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A Compendium of the East. Being an Account of Voyages to the Grand Indies Made By the Sieur Jean De Lacombe, of Quercy, Formerly Captain at Arms in the Service of the Company of the Indies of Holland. Now Published for the First Time [from the Bordeaux Manuscript of 1681] in an English translation by Stephanie & Denis Clark. Edited, with an Introduction by Ashley Gibson.
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. First Thus. Limited: # 86 of 300 copies. Black cloth spine, batik covered boards. Printed in Perpetua type on Arnold's hand-made paper. Contemporary Engravings of the principal places visited reproduced from Schouten's Oost-Indische Reyse [Amsterdam, 1676]. Maps used as end papers are from a contemporary Mercator Atlas. Double page plates, double page facsimile from original manuscript. 209, [1] pp. Bookplate of Herbert Eberhard Hering, a noted German-Brazilian bibliophile and book collector, appears on the inside front paste down. The black spine has a little nicking to the top and tail of the spine. Overall in good, clean condition though. Internally clean with a few foxing spots only. Text in English. 320 x 200 mm (12½ x 7¾ inches).
Book ID: 2244More details Price: £225.00 -
A Photo-Album of a World Tour. A German family travel around the world.
Book ID: 3445More details Price: £680.00 -
A Voyage to Senegal; Or, Historical, Philosophical, and Political Memoirs, Relative To The Discoveries, Establishments, and Commerce of Europeans In The Atlantic Ocean, From Cape Blanco to the River of Sierra Leone. To Which Is Added An Account Of A Journey From Isle St. Louis To Galam.
London: Richard Phillips, 1806. First English edition. Recent half leather binding with marbled boards and matching endpapers. Translated from the French. Fold out frontis map entitled: 'Western Coast of Africa, from Cape Blanco to the River of Sierra Leone with the courses of the Rivers Senegal and Gambia, Shewing the Journey of M. Durand from Senegal to Galam', plus seven aquatint plates. Contents have foxing throughout. Two plates are in facsimile. 181 + (3) pp. 215 x 135 mm (8½ x 5¼ inches).
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Book ID: 2620More details Price: £240.00 -
Amsterdam and Bridge across the Amstel (aquatint)
London: T. & I. Egerton, 1790. Lovely sepia aquatint taken from 'A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant and part of France; made in the autumn of 1789', published in 1790. In a lovely cream coloured mount. Ready to frame. Visible image size: 130 x 165 mm (5 x 6½ inches). Actual size in mount: 260 x 280 mm (10¼ x 11 inches).
Book ID: 3354More details Price: £35.00 -
Amsterdam et Venise.
Book ID: 2533More details Price: £80.00 -
An Essay on the Variation of the Compass, shewing how far it is influenced by a change in the direction of the ship's head, with an exposition of the dangers arising to navigators from not allowing for this change of variation. Interspersed with Practical, Observations and Remarks.
Book ID: 2909More details Price: £85.00 -
Aperçu des Etats-Unis au commencement du XIXe siècle depuis 1800 juqu'en 1810, avec des tables statistiques
Book ID: 3894More details Price: £500.00 -
Arctic Explorations: the Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55.
Book ID: 1832More details Price: £100.00 -
Asia From Keith Johnston's General Atlas
London: W & A.K. Johnston. A map of Asia, extracted from the General Atlas. This conforms best to the 1879 edition, except the lack of page title to the top edge, and the different page number. Engraved area is 13" x 17" (sheet is 141/2" x 181/2"). Lightly tipped onto mounting board, and now protected by archival protection. A lovely copy of this map from the height of colonial era.
Condition: A clean and tidy copy of this map. No significant damage at all. Clean and tidy, with the lightest of darkening.
Book ID: 1727More details Price: £15.00 -
Beschryving der Provincie Braband, bevattende De opgave van al de steden en dorpen, wegen, vaerten en rivieren; de aenduiding der uitgetrektheid, bevolking, nyverheid, des handels; benevens de algemeene geschiedenis der provincie en de byzondere van elke voorname plaets, enz., enz.
Gent: Drukkery van I.S. Van Doosselaere, 1861. First edition. Half leather with mottled hardback boards. 206 pages. With frontispiece, woodcuts in text, and a fold-out map to the rear. Map has a closed tear but is complete. Boards are rubbed. Inside has two institutional ex libris stamps; one to frontispiece, the other to title page. 185 x 125 mm (7¼ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 3799More details Price: £70.00 -
Characteristic Japan. Views and Characters in the Land of the Rising Sun.
Kobe: Tamamura, Photographer. Rare First Edition. Circa 1907. Oblong folio album, original decorated silk padded boards, with silver embroidery and ties. All edges gilt. Title page printed on charcoal paper with decorated borders and text in silver, followed by 24 hand coloured collotype photographic prints on cream paper, with tissue guards. The silk boards have been professionally restored. In a very good condition.
