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Les Indiens des États-Unis. Including: SEMALLÉ, René de. [Drop-title:] Note sur les Indiens de l'Amérique du Nord.Paris, A. Marc (colophon of second offprint: E. Martinet), 1869. 2 offprints published as 1. 8vo. Original publisher's letterpress printed wrappers.

SEMALLÉ, René de. · 1868

€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)

32; 7, [1 blank] pp.Offprint of two articles on North American Indians by René de Semallé. The first article originally appeared in L'illustration, the second in Bulletin de la Société de Géographie, both in 1868. The former gives some general information on the Indian tribes ...

Précis des dernières guerres des Russes contre les Turcs...Paris, Firmin Didot, Anseling & Pochard, Ponthieu, 1825. 8vo. With 5 irregularly numbered maps with battle and siege plans on 4 folding engraved plates and several diagrams in the text showing troop formations. Contemporary tan half calf, the spine alternating areas of blind-tooled tan and gold-tooled dark brown, one including the title, marbled sides, light gray endpapers, turquoise sprinkled edges.

VALENTINI, Georg Wilhelm von. · 1824

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

VI, [2], 240, [2] pp.First edition of the French translation of volume 3 (Der Türkenkrieg, 1824) of Die Lehre vom Krieg (1820-1824) by the Prussian general Georg Wilhelm Freiherr von Valentini (1775-1834). The plates, engraved by Berthe, include one showing the Russian occupat...

Bosquejo historico de Goa escripto em inglez ... vertibo em Portuguez, e accrescentabo com algumas notas, e rectificações ...Nova-Goa, Imprensa Nacional, 1858. 8vo. With a small illustration of one of the gates of Goa. Later half red morocco.

COTTINEAU DE KLOGUEN, Denis Louis and Miguel Vicente d'ABREU (translator). · 1821

€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)

VII, [1 blank] 5-"202" [=203], [1] pp.First and only edition in Portuguese of a description and history of the Portuguese colony in India. It describes the history of Goa and gives an overview of the religious establishments, population, government, religion, language, trade a...

Alle de ontleed- genees- en heelkundige werken. Meerendeels in 't Nederduyts vertaalt door Ysbrand Gysbert Arlebout. Amsterdam, Janssoons van Waesberge, 1744. 3 volumes. Large 4to. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, 3 titles in red & black, engraved portrait of Ruysch designed by I. Wandelaar and executed by D. Hoogstraten, 7 engraved illustrations in text, 2 woodcut illustrations in text and 133 engraved folding plates with anatomical designs and anatomical specimen. Contemporary marbled calf, spines ribbed and gilt with red-morocco title-labels.

RUYSCH, Frederik. · 1737

€17,500.00 ($19,288.18 | £14,599.65 | ¥3,080,074)

[4], 1280, [184] pp.Very rare Dutch edition of the complete works of the great Dutch anatomist, Frederik Ruysch. These complete works originally were published in Latin as Opera Omnia Anatomico-Medico-chirurgica ut usque edita in 1737.Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731), a surgeon and...

Neuer, vollkommener, verbesserter und ergäntzter Pferd-Schatz.Frankfurt am Main, Johann Philipp Andrea for Georg Heinrich Oehrling, 1688. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small folio (31.5 x 20.5 cm). With engraved frontispiece and 25 engraved folding plates (with figures numbered 1-40). 19th-century half calf.

PINTER VON DER AU, Johann Christoph.

€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)

[2], 456, [8] pp.Second, enlarged and corrected edition of a "very elaborate compilation of the available literature on horsemanship, Pinter von der Au referred to his sources without restraint, from Xenophon and Vegetius, via Rusio and Ruellius to Carraciolo and Zechendorff. ...

Moeurs, usages, costumes des Othomans, et abrégé de leur histoire. Avec des éclaircissemens tirés d'ouvrages orientaux, et communiqués par M. Langlès.Paris, Nepveu, 1812. 6 volumes. 18mo (14 x 9 cm). With 75 hand-coloured engraved plates: a frontispiece in each volume and 17, 17, 9, and 26 plates in volumes 3, 4, 5, and 6 respectively. Most plates depict costumes, but also tools and instruments are shown. All plates are very detailed and beautifully coloured by hand, in very fresh contemporary colouring, some even finished with gold. Contemporary gold- and blined-toole purpleish-black morocco.

