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Uitbeelding der heerlijkheit Friesland; zoo in 't algemeen, als in haare XXX bijzondere grietenijen; ... Nu nieuwelijks met bijgevoegde aangrenzingen, en veel vermeerderingen: nevens d'afteekening van Oud Friesland,...[Leeuwarden], François Halma, 1718. Imperial folio (54.5 x 33 cm). With an engraved allegorical title-page; 3 full-page engraved heraldic plates; and 37 double-page and 2 larger folding engraved maps. Beautiful cartouches and landscapes on all maps, mostly by Jan and Caspar Luyken, all beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary red half roan, later cloth corners and reinforcing.
Uitbeelding der heerlijkheit Friesland; zoo in 't algemeen, als in haare XXX bijzondere grietenijen; ... Nu nieuwelijks met bijgevoegde aangrenzingen, en veel vermeerderingen: nevens d'afteekening van Oud Friesland,...[Leeuwarden], François Halma, 1718. Imperial folio (54.5 x 33 cm). With an engraved allegorical title-page; 3 full-page engraved heraldic plates; and 37 double-page and 2 larger folding engraved maps. Beautiful cartouches and landscapes on all maps, mostly by Jan and Caspar Luyken, all beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary red half roan, later cloth corners and reinforcing.
SCHOTANUS VAN STERRINGA, Bernhard.
€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)
[4] pp. plus plates.Second revised and enlarged edition of the first atlas of the Dutch province of Friesland, with the pictorial decoration on 22 of the maps executed by Jan and Caspar Luyken, with all the maps and plates beautifully coloured by hand. It includes an overview ...
Arithmétique élémentaire ou tableaux d'arithmétique composés selon les principes et assujetis aux procédés de l'enseignement mutuel; par M. Jomard, secrétaire de la Societé pour l'enseignement élémentaire.[France?, ca. 1822]. Small folio (ca. 29.5 x 19 cm). With 6 folding text leaves. Contemporary quarter vellum.
Arithmétique élémentaire ou tableaux d'arithmétique composés selon les principes et assujetis aux procédés de l'enseignement mutuel; par M. Jomard, secrétaire de la Societé pour l'enseignement élémentaire.[France?, ca. 1822]. Small folio (ca. 29.5 x 19 cm). With 6 folding text leaves. Contemporary quarter vellum.
[JOMARD, Edmé François]. · 1777
€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)
[1], 88, [1 blank] ll.Remarkable and well preserved manuscript on arithmetic, especially written as a schoolbook for the new educational system known as "mutual tuition". This system was popular all over Western Europe, and the author, Edmé-François Jomard (1777-1862) was one ...
Sito, et antichita della citta di Pozzuolo, e del suo amenissimo distretto …Naples, Tarquinio Longo for Giorgio Varisco (part 1) and Bartholomeo Carampello (part 2), 1606. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). With 3 title-pages, a large folding woodcut map with letterpress title and text (the woodcut itself 17 x 24.5 cm) showing Pozzolo and the surrounding area (omitted in some copies), 15 woodcut illustrations (plus 4 repeats) in text. 17th-century limp sheepskin parchment.
Sito, et antichita della citta di Pozzuolo, e del suo amenissimo distretto …Naples, Tarquinio Longo for Giorgio Varisco (part 1) and Bartholomeo Carampello (part 2), 1606. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). With 3 title-pages, a large folding woodcut map with letterpress title and text (the woodcut itself 17 x 24.5 cm) showing Pozzolo and the surrounding area (omitted in some copies), 15 woodcut illustrations (plus 4 repeats) in text. 17th-century limp sheepskin parchment.
MAZZELLA, Scipione. · 1586
€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)
[16], 284, [4], 103, [1 blank] pp.Third edition, with extensive additions, of a detailed Italian account of archaeological discoveries in and around the city of Pozzuolo in central Italy, between Rome and Florence, with a large folding map and numerous woodcut illustrations of...
