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Antique engraving 1803 | Original engraving: The landing of captain Cook at Erramanga, one of the new Hebrides: Landing op het eiland Erramanga een van de nieuwe hebriden, published 1803, 1 p. With damages

after Hodges, William. · 1728 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€66.55 ($73.35 | £55.52 | ¥11,713)

Original engraving on laid paper, 235 x 410 mm. With tears in the plate and narrow margins left and right.Captain James Cook (1728-1779) made three separate voyages to the Pacific (with the ships Endeavour, Resolution, Adventure, and Discovery) and did more than any other voyage…

Journal de la navigation autour du globe de la frégate la Thétis et de la corvette l'Espérance pendant les années 1824, 1825 et 1826.Paris, Impr. De Rignoux for Arthus Bertrand, 1837. 2 text volumes (4to) and 1 atlas volume (folio: 545 x 350 mm). With 34 full-page lithographed views and costume plates, 12 hand-coloured, full-page engraved plates, a double-page, hand-coloured aquatint, 7 engraved maps (1 folding, 6 double-page), 2 double-page plates, and few steel-engraved illustrations in the text. Later three-quarter red morocco.

BOUGAINVILLE, Hyacinthe-Yves-Philippe POTENTIEN, Baron de. · 1781 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€45,000.00 ($49,598.19 | £37,541.97 | ¥7,920,190)

VIII, 742; XVI, 351, 165, [3] pp.First and only edition of a richly illustrated work on the French circumnavigation of the world under command of Baron de Bougainville (1781-1846), son of the great explorer Louis de Bougainville. The goal of the voyage was to extend France's inf…

Historische Beschreibung, der wunderbarlichen Reyse, welche von einem Holländer, Willhelm Schouten genandt, neulicher Zeit ist verrichtet worden: ...Frankfurt am Main, Paul Jacobi for Johann Theodor de Bry in Oppenheim, 1619. Folio. With 2 title-pages, the main one with an engraving showing Magellan and Schouten sitting across from each other with an armillary sphere between them. Loose quires and leaves.

SCHOUTEN, Willem Cornelisz. · 1567 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[1], 35, [20] pp.Second German edition, the first with De Bry’s important illustrations, of part 11 of Schouten’s journals, published in Frankfurt only one year after Willem Jansz. Blaeu published the first Dutch edition at Amsterdam. Willem Cornelisz Schouten was a Dutch explor…

Round Cape Horn: Voyage of the Passenger-Ship James W. Paige, from Maine to California in the Year 1852

Lamson, J. · 1878 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Bangor, O.F. & W.H. Knowles, 1878. Hardcover. Red cloth over boards with mounted black title card with gilt lettering; 156 pp. Contents include: Description of the bark -- Uncomfortable situation -- Specimen of our discomfort -- Escape from a waterspout -- Approach to the Cape V…

North and South America - Willem Blaeu + Joan Blaeu, 1634

Blaeu-- Joan · 1617 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

FAMOUS MAP OF AMERICA BY WILLEM BLAEU "Americae nova tabula." Copperplate engraving made by Willem Jansz. Blaeu, first published in 1617; this example from a German-language edition of Joan Blaeu's "Novus Atlas", presumably 1634. Coloured by a later hand. Size approx. 40 x 55 c…

America map - Ortelius

Ortelius-- Abraham · 1570 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC MAPS OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE "Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio", copper engraving published by Abraham Ortelius featured in his "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", the first modern atlas of the world, from 1570 onwards. Here in a second state of first pl…

Indonesia, Sunda Strait, Sumatra and Java - Laurie and Whittle, 1794

Laurie and Whittle · 1794 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€495.00 ($545.58 | £412.96 | ¥87,122)

BRITISH SEA CHART OF THE SUNDA STRAIT, SUMATRA AND JAVA, SHOWING KRAKATOA AND BATAVIA, 1794 “A New Chart for Sailing between the Straits of Sunda or Batavia, and the Straits of Banca and Gaspar”, copper engraving published in London by Robert Laurie and James Whittle on 12 Ma…

Log of the proceedings. HMS "Cyclops". W. J. S. Pullen Esq. Captain. Commencing Monday 7th February 1859, ending Wednesday 22nd of May, 1861. Kept by Thos. McKinnell, Mast. Asst.HMS Cyclops: Oman, Khuriya Muriya Islands, Yemen, Egypt, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and other places, 1857-1861. Folio (20 x 31.5 cm). Over 360 pp. of manuscript entries, written with brown ink in a legible hand on watermarked laid paper with a blue cast. With 8 pen and ink nautical charts and 5 sketches of coastal sites, including the city of Muscat (8 on the logbook pages and 5 on separate thick album leaves). Contemporary brown cloth over boards, rebacked in period-style black calf with the spine lettered in gold: "Log H.M.S. Cyclops".

