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Forty days in the desert, or the track of the Israelites; or, a journey from Cairo, by Wady Feiran, to Mount Sinai and Petra. By the author of "Walks about Jerusalem".London, Arthur Hall & Co., [ca. 1862?]. 4to. With a steel engraved frontispiece: a view of Cairo and the valley of the Nile, and an engraved title-page with view on the Approach to Petra, typographic title-page, a folding map (228 x 264 mm) of "Arabia Petraea", embracing the Peninsula of Mount Sinai with the route taken by W. Hughes with a view of Suez in the lower left corner, 25 full page steel engraved plates with protective tissue paper by E. Brandard, J.C. Bently, J. Cousen, and A. Willmore, and 18 illustrations in the text by J. Cooper and others. Original dark purple gold-tooled buckram.
Forty days in the desert, or the track of the Israelites; or, a journey from Cairo, by Wady Feiran, to Mount Sinai and Petra. By the author of "Walks about Jerusalem".London, Arthur Hall & Co., [ca. 1862?]. 4to. With a steel engraved frontispiece: a view of Cairo and the valley of the Nile, and an engraved title-page with view on the Approach to Petra, typographic title-page, a folding map (228 x 264 mm) of "Arabia Petraea", embracing the Peninsula of Mount Sinai with the route taken by W. Hughes with a view of Suez in the lower left corner, 25 full page steel engraved plates with protective tissue paper by E. Brandard, J.C. Bently, J. Cousen, and A. Willmore, and 18 illustrations in the text by J. Cooper and others. Original dark purple gold-tooled buckram.
[BARTLETT, William Henry]. · 1809
€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)
vi, 204 pp.A fascinating account by William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854) of his forty-day journey in October-December 1845 through the Egyptian desert. He followed in the footsteps of the Israelites, who were led out of Egypt by Moses, from Cairo, along the east side of the Gulf...
Iconologie tirée de divers auteurs. Ouvrage utile aux gens de lettres, aux pöetes, aux artistes, & généralement à tous les amateurs des beaux-arts.Vienna, Johan Thomas von Trattner, 1766.3 volumes. 8vo. With Trattner’s engraved device on the 3 title-pages. Contemporary half calf.
Iconologie tirée de divers auteurs. Ouvrage utile aux gens de lettres, aux pöetes, aux artistes, & généralement à tous les amateurs des beaux-arts.Vienna, Johan Thomas von Trattner, 1766.3 volumes. 8vo. With Trattner’s engraved device on the 3 title-pages. Contemporary half calf.
BOUDARD, Jean-Baptiste. · 1710
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
[16], 203, [8]; [2], 219, [8]; [2], 208, [12] pp.The second edition of an interesting iconographical dictionary by the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Boudard (1710-1768) who spent most of his active life in Italy, from 1749 to his death in 1678 at the Bourbon court in Parma. Th...
Discours fait en une celebre assemblée, par le Chevalier Digby Chancelier de la Reine de la Grande Bretagne, &c. touchant la guerison des playes, par la poudre de sympathie. Ou sa composition et enseignée, & plusieurs autres merveilles de la nature sont dévelopées.Paris, Augustin Courbé & Pierre Moet, 1666. 12mo. With woodcut initial and head-piece. Contemporary calf over boards.
Discours fait en une celebre assemblée, par le Chevalier Digby Chancelier de la Reine de la Grande Bretagne, &c. touchant la guerison des playes, par la poudre de sympathie. Ou sa composition et enseignée, & plusieurs autres merveilles de la nature sont dévelopées.Paris, Augustin Courbé & Pierre Moet, 1666. 12mo. With woodcut initial and head-piece. Contemporary calf over boards.
DIGBY, Kenelm. · 1603
€600.00 ($661.31 | £500.56 | ¥105,603)
160 pp.Rare third edition of this curious treatise on the cure and healing of wounds by means of the "Powder of Sympathy" by Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665), not only an English courtier and diplomat, but also a highly reputed natural philosopher, astrologer. For his versatility,...
