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4to (160 x 189 mm). (16), 168 pp. Title-page printed in red and black. With woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials. 18th or early 19th century full vellum with gilt spine, giltstamped green spine label, and handwritten place and date to spine. All edges sprinkled red. First edition, rare. - The first grammar of the Icelandic language, and indeed the first complete grammar of any Scandinavian language. Jonsson's seminal work promotes the wealth and elegance of his native tongue, utterly "insisting on the precedence of Icelandic over the other nordic languages" (Jauman). Composing what is essentially an invitation to study Icelandic, Jonsson systematically applied to his mother tongue the insights he had gained studying other languages including Hebrew, Greek, Latin, English, and German. - Title-page a little stained and spotted, lightly browned throughout. Large tears to a4 and b4 torn, repaired with loss to text. Larger traces of worming to most leaves to circa D1, thereafter diminishing to one or two small holes within text, disappearing entirely from O3 onwards. Still a good copy of a classic of 17th century linguistics. - Provenance: from the collection of Sir Walter Halsey (1868-1950) with his armorial "Gaddesden Library" bookplate to front flyleaf. BL-STC Scandinavian R 478. Bruun IV, 58. Fiske 306. 378. Jauman/Stiening, Neue Diskurse der Gelehrtenkultur in der Frühen Neuzeit. OCLC 792882312.
8vo. 3 vols. (8), 478, (2) pp. (8), 432, (4) pp. (8), 520 pp. With a total of 9 engraved plates (3 folding), 5 (instead of 6) folding engraved maps (1 repeated), and a 2-part table. Contemporary full French mottled calf with gilt cover borders and leading edges; spines prettily gilt. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt, remaining edges red. First edition of this important collection of treatises and essays, one of the author's most sought-after works. The first volume appeared separately in 1824; the three-volume set to which the collection was subsequently expanded usually contains the first volume in the 1826 re-issue only. Several of the treatises make use of Middle Eastern sources or discuss the languages of the region. - Very early in life, Klaproth (1783-1835) devoted his energies to the study of Asiatic languages, publishing his "Asiatisches Magazin" in 1802. He was appointed to the academy in St. Petersburg, and in 1805 he was a member of Count Golovkin's embassy to China. On his return he was despatched by the academy to the Caucasus on an ethnographical and linguistic exploration (1807-08) and was afterwards employed for several years in connection with the academy's Oriental publications. In 1815 he settled in Paris, where in 1816 Humboldt helped procure him the title and salary of professor of Asiatic languages and literature from the king of Prussia, with permission to remain in Paris as long as was requisite for the publication of his works. - Apparently lacking a map in volume 2. The folding map of the Potocki Archipelago is found in both the first and the second volumes. A good, clean set in contemporary bindings, the spines bearing the crowned monogram MED. Provenance: from the collection of Roberto Gulbenkian (1923-2009). A rare work; only three other copies in auction records of the last three decades. Cordier Sinica I, 68. Lust 91. Morrison II, 139. Howgego II, p. 326, K15. Henze III, 41.
Folio. With engraved title and engraved table of contents, 40 numbered engraved double-page maps, including one world map, and 4 numbered engraved double-page plans, all in original hand colour. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with gilt stamped spine title. A well-preserved copy of this 18th century atlas of the classical world, containing maps of remarkable quality, skilfully coloured. Beginning with a map of the entire ancient world and one of Europe, it includes several European countries as well as Asia and Africa, with maps of Arabia, Persia, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. The plans show the cities of Rome, Athens, and Jerusalem as well as the camp of the Israelites in Sinai. Bringing up the rear, maps no. 43 and 44 provide an overview of the political situation in Europe, Northern Africa and parts of Asia in the 5th century. The cartouches surrounding the maps mostly consist of numismatic elements, some also containing figural depictions. An illustration of the Titan Atlas constitutes the centre of the engraved title. - Wants the engraved dedication and portrait. Contemporary ownership of M. Elias to flyleaf. Binding slightly rubbed, hinges starting. Paper slightly browned; margins of the flyleaf, the title-page, the index and of maps 19-27 more noticeably waterstained. One large crease to the table of contents. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his signed and stamped ownership, dated 1979, to the pastedown. Phillips 31. For the map of Arabia: Al Ankary 138. Historical Atlas of the Persian Gulf (2006) 98. Al-Qasimi (Maps 1493-1931) 129. Not in Tibbetts.
