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Merula, Cosmographiae Generalis ...
Merula P. Cosmographiae Generalis Libri Tres: Item Geographiae Particularis Libri Quatuor: Quibus Europa In Genere Speciatim Hispania Gallia Italia Describunter. Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius 1621. Colophon: Leyden: Isaac Elzevir 1620. Folio (350 x 220 mm). 8p, 1074pp, 1p, Half title, engraved title page, 57 engraved maps & 1 woodcut view (Madrid) in text. 4 inserted maps engraved by Van Doetechum (Europe, Spain, France and Italy).
Item number: 04236
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de LAET, Jean (1593-1649). L'Histoire du Nouveau monde ou Description des Indes occidentales,
The most accurate description of the Americas at the time - 1640
de LAET, Jean (1593-1649). L'Histoire du Nouveau monde ou Description des Indes occidentales, contenant dix-huict livres... Enrichi de nouvelles Tables géographiques & Figures des Animaux, Plantes & Fruits. Leiden: Bonaventure & Abraham Elzevier, 1640.
Folio (345 x 220 mm) 14 double-page engraved maps, 64 woodcut illustrations in text; two maps age-toned, one sheet (O1) with a corner torn off, modern imitation binding, spine richly gilt with six raised bands, marbled sheepskin, marbled edge. Title printed in red and black with woodcut printer's vignette.
Item number: 04230
Arabia - Turkey
Dapper Olfert (1636 - 1689). Naukeurige beschryving van Asie: behelsende de gewesten van Mesopotamie, Babylonie, Assyrie, Anatolie, of Klein Asie: ... Amsterdam, K. van Meurs, 1680. 2 parts in 1 vol. folio (32,5 x 20,5 cm), contemp. richly gold-tooled calf, covers with large gilt central ornament within 2 gilt double ruled borders, elaborately gilt spine, sides gilt, joint split. [8]-357-[3], 324-[3] pp.
Item number: 04229
Valentyn F. Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën ...
An authoritative work on the history of the far east.
Valentijn F. (1666-1727) Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën, vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryvinge der Moluccos, Amboina, Banda, Timor, en Solor, Java, en alle de Eylanden onder dezelve landbestieringen behoorende (...). Als ook (...) van Choromandel, Pegu, Arracan, Bengale, Mocha, Persien, Malacca, Sumatra, Ceylon, Melabar, Celebes of Macassar, China, Japan, Tayouan of Formosa, Tonkin, Cambodia, Siam, Borneo, Bali, Kaap der Goede Hoop en van Mauritius. ... Dordrecht-Amsterdam, J. Van Braam - G. Onder de Linden, 1724-1726. 5 parts in 8 vols. Folio (34 x 220,5 cm), 19th cent. black half calf, gilt spines, engraved frontisp., portrait, 268 maps and plates of views, costume, natural history subjects, etc., and portraits of Dutch navigators and administrators, some double page, many folding + 84 textills. (incl. 3 woodcuts) + folded tables. Some library stamps, occas. waterstained in upper margin, some pages age-toned/ foxed. Overall a good set with some minor defects.
Item number: 01658
Price: €31000 ($39370 / £24490)
India - Persia - Dapper O. Asia ...
Dapper Olfert (1639-1689) , Asia, of Naukeurige beschryving van het rijk des Grooten Mogols, en een groot gedeelte van Indiën: behelsende de landschappen van Kandahar, Kabul, Multan, Haïkan, Bukkar, ... Beneffens een volkome Beschryving van geheel Persie, Georgie, Mengrelie en andere Gebuur-gewesten. Vertoont In de Benamingen, Grens-palen, Steden, Gewassen, Dieren, Zeden der inwoonders, Drachten, Bestiering en Gods-dienst. ... Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1672. Two parts in 1 vol., folio, contemporary marbled calf (skilfully restored), richly gold-tooled decoration on covers and spine. 379-[3], [2]]]-184, 43-[5] pp. (a few pages slightly browned). Excellent copy.
Item number: 24286
Price: €6400 ($8128 / £5056)
BREYDENBACH, Bernard von. Peregrinatio in terram sanctam. [Speier], Peter Drach, 29 July, 1490.
*** The first illustrated travel book ***
BREYDENBACH, Bernard von (1454 - 1497). Peregrinatio in terram sanctam. [Speier], Peter Drach, 29 July, 1490. 2d Ed in Latin. Folio.
Half pigskin over wooden boards with 2 brass clasps, 120 leaves including the 18 additional leaves needed to extent the folding views (Venice, Parenzo, Corfu, Modon, Candia, Rhodes and Jerusalem). Some small wormholes at the end with a slim worm trace (up to 3 cm) affecting the last 10 leaves, repair at the view of Jerusalem reinstating a small area (15x13mm). Complete, 2nd Latin edition with the original Mainz woodcuts in a fine condition.
