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1673017309The Bell in St Paul's Churchyard: John Martyn 1673. Illustrated with three engraved folding plates an engraved portrait one engraving within the text small thick octavo pp xiii i 499 i title to the Catalogus Stirpium v i 115 with the errata leaf lacking the title page which is supplied in an old-style photo copy the plates are a little browned and creased and one is splitting along the fold some age-toning and signs of use throughout signs of damp damage to the lower margins throughout with some pages frayed and flaking very slight loss of text to about fifteen pages bound in a recent very simple full calf no title to the spine. A good working copy of a very scarce title. John Ray FRS 1627 - 1705 was an English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. His classification of plants in his Historia Plantarum was an important step towards modern taxonomy. Ray rejected the system of dichotomous division by which species were classified according to a pre-conceived type system and instead classified plants according to similarities and differences that emerged from observation. He was among the first to attempt a biological definition for the concept of species. In the spring of 1663 Ray started together with Willughby and two other pupils Philip Skippon and Nathaniel Bacon on a tour through Europe from which he returned in March 1666 parting from Willughby at Montpellier whence the latter continued his journey into Spain. He had previously in three different journeys 1658 1661 1662 travelled through the greater part of Great Britain. But from this Continental tour Ray and Willughby returned laden with collections on which they meant to base complete systematic descriptions of the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Willughby undertook the former part but dying in 1672 left only an ornithology and ichthyology for Ray to edit; while Ray used the botanical collections for the groundwork of his Methodus plantarum nova 1682 and his great Historia generalis plantarum 3 vols. 1686 1688 1704. The plants gathered on his British tours had already been described in his Catalogus plantarum Angliae 1670 which formed the basis for later English floras. . First Edition. Full Leather. Fair. John Martyn Hardcover
1693016706Princes Arms St Paul's Churchyard London: S. Smith & B. Walford 1693. First edition. Two volumes in One. Octavo imprimatur leaf title page dedication page pp 26 396; ii half-title to second volume 186; 45 bookseller's catalogue 3 pages the last page torn and repaired without loss. Fairly heavy browning and foxing on some pages throughout contemporary panelled calf rubbed and scuffed corners worn rebacked at some time with a new calf spine raised bands en extract from a bookseller's catalogue for this copy attached with sellotape to the rear endpaper. The front endpaper contains the armorial bookplate of Sir Edward William Watkin 1819-1901 Member of Parliament and railway entrepreneur; also with the signature of W. Fletcher Grappenhall Cheshire. John Ray was the compiler of these important travels. It is the first English translation of the Rauwolf who was a German physician botanist and traveller. His main notability arises from a trip he made through the Levant and Mesopotamia in 1573-75. The motive of the trip was to search for herbal medicine supplies. Shortly after he returned he published a set of new botanical descriptions with an herbarium. Later he published a general travel narrative about his visit. In addition to botanical investigations Rauwolff observed and recorded his impressions of the people customs and sights of the Levantine region; he was one of the first Europeans to describe the drinking of coffee. First Edition. Full-Leather. Good. S. Smith & B. Walford Hardcover