22081Paris, Armand-Aubrée, 1833-1836. 46 vol. in-8, demi-veau blond, dos long orné de fleurons et filets dorés et à froid, pièces de titre et de tomaison noires, tranches mouchetées (quelques petits manques, frottements et épidermures, petites rousseurs, sans l'atlas et sans les cartes comme souvent - ces dernières n'ayant été incorporées qu'à quelques exemplaires).
4to. (8), 1020 (but: 940), (12) pp. With woodcut title-vignette, headpiece, and several initials. Contemporary giltstamped full calf with gilt spine-title. Second French edition of this important work of travel literature by one of the first Europeans ever to set foot in Japan. Particularly remarkable for its early criticism of Portuguese colonialism, the account resembles an autobiographical novel, describing the author's sensational travels in the Middle and Far East, including China, Japan (where he met Francis Xavier in 1551), Sumatra, Java, Siam and Malaysia. Early in his voyage, Pinto is captured by Muslim pirates and taken to Mocha as a slave, but he regains his freedom by the intermediation of a Jewish tradesman who leads him to Portuguese Ormus, from where he continues his journey to Goa. - Composed between 1569 and 1578 by the Portuguese adventurer and merchant Pinto (ca. 1514-83) and not published until 31 years after the author's death, the work saw translations into Spanish, French, English, Dutch and German as early as the 17th century and remains to this day a relevant source for early modern Asian history, despite questions about its historical accuracy. "Whether Pinto was one of the discoverers of Japan remains uncertain" (Henze). - Binding slightly rubbed. Paper occasionally rather browned as common; some marginal tears not touching text. Deleted ownership to flyleaf; armorial bookplate of the Conte de Serans to front pastedown. An attractive copy. Cordier, Sinica II, 2067. Löwendahl 97. Palau 163.206. Howgego I, P 98, p. 829. OCLC 457644236. Cf. Henze IV, 122.
Large 8vo (170 x 265 mm). (12), 235, (1) pp. With 8 aquatint plates by George Isham Parkyns. Bound for Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen (1728-1822) by Georg Friedrich Krauss in half calf, the boards covered in white paper, the spine in six panels with red goatskin label in the second, lettered in gilt, the remaining panels with sunburst surrounding the Duke's 'AS' monogram, blue silk ribbon marker and marbled endpapers, signed. The reissue in 235 pp., following the suppression of comments on the Duke of Atholl which appeared in the first edition (which was in 233 pp.). - The elegant binding is signed on the second flyleaf by the Viennese artist bookbinder G. F. Krauss (active 1791-1824) with his stamp: "G. F. Krauss, Relieur à Vienne". Krauss must count as the most prominent German bookbinder of his day, and the Duke of Saxe-Teschen was perhaps his most important client. The identity of the Duke's bookbinder was long a mystery, until Martin Breslauer's catalogue 110 offered a Krauss binding for Duke Albert, signed with the same stamp as ours, obviously performed in his style and with the Duke's monogram. Maria Theresa's son-in-law and sometime governor of Hungary (and then of Belgium), Duke Albert was a collector of the first order. His collection of graphic art forms the nucleus of Vienna's Albertina; "as a bibliophile he evinced a special taste for good typography [...] Oddly, scholarship was long at a loss to identify Albert's bookbinders. Only recently [with the discovery of Breslauer's signed binding] could it be proved that Krauss bound at least parts of Duke Albert's library" (Schäfer). - Binding beautifully preserved. An excellent copy on large paper. ESTC T100101. Cf. Abbey Scenery 555.