Le voyageur dans les Pays-Bas Unis. Ouvrage indispensable pour chacun qui voyage dans ces Pays. Orné de 28 cartes, plans, vues, etc.Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1815. 12mo. With a title vignette showing the Amsterdam publishing house of Evert Maaskamp, 3 folding maps, 13 double-page maps by I.B.D.B., 3 double-page city plans of Amsterdam, the Hague and Rotterdam, 6 full-page plates of the coins in use in The Netherlands on 1 folding leaf and 2 full-page plates of the ground floor of the Amsterdam city hall and Paleis Het Loo; all coloured by a contemporary hand. Original publisher's blue paper wrappers over boards.
Le voyageur dans les Pays-Bas Unis. Ouvrage indispensable pour chacun qui voyage dans ces Pays. Orné de 28 cartes, plans, vues, etc.Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1815. 12mo. With a title vignette showing the Amsterdam publishing house of Evert Maaskamp, 3 folding maps, 13 double-page maps by I.B.D.B., 3 double-page city plans of Amsterdam, the Hague and Rotterdam, 6 full-page plates of the coins in use in The Netherlands on 1 folding leaf and 2 full-page plates of the ground floor of the Amsterdam city hall and Paleis Het Loo; all coloured by a contemporary hand. Original publisher's blue paper wrappers over boards.
[TRAVEL GUIDE - THE NETHERLANDS].
€1,850.00 ($2,039.04 | £1,543.39 | ¥325,608)
[2], 380, XXII, [10] pp.Very rare first edition of a rare, early, interesting and charming travel guide for The Netherlands, containing three folding maps: a “Carte generale itineraire. des routes du Pays Bas”, a “Carte des routes entre Paris, Londres et Amsterdam” and a “Cart...
All the flags from 1893.Japan, 1893. Collection of drawings of 131 flags, banners etc. on separate leaves of varying sizes, most of them coloured.With: (2) [MANUSCRIPT]. [Decorated Japanese rice-paper].Japan, [1893?]. Ten sample leaves 928 x 38 cm) of so-called rice paper (actually cut in small sheets from the pith of the rice-paper plant, Tetrapanax papyrifer), decorated with varying designs, like flowers, fans and traditional Japanese dolls.19th-century wrappers of thick handmade Japanese paper, reinforced with straps of paper containing Japanese characters and blue and red stamps; with the title of ad 1 in Japanese characters on the front wrapper.
All the flags from 1893.Japan, 1893. Collection of drawings of 131 flags, banners etc. on separate leaves of varying sizes, most of them coloured.With: (2) [MANUSCRIPT]. [Decorated Japanese rice-paper].Japan, [1893?]. Ten sample leaves 928 x 38 cm) of so-called rice paper (actually cut in small sheets from the pith of the rice-paper plant, Tetrapanax papyrifer), decorated with varying designs, like flowers, fans and traditional Japanese dolls.19th-century wrappers of thick handmade Japanese paper, reinforced with straps of paper containing Japanese characters and blue and red stamps; with the title of ad 1 in Japanese characters on the front wrapper.
[MANUSCRIPT - FLAGS - JAPAN].
€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)
[131]; [10] ll.Ad 1: Very interesting collection of drawings of 131 flags, code and signal flags, banners, standards, crests, etc., made in late 19th-century Japan, most of them coloured in red, blue, white, black, yellow, and some decorated with gold and/or silver paint. Many...
Wörterbuch der japanischen sprache.Vienna, P.P. Mechitharisten for Carl Gerold & Sohn, 1851. Large 4to (342 x 266 mm). Original yellow printed wrappers.
Wörterbuch der japanischen sprache.Vienna, P.P. Mechitharisten for Carl Gerold & Sohn, 1851. Large 4to (342 x 266 mm). Original yellow printed wrappers.
PFIZMAIER, August. · 1990
€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)
xii, 80 ll [of which 80 pp. containing 1034 Japanese characters printed in two columns].Rare original edition of one of the first - if not the first - attempt of a Japanese-German/English dictionary, with beautiful imprint of ‘Japanese’ characters, executed by the well-known p...
Blyde inkomste vanden Hertoghe van Alencon in date den neghenthienden februarij int jaer vijfthien-hondert ende twee-en-tachtentich besloten tot Antwerpen.The Hague, widow and heirs of Hillebrandt Jacobsz van Wouw, 1634. 4to. Large woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials. Modern beige paper wrappers, with a white label ("574") on the front wrapper.