[OMAN NAVIGATION LOGBOOK]. MCKINNELL, Thomas, assistant master. · 1859 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€45,000.00 ($49,598.19 | £37,541.97 | ¥7,920,190)

[ca. 360], [32 blank] pp.Historically significant manuscript logbook, containing a detailed record of the first attempt to lay a submarine telegraph cable to connect London with British India. The expedition took place from May 1859 (the Red Sea leg from Suez to Aden) to Februar…

1865 Remarkable Testimonies of Chinese Coolies Following a Failed Mutiny Aboard Coolie Ship Emmanuel on Route from Macau to Havana

CHINESE COOLIES AND CUBAN OFFICIALS · 1865 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$5,450.99 (€4,945.64 | £4,125.98 | ¥870,453)

Havana, Cuba, Macao, China: Chinese Coolie Ship Mutiny MacAo To Havana, 1865. Non-Book. On offer is a stunning, shocking and outstanding piece of Chinese and Cuban history, being a remarkably rare Spanish and Chinese manuscript recording the interrogation of passengers aboard th…

1944-1945 Remarkable Manuscript Diary and Naval Memorabilia Collection of an Indiana Soldier Serving on the Uss Lewis Hancock in the “Pacific Theater of War”

WILLIAM L. AVERITT · 1944 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$3,455.99 (€3,135.59 | £2,615.92 | ¥551,877)

Pacific Theater, Luzon, Pearl Harbor, 1944-1945. Softcover. On offer is a remarkable collection which includes the handwritten diary, printed diary transcript, and associated naval memorabilia from a U. S. Navy officer who served aboard the USS Lewis Hancock, a much-decorated U.…

ARCHIVE Of FOUR TLS LETTERS FROM RICHARD HALLIBURTON'S CHINESE JUNK "The SEA DRAGON"; November 1938 to February 1939. Two Photographic Images of the "Sea Dragon" included

Richard Halliburton [1900 - 1939]. Calderari, Thomas [Edward Richardson 1921-1995] - Recipient · 1939 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$2,750.00 (€2,495.05 | £2,081.54 | ¥439,139)

(San Francisco) Shanghai / Macao / Hong Kong: The Trans-Pacific Chinese Junk Expedition, Inc, 1939. Letters are dated: Nov 20, 1938; Jan 18th, 1939; Jan 27th, 1939; and Feb 16th, 1939. Though typewritten and mimeographed, all four are personally signed by Halliburton. Letters ty…

Voyage de la Pérouse autour du Monde, publié conformément au décret du 22 Avril 179, et rédigé par M. L. A. Milet - Mureau, Général de Brigade dans le Corps du Génie, Directeur des Fortifications, Ex - Constituant, Membre de plusieurs Sociétés de Paris. Tome Premier [Tome Second]. Textvols. ONLY!!

LA PEROUSE, Jean Francois Galaup, Comte de.- 4to text.- Robinson reprints.- · 1799 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.

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

Londres, De l'Imprimerie d'A.Hamilton: se vend chez G.G. et J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row; J. Edwards, Pall-Mall; et T.Payne, Mews-Gate, Castle-Street, 1799. Large in 4to. The 2 textvols. ONLY!! Vol. 1 w. engr. portr. front. (Foxed spots.). In the original half red-brown clf. ove…

1939 Trip Diary of a Scottish Immigrant to America Returning Home Via the Panama Canal for the First Time in 26 Years, Experiencing Europe in the Months Just Before the Second World War Would Change Everything

MARY HODGE WINCHESTER · 1939 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$655.99 (€595.17 | £496.53 | ¥104,753)

Glasgow, Scotland, 1939. Hardcover. On offer is the diary of a Scottish immigrant to the United States, following her first visit home since she left for America 26 years earlier. This diary, kept by Mary Hodge Winchester (1892-1983) , details her first class voyage, accompanied…

Part of the engraved and manuscript text of the Diploma: 'To all Persons to whom these presents shall come, / GREETING. / The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, / established by a Law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at a Meeting held / the twentyfifth Day of January One Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty two / for the purpose of promoting the design of their institution, elected [in manuscript calligraphy:] Peter Barlow Esq. [engraved text:] a Fellow of their Society, and have granted unto him all the rights and privileges of / a Member. / ...' The document is duly attested with the Society's seal and signed in autograph lower righthand corner by 'Nath.l Bowditch' [President], 'Jonah Quincy'[Vice President], idem the secretaries 'Fras [Francis] C. Gray' & 'Nathan Hale' lower lefthand corner.

BARLOW, Peter.- MEMBERSHIP.- AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.- DIPLOMA.- 1832.- · 1832 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.

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

Boston, 1832. Large oblong folio, meas. appr. 34 x 49 cm, folded 4 times into 17 x 13 cm, engraved calligraphic text printed from 1 engr. plate meas 21.5 x 32.5 cm (platemarks clear all round, good plate tone). The blank spaces in the diploma filled out in manuscript, secretaria…

1810–1812 & 1825–1827 Ledger of Belleville-Born Ship Captain and New York Merchant George Davis Documenting Atlantic Shipping, Elite Mercantile Networks, and Later Land Development and Welsh Settlement in Lewis County

GEORGE DAVIS OF KEARNY & DAVIS AND LEWIS COUNTY, AND ASSOCIATES · 1810 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$5,695.99 (€5,167.92 | £4,311.42 | ¥909,576)

Settlement, 1810. Hardcover. Request full listing from seller, including Biographical Notes, provenance notes, associated holdings and reference list. On offer is a substantial manuscript ledger of ship captain, merchant, landholder and pioneering settler George Davis of New Yor…