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DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien César, le Comte - Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829 Paris J. Tastu 1830-1834 Ref. Hill 508; Howgego D35; Nissen BBI 555; Nissen IVB 752; Nissen ZBI 1199. Extremely rare and desirable set of the first edition of DUMONT d'URVILLE's voyage in the ASTROLABE. This important voyage was one in a great series undertaken by the French government in the late 18th and early 19th centuries for scientific and political purposes. The Astrolabe sailed south, around the Cape of Good Hope, and arrived at Port Jackson. Proceeding to NEW ZEALAND, its coast, especially the southern part of Cook Strait, was surveyed with great care. Tonga and parts of the Fiji Archipelago were explored, then New Britain, New Guinea, Amboina, Tasmania, Vanikoro, Guam and Java. The return home was by way of Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope. (Hill) These atlases contain what are generally acknowledged to be some of the finest plates ever produced of the natural history, topography, and anthropology of the AUSTRALIA and the South-west Pacific. Most of the fine topographical views are after drawings by the artist Louis Auguste de SAINSON (1800-1874). Jules Dumont d'Urville died in a terrible railway accident in 1842. In better days he was involved in the discovery of the Venus de Milo 16 volumes: eleven 8vo, one 4to and four large folio, the atlas volumes with 6 engraved titles, a portrait and 576 plates. Uniformly bound in contemporary red morocco, gilt spines, comprising the Histoire du Voyage, Botanique, Zoologie, Entomologie, Philologie and Hydrographique thus: - Histoire du Voyage. Paris: 1830-1833. 5 text vols, 8vo, and atlas, folio (530 x 348 mm). Text: half-titles, 9 plates (marginal repair in vols. 4 and 5, faint scattered spots). ATLAS: 8pp. letterpress 'Table explicative,' otherwise lithographed or engraved throughout, with one engraved title with vignette, lithographic portrait of Dumont d'Urville, 8 maps (one hand-coloured, 7 double-page), 239 lithographic views, ethnographic portraits and plates, of which 62 coloured, after Louis-Auguste de Sainson, Édouard Paris and Bartélemy Lauvergne (faint scattered spots). The majority of the plates are after de SAINSON, the expedition's official artist or 'Dessinateur', and show ethnological artifacts and portraits, scenes from the daily life of indigenous peoples and views of ports and anchorages, including Sydney, Hobart, Cape Town and Saint Helena. - QUOY, Jean René Constant and Joseph Paul GAIMARD. Zoology. Paris: 1830-1835-1833. 4 text vols in 3, 8vo, and atlas, folio (530 x 348 mm). Text: 8 lithographic plates (faint scattered spots). Atlas: 7pp. letterpress text, otherwise lithographed or engraved throughout, 204 plates after de Sainson, Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, Nicolas Huet, Alphonse Prévost, Quoy, Antoine-Germain Bévalet and others, the majority hand-colored (faint scattered spotting and browning). They include 28 plates of mammals, 31 birds, 12 fish, 95 of molluscs, 26 zoophytes and 12 of entomology. - LESSON, Pierre Adolphe and Achille RICHARD. Botanique. Paris: 1832-1834. 2 text vols in 1, 8vo, and atlas, folio (530 x 348 mm). Text: (faint scattered spots). ATLAS: 1p. letterpress 'table des planches,' otherwise engraved throughout, engraved title with vignette, 80 plates after Vauthier or Mme. E. Delile, by Dunaime, Mme. C. Noiret, Mme. Dondey and others (faint scattered spots). - BOISDUVAL, Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchouffour de. Entomology. Paris: 1832-1835. 2 text volumes in 1, 8vo. (faint scattered spots.) - Observations Nautiques, Météorologiques, Hydrographiques, et de Physique. Paris: 1833-1834. 4 parts in one text vol., 4to, and atlas in elephant folio (643 x 482 mm). Text: 2 folding tables (faint scattered spots). ATLAS: 45 maps and plans, (faint scattered spots) - DUMONT d'URVILLE, 'Philologie', 1833-34. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo (faint scattered spots.).

