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Reize rondom de waereld. Vertaald door J.D. Pasteur.

Reize rondom de waereld. Vertaald door J.D. Pasteur.

by COOK, James.

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Leyden, Amsterdam, 's Hage, Honkoop, Allart en van Cleef, 1795-1803.13 volumes + index volume. Contemporary half calf (top of spines of 3 volumes sl. dam.) with morocco labels to spines. With engraved portrait, 13 engraved title-pages, 52 folding engraved maps by C. van Baarsch and 134 engraved plates (mostly folding) by J.S. Klauber. First Dutch edition; with bookplate of B.J. van Dongen. - First collected accounts of the three great voyages by James Cook (1728-1779), the first really scientific navigator, providing 18th century Europeans with their first virtually complete insight into the previously more or less unexplored region of the Pacifc.Volume I-III contain the life of Cook and his first voyage 1768-1771. The expedition sailed aboard HMS Endeavour to Tahiti, then sailed to New Zealand.where he mapped the complete coastline. He was the first European in New Zealnd since Abel Tasman in 1643. Cook then voyaged west, reaching the southeastern coast of Australia near today's Point Hicks on 19… Read More
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Afbeeldingen van schepen en vaartuigen in verschillende bewegingen.

Afbeeldingen van schepen en vaartuigen in verschillende bewegingen.

by LE COMTE, Pieter.

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Amsterdam, F. Kaal, 1831.Oblong 8vo. Modern boards, original printed wrappers mounted. With 50 lithographed plates after P. Le Comte by Desguerrois, all coloured by hand. (8),60,(3) pp.First edition. - Standard work on Dutch sailing ships and a few early steamships. Each plate with blindtooled initials PLC (Pieter le Comte), letters RMWO and the ribbon of the distinguished mark of the Militaire Willemsorde in blank margin. Beautifully illustrated work on sailing ships of all types including military, merchant and fishing. The first plates also include types of masts, sails and rigging. - Very fine clean handcoloured copy.Cat. NHSM II, p.756; Irene de Groot & Robert Vorstman, Zeilschepen, 219-227; Scheen I, p.221.
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Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca. Or, a complete collection of voyages and travels....

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London, T. Woodward, a.o., 1744-1748. 2 volumes. Large folio. Period-style blind-stamped calf, with red morocco title labels. With title-pages printed in black and red, royal privilege as frontispiece in volume one, woodcut head-pieces and 61 engraved maps, charts and plates (15 folding). (32),984; (10),1056,(22) pp. (Text in double-column ).'This is a revised and enlarged version of the 1705 first edition of John Harris's 'compleat collection of voyages and travels'. The second edition, especially prized for its maps, has been called the most complete by several authorities. Particularly valuable is the inclusion of a printing of Tasman's original map and two short articles printed on the map. One discusses Quiros's voyage, while the other speculates about the possibility of the Australian continent being colonized' (Hill p.275). Book I, Chapter I: History of the circumnavigators: Magellan, Francis Drake, Thomas Cavendish, Olivier van Noort, Sebald de Weert, Joris van Spilbergen, François… Read More
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Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën, vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands...

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Dordrecht, Amsterdam, Joannes van Braam, Gerard onder de Linden, 1724-1726.5 parts in 8 volumes. Folio. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt and with black title-labels (later boards). With engraved allegorical frontispiece, printed title-page in red and black, folding portrait of Valentijn, 19 portraits of the Governors-General, and 326 illustrations, maps, plans, bird's-eye views and plates (most of them double-page or folding; including fragments of Javanese manuscripts).First edition. -The most important early work documenting the history of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the East Indies and the Far East, which never can be superseded as many of the documents of which the author made use, do not longer exist. François Valentijn (1666-1727) was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church who lived for many years on Amboyna and Java. During this period he collected an enormous mass of information, especially in the fields of history, geography and ethnology, concerning all parts of the world… Read More
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Cosmography in four books containing the chrography and history of the whole world: and all the...

Cosmography in four books containing the chrography and history of the whole world: and all the principal kingdoms, provinces, seas, and isles thereof.

by HEYLYN, Peter.