Small 4to. 16 pp. Sewn as issued. First edition. Sparrman had sailed with Carl Gustaf Ekeberg as a ship's surgeon to the East Indies and Canton (Guangzhou) in 1765-66. In this dissertation he gives a brief account of the voyage and an enumeration of the plants and animals observed by him. - Cut in upper margin, otherwise uncut, partly stained. From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013). Löwendahl: China illustrata nova. Supplement, 1659. Hulth, p. 139. Soulsby 2393.
4 vols. 8vo. (4), VIII, 515, (1) pp. (4), 412 pp. (4), 399, (1) pp. (4), 326 pp. With frontispieces in each volume and 3 large folding engraved maps at the end of vol. 4. Contemporary tree calf, smooth spines gilt. Marbled endpapers. First French edition of Staunton's "Authentic Account of an Embassy to China, chiefly from the papers of Lord Macartney and Sir E. Gower", translated by Jean-Henri Castéra (1749-1838): the official account of the first English embassy to China under Macartney made by the secretary George Staunton, first published in London in 1797. "Great Britain was anxious to establish formal diplomatic relations with China and thus open the way for unimpeded trade relations. But the pall of Chinese reserve and self-sufficiency, which for centuries seldom admitted penetration, still hung over this empire and effectually resisted Lord Macartney’s arguments and gifts [...] His visit was not in vain, however, for it gave us a most interesting account of Chinese manners and customs at the close of the eighteenth century" (Cox I, 344). "The account of this famous embassy was prepared at government expense. Apart from its Chinese importance, it is of considerable interest, owing to the descriptions of the various places en route which were visited" (Hill). These places include Madeira, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, St Helena, Tristan da Cunha, Amsterdam Island, Java, Sumatra, Cochin-China, etc. The second French edition, published the following year, was to include two additional volumes. - Minor wear to joints and extremities. From the library of Jean R. Perrette with his bookplate on the pastedown. Corder (Sinica) IV, 2384. Cox I, 345. Quérard IX, 289. Cf. Hill, pp. 280f. (first edition).
Folio (ca. 310 x 444 mm). 10 engraved double-page maps. Later half calf with giltstamped spine and red spine label as quoted. All edges red. The complete set of these separately published maps showing the ten Patriarchates in the Catholic church, later reprinted in smaller format in Charles Vialart's "Geographia sacra". With marbled endpapers. Binding slightly rubbed. Paper evenly browned, traces of moisture near the gutter. Cf. Tooley IV, 251 (only mentions the map of France).
17309523A Paris, chez Pierre Prault, 1730. In-12 de (8)-373-(3) pp., maroquin rouge, triple filet doré en encadrement sur les plats, fleuron en forme de soleil aux angles du cadre et fleur de lys aux angles intérieurs, dos orné à nerfs, tranches dorées sur marbrure (reliure de l'époque).
