Travel Asia - Oceania
Location: 1725
Published: Rouen, Pierre Le Boucher, 1725
Size: 305 x 425 mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
Condition: Very good condition. Folds as issued. Paper very slightly age toned. Dark impression. ans. Two plates detached from Volumes I and II, wax spots (?) p. 176 of Vol. IV, hole deleting two-word letters from pp. 225-226 of volume IV, small paper scarf in the lower margin of the board opposite p. Volume IX. Clear rednesses. Restorations with some caps and bit, small trace of worm to a box on the back of the volume.
Important richely illustrated compendium of the first Dutch voyages to East India, of great interest for the history and esta..
4,250€
Location: 1729
Published: Amsterdam, 1729
Size: 320 x 240 mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
Condition: Folio. Contemporary calf spine gilt with a red gilt lettered label. Several pages a little stained as usual. Altogether in very good condition.
First French edition, published by P.Gosse, J.Neaulme and B.Lakeman. The basic work on Japan from the second half of the 17th..
9,500€
Location: 1734
Published: Venice, 1734
Size: 200 x 130 mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
Condition: 8vo. Contemp. vellum. 512pp. Illustrated with 4 plates including one with Japanese people. 1 folding view of Deshima and two folding maps of Japan and the Philippines with Italian text after I. Tirion.
This most uncommon work provides an interesting focus on the dissemination of the outline of Japan provided by Kaempfer. Besi..
1,000€
Location: 1763
Published: Amsterdam, Leipzig, 1763
Size: 242 x 283 mm.
Color: Uncoloured
Condition: (2pp), title page with engraved vignette, table of contents, 630pp, (2pp), 9 fold-out maps (cpl.), contemporary full calf leather binding with ribbed spine with floral motif, and a mention of title and volume, red edges.<br />Paper very slightly browned,
Volume 21 of this informative publication with a description of the discoveries, conquests, and settlements by the Portuguese..
1,100€
Location: 1897
Published: Leipzig, 1897
Size: 270 x 190 mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
Condition: 4to. Two volumes bound in one. Second edition. Würzburg und Leipzig Verlag der K.U.K. Hofbuchhandlung von Leo Woerl, frontisp. and a map of Japan. XXXV 421p vii 342p.
The book has been re-bound early this century in full leather binding. Plates covered with snake-skin imitation leather. Edge..
1,500€
Location: 1904
Published: Leipzig: Spamer, 1904
Size: 240 x 160 mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
Condition: 8vo. XXXI, 296 pp.
HAMILTON, A. - Korea. Das Land des Morgenrots. Nach seinen Reisen geschildert von Angus Hamilton. Autorisierte Übersetzung a..
150€
Location: 1906
Published: Altenburg, S.-A., Stephan Geibel Verlag, 1906
Size: 230 x 160 mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
Condition: 9vo, xvi, 462 p. illus., folding colour printed map.
Illustrated with ca. 200 illustrations. All photographes are taken by the author...
200€
Location: 1735
Published: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, 1735
Size: 430 x 280mm.
Color: Uncolored
Condition: 4 volumes folio ; (2) leaves, viij-lij-iv-592 pp. — (2) leaves, iv-725 pp. — (2) leaves, iv-564-(2) pp. — (2) leaves, ij-520 pp. Contemporary calf, spines divided in compartments by six raised bands, contrasting red morocco labels in two, others richly gilt with floral tools, leaf sprays, etc., sides ruled in gilt with three-line fillet, marbled endpapers, red edges. With 65 maps and plates (all but one double-page or folding); titles in red and black incorporating engraved pictorial vignette by Baquoy after Humblot; with all half-titles; woodcut head- and tailpieces, typographic ornaments, historiated and decorative initials.
First edition of this cornerstone of any collection of books on China, which is also among the rarest and most desirable of i..
30,000€
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