Il Fenestella d'i sacerdotii, e d'i magistrati romani.Venice, apresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1544. With (bound before ad 1): ASCONIUS PEDIANUS, Quintus. Expositio in IIII. orationes M. Tullii Ciceronis contra C. Verrem. Venice, apud Paulus Manutius, 1553. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With 42 woodcut decorated initials of professions, sports and past times in ad 1, and a woodcut printer's device on the title page of each work. Contemporary limp vellum with overlapping for edges.
Il Fenestella d'i sacerdotii, e d'i magistrati romani.Venice, apresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1544. With (bound before ad 1): ASCONIUS PEDIANUS, Quintus. Expositio in IIII. orationes M. Tullii Ciceronis contra C. Verrem. Venice, apud Paulus Manutius, 1553. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With 42 woodcut decorated initials of professions, sports and past times in ad 1, and a woodcut printer's device on the title page of each work. Contemporary limp vellum with overlapping for edges.
FENESTELLA, Lucius (pseudonym of Andrea Domenico FIOCCO). · 1561
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
43, [1]; [8], 96 ll.First Italian edition of a dissertation on the priests and magistrates of ancient Rome, with 42 beautiful woodcut initials depicting sports, different professions, and pastimes. Until 1561, it was believed that the work was an ancient Roman text written by ...
Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de Chine ... exécuté sur la corvette de l'état La Favorite pendant les années 1830, 1831 et 1832. Paris, Imprimerie Royale (views volume: Arthus Bertrand; map volume: Dépôt-Générale de la Marine), 1833-1835. 4 text volumes (8vo), 1 views volume (folio) and 1 atlas volume (1mo, 66 x 51 cm). With 1 folding engraved map in the first text volume, 2 full-page maps and 10 maps on 9 double-page plates in the "atlas hydrographique", and 72 extraordinary aquatint plates (ca. 27 x 36 cm) in the "album historique", most of them with the blind-stamped image of the ship La Favorite (15 x 28 mm). Contemporary half dark green calf, gold-tooled spines.
Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de Chine ... exécuté sur la corvette de l'état La Favorite pendant les années 1830, 1831 et 1832. Paris, Imprimerie Royale (views volume: Arthus Bertrand; map volume: Dépôt-Générale de la Marine), 1833-1835. 4 text volumes (8vo), 1 views volume (folio) and 1 atlas volume (1mo, 66 x 51 cm). With 1 folding engraved map in the first text volume, 2 full-page maps and 10 maps on 9 double-page plates in the "atlas hydrographique", and 72 extraordinary aquatint plates (ca. 27 x 36 cm) in the "album historique", most of them with the blind-stamped image of the ship La Favorite (15 x 28 mm). Contemporary half dark green calf, gold-tooled spines.
LAPLACE, Cyrille Pierre Théodore. · 1793
€45,000.00 ($49,598.19 | £37,541.97 | ¥7,920,190)
[4], XLI, 558, [2]; [4], 481, [1]; [4], 510, [2]; [4], 480; [4] pp.First edition of an important account of the circumnavigation of the world under command of Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace (1793-1875). In May 1829 Laplace was appointed commander of the ship La Favorite, to m...
Mémoire sur trois cartes nouvellement publiées en juillet 1764, destinées a servir de suite a la carte de l'ancienne Palestine ou Terre-Sainte, publie l'année dernière; Sçavoir: 1. Une carte particuliere de la Syrie, ou seulement de la partie septentrionale à la Palestine. 2. Une carte plus générale de la Syrie, qui comprend en même tems la Palestine avec les pays voisins, pour servir à l'histoire des croisades, etc. 3. Une carte encore plus générale & plus étendüe pour la recherche de la situation du paradis terrestre. Paris, Imprimerie Veuve Delatour, 1764. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, a large woodcut headpiece, and a decorated woodcut initial. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled quarter brown calf.
Mémoire sur trois cartes nouvellement publiées en juillet 1764, destinées a servir de suite a la carte de l'ancienne Palestine ou Terre-Sainte, publie l'année dernière; Sçavoir: 1. Une carte particuliere de la Syrie, ou seulement de la partie septentrionale à la Palestine. 2. Une carte plus générale de la Syrie, qui comprend en même tems la Palestine avec les pays voisins, pour servir à l'histoire des croisades, etc. 3. Une carte encore plus générale & plus étendüe pour la recherche de la situation du paradis terrestre. Paris, Imprimerie Veuve Delatour, 1764. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, a large woodcut headpiece, and a decorated woodcut initial. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled quarter brown calf.