LARGENT, A. - Carnet de dessins XIXth siècle d'un amateur lors d'un voyage en mer à bord du paquebot Saint-Germain de la Compagnie Générale Transatlantique 1 volume in-4° avec : Île Santa Maria aux Açores, l'homme de barre depuis le paquebot Saint-Germain - Guadeloupe : appontement Moncby et quai Brunerie à Basse-Terre en Guadeloupe, jeune fille de Guadeloupe, le paquebot SaintGermain échoué devant le Gosier, îlot du Gosier depuis la terre et depuis la mer, usine Bologne près la BasseTerre, paquebot transatlantique en rade de la Basse-Terre (feuillet détaché), l'habitation Caillou sur les bords de la rivière Goyave - Antilles danoises : Saint-Thomas - Espagne: la Cuidad de Cadix, paquebot espagnol venant de La Havane depuis la mer en quarantaine dans les eaux de Santander, el Morro à Santander, Cap Mayor à Santander, Gibraltar, cap San Antonio - Portugal : théâtre dos Recreos à Libonne, scènes de tauromachie à Almada, Ilheo, Pontigna, Porto Santo dans l'archipel de Madère - Côtes occidentales d'Afrique dont Sénégal: Griots, femme de Dakar, île de Gorée, Gabon: Boulous ou Seckianis dans la baie de l'île de Corisco, vieux chef Boulou à Apendo, station de Brazza à l'île Mandgi, pays de Bénito, pointe Louma dans le pays de Batanga ou Banoko, bombardement du village de Bumba, Bénin: royaume de PortoNovo dont 1 féticheur, grand féticheur minab à Kotomou au Dahomey, chef et rois, étendard, Niger: rivière Old Calabar, paquebot allemand devant Elobey, Cap-Vert: Temerosa, Balama, phare Passaros à Saint-Vincent, Santiago capitale de Praïa, Île Principe, Guinée : île Fernando Po - Loire-Atlantique : Octroi de la Bourse quai de la Fosse à Nantes, l'usine de la Savonnerie à Chantenay - Album totalisant 55 dessins à l'aquarelle, encre de Chine, mine de plomb, ou technique mixte, contre collés aux rectos de 45 feuillet (5 planches détachées), signés, légendés à l'encre noire et datés entre 1879 et 1884 - A la suite, 26 cartes postales anciennes contre collées : Camaret (4), Morgat (3), île de Sein (2), Audierne (1), Quimper (5) Bénodet (1), Longwy (9), Sainte-Anne du Portzic (1) - Reliure de l'époque demi-toile rouge (petits frottements aux mors et aux coupes, dos décoloré) - Titre doré (Album de collections) doré au 1er plat (menus frottements) - Bel état intérieur

Konvolut von 18 Kupferstichen - Mixed lot of 9 mostly old col. Copper engraved maps. Circa 1650-1820, mostly each ca. 40 x 50 cm - Contains: Doctecomius - Portugalliae (fold tear); Visscher - Danubius (not colored, heavily creased, 1 small loss); Carte pour servir a l'intelligence de L'Histoire de Gustave Adolphe... (with inset maps of Germany and Poland/Lithuania including view of Bergae Norwegiae), Blaeu - Nassovia (browned); Le Pole Arctique (not colored); Homann - Circulus Saxoniae (margins somewhat dampstained); Homann Erben - Megapolensis; Walch/Will - Charte de L'Asia (browned, somewhat spotty), Walch - Australien (Südland) auch Polynesien oder Inselwelt (spotty).- With: 5 further less important maps (partly spotty), 3 copper titles of atlases (partly spotty) and 1 col. Engraved portrait of Ortelius.

