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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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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