169436324Amsterdam Abraham Wolfgang 1694. Uncut in contemp. blank boards. Title handwritten on spine. Spine a little rubbed. 22307 pp. and 8159 pp. Textillustrations in woodcut illustrating Cartesian physics and world system. A large copy few marginal brownspots. Previous owners name on fly-leaf Vilhelm Maar Danish historian of medicine. <br/><br/><em>First Latin edition The French original from 1690 Voyage du Monde de Descartes of this imaginary travel to find Descartes on the moon and in the upper spheres. The work is one of the most importent anti-Cartesian polemics of the 1690's and it attacs the whole of Descartes system in a satirical way."It aimes principally at the sharp Cartesian distinction between body and soul related in a satirical fashion the voyage of the disembodied souls of the narrator of Mersanne and of another old friend of Descartes in the upper spheres. On their way to visit Descartes in the third heaven they meet the souls of Aristotle and the disciples of descartes clearly refelcting here the philosophical opinions of Gabriel Daniel himself. One of the articles of that treaty stipulates that the Cartesians will refer to Aristotle with more respect whereas the Aristotelians will refrain from calling Descartes "Enthusiast" "Madman" "Heretick" or "Atheist" - all of these evidently labels commonly used by the opponents of Descartes at that time." Michael Heyd in "Be Sober and Reasonable". The work was published anonymous and earlier sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe. - </em> hardcover
16712655<p>Ogilby 1671. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. Original 14page extract bound in Quarter leather marbled boards. Shelfware marbled boards grubby. Contents clean age toned with some wrinkling but considering its' age in Very Good Condition. PLEASE NOTE: This book will incur extra postage and insurance charges. Please contact us for a quote. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2655. . This book is extra heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.</p> Ogilby hardcover
170028857London: Printed for Joseph Wilde at the Elephant at Charing Cross 1700 1700. First edition one of two variants. In this one the dedication is signed "E. L. ESTC R223814 records nine copies Durham Oxford Bodleian National Trust Folger UCLA Illinois Kansas Tennessee Beinecke; Wing A226C. Edges neatly repaired; a little browning and slight smudges in the text; very good copy. 8vo contemporary panelled sheep neatly rebacked with the original spine laid on brown leather spine label gilt decorations and lettering. Informed and lively observations on Spain at the end of the 17th century the political intrigues of the monarchy Spanish culture - including bull fighting and theater - and one allegorical tale entitled "The Story" about the "Monarchy of Philippia" all written in a series of letters to a Mr. Brunet from "His Devoted Friend R.--" who apparently visited Spain and northern Africa between 1694 and 1696. The "Epistle Dedicatory" signed "E. L." in this variant is signed "E. Lewis" in the other equally scarce variant. See ESTC R13796. London: Printed for Joseph Wilde, at the Elephant at Charing Cross, 1700 unknown
1631ABC_49379Seville 1631. Folio. Simon Faxardo With the engraved Spanish royal coat of arms and a woodcut decorated initial both on the first leaf. 4 pp. An account of the Spanish Infanta Maria Annas 1606-46 journey to Vienna to marry Prince Ferdinand King of Hungary and Bohemia and future Holy Roman Emperor. This tract describes the final leg of the journey Maria Anna having originally set out from Madrid in 1629 from Naples across the Papal States to Ancona where she was received on board a Venetian squadron and sailed along the Adriatic coast to Trieste. At Trieste she was met by Archduke Leopold and then travelled overland to Vienna. On her arrival she celebrated her marriage to Ferdinand on 20 February 1631. Maria Anna was considered intelligent and capable and after Ferdinand became Holy Roman Emperor she regularly governed in his place when he was away on military campaigns. The union which further cemented the ties between the Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs was cause for celebration in the Iberian peninsula where this tract published in Seville in the same year as the marriage was evidently issued to spread the news of the happy event. Its nature as popular newsletter most likely explains its rarity.With contemporary manuscript foliation in the upper outer corners of the leaves "449" and "450". Unstitched and edges untrimmed scattered foxing else very good.l Palau 257999; USTC 5012456 5 copies; WorldCat 928677536 2 copies. unknown