KERGUELEN-TRÉMAREC, Yves-Joseph de - Relation d'un voyage dans la mer du Nord.... fait en 1767 & 1768. + Relation de deux voyages dans les mers Australes & des Indes, faits en 1771, 1772, 1773 & 1774 Ou Extrait du Journal de sa Navigation pour la découverte des terres Australes Paris Prault 1771 Exceptionnelle réunion des deux relations de Kerguelen, PROVENANT DES ARCHIVES DE LA FAMILLE DU GRAND NAVIGATEUR. Condition unique pour ces deux ouvrages déjà rares sans provenance illustre Réf. Cox II 21/III 94; Sabin 37616 / 37618; Howgego K12 & K13 1) Relation d'un voyage dans la mer du Nord. In-4°, viii, 220, [3] pp, ill. d'une vignette de titre et des armoiries du Dauphin en tête de l'épitre, ill. de 14 cartes et 4 planches hors-texte. Les pp. 130-131 et 134-135, non imprimées, sont restées blanches. Edition originale. En 1767 l'auteur reçut le commandement d'une frégate destinée à protéger la pêche de la morue sur les côtes d'Islande. Parti le 25 avril, Kerguelen vit l'Islande le 12 mai suivant. Il alla en juillet se ravitailler à Bergen (Norvège) et le 17 août il croisait par le 69e parallèle Nord. Il ne rentra à Brest que le 9 septembre. PROVENANCE : Signature de madame de Larlan sur le titre, juste au-dessus de la vignette. Madame de Larlan est née de Kerguelen FILLE DU CÉLÈBRE NAVIGATEUR. 2) Relation de deux voyages dans les mers Australes & des Indes. In-8°, viii, 244, [3] pp, ill. d'une carte repliée, à part, sur papier fort (Terres Australes ou partie septentrionale de l'Isle de Kerguelen) encadrée de 8 petites vues de côtes. Cette carte, séparée de l'ouvrage et en tirage spécial sur papier fort, comporte cette mention manuscrite à l'encre noire au verso : "Pour Aliénor". L'ouvrage contient la relation de la découverte des îles Kerguelen, un mémoire sur Madagascar (pages 154 à 169) et des "Observations sur la guerre des Amériques" (pages 121 à 133). En raison de la dédicace "À la Patrie", le livre fut interdit par arrêt du 28 mai 1783 et de nombreux exemplaires furent pilonnés. Avec une NOTE MANUSCRITE au verso du faux-titre : "Ce livre doit rester avec la relation d'un voyage dans la mer du Nord par M. de Kerguelen Trémarec fait en 1767 et 1768. Ils appartiennent à Aliénor Mise de Courtanvel née Becdelièvre. Fait à Seilleraye 1er novembre 1879". Les deux volumes sont reliés en veau fauve marbré, dos ornés de caissons fleuronnés, triple filet autour des plats, tranches rouges. La carte et les pièces jointes se trouvent dans une boîte en veau fauve à l'imitation. Pièces jointes : "Notice sur la famille de Kerguelen", 3 pp. manuscrites in-12, repliées, (Notte de la main de Mad. la Ctese de Larlan) Nous joignons enfin une biographie de Kerguelen rédigée par J.-F.-G. Hennequin, 14 pages

BONNE - DESMAREST - Atlas encyclopédique contenant la géographie ancienne, et quelques cartes sur la géographie du Moyen Age, la geographie moderne Paris Hôtel de Thou 1787 Folio (29 x 22 cm), 65 pp, 55 (sur 76) cartes doubles (mappe monde, continents, pôles etc), qq noms sur le v° de qq cartes. Sans le 2e vol. Demi veau brun modern

