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Libreria anticuaria L' Amateur (ARGENTINA)
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ASIA
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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.

MAFFEI, Jean Pierre.

L'Histoire des Indes Orientales et Occidentales.

Paris, Robert de Ninville, 1665. 2 parts in 1 volume in-4° (250 x 175 mm.). I Part: 16 unnumb. ff.;292 pp., 11 unnumb. ff. II Part: 2 unnumb. ff., 353 pp.; contemporary full leather, upper joint broken, lower joint worn. Second French translation of the Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI, done by Abb Michel de Pure. This work mentions the discoveries and conquests done by portugueses and castilians in Asia, Africa and America. With many historical, politic, economic and religious references. The part of America is mostly about Brazil, describing it very accurately. Paper lightly brownished, title page and first folio with small hole on lower margin not affecting the text, last folio with worm hole in the inner margin no affecting the text. However good copy. Backer-Sommervogel, V, 299. Sabin, 43783. Palau, 146699. Brunet, III, 1291. Borba de Moraes, 509.

MAYER, Luigi.

Views in Palestine, 1804, and Views in the Ottoman Empire,1803.

London, Th. Bensley for R. Bowyer, The two works in one volume in-F° (470 x 334 mm.), 48 engravings, title, 47 pp., 2 titles and 40 pp.; contemporary red full morocco "grain long". Small stains in the borders. The covers a little bit worn. 48 beautiful coloured aquatint plates taken from the original drawings of the italian artist Luigi Mayer under the auspices of Sir Robert Ainslie (1730 - 1812), antiquary, numismatist and Ambassador to Constantinople (1776 - 1792). With 24 views of Palestine and 24 of Caramania, part of Minor Asia, Rodas, Chipre, Corintio, Cartago, etc. Title, descriptive text, engraving's title in English and French, 4 leaves of texte with small stains that do not affect the engravings. Good copy. Brunet, III, 1577. Colas, 2020 and 2001. Bénezit, IX, 405.

SANSON D'ABBEVILLE, Nicolás.

Geographische es Historische Beschryvingh Der vier bekende Werelds - Deelen Europa, Asia, Africa en America: of De geheele Aerd-Kloot ...

Utretch, Johannes Ribbius, 1683. In-8™ (230 x 180 mm.), 688 pp., 47 unnumb. ff of index, 4 blank ff.; contemporary full vellum, upper joint faded. Historique geography with 62 double page mounted maps (plates: 180 x 235 mm.): 15 of America, 12 of Europe, 31 of Asia, 4 of Africa. 1volume title with four parts: part 1: Europe, part 2: Asia, part 3 : Africa, part 4: America (including a map of California as an island, Canada and the Northeast U.S. and Great Lakes regions, Florida). Paper lightly brownished. Waterstain in the outside margin of the first 5 pages (title page and introduction), 6 last pages and and in the margins of the map of Isles Britanniques. 2 pages of index with a small and well done restoration. Very small hole in the Guatimala's map. Map of Isles Britanniques with waterstain on margins. Some few pages with small missing in the lower margin, not affecting plates. Maps clean. However, extraordinary good condition of this rare work.

URBAIN, A.

L'INDE PITTORESQUE. BOMBAY.Vingt deux gravures d'après les dessins originaux de Daniell.

Paris, Duvin et Fontaine, 1840. In-8°(246 x 160 mm.), 290 pp., 1 unnumb. ff.; full gilt and blind stamped morocco, gilt decorated spines, inner dentelles, full gilt edges. With 22 engravings after original drawings by William Daniell, british artist who travel around India with his uncle Thomas and worked painting most of the oriental sceneries and its natural history. Foxed stains.

 
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