190280854San Francisco dimanche 28 et lundi 29 décembre 1902 | 13 x 20 cm | 8 pages sur 2 feuillets doubles
17973807772Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Guillaume 1797. A few leaves a little foxed; a very good copy. Two volumes octavo six folding engraved plates after Parkinson a handsome set in contemporary French mottled calf flat spines gilt double red and tan morocco labels. <p><p>First French edition first issue: the artist's account of Cook's first voyage and the discovery of eastern Australia. Translated by C. Henri from the 1784 English edition it also contains material from later voyagers updating the account including the experiences of the Forsters on the second voyage. This is the octavo issue noted by Kroepelien as preceding the otherwise identical quarto of the same year.</p> <p>Parkinson had been employed in 1767 by Sir Joseph Banks who thought so highly of his work that he arranged for the young man to join him on Cook's first voyage. When the expedition's draughtsman Alexander Buchan died at Tahiti Parkinson was called on to take over all of the topographical work completing some 1300 sketches quite apart from compiling vocabularies in Tahiti and New Holland. At the end of the voyage en route from Batavia to the Cape of Good Hope he died of a fever and after the return of the Endeavour ownership of his manuscripts and drawings was disputed: Banks considered that they were his while Parkinson's brother Stanfield claimed them under the provisions of his brother's will. When Hawkesworth learned of the impending English publication of this work he got an injunction to delay its appearance until some time after his official account and despite having used Parkinson's work extensively retaliated by deliberately omitting Parkinson's name from the narrative: even the botanical illustrations in the official account have no credit to the artist.</p> <p>Some of the bibliographical history of this work is quite complex. An extended note by Rolf du Rietz in the Kroepelien catalogue explains that this octavo issue although textually identical to a quarto issue published the same year by the same publisher is actually the genuine first issue du Rietz demonstrates from an error in the signatures that the quarto was re-imposed. Du Rietz knew the octavo only from the copy in the University of Oslo although no complete census of the two issues has been attempted. A note in O'Reilly-Reitman suggests - as if we needed more complexity - that the number of plates is uncertain as they examined copies with any number between five and eight; nonetheless six plates is the standard collation.</p> </p> . De l'Imprimerie de Guillaume unknown
- San Francisco jeudi 8 et samedi 11 janvier 1903, 13x20cm, 6 pages sur 3 feuillets. - Double lettre autographe signée de Victor Segalen adressée à Emile Mignard, six pages rédigées à l'encre noire sur trois feuillets de papier blanc. Pliures transversales inhérentes à l'envoi. Traces d'onglets de papier blanc. Emile Mignard (1878-1966), lui aussi médecin et brestois, fut l'un des plus proches amis de jeunesse de Segalen qu'il rencontra au collège des Jésuites Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, à Brest. L'écrivain entretint avec ce camarade une correspondance foisonnante et très suivie dans laquelle il décrivit avec humour et intimité son quotidien aux quatre coins du globe. C'est au mariage de Mignard, le 15 février 1905, que Segalen fit la connaissance de son épouse, Yvonne Hébert. Segalen, parti du Havre le 11 octobre 1902 en direction de Tahiti, voit son voyage interrompu par la contraction de la fièvre typhoïde qui l'immobilisera finalement deux mois à San Francisco. Cette convalescence, qui durera jusqu'à début janvier 1903 fut l'occasion pour Segalen de découvrir China Town. Dans cette lettre, la dernière que le médecin adressera à son ami depuis la Californie, il est l'heure du bilan : « Je laisse ici à défaut d'Amis, nom que je ne prodigue plus, de très bons camarades et de très bienveillants patrons. [...] Je ne quitte pas sans une pointe de tristesse une ville amusante et trouble et quelques braves gens. Je promets des retours auxquels je ne crois pas et des souvenirs dont plusieurs s'effaceront. » Segalen revient cependant sur sa conquête américaine, déjà évoquée dans sa lettre de fin décembre : « Je n'omets pas dans le protocole des adieux une séance opératoire soignée sur mon sujet Miss Rachel qui m'est