Blyde inkomste vanden Hertoghe van Alencon in date den neghenthienden februarij int jaer vijfthien-hondert ende twee-en-tachtentich besloten tot Antwerpen.The Hague, widow and heirs of Hillebrandt Jacobsz van Wouw, 1634. 4to. Large woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials. Modern beige paper wrappers, with a white label ("574") on the front wrapper.
[PAMPHLET - DUTCH REVOLT]. · 1582
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[1], [1 blank], 33, [1 blank] pp.Rare first and only edition of a pamphlet describing the Joyous Entry of the Duke of Alençon in Antwerp in 1582.Francis, Duke of Anjou and Alençon (1555-1584) was the youngest son of the French king Henry II and Catherine de' Medici. William of...
Weather in the Indian Ocean to Latitude 30° S. and Longitude 95° E. Including the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. Volume II. Local information. Part 9 Coast of East Africa from the equator to Cape Delgado [...].London, Meteorological Office, Air Ministry, 1940. 8vo. With map frontispiece and several illustrations and tables in the text. Original publisher's printed red wrappers.
Weather in the Indian Ocean to Latitude 30° S. and Longitude 95° E. Including the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. Volume II. Local information. Part 9 Coast of East Africa from the equator to Cape Delgado [...].London, Meteorological Office, Air Ministry, 1940. 8vo. With map frontispiece and several illustrations and tables in the text. Original publisher's printed red wrappers.
[METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE - EAST AFRICA]. · 1940
€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)
63, [1 blank] pp.First edition of a rare climatological study originating from a series of meteorological handbooks of the Indian Ocean issued by the British government between 1940 and 1944. The three-volume series, comprising a total of 12 parts, was prepared by the Meteorol...
[Manuscript family chronicle of members of the Roda, Werdolen and Bos families].[The Netherlands, mostly written between ca. 1747 and 1798 but incorporating several pages written in the second half of the 17th century and some writing from 1829]. Oblong 8vo (ca. 10.5 x 16 cm). Manuscript on paper, written in brown and black ink in several -, 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century hands. With a full-page unidentified coat-of-arms in brown ink and a page containing 6 smaller crests of branches of the Roorda family in black ink. 18th-century gold-tooled calf, gilt edges, green cloth ties.
[Manuscript family chronicle of members of the Roda, Werdolen and Bos families].[The Netherlands, mostly written between ca. 1747 and 1798 but incorporating several pages written in the second half of the 17th century and some writing from 1829]. Oblong 8vo (ca. 10.5 x 16 cm). Manuscript on paper, written in brown and black ink in several -, 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century hands. With a full-page unidentified coat-of-arms in brown ink and a page containing 6 smaller crests of branches of the Roorda family in black ink. 18th-century gold-tooled calf, gilt edges, green cloth ties.
[GENEALOGY & HERALDRY - ROORDA FAMILY]. RODA, Dirk Daniels, and others. · 1726
€3,750.00 ($4,133.18 | £3,128.50 | ¥660,016)
[1 blank], [5], [3 blank], [20], [1 blank], [1], [78 blank] ll.Manuscript family chronicle incorporating multiple chronicles from the 17th and 18th century. The manuscript chronicles the births and deaths of four generations of the Bos, Werdolen (or Verdole) and Roda family in...
Memoire sur la manière de centrer les angles et de calculer les triangles selon la direction de la méridienne et de la perpendiculaire à l 'usage des ingenieurs-géographes.[France, ca. 1750/99]. Folio. Manuscript in French on thick paper, written in a neat 18th-century cursive hand. With 5 manuscript plates, showing 14 geometrical figures. Sewn in quires and stored loose in a portfolio covered with grey paper, grey cloth ties, paper label on the front board.
Memoire sur la manière de centrer les angles et de calculer les triangles selon la direction de la méridienne et de la perpendiculaire à l 'usage des ingenieurs-géographes.[France, ca. 1750/99]. Folio. Manuscript in French on thick paper, written in a neat 18th-century cursive hand. With 5 manuscript plates, showing 14 geometrical figures. Sewn in quires and stored loose in a portfolio covered with grey paper, grey cloth ties, paper label on the front board.