L'ISLE (DELISLE), Joseph Nicolas de. · 1675
€2,700.00 ($2,975.89 | £2,252.52 | ¥475,211)
15, [1] pp.First and only edition of a rare treatise on three maps of Syria by the famous cartographer Guillaume de l'Isle (1675-1726). Namely Carte particuliere de la Syrie comprise entre les villes d'Antioche et Alep (1764), Carte générale de la Syrie, de la Palestine, et de...
Voyage dans le nord de la Bolivie et dans les parties voisines du Pérou ou visite au district aurifère de Tipuani. Paris, P. Bertrand & London, H. Baillière, 1853. 8vo. With two lithographed plates, three woodcut illustrations in text (one music) and a folding engraved map. Contemporary red half morocco, gold-tooled spine.
Voyage dans le nord de la Bolivie et dans les parties voisines du Pérou ou visite au district aurifère de Tipuani. Paris, P. Bertrand & London, H. Baillière, 1853. 8vo. With two lithographed plates, three woodcut illustrations in text (one music) and a folding engraved map. Contemporary red half morocco, gold-tooled spine.
WEDDELL, Hugues Algernon. · 1843
€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)
[4], XII, 571, [1] pp.First and only edition of the accound of Weddell's second voyage to South America. In 1843, Weddell had joined the expedition of Francis de Castelnau (1810-1880) to South-America. In 1845 Weddell left the expedition in Paraguay and travelled on his own to...
Nouveau voyage autour du monde, où l'on décrit en particulier l'Isthme de l'Amerique, plusieurs côtes & isles des Indes Occidentales, les Isles du Cap Verd, le passage par la Terre del Fuego, les côtes meridionales du Chili, du Perou, & du Mexique; l'Isle de Guam, Mindanao, & des autres Philippines, les isles orientales qui sont prés de Cambodie; de la Chine; Formosa, Luçon, Celebes, &c. la Nouvelle Hollande, les isles de Sumatra, de Nicobar, & de Sainte Helene & le Cap de Bonne Esperance. Amsterdam, Paul Marret, 1698. 2 volumes. 12mo. With the same engraved frontispiece in both volumes, 6 engraved maps (including 4 folding), and 7 engraved plates (including 3 folding). Contemporary sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges.
Nouveau voyage autour du monde, où l'on décrit en particulier l'Isthme de l'Amerique, plusieurs côtes & isles des Indes Occidentales, les Isles du Cap Verd, le passage par la Terre del Fuego, les côtes meridionales du Chili, du Perou, & du Mexique; l'Isle de Guam, Mindanao, & des autres Philippines, les isles orientales qui sont prés de Cambodie; de la Chine; Formosa, Luçon, Celebes, &c. la Nouvelle Hollande, les isles de Sumatra, de Nicobar, & de Sainte Helene & le Cap de Bonne Esperance. Amsterdam, Paul Marret, 1698. 2 volumes. 12mo. With the same engraved frontispiece in both volumes, 6 engraved maps (including 4 folding), and 7 engraved plates (including 3 folding). Contemporary sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges.
DAMPIER, William. · 1683
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
[10], 315; [1 blank]; [2], "316", [1], 317-616, [4] pp.First French edition of William Dampier's account of his voyage around the world and especially to the south seas in the years 1683 to 1691. Dampier (1651-1715) sailed to Sierra Leone, from there to the Falkland Islands, C...
Promenade autour du monde pendant les années de 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, sur les corvettes du Roi l'Uranie et la Physicienne, commandées par M. Freycinet.Paris, Béthune & Plon for Leblanc, 1822. 3 volumes. 8vo (text) and folio (atlas). With 26 full-page lithographed plates (1 lithographed map of the world, and 25 views and portraits, of which 2 of Rio de Janeiro, 5 of the Sandwich Islands and 3 of Australia). The text volumes in contemporary gold- and black-tooled quarter calf; the atlas volume in contemporary grey boards.