One of several similar albums produced by the studio of Kōzaburō Tamamura, who was one of the originators in Japan of photographic albums of this kind for tourists. The subject of these photographs include Kyoto, Osaka, Shikoku, with scenes of temples, pagodas, rivers, lakes and Fujiyama etc, with captions in English. 420 mm x 190 mm (16½ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 2174More details Price: £1,200.00 -
Comment Visiter: La Hollande - 7e édition.
Den Haag: Office National du Tourisme en Hollande, 1935. A small pamphlet in French extolling the virtues of pre-WW2 'Holland'. Full of b/w photographs. Fascinating snapshot of The Netherlands as a visitor destination between the wars. Covers slightly grubby. Internally clean. 200 x 990 mm (7¾ x 39 inches) Un petit pamphlet en français vantant les mérites de la "Hollande" d'avant-guerre. Plein de photos n/b. Instantané fascinant des Pays-Bas en tant que destination touristique de l'entre-deux-guerres. Couvertures légèrement crasseuses. Intérieurement propre. 200 × 990 mm
Book ID: 2126More details Price: £20.00 -
De overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla, in de jaren 1596 en 1597.
Leeuwarden: Hugo Suringar, 1873. Tiende druk. Boekje. Een gevierd gedicht over de Nederlanders die overwinteren in een houten hut. Zachte covers zijn delicaat en bijna los. 32 pagina's. 170 x 105 mm (6¾ x 4¼ inches).
Book ID: 3719More details Price: £20.00 -
Description of the Character, Manners, and Customs of the People of India; and of their Institutions, Religious and Civil. Translated from the French Manuscript.
Book ID: 2065More details Price: £425.00 -
Dictionary of Geography, Descriptive, Physical, Statistical and Historical. Forming a complete General Gazetteer of the World.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1242More details Price: £90.00 -
Hantvest of Charte Chronyck vande Landen van Oud-Batavien, Oud-Vriesland, Oud-Francenland.
Leyden [Leiden]: Maire. First edition. Two volumes in one. Separately published in 1636 and 1638. Full vellum binding. Firm and attractive, with just a touch of bowing to the boards. Internally clean and tidy throughout, with woodcut vignettes to the each of the two title pages. Three woodcut illustrations of military equipment to volume I. Four historiated initials to vol I. and 5 to volume II. Complete. Slight weakness to the rear hinge on the binding. End papers are of cheaper paper, and have a little edge wear. An early account of the Provinces of the Netherlands and Flanders. [viii] 190, [iv], 452pp. 325 x 210 mm (12¾ x 8¼ inches).
Book ID: 3217More details Price: £385.00 -
History of the Adventures and Sufferings of Moses Smith during five years of his life; From the Beginning of the year 1806, when he was Betrayed into the Miranda Expedition, until June 1811 when he was Nonsuited in an Action at Law which lasted three years and a half. To which is added a Biographical Sketch of Gen. Miranda
Albany: Packard & Van Benthuysen for the author, 1814. Second edition. Hardback full leather binding. Two engraved plates. Contemporary calf. "one of the few contemporary narratives relating to the Miranda expedition." General Francesco Miranda enjoyed a successful military career before he decided to revolutionize South America. The crusade was a disaster. Smith and tow comrades escaped from prison in Carthagena and were rescued at sea. Moses Smith was a native of Huntington (born 1785). First edition was published in Brooklyn in 1812. Pages 19/20 have damage to the outside margin, affecting text. Foxed and a little darkened. Owner's name to the first blank and rear end paper. Slight rubbing / splitting to the top edge of the spine. iv, 13-146, [6]. pp. 175 by 115mm (7 by 4½ inches). Sabuin 83640. Howes S-644.
Book ID: 2234More details Price: £225.00 -
James Joyce's Dublin. With selected writings from Joyce's works.
Nice: EDQ, 1973. First edition. Hardback in red cloth, inside original unclipped dust jacket. Book and dust jacket are both in very good / fine condition. 285 x 225 mm (11¼ x 8¾ inches).
With an introduction by Samuel Beckett, this fascinating collection of Edward Quinn's mostly b/w photography uses the same reportage style as Joyce himself often adopted. Rambling around Dublin from dawn to dusk Quinn found himself collecting what Joyce referred to as epiphanies. Not the literary kind, but photographic incidents of daily life and atmospheric places in Ireland's capital city.
Book ID: 3979More details Price: £30.00 -
Journals of the Rev. Messrs. Isenberg and Krapf, missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, Detailing their proceedings in the Kingdom of Shoa, and Journeys in other parts of Abyssinia, in the years 1839, 1840, 1841 and 1842.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1920More details Price: £1,500.00 -
Le Grand Silence Blanc. Illustrations en couleurs d'André Collot.
Book ID: 2526More details Price: £70.00