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2010228662010 Paris, 2010, Les Francs Bibliophiles, Atelier Idem, in-4 oblong en feuilles sous chemise cartonnée toilée rouge, sous étui toilé bleu, 55 pages. Joints signés un dessin à la mine de plomb et une épreuve réhaussée.
1773150519-M761London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand 1773. Quarto with marbled boards Rebound Spine rebound in expertly tooled calfskin hinges reinforced Volume 2 1773 first edition previous owner's signaures from 1825 and 1839 Timothy W. Fiske U. S. Navy water damage to back pages many maps and engravings some foldouts Missing the Map of New Zealand. First Edition. Leather Binding. Very Good/No Dust Cover. Illus. by Bartollozi. W. Strahan, and T. Cadell in the Strand Hardcover
12mo [19.5 x 12 cm]; 2 volumes, [x], 510, [iv, ads]; [viii], 184, 132, 112, [lxxvi, index, ads] pp, complete with 9 engraved maps, all but one folding, index. contemporary paneled full calf, gilt title lettering on red leather spine label, spine ends chipped, joints partly cracked but holding, cover a bit rubbed, engraved bookplate of Philp Touchet Chetnode, very good clean set. A picture of this book is availa Royal Geographical Society p. 119. Cox i, 42. National Maritime Museum 92, 93, 95 [referring to the 1729 edition]. Relating to Volume I, Hill 75: 'Dampier was the best known and probably the most intelligent of the famous group of buccaneers that tormented the Spaniard in the South Seas from 1680 to 1720. his industry in taking notes of all he saw was equaled by his pains in preserving them from destruction. His first voyage took him from Virginia to Spanish America and across the Pacific to the East Indies. He traveled extensively in the orient on several voyages which lasted from 1683 to 1691. It was on one of these trips that the first landing was made by the English on Australian shores'. Dampier, an English buccaneer and explorer and one of the more colorful characters sailing in the 17th and 18th centuries, published his various experiences sporadically. He was the first English navigator to assemble a natural history collection. His first book appeared in 1697 followed by another in 1699, and a third in 1703, each volume issued separately and independent of the others. A folding map in volume I is a double hemisphere map of the globe. This set contains the material written by Dampier himself.
8vo [22.5 x 14 cm]; 2 volumes, x, [ii], 406; iv, 380 pp, 8 fine aquatint plates, 2 folding maps, appendix. later full calf leather with gilt title lettering on red morocco spine labels, edges marbled, leaf with marginal tear, small stain on outer margin of few leaves, else near fine set in handsome binding. A picture of this book is available upon request by e The first edition was published in 1816 based on Koster's extensive travels in the area. His narrative is considered one of the most accurate and useful of all the travel accounts written on the area. Boraba de Moraes 437 (referring to this second edition of 1817): 'a classic work on the North of Brazil. . . greatly esteemed by all. . . In the appendix he transcribes two monographs by Arruda Camara, rare today, which appeared in Rio in 1810'. This appendix is on plants found in Brazil and their uses. The work includes chapters on the native peoples, planters, animals, agriculture, society, festivals, slavery, etc, based on the authors extensive travels. The maps are of the port of Pernambuco and of northern Brazil where the author travelled. A very attractive set.
large folio [53 x 41 cm]; [72 l] pp, 32 fine colored plates, including frontis, from paintings by Mee, each with tissue guard, signed in the plate by Mee, dated 1960s, maps, list of plates, pictorial endpapers. original green morocco-backed boards, bound by Zaehnsdorf, boards with hand marbled paper, gilt spine title lettering & gilt vignette on front, top edge gilted, original clear glassine jacket, original cloth slipcase, clean, fine and bright copy. A pictur A superb production with most attractive plates, including nine of orchids and six of bromeliads, each plate with a descriptive leaf. Margaret Mee (1909-88) traveled to the Amazon area 15 times over a 32 year period, by canoe, on foot and often alone. Her paintings and sketches "could stand without shame in the high company of such masters as Georg Dionysius Ehret and Redoute" (Wilfred Blunt). Mee was a passionate conservationist and devoted her life to recording the diversity and beauty of the Amazon. She was one of the first to protest the destruction still taking place there. Sitwell in Great Flower Books describes her work as: 'exceptional and quite in the tradition of the great eighteenth-century books '. 'Mee's work is of an unusually high order of excellence and in the best tradition of flower painting' [Taylor, director of Royal Botanic Garden of Kew]. 'Mee was a talented botanical painter and intrepid traveller. . .an exceptional personality' [Oak Spring Flora]. One of the plants illustrated was discovered by Mee herself.
