Colleccion De Los Viages y Descubrimientos, Que Hicieron Por Mar Los Espanoles Desde Finesdel Siglo XV Volumes I & II de Fernandez De Navarette, Martin - 1825

198 pages with 23 plates. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6") rebound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards and black label with gilt lettering to spine. 79 plates with one (Buffalo Dance) folding and some with a single tint, in this first issue there are errors in the list of illustrations corrected in later issues viz. Landscapes, etc., 23 plates, numbered as 1-13, 15-23 plus one unnumbered at end; Mammals, 6 plates; Birds, 5 plates, numbered 1, 3-6 (plate 2, Struthus Canicops, Woodhouse, male is called for but not present and most likely not to be found in this issue); Reptiles 21 plates, with 10a miss-numbered as 10, 12 as 13, and 13 as 16; Fishes, 3 plates; Plants, 21 plates, plate 21 Aploppus Nuttalii present but not called for. Includes Reconnaissance of the Zuni, Little Colorado, and Colorado Rivers Made in 1851 map as called for, but includes Lithographed map Boundary of the Creek Country (24" x 36") laid in not called for. (Senate Executive Document 59) (Howes: 528) First edition.Survey of the watershed… Leer más

London: John Murray, 1854. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1st Printing FIRST PRINTING of First Edition 1854. Complete two volumes. Rebound in dark red buckram with original decorated covers mounted on front covers (both faded at the outside edge), black leather title patches with gilt lettering on spines. Complete with all plates and maps. No previous owner marks or writing on any pages. Original errata slips present in both volumes. Original tissue sheets present opposite color plates. Minor foxing on a few pages but nearly all pages free of foxing. Shallow bump to fore-edge of text block of volume II. Two of the color plates, plate 3 and plate 9, have brown stain in lower outside margin corner (not into the plate image). PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Original pink coated free endpages that advertise books are bound in at the front and end of each volume. Very solid bindings. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL SET BEING OFFERED.

1633 1ed PERSIA Middle East Arabic Islam History Costume de Laet Iran Elzevier

An incredibly rare and impressive Elzevier printing of Joannes de Laet's "Persia", written to aid in his direction of the Dutch West Indian Company. This work was one of the best books describing Middle Eastern, and Arab, and Islamic history. Laet covers all expected topics of Persian history – topography, geography, religious customs, government and politics, etc. It also includes 17th-century descriptions of Middle Eastern cities such as Baghdad, Damascus, and Mecca. This 1633 first edition includes eight full-page engravings of Persian dress.
Item number: 15816
Price: $750
LAET, Joannes de
Persia seu Regni Persici status : Variaque itinera in atque per Persiam
Lugd. Batav : Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1633. First edition.

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8 woodcut engravings
· References: Willems 386
· Language: Latin
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Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
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1865. Twelve manuscript maps with dated inscription: "A.M. Tatham from her afft. Bro Sherman Dec. 1865". Rebound from a broken binding as a folding leporello series of maps in cloth covered boards "Bible Atlas S.R.T." on original label to the front. Binding is new and without flaws. Slight scratch to blank (back) of first map, otherwise the maps are in excellent condition. The maps comprise: The Nations of the Ancient World, Assyria and the Adjacent Lands, Canaan in Patriarchal Ages, Canaan as Divided among The Tribes, Dominions of David and Solomon, Armenia, Egypt and Sinai Peninsula Illustrating the Journey of the Israelites to the Promised Land, Jerusalem and its Environs, The Kingdoms of Judah & Israel, Palestine in the time of Our Saviour, Modern Palestine, and The Eastern Mediterranean Illustrating the Travels of St. Paul. Each map folds out to approx. 165 x 133 mm. The maps still retain their original bright colouring. Sherman Ralph Tatham was born in Hampstead in 1850. Educated at… Leer más

LIMTED EDITION #599 OF 950 COPIES2 volumes. 18 maps and illustrations.THE HISTORY AND ITINERARY OF FRANCISCO GARCES, IN HIS TRAVELS THROUGH SONORA ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA 1775-1776 2 VOL

