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The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia.London, Day & son (vol. 3: New York, D. Appleton & Co.), 1855-1856. 6 volumes bound as 3. Imperial 8vo (30 x 22 cm). With 250 numbered plates (including 6 tinted lithographed title-pages, 2 stone-engraved maps and 239 tinted and double-tinted lithographed and 2 chromolithographed views). Contemporary, richly gold-tooled reddish-brown morocco, gold-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt and gauffered edges. With thin paper guard leaves facing each plate.
The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia.London, Day & son (vol. 3: New York, D. Appleton & Co.), 1855-1856. 6 volumes bound as 3. Imperial 8vo (30 x 22 cm). With 250 numbered plates (including 6 tinted lithographed title-pages, 2 stone-engraved maps and 239 tinted and double-tinted lithographed and 2 chromolithographed views). Contemporary, richly gold-tooled reddish-brown morocco, gold-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt and gauffered edges. With thin paper guard leaves facing each plate.
ROBERTS, David, George CROLY and William BROCKEDON. · 1796
€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)
Second edition, with reduced illustrations but with more of them double-tinted or chromolithographed, of one of the most splendid and historically important visual records of the Middle East, after drawings by David Roberts (1796-1864) from the sketches he made from life durin...
Les Bédouins, ou Arabes du désert. Ouvrage publié d'après les notes inédites de Dom Raphaël, sur les mœurs, usages, lois, coutumes civiles et religieuses de ces peuples.Paris, Ferra jeune, 1816. 3 volumes. 12mo. With 24 steel engraved plates, coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary long-grained gold-tooled red morocco, each board with fillets and decorative frames, decorations on the raised bands, gilt edges.
Les Bédouins, ou Arabes du désert. Ouvrage publié d'après les notes inédites de Dom Raphaël, sur les mœurs, usages, lois, coutumes civiles et religieuses de ces peuples.Paris, Ferra jeune, 1816. 3 volumes. 12mo. With 24 steel engraved plates, coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary long-grained gold-tooled red morocco, each board with fillets and decorative frames, decorations on the raised bands, gilt edges.
MAYEUX, F. J. · 1555
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
X, 238; [4], 166; [4], 279 pp.First edition of an early study of the Bedouins of Egypt and Syria, covering their manners, laws, civil and religious customs. Illustrated with 24 steel engraved plates by Charlin after F. Massart and finely coloured in watercolour by a contempora...
Album du musée du Boulaq comprenant quarante planches photographiées par MM. Delié et Béchard, avec un texte explicatif rédigé par Auguste Mariette-Bey.Cairo, Mourès & Cie, 1872. Folio. With 40 original, albumen photographic prints (ca. 24.5 x 18 cm) on stiff paperboard mounted on hinges. Original publisher’s half brown morocco, blind stamped cloth over boards, with title and figures in gold, gilt edges.
Album du musée du Boulaq comprenant quarante planches photographiées par MM. Delié et Béchard, avec un texte explicatif rédigé par Auguste Mariette-Bey.Cairo, Mourès & Cie, 1872. Folio. With 40 original, albumen photographic prints (ca. 24.5 x 18 cm) on stiff paperboard mounted on hinges. Original publisher’s half brown morocco, blind stamped cloth over boards, with title and figures in gold, gilt edges.
MARIETTE-BEY, Auguste. · 1863
€35,000.00 ($38,576.37 | £29,199.31 | ¥6,160,148)
[3], [42] ll. plus 40 mounted photographic prints.Beautiful photograph album made in Cairo, the first illustrated catalogue of the first Egyptian Museum. The photographs by Hippolyte Délié and Émile Béchard, show the halls and antiques of the Bulaq Museum, founded in Cairo in ...
Briève & fidèle exposition de l'origine, de la doctrine, des constitutions, usages et ceremonies ecclesiastiques de l'eglise de l'unité des freres connus sous le nom de Freres de Boheme & de Moravie, ... avec XVI. planches.[Saxony?], 1758. 8vo. With 16 numbered double-page engraved plates. Brown morocco (Lyon, ca. 1900) with gold-tooled turn-ins, signed by L(ouis) GUÉTANT.
Briève & fidèle exposition de l'origine, de la doctrine, des constitutions, usages et ceremonies ecclesiastiques de l'eglise de l'unité des freres connus sous le nom de Freres de Boheme & de Moravie, ... avec XVI. planches.[Saxony?], 1758. 8vo. With 16 numbered double-page engraved plates. Brown morocco (Lyon, ca. 1900) with gold-tooled turn-ins, signed by L(ouis) GUÉTANT.
