Voyages
Location: 1616
Date: Arnhem, J. Jansson, 1616
Format: 175 x 250 mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: In-4 oblong de (8), 517 et (11) pp. ; plein vélin d'époque.
Première édition en latin de format in-4 oblong (éd. Orig. 1567, 1re edition en latin 1613). Illustrée de 105 cartes et vues ..
3 500€
Location: 1673
Date: London : Printed by the Author at his house in White-Friers, 1673
Format: 395 x 265 mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Folio. 327, 18, 106pp. engraved frontispiece, folding map of China and plan of Canton, 18 full page & 93 text page copper etchings, interior slightly browned and spotted.
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: 1729
Date: Amsterdam, 1729
Format: 200 x 125 mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: 6 parts in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary blind tooled vellum, title in ink on spine. Engraved allegorical frontispiece by J.C. Philips (1729), 3 engraved folding maps of (1) China, including Japan and Kamchatka, (2) Japan.
Original edition of the first volume of the Dutch translation of an extensive series on the geography, history and culture of..
1 300€
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: 1877
Date: Paris, Morel, 1877
Format: 573 x 402 mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Text vol. in 4to (325 x 245mm) in half red Shagreen and 199 (of 200) plates in tall folio (573 x 402mm.). Text: (ii) + (viii) + 296 pp with 34 engraved plates. Plates are lithographed or engraved, approximately 130 printed in colours. Spotting troughout text and plates, water staining affecting a few plates, titles and tables of third volume. Some original publisher’s wrappers remain with the mention of second edition. Manque planche: Payement de mosaïque LVI Fragments disposés sur le plan des Dorqaah.
Rare et remarquable ouvrage sur l'Orient, le plus important du XIXe siècle entièrement consacré à l'art arabe.Illustré de 199..
8 000€
Location: 1878
Date: 1866 et 1873, tirage vers 1878
Format: Large folio
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: 26 photographies par Emile Gsell d'après des négatifs au collodion, épreuves sur papier albuminé contrecollées sur carton et 13 autres photographies anonymes de la même période. Certaines sont un peu jaunies, rousseurs affectant les cartons.
VOYAGE A ANGKOR. - Collection constituée de 26 photographies par Emile Gsell, 13 autres photographies, 2 fascicules concernan..
25 000€
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€
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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