Dublin, UK: James M'Glashan, 1849. TRAVELS IN ITALY, THE ALPS AND THE RHINE- J. T. (Joel Tyler) Headley- James M'Glashan- Dublin-UK- 1849- 1st Edition-1st Printing- Hardcover:-Small 8vo- VG/ no dj as issued- original publishers wine colored blindstamped cloth with gilt titles on spine. Spine is sunned, but titles is legible. Part cover lightly sunned-Light rubbing, but square and tight textblock and spine- xii, [13], 14-350, [1-2] ads for books- are clean, no tears or writing-no foxing- SEE PHOTOS- Headley, Joel Tyler 1813-1897-Works: 204 works in 613 publications in 5 languages and 10,193 library holdings....one of the most proficient of writers of his time, politics, government, war and travel. This book NOT available on the net or ANY World Cat Library! Rare!- "Accounts of his travel in Italy, Alps and Rhine area."- McGlashan, James (or M'Glashan, James) (?1800-1858), publisher. Born in Edinburgh, where he trained on Blackwood's Magazine, he worked for William Curry of… Leer más

London: Printed by H. Woodfall, 1756. Quarter-bound Leather. Near Fine+. First Edition, "printed for presentation only and not sold." (DNB). The more common second edition, published in octavo, appeared the following year. 4to: [6],201,[5],203-361,[1]pp, with engraved frontispiece and engraved plate opposite the divisional title to the Essay on Tea, both by Thomas Major after Samuel Wale. Modern quarter-calf over plain paper-covered boards, flat spine in six compartments between decorative gilt bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt; all edges stained red, end papers renewed. Title page and preliminaries lightly foxed, but contents otherwise clean and bright, the binding tight and firm. A splendid, wide-margined copy. ESTC Citation No. T127188. Gibson's Library, p. 144. Goldsmiths'-Kress 9083. Cox I, p. 19. Hanway was both a widely traveled merchant, with connections to the Russia Company, and a philanthropist whose causes included foundlings, prostitutes, and the climbing apprentices of chimney… Leer más

London: printed for T. Durham, at Charing-Cross; and G. Kearsly, at No. 46, in Fleet-Street, 1777. First Edition. Quarter-bound Leather. Near Fine. First Edition, in English, of this novelized first-person account of a young English lord's debauched sojourn—prostitutes, gambling, horse-racing, drink—in the French capitol. Crown 8vo (206 x 121mm): [2],x,222pp. Contemporary leather spine in six compartments between raised bands, recent red morocco lettering piece gilt, marbled sides and end papers. Joints skillfully reinforced, marbled sides heavily rubbed, top of title page (including word 'The') supplied in excellent facsimile. Internally, a Fine, bright copy, pages fresh and free of foxing, browning and stains. ESTC Citation No. N31079 (distinct from ESTC T131522, which Durham and Kearsly brought out the same year in duodecimo and which does not have the following note below the date on the title page present in our copy: "This work may be had of the above booksellers in French, printed from… Leer más

London: printed for Jacob Tonson, at Gray's-Inn Gate next Grays-Inn Lane, 1699. Early Reprint. Full Calf. Fine-. Third Edition (so stated) of this account of the author's travels to Paris, overflowing with observations of natural history collections, estates, and libraries, as well as commentary on science, art, food, wine, medicine, and more. Crown 8vo (185 x 115mm): [8,first leaf is blank],248pp, with 6 engraved plates (3 folding) of a wasp's nest, snails, a millipede, and a centipede. Early full speckled calf, spine richly gilt in five compartments divided by raised bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt, edges speckled red. Engraved armorial bookplate of John Rolle, Baron Rolle of Stevenstone (1750-1842). An excellent example, sporadically scattered marginal foxing only, else a clean, crisp copy in handsome period binding. Wing L2527. Bibliotheca bibliographici 3046. ESTC R2460. Preceded by two editions published the same year. Late in 1697, Lister accompanied William Bentinck, Lord Portland,… Leer más

London: John Murray, 1854. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1st Printing FIRST PRINTING of First Edition 1854. Complete two volumes. Rebound in dark red buckram with original decorated covers mounted on front covers (both faded at the outside edge), black leather title patches with gilt lettering on spines. Complete with all plates and maps. No previous owner marks or writing on any pages. Original errata slips present in both volumes. Original tissue sheets present opposite color plates. Minor foxing on a few pages but nearly all pages free of foxing. Shallow bump to fore-edge of text block of volume II. Two of the color plates, plate 3 and plate 9, have brown stain in lower outside margin corner (not into the plate image). PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Original pink coated free endpages that advertise books are bound in at the front and end of each volume. Very solid bindings. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL SET BEING OFFERED.