Promenade autour du monde pendant les années de 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, sur les corvettes du Roi l'Uranie et la Physicienne, commandées par M. Freycinet.Paris, Béthune & Plon for Leblanc, 1822. 3 volumes. 8vo (text) and folio (atlas). With 26 full-page lithographed plates (1 lithographed map of the world, and 25 views and portraits, of which 2 of Rio de Janeiro, 5 of the Sandwich Islands and 3 of Australia). The text volumes in contemporary gold- and black-tooled quarter calf; the atlas volume in contemporary grey boards.
ARAGO, Jacques Etienne Victor. · 1817
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[4], XXX, 452; [4], 506 pp.; [28] ll.First edition in a variant issue of a beautifully illustrated account of the circumnavigation of the l'Uranie under command of Captain Louis Freycinet in the years 1817-1820; one of the most important explorations of the Pacific. Written an...
Beschryving van de stad Briele, en den Lande van Voorn, behelzende, I. De beschryving zelf... II. De historie, genealogie, en successie van de heeren, en vrouwen van Voorn ... III. De politike regering, nevens de regten, ... mitsgaders de regtspleging ... omtrent het jaar MCCCC in de stad Briel, en 't Land van Voorn in gebruik geweest zynde. IV. De privilegien, octroyen ... betreffende de stad Briele, en den Lande van Voorn ...Rotterdam, Philippus Losel, 1729. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With the title page printed in red and black with an engraved printer's device, a double-page plan of Den Briel, 3 folding engraved maps of different parts of Voorne (each ca. 50 x 70.5 cm), and an additional folding map (33 x 38 cm) of the southwestern part of South Holland. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf by the so-called Stag Bindery in Rotterdam, sewn on 6 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a black morocco author and title label on the spine lettered in gold, the coat of arms of Den Briel in the centre of both boards, surrounded by two ornamental borders, gold-tooled board edges, mottled edges.
Beschryving van de stad Briele, en den Lande van Voorn, behelzende, I. De beschryving zelf... II. De historie, genealogie, en successie van de heeren, en vrouwen van Voorn ... III. De politike regering, nevens de regten, ... mitsgaders de regtspleging ... omtrent het jaar MCCCC in de stad Briel, en 't Land van Voorn in gebruik geweest zynde. IV. De privilegien, octroyen ... betreffende de stad Briele, en den Lande van Voorn ...Rotterdam, Philippus Losel, 1729. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With the title page printed in red and black with an engraved printer's device, a double-page plan of Den Briel, 3 folding engraved maps of different parts of Voorne (each ca. 50 x 70.5 cm), and an additional folding map (33 x 38 cm) of the southwestern part of South Holland. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf by the so-called Stag Bindery in Rotterdam, sewn on 6 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a black morocco author and title label on the spine lettered in gold, the coat of arms of Den Briel in the centre of both boards, surrounded by two ornamental borders, gold-tooled board edges, mottled edges.
ALKEMADE, Cornelis van, and Pieter van der SCHELLING. · 1693
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[28], 1-224, [8], 225-376; [8], 1-306, [20] pp.Presentation copy on large paper of the first and only edition of a topographical and historical description of Den Briel on the island of Voorne, illustrated with large, folding maps. The present copy has been bound by the so-cal...
Dictionnaire Japonais-Français des noms principaux de l'histoire et de la géographie du Japon. Suivi de 17 appendices sur les empereurs, shogun, nengo, sectes bouddhistes, provinces, départements, mesures, etc.Hongkong, Imprimerie de Nazareth, 1899. 8vo. With an engraved printer's device on the title page, engraved tailpieces and Japanese characters. Contemporary blind-tooled glazed purple calico over boards, title in gold on spine.
Dictionnaire Japonais-Français des noms principaux de l'histoire et de la géographie du Japon. Suivi de 17 appendices sur les empereurs, shogun, nengo, sectes bouddhistes, provinces, départements, mesures, etc.Hongkong, Imprimerie de Nazareth, 1899. 8vo. With an engraved printer's device on the title page, engraved tailpieces and Japanese characters. Contemporary blind-tooled glazed purple calico over boards, title in gold on spine.