CASTELLAN, Antoine Laurent. · 1772

€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)

Beautifully illustrated 6-volume work on the customs, habits and costumes of the people in the Ottoman Empire. The work gives an elaborate account of Ottoman history, the emperors, people, religion, arts and professions, which are shown in the handcoloured detailed full-page e...

Histoire de la tribu des Osages, peuplade sauvage de l'Amérique septentrionale, dans l'état du Missouri, l'un des États-Unis d'Amérique. Écrite d'après les six Osages actuellement a Paris. Suivi de la relation du voyage de ces sauvages, et d'une notice historique sur chacun de ces Indiens célèbres dans leur tribu par leurs exploits guerriers.Paris & Rennes, Charles Béchet & Duchesne, 1827. 8vo. With the title on the front wrapper set within a decorative frame, the frame repeated on the back wrapper with a sailing ship as a centerpiece. Original printed paper wrappers, sewn through two holes.

[VISSIER, Paul]. · 1827

€5,500.00 ($6,062.00 | £4,588.46 | ¥968,023)

92 pp.Rare work on the Osage Nation and other Native American tribes in the Midwestern United States. The present work was written by Paul Vissier on the occasion of a visit of six Osage people, namely Mohongo, her husband, and four other members of their tribe, to France in 1...

Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, oudheden en statistiek van Utrecht. Jaargang 1-9. 2de Serie. Jaargang 1-3.Utrecht, Nicolaas van der Monde, 1835-1846. 12 volumes. With 12 lithographed titles, 64 lithographed or engraved plans, views, and plates (several folding and 1 handcoloured), and 14 folding tables. Contemporary gold-tooled half mottled calf.

MONDE, Nicolaas van der. · 1828

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

Circa 500 pp. each vol.Complete set, in exceptionally fine bindings by Carolus Johannes Mensing (1828-1912), of the valuable periodical on Utrecht's ancient history by Nicolaas van der Monde (1799-1847), the industrious keeper of the city's files. The present set includes all ...

Voyages en Perse dans l'Afghanistan le Béloutchistan et le Turkestan.Paris, E. Dentu, 1860. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a portrait as a frontispiece, a printer's device on both title pages, and a large folding map. Contemporary dark purple half morocco.

FERRIER, Jean-Paul. · 1839

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

[6], XIV, [2], 463; [4], 463 pp.First French edition of the account of the voyages in Persia and Afghanistan of Jean-Paul Ferrier, the only Frenchman who travelled through Afghanistan during the 19th century and the last European to enter that country for the following 50 year...

Histoire orientale des grans progres de l'eglise Cathol. Apost. & Rom. en la reduction des anciens Chrestiens ...Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1609. With:(2) GLEN, Jean Baptise de and Aleixo de MENEZES. La messe des anciens Chrestiens, dicts de S. Thomas, en l' évesché d' Angamal és Indes Orientales ... Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1609.2 works in 1 volume, the 2nd in 2 parts. 8vo. With a small woodcut vignette on both title-pages, some woodcut head- and tail-pieces, and woodcut decorated initials. Ad 1 with an engraved illustration depicting a Biblical scene mounted as a frontispiece on the verso of the second free flyleaf. Contemporary brown calf, sewn on 4 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, gold-tooled spine with the title lettered in gold in the second compartment, red sprinkled edges.

GOUVEA (or GOVEA), Antonio and Aleixo de MENEZES. · 1606

€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)

[1], [1 blank], [42], 748; [1], [1 blank], [10], 123, [1] pp.Ad 1: First French edition of António de Gouvea's account Jornada do Arcebispo de Goa Dom Frey Aleixo de Menezes, first published in Portuguese in Coimbra, 1606. It details the Jesuit-Portuguese success in aligning t...

Origine et progrès de la mission du Kentucky.Paris, Adrien le Clere, 1821. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page. Modern marbled boards.

[BADIN, Stephen Theodore]. · 1768

€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)

[2 blank], [1], [1 blank], 32 pp.Rare work on the early mission in Kentucky, by Stephen Theodore Badin (1768-1853). Badin entered the Sulpician Seminary of Orléans, his native city, in 1789. When the seminary was closed by the revolutionary government in 1791, he immigrated to...