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London, printed by A.C. for P. Chetwind and A. Seile, 1677.Folio. 4 volumes in 1. Folio. Contemporary mottled calf. With engraved title-page (London, Anne Seile, 1669) and 4 double-page maps of the continents. (8),303; (222); 230; 154; (46) pp.Fifth edition, first published in 1652; with armorial bookplate of Philip Monoux . - An attempt to describe in meticulous detail every aspect of the known world. It appears to have been the first description in print of Australia, and perhaps of California, Terra del Fuego, and other territories in the New World. With Appendix on the endeavor to discover Terra Australis Incognita, or the Southern continent. This curious discourse on Terra Australis describes its supposed immense size to be as large as Europe, Asia and Africa (Cox II, p.339). The fine maps depict Europe, Asia, Africa and America with California as an island. - (Age-browned). - A popular work, frequently reissued.Cowan p.108; European-Americana IV, p.28; Sabin 31655.
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Bijdrage tot de kennis van het Japansche Rijk.

Bijdrage tot de kennis van het Japansche Rijk.

by OVERMEER FISSCHER, Johannes Frederik van.

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Amsterdam, J. Müller & Comp., 1833.Large 4to. Contemporary calf; a presentation binding with gilt medallions in the corners enclosing a central panel decorated in gilt and blind, original printed wrappers preserved, spine richly gilt, a.e.g. (spine sl. discoloured; one joint sl.splitting but firmly holding). With 15 finely hand-coloured plates, heigthened with gum arabic, depicting Japanese costumes and scenes from daily life. VII,(3),320 pp.Firts edition; binder's ticket of J.H. Peters of Amsterdam on rear pastedown. - Johannes van Overmeer Fisscher (1800-1848), a Dutch civil servant, stayed nine years in Deshima since his arrival in Japan in 1822. He made one court journey to the shogun of Japan at Edo.His charmingly illustrated 'Contribution to knowledge of the Japanese empire' features observations and commentaries rooted in his own experience of the country when Japan was still closed to the outside world. He describes the various aspects of Japanese culture. - A handsome copy with brightly… Read More
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Bloeijende opkomst der aloude en hedendaagsche Groenlandsche visschery .. Met byvoeging van de...

Bloeijende opkomst der aloude en hedendaagsche Groenlandsche visschery .. Met byvoeging van de walvischvangst .. door Abraham Moubach. Nevens een korte beschryving van de Terreneufsche bakkeljaau-visschery. 2e druk.

by ZORGDRAGER, Cornelis Gijsbertsz.

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Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, 1728.4to. Contemporary vellum. With title-page printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece (P. van Thol en R.C. Alberts, 1727), 6 folding maps and 11 engraved plates (1 folding after A. Salm by Van der Hem ). (36),392,(13),(2) pp.Second and best edition; the first edition was published in Amsterdam in 1720. - This classic work on the Greenland whale fishery is one of the most thorough and authoritative descriptions of the early 18th century. It is the most important and extensive Dutch work on whaling, including ample descriptions of the early discoveries and exploration in the northern regions, Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Nova Zembla, Jan Mayen and Strait Davis. Giving along with extensive natural history, geography, history, and economics, detailed lists of ships' outfits, lists of shipowners and captains, an extensive vocabulary, and copious other details. At the end an account of New-Foundland cod-fishing. - (p.101 with marginal tear without loss of text). - A… Read More
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A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty’s Ship, The Endeavour. Faithfully...

A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty’s Ship, The Endeavour. Faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Parkinson, draughtsman to Joseph Banks on his late expedition, with Dr. Solander, round the World.

by PARKINSON, Sydney.

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London, printed for Stanfield Parkinson, 1773.Large 4to. Contemporary polished calf, skilfully rebacked, spine gilt with red morocco title label. With engraved frontispiece portrait by J. Newton, engraved map and 26 engraved plates. XXIII,212 pp. + errata leaf. First edition of the principal alternative account of Cook’s first voyage. - 'This is an account of the first expedition under the command of Captain Cook, 1768-1771. Parkinson was engaged as natural history draughtsman by Sir Joseph Banks, to accompany him and Captain Cook in the Endeavour to the South Seas. Parkinson made numerous drawings of botanical and other subjects, including landscapes and portraits of native chiefs. After exploring Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, and the Great Barrier Reef, the expedition reached Batavia. On leaving for the Cape of Good Hope, Parkinson succumbed to fever and dysentery and was burried at sea' (Hill p.462). Parkinson's manuscripts and drawings became a matter of dispute. Banks considered that they… Read More
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Beschryving van Louisania, nieuwelijks ontdekt ten Zuid-Westen van Nieuw-Vrankrijk. Mitsgaders de...