restée bien amusante pendant mon mois supplémentaire. Quel joli petit animal ! Je me suis donné le malin plaisir de réunir en un même dîner plusieurs compétiteurs de ce très succulent morceau. » On découvre ici qu'il ne s'en est pas tenu à cette unique fréquentation sensuelle : « Ayant satisfait aux lois de l'esthétique en la personne de ma petite Juive, vraiment tentante, j'ai trouvé intéressant et bon de m'occuper de son extrême parmi la cohorte des nurses ; une petite béarnaise échouée ici, laide sans trop, d'une laideur suffisante pour l'isoler, la priver de sortie à deux. Je lui donne volontiers de longues heures de causeries et l'illusion brève d'épanchements nouveaux ; sans plus d'ailleurs car ma sexualité est infiniment occupée par ma vorace Israélite. » C'est ici pour Segalen l'occasion de se livrer à un compte-rendu anthropologique de la femme américaine : « La « girl » est ici cet être américain qui peut être millionnaire ou employée de téléphone, noceuse ou rigide. Pas de catégories tranchées comme en France. Elle est souvent de bonne humeur, mange bien, boit plus encore et s'enivre carrément. » Les lettres autographes de Victor Segalen sont d'une grande rareté. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
- San Francisco dimanche 22 novembre 1902, 13,7x18cm, 4 pages sur un feuillet double. - Lettre autographe signée de Victor Segalen adressée à Emile Mignard, quatre pages rédigées à l'encre noire sur un double feuillet de papier à lettre bleu. Pliures transversales inhérentes à l'envoi. Trace d'onglet de papier blanc. Emile Mignard (1878-1966), lui aussi médecin et brestois, fut l'un des plus proches amis de jeunesse de Segalen qu'il rencontra au collège des Jésuites Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, à Brest. L'écrivain entretint avec ce camarade une correspondance foisonnante et très suivie dans laquelle il décrivit avec humour et intimité son quotidien aux quatre coins du globe. C'est au mariage de Mignard, le 15 février 1905, que Segalen fit la connaissance de son épouse, Yvonne Hébert. Segalen, parti du Havre le 11 octobre 1902 en direction de Tahiti, voit son voyage interrompu par la contraction de la fièvre typhoïde qui l'immobilisera finalement deux mois à San Francisco : « Pleine convalescence mon cher Emile. [...] Aucune complication. Ma fièvre aura été de type « ambulant » car j'ai promené tout mon premier septénaire en sleeping. [...] J'ai renoncé à prendre le paquebot du 6 Décembre. Une rechute à bord et je ferais immanquablement connaissance avec les bas-fonds du Pacifique. Je partirai seulement le 11 Janvier. L'hiver est très doux à S[an] Franc[isco]. Dans 10 à 12 jours je m'installerai en ville. [...] New-York m'eût été infâme pour un séjour d'un mois. San Fr[ancisco] m'agrée. » Après avoir fait part à son correspondant de ses sentiments à l'approche d'un éventuel décès (« [...] je cherche à définir mon état d'esprit, quand, lucide j'ai appris que j'avais 41° et plus, la réaction de Vidal et des taches rosées lenticulaires. J'ai envisagé froidement l'éventualité d'une issue fatale. Au point de vue religieux siccité absolue. Tout s'est reporté sur mes parents, mes amis. »), Segalen - toujours très intéressé par la gent féminine - livre à son ami médecin des détails sur les infirmières de l'hôpital : « Etonnement de trouver un Hôpital Français en ce répertoire cosmopolite du Grand Océan. Etonnement d'y voir comme personnel une quarantaine de « nurses », 20 à 25 ans, jolies parfois, toutes munies de brevets littéraires, « graduées » comme on dit ici, dont une attachée à ma personne, me baignant, me lotionnant, me frictionnant de mains adroites, couchant en long peignoir bleu et les cheveux défaits dans ma chambre, me parlant de Rudyard Kipling, Tennyson, écrivant entre deux bains froids à ses « amis »... » Cette convalescence, qui durera jusqu'à début janvier 1903 sera l'occasion pour Segalen de découvrir China Town. Les lettres autographes de Victor Segalen sont d'une grande rareté. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
