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Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise.
1770 DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste. - Description geographique, historique […] de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise. The first definitive European work on the Chinese empire....
Date: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, (vol. 1-3) 1770 / (vol.4),1735
Rerum per octennium in Brasilia Et alibi nuper gestarum, Sub Praefectura Illustrissimi Comitis I. Mauritii, Nassoviae, (...) Historia.
1647 BARLAEUS, C. - First edition. Commissioned by Johan Maurits van Nassau (governor of Brazil between 1636 and 1644 and founder of "Mauritsstad" (present-day ...
Date: Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1647
Teatro della guerra: Belgio, Il Belgio confederato, Luoghi posseduti dal Belgio confederato fuori dell'Europa.
1706 CORONELLI, V. - Extremely rare collection of views and plans of cities in the Low Countries, also including regions outside Europe, including the Cocos (Keeling) Is...
Date: Naplers, 1706
Histoire de la Navigation.
1638 LINSCHOTEN, J.H - The most important of the firsthand accounts published independently of the great travel collections
Date: Amsterdam, Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638
Nouveau voyage pittoresque de la France Orné de trois cent soixante gravures exécutées sur des dessins fait d'après nature, et représentant des Vues des principales Villes de France, ...
Large paper copy, printed on quarto format (210x235mm.) on heavy paper. Illustrated with 360 engraved plates, many by Jean-Jerome Baugean. Without the large folding map....
- $2200 / ≈ €1881
Date: Paris, 1817
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...
Date: Augustæ Vind. (Augsburg), C. Mangium, 1615
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...
Date: London, John Murray, 1818
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....
Date: Manilla, 1908
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...
Date: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, 1735
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 Du...
Date: Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1618
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1670
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 ...
Date: Antwerp, Plantin, 1581
[12 volumes] Recueil des voyages qui ont servi à l'établissement et aux progrez de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, forméedans les Provinces-Unies des Païs-Bas...
An important, richly illustrated compendium of the first Dutch voyages to East India, of great interest for the history and establishment of the Dutch global trade, parti...
Date: Rouen, Pierre Le Boucher, 1725
[Tableau Général de l'Empire Ottoman]. 11 plates with the panoramic view of Mecca.
A collection of 11 engraved plates (3 folding) from "Tableau Général de l'Empire Ottoman", Paris, Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1790, comprising the famous panoramic ...
Date: Paris, 1790
De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America en 't Zuid-Land.
FIRST EDITION. "This is a classic book on America and is much sought after by collectors of Americana as it contains, on p. 124, one of the first views of New York N...
Date: Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1671
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)...
Date: Amsterdam, W. Waasberge, 1693