180240702Leipzig, Gerhard Fleischer d. Jüng., 1802-13. 12mo. Bound in 16 contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt, titlelabels with gilt lettering. Some wear to spines, corners and edges. Spine ends frayed and some volumes with small nicks to spine ends. Traces of use. Stamps on titles. Around 5000 pp. With 170 (of 175) mostly folded engraved plates and 11 large folded maps. Some scattered brownspots and browning throughout.
Leipzig, Gerhard Fleischer d. Jüng., 1802-13. 12mo. Bound in 16 contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt, titlelabels with gilt lettering. Some wear to spines, corners and edges. Spine ends frayed and some volumes with small nicks to spine ends. Traces of use. Stamps on titles. Around 5000 pp. With 170 (of 175) mostly folded engraved plates and 11 large folded maps. Some scattered brownspots and browning throughout.
21848Brussels Verona and Trieste March–April & September–October 1852. VOLUME ONE: Large 4to. 340 × 265 mm contemporary marbled boards ms. paper label ‘Zettel von Brüxelles’ to front cover containing two large folded playbills 845 × 583 and 1230 × 583 mm printed on pink paper for the Casino des Galeries St. Hubert upper corner torn away and subsequently restored with loss of a couple of letters; sense recoverable and for some English performers at the Théâtre du Vaudeville plus issues of "L’Echo moniteur des théatres" three nos.; "L’entr’acte" eight nos.; "L’organe des Arts" one no.; "Le lutin journal des théatres" four nos.; "Moniteur des théatres" fourteen nos.; "L’Hippodrome de Londres" the inside of which is a playbill for an equestrian display; "Cirque oriental" two nos.; again both doubling as playbills inside; plus a flyer; with a couple of other printed announcements; also a variety of playbills from Germany Baden Baden Mainz Frankfurt; some light browning creased where folded to fit the volume a few tears to spine. VOLUME TWO: Large 4to. 333 × 260 mm contemporary marbled boards ms. paper label ‘Theater Zettel von Verona & Triest’; some waterstaining to front cover containing six folded playbills: three for the Teatro Filarmonico Verona one chipped in the lower margin; the first annotated in a contemporary German hand commenting on the performers: ‘Gut’ ‘Sehr gut’ etc. and one each for Trieste’s Teatro Filodrammatico waterstained Teatro Grande and Teatro Mauroner this the largest: 1118 × 570 mm. Together: very good overall. <br/><br/>Remarkable and remarkably preserved collection of theatre ephemera from Brussels Verona and Trieste assembled and bound in matching volumes by a contemporary traveler likely German during a pair of two-month trips in 1852. While this vernacular travel book offers a vibrant portrait both historical and typographic of local European theatre in the mid-19th century it was also clearly collected and assembled by a lover of the stage dare we say an early theatre geek who to this cataloguer at least seems a proto-member of what we would now call fan culture. A rare early and striking physical manifestation of cultural enthusiasm at the birth of the modern era. hardcover books
1895115922Paris, Librairie Marpon & Flammarion 1895 2 volumes en 1. In-4 à l’italienne 24 x 33,5 cm. Reliure postérieure demi-basane beige imitation reptile, plats à l’identique, dos lisse avec pièce de titre maroquin chocolat, vignette de titre maroquin chocolat contrecollée sur le premier plat, tête dorée, 18-[1] pp., [14] pp. de planches-18-[1] pp., [14] pp. de planches, tables. Bon exemplaire.
