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Hern Johann Baptisten Taveniers..Vierzig Jaehrige Reize..

This German edition includes Tavernier's map of Japan in a reduced form (210x315mm) and contains legends about the country's nature, e.g., where gold is mined and plottin...

$7500 / ≈ €6992
Publisher: TAVERNIER, J.B.
Date: Nuremberg, 1681

 


Quaestiones quodlibetales. Edited by Thomas Penketh. [bound with] Quaestiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi.

The second edition of the first work and third edition of the second, both printed in the same year by Koberger and frequently bound together. On extraordinarily Strong a...

$6500 / ≈ €6060
Publisher: DUNS SCOTUS, JOHANNES.
Date: Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1481

 


Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea.

BRITAIN'S FIRST ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF KOREA & OKINAWANS. With an appendix containing charts and various hydrographical and scientific notices by captain Basil Hall and ...

$5000 / ≈ €4662
Publisher: HALL,B.
Date: London, 1818

 


Histoire Naturelle, Civile, Et Ecclésiastique..'

First French edition, published by P.Gosse, J.Neaulme and B.Lakeman. The basic work on Japan from the second half of the 17th century when it was still forbidden to forei...

$18000 / ≈ €16782
Publisher: KAEMPFER, E.
Date: Amsterdam, 1729

 


Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, behelzende een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Tafelen bevattende De Sinussum, tangenten en Secanten. . . [bound with] Geographische Tadfel...

Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, behelzende een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Tafelen bevattende De Sinussum, tangenten en Secanten. . ....

$3000 / ≈ €2797
Publisher: VRIES, KLAAS DE
Date: Amsterdam, J. v. Keulen en Zoonen, 1777

 


Descrittione di M. Lodovico Guicciardini patritio Fiorentino, di tutti i Paesi Bassi,...

Second Italian edition (variant B) and first Plantin edition (1st Silvius 1567) and the most sought-after edition of the famous description of the Low Countries, updated ...

$10000 / ≈ €9323
Publisher: GUICCIARDINI, L.
Date: Antwerp, Plantin, 1581

 


ALBUM with 170 engravings of animals, landscapes, months, figures, ornamentations, etc. from the 17th century.

A collection of 170 engravings, for the greater part engraved by Jacob Honervogt but also by Mérian, Tempesta and others. - LANGLOIS (François). A series of 12 plate...

$4500 / ≈ €4195
Publisher: HONERVOGT, J. and others
Date: Paris, ca. 1642

 


Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, inhoudende Een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Geographische Tadfel vande Graaden.. Voornaamste Zee-haavens. . .

Rare and important manual originally prepared by Klaas de Vries and improved by Evert Floryn and S.Hollander of the "Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden" (Tr...

$3000 / ≈ €2797
Publisher: VRIES, KLAAS DE
Date: Amsterdam, Wed. Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1802

 


Cruydt-Boeck van Remberus Dodonaeus. . .

Scarce, the last edition of Dodoens' Cruydt-Boeck, one of the most influential and important botanical works of the 16th and 17th centuries. With richly engraved frontisp...

$3500 / ≈ €3263
Publisher: DODONAEUS, R.
Date: Leyden, 1612

 


Histoire des Plantes qui naissent aux environs d'Aix et dans plusieurs autres endroits de la Provence.

One of the most attractive early French local floras, with delightful engraved plates. The work describes the flora of the Provence, especially the plants growing near Ai...

$6000 / ≈ €5594
Publisher: GARIDEL, P.J.
Date: Aix, J. David, 1715