Voyages
Location: 1673
Date: London : Printed by the Author at his house in White-Friers, 1673
Format: 395 x 265mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: In-folio ; 327, 18, 106pp., frontispice gravé, une carte de la Chine, un plan de Canton, 18 illustrations à pleine page et 93 in-texte gravées sur cuivre. Intérieur un peu bruni avec rousseurs.
FIRST ENGLISH TEXT EDITION of this most important and early resource on China and the Chinese. Three parts in one folio by Jo..
10 000€
Location: 1725
Date: Rouen, Pierre Le Boucher, 1725
Format: 305 x 425 mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
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: 1726
Date: Dordrecht /Amsterdam, 1724-1726
Format: 370 x 235mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: 5 volumes in 7 luxury later half leather bindings, incl. 266 plates and maps, including a folding portrait of the author, an allegorical title and engraved dedication leaf with vignette, numerous text illustrations (two full-page), and 9 folding tables. Volume 1; complete, in excellent condition with just some minor professional restorations; Volume 2; complete with minor professional restorations. Volume 3-1: complete, some water stains and damage on bottom right side of the book; Volume 3-2; complete with some foxing on title page; Volume 4-1; missing 4 portrets p 296,297,346 and 350, map p 26 is profesionally restored, two maps of Batavia later added; Volume 4-2: complete, some water stains throughout the whole book in the top right corner. Volume 5-1: complete only plate 32 is upside down. Volume 5-2: complete but with waterstains in top part of the second half of the book.<br>Overall: All plates and maps are in excellent condition if not otherwise stated. The book block 37 x 23.5 cm.
"The most comprehensive work on Asia published in Europe during the early colonial period" (Landwehr). The first book to give..
23 500€
Location: 1729
Date: Amsterdam, 1729
Format: 320 x 240 mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
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: 1763
Date: Amsterdam, Leipzig, 1763
Format: 242 x 283 mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
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: 1773
Date: Zurich, Johann Kaspar Ziegler, 1754-1773
Format: 206 x 167 mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: 4to. 3 parts in 3 volumes, titles printed in red and black, frontispiece and 326 engraved views, plans and maps (most folding). Contemporary vellum, titles printed in gold on spines. - 1rst volume : [1] leaf, [2], VIII, [34], 15, pp, page 3 to 98 (page 1 missing), page 103 to 270 (two times pages 193 to 196), [6] pp. - 2nd volume : [2] leaves, page 173 to 257 (wrong numbered), page 459 to 476, 277 to 442 (wrong numbered). - 3rd volume : [1] leaf, [6], 8 pp, page 1 to 22, 25 to 30, 34 to 38, 41 to 59 (recto), 224 (verso) to 225, 62 (verso) to 70.
First edition of Herrliberger's work on the topography of Switzerland. - The rarest book on Switzerland rarely found complete..
5 000€
Location: 1788
Date: Potzdam, Strasbourg, Paris, 1788
Format: 590 x 640 mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: 4to. 92pp. with large folding map. Contemp. mottled calf, with raised spine in 6 compartments. Richly gilted with coats of arms of Ducs of Luynes, and title on red morocco label.
The book includes a large folded map "Tableaux des Guerres de Frédéric le Grand", showing a map of Poland and Eastern Germany..
4 500€
Location: 1839
Date: Florence, Gaspard Ricci, 1839
Format: 192 x 120 mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: 8vo. (1), 288 pp. Original publisher's paperboard. With 1 engr. folding plan and 12 copper plates with views in Florence. Very clean copy.
Second edition. With 1 engr. folding plan (Pianta della Citta di Firenze. I. Balatri inc. e scris.) and 12 copper plates with..
500€
Location: 1875
Date: Paris, Guérin and Cie, 1875
Format: 450 x 315 mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Two volumes (of 3) in tall 8vo (275 x 175mm.). 4 unnumbered leaves, XXXI, 446 pp.; 2 unnumbered leaves, 466 pp. + Atlas folio (450 x 315mm.), title, 30 plates, index. Contemporary red quarter-leather binding, spines with raised bands, title gilt. Bindings a bit soiled, very few browning.
Titre complet "Description topographique, physique, civile, politique et historique de la partie francaise de l'isle Saint-Do..
1 500€
Location: 1897
Date: Leipzig, 1897
Format: 270 x 190 mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
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
Date: Leipzig: Spamer, 1904
Format: 240 x 160 mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: 8vo. XXXI, 296 pp.
With 114 illustrations after photographes and one map...
150€
Location: 1906
Date: Altenburg, S.-A., Stephan Geibel Verlag, 1906
Format: 230 x 160 mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
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
Date: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, 1735
Format: 430 x 280mm.
Color: Noir et blanc
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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