SCHOUTEN, Willem Corneliszoon - Journal ou Relation exact du voyage dans les Indes: Par un nouveau destroit, & par les grandes Mers Australes qu'il a descouvert, vers le Pole Antartique. Paris chez M. Gobert / et les Cartes chez M. Tavernier 1618 Ref. Sabin 77952; Howgego S65; Shirley World 299; Hill pp.269-270; cf. Tiele 985, cf. Cox I, p. 41. First published in Dutch in 1618 as "Journal ofte beschryvinghe van de wonderlicke reyse.... Hoe hy bezuyden de Strate van Magellanes een nieuwe Passagie ontdekt, en voort den gheelen Aerd-kloot omgheselt". Schouten's voyage was one of the great early voyages of discovery and only the third circumnavigation. Undertaken in 1615 and lasting until 1617, this important expedition succeeded in its primary objective which was to find an alternative route to the rich sources of wealth in the Pacific. Third French translation of Schouten's popular account of his circumnavigation with Jacob Le Maire in search of the unknown southern continent. Among the expedition's cartographic contributions were the discovery of a new strait of Tierra del Fuego, named after Le Maire, and charting parts of the coastline of New Guinea. This Paris edition follows the French translation printed at Amsterdam the same year, but "with alterations and improvements in the text" (Sabin) and the plates in slightly smaller versions. Schouten's landmark voyage was only the third circumnavigation, 'during which Cape Horn [named after Schouten's hometown of Hoorn] was discovered and rounded for the first time' (Hill) According to Cox, this circumnavigation and first passage through the Strait of Le Maire was 'one of the most remarkable voyages ever undertaken, [which] contributed much to the science of cartography...the numerous editions of the voyage attest its popularity, indicating how much the new passage into the South Seas was appreciated which would open a route to lands thought to lie south of those monopolized by the Dutch East India Company." 8vo, [xiv], 232 pp, ill. with 8 folding engraved plates: double-hemisphere map with portraits of Magellan, Schouten, and others, 3 sea charts, and 4 views (without the first blank leaf as usual, third map just shaved at lower edge, map of New Guinea slightly weak at fold, section of title fore-edge replaced, occasional tiny marginal wormtrack, slightly browned). Souple vellum binding, reusing old vellum, title in ink on spine

AA, Pieter vander - Naaukeurige versameling der gedenk-waardigste zee en landereysen na Oost en West-Indiën.... Leyden Pieter vander Aa 1707 Provenance: Library Mariënhage Eindhoven; Library Augustinian Monastery Witmarsum. The last book (Historia natural y moral de las Indias - in Dutch), concerns the history and conquests of Peru and Mexico. A large number of copper engravings show the Indians in civil and military life, with their pastimes, customs, etc. Ref. Howgego A7 In-8°, 64, 46, 75, 179 pp. with 4 travel narratives, title vignette on each title 1) Two renowned ship-togues, of Thomas CANDISCH, English nobleman, the first round-about the whole earth's globe, done in the year 1586 and afterwards; with an invent. map and 2 plates (2 plates missing); 2) The Memorable Voyage of Andries BATTEL from Leigh in Essex, na Brasilien, and his Wonderful Adventures, being captured from the Portuguese after Angola; with invent. map (missing 2 plates) 3) Aanmerklyke Reys, en verwonderlijk-seldsame Voorvallen op de selve van Antony KNIVET gedaan uyt Engelland na de Zuyd-Zee met Thomas CANDISH Anno 1591 en in de volgende Jaren; met uitv. kaart en 4 platen 4) Ontdekking van West-Indien... by Joseph d'ACOSTA Where, in this New World is described in its American Peoples, its own Religion, Seasons, Customs and Way of Life: etc. with invented map and 9 plates (missing 7 plates) All printed in Gothic letters, some sheets yellowed, some stains. Bound in full period vellum, somewhat soiled, title in ink on spine

PICARD, Bernard - Cérémonies et Coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde / des peuples idolâtres Amsterdam J.F. Bernard 1733 - 1743 Ref. Graesse II, p.104; Sabin 4931. "Description of the Religious Duties, Manners and Customs of all the Nations of the World." Text in French. After the author's death (in 1733), a supplement appeared in 1743 about the superstitions, these are very scarce but present here. Ref. Lynn Hunt, The Book That Changed Europe, Picart and Bernard's Religious Ceremonies of the World (2010): They put religion in comparative perspective, offering images and analysis of Jews, Catholics, Muslims, the peoples of the Orient and the Americas, Protestants, deists, freemasons, and assorted sects 8 parts in 9 vol. in-folio (39 x 24.5 cm). Half-titles, titles printed in red and black, 244 (of 250) plates of which several folding: first volume, 28 pl. (of 30, n° 18 and 28 are missing, frontispiece also missing); second, 33; third, 17 (of 19 pl.); fourth, 13 pl.; fifth, 24 pl.; sixth, 45 pl.; seventh, 57 (of 58, n.5 is missing); seventh second part, 5; eighth, 22 (of 24, n°9 from the first part and n°9 from the second part missing), headpieces and illustrations in text (age-toned, severe browning in the text and occasional staining). Contemporary bindings in marbled calf, spines richly gilt, corners worn, scratches on the boards, all with gilt supra libros of the Marquis of Bouzols, marbled end-lvs