18122893, , 1812-1816. In-4 de (26)-154 pp. couvertes d'une écriture fine, régulière et très lisible (environ 30 lignes par page), [98] ff. vierges, le tout sur papier filigrané et réglé horizontalement, cuir de Russie fauve, dos lisse, encadrement de guirlande et semis de croisillons à froid sur les plats, tranches marbrées (reliure du XIXe siècle)
Folio (221 x 344 mm). (4), 127, (1) pp. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards, rebacked with gilt lettering to modern spine. Rare British army regulations governing equipment and supplies, first issued in 1880 during the Second Anglo-Afghan War and here re-issued in 1883, in vastly expanded form, in spite of the fact that the British and Indian troops had effectively withdrawn from Afghanistan by 1881, leaving behind only British Indian agents to liaison between the governments. The orders were issued by Major General Sir G. R. Greaves (1831-1922) as Adjutant-General for India. - This copy with an ink annotation to the title-page and first leaf of text marking it for the use of "Section C, Simla". Corners worn; interior spotted, preliminaries dusty. Unrecorded in library catalogues: the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection at Brown University's John Hay Library holds the 1880 issue, which comprises a mere 55 pages. Cf. OCLC 143614724.
44562Amsterdam Chez Didot 1744 in 12 (17x10) 2 volumes reliures plein veau fauve marbré de l'époque, dos à nerfs ornés de 4 fers dorés armoriés, pièces de titre et de tomaison de maroquin rouge, plats ornés sur chaque angle d'amoiries dorées, tranches teintées rouge. Tome 1: XVI et 370 pages, avec une carte gravée dépliante. Tome 2: 360 pages, avec une carte gravée dépliante. With two folding engraved maps. Abbé Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles, 1697-1763. Première édition (First Edition). Très bel exemplaire, reliures richement armoriées ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
8vo. 88 pp. With a folding table "Profit and loss on sugars imported from Begal" after p. 10. Disbound with remains of a calf spine. First edition. - "It is contended, in these letters, that the India company are already in possession of exclusive privileges which many deem injurious to the public, and that it would be gross impolicy to invest them with the power of converting the sugar trade into a monopoly. An equalization of duties is deemed both unnecessary and impolitic; unneccessary, because the East India company can bring sugars to market with a profit subject to the present high duties, as long as it can be for the general interest of the nation, that they should so do; and impolitic, because the East India company would totally ruin the West India islands if they can import sugars to any extet for which a demand can be found" (The Analytical Review 15 [1793], p. 523). - Title a little spotty; slight dampstain in the upper margin. "No. 4" handwritten in old ink to upper right corner of title page. Goldsmiths 15622. Ames Library pamphlet collection 91:5. ESTC T2945 (7 copies). OCLC 503866141.
51, (1) SS. Mit gest. Titelvignette (Sturm auf eine Festung), halbs. Wappenkupfer im Text (Sigmund Marschalk von Ebnet zu Weingartsgreuth) und 4 (statt 5) gest. Tafeln (dav. 2 gefaltet). Blau marmorierter Halbpergamentband. 4to. Erste Ausgabe. "Contains the account of several conquests of the Dutch, as the capture of Amboina and Tidor, belonging formerly to the Portuguese; it is more extended than the corresponding part of de Bry" (Asher). Die Tafeln zeigen Mosambik, Goa, Ambon sowie die Einnahme von Tidor; es fehlt die Karte von Südostasien (im Faksimile beiliegend). - Das VD 17 erfaßt nur zwei Exemplare in deutschen Bibliotheken, davon eines wie hier inkomplett (fehlt eine Tafel). Durchgehend etwas gebräunt bzw. fingerfleckig. Sabin 33663. Landwehr (VOC) 196. Asher 60. Church 292. JCB I, 460. VD 17, 14:688820N.