[CRANZ, David and/or J.K. ULRICH]. · 1765
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
87 pp.First edition in French, published one year after the first German edition, of the first work attributed to David Cranz, missionary in the Moravian United Brethren, best known for his 1765 description of Greenland. The present work gives a history of the United Brethren,...
Delle specie diverse di frumento e di pane siccome della panizzazione.Florence, Moücke f. Giovacchino Pagani, 1765. 4to. Bound in contemporary 'carta rustica', faded manuscript title to spine.
Delle specie diverse di frumento e di pane siccome della panizzazione.Florence, Moücke f. Giovacchino Pagani, 1765. 4to. Bound in contemporary 'carta rustica', faded manuscript title to spine.
MANETTI, Saverio. · 1723
€2,000.00 ($2,204.36 | £1,668.53 | ¥352,008)
(8), 237, (3) pp.Rare first edition of this treatise on bread and bread-making, by the physician and naturalist Saverio Manetti (1723-85). The work deals with wheat, flour, different kind of bread (corn, rye, buckwheat and sweat bread, donuts, farinata, waffles, bread with rai...
Viaggi fatti da Vinetia, alla Tana, in Persia, in India, et in Costantinopoli: con la descrittione particolare di città, luoghi, siti, costumi, & della porta del Gran Turco: & di tutte le intrate, spese, & modo di governo suo, & della ultima impresa contra Portoghesi.Venice, sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. 8vo. With Aldus’s woodcut anchor device on the title-page. 18th-century English polished calf.
Viaggi fatti da Vinetia, alla Tana, in Persia, in India, et in Costantinopoli: con la descrittione particolare di città, luoghi, siti, costumi, & della porta del Gran Turco: & di tutte le intrate, spese, & modo di governo suo, & della ultima impresa contra Portoghesi.Venice, sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. 8vo. With Aldus’s woodcut anchor device on the title-page. 18th-century English polished calf.
[MANUZIO, Antonio (ed.)]. · 1543
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
163 ll.Second edition (first published in 1543) of a collection of Venetian voyages to the Near and Middle East, edited by Antonio Manuzio, son of Aldus. "Tana was the name which the Genoese gave to their factory at Azov at the mouth of the river Don. This volume contains voya...
Langwirige Lampen, oder ... Erfindung, Lampen auf eine leichte Arth also zuzurichten, dass sie geraume Zeit ... fortbrennen. ... Nebst angehängter Nachricht von denen Antiquen, vorgestellet von J.G.G. Hübschen.Leipzig and Frankfurt, 1725. With engraved frontispiece, a woodcut tailpiece, a few decorated initials and a decoration built up from typographic ornaments. Set in fraktur type with incidental roman.8vo. Modern marbled boards.
Langwirige Lampen, oder ... Erfindung, Lampen auf eine leichte Arth also zuzurichten, dass sie geraume Zeit ... fortbrennen. ... Nebst angehängter Nachricht von denen Antiquen, vorgestellet von J.G.G. Hübschen.Leipzig and Frankfurt, 1725. With engraved frontispiece, a woodcut tailpiece, a few decorated initials and a decoration built up from typographic ornaments. Set in fraktur type with incidental roman.8vo. Modern marbled boards.
GÄRTNER, Andreas. · 1720
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
Frontispiece plus [6], "110" [=104] pp.Rare first edition in book form (parts had been published in 1720 in the periodical Berlinische und Cölnische ordinaire Post-Zeitung) of descriptions of lamps capable of burning for prolonged periods without having to be refuelled, invent...
Wohlgezogener Zwerg-Baum oder Gründlicher Unterricht wie die Frantz-Bäume gewartet werden müssen, …Leipzig, Wolffgang Deer, 1747. 8vo. With woodcut frontispiece, 8 engraved figures on 1 folding plate, and about 30 woodcut figures in the text. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.
Wohlgezogener Zwerg-Baum oder Gründlicher Unterricht wie die Frantz-Bäume gewartet werden müssen, …Leipzig, Wolffgang Deer, 1747. 8vo. With woodcut frontispiece, 8 engraved figures on 1 folding plate, and about 30 woodcut figures in the text. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.
LIEGELSTEINER, George. · 1725
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[1 blank], [11], 143, [9] pp.Very rare last and most extensive edition of the first Western book on the cultivation of dwarf trees, extensively illustrated. All editions are very rare and this important and remarkably early account appears to have been wholly overlooked in the...