Item number: 21443
Bünting H. Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Magdeburg, 1597.
Bünting's celebrated biblical geography
BUNTING Heinrich (1545-1606). , Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Das ist Ein Reisebuch, Uber die ganze heilige Schrifft, in zwei Bücher getheilet. Der Erste Theil gebreifft alle Reisen der lieben Patriarchen, Richter, Könige , Propheten, Fürsten / etc. . . . [- Ander Theil] Uber das newe Testament. Darinnen werden begriffen / die Reisen der heiligen Jungfrawen Mariae, Josephs, . . . - Uber das Buch Josua . . . - De monetis et mensuris sacrae scripturae . . . Magdeburg, Paul Donat for Ambrosius Kirchners, 1597. Four parts in one volume.
[Bound with:] Rivander, Zacharias. Fest-Chronica. Darinnen viel außerlesene, denckwirdige Historien oder Geschicht, die sich auff die Feyer und Sontage zugetragen, in der Erklerung der darauff geordenten Evangelien nach gelegenheit nützlich einzuführen. Deßgleichen Mancherley schöne Exempel, wie Gott den rechten gebrauch solcher Heiligtage belohnet, und den Mißbrauch gestrafft. N.pl., 1591. Two parts.
Folio. (34 x 22,5 cm) Contemporary German blind-tooled panelled pigskin over bevelled boards, two brass clasps, one catch missing. Title-page to part one printed in red and black (upper part trimmed to title).
Item number: 24224
Montanus A. - America
"Considered the first encyclopedia of the Americas." (Schwartz & Ehrenberg)
MONTANUS A. (1625 - 1683). Die Unbekante Neue Welt oder Beschreibung des Welt-teils Amerika, und des Sud-Landes: Darinnen vom Uhrsprunge der Amerikaner und Sudländer (...) [Translation from the Dutch Olfert Dapper.] Amsterdam, Jacon van Meurs, 1673. Folio (30 x 20 cm), title in red and black, half leather, marbled on covers, flat spine with gilt title label. [8]-658-[22] pp.
Item number: 04233
Pococke R. Beschreibung des Morgenlandes ... Erlangen, 1754.
Pococke, Richard, (1704-65). Beschreibung des Morgenlandes und einiger anderer Lander. Erlangen, 1754. 3 vols. 4to, contemporary vellum. With frontisp. & 180 plates and maps, many folding, including maps of Greece, Cyprus, Crete, Turkey, Holy Land, etc.
Item number: 21648
Price: €2600 ($3302 / £2054)
Magnus O., Historia de Gentibus septentrionalibus
MAGNUS O. Historia de Gentibus septentrionalibus, earumque diversis statibus, conditionibus, moribus, ritibus, superstitionibus, disciplinis, exercitiis, regimene, victu, bellis, structuris, instrumentis, ac mineris metallicis, & rebus mirabilibus, necnon universis pené animalibus in septentrione degentibus, eorumqve natura. Romae: Apud Ioannem Mariam de Viottis, 1555. Folio (275 x 190mm). First and best edition (Sabin). Full page woodcut map, 470 woodcuts illustrations (10 full page); 84p, 815pp. Early 17th-century calf with richly decorated spine in gilt, ornament (probably a coat of arms) cut out on first cover, else good copy.
Item number: 22596
Price: €7500 ($9525 / £5925)
Ramusio G.B., Delle Navigationi et Viaggi. 1559-65.
"One of the earliest and most important collections of voyages and travels" (Hill)
RAMUSIO G.B. Delle Navigationi et Viaggi. Venice: Giunta, 1563-59-65. 3 vol. folio (320 x 225 mm). Woodcut device on titles. 3 double-page woodcut maps in vol. I and 6 folding maps in vol. III. (Vol. I with wormtracks in approximately 40 leaves at the beginning and affecting maps; vol. II with title and 1.8 repaired and mounted on guards, waterstaining in 1.4-7, marginal browning to last 30 leaves; occasional staining, browning, worming and spotting in all 3 vols). Vols I and III in contemporary limp vellum, spines lettered in manuscript (ties lacking, front hinges broken, extremities rubbed and lightly soiled); vol. II in contemporary stiff vellum, not uniform with the other volumes, spine lettered in manuscript, mottled edges (new endpapers, small stain at head of spine and upper cover, extremities lightly rubbed).
Item number: 13713
Dapper O. Africa
Dapper Olfert. Description de l'Afrique, contenant Les Noms, la Situation & les Confins de toutes ses Parties, leurs Rivières, leurs Villes & leurs Habitations, leurs Plantes & leurs Animaux ; les Moeurs, les Coûtumes, la Langue, les Richesses, la Religion & le Gouvernement de ses Peuples. Avec Des Cartes des Etats, des Provinces & des Villes, & des Figures en Taille-douce, qui représentent les habits & les principales Ceremonies des Habitans, les Plantes & les Animaux les moins connus. Traduite du Flamand [en français] D'O. Dapper, D. M. Amsterdam: Wolfgang, Waeesberge, Boom and van Someren, 1686.
