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Topographischer Atlas der Schweiz.

Topographical map Aarau, Switserland · 1897

€27.50 ($30.31 | £22.94 | ¥4,840)

1897 One large (75 x 54 cm), two-coloured folded map (1 : 25.000) of Aarau (Switserland) and surroundings laid on cloth (a few tears in the cloth). With the geologist B.G. Escher's signature.

Carte topographique de la Suisse.

Topographical map Simplon, Switserland · 1920

€22.00 ($24.25 | £18.35 | ¥3,872)

n.d. (ca. 1920) One large (78 x 45 cm) folded map (1 : 100.000) of Simplon (Switserland). With the geologist B.G. Escher's signature.

Un tour en Irlande, par J. Joseph Prevost. Payasages - Antiquités - Scènes de moeurs - Coutumes - Traditions - Légendes - Biographies etc..

Prevost, J.J. · 1846

€88.00 ($96.99 | £73.42 | ¥15,488)

1846 (1st ed.) 444 p., disbound (no covers). Repaired tear in half-title and title-page. Some foxing in first few pages. Interesting and scarce early account of Prevost's voyage to Ireland, presented in a series of 20 letters. Needs to be bound

De Riviera.

Hulzen, G.van · 1926

€22.00 ($24.25 | £18.35 | ¥3,872)

1926 18 p., 30 col. illustrations, small folio. Kerstnummer Haagse Post.

Estat de l'empire de Russie et grande duché de Moscovie. Avec ce qui s'y est passé de plus memorable et tragique, pendant le regne de quatre Empereurs: à sçavoir depuis l'an 1590 jusques en 1606. en Septembre.

Margeret, Capitaine · 1607

€77.00 ($84.86 | £64.24 | ¥13,552)

1607 (reprint 1860) xxxii, 127 p., 12mo, contemporary hcalf. Nouvelle édition, precedée de deux lettres inédites de l'auteur et d'une Notice biographique et bibliographique par Henri Chevreul.

Souvenirs d'un voyage en Allemagne.

Mulsant, E. · 1862

€55.00 ($60.62 | £45.89 | ¥9,680)

1862 (2nd ed.) [6], 144 p., hcalf. Mulsant was a French entomologist specialized in Coleoptera. He travelled to Liège, Cologne, Stettin, Berlin, Dresden, Münich, Zürich, Genève. His voyages led him to many of his colleagues and their collections, and thus apart from being onl...

Voyage en Bulgarie pendant l'année 1841.

Blanqui, J.A. · 1845

€214.50 ($236.41 | £178.95 | ¥37,751)

1845 (1st ed.) x, 414 p., contemporary hcalf, spine gilt. Waterstain in lower corner of pages, not or hardly affecting the text. Scarce work on Bulgary which at that time was occupied by the Turcs.

Lettres sur l'Italie, en 1785.

Dupaty, C.M.J.B. Mercier · 1840

€99.00 ($109.11 | £82.59 | ¥17,424)

1840 (2nd ed.) 312 p., 2 pls, frontispiece, contemporary full polished calf (spine gilt, covers marbled leather). Faint waterstain on outer edge of text (not affecting text), but otherwise a fine copy in a decorative binding. This edition was censored by the clergy and the pas...

Guides Diamant. Normandie. Contenant un appendice pour les îles Anglaises de Jersey et Guernsey.

Joanne, A. · 1877

€39.60 ($43.64 | £33.04 | ¥6,969)

1877 (4th ed.) xxiv, 366, 38, 112 p., 1 folded map, 4 folded city plans, publisher's blind stamped and gilded cloth

Guide en Hollande, contenant le description des villes le long des chemins de fer Neerlandais.

Anonymous · 1858

€66.00 ($72.74 | £55.06 | ¥11,616)

1858 xx, 183, [13] p., 1 folded railroad map, contemporary blind stamped cloth (outer ends spine somewhat worn). City plan of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and the Hague missing?

