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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 edition. 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. 320 x 200 mm (12½ x 7¾ inches).
Book ID: 2244More details Price: £225.00 -
Amsterdam et Venise
Book ID: 2533More details Price: £80.00 -
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. 200 x 990 mm (7¾ x 39 inches)
Condition: Covers slightly grubby. Internally clean.
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 -
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 -
Diptych Sundial Compass, with details of major European and American cities
Book ID: 3316More details Price: £580.00 -
Le Grand Silence Blanc Illustrations en couleurs d'André Collot.
Book ID: 2526More details Price: £70.00 -
Les Contrées Mystérieuses et les Peuples inconnus. Ouvrage illustré de 6 grandes cartes et de 277 gravures dans le texte, dont 54 grandes planches
Paris: Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1884. First edition. Hardback in three quarter leather with mottled boards. Raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Boards are rubbed, but acceptable. Clean and tidy inside. Complete, including all six folding maps etc. Boards have 778 pages. 270 x 195 mm (10¾ x 7¾ inches).
Book ID: 3600More details Price: £60.00 -
Mauritius; or the Isle of France: Being An Account of the Island, its History, Geography, Products, and Inhabitants.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1579More details Price: £260.00 -
Orient Line Guide. Chapters for Travellers by Sea and by Land. Illustrated. The Fourth Edition, revised, with maps and plans.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington Ltd, 1891. Publisher's blue hardback boards with gilt title to front and cloth spine. Information for passengers, illustrations of ships, charts, maps and ship plans etc. some fold-out. Boards slightly damp stained and bumped. Sporadic foxing. Overall good condition. XL, 439 pp. including interesting b/w advertisements of the time. 215 x 175 mm (8½ x 7 inches).
The Orient Line was formed in the late 18th century, and by the middle of the 19th century was sailing its steamships all over the world. This guide predates its association with (and eventual absorption by) the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company; or P&O.
Book ID: 3610More details Price: £95.00 -
Proceedings of the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa
London: T. Cadell, 1791. First Thus. An edition in quarto appeared in the previous year. A simple recent brown full calf binding, with no titles. This is an important work. Complete with the half-title and large folding map by James Rennell, to the rear. The map has in excellent condition, with small tear to outer edge (outside map frame). Binding and book in very good condition. Two New York Historical Society stamps to title. Some minor foxing and page toning.
xvi, 351 pp. + plate: map. 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).Book ID: 2294More details Price: £900.00 -
SHANGHAI; A handbook for travellers and residents to the chief objects of interest in and around the foreign settlement and native city
Book ID: 2184More details Price: £600.00 -
Southern Arabia
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1617More details Price: £450.00 -
The Voice of Asia
New York: Random House, 1951. First Edition. Stated first printing. Hardback in neatly price clipped dust jacket - now in Mylar. Dust jacket has some light edge wear. Illustrated end papers. Pages clean. Michener had travelled widely in Asia and this book is the result of him having talked to many people he encountered along the way about their opinions of their country's religious problems, economic questions, and social revolutions. A snap shot of mid twentieth century Asia. 338 pages. 215 x 145 mm (8½ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3222More details Price: £48.00 -
Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770 - 1860 from the Library of J. R. Abbey Vol. I & II
San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1991. Two volumes. Hardback in dust wrapper. The front of the wrapper of Volume 1 has been sliced in half (quite neatly!) now held in removable plastic. Apart from this flaw, the wrappers are clean and tidy. Books are bound in burgundy laminated cloth. The front of Volume 1 has a thin scratch (corresponding to the wrapper damage).
Volume 1 - contains the World, Europe and Africa. 347 works are catalogued, with 44 plates and illustrations.
Volume 2 - contains Asia, Oceania, Antarctica & America. Contains 381 works catalogued and 46 plates and illustrations. xiv, 1-300., xiv, 301-676. pp. 320 by 240 mm (12½ by 9½ inches).Book ID: 2120More details Price: £225.00 -
Travels through the Low Countries, Germany, Italy and France, with Curious Observations, Natural, Topographical, Moral, Physiological &c Also a Catalogue of Plants, Found spontaneously growing in those Parts and their Virtues.
London: J. Walthoe, D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch..et al, 1738. Second edition. Volume I only (of two). Full leather binding with gilt details and titles. The leather is a little rubbed and the gilt faded. Slight cracking to the hinge, but holding well. Complete with three engraved plates (two folding). All three of the engraved plates are found in this, the first of the two volumes. Engraved capitals and end pieces. Internally in good clean condition, in a good, tight condition. Owner's name to the head of the title page. iv, 428, 120 pp. 205 x 130 mm (8 x 5 inches).
John Ray was an English naturalist, widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists, and the man with whom "the adventure of modern science begins".
Book ID: 3332More details Price: £480.00