[MANUSCRIPT - CARTOGRAPHY]. · 1698
€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)
[2 blank], [1], [1 blank], 61, [3 blank] pp.Cartographic manuscript intended to teach engineer-geographers how to (in the author’s words) “centrer les angles ” (bisect angles?) and to triangulate to calculate locations on a map as precisely as possible. The author, remains uni...
Kort over en deel af provindsen Nordholland med befestningen af de Helder, maritime & etablissementet Willemsoort samt en deel af den nye Nordhollandske Canal.[The Netherlands?], 1825. Double Elephant 1mo sheet (92 x 63 cm). With a pen and ink-drawn fortification plan (ca. 85 x 55 cm) of the Den Helder fortifications and the marine shipyard Willemsoord, coloured by a contemporary hand, with a manuscript title, scales and a key in Danish, written in a fine and legible 19th-century hand surrounding the plan. On Whatman wove paper. Folded.
Kort over en deel af provindsen Nordholland med befestningen af de Helder, maritime & etablissementet Willemsoort samt en deel af den nye Nordhollandske Canal.[The Netherlands?], 1825. Double Elephant 1mo sheet (92 x 63 cm). With a pen and ink-drawn fortification plan (ca. 85 x 55 cm) of the Den Helder fortifications and the marine shipyard Willemsoord, coloured by a contemporary hand, with a manuscript title, scales and a key in Danish, written in a fine and legible 19th-century hand surrounding the plan. On Whatman wove paper. Folded.
[FORTIFICATION PLAN - DEN HELDER - WILLEMSOORD]. KRAG, Rasmus. · 1763
€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)
[1] sheet.Manuscript fortification plan, showing the Den Helder fortifications and the Willemsoord shipyard, built in the 19th century as commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte, drawn by the Danish-Norwegian military engineer and quartermaster Rasmus Krag (1763-1838). The map show...
The new sailing directory for the Ethiopic or Southern Atlantic Ocean; including the coasts of Brasil, etc., to the Rio de La Plata, the Coast Thence to Cape Horn, and the African Coast to the Cape of Good Hope, etc.; including the islands between the two coasts.London, printed for R.H. Laurie by J. Rider, 1844. 8vo. With Laurie’s RHL device on the title-page, and 32 small images in the text, mostly coastal profiles. The title-page includes some lines in sans-serif capitals. Half cloth.
The new sailing directory for the Ethiopic or Southern Atlantic Ocean; including the coasts of Brasil, etc., to the Rio de La Plata, the Coast Thence to Cape Horn, and the African Coast to the Cape of Good Hope, etc.; including the islands between the two coasts.London, printed for R.H. Laurie by J. Rider, 1844. 8vo. With Laurie’s RHL device on the title-page, and 32 small images in the text, mostly coastal profiles. The title-page includes some lines in sans-serif capitals. Half cloth.
PURDY, John (Alexander George FINDLAY ed.). · 1773
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
XLIV, 472 pp.Extensive and detailed descriptions of routes across the Southern Atlantic Ocean and along the coasts of South America, especially Brazil, Africa and the islands around and in between these coasts. These sailing directories were essential for navigating the seas a...
Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritos y costumbres del Gran Reyno de la China, sabidas assi por los libros de los mesmos Chinas, como por relacion de religiosos y otras personas que an estado en eldicho reyno.Antwerp, Pierre Bellère I, 1596. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device and some woodcut initials. With a few (woodcut?) Chinese characters in the text. Contemporary mottled calf.
Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritos y costumbres del Gran Reyno de la China, sabidas assi por los libros de los mesmos Chinas, como por relacion de religiosos y otras personas que an estado en eldicho reyno.Antwerp, Pierre Bellère I, 1596. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device and some woodcut initials. With a few (woodcut?) Chinese characters in the text. Contemporary mottled calf.
GONZALES DE MENDOÇA, Juan. · 1585
€9,000.00 ($9,919.64 | £7,508.39 | ¥1,584,038)
[24], 380, [1], [1 blank] pp.First Antwerp edition, in the original Spanish (in fact, the first Spanish edition published outside Italy and Spain), of the first major work on China, originally published at Rome in 1585, and one of the first books printed in Europe to include C...
A grammar of Tibetan language in English. Prepared, under the patronage of the government and the auspices of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.Calcutta, the Baptist Mission Press, 1834. Small folio (27 x 20 cm). Printed in Tibetan and English, complete with a 40-page syllabic schema of the Tibetan language and the Tibetan alphabet in Bámyik, Bruts'ha and Lánts'ha characters. 20th-century red cloth, title in gold on spine.