Esequie di Luigi I, Cattolico Re delle Spagne, celebrate in Firenze nella Chiesa di S. Maria Novella … il di XXVI di Ottobre …Florence, nella Stamperia di S.A.R. per li Tartini, e Franchi, 1724. 2 works in 1 volume. Small folio (ca. 29.5 x 20.5 cm). With 5 large, folding engraved plates by Ferdinando Ruggieri. With: BOCCADIFERRO, Camillo Antonio. Delle lodi di Luigi I, Cattolico Re delle Spagne, orazione … recitata pubblicamente dall’autore nell’Esequie celebrate in Firenze dal … Padre Fr. Salvatore Ascanio … Florence, nella Stamperia di S.A.R. per li Tartini, e Franchi, 1724. Contemporary vellum.
Esequie di Luigi I, Cattolico Re delle Spagne, celebrate in Firenze nella Chiesa di S. Maria Novella … il di XXVI di Ottobre …Florence, nella Stamperia di S.A.R. per li Tartini, e Franchi, 1724. 2 works in 1 volume. Small folio (ca. 29.5 x 20.5 cm). With 5 large, folding engraved plates by Ferdinando Ruggieri. With: BOCCADIFERRO, Camillo Antonio. Delle lodi di Luigi I, Cattolico Re delle Spagne, orazione … recitata pubblicamente dall’autore nell’Esequie celebrate in Firenze dal … Padre Fr. Salvatore Ascanio … Florence, nella Stamperia di S.A.R. per li Tartini, e Franchi, 1724. Contemporary vellum.
VENUTI, Niccolo Marcello. · 1707
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
xxiii, [1 blank]; 12 pp.First edition of the description of the festival and memorial service in Florence for Luis I, King of Spain (1707-1724). Luis only ruled for eight months, dying of smallpox in Madrid on 31 August 1724. His father, King Philip V of Spain, who had abdicat...
Lettere al marchese Filippo Hercolani … sopra alcune particolarita della Baveria, ed altri paesi della Germania.Lucca, Giovanni Riccomini, 1763. 8vo. Contemporary Italian marbled paper over flexible paperboards.
Lettere al marchese Filippo Hercolani … sopra alcune particolarita della Baveria, ed altri paesi della Germania.Lucca, Giovanni Riccomini, 1763. 8vo. Contemporary Italian marbled paper over flexible paperboards.
[BIANCONI, Giovanni Lodovico]. · 1717
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
XVI, 272 pp.First edition of an interesting look at German artistic and cultural life in Munich and Dresden through the eyes of a cultured Italian. It is written in the form of a series of fictitious letters. Giovanni L. Bianconi (1717-1781) was a scholar and connoisseur who, ...
The history of travayle in the West and East Indies, … London, Richard Jugge, 1577. Narrow 4to (19 x 13.5 cm). With a woodcut celestial map of the South Polar sky in the text. With 14 leaves in a 19th-century facsimile. Gold- and blind-tooled maroon morocco (ca. 1860?), in allusive style. In a modern clam-shell box.
The history of travayle in the West and East Indies, … London, Richard Jugge, 1577. Narrow 4to (19 x 13.5 cm). With a woodcut celestial map of the South Polar sky in the text. With 14 leaves in a 19th-century facsimile. Gold- and blind-tooled maroon morocco (ca. 1860?), in allusive style. In a modern clam-shell box.
[VARTHEMA, Ludovico di, Pietro Martire d’ANGHIERA and others]. · 1503
€120,000.00 ($132,261.84 | £100,111.92 | ¥21,120,506)
[10], 466, [6] ll.First English edition of Ludovico di Varthema's famous account of travels to Arabia, Syria, Persia, Ethiopia, India and the East Indies: a highly important and adventurous narrative including his 1503 visit to Mecca and Medina, the first recorded visit of a E...
Vies des gouverneurs généraux, avec l'abrégé de l'histoire des etablissements hollandois aux Indes Orientales; ...Including: IMHOFF, G.W. van. Considerations sur l'etat present de la compagnie hollandoise des Indes Orientales.The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1763. Royal 4to (27.5 x 22.5 cm). With 34 engraved plates, 1 engraved allegorical headpiece and 28 numbered headpieces with portraits of the Gouvernors-General of the Dutch East Indies. All plates were drawn and presumably engraved by the artist and engraver Jacob van Schley (1715-1729). 19th-century half cloth.
