FAMIN, César - LACROIX, Frédéric.
Chili, Paraguay, Buenos Ayres. With: Patagonie, Terre du Feu et Iles Malouines. (with) BORY DE SAINT VINCENT et LACROIX. Iles diverses des Trois Océans et Règions Circompolaires.
Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1839. Edition's year: 1839 - 1840. In-8° (212 x 130 mm.), half title, title, 96 pp., 64 pp., 91 pp., 328 pp.; contemporary half leather, gilt tools on back. With 7 maps of United Provinces of La Plata and Chili, Patagonia, Artic Pole, 2 folded planispheres of Orcade and Shetland islands, Terranova, Guernesey and Jersey and 80 engravings of views, customs and Natural History, taken from the most important expeditions and travellers. With scattered foxing, but a good copy. Sabin,23767. Palau, 86546.
HARRIS, John.
Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca. Or a complete Collection of Voyages and Travels. Consisting of above Six hundred of the Most Authentic Writers ... To Which is prefixed, a Copious Introduction, Comprehending the Rise and Proress of the Art of Navigation and itsSucessive Improvements; together with the invention and use of the Loadston...
London, Printed for T. Osborne and others, 1764. 2 vols. in-F°(397 x 265 mm.), 2 unnumb. ff., XVI, 4 unnumb. ff., 984 pp. 2 cols.; 4 unnumb. ff., 1056 pp. 2 cols., 11 unnumb. ff.: Index and List of Maps, Charts and Cutts; contemporary full leather, 2 title label in each vol., worn joints, bumped corners. Coloured edges. Third edition, enlarged and more complete than 1705. With 61 plates comprehending: city views, customs, natural history and 24 maps and plans (some of them folded). Maps done by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin of: -The World with the Late Discoveries - The World with the course of Magellan, Drake and Anson Circumnavigation - Gallapagos Islands - Nova Guinea - Plan of Lima - Holandia Nova - Plan of Canton City - India - Map of Marco Polo's Voyages - East Indies - Africa - India - America - The Western or Atlantic Ocean - The West Indies - Georgia with part of Carolina, Florida and Louisiana - The North Pole (upper margin cut) - Europe (upper margin cut) - Asia (upper margin cut) - Mediterranean, Adriatic and Black Seas - Greece - Russian Empire (brownished) - China - Siberia. History of Voyages of : Colombus, Cortés, Magellan, Drake, Covendish, Schouten, Hawkins, Narbrough, Dampier, Raleigh, Tasman, Van Noort, De Weert, Spilbergen, L'Hermite, Cowley, Quiros and others; and the statements of different east indian companies.Title page of vol. I with outside margins brownished. Three maps of vol. II with upper margins cut. The paper with some occasional foxing but otherwise a very good copy. Brunet, III, 49. Sabin, 30183.
HOEFER, J. Ch. Ferdinand.
Chaldée, Assyria, Médie, Babylonie, Mésopotamie, Phénicie, Palmyrère.
Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1852. In-8° (206 x 130 mm.), 440 pp., 30 steel engravings plates done by Lamaître and 1 double page map; contemporary half morocco, marbled boards and edges, giltlettered title and ornamental lines on back. First edition. History and description of the countries' art, architecture, language, hieroglyphis. With an unpublished La Condamine's work voyage to the Phénicie. Work done by the scholar, expert in ciphers and orientalism Hoefer. Lightly foxed . Hoefer, XXIV, 845.
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