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Histoire de la Navigation.
A fine example of Linschoten's classic illustrated travelogue to the East and West Indies, termed by Lach “the most important of the firsthand accounts published indepe...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638
Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise.
First edition of this cornerstone of any collection of books on China, which is also among the rarest and most desirable of important Americana, included in Rare American...
Place & Date: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, 1735
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 ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Plantin, 1581
Rare collection of costume plates.
Rare collection of costume plates published in Augsburg by the famous publishers Martin Engelbrecht, Ioh. Georg Hertel and the Jeremias Wolff Heirs.Composition :2 plates ...
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1730
An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China deliver'd by their excellencies, Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking. . .
Very rare first English text edition of this most important and early resource on China and the Chinese. Three parts in one folio by John Macock for the author.Part I: An...
Place & Date: London : Printed by the Author at his house in White-Friers, 1669
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Recueil de costumes. Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Suivi de: [Augsburger Kleidertrachten].
Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Dedicate all'Illmo et Ecc.mo Sig.r Andrea da Leze Degnis.mo Proc.tor di S: Marco....
Place & Date: Venezia, Ragheno, 1702 / Augsbourg, J. Wolff, ca. 1715
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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...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1681
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 for f...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1729
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...
Place & Date: Aix, J. David, 1715
Reiß in das Gelobte Land ... Mit nach dreyen andern Reißbeschreibungen vermehret, und schönen Kupfern gezieret.
Very rare first illustrated edition of collected travel accounts by citizens of Zürich, containing : Hans Jacob Amman, "Narrative of a trip to Palestine". The ...
Place & Date: Zürich, M. Schauffelberger Erbin, 1678
Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes orientales des Provinces Unies vers les empereurs du Japon.
First edition in French of this important work on Japan, a work whose illustrations "represent a high-water mark in book illustrations of the 17th century" (Lac...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Het gezandtschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, Den tegenwoordigen Keizer van China. . .
Third edition of this beautifully illustrated work on China. The first edition was published in 1665.Jan Nieuhof was a "Dutch traveler and adventurer" (1618-72)...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W. Waasberge, 1693
Deliciae Batavicae.
It is a charming book illustrated with portraits of Willem of Orange and Prince Maurits and eight engraved armorial plates. Followed by 30 engraved views or scenes of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1618
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 ...
Place & Date: London, 1818
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...
Place & Date: Leyden, 1612
La Chine d'Athanase Kirchere de la compagnie de Jesus, illustrée de plusieurs monuments tant sacrés que profanes et de quantité de recherches de la nature. . .
Athanasius Kircher, S.J., (1601 or 1602-1680) was a 17th-century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geol...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1670
Tweevoudigh onderwiis van de Hemelsche en Aerdsche Globen; Het een Na de meyning van Ptolemeus met een vasten Aerdkloot...
Tweevoudigh onderwiis van de Hemelsche en Aerdsche Globen; Het een Na de meyning van Ptolemeus met een vasten Aerdkloot; Het ander Na de Natuerlijcke stelling van N. Cope...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655
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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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Wed. Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1802
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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. . ....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J. v. Keulen en Zoonen, 1777
Encyclopedie des Voyages. Tom 3 ASIE.
There are in this volume as many as 89 color plates, all done by the author himself. Containing dresses of people of China, Persia, Armenia, Philippines, Java, India, Tar...
Place & Date: Paris, 1796
Lo Stati Presente di Tutti i Paesi e Popoli del Mondo..
This most uncommon work provides an interesting focus on the dissemination of the outline of Japan provided by Kaempfer. Beside the description of Japan, the book include...
Place & Date: Venice, 1734
Voyage of his majesty’s ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew, with an account of her subsequent shipwreck, by John M’LEOD. Surgeon of the Alceste.
Second and best edition, with frontispiece portrait of Captain Maxwell and five fine hand-colored aquatint plates, including a plate not present in the first edition of t...
Place & Date: London, John Murray, 1818
Kort begrip der oude en nieuwe staatkundige Geographie: behelzende eene beschryving der heerschappyen, in welken de aarde verdeeld is, haare gelegenheid. . .
Sixth edition- Interesting geographical compendium, prepared by Johann Hubner en W.A. Bachiene. Of particular interest is the section starting with pages 589 with "O...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Covens / Mortier, Utrecht, Poolsum, 1758