Vies des gouverneurs généraux, avec l'abrégé de l'histoire des etablissements hollandois aux Indes Orientales; ...Including: IMHOFF, G.W. van. Considerations sur l'etat present de la compagnie hollandoise des Indes Orientales.The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1763. Royal 4to (27.5 x 22.5 cm). With 34 engraved plates, 1 engraved allegorical headpiece and 28 numbered headpieces with portraits of the Gouvernors-General of the Dutch East Indies. All plates were drawn and presumably engraved by the artist and engraver Jacob van Schley (1715-1729). 19th-century half cloth.
DU BOIS, Johann Peter Isaak. · 1609
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
VI, 351, [1], 48 pp.First edition of a richly illustrated history of the Dutch East Indian Company, including the lives of all 28 Dutch Governors-General arranged chronologically from Pieter Both, appointed in 1609, to Jacob Mossel, appointed in 1752. The book ends with an int...
Orientreise seiner kaiserlichen Hoheit des Grossfürsten-Thronfolgers Nikolaus Alexandrowitsch von Russland, 1890-1891.Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1894-1899. 2 volumes. 4to. With engraved portrait of Nicholas, 7 photogravures, 541 wood engravings after drawings and photographs and 5 chromolithographed maps. Publisher's cloth, richly blocked in black, gold and grey, gilt edges.
Orientreise seiner kaiserlichen Hoheit des Grossfürsten-Thronfolgers Nikolaus Alexandrowitsch von Russland, 1890-1891.Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1894-1899. 2 volumes. 4to. With engraved portrait of Nicholas, 7 photogravures, 541 wood engravings after drawings and photographs and 5 chromolithographed maps. Publisher's cloth, richly blocked in black, gold and grey, gilt edges.
UKHTOMSKY (UCHTOMSKIJ), Esper Esperovich and Hermann BRUNNHOFER (translator). · 1893
€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)
[4], 476; [4], 482 pp.First and only edition in German of a richly illustrated travelogue of a journey around the Eurasian continent, made by the future Russian Czar Nicholas II. The journey was planned as a Grand Tour through Europe and Asia with the opening ceremony of the T...
De rebus Japonicis, Indicis, et Peruanis epistolae recentiores.Antwerp, Martinus Nutius II, 1605. 8vo. With Nutius's woodcut device on title-page and a small woodcut illustration in the text. Contemporary vellum.
De rebus Japonicis, Indicis, et Peruanis epistolae recentiores.Antwerp, Martinus Nutius II, 1605. 8vo. With Nutius's woodcut device on title-page and a small woodcut illustration in the text. Contemporary vellum.
HAY, John. · 1577
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
968, [50] pp.First edition, in Latin, of a very important collection of about 55 letters and other documents written between 1577 and 1601, the largest part concerning Jesuit activities in Japan, with a smaller but substantial part devoted to Korea, several concerning China an...
Histoire de ce qui s'est passé au royaume du Japon l'annee 1624.Paris, Sebastien Chappelet, 1628. 8vo. With a woodcut Jesuit seal on the title page. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, blind-stamped with a fleur-de-lys.
Histoire de ce qui s'est passé au royaume du Japon l'annee 1624.Paris, Sebastien Chappelet, 1628. 8vo. With a woodcut Jesuit seal on the title page. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, blind-stamped with a fleur-de-lys.
[RODRIGUES GIRÃO, João and Jean VIREAU? (translator)]. · 1624
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
[16], 390 pp.Very rare, first and only edition of a translation into French of the "Annual Letter" for 1624, the annual account of the Jesuit missions in Japan written for their superiors in Rome. Although possibly written by Jesuits in Japan, the text was edited by Rodrigues ...
Willem Lithgouws 19 jaarige lant-reyse, uyt Schotlant nae de vermaerde deelen des werelts Europa, Asia en Africa.Amsterdam, Jacob Benjamin (colophon: printed by Christoffel Cunradus), 1653. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With engraved frontispiece by Crispijn de Passe, 1 engraved plate and 6 engraved illustrations in the text. 19th-century half vellum.
Willem Lithgouws 19 jaarige lant-reyse, uyt Schotlant nae de vermaerde deelen des werelts Europa, Asia en Africa.Amsterdam, Jacob Benjamin (colophon: printed by Christoffel Cunradus), 1653. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With engraved frontispiece by Crispijn de Passe, 1 engraved plate and 6 engraved illustrations in the text. 19th-century half vellum.