JACOBSZ LOOTSMAN, Theunis - Le Grand & Nouveau Miroir ou Flambeau de la Mer Amsterdam Jaques & Gasper Anthoine Loots-Man 1669 Provenance: Joseph-Augustin de Mailly, comte de Mailly, marquis d'Haucourt, baron de Saint-Amand (1708-1794). The comte de Mailly, rose through army ranks to become marshal of France in 1783 and was beheaded in the revolution. Translated from Flemish (De Lichtende Columne ofte Zee-Spiegel) into French by Paul Yvounet. The titles of the maps are in Dutch. Koeman does not record a 1669 edition, but it agrees with his description of the 1671 edition, including the almanac for 1670-77 and all catchwords, mis-signings and mis-paginations. Koeman IV, Jac 36 (1671 ed.). Cf. cat. NHSM p. 48 (attributed to Goos) Folio (450 x 280 mm). Engraved title with letterpress text, 34 DOUBLE-PAGE ENGRAVED CHARTS, 2 woodcut maps in text, and 3 ADDITIONAL double-page charts of the Caribbean from Lootsman's Sea Atlas, woodcut (one engraved) text illustrations and diagrams, partial woodcut from another work pasted below colophon Extra-illustrated with 3 charts of the Caribbean which had previously appeared in Lootsman's Zee-Atlas of 1666 (Koeman IV, Jac 1, maps 23, 26, 27) and which his advertisement of 1679 makes clear were available separately; the first chart of the Western Atlantic (Nieu Nederlandt, Brazil, Soute Eylanden); the second chart of the Caribbean islands; third chart of Middle America (West Indien: Mexico, Cuba, Florida....) Condition: volvelles missing from two diagrams, some spotting and browning, two maps with small repair, title repaired at extreme corners, occasional light dampstain. Contemporary vellum, Mailly-Haucourt coat-of-arms [Olivier 2044, this version not illustrated] gilt on red morocco medallion mounted at center of both sides (new endpapers, missing two ties, discreet spine repairs)

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen van - Navigatio ac Itinerarium ... in Orientalem sive Lusitanorum Indiam [part 2: Descriptio totius Guineae tractatus]. Hagae-Comitis Albrecht Hendrickz, for the author and Cornelius Nicolaius / Aeg. Elsevier 1599 Ref. Shirley World 192; Adams L-735; Brunet III, 1091; Howgego L131; Sabin 41366; New Hollstein Van Doetecum IV, 927-984; Willems 950; Tiele 683+684; cat. NHSM p. 171. As well as including important travel accounts taken from contemporary Portuguese, Dutch, and Spanish sources, it is the first work to include precise sailing instructions for the Indies, and also includes an account of America as well as secrets about Portuguese sea routes to the east and about how their territories were governed; it was also of special value for its description of spice trees and spice growing areas. About the world map: This double-hemispheric map is notable for several reasons. As Shirley notes, "there are differences affecting the northern seas, and the pictorial scenes forming the outer border have been regrouped with even greater stylistic effect." It is also the second-known map to depict Korea as a peninsula. Finally, the watermark, that of crossed arrows 90mm in length, is different to the other watermarks found on the other van Langren and van Doetecum maps and plates in the book (bunch of grapes terminating in initials I.S.) About the author: Linschoten, a Dutchman born in Delft, was in Goa between 1583 and 1589, and with Willem Barentsz on his second voyage to the Kara Sea in 1594-1595. These experiences were recorded in the present work, which was first published in Dutch, and contains the most comprehensive account of the East and West Indies available at the end of the 16th century. 2 parts in 1 vol. in-folio (310 x 200 mm), viii, 124, 45, [3] pp. Title to each part with large ship-vignette, full-page engraved illustration of dedicatee's arms, full-page engraved PORTRAIT of the author with four small inset maps at corners, 7 folding engraved maps (WORLD MAP by Arnold and Hendrik van Langren after Jan Baptist Vrients; East Coast of Africa; Coast around Indian Ocean; Coasts of China, Sumatra & Java; West Coast of Africa; ARCTIC OCEAN; Central & South American Coasts), 31 plates (costumes and botanical subjects), 5 folding plates (City of Goa, Market of Goa, two of Sancta Helena, City of Angra). The plates are signed by Baptista van Doetecum and Jan van Doetecum the younger, others by Arnold Florensz. van Langren, and Hendrik Florensz. van Langren, after Willem Barents, A.F. van Langren and Linschoten. First Latin edition and the first WITH THE SUPERB BARENTS MAP of the Arctic Ocean. Condition: title remargined, front free endpaper with large repaired chip, first few leaves creased at lower corner, one or two plates crumpled at edges, a few tiny holes at creasefolds but without any major loss, some browning and waterstaining, mainly marginal but with occasional encroachment on plates. Contemporary vellum binding