1634ST20186London: printed by William Stansby and Jacob Bloome 1634. FIRST EDITION. 290 x 195 mm. 11 1/2 x 7 3/4". 6 p.l. 225 15 pp. <br/> Contemporary sprinkled calf raised bands traces of old paper label to spine pastedowns lifted to reveal leather bands and manuscript document fragments used as sewing guards all edges sprinkled red expert repair to rear joint. With additional engraved title page featuring two figures of Persian dignitaries and three small travel vignettes signed at foot by William Marshall and 36 engravings in the text the majority vignettes but one full-page and nine more than half a page tall. Front endpaper with ink armorial stamp of Sir Walter John Trevelyan 8th Baronet of Nettlecombe and High Sheriff of Cornwall. Price inked in a contemporary hand to the front endpaper. Sabin 31471; STC 13190.3; ESTC S92948. Front board a bit splayed covers with three old dampstains and a few scars and tiny wormholes but a very pleasing original binding with almost no wear to the joints. A very few marginal smudges made during printing other quite trivial imperfections but AN ESPECIALLY FRESH BRIGHT AND CLEAN COPY INTERNALLY with rich impressions of the engravings.<br/> <br/> This is a contemporary copy in remarkably fresh internal condition of an important and entertaining account of the travels of a 17th century Englishman in exotic Asian and African territories particularly Persia. It is significant both for the ways it is accurate and for the ways it is fictitious. Sir Thomas Herbert 1606-82 left for Persia on a diplomatic mission to Shah Abbas in 1626 as part of the entourage of Sir Dodmore Cotton. The mission was not successful: Cotton and the mission's other leader Sir Robert Shirley both died in 1628 leaving their retinue at loose ends with the increasingly unimpressed Shah. Herbert made a slow return to England traveling through a large portion of Asia and Africa and even sailing up the coast of North America. He finally returned to England in 1630; four years later he published this account of his adventures. The text describes meetings with people of many cultures as well as encounters with exotic animals including the dodo flamingoes and flying fish. Herbert's accounts are of great importance for their details of early Asian travel by Westerners. At the same time the author was unable to resist the urge to embellish a good story and according to DNB gave implicitly first-person accounts of places he had not in fact visited. One such detour into the fanciful comes in the chapter involving the author's apparent visit to America. In it Herbert discusses the belief that the mythical Welsh king Madoc ap Owen-Gwyned had settled in North America in the 9th century for which he provides linguistic evidence that Sabin calls "entirely fanciful." DNB tells us that "this segment was apparently included to please the earl of Pembroke's own Welsh nationalist fancies. It also continued to help fuel various theories about Madoc's colonies and Welsh Indians in North America until the early years of the nineteenth century." Herbert's tale is profusely illustrated by William Marshall fl. 1617-49 with engravings that are sometimes more imaginative than accurate see for example the depiction of the shark on page 6 or the penguin on page 13. Despite these rather amusing inaccuracies the illustrations are lively and detailed providing a sense of the awe the early readers must have felt when imagining foreign places. Our copy in a period binding with part of a manuscript ledger used in the binding process visible is from the library of Walter John 1866-1933 8th baronet Trevelyan who as his inkstamp suggests served as High Sheriff of Cornwall from 1906-07. printed by William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome unknown