1773388<p>J. Nourse Bookseller to His Majesty 1773. First Edition. Calf. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; viii 254 pages 3 folding engraved maps incl. frontispiece 12 folding engraved plates. numerous tables 11 folding leaf of directions to the binder. All edges gilt. Original full marbled calf spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title label lettered in gold gilt binding edges. Top of spine softening and small parts missing. Text block tight. Official account written by Captain Phipps later Lord Mulgrave. The expedition of the Racehorse and Carcass undertaken for the purpose of discovering a route to India through the northern polar regions was blocked by pack ice of Spitsbergen. The valuable appendix gives geographical and meteorological observations zoological and botanical records accounts of the distillation of fresh water from the sea and astronomical observations. The voyage is perhaps best remembered for the presence of young Horatio Nelson as midshipsman aboard the Carcass and his encounter with a polar bear' Hill 1351. Phipps's narrative of his voyage was of considerable scientific interest and was the beginning of modern efforts to reach the North Pole. It also made an important addition to the knowledge of the natural productions of Spitsbergen. - The first British attempt to reach the North Pole since 1615. Today the expedition is chiefly remembered because among the midshipmen was one Horatio Nelson and during the voyage he had his famous encounter with the bear the skin of which young Horatio wished to carry to his father. Nelson was fortunate that Captain Lutwidge saw the danger he was in and scared the animal off by firing one of his cannon. The midshipman received a severe reprimand and in later years when Nelson had become a celebrated admiral the story was re-told by his early biographers as an example of his courage displayed at such a tender age – although clearly the engravers of the day had never seen a polar bear for themselves. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 388. . This book is heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.</p> J. Nourse, Bookseller to His Majesty
1820STLD0065London, Ackermann 1820. Fol., XOV, 178 S., mit 24 altkolor. Aquatintaradierungen nach Aquarellen von Christian Georg SCHÜTZ d. J., gestochen v. T. Sutherland u. D. Havell sowie zweifach gefalt., grenzkolor. Kupferstich-Karte, zeitgenöss. Lederbd. m. Rückenvergldg. u. Blindpräg., goldgepr. Bordüre sowie Kantenvergoldg., dreiseitig marmor. Schnitt, Ecken u. Kanten berieben, vord. Außengelenk eingerissen, der Buchblock vollkommen stabil, Papier wie stets leicht gebr., unser Expl. nur vereinzelt an den Rändern stockfleckig. Abbey, Travel 217; Graesse III, 59; Thieme/Becker 30/31. Erste englische Ausgabe, zugleich erste illustrierte Ausgabe des 1819 in Wiesbaden erschienenen Werkes. Die prachtvollen Aquatintas mit romantischen Rheinansichten für Reisende aus dem englischen Hochadel schmücken "das wohl berühmteste Prachtwerk der beginnenden Rheinromantik" (vgl. Schmitt, Die illustr. Rhein-Beschreibungen). Die Tafeln zeigen Mainz, Biberich, Johannesberg, Bingen, Boppard, Braubach, Fürstenberg, Bacharach, Oberwesel, Koblenz, Liebenstein, Hammerstein, Köln, u. a. - Christian Georg Schütz d. J. (1758-1823), Neffe des berühmten Malers Christian Georg Schütz d. Ä. Anfangs orientierte er sich nach dem Vorbild seines Onkels an der idealisierten Rheinlandschaft, entwickelte seinen Stil aber weiter zur Darstellung der romantischen Landschaft des 19. Jahrhunderts. Berühmt wurde er als Maler, Radierer und Zeichner von Landschaftsmotiven und Stadtansichten. Er hatte großen Einfluss auf die Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts stark anwachsende, englische illustrierte Reiseliteratur. Viele seiner Arbeiten wurden in illustrierten Reisebeschreibungen abgebildet. Er selbst bereiste den Rhein mehrmals, 1818-1819 enstanden im Auftrag des Diplomaten u. Verlegers Johann Isaak Frhr. v. Gerning (1767-1837) die 24 Aquarelle als Illustrationsvorlagen zu dessen Rheinwerk.
17357549A Amsterdam, 1735. 4to. 3 cont.full mottled calf. Raised bands, richly gilt backs. Extremities with small traces of use, slight weakening to parts of hinge, top of spine on vol. II with loss of leather ca 1x2 cm. Internally fine on good paper. 2 engr.frontisp. (with portraits), 3 engr.titlevign., 3 large engr. textvignettes. (12),390,(4),359,(4),437 pp. and 78 mostly large folded engraved plates (maps,plans,views etc.). - To this second edition was published a 4th volume which contains the author's previously published work ""Couronnement de Soliman III"" and extracts from the author's manuscript, this supplementary volume is not present here, but the 3 volumes contain the whole travel and all the plates belonging to these 3 volumes.
