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Aenmerckingen ende bedenckingen over de zee-rechten, uyt het placcaet van koninck Philips uytgegeven den lesten octobris Amsterdam, Hendrick Harmensz, Portuguese wars against the Ottoman and Gujarat Muslims for control of the Indian spice trade. De bello Cambaico ultimo commentarii tres. Louvain, Servatius Sassenus de Dienst, January With an emblematic woodcut printer's device on title-page, repeated on the last page.
Modern sheepskin parchment over flexible boards. Attack and defence according to Vauban's chief miner. Journal du siege de la ville d'Ath. With 9 folding engraved plates of cities and fortifications. With 8 large folding engraved nautical nautical charts. Korte schets over de noodzaaklykheid van de kennisse van het menschlyk hart voor een chef. Amsterdam, Gerard Hulst van Keulen, With 21 folding engraved plates including nautical charts showing the French and English fleets near Grenada, Basseterre, Martinique, Guadeloupe, St.
Kitts and Santo Domingo on Hispaniola. Royal 4to 29 x Alles vertaelt door Joan Goris. With an engraved frontispiece, 20 engraved portraits and 27 double-page engraved plates, including 14 signed by Jan Luyken and 1 by Romeyn de Hooghe. Illustrated work on fortification and artillery. Libro de los inventores del arte de marear, y de muchos trabajos que se passan enlas galeras.
Tocanse enel muy excellentes antiguedades, y avisos muy notables para los que navegan en galeras. Antwerp, Martin Nutius, [ca. With Nutius's woodcut device on the title-page. Set in rotunda gothic type with a few words in a large roman. Blind-tooled brown goatskin s? Important work on navigation and an early mention of playing cards. Le troisieme livre des epistres illustres. With the titles of the first 3 books in woodcut architectural borders; 2 woodcut illustrations in the text and a number of large woodcut historiated initials.
Rare issue of a detailed account Dieppe's defeat of the Flemish in an important sea battle. Paris, Estienne Denise, [? With 2 woodcut decorated initials and one cast fleuron Vervliet, Vine leaf ornaments Set in roman type with incidental italic. Finely executed late 19th-century?
Three unrecorded print series of the Levant trade, with beautifully engraved ships.
Small oblong Folio With 22 engraved plates in 3 series numbered , and the last 8 unnumbered. French translation of a famous account of the siege of Ostend Leiden, Louis Elzevier, With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Maurits van Nassau, an engraved vignette on title-page, engraved coat of arms of Maurits van Nassau on the back of title-page and 12 of 14 folding engraved plates.
Gold-tooled red morocco ca. Richard Hakluyt's collection of voyages. From the library of William Alfred Foyle Hakluyt's collection of the early voyages, travels, and discoveries, of the English nation. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco F. Illustrated narrative of British voyage to Korea. Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea and the great Loo-Choo Island. With an appendix, containing charts, and various hydrographical and scientific notices. And a vocabulary of the Loo-Choo language by H. London, John Murray back of half-title: With aquatint frontispiece printed in blue and coloured by hand , 8 aquatint plates 7 coloured by hand , engraved plate and 5 engraved maps 2 folding.
Letter by famous Scottish explorer of the Korean coasts and parts of China. Smyrna Izmir, Turkey , 27 June Manuscript letter in English, in brown ink on one side of an 8vo double leaf. Signed at the foot by Basil Hall. Attractively bound copy of the biography of a Dutch admiral in the service of Catherine the Great. Het leven en karakter van den admiraal jhr. Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen. With steel-engraved portrait of Van Kinsbergen as frontispiece and 7 plates with facsimiles of numerous signatures.
Contemporary green morocco,, richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled boards, board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. Bound by the Dutch court bookbinder Abraham van Rossum active in Amsterdam , one of the "major binders" Storm van Leeuwen of that period, with his letterpress ticket on paste-down "A. Reizen rondom de weereld, ondernomen. Tocht van den Kommandeur Byron. Verkort verhaal eener reize rondom de weereld, gedaan in de jaaren , en Verkort verhaal eener reize rondom de weereld, gedaan in de jaaren , , en Rotterdam, Reinier Arrenberg, With an engraved frontispiece.