A grammar of Tibetan language in English. Prepared, under the patronage of the government and the auspices of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.Calcutta, the Baptist Mission Press, 1834. Small folio (27 x 20 cm). Printed in Tibetan and English, complete with a 40-page syllabic schema of the Tibetan language and the Tibetan alphabet in Bámyik, Bruts'ha and Lánts'ha characters. 20th-century red cloth, title in gold on spine.
CSOMA DE KORÖS, Alexander (Sándor KORÖSI CSOMA). · 1784
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
XII, 204, [1 blank], 40, [1 blank] pp.Rare first edition of the first Tibetan-English grammar book, written by the Hungarian philologist, orientalist and linguist Alexander Csoma de Korös (1784-1842). Csoma de Korös studied oriental languages in Göttingen from 1816 to 1818, wh...
The chronology of creation; or, geology and scripture reconciled.Calcutta, W. Thacker and Co. (back of title page and colophon: printed by J.C. Sherriff, Bengal Military Orphan Press), 1850. Large 8vo. With a coloured lithographic frontispiece of a camel, lithographed by T. Black at the Asiatic Lithographic Press in Calcutta, and 3 coloured lithographic plates illustrating Hutton’s theories about the creation of the earth (2 orthographic azimuthal projections and 1 cross-section). Contemporary green cloth.
The chronology of creation; or, geology and scripture reconciled.Calcutta, W. Thacker and Co. (back of title page and colophon: printed by J.C. Sherriff, Bengal Military Orphan Press), 1850. Large 8vo. With a coloured lithographic frontispiece of a camel, lithographed by T. Black at the Asiatic Lithographic Press in Calcutta, and 3 coloured lithographic plates illustrating Hutton’s theories about the creation of the earth (2 orthographic azimuthal projections and 1 cross-section). Contemporary green cloth.
HUTTON, Thomas. · 1754
€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)
[2], XVI, [2], 503, [1 blank] pp.Rare first edition of a very rare geological and natural theological work, written by Thomas Hutton, Captain in the Bengal Army, discussing the chronology of the creation and history of the earth from a geological, but also a theological perspe...
Historia de los viajes del Capitan Cook. Por mar y tierra traducidos al castellano.Madrid, Doña Teresa Martinez é Hijo, 1853. 8vo. With 4 full-page wood-engraved plates. Modern half black morocco.
Historia de los viajes del Capitan Cook. Por mar y tierra traducidos al castellano.Madrid, Doña Teresa Martinez é Hijo, 1853. 8vo. With 4 full-page wood-engraved plates. Modern half black morocco.
[COOK, James (Don J.M.Y.P. y DON S.C., translator)]. · 2003
€3,750.00 ($4,133.18 | £3,128.50 | ¥660,016)
211 [= 231], [2 blank], [1] pp.Surprisingly rare Spanish account of Cook's first voyage, preceded by a short account of his life extracted from Kippis. Spanish editions of Cook's voyages are remarkably few. Kippis's biography had already been translated in the 18th century, bu...
Geschichte der Sevaramben aus dem Französischen übersetzt vom Verfasser des Siegfried von Lindenberg.Itzehoe, Johan Gottwerth Müller, 1783. 8vo. (2) MÜLLER, Johann Gottwerth. Literarische Anmerkungen über die Geschichte der Severamben. Eine Beylage zur Uebersetzung dieses Buchs. Göttingen, Johann Christian Dieterich, 1783. 2 works, the first in 2 parts, in 2 volumes. 8vo. With a small illustration on each of the three title-pages. Contemporary half calf.
Geschichte der Sevaramben aus dem Französischen übersetzt vom Verfasser des Siegfried von Lindenberg.Itzehoe, Johan Gottwerth Müller, 1783. 8vo. (2) MÜLLER, Johann Gottwerth. Literarische Anmerkungen über die Geschichte der Severamben. Eine Beylage zur Uebersetzung dieses Buchs. Göttingen, Johann Christian Dieterich, 1783. 2 works, the first in 2 parts, in 2 volumes. 8vo. With a small illustration on each of the three title-pages. Contemporary half calf.
