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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...

$70000 / ≈ €65500
Maker / Publisher: LINSCHOTEN, J.H.
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...

$30000 / ≈ €28072
Maker / Publisher: DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste.
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 ...

$10000 / ≈ €9357
Maker / Publisher: GUICCIARDINI, L.
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 ...

$9500 / ≈ €8889
Maker / Publisher: WOLFF, Jeremias (heirs) / ENGELBRECHT, Mart
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...

$9000 / ≈ €8421
Maker / Publisher: NIEUHOF, J.
Place & Date: London : Printed by the Author at his house in White-Friers, 1669

 


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....

$8500 / ≈ €7954
Maker / Publisher: [BALDUINO (Giacomo)], ZUCHI (Andrea) / WOLFF (Jeremias).
Place & Date: Venezia, Ragheno, 1702 / Augsbourg, J. Wolff, ca. 1715

 


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 / ≈ €7018
Maker / Publisher: TAVERNIER, J.B.
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...

$7000 / ≈ €6550
Maker / Publisher: KAEMPFER, E.
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...

$6000 / ≈ €5614
Maker / Publisher: GARIDEL, P.J.
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 ...

$6000 / ≈ €5614
Maker / Publisher: AMMANN, Hans Jacob
Place & Date: Zürich, M. Schauffelberger Erbin, 1678