LA CROIX - La Turquie cretienne, sous la puissante protection de Louis le Grand, protecteur unique du cristianisme en Orient. Contenant l'etat present des Nations & des Eglises Grecque, Armenienne & Maronite, dans l'Empire Otoman Paris Pierre Herissant 1695 Rare. This work, written by one of the members of the Petis de la Croix family, which for were for several generations active as orientalists and interpreters in the Levant, appears to be an expanded version of a work issued in the same year by the same publisher under the title Etat présent des nations & des églises grecque... & maronite (Blackmer 1297) In-12°, [40], 411, [4] pp, front. gravé, plein veau d'époque (lég. frot., qq lég. tâches, qq notes sur les pages de garde). Edition originale

SANDYS, George - Sandys Voyage or a Description of the Icelandic country of theooden and various sects of the Christians there from Jerusalem, the Grave Christi, the Temple of Solomon as well as the notorious antiquities of Turkey, Greece, Egypt and other foreign countries Amsterdam Baltes Boeckholt 1665 Translated from the English by Glazemaker and much reprinted, 3rd edition. The first edition in Dutch was printed in Amsterdam in 1653. see: Tiele 959. George Sandys 1577-1643. Dutch translation of A Relation of a Journey by George Sandys (1578-1644), one of the most famous travel books of the seventeenth century. Sandys traveled to the Levant in 1610 and spent a year in Turkey, Palestine and Egypt before returning to England to become a bishop. Ref. Howgego K26: "Large numbers of English merchants and ambassadors were present in the Middle East from the 1580s and often wrote accounts of their travels." 4to, 264 pp. Engraved title and 29 fine copper plates (a.o. a view of Jerusalem). Contemporary vellum binding, title in ink on spine

SALMON, Th. - Contemporary history or present state of all peoples I. II. part Amsterdam I. Tirion 1736 - 39 Part I.: Containing the Present State of the Imperial Republics of China and Japan, and also of the Ladrones, Philippine and Moluccan Islands, and of Makassar. Contains plates of i.a. Asian flora and fauna and the Dutch settlement at Deshima. Part II: Sundasche Islands, and more particularly Borneo, Java, Sumatra and the Kingdoms of Siam, Kochin-China and Tonkin (second edition) Ex libris Buijnsters-Smets. Ref. Cordier Sinica, 44; Lust 454 (edition of 1729); Cordier Japonica 431; Tiele 1033 2 vols. in-8vo, [18], 645, [17] pp; [12], 676, [112] pp. With 2 engraved titles, 5 folding maps and 16 (folding) plates. Rewritten and enlarged by Dr. Matthias van Goch, based his work on information given by Gerrit Voogt (second in command in Dejima from 1706 to 1714), by the physician Willem ten Rhijne, and others. Slightly foxed. Contemp. bindings in half calf, untrimmed, spine of the first volume richly gilt, library stamp on lower edge of vol. 1

