Oviedo y Valdes, Gonzalo

Historia general y natural de las Indias, Islas y

Tierra Firme del Mar Oceano

Cotejado con el codice original por

Jose Amador de los Rios

Madrid, Imprenta Audiencia de la Historia 1851-1855

Palau 89532; Sabin 57990

4 Vols in large, thick quarto

Modern, red, grained morocco; spine, raised bands and gilt titles

Vol I: Frontis with Coat of Arms; 56 lvs Life and works of Oviedo; 632 pp;

5 plates. 1 Leaf: errata

Vol II: 4 lvs; 512 pp; 1 plate and two (one folding) maps

Vol III: 4 lvs; 652 pp; 1 plate; one map

Vol IV: 4 lvs; 620 pp; 4 plates, one folding and colored map

Complete set. Browning of the lithographed plates as usual. Maps and text are fine.

Oviedo spent 20 years ...

Kotzebue, Otto von

(Sabin 38284; Streeter 3511; Lada Mokarski 80)

Three parts in one volume

In quarto (28x23 cm), uncut; barbed paper

Original editors binding of paper over boards

Title on paper label on the spine

23 nn lvs; 168 pp; 176 pp; 240pp, 3 nn lvs XVIII pp (subscribers list)

16 copper plate engravings of which 15 in contemporary color

4 double page aquatints in sepia

6 folding maps

2 tables

Contents:

1-21:         Introduction by ...

Stedman, J.G.

London, Johnson 1806

Sabin 91075; Abbey Travel 719; Bentley, Blake books 499 B

Two books in one volume in quarto

Large paper copy, bookblock 29,5x23cm, blindstamped vellum over heavy bevelled boards.

Book one: 11 lvs, including frontis and title page; 423 pp; 1 leaf; 4 pp;

Book two: second title page; 4 lvs; 419 pp; 5 pp

The two title pages with engraved vignette, 77 plates in aquatint and 3 engraved folding maps, all in attractive contemporary colour.

Images after original Stedman drawings.

A famous abolitionist document, attractive as a large paper copy and enhanced by its ...

Nodal, Bartolome & Gonzalo

Cadiz, 1753

Palau 99486

Small in quarto, contemporary limp vellum

Title in manuscript on the spine: Viage de los capitanes Nodales

10 nn lvs; 162 pp 2 nn lvs

44 pp one original blank leaf.

One folding map, dated 1769: 19,5x17 cm on a larger folding leaf

Various small woodcut coastal profiles.

Complete and clean copy in its original condition. Tiny worming here and there, mainly marginal.

This is the one and only ...

van der Aa, P.

Leiden, van der Aa, 1713

(Koeman, Aa 6)

Grand Folio, 56x43 cm

Half vellum and marbled paper over boards

Letter title page

Engraved title page

Letter title page in red and black

3 nn lvs: dedication

1 nn leaf: preface

1 nn leaf: index

2 double page folded world maps 50x65 cm

66 and 76 leaves of text on broadsheet (landscape) paper, interleaved with

4 double page continent maps, all in wonderful colour just as the one double page country map (Italy). Further 88 maps in black and white on 44 map sheets covering the whole world but especially the Netherlands and Europe. Engraved ...

van der Aa, P.

Jenkinson, Tartary, Catay                    

Frobisher: NW passage, three times

Leiden, van der Aa, 1706

Jenkinson, Tratary and Catay, 1558. Engraved title page; 4 lvs; one folding map: Tartarieen.

Frobisher, doortocht Cataya, 1576; 77 and 78: Engraved title page; 1 map, Greenland; 11 lvs; 2 plates

Weymouth, George: North West passage, 1602; Engraved title page, 4 lvs; 1 plate.

van der Aa, P.

Johan Smith: ..tegen Turken en Tartaren            

Gosnol:..Virginia, New England

Smith: Virginia

Smith: New England

Leiden, van de Aa, 1706

In (gran) folio 37x23 cm.

Modern linen over carton

Title gilt on the spine

Smith, Tartary,1693 etc: Engraved title page; folding map: Black Sea; 13 lvs; 4 plates.

