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8 volumi in 9 tomi. in-16° (cm. 16,6x12,1), bross. edit. Carta povera, ma solida; INTONSI. Ogni vol. è munito di proprio vasto INDICE ALFAB., l'ultimo con amplissime note. 2) Pp. 278 (cop. ant. stacc.) 3) Pp. 301. 4) Pp. 262. 5) Pp. 342. 6) Pp. 260. 7) Pp. 318. 8a) Pp. 352. 8b) Pp. 292. 9) Pp. 488, (2). Questi nostri volumi, tutti consecutivi dal 2° all'ultimo dell'opera, narrano la storia dal 1525 in poi. Rarissima edizione originale, ignota a ICCU, non offerta nel web.
Complet en 2 tomes: xi,583 + 604pp., 26cm., reliures cart. uniformes avec dos en toile, cachet, quelques rousseurs, bon état, R83999
Six medium octavo volumes in red faux leather (plastic leatherette) boards with original wrapers bound in ; approx 300-500 pages per volume; b/w/ illus., ports., facsims; onomastic index to last volume. In Portuguese. Series: Biblioteca historica de Portugal e Brasil ; Serie ultramarina, no. 6. Portuguese -- India. Discoveries (in geography) -- Portuguese. Portugal -- History -- Period of discoveries, 1385-1580. India -- History -- European settlements, 1500-1765. Orient -- History. Goa, Cochim, || Vol. 1 tr. by Isabel Ferreira do Amaral Pereira de Matos and Maria VitÛria Garcia Santos Ferreira; v. 2, 5-6, by Maria Vitoria Garcia Santos Ferreira; v.3-4, by Manuel Busquets de Aquilar. || ** Extra shipping costs may apply **.
thick 8vo [23 x 16 cm]; xv, 644, [4, ads] pp, numerous illustrations, folding map, index. original pictorial cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, rear cover with small stain, front internal hinge cracked, edge wear, interior is clean, very good, with a loose card reading 'compliments of Francis Hart & Co., Printers'. A picture of th Sabin 82720, Borba de Moraes p 816. Goodman 642: 'The work of an American naturalist, who explored most of the major regions of Brazil between 1868 and 1874; he was attracted by the great variety of flora and fauna in that country.' Smith first came to Brazil as part of the Morgan expedition in 1870 and returned in 1874. He had a keen insight into the local political and economic conditions. This classic travel description is much sought after. A London edition was published later the same year. It gives a very detailed account, including much on the rivers, natural history, agriculture and the Indians. The appendix is on the geology and physical geography of the Amazons Valley.
Augustae Vindelicorum, (1725), mapa grabado en cobre, en colores, con bella cartela, comprende Portugal, parte de Galicia, Toda Extremadura y gran parte de Andalucía, llegando hasta la provincia de Málaga y Córdoba. Contiene en recuadro la provincia portuguesa de Brasil con sus diversas capitanías. 20 x 26 cm.
8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xvii, [i, list of illus], 444, 34 [publisher's catalog] pp, 10 plates, frontis with tissue guard, 2 folding maps including one quite large (tear at margin), index, includes the half title page. original orange pictorial cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and cover, spine a little worn, good cover, internal hinge repaired, minor foxing on some pages, interior is clean, unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author travelled extensively in Brazil over a one year period, providing good descriptions of life, society, nature, etc. He collected 1132 plants, animals and insects. Humphreys 1421. Welch 37.
8vo [21.5 x 14.5 cm]; 2 volumes, xix, 411; xii, 386, [32, publisher's ads dated October 1885] pp, 2 frontispieces, numerous illustrations including full-page, 5 maps including 2 folding and in color, tables, index. original blue cloth, gilt spine title lettering, stains on cover, light wear, one volume with short tears in lower margin, not affecting text, interior is clean, unmarked and near fine, hinges fine, covers good, solid copy. A picture of this book is avail Borba de Moraes p. 938 cites only the second printing. Welch 48. Naylor 284. An interesting narrative based on many years of travels in all parts of Brazil , including the gold districts of Minas Gerais, and through Bahia and MaranhÒo, with some emphasis on the geography, productions, economy, people, customs, food, etc. There are detailed appendices on surveys the author undertook, climate, gold and diamond mining in Brazil, railways, sugar factories, economic prospects, physical geography, with detailed statistical tables. The many illustrations are mostly from drawings, a few are photo-engravings.
