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Notes taken on a journey eastwards from Shiráz to Fessá and Darab, thence westwards by Jehrúm to Kazerún, in 1850.[London, Wiley, 1857]. 4to. Modern blue wrappers.

ABBOTT, Keith E. · 1857

€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)

149-184 pp.Abstract from the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, vol. 27. Transcript of a presentation held at the Royal Geographical Society, February 23, 1857, by British diplomat Keith Edward Abbott (1814-1873). He was active throughout his career as a dipl...

A journey in North-Western Arabia.[London, W. Clowes], March 1910. 4to. With 12 black and white photographs made during the journey and a folding chromolithographed map of North-West Arabia (27x30.5 cm). Modern blue wrappers.

CARRUTHERS, Alexander Douglas Mitchell. · 1910

€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)

[32] (numbered 225-248) pp.Abstract from The geographical journal, no. 3, vol. XXXV. Transcript of a presentation held at the Royal Geographical Society, January 24, 1910, by Middle-East-explorer Douglas Carruthers (1882-1962). He traveled the region that is now Jordan and nor...

The oriental navigator; or, new directions for sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, &c. &c. &c. Also for the use of the country ships, trading in the Indian and China seas, Pacific Ocean, &c. &c. &c...London, printed and published by Robert Laurie and James Whittle, map, chart, and printsellers, 1801. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Huddart by James Stow after John Hoppner and small woodcut coastal views in the text. Contemporary tree calf.

HUDDART, Joseph. · 1794

€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)

[2], XII, 656 pp.Second edition of Laurie and Whittle's Oriental navigator, first published in 1794 with an appendix added in 1797, in the manner of the pilot books of their predecessor Robert Sayer. Enlarged with more detailed information on directions for sailing to China an...

Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers, avec un traité des orangers, et des réflexions sur l’agriculture. Nouvelle édition revue, corrigée, et augmentée d’une instruction pour la culture des fleurs.Paris, La Compagnie des Libraires Associés, 1756. 2 volumes. Large 4to. With 13 engraved plates (2 folding), 13 woodcut illustrations in the text, woodcut and engraved headpieces, tailpieces and woodcut initials. Contemporary mottled calf, brown morocco spine label with title in gold, red edges.

QUINTINYE, Jean Baptise de la. · 1690

€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)

[8], 16, XVII-XLVIII, [12], 592; [8], 588, [28] pp.The last authorised edition of the most famous manual on gardening and the cultivation of vegetables and fruits, first printed (posthumously) in 1690 and here finally for the Compagnie des Libraires Associés. Apart from many p...

Kitab Al-Waqi'at fi'l-Fatawi [Kitab Al-Waghi'at Fi Al-Fatwi].[Levant, ca. 1290]. Small 4to in 6s (17 x 14) cm. Arabic manuscript, 15 to 17 lines to the page, written in clear cursive ta'liq script on brown Middle Eastern paper. With occasional red rubrication. Contemporary (?) blind-tooled calf, mostly covered with later calf leaving only the contemporary back cover exposed. 19th century European paper endpapers. With a loose leaf of 18th century European paper with Arabic manuscript writing on one side.

[ARABIC MANUSCRIPT]. · 1963

€35,000.00 ($38,576.37 | £29,199.31 | ¥6,160,148)

374 ll.Lengthy and well preserved 13th century Arabic manuscript law book on the fatwa, produced in the Levant by an anonymous author. A fatwa is legal advice given by a Muslim authority on request, with the purpose of resolving a religious or legal problem that has arisen amo...

Supplement a la bibliographie instructive ou catalogue des livres du cabinet de feu M. Louis-Jean Gaignat, ... disposé en mis en ordre ... avec un table alphabetique des auteurs.Paris, Guillaume-Francois de Bure (colophon: printed by Didot), 1769. 2 volumes. 8vo. Modern half calf.

DE BURE, Guillaume-François.

€375.00 ($413.32 | £312.85 | ¥66,002)

XXXIX, [1], 621; 491, [1] pp.

Batavia, begrepen in zes boeken.Amsterdam, Adriaan Wor & heirs of G. onder de Linden, 1740. With:(2) MARRE, Jan de. Bespiegelingen over gods wysheid in't bestier der schepselen, en eerkroon voor de Caab de Goede Hoop.Amsterdam, Adriaan Wor & heirs of G. onder de Linden, 1746.(3) MARRE, Jan de. Hof- en mengeldichten. Amsterdam, Adriaan Wor & heirs of G. onder de Linden, 1746.3 works in 1 volume, the first in 6 parts. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece and an elaborate title-vignette (identical on all three title-pages. And ad. 1 with a folding engraved plate of Jakarta "as it was in 1731" by Jan van der Laan. Contemporary vellum, red spine label.