With an extra folding engraved world map in 2 hemispheres incorporating Cook's recent discoveries: Rigobert Bonne, De oude en nieuwe waereld. Introducing the Dutch standard method of calculating latitude in the 19th century. Handleiding om op verschillende wijzen de breedte buiten den middag of meridiaan te vinden, door waarnemingen aan de zon of starren. With a lithographed folding plate and numerous letterpress tables numbered I-VI, but some spread over several pages. Contemporary boards, covered with red sprinkled paper, rebacked with brown paper tape.
Handleiding om op verschillende wijzen de breedte buiten den middag of meridiaan te vinden, door waarnemingen aan de zon of sterren; … Tweede druk. With a lithographed plate and several letterpress tables. With 30 plates of fortifications, machinery and related items. Frankfurt am Main, Johann Michael Polich for the author, With an engraved title-page and 30 engraved plates. With Perry in Japan. Reis om de wereld naar Japan.
With a frontispiece, title-page and 10 plates all tinted wood engravings and a few wood engravings in text.
Coastal defence and fortifications. With 17 lithographed full-page illustrations. With an original Rembrandt etching made for the book, in an early impression. Der Zee-vaert lof, handelende van de gedenck-waerdigste zee-vaerden met de daeraenklevende op en onder-ganghen der voornaemste heerschappijen der gantscher wereld: In VI boecken beschreven.
With letterpress half-title, a splendid engraved allegorical title-page with Neptune and numerous other figures, and 18 large engraved and etched illustrations in text The other illustrations are by Willem Basse. Journael van de Nassausche vloot, ofte beschrijvingh van de voyagie om den gantschen aert-kloot, gedaen met elf schepen. With half-page woodcut with two ships on the title-page and a large double-page engraved plate. The pirates of North Africa at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Itinerarius Joannis de Hese presbyteri a Hierusalem describens dispotiones terra[rum] insular[um] montiu[m] et aquar[um].
Ac etiam queda[m] mirabilia et p[er]icula per diversas p[ar]tes mu[n]di continge[n]tia lucidissime enarrans. Deventer, Jacobus de Breda, Rubricated throughout with the blank spaces for initials left open. Including the last blank leaf. Modern calf in period style. Popular story of an East Indiaman wrecked off the coast of Bengal.
Alles vertaelt door Joan Goris. The surviving buildings are now protected as a national monument. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled boards, gold-tooled board edges. In a contemporary decorated paper wrapper printed from woodblocks in green and ochre paste. Eyghentlijcke beschryvinghe van West-Indien: With 20 plates numbered I-XX. All listings filter applied.
Harderwijk, Jan Rampen, With 18 woodcut illustrations plus 1 repeat. On the fortification of Nijmegen. Nijmegen als vesting of bruggenhoofd - uitbreiding der stad. Original publisher's orange printed paper wrappers. South Sea whale fishery. Huggins, January 1, Dutch innovations that helped make the military arts a science, with large folding plates.
Korte beschrijvinge, ende af-beeldinge van de generale regelen der fortificatie, de artillerie, munition, ende vivres, van de officieren der selver ende hare commissien, van de leger-aerde-wallen, de approchen met het tegenweer, ende van vyerwercken. The Hague, Henricus Hondius I, With an engraved title-page with letterpress text, 20 engraved illustrations printed from 22 copper plates including 10 double-page, 2 larger folding sheets and 2 assembled from 2 sheets each to make panoramic views.
Contemporary vellum, recased in the original binding. Neederlandsche histoorien, sedert de ooverdraght der heerschappye van kaizar Karel den vyfden, op kooning Philips zynen zoon. Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, With engraved title-page by Theodoor Matham after Joachim Sandrart and a woodcut initial at the beginning of each "book". Compagnie op het Koninkryck van Macasser door den Ed.