177462083Kopenhagen, Möller, 1774-78. 4to. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full sprinkled calf bindings with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. All edges coloured in red. Spine on volume 1 with wear and parts of gilting worn off, otherwise a nice, clean and widemargined copy. XVI, (6), 505" (16), 479 pp. + 124 engraved plates and 1 large folded map.
182251185London, Printed for John Hearne by J.F. Dove, 1822. Folio. (41 x 33 cm.). Fine later hmorocco, raised bands, gilt spine, titlelabels with gilt lettering. (4),36 pp. and 36 fine handcoloured aquatint-plates. Broad-margined. Very light browning to a few leaves. A few insignificant marginal brownspots. A fine copy.
A Amsterdam, 1735. 4to. 3 cont.full mottled calf. Raised bands, richly gilt backs. Extremities with small traces of use, slight weakening to parts of hinge, top of spine on vol. II with loss of leather ca 1x2 cm. Internally fine on good paper. 2 engr.frontisp. (with portraits), 3 engr.titlevign., 3 large engr. textvignettes. (12),390,(4),359,(4),437 pp. and 78 mostly large folded engraved plates (maps,plans,views etc.). - To this second edition was published a 4th volume which contains the author's previously published work ""Couronnement de Soliman III"" and extracts from the author's manuscript, this supplementary volume is not present here, but the 3 volumes contain the whole travel and all the plates belonging to these 3 volumes.
Stockholm, Lars salvius, 1751. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Ex-libris (Thore Virgin) pasted on to pasted down front end-paper and ""Thore Virgin / Stockholm d. 7. dec. 1912."" to upper outer corner of front free end-paper. Title-page with marginal browning, otherwise a fine copy. (10), XIV, 434, (34) pp. + 1 folded map and 6 plates.
Kopenhagen, Nicolaus Möller, 1772. 4to. Bound in a very fine contemp. Danish full calf binding, blindtooled covers and a gilt border on covers (spejlbind - Cambridge binding style) with 5 raised bands and richly gilt compartments. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Engraved titlevignette. XLVII,(1),431,(1) pp., 1 large folded map, handcoloured in outline (Terræ Yemen) and 24 engraved plates (of which 6 are charts, 2 handcoloured, many large folded). One folded plate repaired in outer margin, outside image and a small close tear with repairs on verso. A bit of browning to a few foldings. A fine copy on good paper with broad margins.
Madrid, 1788-93. 4to. Bound in 2 nice contemp. full sprinkled calf. Gilt borders on covers, 5 raised bands, gilt spine, titlelabels with gilt lettering. The Appendice slightly different bound, but matching. Fine marbled endpapers. Engraved portrait. (6),XVI,359 pp. and 4 folded tables, 4 large folded engraved maps. Appendix: (4),128 pp., 1 folded table and 1 folded engraved map. Clean and fine printed on thick paper. A small wormtract in top of the last 2 maps and the last few leaves (margins).
Paris, Librairie de Challamel Ainé, 1861-1897. 8vo. 128 volumes, all except 7 volumes bound in uniform contemporary half calf with gilt lettering. Remaining 7 volumes in half cloth. Two volumes with detached spine. All volumes with gilt stamp to front board and a few volumes with paper label pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Spines with a bit of wear, internally very fine and clean. With numerous folded maps and charts.
Uppsala, Joh. Edman, 1788-93. 8vo. Indbundet i 4 ensartede, smukke og velbevarede samtidige hldrbd. Rygforgyldning og med forgyldte titeletiketter i skind på rygge. (26),389,(1) (32),384 "(14),414,(30),341 pp. Kobberstukket vignet (Goda Hoppet Udda) samt 10 kobberstukne plancher (hvoraf 2 udfoldelige). Med alle 4 halvtitelblade, som dog er indsatte. Trykt på skrivepapir og indvendig meget rene.