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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 / ≈ €390

Maker / Publisher: O'CONNELL, D. / BUREAU OF PRINTING
Place & Date: Manilla, 1908

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 / ≈ €867

Maker / Publisher: MAC-LEOD, John.
Place & Date: London, John Murray, 1818

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...

$1100 / ≈ €954

Maker / Publisher: ALBRIZZI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1734

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. . ....

$2000 / ≈ €1735

Maker / Publisher: VRIES, KLAAS DE
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J. v. Keulen en Zoonen, 1777

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...

$2000 / ≈ €1735

Maker / Publisher: VRIES, KLAAS DE
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Wed. Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1802

Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amerique par M. Le Comte de Paris, Ancien Aide de Camp du General Mac Clellan (McClellan). ...

Vorzet made these 30 maps to accompany Louis Phillipe d'Orleans' (Comte de Paris) multi-volume "Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amérique". The set includes all...

$2000 / ≈ €1735

Maker / Publisher: VORZET, Ed. Dumas
Place & Date: Paris. Michel Levy Freres, 1875

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...

$2250 / ≈ €1952

Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655

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...

$3000 / ≈ €2602

Maker / Publisher: KIRCHER, A.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1670

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 / ≈ €3036

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

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 / ≈ €3036

Maker / Publisher: DODONAEUS, R.
Place & Date: Leyden, 1612