Engraved view 40 x Framed 75 x 81 cm. Broadsheet concerning the retaking of Coevorden in , with engraving by Romeyn de Hooghe. Afbeelding, en kort verhaal, hoedanigh de sterkte Koeverden, door het guarnisoen van Groeningen, stormenderhandt in ingenomen. Amsterdam, Marcus Doornick, With one engraved illustration by Romeyn de Hooghe 17 x 28 cm. The Franco-Dutch War, strikingly illustrated. Schouburgh der Nederlandse veranderingen, geopent in ses tooneelen, waer op de wisselbeurten des Vereenigde Staets door den Fransen oorlog gebrouwen, in historieele sinnebeelden, vertoont en beschreven zijn.
Amsterdam, the author, With engraved frontispiece and 6 large engraved folding plates by Romeyn de Hooghe plate size ca. Anecdoten van paarde kenners, paarde liefhebbers, ruijters en ross-kammers. Naar waarheid en eijge ondervinding opgesteld. Door een gepensioneerd cavallerie officier. Folio 38 x 24 cm. Manuscript on paper written in brown ink in a readable Latin hand, with the title on p. Hand-coloured engravings of wood samples. Houtkunde, behelzende de afbeeldingen van meest alle bekende, in- en uitlandsche houten.
Amsterdam, Jan Christiaan Sepp, [] With engraved half-title in a frame of 18 wood samples, title-page with woodcut ornament, 5 title-pages dated in five languages, each with a different woodcut branch. With engraved plates showing over wood samples, and a folding addendum table. With half-title and all engraved plates coloured for the publisher. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, marbled endpapers.
Supplement, of vervolg op het werk afbeelding der houten. With 6 full-page engraved plates coloured for the publisher. Wrapper with printed title. A Dutch commander's Japanese diary with a large lithographed map. Uittreksel uit het dagboek van W. Ridder Huyssen van Kattendyke, Kapitein-Luit. With large folding lithographed map 67 x Contemporary gold-tooled red sheepskin morocco , gilt edges, silk-watered endpapers.
Original publisher's printed stiff paper wrappers. Architectura militaris oder fortification. Manuscript in German, written in brown ink on paper in a German gothic cursive hand with foreign words in a Latin hand , with 9 full-page pen and ink-wash drawings in landscape format showing landscapes; about 45 full-page fortification drawings about 30 with colour washes ; many smaller fortification drawings, diagrams and other drawings in the text, about 5 with colour washes; and about 35 pen and ink-wash decorated cartouches.
Two works on the Seven Years' War bound together, with 34 maps. With a lithographed title-page, table of contents, and 25 lithographed maps and battle plans many double-page or folding , with some details hand-coloured. Guerre de Sept Ans. With 9 lithographed maps 1 folding. The eventful life of the first naval commander in the American Revolutionary War.
With engraved frontispiece showing the portrait of Jones and a naval battle. Contemporary, mottled, tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. Very rare 17th-century treatise on artillery. With 2 engraved folding plates, 3 woodcut plates 1 folding and 16 woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary blind-tooled mottled calf. The main source of early knowledge of the Pelew or Palau Islands in Micronesia, in French translation. Paris, Le Jay and Maradan, With engraved frontispiece portrait, engraved folding map of the Palau Islands, Philippines and the Chinese Sea, 12 folding engraved plates and 3 engraved portraits.
The main source of early knowledge of the Pelew or Palau Islands in Micronesia, in Dutch translation. Beschryving van de Pelew Eilanden Rotterdam, Gerard Abraham Arrenberg, On the extension of Antwerp's fortification. With 7 folding plates, some with hand-coloured highlights, and a separate loosely inserted chromolithographed map of Antwerp dated De vermakelyke avanturesse, of de dienstmaagd van fortuin. Vervattende hare zonderlinge levensgevallen, ontelbare wederwaardigheden en rampen; zeltzame ontmoetingen, en koddige vryagien; deszelfs driejarige dienst als lakye, gevangenneming op de Moorsche kusten, en hare slavernye in Asia by de Arabieren.