Gosnol, Virginia, 1602: Engraved title page; folding map: New England; New France; 3 lvs; 1 plate

Gilbert, Virginia, 1603: Engraved title page; 3 lvs; 2 plates

Smith, Virginia, 1606: Folding map, Virginia; 32 lvs; 7 ...

van der Aa, P.

Leiden, van der Aa, 1706

In (gran) folio 37x23 cm.

Modern linen over carton

Title gilt on the spine

Drake: engraved title page; 2 folding maps; 10 lvs; 5 plates in the text.

Carder (under Drake) engraved title page; 2 lvs; 1 plate in the text.

Cavendish: engraved title page; 1 folding map (world); 10 lvs including 4 plates.

Cavendish /Knivet: engraved title page; one folding map (Rio de la Plata) 11 lvs with 4 engravings in the text.

van der Aa, P.

Leyden, van der Aa, 1706

In folio, modern half black morocco and paper over boards

Title page with engraving; 44 columns on 22 pp and 5 plates in the text.

Title page with engraving 2 n lvs; 2 folding maps; 204 columns on 102 pp;

4 plates in the text; 4 nn lvs, index

Maps are:

Rouwolfs reystocht door de Levant...., 16x22,5cm, and

Rouwolfs landreyze van Aleppo ...

Spilbergen, J van

Admiraal Joris van Spilbergen

...1614-1617

Amsterdam, Saeghman circa 1663    

(Tiele, Journaux No. 72)

In quarto. XIX century quarter calf

32 lvs, A-H in 4

Title page with copper plate engraving,

In verso: full page portrait of Spilbergen in woodcut frame

8 text plates: one copperplate engraving, taken from Hartgens edition and 7 original woodcuts. Including the DODO

Text in two columns

Condition: fine

Spilbergens was the fifth circumnavigation ever after Magellan; Drake; Cavendish and van Noordt. The voyage took place between 1614 and 1618. Spilbergen was an ...

Schouten, W.C.

Amsterdam, L. Vlasbloem. 1662

(Sabin 77961; Tiele memoires Schouten z, pp 52)

In small quarto, modern quarter morocco binding.

4 nn leaves

6 folding maps & plates

1 folding map added in manuscript on old paper

72 pages, last page blank

Complete according to index (tabellae)

This is the third reprint by Dirk Vlasbloem of Schoutens journal in Latin (first & second, both 1648). All of these Vlasbloem editions are extremely rare. Tiele and the index of this book give 6 plates for this Vlasbloem edition which would thus be complete. In our ...

Schouten, W.C.

Amsterdam, L. Vlasbloem 1662. (Sabin 77961; Tiele memoires Schouten z, pp 52).

In small quarto, later vellum binding. 4 nn leaves, 6 folding maps & plates, 1 folding map added in manuscript on old paper

72 pages, last page blank. Complete according to tabellae.

This is the third reprint by Dirk Vlasbloem of Schoutens journal in Latin (first & second, both 1648). All of these Vlasbloem editions are extremely rare. Tiele and the index of this book gives 6 plates for this ...

Houtman, Cornelis de

Amsterdam, Joost Hartgens, 1650

Tiele 121

In small quarto, recent quarter calf binding

102 pp, including title page with woodcut illustration

6 text engravings in copper plate as follows:

A5r. Inhabitants cape of Good Hope

D4r.    Bantam

E1v.    Dance at Java

E2v.    Council at Ambon

E3r.    A nobleman from Bantam

G1r.    A woman follows her deceased man into the fire

G2r.    The island St Helena

De Veer, Gerrit

Joost Hartgens

Amsterdam, Adriaan Roest, 1650

Tiele, Memoire nr 102;

65 pp (last blank)

Pp 1&2: Title page with woodcut plate

6 original text engravings on copper plate

Small in quarto

XIX century cut and rebound in half brown morocco

Title in gilt on the spine

Hole in title page in old restoration, probably when rebound. Cut short just affecting a few of the headings.