Beschryving van Louisania, nieuwelijks ontdekt ten Zuid-Westen van Nieuw-Vrankrijk. Mitsgaders de geographische en historische beschrijving der kusten van Noord-America, met de natuurlijke historie des landts door (Nicolas) Denys.

by HENNEPIN, Louis.

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Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1688.3 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (spine rep. and rubbed). With engraved frontispiece by C. or J. Luyken, engraved folding map and 6 engraved plates. (8),158,(6); (4),200,(4) pp.First Dutch edition; first published in Paris in 1683 Description de la Louisiane. - The earliest printed account of Louisiana. -'First and most important of the writings of this rascally friar, giving a fairly reliable account of his genuine voyage up the Mississippi from the Illinois to the falls he named St. Anthony's (including his captivity there among the Sioux Indians). It was the first book to use the name Louisiane, albeit that name had been given to this region previously by La Salle and was not Hennepin's invention as claimed by him' (Howes p.262). Hennepin, a Belgian Franciscan missionary, accompanied the French explorer De la Salle on his 1678-79 expedition from Fort Frontenac to Niagara, then on to Illinois country from where Hennepin went further on his own.… Read More
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WARHAFFTIGE NEW ZEITTUNG / von dem Türcke/ welliche eyn gefangner Türck zü Wien/ auff die...

WARHAFFTIGE NEW ZEITTUNG / von dem Türcke/ welliche eyn gefangner Türck zü Wien/ auff die Fragstuck/ so hierin begriffen/ geantwort.

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(No pl., 1532).4to. In cloth box. With large woodcut depicting a Turkish warrior. (4) lvs. First edition. - Enthält 35 kurze Fragen und meist noch kürzere Antworten über die Stärke des türkischen Heeres, und die weiteren Absichten des Türken .. ob er die Ungern fast lasst nider hacken, etc.- Very rare questionnaire with fine large woodcut. Apponyi 254.
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De bello Pannonico, per illustrissimum principem dominum ac dominum Fridericum Comitem Palatinum...

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(Augsburg), Augustae Vindelicorum Alexander Weissenborn excudat, 1538.4to. Recent blind-tooled period style calf. With full-page woodcut of the Duke Friedrich in full armour on horseback (by Michael Ostendorfer?) and 6 large woodcut initials. (71) lvs. (old manuscript numbering on upper outer corner ). First edition; with the bookplate of Sefik E. Atabey. - Melchior Soiter was a lawyer born in Windau (Curland), who covered several dignities in the organization of the Holy Roman Empire and participated personally to the campaign he describes in this book. The first section gives an account of the Turkish invasion into Hungary in 1529-30, and the unsuccessful siege of Vienna. The second section, written by the jurist Johannes Schotenbeck, is an accurate explanation of the Ottoman military functionaries with several details on the tasks of every officer and a final economical statistics of the Turkish Empire, considering both its European and Asiatic territories. Apponyi I, 269; Atabey Collection… Read More
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Oratio de bello adversus Turcam suscipiendo, ad Ferdinandum Ungariae boemiaequ regem & principes...

Oratio de bello adversus Turcam suscipiendo, ad Ferdinandum Ungariae boemiaequ regem & principes Germaniae

by AGRICOLA, George.

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Basel, Froben, 1538.4to. Modern boards. With 2 woodcut printer’s devices. 18 lvs. First Latin translation of Oration, Anred und Vermanung Herrn Ferdinandum zu Ungern, Nuremberg, Peypus,1531, a pamphlet on the Turkish wars in Hungary which began with the siege of Vienna in 1529. 'Agricola gives a long-winded account of the Turks' cruelties and warns that Germany is now threatened by the Turkish forces. Hungary must be given every assistance. No writer has so praised the superiority of the Imperial armaments over the apparently weak Turkish weaponry. He stressed the superior arms of the German mercenaries, while the Turks had but flimsy pikes. Victory over a so poorly equipped enemy is nothing less than certain. His oration was written a few months after the siege of Vienna, which may explain his excessive optimism' (Kertbeny, p. 89 etc.). With preface by Georg Fabricius dedicated to Chemnitz and at the end a letter of Laurentius Bermannus to king Ferdinand, ex valle Joachimi April, 1530. A catholic… Read More
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Histoire de l'isle Espagnole ou de S. Domingue.