Pages 210-312 plus 24 pages of ads. Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: A Modern Adam and Eve - Thomas J. Thomas; In Unexplored Brazil - Part II - Dr. Maximus Neumayer; The Would-Be Actors - F. Harris Deans; Life in the Magdalen Islands - W. Lacey Amy; Our Visit to Raisuli - Alan H. Burgoyne, M.P.; The Coolie Smugglers - Percy Walton Whitaker; A Night of Horror - The Rev. Walter P. Dennis; Across Unknown Labrador - Part III - H. Hesketh Prichard; My Adventure in Nicaragua - Major P.M. Sykes; A Midnight Attack - W.E. Priestly; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Part IV - Mrs. Fred Maturin; The "Wide World" Globes; The Fete of the Ox - Frederic Lees; The Lost Island - Oliver Matson; Odds and Ends. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
68 pages. Features: Colour photo Black Label ad inside front cover; Organized Crime's Grip on Ontario - between 1958 and 1962 the Mafia took a stranglehold on major crime (Part 2 of the Mafia series) - includes 25 mug shots, 8 of which are crossed out (killed); Bill Freedman has a very nice problem - his wife, Toby Robins, is also on her way to try New York; Where the Boys and Girls Go - 20,000 young people throng to Orillia, Ontario for the third annual Mariposa Festival - many super photos - a must for anyone who attended this huge bash!; What we can learn from the story of a sex criminal - Leopold Dion was released after 20 years, only to kill four boys; The many loves of J.B. McGeachy; Why Brazil Hasn't Gone Communist - Yet; A Maclean's flashback to the Lardeau gold strikes in B.C. around 1900 - with great photos. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. several openings at periphery. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Venecia, Venetiis, apud Theodorum Viero, s.a. (c. 1789). Grabado al aguafuerte de 280 x 200 mm., con passepartout, enmarcado en madera dorada y con cristal. Tamaño total de la pieza: 510 x 425 mm
In 8°; tre tomi: (6), XXIV,407, (3) pp. e due grandi c. di tav. fuori testp più volte ripiegate, (6), 572, (2) pp., (6), 525 (la pagina 524 erroneamente numerata 224), (5) pp. e tre grandi c. di tav. fuori testo più volte ripiegate. Bellissime legature coeve in piena pelle marmorizzata con dorso 5 nervi e titolo, numero del volume (su pecette coeve in pelle rossa) e ricchi fregi in oro ai tasselli di ogni volume. Filetto in oro ai tagli dei piatti. Piatti interni foderati con bella carta coeva marmorizzata. Tagli rossi. Segnalibro in seta verde. Un piccolo forellino dovuto ad un difetto della della carta nella prima carta del golfo del Messico, anticamente integrato, al recto della stessa, con una piccola pecetta, praticamente ininfluente. Piccolo strappetto, senza perdita di carta, anticamente restaurato al margine interno della “Carte de l’Amerique Meridionale”, ininfluente. All’interno una decina di pagine minimamente arrossate a causa della qualità della carta utilizzata ma nel complesso esemplare in ottime condizioni di conservazione ed in bella legatura, di questa rara edizione della traduzione francese di una delle più importanti storie d’America pubblicata per la prima volta a Londra nel 1777. Questa dovrebbe essere la prima traduzione francese ma altre due edizione, una in due volumi e una in quattro volumi, uscirono nel corso del 1778. L’opera ebbe subito grande successo in Inghilterra e una nuova edizione uscì già nel 1778, una terza nel 1794. William Robertson nacque a Borthwick nel Midlothian nel 1721. E’ considerato con Hume e Gibbon uno dei tre grandi storici inglesi del XVIII° secolo. Figlio di un ministro presbiteriano e risiedette a lungo a Gladsmuir nell’East Lothian (1743-59). Dopo aver preso parte alle rivolte contro i giacobiti che infiammarono la Scozia negli anni quaranta del settecento. Nel 1751 divenne capo del partito moderato in seno all’assemblea generale della Chiesa scozzese. Iniziò anche ad interessarsi attivamente alla storiografia pubblicando varie opere che ottennero subito un grande successo. Nel 1777 pubblicò il primo volume della History of America ma i moti che precedettero lo scoppio della Rivoluzione Americana lo indussero a rinunciare temporaneamente a terminare l’opera che fu completata solo posteriormente. “Dans cette histoire les faits de la conquête du Mexique et du Pérou y sont éclaircis et exposés avec une impartialité à laquelle les Espagnols eux-mêmes se plurent à rendre hommage, bien qu’ils n’y fussent pas ménagés” P. Larousse. Very good copy.