MARRE, Jan de. · 1696

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

[36], 320, [6]; [42], 178, [22], [20], 214, [4] pp.Three first editions, from the same publisher and in matching format, of poetic works in Dutch by Jan de Marre (1696-1763), who was a sailor for 20 years and based some of his works on his voyages to Asia. The first work in th...

Propositie ghedaen ter vergaderinghe van hare hoogh-mog: d'heeren Staten Generael der Vereenichde Nederlanden, in 's Gravenhage den XVIen. Augusti 1647.[Netherlands], 1647. 4to. With a woodcut decoration built up from arabesque typographic ornaments on title-page and a woodcut decorated initial. Modern half calf, marbled sides.

COUTINHO, Francisco de Sousa. · 1647

€3,750.00 ($4,133.18 | £3,128.50 | ¥660,016)

16 pp.First edition in Dutch of the official Portuguese proposal for allegiance with the Dutch against Spain, submitted to the Dutch States General on 16 August 1647. The important Portuguese Restoration diplomat Francisco de Sousa Coutinho (1597-1660), "Gouvernor and Captain ...

Dell'opera in musica trattato del cavaliere Antonio Planelli dell'ordine Gerosolimitano.Napels, Donato Campo, 1772. 8vo. Contemporary half vellum with a 19th-century spine label.

PLANELLI, Antonio. · 1737

€3,750.00 ($4,133.18 | £3,128.50 | ¥660,016)

15, [5], 272 pp.First edition of a fundamental treatise of Enlightened thought on opera and the most important work on theatre in Italy during this era. Stefano Arteaga calls him "the best of those who have so far come to light" on the subject of musical and theatrical theory...

De bello Belgico decades duae ab excessu Caroli V. Imp. usque ad initium praefecturae Alexandri Farnesii Parmae placentiaeque Ducis III. Ad annum 1678 [recté 1578]. continuatae ....Frankfurt am Main, Johannes Beyer, 1651. 4to. With an engraved Leo Belgicus map as a frontispiece, 26 engraved portraits (one of the author), and 30 folding engraved battle scenes. Contemporary richly blind-tooled pigskin.

STRADA, Famiano. · 1555

€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)

[8], 778, [104] pp.First Frankfurt edition of a history of the Dutch War of Independence from 1555 to 1590, the first edition to combine two earlier volumes into one. The Jesuit Famiano Strada (1572-1649) had composed this work at the request of Duke Ranuccio Farnese, whose fa...

Table des sinus des tangentes et secantes pour le rayon 10000000.Rouen, David Berthelin et Jacques Lucas, 1672. 12mo. With a woodcut frontispiece, numerous tables and geometrical figures in the text. Contemporary calf, red title shield, red sprinkled edges.

SCHOOTEN the elder, Frans van. · 1627

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

[240] pp.Very rare edition in French of Frans van Schooten the elder's influential mathematical work on triangulation, highly important for the development of cartography in the 17th century, amongst other things. The present edition has only 4 recorded copies in libraries wor...

Lehrbegriffe von den äusserlichen Arzneymitteln, oder deutsche Materia Chirurgica. Angehenden Wundärzten zum Besten übersezt, von Johann Gottfried Essig.Augsburg, in der Joseph-Wolffischen Buchhandlung, 1789. 8vo. With woodcut printer’s device on title. Contemporary half white paper over boards covered with blue paper.

STOLLS, Maximilian. · 1742

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

[16], 190 pp.Rare first edition of a treatise on the medicines used by surgeons written for future practitioners by Maximilian Stoll (1742-1787), a famous Austrian physician who was originally trained as a theologian, with his interests later turning to medicine. In 1776 he at...

Introduction à la théorie de l'art des jardins.Ca. 1775-1800. 2 volumes. 4to. Written in several, slightly different neat 18th-century hands. Later red decorated paper over stiff paperboards, spines covered with brown paper, black morocco spine labels with titles and volume numbers in gold.

[MANUSCRIPT - GARDENING]. · 1744

€18,500.00 ($20,390.37 | £15,433.92 | ¥3,256,078)

[2], 2, 46 pp., 47-76 ll., 60 pp.; 129, [3], 83, 96, 20 pp. plus 2 ll.with the table of contents.Important and very interesting manuscript on the art of gardening, landscape gardening and horticulture written in several slightly different hands and undoubtedly meant for public...