PAPINOT, Edmond. · 1860
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
VII, 297 pp.First edition of a French-Japanese dictionary written by Edmond Papinot (b. 1860), an apostolic missionary. The goal of Papinot's work was to give summary information on the principal names that can be found in the history and geography of Japan. He includes the na...
l[']Art de bien dessiner a la plume nouvellement mis au jour pour l[']utilité de la jeunesse.Including:(2): [SILVESTRE, Charles François]. Diverses figures Turcs propre à dessiner a la plume.(3): [SILVESTRE, Charles François]. Second livre de figures Turcs propre à déssiner à la plume.(4): [SILVESTRE, Charles François?]. Diverses figures de caprice propre a dessigner a la plume.[Paris?, ca. 1700?]. 4 parts in 1 volume. Oblong 16mo (13 x 16 cm). Each part with an engraved title page and each with 11 unnumbered engraved plates. Contemporary French sprinkled, gold-tooled calf.
l[']Art de bien dessiner a la plume nouvellement mis au jour pour l[']utilité de la jeunesse.Including:(2): [SILVESTRE, Charles François]. Diverses figures Turcs propre à dessiner a la plume.(3): [SILVESTRE, Charles François]. Second livre de figures Turcs propre à déssiner à la plume.(4): [SILVESTRE, Charles François?]. Diverses figures de caprice propre a dessigner a la plume.[Paris?, ca. 1700?]. 4 parts in 1 volume. Oblong 16mo (13 x 16 cm). Each part with an engraved title page and each with 11 unnumbered engraved plates. Contemporary French sprinkled, gold-tooled calf.
[SILVESTRE, Charles-François?]. · 1667
€28,500.00 ($31,412.19 | £23,776.58 | ¥5,016,120)
[12], [12], [12], [12] engr. ll.Four extremely rare series of engraved European and Turkish costume figures, intended as models for children learning to draw and at least the Turkish ones drawn for the grandchildren of King Louis XIV of France. Each series has an engraved titl...
Beschryving van de Pelew Eilanden ...Rotterdam, Gerard Abraham Arrenberg, 1789. 4to. With 8 plates: 4 mixed technique (partly stipple-engraved) portraits, 1 large folding engraved map of the Palau Islands and western equatorial Pacific, and 3 folding engraved views. Contemporary boards.
Beschryving van de Pelew Eilanden ...Rotterdam, Gerard Abraham Arrenberg, 1789. 4to. With 8 plates: 4 mixed technique (partly stipple-engraved) portraits, 1 large folding engraved map of the Palau Islands and western equatorial Pacific, and 3 folding engraved views. Contemporary boards.
KEATE, George. · 1788
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
XXXII, 365, [1] pp.First Dutch translation of one of the most popular 18th-century books on the Pacific, and the main source of early knowledge of the Pelew or Palau Islands in Micronesia, first published in London as An account of the Pelew Islands (1788). In 1773, the Antelo...
Encyclopédie méthodique. Dictionaire des jeux avec les planches relatives, faisant suite aux amusemens des sciences mathématiques &c.Padua, 1800. Large 4to (31 x 23 cm). With engraved illustration on title-page, and 13 engraved plates (5 folding) by P. Scattaglia. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers.
Encyclopédie méthodique. Dictionaire des jeux avec les planches relatives, faisant suite aux amusemens des sciences mathématiques &c.Padua, 1800. Large 4to (31 x 23 cm). With engraved illustration on title-page, and 13 engraved plates (5 folding) by P. Scattaglia. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers.
[LACOMBE, Jacques]. · 1792
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
IV, 247, [1 blank] pp.First separately published edition of an encyclopedia of games (mainly board and parlour games, but also including some outdoor sports and ball games). The plates, engraved by P. Scattaglia, show board games like chess, dominoes, different games of goose,...