12mo [19 x 13 cm]; 3 volumes bound in one, 8, 232, [iv]; 67; vii, 202, [xxi, ads incl of hotels] pp, 12 plates including 4 folding, tables. original green pictorial gilt cloth, gilt spine title lettering, minor rubbing on edge, light mark on spine, small light inkstamp on spine, interior is clean and unmarked, endpaper bookplate of Joseph Carolin, very good+ sound copy. A picture of this book Three original editions bound together. On the third work, Borba de Moreas 601: 'He gives a detailed account of the German colony. Its is one of the best books on Rio Grande and colonization'. Welch 43. Mulhall was the owner of the Standard, an English newspaper in Buenos Aires. Nice plates of views, buildings, people, etc. Quite scarce.
304 pages. Bibliography. Generously illustrated with colour and black and white photos. Text in English and German. Approx. 9" x 9". "Concentrates on the gemstones found in the Catalan country to the northwest of Uruguay and on the people who emigrated from the gemstone centers around Idar Oberstein at the beginning of the 19th century. Relates their stories, based on their correspondence with their families back home. Focuses on the Becker family and stone prospector Wilhelm Dreher. Makes an interesting detour into Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Describes the location and mode of operation of five mines in the Artigas region. Somewhat above-average external wear. Moderate lean to spine. No dust jacket, apparently as issued. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this informative and well-illustrated history.. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: A Dead Man's Diary - Dmitri Garkin's body - and his diary - were discovered in the summer of 1913 on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean; Three Thousand Miles On A Raft - an adventurous voyage down the Amazon from Central Ecuador to Northern Brazil; A Railway Race With Robbers - A Sheriff pursues three desperate bank robbers in New York State; The Mutiny of the "Ziba" - part II - Captain John Hart relates how he was eventually able to escape and see justice brought to the murderers; The Land of the North Wind - P.H. Godsell describes his experiences in Keewatin; A Christmas Crime - story from the Australian back-blocks; The Great Cook Problem - the amusing story of how a resourceful woman tackled one part of the "Yellow Peril" in Nevada's "Bean House"; Tight Corners - part I - E.Torday recounts some of his African big game hunting adventures; "Smut" (short story about a queer pet and some of his doings); The Tree Spirit (short story from the area near Singapore); Our Travels in Safari-Land - part II of Edith Cecil-Porch and her journey through the wilds of British East Africa travelling with a wagon pulled by six oxen; Cupid and the "Wireless" - Sidney Lehre recounts a telegraphic affair while he was in the wireless service; Wonderful one-page photo of "An Eastern Venice", the town of Brunei, Borneo, once the headquarters of the dreaded Borneo pirates. Photo of a Kikuyu warrior buying a wife, paying with goats. pp. 8 [ads], 197-292, 9-32 [ads]. Tight, clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
Complete in 3 volumes: xv,479 + ix,627 + 335 pp. & 243pp. (= annexos), text in Portuguese, 1st edition, bound in 3 uniform hardcovers (spines in brown leather with gilt lettering), marbled endpapers, very few foxing, good condition, rare, cfr. OCLC 683365041, J103690
8vo [22.5 x 14.5 cm]; iv, 111, [i, list of plates] pp, 9 engraved plates including three foldout plates, frontis. new green morocco-backed boards, marbled endpapers, light dampstain in upper corner of first several leaves including frontis, one margin worn, overall a very good solid copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Borba d Moraes 545. Sabin 47022 (noting that the Colburn edition of 1820 had only 7 plates). Originally published in German, this is the only part that was translated into English at the time. A classic and early voyage into the jungles of Brazil and Amazonia, with much on the native peoples before the later massive development, on natural history and on jungle adventure.
8vo [21.5 x 14.5 cm]; 2 volumes, xix, 411; xii, 386, [32, publisher's ads dated October 1885] pp, 2 frontispieces, numerous illustrations including full-page, 5 maps including 2 folding and in color, tables, index. contemporary half leather, boards, marbled edges and endpapers, gilt spine title lettering, joints lightly rubbed, internal hinges cracked but firm, 6 leaves with small stain in lower margin, far from text, without the usual foxing, very good+. A picture Borba de Moraes p. 938 cites only the second printing. Welch 48. Naylor 284. An interesting narrative based on many years of travels in all parts of Brazil , including the gold districts of Minas Gerais, and through Bahia and MaranhÒo, with some emphasis on the geography, productions, economy, people, customs, food, etc. There are detailed appendices on surveys the author undertook, climate, gold and diamond mining in Brazil, railways, sugar factories, economic prospects, physical geography, with detailed statistical tables. The many illustrations are mostly from drawings, a few are photo-engravings.