Amsterdam, Steven van Esveldt, Contemporary mottled half calf, gold-tooled spine, later endpapers. A valuable account of the Greek islands, with a large folding chart. Beschryvinge van den archipel, tot nut van den krygsman, zeevaarenden en handeldryvenden. With a large folding engraved sea chart Publisher's original flexible boards covered with blue paper, with the title and decoration printed letterpress on the spine. Vie du Capitaine Cook, traduite de l'Anglois Paris, [Charles-Joseph Panckouck], With 2 extra-added portraits of James Cook, one bound in by Klauber after Dance "proefdruk" , dated , engraved for Pasteur's volume Dutch edition of Cook's voyages; and the other loosely inserted by Strunck, engraved for the second edition of Reis naar de Zuidpool , a Dutch translation of Cook's second voyage.
Contemporary mottled sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. Hulst van Keulen, ]. Contemporary blue paper wrappers. Nederlandsche stads- en havengezigten. With letterpress title-page, lithographed portrait of Koster and 24 tinted lithographed views of Dutch cities and harbours by Johannes Hilverdink after Everhardus Koster, printed by Steuerwald. Defence of the Dutch province and city Groningen. De provincie Groningen en hare defensie in de laatste twee eeuwen. Groningen, Hoitsema brothers, Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. Letter from the VOC's governor of Ceylon.
Colombo, Ceylon Sri Lanka , 30 December Autograph letter in French, signed, written in dark brown ink on paper in a Latin hand. In a later paper folder. Large plates showing steel defence systems and cannons, especially coastal defence. Account of Napoleon's Russian campaign in a scarce Portuguese edition. Lisbon, widow of Neves and sons, With 2 folding engraved plates ca. Contemporary tree calf, gold-tooled spine. Atlas with engraved title-page, large folding map 59 x Modern mottled half calf. Pen and brown ink drawing, with blue washes on paper 10 x 30 cm with title on top.
Curious and rare treatise on a newly-invented life belt: Paris, printed by C. Modern light brown half cloth, with original paper wrappers mounted on sides. Short manuscript note in ink on a small sheet of laid paper 12 x Drie voyagien gedaen na Groenlandt, om te ondersoecken of men door de Naeuwte Hudson soude konnen seylen; om alsoo een doorvaert na Oost-Indien te vinden.
Als mede een beschryvinghe, hoe, en op wat wijse men walvisschen vanght. Item, een korte beschrijvingh van Groenlandt, met de manieren en hoedanicheden der inwoonderen aldaer. Amsterdam, Gillis Joosten Saeghman, [ca. With woodcut vignette of ships on title-page, 16 further woodcuts on integral leaves 1 full-page signed by Christoffel van Sichem IV and 9 half-page and smaller with his monogram. With 2 large folding engraved maps engraved by Ambroise Tardieu and S. Jacobs and 31 steel-engraved views, those in vols. V-VI anonymous and printed by N.
With the maps coloured in outline or partly coloured, and with the routes indicated and coloured. Contemporary boards, covered with the publisher's original green printed paper. Algeria and its notorious pirates. Beschryving van het koningryk en de stadt Algiers, met den tegenwoordigen staat dier regeeringe, landt- en zeemagt, inkomsten, staatswetten, werreltlyk recht en koophandel. Lyst der schepen, welke sedert den 24 december , tot het einde des jaars door de Algiersche roovers van den staat der Vereenigde Nederlanden genomen zyn.
Amsterdam, Marten Schagen, With engraved title-page, folding engraved map of Algeria, folding engraved view and a folding engraved bird's eye view of Algiers. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled boards, gold-tooled board edges. Whaling in the Pacific. Morlent back of title-page: With a wood engraved illustration on title-page by Dujardin after Lecomte, depicting a whale hunt. Original publisher's green printed paper wrappers.