Relation de divers voyages faits dans l'Afrique, dans l'Amérique, & aux Indes Occidentales. La description du Royaume de Juda, & quelques particularitez touchant la vie du roy reignant. La relation d'une isle nouvellement habitée dans le détroit de Malaca en Asie, & l'histoire de deux princes de Golconde.Paris, Claude Jombert, 1718. 12mo. With some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled polished calf, spine richly decorated with floral ornaments in compartments and with dark brown morocco labels lettered in gold, triple filets on boards, gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges.
Relation de divers voyages faits dans l'Afrique, dans l'Amérique, & aux Indes Occidentales. La description du Royaume de Juda, & quelques particularitez touchant la vie du roy reignant. La relation d'une isle nouvellement habitée dans le détroit de Malaca en Asie, & l'histoire de deux princes de Golconde.Paris, Claude Jombert, 1718. 12mo. With some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled polished calf, spine richly decorated with floral ornaments in compartments and with dark brown morocco labels lettered in gold, triple filets on boards, gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges.
DRALSÉ DE GRANDPIERRE. · 1726
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
[12], 352 pp.First edition of Dralsé de Grandpierre's imaginary voyages to Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, the Western African lands of Guinea, Ouidah (Benin), Martinique, Indonesia and Ile de la Pierre Blanche. The first part of the account presents a description of the voyage to ...
Reize door de binnenlanden van Noord-Amerika.Leiden, Abraham and Jan Honkoop, 1796. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a small engraved author's portrait on title-page, a folding engraved map, and 5 (of 6) engraved plates (1 folding and 3 hand-coloured). Contemporary mottled half calf.
Reize door de binnenlanden van Noord-Amerika.Leiden, Abraham and Jan Honkoop, 1796. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a small engraved author's portrait on title-page, a folding engraved map, and 5 (of 6) engraved plates (1 folding and 3 hand-coloured). Contemporary mottled half calf.
CARVER, Jonathan. · 1710
€1,200.00 ($1,322.62 | £1,001.12 | ¥211,205)
[4], XXVI, [2], 248; [4], 280, [16] pp.First edition of the Dutch translation of a travelogue of North America by the English-American colonial captain Jonathan Carver (1710-1780). "In 1766 Carver was employed ... to explore to the west of the Great Lake in an attempt to conta...
[Print series of birds and butterflies]. [Amsterdam], Frederick de Wit, [ca. 1685?]. Small oblong folio (18.5 x 26 cm). With 12 numbered engraved plates (ca. 6.5 x 20.5 cm). Modern boards.
[Print series of birds and butterflies]. [Amsterdam], Frederick de Wit, [ca. 1685?]. Small oblong folio (18.5 x 26 cm). With 12 numbered engraved plates (ca. 6.5 x 20.5 cm). Modern boards.
FRISIUS, Simon. · 1580
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
[12] ll.Series of 12 numbered plates of birds (11 plates) and butterflies (1 plate) set in beautiful landscapes, engraved by Simon Wynouts Frisius (ca. 1580-1629), in mirror image after the plates of the series by Marcus Gheeraerts I (not Marcus Gheeraerts II as catalogued by ...
Relation du voyage de Monseigneur l'evesque de Beryte, vicaire apostolique du royaume de la Cochinchine, par la Turquie, la Perse, les Indes, &c. jusqu'au royaume de Siam, & autres lieux.Paris, Charles Angot, 1683. 5 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With: (2) PALLU, François. Relation abregée des missions et des voyages des evesques François envoyez aux royaumes de la Chine, Cochinchine, Tonquin, & Siam.Paris, Charles Angot, 1682. (3) [FERMANEL DE FAVERY, Luc (editor)]. Relation des missions des evesques François aux royaumes de Siam, de la Cochinchine, de Camboye, & du Tonquin, &c. Divisée en quatre parties.Paris, Charles Angot, 1684. (4) [FERMANEL DE FAVERY, Luc (editor)]. Relation des missions et des voyages des evesques vicaires apostoliques, et de leurs ecclesiastiques és années 1672, 1673, 1674 & 1675.Paris, Charles Angot, 1682. (5) [FERMANEL DE FAVERY, Luc (editor)]. Relation des missions et des voyages des evesques vicaires apostoliques, et de leurs ecclesiastiques és années 1676 & 1677. Paris, Charles Angot, 1682.Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.
