Entdeckungsreise..Sudsee; Behring Strasse,
Nord Ostliche Durchfahrt, 1815-1818
Weimar, Hoffmann 1821
(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 ...
Narrative... expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam...
on the wild coast of South America
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 ...
Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde ou la Geographie Royale
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 ...
Voyagien der Engelsen
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.
Voyagien der Engelsen
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 ...
No Title but voyages into the South Sea
and around the world: Drake and Cavendish
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.
Johan (Joao) de Castro
...Reys door Portugijzen na
Souez, Socotera..., de Roode Zee, 1540-41 AND
Rouwolf, Leendert,
...Reysen na...Syrien; Joodse land; Arabien;
Assierien en Armenien, 1573
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 ...
Journael van de Voyagie...
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 ...
Diarium vel descriptio....Australi
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 ...
Eerste schip-vaert der Hollanders naar Oost-Indien
met vier schepen
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
...
Verhael van de eerste Schipvaert.. by t Noorden om...
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. ...
Historis Journael van de Voyage gedaen met 3 schepen uyt Zeelant
Naer dOost-Indien, 1601-1604
&
Beschrijvinge van de tweede voyage..
onder Steven van Hagen
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 ...
Oost en West Indische Voyagie...
and
l Hermite, Jacques
...Voyagie om den gantschen Aerdtcloot...
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 ...
Oost ende West-Indische spiegel.. and
Jacobi le Maire
Australische navigatien
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
...
Voyagie om den gehelen wereld kloot
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 ...
Premier livre de l Histoire de la Navigation
aux Indes Orientales par les Hollandois
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 ...
Grands Voyages - Book II
Brevis narratio... in Florida Americae Provincia
Florida
Frankfurt, de Bry 1591
(Church 145)
In folio, XVIII century, full calf binding
Including engraved title page (1591)
Including Coat of Arms
One text engraving (Noas ark)
One folding map (Florida; Burden 67)
Second engraved title page , dated 1591
42 plates plus text (as in Church 145)
all in fine later colour.
Slight, overall browning as is usual in de Bry. One plate from another copy and in modern colour. Map restored. K5 (Fe de erratas wit old restuaration. Else fine.
First edition. Latin ...
Delle navigationi et viaggi...
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 ...
THE DECADES
Richard Eden, translator and compilor
Martyr of Angleria, Peter
THE DECADES of the newe worlde or west India...
the navigations and conquests of the Spanyardes...
large lands and Islandes lately found in the west Ocean...
and many others....
London, Powell, 1555
Sabin 1561; JCB 1919: I.186; Church 102; Kraus: the first three English books on America, 1971
In small quarto,
Contemporary calf binding with English blindstamp on both covers:
a pelican plucking blood ...
Novus orbis regionum ad insularum...omnium catalogus
Basel, Hervagium. 1555
(Alden/Landis 555/42; Sabin 34104; Brunet IV, 132)
In folio (38x23 cm.).
Rebound in XVIII century full calf, raised band on the spine, engraved and gilt title.
In a box.
26 nn lvs including title page adorned with a copper plate engraving
678 pp (last blank)
Woodcut initials to each story.
A few woodcut illustrations in the text.
Excellent condition.
Latin edition of 23 books (texts) on the earliest voyages of discovery including Cadamosta (Cape Verde 1455; 1456); Columbus (1492; 1493) ; Pinzon; Vespuccis four voyages; Marco Polo; Michow (Poland); Peter ...