Lisboa, en la Inprenta (sic) de Antonio Isidoro de Affonsec, 1742. 4to.; 36 hojas, 121 pp. Dedicatoria y preliminares en portugués. Taladro de polilla en 56 pp. que afecta letras del texto y en los márgenes blancos exterior e interior, afectando ocasionalmente. Ejemplar falto del arbol genealógico de Don Francisco Melo. Encuadernación moderna en media tela. Obra extraordinariamente rara del "capitán catalán" y poeta Garcés de Gralla. Dedicada por el impresor y polígrafo Francisco Luis Ameno a Francisco de Melo, las dieciseis páginas de dedicatoria constituyen una genealogía de la familia Melo. Uno de los "Cantos" es una extensa descripción de las plantas comestibles del Brasil, con sus nombres populares.
Complete in 3 volumes: 47,577 + 88,519 + 120,619,xxi pp., with frontispiece in each volume, 25cm., original softcovers, pages still uncut, good condition, weight: 3.8kg., R105802
In folio (58,5x50 cm). Esemplare in fine coloritura coeva ed in ottime condizioni di conservazione. Magnifica e vivida tiratura di questa celeberrima carta del territorio di del Portogallo e delle colonie brasiliane. La carta fu stampata dal successore e cognato del grande cartografo Matthaus Seutter (sposò una delle figlie di Seutter), il cartografo, editore ed incisore Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717 - 1777). Lotter, si formò alla bottega di Matthaus Seutter per il quale lavorò. Alla morte di Seutter ne rilevò l’attività che portò avanti fino al 1777 anno della sua morte. L’attività passo poi al figlio, Matthias Albrecht Lotter. Tobias Conrad fu uno dei più apprezzati cartografi del settecento. La carta riproduce il territorio di Gibilterra con la rocca. Un bel cartiglio animato, collocato al margine alto sinistro della carta, descrive il contenuto della mappa. Nel margine basso un cartiglio con legenda della carta e la mappa dei possedimenti coloniali portoghesi in Brasile. La carta venne incisa da Georg. Friderich Lotter nel 1762. Opera in bella tiratura ed in ottime condizioni di conservazione.
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Knife-Haft Clue - a tale of murder at Cavadiera Camp in Brazil; The War in the Dolomites - article and photos of extremely challenging terrain in Italy; Stalked! - L. Rogers was stalked on a lonely trail by a big mountain lion; The Return Match - follow-up to October 1915 article "A Prize-Fight in Mexico" by N.E. Guthrie, one of the principals in the fight; Two Girls in Camp in British Columbia - Miss H.W. Paul and her friend Fatima, two English nurses, describe their month-long holiday in the wilds of the B.C. coast; In the Grip of the "Hip Sings" - part III - an American businessman was also a member of a Chinese tong; The Mutiny of the Z.___ - part I of a tragic story related by the first mate; On the Trail in Wonderland - Part II - exploring America's newest national reserve, Glacier Park in North-Western Montana; The Disappearance of Charlie Westcott - WWI story of a lucky escape; From Job to Job Around the World - Part IX - Alfred C.B. Fletcher recounts his voyage to Spitzbergen, his coal-mining experiences in the Arctic, and his final return to the U.S., with fascinating photos; "Mike" - The Story of a Mounted Police Sled Dog that rescued a man who had fallen unconscious in a blizzard; and more. pp. 5 [ads], [2], 96, 6-24 [ads]. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Story of John Jewitt - A young Englishman is taken as a slave by Maquinna, chief of the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island; The Children of the Wilderness - Part I - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated journey in little-known Mongolia; Winning a Wife - An incident involving an Englishman in Tirah; Down the Araguaya in a Dug-Out - Part I - The conclusion of Frederick C. Glass's adventures on a little-known Brazilian river; The Sea Devil - An extraordinary six-hour battle with a huge West Indian manta, or ray; Where the gold went - Charles Siringo describes the pursuit of two men who had robbed the famous Treadwell mine in Alaska; The Cannibal Islands - Part I - Clifford W. Collinson has spent several years in the Solomon Islands - article with photos; Three Asses in the Pyrenees (conclusion) - a couple with a donkey cart set out to explore the area without any modern luxuries; My Motor-Boat - what happend when a man tried to run a second-hand boat he purchased; How We Killed the "Rat" - a scheme to kill an intruding rat goes sadly wrong; A Woman in Unknown Albania (conclusion) - Rose Wilder Lane explores the remote northern mountains where tribal blood-feuds still flourish; A Lonely Job - a young ship's officer acts as caretaker of a vessel wrecked off the Australian coast; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Woman