THE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF THE PORTUGUESE ODYSSEY THE BOOTHBY–FANSHAWE-BONCHRISTIANO COPY London: [Thomas Newcombe for] Humphrey Moseley, 1655. First edition in English. Folio in 4s (10 7/8” x 7”, 276mm x 178mm): A4 a4 b4(–b4) B-Ff4 [$2 signed; –A1; Bb2 as “B2”]. 123 leaves, pp. [22] (title, blank, 3pp.....
London: C. Baynes for John and Arthur Arch, 1831. First edition, finely colored issue. Folio (14 3/8” x 10 3/8”, 365mm x 264mm): π2 a-b2 B-Z2 [$1 signed]. 50 leaves, pp. i-iii (title, blank, preface) iv-xii [80] (2pp. text for each of 40 plates) 41-48. [=xii, 80, viii] With 40.....
THE EARLIEST WESTERN ACCOUNT OF TIBET Veiga, Manoel da. Relacam Geral do estado da Christandade de Ethiopia; Reduçam dos Scismaticos; Entrada, & Recebimé todo Patriarcha Dom Affonso Mendes; Obediencia dada polo Emperador Seltã Segued com toda sua Corte à Igreja Romana; & do que de nouo socedeo no descobriméto do.....
THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA–FRANK S. STREETER SET Three volumes. Venice: Giunti, 1563–1606–1556. Third edition of vol. I, fourth edition of vol. II, first edition of vol. III. Quarto in 8s and 4s (11 13/16” x 8 ¼”, 301mm x 211mm).Vol. I: πa4 πb-d8 πe10 a-v8 x10 y-bbb8 ccc10 (ccc10.....
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Kangetsu, Shitomi (illust.); Kimura Kenkadō (ed.). Nihon Sankai Meisan Zue [Illustrations of the Noted Products of Mountain and Sea]. Five volumes [Osaka]: [Shioya Chobei], 1799. First edition. Octavo (9 7/8” x 7”, 251mm x 177mm):Vol. I: 16 leaves, foll. 一– 三 (preface by Kimura Kokyo), foll. 2一–十三. With 13 woodblock.....
Rome: Petrus de Turre, 4 November 1490. Second Rome edition. Folio in 8s (16 ½” x 11 1/8”, 420mm x 284mm): A8 (A1 blank) B-C8 D6 E6(–E6 blank) a10(–a1 blank) b-g8 h4(–h4 blank) 2a-b8 2c6(–2c6 blank) [$half signed; –a1, A1, 2a1; D2 signed as “D3”]. 116 leaves (plus 54 leaves.....
THE CAPILUPI COPY Rome: Petrus de Turre, 4 November 1490. Second Rome edition. Folio in 8s (16 ½” x 11 1/8”, 420mm x 284mm): a10 (a1 blank) b-g8 h4 (h4 blank) A8 (A1 blank) B-C8 D-E6 (E6 blank) 2a-b8 c6 (c6 blank) [$half signed; –a1, A1, 2a1; D2 signed as.....
Portsmouth: 1902. Folio (12 1/2” x 8 ¼”, 315mm x 210mm): 91 leaves, pp. [176] (1 pp. obscured by title-page, 175 pp. log of the H.M.S. Glory) [6] (6pp. blank). With a pictorial title-page and 68 finely drawn ink and watercolor maps, track charts, and illustrations of the ship's mechanical.....
De la Chine, ou description générale de cet empire, rédigée d’après les mémoires de la mission de Pé-Kin. Ouvrage qui contient la description topographique des quinze provinces de la Chine, celle de la Tartarie, des îles et des divers Etats tributaires qui en dépendent; le nombre de ses villes; le.....
Two volumes. Paris: Garnery; Strasbourg: Levrault, 1798. Octavo (7 5/8” x 4 ¾”, 194mm x 121mm).Vol. I: π2 a–b8 A–Y8 [$4 signed]. 194 leaves, pp. [4] (half-title, to the reader, title, blank) i–iii (2pp. dedication to George Washington, advertisement) iv–xiv (11pp. advertisement) xv xvi–xxii (8pp. foreword) xxiii xxiv–xxxii (10pp. voyage.....
La Haye: Henri Scheurleer, 1737. First edition. Folio (20 15/16” x 15 9/16”, 531mm x 396mm): A–C2 [$2 signed; –A1]. 6 leaves, pp. [1–4] (title, blank, 2pp. advertisement) 5–12. With 42 engraved maps, of which 10 are double-page and 1 folding. Bound in modern quarter calf over marbled paper boards.....
THE FIRST EUROPEAN ATLAS OF CHINA [Amsterdam]: Joan Blaeu, 1656. First and only Dutch edition of vol. VI of the Theatrum. Folio (18 5/8” x 12 1/8”, 472mm x 308mm): binder’s blank, *2 A-Hhh2 b-e2 aa-dd2 ee1 a2 2b-k2, binder’s blank [$1 signed]. 147 leaves, pp. [4] (2pp. dedications.....
