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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 / ≈ €8679
Maker / Publisher: GUICCIARDINI, L.
Place & Date: Antwerp, Plantin, 1581

 


Grote Atlas van de Verenigde Oost-Indische [Complete set of 7 volumes] Compagnie/Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch United East India Company

This seven volume atlas was published in a limited edition. It covers all territories and possessions under the Charter of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) from 1602-17...

$3500 / ≈ €3038
Maker / Publisher: BROMMER, R. / ORMELING, F. / SCHILDER, G., etc
Place & Date: Voorburg, Asia Maior/Atlas Maior, 2006-2010

 


De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu, ex P. Matthaei Ricci.

Very rare first edition of the most influential Western description of China since the 13th-century account by Marco Polo. Printed in Latin with an engraved title page in...

$4000 / ≈ €3472
Maker / Publisher: RICCI, Matteo - TRIGAULT, Nicolas.
Place & Date: Augustæ Vind. (Augsburg), C. Mangium, 1615

 


Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid.

AN EARLY ISSUE of this biting and vulgar satire on the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles and an extraordinary visual record with 78 plates of the first banking crash, sho...

$9900 / ≈ €8592
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720

 


Rerum per octennium in Brasilia Et alibi nuper gestarum, Sub Praefectura Illustrissimi Comitis I. Mauritii, Nassoviae, (...) Historia.

First edition. Commissioned by Johan Maurits van Nassau (governor of Brazil between 1636-1644 and founder of "Mauritsstad" (present-day Recife)) and illustrated...

$32500 / ≈ €28206
Maker / Publisher: BARLAEUS, C.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1647

 


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...

$5500 / ≈ €4773
Maker / Publisher: MONTANUS, A.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680

 


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.

The second and best edition, with a frontispiece portrait of Captain Maxwell and five fine hand-colored aquatint plates, including a plate not present in the first editio...

$1000 / ≈ €868
Maker / Publisher: MAC-LEOD, John.
Place & Date: London, John Murray, 1818

 


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 / ≈ €7377
Maker / Publisher: [BALDUINO (Giacomo)], ZUCHI (Andrea) / WOLFF (Jeremias).
Place & Date: Venezia, Ragheno, 1702 / Augsbourg, J. Wolff, ca. 1715

 


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 / ≈ €60752
Maker / Publisher: LINSCHOTEN, J.H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638

 


Manila the perl of the Orient. Guide book to the intending visitor [with several photos and 3 plans of Manila]

Charming 1908 Guide book to with several photos and 3 folding plans of Manilla. Published by the "Manila merchants' association", directed by O'Connell, Daniel....

$450 / ≈ €391
Maker / Publisher: O'CONNELL, D. / BUREAU OF PRINTING
Place & Date: Manilla, 1908