Pp 3-46:     The story of the three voyages by the Dutch to find the north-east passage to Cathay (China) in 1594; 1505 and 1596 under Willem Barentszoon and Jacob van Heemskerk. ...

Spilbergen, J van

Amsterdam, Hartgens, 1648

(Tiele Mem 143; Landwehr VOC 251 and 198)

In quarto, modern quarter calf binding

94 pages including one engraved title page.

Spilbergen, pp 1-62, one folding plate with 6 images.

Van Hagen, pp 62-96. Pp 69-91 is translated from Caspar Balbi being the description from Cochin and Pegu.

Voyage to Ceylon (1601-1604) was carried out before the Dutch East India Company, VOC, was created in 1602 and paid for by the Flemish entrepreneur de ...

Spilbergen, J van

Amsterdam, Joost Hartgens. 1648

(Tiele Memoire nr. 71 and nr 77)

In small quarto. Modern half calf

Two books in one volume

Spilbergen: pp 3-62, six woodcut plates in the text

L Hermite: pp 3-60, ten woodcuts and seven copper plate engravings in the text.

Lacking the two title pages.

Spilbergens was the fifth circumnavigation ever after Magellan; Drake; Cavendish and van Noort. The voyage took place between 1614 and 1618. Spilbergen was an accomplished admiral who had sailed for the VOC to the Indies (Ceylon) before. He was sent again by the ...

Spilbergen, J van

Leyden, Nicolaes van Geelkercken, 1619.

Sabin: 89450; Tiele, Journaux, [65]

In quarto, oblong, modern brown Morocco over boards

Comparted spine with printed title and date in gilt

Free end leaves, the first with manuscript translation of title page text in English

Signatures: A-Z plus Aa in 4; the four preliminary leaves including the engraved title page without page numbers

192 pp : 1-144: Spilbergen; 145-192: Schouten (and le Maire)

Numbered plates (25) inserted without signature or page number.

Text in Gothic letter, text to the plates in Roman letters

van Noordt, Olivier

Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn. 1618

(Tiele, Memoire nr 20)

In oblong quarto. Modern full calf

125 (of 132) pp.

Title page with copper plate engraving

25 plates, 3 of them maps (=complete).

Lacking the last 4 text leaves but complete in plates and maps. All pages cut short at the top with slight loss, repaired. Else fine, clean copy

The first Dutch circumnavigation (1598-1601) under Olivier van Noort. Van Noordts passage through Magellans Strait was the first successful one by the Dutch. His voyage was intended to harass the Spaniards where their defences were weak: the Pacific. Spain considered the Pacific a Spanish lake, albeit a big lake. However the cities along the South American ...

Lodewijckszoon, Willem

Amsterdam, Corneille Nicolas. 1598

(Tiele Memoires no 113; Tiele Bibliographie 511)

In folio; contemporary limp vellum

53 (of 54) leaves

49 (of 50) maps and plates

Condition: missing leaf, G 2, in printed facsimile on contemporary paper. The missing plate is the Market of Bantam, probably designed for this Claeszoon edition and printed later as it is unnumbered (unlike the other leaves), carries no text whereas all other leaves with a plate do have text. Pieter Tiele, the first bibliographer of these journals of Dutch voyages, had never seen a copy of the book were the plate WAS included so it is fair to say that ...

Ramusio G.B.

Venice, Giunti. 1613; 1583; 1606

(Adams: R136; R139; R140; European Americana 1563/22; 1583/59; Church 99, for different editions; Sabin 67735; 67738 & 67742)

In folio, 3 Vols, uniformly rebound in the XVIII century in full calf.

Spine with raised bands and gilt title & decoration. Edges gilt.

4 nn lvs; 34 and 394 numbered leaves: three copper plate engraved maps; 18 numbered leaves; 10 nn lvs; 256 and 90 numbered leaves

6 nn lvs; 36 and 430 numbered leaves: 6 folding woodcut maps

In all three volumes together there are 53 woodcuts in the text

Condition: Rebound & cut in the XIX century. Margins still wide. Spine ...