Relation du voyage de Monseigneur l'evesque de Beryte, vicaire apostolique du royaume de la Cochinchine, par la Turquie, la Perse, les Indes, &c. jusqu'au royaume de Siam, & autres lieux.Paris, Charles Angot, 1683. 5 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With: (2) PALLU, François. Relation abregée des missions et des voyages des evesques François envoyez aux royaumes de la Chine, Cochinchine, Tonquin, & Siam.Paris, Charles Angot, 1682. (3) [FERMANEL DE FAVERY, Luc (editor)]. Relation des missions des evesques François aux royaumes de Siam, de la Cochinchine, de Camboye, & du Tonquin, &c. Divisée en quatre parties.Paris, Charles Angot, 1684. (4) [FERMANEL DE FAVERY, Luc (editor)]. Relation des missions et des voyages des evesques vicaires apostoliques, et de leurs ecclesiastiques és années 1672, 1673, 1674 & 1675.Paris, Charles Angot, 1682. (5) [FERMANEL DE FAVERY, Luc (editor)]. Relation des missions et des voyages des evesques vicaires apostoliques, et de leurs ecclesiastiques és années 1676 & 1677. Paris, Charles Angot, 1682.Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.
BOURGES, Jacques de. · 1659
€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)
[8], 167, [1]; [6], 51, [1 blank]; [16], 248; [16], 389, [1 blank]; [16], 170, [1] pp.In 1659 the Société des Mission Etrangères (Paris Society of Foreign Missions), a society of secular priests, was established in Paris as an answer to the decline of the Portuguese mission. T...
La vie du venerable pere Ignace Azevedo, de la Compagnie de Jesus. L'histoire de son martyre, & de celui de trente-neuf autres de la même Compagnie. Le tout tiré des procès-verbaux dressés pour leur canonisation. Dédiée au Roi de Pologne. Paris, Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1744. 12mo. With engraved armorial headpiece above the dedication to King Stanislaus I of Poland. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, gold fillets on board edges.
La vie du venerable pere Ignace Azevedo, de la Compagnie de Jesus. L'histoire de son martyre, & de celui de trente-neuf autres de la même Compagnie. Le tout tiré des procès-verbaux dressés pour leur canonisation. Dédiée au Roi de Pologne. Paris, Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1744. 12mo. With engraved armorial headpiece above the dedication to King Stanislaus I of Poland. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, gold fillets on board edges.
BEAUVAIS, Gilles-François. · 1695
€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)
XLIII, [5], 300 pp.First edition of a French biography of the Jesuit martyr Ignacio de Azevedo, by Father Gilles-François Beauvais (1695-1773), who modelled his book on the Italian biography by Father Cabral (pseudonym of Giulio Cesare Cordara) (1704-1785), published at Rome i...
Émigration au Kansas (États-Unis de l'Amérique du Nord). Le Kansas, ses ressources et produits, ses concessions gratuites de terres, conseils pratiques aux émigrants, la compagnie du chemin de fer du "Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway" et ses immenses possessions réputées les meilleures terres du centre des États-Unis.Antwerp, Frédéric Tuetey [Colophon: Paris, printed by Lahure], [1874]. 8vo. Modern half calf, original blue printed wrappers preserved.
Émigration au Kansas (États-Unis de l'Amérique du Nord). Le Kansas, ses ressources et produits, ses concessions gratuites de terres, conseils pratiques aux émigrants, la compagnie du chemin de fer du "Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway" et ses immenses possessions réputées les meilleures terres du centre des États-Unis.Antwerp, Frédéric Tuetey [Colophon: Paris, printed by Lahure], [1874]. 8vo. Modern half calf, original blue printed wrappers preserved.
PARDONNET, Georges de.
€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)
52 pp.Second copy located, of the second edition of a very rare pamphlet recommending emigration to Kansas, by George de Pardonnet, appointed special agent of immigration in the state of Kansas. The work contains general information on Kansas such as its geography, population ...