Folio (360 x 220mm). Engraved frontispiece, folding general map, 12 double-page maps, 1 folding plate, 29 double-page plates. Bottom title page and p.23 trimmed (2 cm, without loss of text.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine in seven compartments with raised bands (repaired), tear in p.331 (reinforced)
Item number: 24276
Price: €6800 ($8636 / £5372)
Cluver, Philipp. Italia antiqua. - Sicilia antiqua
Italia antiqua. Leiden: ex officina Elseviriana, 1624. 2 vol., [20 (incl. half-title and engraved title-page)], 786; [4], 787-1338, [22]pp., full-page engraved portrait, 14 double-page engraved maps, a few woodcut illustrations in text, woodcut initials.
Ibid. Sicilia antiqua... Item, Sardinia et Corsica. Leiden: ex officina Elseviriana, 1619, [16 (incl. half-title and engraved title-page)], 510, [12]pp., engraved title-page, 5 engraved maps (all but one double-page).
Ibid. Germaniæ antiquæ libri tres... Adjectæ sunt Vindelicia et Noricum. Leiden: Louis Elzevir, 1616, 4 parts in one volume, [44 (incl. half-title and engraved title-page)], 400; 203, [1]; 230, [2 (blank)]; 36, [18]pp., illustration: engraved title-page, 11 double-page engraved maps, one (of 26) engraved plates.
First editions, together 4 volumes, folio (336 x 219mm.), binding: uniform eighteenth-century calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments,
Item number: 21595
Price: €6900 ($8763 / £5451)
Hulsius, Vierdte Schiffart. Wahrhafftige Historien ...
Hulsius L. Vierdte Schiffart. Wahrhafftige Historien einer wunderbaren Schiffart welche Ulrich Schmidel von Straubing von Anno 1534 biss Anno 1554 in Americam oder Neuewelt bey Brasilia und Rio della Plata gethan. Editio tertia. Franfurt, Veuve Levinius Hulsius, 1612.
4to (191 x 153 mm). Engraved vignette on the title page, portrait, folding map of southern South America and 15 engraved plates. Vellum binding, handwritten title on the back.
Item number: 21588
Price: €6500 ($8255 / £5135)
Linschoten J.H. van. Histoire de la Navigation.
*** One of the most important travel books ever written ***
LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen van (c. 1563 - 1611). Histoire de la Navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois: Aux Indes Orientales. [With:] Le Grand Routier de Mer, Continant une instruction des routes & cours qu'il convient tenir en la Navigation des Indes Orientales, & au voyage de la coste du Bresil, des Antilles, & du Cap de Lopo Gonsalves. .... [With:] Description de l'Amerique & des parties d'icelle, comme de la Nouvelle France, Floride, des Antilles, Iucaya, Cuba, Iamaica, &c. Amsterdam: Evert Cloppenburch, 1638.
3 parts in one volume, folio (31 x 20,5 cm). Three engraved titles, portrait, 6 folding engraved maps including the 1594 double-hemisphere world map by Petrus Plancius (Shirley (World), 187), 36 plates and bird's-eye views double-page and larger, by or after P. Plancius, A.F. van Langren, H.F. van Langren or the brothers van Deutecom. Contemporary vellum.
Item number: 23190
Montanus A. Japan. 1680.
One of the most important works on Japan published in the seventeenth century.
Montanus A., Ambassades Mémorables De La Compagnie Des Indes Orientales Des Provinces Unies Vers Les Empereurs Du Japon. Amsterdam: Jacob De Meurs, 1680. Two parts in one volume. Folio (355 x 425 mm). Title in red and black with integral engraved vignette. Engraved additional title, 26 engraved maps and plates (1 folding map, 4 folding plates, 21 double-page plates), 70 engraved illustrations, occasional engraved initials and head-pieces. Contemporary calf, spine in seven compartments, richly gilt, some worn, one plate with adhesive tape residue, another one repaired with restoration tape, occasional foxing, good copy.
Item number: 13709
S. GRYNAEUS & J. HUTTICH. Novus Orbis Regionum ac Insularum Veteribus Incognitarum, Basel, I. Hervagium, 1532.
One of the earliest compendiums of travel and exploration
GRYNAEUS S. & HUTTICH. J. Novus Orbis Regionum ac Insularum Veteribus Incognitarum. Basel, I. Hervagium, 1532. Folio (32,5 x 21 cm), contemporary German blind-tooled panelled pigskin over bevelled boards, clasps missing. 22pp, 584pp + large unfolding woodcut worldmap.
Item number: 21418