Ca. 1903–1904. Oblong folio (9 7/16” x 13 5/16”, 239mm x 337mm). With 152 gelatin-silver photographs of Lhasa and Tibet, tipped-in with corner mounts to a modern photograph album, mostly 4 to a page (each approximately 3 x 4 in.), numbered in the negative, and captioned in a modern hand.....
MERCATOR’S PTOLEMAIC AND ITALIAN ATLAS IN BOARDS WITH OUTSTANDING CONTEMPORARY COLOR Ptolemy, ed. Gerardus Mercator. Cl. Ptolemaei Alexandrini, geographiae libri octo, recogniti iam et diligenter emendati cum tabilis geographicis ad mentem auctoris restitutis ac emendatis, per Gerardum Mercatorem, Illustriß. Ducis Cliuensis etc. Cosmographum. Cologne: Gottfried von Kempen, 1584. Second edition.....
London: S. Hamilton for John Booth and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown; 1814. First edition in English. Quarto (10 5/8” x 8 3/8”, 271mm x 213mm): a4 b-c4 B-3C4 3D2 [$2 signed]. 206 leaves, pp. i-v vi-xxi [3] (blank, list of the crew, directions to the binder) 1 2-388.....
THE FIRST FRENCH CIRCUMNAVIGATION Three volumes in one. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1728. First Amsterdam edition (fourth overall?). Duodecimo (7 1/8” x 4 ¼”, 182mm x 108mm): π-2π2 A-N12 O6; *6 2A-I12 2K6; 3π1 3A-I12 [$7 signed; –*1]. 395 leaves (166, 120, 109), pp. [8] (blank, engraved frontispiece, title, blank.....
Two volumes in one. London: the author; John Nourse; Thomas Payne; Peter Elmsley, 1770–1771. First edition. Quarto (10 1/16” x 8 3/8”, 268mm x 213mm): binder’s blank, π4 a–c4 B–D4 2B–D4 3B–Dd4; 2π2 4B–L4 4M2 4N–R4 5B–C4 5D2 †A4 2†A4 2†B2 *A–*E4 binder’s blank [$2 signed; –2M2, 5D2, 2†B2]. 248.....
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.....
Paris: Martin Gobert; Melchior Tavernier (maps), 1618. First edition in French. Octavo (6 1/8” x 3 5/8”, 156mm x 96mm): binder’s blank, ã8(–ã1) A4 B–P8, binder’s blank [$4 signed; –ã2]. 123 leaves, pp. [14] (title, blank, 3 pp. epistolary, 8pp. lecture, blank) 1–232. With 8 folding engraved plates: a frontispiece.....
Amsterdam: Joost Hartgerts, 1650. First edition. Quarto in 8s (7 7/16” x 6 3/16”, 188mm x 157mm): binder’s blank, ***A–***E8 ***F4,binder’s blank [$5 signed; –***A, ***F4; signed without asterisks: B2, B4, C1, C3, C4, and C5]: 44 leaves, pp. 1-2 3–88. With an engraved vignette to title page, six in-text.....
THE LANDWEHR–FOSSETT–BENTTINEN COPY OF THE FIRST DUTCH CIRCUMNAVIGATION Amsterdam: Widow of Cornille Nicolas, 1610. Second edition in French. Folio in 4s (12 13/16” x 9 3/8”, 322mm x 240mm): A-H4 [$3 signed; –A1]. 32 leaves, pp. 1 2-61 [1] (verses). With 2 full-page engraved maps and 25 in-text engravings. Bound.....
THE PIERRE S. DuPONT COPY OF THE UR-TEXT OF ALL PACIFIC VOYAGES FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL THREE PARTS, WITH ALL PLATES AND MAPS Itinerario, Voyage ofte Schipvaert, van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Dost ofte portugaels Indien inhoudende een corte beschryvinghe der selver Landen ende Zee-custen, met aenwyssinge van alle de.....
Paris: Le Breton for Saillant & Nyon, 1771. First edition. Quarto (9 3/16” x 7 7/8”, 250mm x 189mm): 2 binder’s blanks, π4 A-Fff4 Ggg2, 2 binder’s blanks [$2 signed; +A3]. 214 leaves, pp. [8] (half-title, blank, title, blank, 3pp. dedication, blank (save catchword)), 1-417, [3] (errata, to the binder.....
SPILBERGEN’S VOC CIRCUMNAVIGATION, BOUND WITH THE ARMS OF CHARLES I AS PRINCE OF WALES Leiden: Nicolaes van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619. First edition in Latin. Oblong quarto (7” x 9 11/16”, 179mm x 247mm): A-Y4 [$3 signed]. 88 leaves, pp. 1-8 (title, blank, 2pp. dedication to Pieter Schrijver,[2] verses.....
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THE LIENZ CARMELITE–HOFINGER–HAFT SET Three volumes. Venice: the heirs of Lucantonio Giunta, 1588 (1587 colophon)–1583–1565. Fourth edition of vol. I, third edition of vol. II (earliest full edition), second edition of vol. III. Folio mostly in 8s (12 11/16” x 8 7/8”, 323mm x 226mm).Vol. I: a4 b-d8 e10 2a-u8.....