1672ICFELAQ59QY4Holland 1672. Later blue/grey paper wrappers. 4to. With 2 thin rules on the title-page. Set in roman types with incidental italic. First and only edition of a 1672 political pamphlet in the form of a spin-off from Henry Neville's very popular 1668 story of a voyage to the imaginary utopian/dystopian Isle of Pines. The present story is written as a conversation between three militia men on watch discussing the turbulent politics of 1672. One tells of his fictitious voyage and several years residence on a fictitious utopian island called Mallanbruino in the South Pacific. He says it is one degree south of the Isle of Pines. On Mallanbruino the industrious people were oppressed by an emperor but rose up and defeated him with help from a prince who also replaced the evil regents. They note the remarkable similarities to events in the Dutch Republic. The island then set up a new and fairer democratic representative political system bringing peace and happiness to the island. The three men conclude that the Dutch Republic should introduce such a system.Some spots and a small restoration to the extremities of the title-page otherwise in good condition. A fascinating but little-known pamphlet building political propaganda around a story related to the popular imaginary voyage to the Isle of Pines.l Knuttel 10600; M. Reinders Printed pandemonium pp. 195-199; STCN 863300111; not in Gove Imaginary voyages; Van Doorninck Vermomde en naamlooze schrijvers; Ford Isle of Pines 1668 1920; Scheckter Isle of Pines 1668 2011. unknown
166598MCBSHUHD3NAmsterdam 1665. 4to. Gillis Joosten Saeghman Late 19th-century vellum with the title stamped on the spine with black foil a black single fillet border on both boards. With a woodcut vignette of ships on the title page 16 further woodcuts on integral leaves 1 full-page signed by Christoffel van Sichem IV and 9 half-page and smaller with his monogram and a woodcut ship in a cartouche plus 1 repeat woodcut decorated initials and decorative bands built up from cast fleurons. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. 32 pp. First Dutch translation of the accounts of three voyages to Greenland by Jens Munk John Monck Martin Frobisher and Godske Lindenau searching for a passage to the East Indies through the Hudson Strait. Also containing a description of Greenland and an account of whaling including an unsigned illustration of a beached sperm whale with new illustrations by Christoffel van Sichem IV 1642-1693. It is a Dutch translation of La Peyrère's 1647 Relation du Groenland 1647 via the somewhat abbreviated German translation published in Hulsius's 1650 collection which contains the additional description of Spitsbergen and a discourse on whaling. La Peyrère included revised versions of Jens Munk's account of his voyage to Hudson Bay originally published in Navigatio septentrionalis 1624 and the accounts of voyages by Martin Frobisher and Godske Lindenau. Red armorial library stamp of the Forschungsstelle Volk und Raum on the title page: this was a research institute active at The Hague during the occupation of The Netherlands by Nazi Germany. Good copy.l Alden & Landis 663/79; Gosch Danish Arctic expeditions II pp. lxii-lxiii; JCB III pp. 98-99; Tiele Mém. 256; Sabin 28641 & 51334; STCN 4 copies; cf. Howgego to 1800 F80-F81 L128 and M180. ABE CAT Alaska Canada & Greenland hardcover
1648ABC_50157Amsterdam: printed by Adriaen Hermansz. Roest for Joost Hartgers 1648. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with the manuscript title on the spine remnants of ties. 4to. With an engraved general title page for the whole collection a typographical general title page with a woodcut illustration of ships at sea each part of the collection has its own title page in some cases two with a woodcut illustration the majority the same as on the general title page. Further with 11 folding woodcut illustrations several woodcut tailpieces and woodcut decorated initials throughout. 13 works in 1 volume. Comprising:1 VEER Gerrit. Verhael van de eerste schip-vaert der Hollandische ende Zeeusche schepen door 't Way-gat by noorden Noorwegen Moscovien ende Tartarien om na de coninckrijcken Cathay ende China. Met drie schepen uyt Texel gezeylt in den jare 1594. Hier achter is by-ghevoeght de beschrijvinghe van de landen Siberia Samoyeda ende Tingoesa. Seer vreemt en vermaackelijk om lesen.Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.2 HOUTMAN Cornelis. Eerste schip-vaert der Hollanders naer Oost-Indien met vier schepen onder 't beleydt van Cornelis Houtman uyt Texel t' zeyl ghegaen anno 1595.Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.3 NECK Jacob van en Wybrand van WARWIJCK. Waerachtigh verhael van de schip-vaert op Oost-Indien ghedaen by de acht schepen onder den Heer Admirael Jacob van Neck en de Vice-Admirael Wybrand van Warwijck van Amsterdam gezeylt in den jare 1598. Hier achter is aen-ghevoeght de voyagie van Sebald de Weert naer de Strate Magalanes.Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.4 NOORT Olivier van and Jacob van NECK. Wonderlijcke voyagie by de Hollanders gedaen door de Strate Magalanes ende voorts den gantschen kloot des aertbodems om met vier schepen: onder den Admirael Olivier van Noort uytghevaren anno 1598. Hier achter is by-gevoeght de tweede voyagie van Jacob van Neck naer Oost-Indien.Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.5 SPILBERGEN Joris van and Steven vander HAGEN. Historis journael van de voyage gedaen met 3 schepen uyt Zeelant naer d'Oost-Indien onder het beleyt van den Commandeur Joris van Spilbergen sijn eerste reyse. Inden jare 1601 1602 1603 1604. Als meede beschryvinge vande tweede voyage ghedaen met 12 schepen na d'Oost-Indien onder den Admirael Steven vander Hagen.Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.6 MATELIEF Cornelis. Journael ende historische verhael van de treffelijcke reyse ghedaen naer Oost-Indien ende China met elf schepen. Door den manhaften Admirael Cornelis Matelief de Jonge. Uyt-ghevaren in den jare 1605. En wat haer in de volghende jaren 1606 1607 ende 1608 weder-varen is. Een seer vreemde en wonderlijcke reyse.Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.7 BROECKE Pieter van den. Wonderlijcke historische ende journaelsche aenteyckeningh van 't ghene Pieter van den Broecke op sijne reysen soo van Cabo Verde Angola Gunea Oost-Indien: waer in hem soo in schip-breuck als in 't door-reysen van 't landt seer veel vreemde dingen ontmoet zijn soo van religie manieren zeeden en huys-houdingen der volckeren: en andere eyghenschappen der landen en kusten die sy bezeylt hebben.Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.8 SPILBERGEN Joris van. Oost- en West-Indische voyagie door de Strate Magallanes naer de Moluques met ses schepen onder den commandeur Joris Spilbergen .Including: SCHOUTEN Willem Cornelisz. and Jacob le MAIRE. Journael ofte beschrijvinge van de wonderlijcke reyse ghedaen door Willem Cornelisz. Schouten van Hoorn. In de jaren 1615 1616 1617. Hoe hy bezuyden de Straet Magellanes eenen nieuwen doorganck gevonden heeft streckende tot in de Zuyd-Zee met de verklaringe van de vreemde natien volcken landen en avonturen die sy gesien ende haer wedervaren zijn. Hier is nog achter by-gevoeght eenighe zee-vragen ende antwoorden wijnde seer nut ende geheel dienstigh alle schippers stirmans ende zeevarende maets.Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.9 HEREMITE Jacques l' and Gheen Huygen SCHAPENHAM. Journael vande Nassausche vloot ofte beschrijvingh van de voyagie om den gantschen aert-kloot gedaen met elf schepen: onder 't beleydt van den Admirael Jaques l'Heremite ende Vice-Admirael Gheen Huygen Schapenham inde jaren 1623 1624 1625 en 1626. Noch is hier by gevoegt een beschrijvinge vande regeeringe van Peru door Pedro de Madriga geboren tot Lima. Als mede een verhael van Pedro Fernandez de Quir aengaende de ontdeckinge van 't onbekent Austrialia sijn grooten rijckdom ende vruchtbaerheyt. Oock mede eenige discoursen de Oost-Indische vaert en de coopmanschap betreffende.Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.10 BONTEKOE Willem Ysbrantsz. Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinge van de Oost-Indische reyse van Willem Ysbrantsz. Bontekoe van Hoorn. Begrijpende veel wonderlijcke en ghevaerlijcke saecken hem daer in weder-varen. Begonnen den 18. December 1618 en vol-eynd den 16. November 1625 .Including: RAVEN Dirck Albertsz. Journael ofte beschrijvinge van de reyse ghedaen by den Commandeur Dirck Albertsz. Raven na Spitsberghen in den jare 1639 ten dienste vande E. Heeren Bewindt-hebbers van de Groenlandtsche Compagnie tot Hoorn. Waer in verhaelt wort sijn droevige schip-breucke sijn ellende op 't wrack en sijn blijde verlossinghe. Met noch eenige gedenckweerdige geschiedenissen. Alles waerdigh om te lesen."Sardam Willem Willemsz. 