Pájinas de mi diario durante tres años de viajes. 1853. - 1854. - 1855. ... California. - Mejiico. - Estados-Unídos. - Canada. - Islas Britanicas. - Francia. - Italia. - Alemania. - Paises-Bajos. - Costas del Brasil. - Provincias del Plata.Santiago, Imprenta del Ferrocarril, 1856. 4to. Contemporary half green sheepskin, marbled edges.

VICUÑA MACKENNA, Benjamin. · 1831

€4,950.00 ($5,455.80 | £4,129.62 | ¥871,221)

[8], 454 pp.First edition of the memoires of Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna (1831-1886), primarily during his voyages through North America and Europe. Vicuña started his voyages in California, where he visited San Francisco. His went on to Mexico, New Orleans, Ohio, New York, Bosto...

Aperçu statistique de l'île de Cuba, précédé de quelques lettres sur la Havane, et suivi de tableaux synoptiques, d'une carte de l'île, et du tracé des côtes depuis la Havane jusqu'a Matanzas.Paris, P. Dufart, 1826. 8vo. With 6 folding letterpress tables and 2 engraved maps (1 folding), depicting Cuba and surrounding islands. Contemporary half calf, black- and gold-tooled spine.

HUBER, Bertrand. · 1821

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

331, [1] pp.First edition of a work on Cuba, compiled by Bertrand Huber, French Minister of Foreign Affairs. The first half of the work (pp. 29-219) consists of seven letters by Robert Francis Jameson, first separately published in English in 1821. They deal, respectively, wit...

Den handel der amoureusheyt inhoudende vier poetische spelen, 1. Van Aeneas ende Dido. 2. Narcissus ende Echo. 3. Mars ende Venus. 4. Leander ende Hero. Poetelijck geinventeert ende rethorijckelijck ghecomponeert.Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberghe III, 1621. 4 parts in one volume. 8vo. With an engraved ornamental title-page with the title in an oval cartouche and 4 roundels in the corners with scenes from the four plays; 4 full-page engraved plates with similar scenes, one in the preliminaries of each play. Contemporary calf, spine richly gold-tooled in compartments with red title label lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges.

HOUWAERT, Johan Baptista [recté: MOL, Jacob de, Colyn KEYART and “SMEECKEN” (Jan SMEKEN?)]. · 1533

€5,500.00 ($6,062.00 | £4,588.46 | ¥968,023)

237 ll.First and only edition of four morality plays or dialogues, often wrongly attributed to the famous Antwerp rhetorician Jean Baptiste Houwaert (1533-1599). In fact, they were written by Antwerp rhetoricians ca. 1550, when Houwaert was only about seventeen. It has mistake...

Voyage en Amérique, en Italie, en Sicile et en Egypte, pendant les années 1816, 1817, 1818 et 1819.Paris, Delaunay & Bélon, 1821. 3 volumes (2 text and 1 atlas). 8vo and oblong folio. Atlas with 59 lithographed plates and two folding maps by Bracas and C. de Lasteyrie after the original drawings by Montulé; 14 of these plates are tinted green or yellow. 17 plates of the 59 are plates of America; views of New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Niagara Falls, the Mississippi. Uniform gold-tooled half red morocco,red leather-grained paper sides, with yellow morocco title and volume labels lettered in gold on the spines. The text volumes with yellow painted edges.

MONTULÉ, Edouard de. · 1792

€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)

X, 466; VIII, 448 pp; 59 numbered plates (including the title plate).Only edition of a collection of letters written by Edouard de Montulé, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal de la Légion d'Honneur (1792-1828), during a voyage to America, Italy, Sicily and Egypt. The collection consis...

Histoire naturelle et civile de la Californie, contenant une description exacte de ce pays, de son sol, de ses montagnes, lacs, rivières & mers, de ses animaux, végétaux, minéraux, & de sa fameuse pêcherie des perles; les moeurs de ses habitans, leur religion, leur gouvernement, & leur façon de vivre avant leur conversion au Christianisme; un detail des différens voyages, & tentatives qu'on a faites pour s'y établir, & reconnoître son Golfe & la côte de la Mer du Sud.Paris, Durand, 1767. 3 volumes. 8vo. With a folding engraved map of California. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spines, gold-tooled binding edges.