Histoire de l'isle Espagnole ou de S. Domingue.

by CHARLEVOIX, Pierre François Xavier de.

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Paris, Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1730-1731.2 volumes. 4to. Contemporary speckled calf (2 hinges skilfully rep.), spine gilt with red and green morocco lables to spines. With 3 engraved headpieces and 18 maps and plans (11 folding). XXVIII,482,(59); XIV,506,(60) pp.First edition. - An extensive history of Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, based on the manuscripts of the Jesuit missionary Jean-Baptiste de Pers, covering the years from 1492 to 1724, including much material relating to the indigenous and black populations. With handsome detailed engraved maps of Santo Domingo, Haiti, Venezuela, and the Caribbean area. One of the most important single histories of a Caribbean island from this early period. - A fine copy with wide margins.Sabin 12127; Palau 67166; European-Americana VI, p.75; Afro-Americana 2213; Howgego p.217; Boucher de la Richarderie VI, p.182; Le Clerc 1371; Chadenat 1279 Ouvrage très recherché.
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LINSCHOTEN-VEREENIGING. Volume I - CXXIII.

LINSCHOTEN-VEREENIGING. Volume I - CXXIII.

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's Gravenhage, Zutphen, 1909-2023.123 volumes (several volumes in two or more parts). Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt vignette to upper board, the later volumes with dust-jackets (binding vol. XL and XLII soiled). With many maps and plates. + TRESOOR DER ZEE- EN LANDREIZEN. Beredeneerd register op de werken der Linschoten- Vereeniging. Deel 1- 100. 's Gravenhage, Zutphen, 1939-2007. 3 volumes. Cloth.Linschoten-Vereeniging. - All published. - Rare complete run of this very important series, containing standard editions of unabridged narratives of travel and exploration of Dutchmen, with scholarly annotations, many of which were originally available for consultation in manuscript only. Including the early accounts of the Dutch East- and West India Company: Jan Cornelis May, Henry Hudson, Jan Huygen van Linschoten, Jacob van Roggeveen, De Marees, Cornelis de Houtman, Dirck Gerritsz. Pomp, Abraham Rogerius, Jacob van Heemskerk, Jan Cornelisz. Rijp, Hendrik Ottsen, Mahu en de Cordes,… Read More
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Dagh-register gehouden int Casteel Batavia vant passerende daer ter plaetse als over geheel...

Dagh-register gehouden int Casteel Batavia vant passerende daer ter plaetse als over geheel Nederlandts-India anno 1624-1682. Uitgegeven door H.T. Colenbrander, J. de Hullu, J.A. van der Chijs, F. de Haan, e.a.

by DAGH-REGISTER BATAVIA.

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's Gravenhage, Batavia, 1887 - 1928. 8vo. 26 volumes of the series. Original wrappers or modern half cloth.Most of the volumes with the pictorial bookplate of E.C. Godée Molsbergen. - Present volumes of the series are 1631-1634, 1636, 1637, 1640-1641, 1641-1642, 1643-1644, 1653,1656-1657, 1659, 1661, 1663, 1664, 1665, 1666-1667, 1670-1671,1672, 1673, 1674, 1675, 1676, 1677, 1678, 1679, 1680, 1681, 1682,I. Missing 1624-1629, 1668-1669. The years 1630, 1635, 1638, 1639, 1646, 1649-52, 1654, 1655, 1658, 1660 & 1662 were never published.An important source for the history of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and for the political and economic history of Asia more generally is the “Dagh-register” of Batavia Castle, the VOC headquarters in Asia published by the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences. It is a day by day chronical of events that took place in Batavia and of news received from all quarters concerning the greatest variety of subjects. The board of governors of the VOC, had ordered this… Read More
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