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Item #JLR0813 Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Egypt, Barbary, Lybia, and...

Ogilby, John

Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Egypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, The land of Negroes, Guinee, Æthiopia, and the Abyssines, With all the Adjacent Island, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto. With the several Denominations of their Coasts, Harbors, Creeks, Rivers, Lakes, Cities, Towns, Castles, Villages. Their Customs, Modes, and Manners, Languages, Religions, and Inexhaustible Treasure; With their Governments and Policy, variety of Trade and Barter, And also of their Wonderful Plants, Beasts, Birds, and Serpents. . . By John Ogilby Esq; Master of His Majesties Revels in the Kingdom of Ireland

Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Egypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, The land of Negroes, Guinee, Æthiopia, and the Abyssines, With all the Adjacent Island, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto. With the several Denominations of their Coasts, Harbors, Creeks, Rivers, Lakes.....

Price: $12,000

Giacomo Gastaldi

Il disegno della geografia moderna de tutta la parte dell' Africa

"Probably the single most important and influential map of Africa of the sixteenth century" (Betz) Venice: Fabio Licinio, 1564. First edition, first state. Engraved map in 8 sheets, joined in two horizontal sections (upper: 20 3/4" x 57 3/4", lower: 42" x 56"; framed: 46 1/2" x 62 1/4");.....

Price: $275,000

Item #JLR0741 Les observations de plusieurs sigularitez & choses memorables, trouués en Grece,...

Belon du Mans, Pierre

Les observations de plusieurs sigularitez & choses memorables, trouués en Grece, Asie, Iudée, Egypte, Arabie, & autres pays estranges, redigées en trois liures, Par Pierre Belon du Mans. Reueuz de nouueau & augmentez de figures. A monseigneur le Cardinal de Tournon. Le Catalogue contenant les plus notables choses de ce present liure, est en l'autre part de ce feuillet

THE LAZARD COPY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH A UNIQUE VIEW OF JERUSALEM Paris: Guillaume Cavellat, 1554. Second edition, enlarged. Pot quarto (8 11/16” x 6 3/16”, 221mm x 157mm): 2 binder’s blanks (one new, one old), ã4 ê4 î4 a-z4 A-Gg4, binder’s blank (new) [$3 signed; –ã1; I3 signed “I iiij”, Ff2 signed.....

Price: $12,000

Item #JLR0554 La descrittione della prima parte dell'Asia -- Il disegno della seconda [–terza]...

Olgiato, Girolamo after Giacomo Gastaldi

La descrittione della prima parte dell'Asia -- Il disegno della seconda [–terza] parte dell'Asia and [fourth part] -- together with two engraved gazetteers

ONE OF SIX KNOWN EXAMPLES OF OLGIATO’S COMPLETE 1570 MAP OF ASIA Olgiato, Girolamo after Giacomo Gastaldi. La descrittione della prima parte dell’Asia — Il disegno della seconda [–terza] parte dell’Asia and [fourth part]. Four-part engraved map on eight sheets, joined in pairs. [Venice:] Girolamo Olgiato, 1570. .....

Price: $225,000

Item #JLR0550 Elephantographia curiosa, seu elephanti descriptio, juxta methodum et leges...

Petri von Hartenfels, Georg Christoph

Elephantographia curiosa, seu elephanti descriptio, juxta methodum et leges Imperialis Academiæ Leopoldino-Carolinæ naturæ curiosorum adornata, multisqve selectis observationibus physicis, medicis et jucundis historiis referta, cum figuris æneis

THE STOLBERG-WERNIGERODE–BRADLEY MARTIN COPY of THE FIRST BOOK DEVOTED TO ELEPHANTS Erfurt: Johann Heinrich Grosch for the author, 1715. First edition. Pot quarto (8 1/8” x 6 7/16”, 208mm x 164mm): )(4 )()(4 a-b4 A-Nn4 [$3 signed]. 160 leaves, pp. [32] (blank, engraved frontispiece, title, blank, dedication, blank, 8pp. dedication.....

