publisher’s advertisements]; with three charts and six plates and views (most folding); a fine wide-margined copy, with fresh plates and maps. Broughton’s A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean is an acknowledged …
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# 13747
KLINGER, Johann Georg; MULLER, Johann Wolfgang
Relations de divers voyages curieux
Also titled: Description de differens peuples remarquables des cinq parties du monde. Nuremberg : J. G. Klinger, 1805-1807. Second edition. Original box of red paper over card, 114 x 100 x 105 mm, with gilt embossed decoration, the lid lettered in gilt Jeu de voyage des cinq parties du monde (corners bumped); the box in three compartments: …
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# 47313
[HOFMANN, Karl Friedrich]
L’homme cultivé, ou Tableau des différentes périodes de culture et de civilisation,
que le genre humain a parcourues depuis l’origine des sociétés jusqu’à nos jours. Ouvrage destiné à entretenir la jeunesse en l’instruisant et en lui formant le coeur. Enrichi de 50 gravures enluminées et de deux Cartes géographiques. Traduit de l’allemand d’après la seconde edition revue et augmentée. Leipzig : Bruder et Hofmann, [1812]. Square duodecimo (140 x 120 …
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# 29235
KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann von (Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern) (1770-1846)
A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A. J. von Krusenstern, of the Imperial Navy.
In two volumes. Translated from the original German by Richard Belgrave Hoppner, Esq. London : Printed by C. Roworth [Volume II Printed by T. Davison], for John Murray, Bookseller to the Admiralty and the Board of Longitude, 1813. First edition in English. Two volumes in one, quarto, later half calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), …