Drilling the Austrian Imperial infantry, with 49 manuscript formation plans in colour. Plans des neu herrauss gegebene Exercittii nach den dermahligen Kayserl: Herausgegeben im Jahr Herrn Obrist Wacht M[ei]st[er] Baron v[on]: With title and the explanation of the key letters used in the plans written in red, the key to the colour coding in the troop formations in 8 colours, and 49 of 55 numbered colour-coded plans of infantry exercises.
Each text leaf and each plan except no. Plans 1, 24, 32, 33, 42, and 46 have been torn out, in 2 cases leaving a small piece of the drawing. Contemporary mottled tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. Document from the French Revolution by the Duke of Danzig. Signed manuscript letter, in French, written in brown ink in two columns on one side of a folio leaf 32 x Spieghel der Australische navigatie, Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, With an engraved world map on the title-page, engraved portrait of the author on the back of the title-page, 3 double-page engraved maps, 5 nearly full-page numbered engraved views on integral leaves.
Nieuwe werelt, anders ghenaempt West-Indien. With engraved Latin title-page and 14 numbered double-page engraved maps. Eyghentlijcke beschryvinghe van West-Indien: With a woodcut view on the title-page. Amsterdam, Pierre Brunel, The first detailed published account of the Ottoman Emperors, partly translated from a Turkish manuscript. Annales Sultanorum Othmanidarum, a Turcis sua lingua scripti: Hieronymi Beck a Leopoldstorf Historia Viennae Austriacae a Turcis obsessae Frankfurt am Main, heirs of Andreas Wechel, Large folio 32 x 21 cm.
With a folding letterpress family tree of ancestors and descendants of Osman I. Modern tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. Reize van Maarten Gerritsz. Vries in naar het noorden en oosten van Japan. Aardrijks- en volkenkundige toelichtingen tot de ontdekkingen van Maerten Gerritsz. Vries, met het fluitschip Castricum a[nn]o. With lithographed folding plate with reproductions of six signatures and a folded lithographed reproduction of Maarten Gerritsz.
Map of Paris, showing the work on the new fortifications. Plan de Paris et ses fortifications. Paris, Auguste Logerot, Large folding engraved map 70 x cm , with some details highlighted in hand-colouring, drawn by Gustave Maillard and G. The map has been divided into 32 sections and mounted on linen. One of the best Robinson Crusoe imitations.
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Philip Quarll, an Englishman: Dorrington, a Bristol merchant, upon an uninhabited island in the South-Sea; where he has lived above fifty years, without any human assistance; still continues to reside, and will not come away. London, printed for J. With engraved frontispiece and engraved map. Venice, Antonio Rampazetto, colophon: With a large engraved device on the title-page, woodcut printer's device above the colophon, an engraved plate with a portrait of the author often lacking , and more than diagrams and woodcut illustrations on the integral leaves, many full-page or double-page.
Modern vellum in 17th-century style. Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, [ca. With 6 aquatint plates to ad 1 and an engraved plate to ad 2. The Battle of Waterloo, with 2 engraved battle-plans. De veldslag van het schoon verbond, op den 18n. Uit officieele berigten en aanteekeningen van ooggetuigen. Met kaarten, plans en afbeeldingen. With an engraved portrait of the Prince of Orange on the title-page, 2 folding engraved battle plans with hand-coloured details and 1 folding engraved plate.
Original publisher's green, printed paper wrappers. Description and illustration of a Dutch panorama of the Battle of Waterloo. De veldslag van Waterloo 18 junij Derzelve nauwkeurige beschrijving … en bijgaande plan en explicatie. With a folding engraved and letterpress plate of the panorama.