of the Island - The extraordinary experience that befell E.N. McMullan in the remote interior of Brazil, showing that even the wildest savages have some concpetion of the white man's abilities and a very lively sense of gratitute; Amid the Eternal Fires - Volcanologist Professor T.A. Jaggar has lived on the brink of the Kilauea volcano for fourteen years - article with photos; The Wishing Pipe - a tragic story of peril underground by C.J. Harrell, one of the best placer- and hard-rock miners in the Western U.S.; East Beyond the East - a photo-illustrated visit to Ternate, gem of the Spice Islands, or Moluccas; A Battle With Wolves - a trapper's nighmare with black wolves in the Far North; In the Dark - Capt. Raymond Kelsall, of Toro, Uganda was dragged out of his bed at 2am by a lion!; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part II - A small expedition left England in 1921 to study the mighty Amazon forests and her wild Indian Tribes - article with photos; The Four Madmen - Frank James, Marcus Curtis, John Hawkins and John Coffey break out of Matteawan Insane Asylum in Beacon, New York; The Pelican Women of Lake Tchad - article with photos of the monstrous wooden discs inserted in their lips; The Three Angleteers - Part I - Three bored English lads set out across Europe and experience many troubles and adventures; My Turtle - Louis A. Sabine's disastrous voyage aboard the yawl Etta May promised a rich return but left him more poor than when he started; Four Years in Liberia - Trader Percy H. Newman describes some odd experiences in the little-known interior of the Black Republic of Liberia, in ports of which he was the first white man the natives had ever seen; A Navajo "Yebitchai" - an unusual nine-day festival connected with the healing of the sick - article with photos; Over the Dam - Night Watchman, Matthew Armstrong, Nanaimo, British Columbia The Woman of the Island - The extraordinary experience that befell E.N. McMullan in the remote interior of Brazil, showing that even the wildest savages have some concpetion of the white man's abilities and a very lively sense of gratitute; Amid the Eternal Fires - Volcanologist Professor T.A. Jaggar has lived on the brink of the Kilauea volcano for fourteen years - article with photos; The Wishing Pipe - a tragic story of peril underground by C.J. Harrell, one of the best placer- and hard-rock miners in the Western U.S.; East Beyond the East - a photo-illustrated visit to Ternate, gem of the Spice Islands, or Moluccas; A Battle With Wolves - a trapper's nighmare with black wolves in the Far North; In the Dark - Capt. Raymond Kelsall, of Toro, Uganda was dragged out of his bed at 2am by a lion!; Exporting in Central Brazil - Part II - A small expedition left England in 1921 to study the mighty Amazon forests and her wild Indian Tribes - article with photos; The Four Madmen - Frank James, Marcus Curtis, John Hawkins and John Coffey break out of Matteawan Insane Asylum in Beacon, New York; The Pelican Women of Lake Tchad - article with photos of the monstrous wooden discs inserted in their lips; The Three Angleteers - Part I - Three bored English lads set out across Europe and experience many troubles and adventures; My Turtle - Louis A. Sabine's disastrous voyage aboard the yawl Etta May promised a rich return but left him more poor than when he started; Four Years in Liberia - Trader Percy H. Newman describes some odd experiences in the little-known interior of the Black Republic of Liberia, in parts of which he was the first white man the natives had ever seen; A Navajo "Yebitchai" - an unusual nine-day festival connected with the healing of the sick - article with photos; Over the Dam - Night Watchman Matthew Armstrong's terrible ordeal in the woods near Nanaimo, British Columbia; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie - La Revue du Monde, Paris. 1865. In-8 Carré. Broché. Etat d'usage. Plats abîmés. Dos abîmé. Non coupé. 336 pages. Etiquette de code sur le dos. Tampon et annotation de bibliothèque en page de titre. Dos fendu, avec quelques manques, séparant l'ouvrage en 2 parties. Quelques rousseurs. (Très rare) Extrait de la 'Revue du monde colonial, Asiatique et Americain'. La Traite. L'Emigration, Protestante, Catholique, Rôle de Marseille. La Colonisation, Compagnies et établissements agricoles, Législation, Civilisation du désert. Epilogue.
Liverpool, F. B. Wright, 1831, 21,5 x 14 cm., hol. piel, portada + VIII págs. + mapa plegado + 318 págs. + estado plegado. (Traducción portuguesa por Antonio J. da Costa, Cónsul de Portugal en Liverpool. Obra rica en hechos relacionados con la condición, historia y carácter de los indios del Perú y Brasil, en especial de las zonas inexploradas del valle del Marañón).