4to. (22), 506, (54) pp. With title-page in red and black with engraved vignette, 2 engraved folding maps (the second crudely highlighted in colour by a later hand), 4 woodcut headpieces and 3 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, sewn on 6 cords, gold-tooled spine with a label in the 2nd of 7 compartments. First and only edition in the original German of an account of the Dänisch-Hallesche mission on the Carnatic coast in southeast India, from the beginning in 1705 to 1736. The Dänisch-Hallesche mission was the first Protestant mission and many resulting reports were published in the magazine Hallesche Berichte. Niekamp digested its first 44 chapters and organized them in two main parts: the first dealing with geography, inhabitants, languages etc. and the second treating the mission itself in chronological order; this if followed by a comprehensive index. The work contains a preface by Gotthilf August Francke, the son of the August Hermann Francke, who was one of the driving forces in the creation of the mission. - A Latin translation of the second part on the mission was published in 1747 and a complete French translation in 1755. A continuation was published by Michael Meier in 1771, covering the period 1736-1767. - The turn-ins caused some offsetting through the endpapers to the margins of the first and last few leaves, otherwise a very good copy, with only some occasional spots. The binding is rubbed with chips and superificial wear to the spine, but otherwise in good condition. German Africana 1928. Robert, Converting Colonialism (2008), pp. 26-28.
8 vols. 8vo. Contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards, smooth spines with lettering pieces and gilt ornaments. All edges marbled. First edition, forming a continuation of the collection of Jesuit letters known as the "Lettres édifiantes et curieuses". Volumes 1-5 cover China, volumes 6-8 concern the missions to Tonkin and Cochinchina. - Some wear to spine ends. Cordier (Sinica) II, 953-957. Cordier (Indosinica) III, 1970-1978. Sabin 40704. OCLC 23391547.
VII, 219 SS. Mit farblith. Frontispiz. Originaler Leinenband. Folio (520 x 385 mm). Erste Ausgabe. Ausführliche Beschreibung der nordgriechischen Hafenstadt und der für ihre Geschichte besonders bedeutsamen Persönlichkeiten. Holzmann/Bohatta VI, 8076.
39401In-12 (180 x 97 mm), broché, couverture dattente en papier bleu de lépoque, sous boîte moderne de toile beige, 188 pages, (1) feuillet derrata et (1) feuillet blanc. Turin, 1794 [i.e. Lausanne, Isaac Hignou, 1795].
827London [Londres] : William Miller, 1801. ÉDITION ORIGINALE RELIÉE EN MAROQUIN DE L'ÉPOQUE DE CE MACABRE RECUEIL DE PLANCHES ILLUSTRANT LES SUPPLICES CHINOIS
Copper engraving. 288:356 mm. Matted. This engraving shows the Dutch fort and settlement of Zeelandia on the west coast of Taiwan. On the right is a curved sandy promontory with the castle and battlements; on the left is the town, while junks and sampans fill the water around the settlement.
Copper engraving. 290:346 mm. Matted.
185690815Napoléon Chaix | Paris 1856 | 15.4 x 24.3 cm | 2 volumes reliés
182490250Treuttel et Würtz | Paris Strasbourg 1824 | 12.8 x 20 cm | Relié
183488689Dumont Charles Gosselin | Paris 1834 | 13.2 x 21.4 cm | Relié
4to. (12), 150, (10) pp. With 12 (instead of 14) engraved plates, also wanting the portrait frontispiece and the engraved title-page. Later vellum using contemporary material with handwritten title to spine. First edition. An account of an East Indian and Middle Eastern journey made during the years of 1641-50. The German soldier Behr (d. 1692) departed from Leipzig, enlisted with the Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) and travelled to East India in 1644. From Batavia he sailed onwards to Java and Goa, and he served with the fleet of Johan Maetsuycker on the Malabar coast. He spent four years to Ceylon before visiting Persia and returning to the Netherlands. His account was published 18 years after his return, and "many sections of his journal resemble suspiciously closely the narratives of Johann Jacob Merklein and Johann Jacob Saar" (Howgego). The fine illustrations include views of Goa, St. Helena, and Kamron (Bandar Abbas), a cinnamon tree and flying fish. The appendix reprints the author's passport issued by Captain Jan van der Laen, as well as an alphabetical index. - Somewhat browned throughout due to paper. Covers slightly warped. Wants a total of four engravings, including the title (letterpress title-page is present). From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel (1939-2015) with his handwritten and stamped ownership, dated 1981, to the pastedown. VD 17, 3:307812K. Howgego I, 102, B59. Not in Wilson.