Description of the first panorama erected in Brussels. Le Duc de Wellington; au 18 juin Lisbon, printing office of the Academia Real das Sciencias, With a woodcut Portuguese coat of arms on the title-page. Modern brown paper wrapper. Educating the Austrian army in the anatomy of the horse, with 10 large colour plates. Zehn tafeln zur anatomie des Pferdes. Vienna, the author "in Commission bei F. Paternos Nachfolger" printed by Adolf Holzhausen , []. Original publisher's printed front wrapper preserved, back wrapper lacking.
In a modern clamshell box. Rare sailing directions for the Philippines. With 2 small woodcuts and several letterpress tables in the text. Contemporary green half sheepskin. Italian friar captured by Ottoman pirates. Vita, e morte del venerabil P. Giuseppe Scalzo di S.
Agostino Palermitano della congregazione d'Italia, in odio della confessione della S. Rome, Ignatio de' Lazzari, With 3 engraved plates. La libra de Grivilio Vezzalmi[,] traducida de Italiano en lengua Castellana. With an engraved emblematic title-page and a woodcut printer's device at the end. La guerre de la salive Rose Hill, auto-edition, Includes some fine reproductions of 19th century lithographs, and maps.
Let Africanity within him speak to him. It has so much to say to him. A seminal history of this great French shipping company to the Indian Ocean and beyond. The Island of Rodriguez: Ex-library with the only mark being the remnants of a label inside the back cover. Beurois, Jean and Patrick Arnaud. As a teenager he and his father migrated to the Straits Settlements, settling in Singapore where he opened a jewelry shop on High Street in His exquisite design and craftsmanship led to his patronage by diverse royalty and his career mirrored the rise of Singapore.
An unusual story of a Sinhalese man who became a civic leader and philanthropist—well respected in both Singapore and Ceylon. Pages on the Indian Ocean include 16 prints including: The definitive pictorial study of American whaling. A history of the fourteen rivers that flow through the Cape Peninsula. The true first edition of this classic of the whaling literature. The auction catalogue from a famous collection of Mauritius stamps, including a list of the prices realized.
Davies, in the Strand, This is the great Portuguese epic poem with pages on the history of the discoveries, the rise and fall of the Portuguese in the East, the life of Luis de Camoens, and the Lusiad and epic poetry; plus the poem itself of over pp with annotations and explanations.
A seminal Portuguese work. There is some underlining on the New Brunswick chapter. Lavishly illustrated with maps, drawings, color photos, and prints covering the entire ecological history of the Mascarenes. A gorgeous scholarly book. Pages Seychelles—one of the earliest descriptions of the islands; Trincomale; , , the French in India, primarily Pondichery; Madras; , Calcutta and Bengal; Cochin; , Mocha and Arabia.
Limited edition of copies. Esquisse historique Sion, Editions Dela Matze, An historic and socio-economic study of the interactions of Muslim communities in the Francophone IO: Madagascar, Reunion, Comoros, Pondicherry. This is the seminal scholarly work on individuals who have been important in Mauritian history. The Dictionnaire was originally edited by the great Mauritian historian and bibliographer, August Toussaint, from ; he was followed by L. Noel Regnard, ; J.
These forty issues comprise pages of text, nos. This is a unique scholarly resource with every biography backed by supporting bibliographical references. This lovely book provides full-page photos with an accompanying page of text on major national monuments in Seychelles. Imperial Design and Indian Realities: From April February , the ship was whaling in the Indian Ocean including: A Personal Story London, Minerva, The memoirs of a Seychelles politician and government minister. This book relates the story of a group of slaves who were abandoned on Tromelin island off the coast of Madagascar in The slaves—men, women, and children—had to survive on this small desolate islet; they were rescued many years later.
Globalization before its Time: A book largely on IO harbors: A colorful history of Cape Town. The solitaire, also extinct, was a relative of the dodo unique to the tiny island of Rodrigues. A Grain of Sand: Guan, Yeoh Seng, et. Penang and its Region: Gunaratna, Rohan and Mustag Hussain. Revised edn, pp, 32 photos, pictorial paper cover, with dj. Format see all Format. All listings filter applied. Condition see all Condition.
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