[Interior tea drinking scene].[China, ca. 1820]. 47 x 61 cm. (picture); 61 x 74.5 cm. (frame). Oil painting on canvas, in a black lacquered Chinese export frame.

[CHINESE SCHOOL PAINTING] · 1998

€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)

An elegant interior scene from a Chinese Mandarin’s home in the early nineteenth century: a Manchu Mandarin and his consort taking tea in a domestic setting. He wears non-official semi-formal winter attire including rank badge, sitting beside ahis beautiful Chinese lady, surro...

Achttien jaren aan de Goudkust. Uit het Engelsch vertaald en met ene inleiding vermeerderd door D.P.H.J. Weijtingh.Amsterdam, Weijtingh & Van der Haart, 1855. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a large folding lithographed view of Fort Coenraadsburg at Elmina. Contemporary half red morocco, marbled sides, title-label.

CRUICKSHANK, Brodie. · 1853

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

XV, 251, [1 blank]; XIV, 208 pp.First edition of the enlarged Dutch translation of Brodie Cruickshank's Eighteen years on the Gold Coast of Africa, including an account of the native tribes and their intercourse with Europeans (London, 1853). This account of the missionary and...

Beschrijving eener reis naar de Indiesche zee met het fregat de Nisus en naar de Kaap De Goede Hoop, de eilanden Bourbon, Mauritius en andere; naar Madras, de eilanden Java, Sint Paul en Amsterdam gedurende de jaren 1810 en 1811.Amsterdam, J.C. van Kesteren, 1820. With a view of Mauritius on the engraved title-page. Contemporary half calf, black morocco spine label, marbled sides.

PRIOR, James. · 1810

€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)

[II], IV, 242 pp.First edition of the Dutch translation of Prior's Voyage in the Indian seas in the Nisus frigate during 1810 and 1811 (London, 1820). The English and Dutch editions appeared almost simultaneously. It describes Prior's first voyage, initially only bound for the...

Hygie`ne des blancs, des mixtes et des Indiens a` Pondiche´ry.Puducherry, Géruzet, 1867. 8vo. Modern wrappers.

HULLIET, N. · 1891

€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)

272 pp.First and only edition, printed in Pondicherry (now Puducherry) during the French colonial time, of a medical study of the various populations of Puducherry, by N. Huillet, a medical doctor in service of the French navy and a Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur. It describ...

[Sketchbook containing several sketches of India, Burma and Switzerland, with an emphasis on their cultures].[Various places, ca. 1826-1830]. Oblong 4to. With 66 sketches in pen & ink and pencil, mostly signed by Blackwell, mounted and bound in, with manuscript captions. There is also 1 print (ca. 1795/1800?) drawn by Singey Bey and engraved by Thomas Medland. Half black morocco, black decorated paper sides, gold-tooled ornaments on spine.

BLACKWELL, Thomas Eden. · 1803

€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)

[70] gray, white and blue album ll., containing 67 sketches and their accompanying manuscript captions and descriptions.Sketchbook by the English lieutenant Thomas Eden Blackwell (1803?-1845), showing views of India, Burma and Switzerland, made in the years 1826-1830, when Ind...

An experimental history of the materia medica, or of the natural and artificial substances made use of in medicine: containing a compendious view of their natural history, an account of their pharmaceutic properties, and an estimate of their medicinal powers.London, H. Baldwin, 1761. Large 4to. Later calf, blind-ruled boards and spine, red morocco spine label with title in gold.

LEWIS, William. · 1708

€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)

XXII, [2], 591, [32] pp.First edition of Lewis’ well-known work on medicaments and all kinds of materials and components used for their fabrication. William Lewis (1708-1771) is a British chemist, apothecary and physician who studied at Christ Church at Oxford before he settle...

Arca mosis sive historia mundi.Leiden & Rotterdam, ex officina Hackiana, 1668. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece (dated 1669), a woodcut printer's device, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary sheepskin with a blind-tooled spine, blue and red sprinkled edges.

HORNIUS, Georgius (Georg HORN). · 1500

€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)

[36], 220, [2] pp.Original and only edition of this curious work which can be considered as a partly historical, and partly scientific "history of the world", including all kinds of arguments concerning chemistry, physics, anatomy and even alchemy. Hornius felt the need for ph...