John Story's Travels Through Sweden: Containing a short Syrvey of that Kingdom, and a brief Decription of all its Provinces: as also their Riches, Antiquity, Nature and Manners.

Story, J. · 1752

€79.20 ($87.29 | £66.07 | ¥13,939)

1752 29 p., 2 (1 folded) maps, roy 4to (23 x 35.5 cm), modern green marbled paper covered boards. From: A Collection of Voyages and Travels &c., vol. VIII.

Les îles d'Hyères: Histoire - Description - Géologie - Flore - Faune.

Jahandiez, E. · 1929

€99.00 ($109.11 | £82.59 | ¥17,424)

1929 (3rd ed.). 447 p., num. figs, 28 pls, 4 maps, paperbound (spine wrinkled).

Primavera. Frühlingsfahrten ins unbekannte Italien.

Mathar, L. · 1926

€22.00 ($24.25 | £18.35 | ¥3,872)

1926 (1st ed.) 239 p., num. pls (101 drawings & photographs), frontispiece, hcloth.

Travels in Switzerland. In a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq..

Coxe, W. · 1789

€165.00 ($181.85 | £137.66 | ¥29,039)

1789 2 vols. xxi, 1099, [24 = index] p., 5 pls, new brown hcloth with marbled covers. Two maps are missing, one plate damaged and repaired, Library stamps of the New York Historical Society and an old presentation inscription by James Smith to the same Society. This book is w...

The Cottages and the Village Life of Rural England.

Ditchfield, P.H. · 1912

€132.00 ($145.48 | £110.12 | ¥23,232)

1912 xiii, 185 p., 19 figs, 52 tipped in col. pls, 4to, publisher's decorated cloth. Title-page foxed and some foxing spots on a few pages but the majority of the text nice and clean.

Isles of the Aegean.

O'Connor, V.C.S. · 1929

€35.20 ($38.80 | £29.37 | ¥6,195)

n.d. (1929, 1st ed.) 384 p., 72 (8 col.) pls, publisher's cloth (spine discoloured). This copy with the following inscription on half-title: W. Wood, swapped with the author for my own logs 1930. Interesting travel account with valuable snapshot of the islands in the late 1920s.

The Earth and Its Inhabitants. Common-School Geography.

Guyot, A. · 1867

€33.00 ($36.37 | £27.53 | ¥5,808)

1867 [4], 154 p., num. figs & col. maps, roy. 4to, 1950's hcalf. Good, well bound copy.

Atlas de géographie sacrée. Approuvé par Mgr l'Archevêque de Paris et par plusieurs autres prélats et autorisé par l'Université.

Meissas, A. & Michelot · 1841

€165.00 ($181.85 | £137.66 | ¥29,039)

n.d. (ca. 1841) [4] p., 6 double page, partly hand-coloured pls, modern cloth. One tear in plate 5 repaired. The first map shows also where paradise (on earth) was situated. Rare.

Methode de lever les plans et les cartes de terre et de mer, avec toutes sortes d'instrumens & sans instrumens. la description & l'usage de ces Instrumens, qui sont le Demi-cercle, la Planchette de diverses façons, la Boussole, l'Instrument universel & le Recipiangle.

Ozanam, J. · 1693

€715.00 ($788.02 | £596.51 | ¥125,838)

1693 (1st ed.) [10], 210, [6] p., num. figs, 10 (several folded) pls, contemporary full calf (spine & edges gilt). Nice copy of the rare first edition.

La Geographia de Ptolomeo. Ampliada con los primeros mapas impresos de América (desde 1507). Estudio bibliografico y critico. Con el catalogo de las ediciones aparecidas desde 1475 a 1883. Comentado e ilustrado con numerosos facsimiles.

Sanz, C. · 1959

€49.50 ($54.56 | £41.30 | ¥8,712)

1959 281 p., num. pls depicting ancient maps, paperbound (plastified).