LITHGOW, William. · 1582
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
[8], 186, 98 pp.Second Dutch edition of a classic account of three voyages by the Scotsman William Lithgow (1582-1645?), mostly on foot, from Rome to Greece, Crete, Turkey, Cyprus, the Holy Land, Egypt, Malta, continental Europe and North Africa, including the British Isles an...
Mémoires du comte De Forbin.Amsterdam, François Girardi, 1748. 2 volumes. 12mo. With engraved author's portrait as frontispiece. Contemporary mottled, tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spines.
Mémoires du comte De Forbin.Amsterdam, François Girardi, 1748. 2 volumes. 12mo. With engraved author's portrait as frontispiece. Contemporary mottled, tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spines.
FORBIN, Claude, comte de. · 1656
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
[4], 383, [1 blank]; [4], 344 pp.Third edition of the memoirs of the French naval commander Claude de Forbin (1656-1733), starting in 1675 and ending in 1710. It includes notes on his diplomatic mission to Siam from 1685 to 1688, where he became the governor of Bangkok and a ...
Cérémonies usitées au Japon, pour les mariages, les funérailles, et les principals fêtes del'année; … Orné de 24 gravures, faites d'après des peintures japonaises.Paris, Nepveu (back of half-title: printed by d’Hautel), 1822. 3 volumes. 18mo. With 23 (of 24?) etched plates (including 3 as frontispiece, and 17 folding), all but one in contemporary hand-colouring. Late 19th-century, gold-tooled brown half morocco, gilt edges.
Cérémonies usitées au Japon, pour les mariages, les funérailles, et les principals fêtes del'année; … Orné de 24 gravures, faites d'après des peintures japonaises.Paris, Nepveu (back of half-title: printed by d’Hautel), 1822. 3 volumes. 18mo. With 23 (of 24?) etched plates (including 3 as frontispiece, and 17 folding), all but one in contemporary hand-colouring. Late 19th-century, gold-tooled brown half morocco, gilt edges.
TITSINGH, Isaac. · 1745
€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)
XXX, IV, 127, [1 blank]; [4], 139, [1 blank]; [4], 206 pp.The Dutch scholar Isaac Titsingh (1745-1812) was head of the Dutch trading post at Dejima and spent in total some 44 months in Japan (in the years 1779-1780, 1781-1783, and 1784). He collected material for a monumental ...
Caarte vanden Slaperdijk streckende vande Stichtse bergen tot aan de hoogte van Gelderland.Utrecht, Slaperdijk Managing Board (“College tot Directie van de Slaperdijk”), (engraved:) 1705. Engraved wall map printed on 8 sheets (measuring: 76 x 194 cm as assembled) by Caspar Specht after Justus van Broeckhuijsen (scale ca. 1:5600). Framed (107 x 220 cm).
Caarte vanden Slaperdijk streckende vande Stichtse bergen tot aan de hoogte van Gelderland.Utrecht, Slaperdijk Managing Board (“College tot Directie van de Slaperdijk”), (engraved:) 1705. Engraved wall map printed on 8 sheets (measuring: 76 x 194 cm as assembled) by Caspar Specht after Justus van Broeckhuijsen (scale ca. 1:5600). Framed (107 x 220 cm).
[MAP - NETHERLANDS - GELDERSE VALLEI]. BROECKHUIJSEN, Justus van. · 1653
€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)
Large wall map showing the Slaperdijk (literally: “sleeper dike”) in the Dutch region the Gelderse Vallei, running from the Utrechtse Heuvelrug (“Utrecht Hill Ridge”) in the south to Fort Daatselaar in the north. The dike was built in 1653 as a backup in case the northern Rhin...
Lettres et memoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle, civile et politique de Cap Breton, ...The Hague, Pierre Gosse; London, Jean Nourse [printed in England], 1760. 12mo. Half brown morocco (ca. 1885?), by Frank J. Pfister in New York, gold-tooled spine, round gold stamp of Henry Gurdon Marquand on the front.
Lettres et memoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle, civile et politique de Cap Breton, ...The Hague, Pierre Gosse; London, Jean Nourse [printed in England], 1760. 12mo. Half brown morocco (ca. 1885?), by Frank J. Pfister in New York, gold-tooled spine, round gold stamp of Henry Gurdon Marquand on the front.
[PICHON, Thomas]. · 1700
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
XVI, 327, [1 blank] pp.Surprisingly rare first edition of a detailed description of Cape Breton Island and what is now Prince Edward Island (then called Île Saint-John) in Nova Scotia, Canada, the two together then comprising the French colony Île Royale. It gives detailed and...