VÉNEGAS, Miguél and Andrés Marcos BURRIEL. · 1719

€1,400.00 ($1,543.05 | £1,167.97 | ¥246,406)

[2], XXIV, 360; VIII, 375; VIII, 354, [2] pp.First edition of the French translation of one of the earliest and most important works on early California. The original Spanish edition was written by Andrés Marcos Burriel (1719-1762), a Spanish Jesuit, after memoires by Miguél V...

Relation des voyages faits dans la Turquie, la Thebaïde, et la Barbarie. Contenant des avis politiques qui peuvent servir de lumières aux Rois & aux Souverains de la Chrétienté, pour garentir leurs etats des incursions des Turcs, & reprendre ceux qu'ils ont usurpé sur eux.Lyon, les frères Bruyset, 1720. 4to. Vignette on title-page, interesting woodcut head- and tailpieces showing fruits and flowers, and 4 plates visualising the position of soldiers, divisions, army and artillery. Contemporary brown calf, gold-tooled spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label, lettered in gold.

COPPIN, R.P. Jean. · 1615

€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)

[6], 496, [6] pp.Second edition of a curious work, whose author Jean Coppin (ca. 1615-ca. 1690) tries to rouse the French people for a new crusade against the Ottoman Empire. It first appeared in 1686, under the title Bouclier de l' Europe....The present edition uses the title...

Voyage philosophique et pittoresque, sur les rives du Rhin, a Liège, dans la Flandre, le Brabant, la Hollande, l'Angleterre, la France, etc. fait en 1790, ... Paris, F. Buisson and Charles Pougens, l'an VIII [= 1800]. 3 volumes. 8vo. With a folding engraved map of Great Britain and 9 folding engraved views of famous English buildings. Contemporary mottled, tanned sheepskin (tree pattern), gold-tooled spines.

FORSTER, Georg. · 1778

€2,650.00 ($2,920.78 | £2,210.80 | ¥466,411)

[4], XVI, 408; [4], 446; 8, 407 pp.Second French edition of what is considered Forster's major work, Ansichten vom Niederrhein. Forster's fame was instantly established when he published an impressive account of James Cook's second voyage around the world in 1778-1780. The pre...

Voyage de découvertes dans la partie septentrionale de l'Océan Pacifique, fait par le capitaine W.R. Broughton, commandant la corvette de S.M.B. la Providence et sa conserve, pendant les années 1795, 1796, 1797 et 1798; dans lequel il a parcouru et visité la côte d'Asie, depuis le 35° degré nord, jusqu'au 52°; l'île d'Insu, ordinairement appelée Jesso; les côtes nord, est et sud du Japon; les îles de Likeujo et autres îles voisines, ainsi que la côte de Corée.Paris, Dentu, 1807. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a large folding engraved map of the North-East coast of Asia and Japan, a folding engraved map of the islands Likeujo and Madjicosemah, 4 large folding engraved plates with plans and views of harbours and coastlines in Japan, Taiwan, and China, and a full-page engraved plate showing the costumes of Volcan's Bay. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter sheepskin.

BROUGHTON, William Robert. · 1757

€1,000.00 ($1,102.18 | £834.27 | ¥176,004)

[6], XXXII, 243, [3]; [4], 341, [1] pp.First edition of the French translation of the account of an important expedition to the North Pacific, one of the most important ever made to the northwest coast of America. It was undertaken on the orders of the British Admiralty in ord...

De vastgestelde leer en praktyk, van Neerlands kerk omtrent byzondere, algenoegzame en kragtdadige genade in Christus, gezuiverd van het misbruik derzelve. Waar by gevoegt zijn de Dordse leer-regelen ...Including:(2) KEESSEL, Dionysius van der. De vastgestelde leer en praktyk ... tweede deel.(3) KEESSEL, Dionysius van der. De vastgestelde leer en praktyk ... derde deel.Deventer, Abraham van Wezel, 1749-1750. 3 parts (and part 2 in 2 sections) in 1 volume. 8vo. With several woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 6 supports, manuscript title on spine.

KEESSEL, Dionysius van der. · 1700

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

[32], 866, [2] pp.Very rare and complete copy of this theological work by Dionysius van der Keessel (1700-1755), who was a minister of the Reformed Church at Deventer. This work deals with the the Lord's mercy and other principles regarding the Dutch reformed branch of christi...