[VAIRASSE D'ALLAIS, Denis]. · 1677
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
350, [2 blank]; 302, [2 blank], 31, [1 blank] pp.First edition of the second German translation of the important utopian novel Histoire des Sevarambes (Paris, 1677) by the Huguenot author Denis Vairasse (or Veiras), set in Terra Australis. The framework for the story was provi...
Letters to friends at home from June 1842, to May 1843.Calcutta, the Star Press, 1843. 8vo. Contemporary brown cloth, title in gold on spine.
Letters to friends at home from June 1842, to May 1843.Calcutta, the Star Press, 1843. 8vo. Contemporary brown cloth, title in gold on spine.
[HUME, James?]. · 1839
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
XIV, [2 blank], 232 pp.Rare first edition of the collected letters of an idler residing in Calcutta, which were separately published each month in the overland edition of the daily newspaper Calcutta star. We have found no other copy offered for sale in the past hundred years....
Sailing directions and nautical remarks; by officers of the late U.S. naval expedition to Japan, under the command of Commodore M.C. Perry.Including (with a divisional title): Fac-simile of the original treaty with Japan, with the English version.Washington, A.O.P. Nicholson, public printer, 1857. Large 4to (ca. 29.5 x 23 cm). With a large folding map of the coast of China and of the Japanese and other islands, including the Marianas and the Philippines; and the facsimile of the 14-page treaty in Japanese printed on both sides of 7 integral leaves, with the English text printed letterpress on both sides of the following leaf. Original publisher’s half purple cloth, Spanish-marbled paper sides (grey with red, blue, black, yellow and white veins), letterpress paper label with the title in a built-up decorative border on the front board: "Sailing directions for the coasts of Japan and China".
Sailing directions and nautical remarks; by officers of the late U.S. naval expedition to Japan, under the command of Commodore M.C. Perry.Including (with a divisional title): Fac-simile of the original treaty with Japan, with the English version.Washington, A.O.P. Nicholson, public printer, 1857. Large 4to (ca. 29.5 x 23 cm). With a large folding map of the coast of China and of the Japanese and other islands, including the Marianas and the Philippines; and the facsimile of the 14-page treaty in Japanese printed on both sides of 7 integral leaves, with the English text printed letterpress on both sides of the following leaf. Original publisher’s half purple cloth, Spanish-marbled paper sides (grey with red, blue, black, yellow and white veins), letterpress paper label with the title in a built-up decorative border on the front board: "Sailing directions for the coasts of Japan and China".
MAURY, William Lewis & Silas BENT. · 1794
€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)
22, [2], 14, [2] pp.Rare first separately published edition of a report containing the results of a survey of Japanese waters, providing information and instructions to help mariners recognise landmarks and navigate around the coasts of China, Japan and the surrounding islands...
Almänna rese-beskrifwaren eller sammandrag af de nyaste och bästa rese-beskrifningar, hälst de som nyligast utkommit; til uplysning af andra länders geographie, natural-historia, stats-förfatning, hushålning, lärdom, bruk och seder: uti bref författat.Stockholm, printed by Johan Arvid Carlbohm [and A.J. Nordstrom], 1780 [-1782]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved portrait of “Jacob” (James) Cook as a frontispiece in vol. 1, with some head and tail pieces throughout the 2 vols. Contemporary half goatskin.
Almänna rese-beskrifwaren eller sammandrag af de nyaste och bästa rese-beskrifningar, hälst de som nyligast utkommit; til uplysning af andra länders geographie, natural-historia, stats-förfatning, hushålning, lärdom, bruk och seder: uti bref författat.Stockholm, printed by Johan Arvid Carlbohm [and A.J. Nordstrom], 1780 [-1782]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved portrait of “Jacob” (James) Cook as a frontispiece in vol. 1, with some head and tail pieces throughout the 2 vols. Contemporary half goatskin.
GJÖRWELL, Carl Christoffer (ed.). · 1780
€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)
[4], 360; [2], 134, [2], 135-194, [2], 195-“168” [= 268] pp.A collection of summaries and translations of the latest and best travel accounts, in the form of 41 letters by A. Norberg, C.C.L. Hirschfeld and others. Most importantly, vol. 2 (pp. 135-169) includes the Swedish tra...