1648." = Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.11 PELSAERT François and Jeremias van VLIET. Ongeluckige voyagie van 't schip Batavia nae Oost-Indien. Uytgevaren onder den E. Francois Pelsaert: ggebleven op de Abrolhos van Frederick Houtman op de hooghte van 28 1/2 graet by zuyden de linie aequinoctiael. Vervatende 't veronghelucken des chips en de grouwelijcke moorderyen onder 't scheeps-volck op 't eylandt Bataviaes Kerckhof; nevens de straffe der hantdadighers in den jare 1628 en 1629. Nevens een treur-bly-eynde ongheluck des compagnies dienaers in 't jaer 1636 weder-varen in 't Konincklijcke Hof van Siam in de Stad Judia onder den E. Jeremias van Vliet. En de groote tyrannye van Abas Koninck van Persien anno 1645 begaen aen sijn grootste heeren des rijcks in sijn konincklijck hof tot Espahan.Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.12 TWIST Johan van. Generale beschrijvinge van Indien. Ende in 't besonder kort verhael van de regering ceremonien handel vruchten en geleghentheydt van 't Koninckrijck van Gusuratten staende onder de beheerschinghe van den groot-machtighen Koninck Cajahan: anders genaemt den grooten Mogor. Uyt verscheyden autheuren ende eyghen onder-vindinge vergadert ende byeen ghestelt .Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.13 CARON François. Beschrijvinge van het machtigh coninckrijcke Japan. Vervattende den aert ende eygenschappen van 't landt manieren der volckeren als mede hare grouwelijcke wreedtheydt teghen de Roomsche Christenen .Including:- GYSBERTSZ. Reyer. Historie der martelaren die in Japan om de Roomsche Catholijcke religie schrickelijcke ende onoverdragelijcke pijnen gheleeden hebben ofte ghedoodt zijn.- KRAMMER Coenraad. Verhael van de groote pracht die daer gescheidt ende gebruyckt is op den feest ghehouden in de stadt van Meaco alwaer den Dayro zijn Keyserlijcke Majesteyt van Japan quam besoecken voor ghevallen op den 20 october 1626. Beschreven door Coenraet Krammer als doen wegen de vereenighde geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie deser vrye Nederlanden en den gemelde Keyserl. Majesteyt ghecommitteert die sulckx alles sefs! gesien heeft.- Translaet van een Japansche brief van Siragemondonne burgemeester in Nangasacqui aen den Gouverneur Generael &c. door den Opper-Koopman Jan van Elzerach overgesonden dato den 28 October 1642.- CAMPEN Leonart. Kort verhael van 't profijt dienst ende nuttigheydt dat de Oost-Indische vereenighde Nederlandtsche Compagni in Japan soude genieten by so verre sy den Chineesen handel bequaemen.- SCHOUTEN Joost. Beschrijvinghe van de regeeringe macht religie costuymen traffijcquen ende andere remercquable saken des Coninghrijcx Siam. Gestelt inden jare 1636 .Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648. First edition an exceptionally rare collection of Dutch Voyages to the East Indies here housed in its contemporary binding and with the complete complement of engraved views and maps. These early voyages of discovery and expeditions in the late 16th and early 17th centuries laid the foundation for the Dutch expansion and successful trading activities in the Far East and the establishing of the Dutch seaborne empire. This collection of voyages brought together by the Amsterdam publisher Joost Hartgers in 1648 ranks among the best albeit not the earliest collections printed in the first half of the 17th century. This collection contains amongst many important travels the journals of Bontekoe & Raven and Pelsaert ads 10 and 11 on Australia.All parts have separate title pages and individual pagination and could be sold separately which is why it is extraordinary to find them together. Copies complete with the preliminaries frontispiece general title introduction and index are very rare. A proposed second part remained unpublished.The binding is slightly soiled some manuscript inscriptions on the front pastedown and recto of the first flyleaf occasional marginal manuscript annotations. The typographical general title page has been restored along the fore-edge slightly affecting the woodcut illustration very slightly browned throughout occasionally slightly foxed occasional marginal water stains. Otherwise in very good condition.l Cox I p. 30; Landwehr VOC 251; STCN 089914589 6 copies incl. 2 incomplete; Tiele 1179; Tiele Mem. pp. 7-8; cf. Boxer Dutch merchants and mariners in Asia 1602-1795 1988. [printed by Adriaen Hermansz. Roest for] Joost Hartgers, hardcover