Price: $17,500

Item #JLR0549 Geografia di M. Livio Sanuto distinta in XII libri. Ne quali, oltra l'esplicatione...

Sanuto, Livio and Giovanni Carlo Saraceni (indices)

Geografia di M. Livio Sanuto distinta in XII libri. Ne quali, oltra l'esplicatione di molti luoghi di Tolomeo, e della Bussola, e dell' Apuglia, si dichiarano le Provincie, Popoli, Regni, Città; Porti, Monti, Fiumi, Laghi, e Costume dell'Africa. Con XII tavole di essa Africa in dissegno di rame. Aggiuntivi de piu tre Indici da M. Giovan Carlo Saraceni

AN UNTRIMMED EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ATLAS OF AFRICA THE ESMOND BRADLEY MARTIN COPY Venice: Damiano Zenaro, (26 April) 1588. First edition. Folio in 4s (17 3/8” x 11 5/16”, 447mm x 228mm): a-f4, A-MM4 NN6 [$2 signed; –a1; +NN3; MM2 mis-signed “LL 2”]. 170 leaves, pp. [48] (engraved.....

Price: $78,000

Item #JLR0447 An account of the Cape of Good Hope; containing An Historical View of its original...

Percival, Robert, Captain; illust. Samuel Daniell (?)

An account of the Cape of Good Hope; containing An Historical View of its original Settlement by the Dutch, its Capture by the British in 1795, and the different Policy pursued there by the Dutch and British Governments. Also a Sketch of its Geography, Productions, the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, &c. &c. with a view of the political and commercial advantages which might be derived from its possession by Great Britain

THE LEVESON-GOWER–QUENTIN KEYNES COPY IN BOARDS AND EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH FOUR WATER-COLORS BY (OR AFTER) SAMUEL DANIELL London: C. and R. Baldwin, 1804. First edition, first issue. Quarto (11 1/8” x 8 ¾”, 283mm x 223mm): a2 b4 A-B4 C4(±C4) D-Xx4 [$2 signed; +C4]. 182 leaves, pp. i-iii (title-page, imprint, dedication) iv-xii.....

Price: $45,000

Item #6JLR0072 Wanderings among the Falashas in Abyssinia; together with a description of the...

Stern, Henry Aaron

Wanderings among the Falashas in Abyssinia; together with a description of the country and its various inhabitants.

London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1862. First edition. Octavo (8 3/8" x 5 3/8", 213mm x 136mm). With a folding engraved map, a tinted engraved frontispiece, 7 tinted engraved plates and 12 in-text wood engravings. Bound in contemporary half calf over purple cloth boards. At the edges of the calf.....

Price: $560

Thevet, André

Table d'Afrique

THE FIRST MAP OF AFRICA BY A FRENCH CARTOGRAPHER Paris: Pierre L'Huilier/ Guillaume Chaudiere (?) 1575. Hand-colored woodcut map (14 1/4"x 19 1/2") of Africa from Thevet's Cosmographie Universelle, emulating Sebastian Münster's famous description of the world from 1544. Fine save the repaired tear in the upper left quadrant.....

Price: $7,500

Ortelius, Abraham

Africae Tabula Nova

Antwerp: [n.p.], 1570 or later. Double-page map of Africa (first state) from the Latin edition of Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum orbis terrarum (17 ¼" x 21 ½" sheet; 14 ½" x 19 ¾" plate) with original hand color and full margins. Very good; some creasing in top half along the margins and.....

Price: $4,800

Duchetti, Claudio and Henricus Honius

Il disegno della Geografia moderna de tutta la parte dell' Africa

Rome: Claudio Duchetti. First state. Etched and engraved map on two sheets joined (19 1/8" x 24 3/4" sheet; 30 1/2" x 36" framed) with 32-wind compass rose including the initials of wind names in traditional Italian patois. Overall very good, with some chips to the frame. A rare.....

Price: $45,000