[BRABANT] - Brabantiae Belgarum Provinciae Recens Eactaque Descriptio Venetiis [Bolognini Salvage] 1567 Bibliographie : Rijksmuseum Amsterdam RP-P-BI-2758, F. Muller Supplement 454-D/3 Gravure sur cuivre (50 x 39.5 cm) par GIROLAMO OLIGIAT, signé HIERONYMUS OLEATUS de l'atlas de Lafreri. Avec un cartouche et 3 armoiries. Carte très rare d'après Jacob van Deventer et refait en Italie par Michele Tramezzini en 1556 et 1558. Impression avant B. Zallieri in the cartouche.

IDES, Evert Ysbrandszoon (1657-1708/09) - Three-Year Journey to China, made ashore by the Muscovite Envoy, E. Ysbrandts Ides, from Moscow, over Great Ustiga, Siriania, Permia, Siberia, Daour, Great Tartaryen to China Amsterdam Pieter de Coup 1710 Ref: Howgego I4; Tiele 519, Cordier, Sinica p.2469, Cox I, p.330-331: "This was no easy journey in those days. Ides, who was a Dane in the service of Peter the Great, set out from Moscow March 14, 1692. (...) He composed his journal for the information and satisfaction of Peter the Great who was well pleased with the results and rewarded the author with the post of Privy Councillor. (...) The expedition added considerable geographical knowledge to the little that was known about Northern Manchuria and China." In-4°, [16] ff, 243, [3] pp. Engraved title (depicting costumes and exotic animals), title in red and black. Without map and with 30 copper engravings including 9 plates b.t. (loss of half of plate between pp. 80-81, several folds reinforced). Reissue of the 1704 edition. Full period calfskin with wear

MORTIER, Pieter - Les Forces de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amerique ou description des Principales Villes avec leurs fortifications Amsterdam Pieter Mortier [1702] Ref. Pastoureau Fer IX H; Van der Krogt IV-1, 482:2, cat. NHSM p. 51. This extremely comprehensive collection of maps, plans and views of fortifications of European cities in France, Germany, and the Netherlands also includes a number of other regions, including Malta, Constantinople, Tripoli and several of the New World, including a plan of Quebec (Kershaw 279; bound in part 7). Conceived by de Fer in response to the rise in interest and popularity of Vauban's systems of fortifications (one of his plans appears on the engraved 'Introduction a la Fortification' title), it was originally published between 1690-1695. In this edition, Mortier copied exactly de Fer's work, re-engraved the plates, and added a 13th and 14th part comprising a sea atlas of the coasts of France and Spain. This is the most complete set of Mortier's edition to appear at auction for 30 years. Pastoureau : "Contient les copies des Forces de l'Europe et du Théâtre de la Guerre dans les Pays-Bas, ainsi qu'un atlas de 43 pl.: Les Costes de France et de'Espagne, sur l'Ocean et sur la Mer Mediterrannée." 14 parts in 1 vol. in-folio oblong (307 x 408 mm). Engraved 'Introduction à la Fortification' title with dedication to the Duc de Bourgogne to part 1, with a date seemingly of 1696 semi-erased, and 4 further engraved dedication leaves (of 14) to Monseigneur le Dauphin, 306 ENGRAVED PLATES, of which 14 folding including 3 half-page city plans with letterpress descriptions in French and Dutch, 14 typographic title-pages printed in red and black, part 1 with 2pp. letterpress list of contents and advertisement Condition: plate 14 trimmed at bottom edge into image, plates 195-197 and 199 cut down and mounted, about half-a-dozen plates browned and spotted, part 6 with light, insignificant vertical creasefold to all plates. In this copy, the plates are numbered either in manuscript or with engraved plate numbers, the numeration including but not numbering the titles. It seems that the 14 folding plates present here only appear in this edition. Contemporary calf (rebacked, preserving original gilt spine, extremities lightly rubbed)