Geography, Travel and Exploration
Only copy known
Hippopotamus. La Virtu dell'Hippopotamo, over Caval Marino. - Perugia, Jesi, Rimini, Milano & Mantova, (c.1610) 1 sheet.
Only known copy of this extremely rare broadside.
EUR 4.500,-
Rare 17th century Atlas of the Netherlands
Peers, Richard (1645-1690); Pitt, Moses (fl. 1654-1696) - The English atlas volume IV. Containing the description of the Seventeen Provinces of the Low-Countries, or Netherlands. Oxford, 1682.
EUR 7.500,-
Rare Atlas of the Old World by Georgius Hornius
HORN, Georg - Description exacte de l'Univers: ou l'ancienne Geographie sacrée et profane. Haag, Pierre de Hondt, 1741. Zeitgenössischer Leder-Einband mit Rückenvergoldung. Folio [53,5 x 33 cm]. Mit 61 Karten.
EUR 9.500,-
First book edition of George Washington’s last speech in Congress and the first American binding bearing the Great Seal of the United States
WASHINGTON, George. Columbia's Legacy... To which is added, his speech to the congress, at their present session, which terminates his political career. Philadelphia, Sweitzer & Ormrod, December 10th, 1796.
EUR 45.000,-
d’Entrecasteaux’s important expedition to Australasia
LA BILLARDIÉRE, Jacques Julien Houtou de - Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse... Paris, (1799). 2 Text vols. and 1 Atlas; Modern Quarter-linen bindings [295 x 228 mm] and contemporary Quarter-leather large-folio [565 x 420 mm]. XVI, 442 pp. / 332, 113 (1). Atlas with 43 engraved plates and 1 double-paged copper engraved map of Australia, southeastern Africa and southern Asia.
EUR 3.500,-
Important architectural drawing album
MOOSBRUGGER, August Leopold (1802-1858) - Skizzenbuch mit über 200 Architektur-Zeichnungen von Häusern und Villen in Italien. Italien, 1816-21. Italien, 1816-1821. Gr.-8to.
EUR 7.500,- .
Very rare 1st edition of Golovnin’s second circumnavigation
GOLOVNIN, Vasily Mikhailovich (1776-1831) - Puteshestvie vokrug svieta po povelieniiu Gosudaria imperatora sovershennoe, na voennom shliupie Kamchatkie, v 1817, 1818 i 1819 godakh, flota kapitanom Golovninym [Voyage around the world by order of His Majesty, the Emperor, on naval sloop Kamchatka in 1817, 1818, and 1819, by Fleet Captain Golovnin] Two volumes. First Edition. Sankt Petersburg, 1822.
EUR 85.000,-
Rare Atlas of the Baudin expedition to Australia
PERON, Francois Auguste, Charles Lesueur and Nicolas Petit - Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes executé par ordre de S.M. l'Empereur et Roi. Partie historique rédigée par M.F. Péron. Atlas par MM. Lesueur et Petit. Paris, (1824). Extremely scarce second edition of this important atlas of the official account of the Baudin voyage to the Pacific. With 25 more plates than the first edition.
EUR 8.500,-
Early drawing album of Algeria
Deitte, Alphonse (1806-1856) - Album with 18 original drawings of views in Algeria. Made during the French colonisation in the 1840's. Algeria, 1840's.
Very rare and important drawing album from the early colonisation years of Algeria.
EUR 2.700,-
Extensive collection of drawings of the architectural elements of the Chartres Cathedral
„Cathedrale de Chartres“. 2 volumes with a total of 61 drawings. France, 1840s.
EUR 2.850,-
Beautiful hand-drawn illustrations corresponding to each letter in the alphabet
Max Freiherr von Berchem "Initialen-Bilder". (1852-1863). Twenty-seven richly decorated drawings illustrating animals, plants and concepts related to the natural world, whose initials correspond to the respective letters in the alphabet.
EUR 2.200,-
Highly important collection of fossil drawings from the specimens in Abdullah Bey’s collection of fossils
BERAL, Eloi; Abdullah Bey - Collection of 3 manuscripts with over 600 watercolor and ink drawings of Devonian fossils in the Bosporus Strait. Istanbul, 1869.
EUR 6.500,-
Highly important early manuscript with drawings of unidentified fossils from the Bosporus Strait
Abdullah Bey (Karl Eduard Hammerschmidt) (1800-1874) (attr.) Collection of over 100 watercolor drawings of fossils from the Bosporus Strait. Turkey, ca. 1870.
EUR 6.500,-
Constantine Photo Album
LEROUX, Alexandre - Constantine. Algeria, c.1880. Oblong-folio [355 x 470 mm] 18 pages. With 25 large photographs. Original blindstamped cloth with leather spine.
EUR 900,-
Important manuscript of a safari in British Somaliland in 1896
LEATHAM, Albert Edward - Somaliland. 1896. Large 8to (23 x 21 cm). Full blue Morocco gilt and gilt lettering to spine. 165 handwritten pages, 27 plates with 108 mounted original photographs.
EUR 6.500,-
Arctic Voyage
Polarfahrt mit dem D. "Grosser Kurfürst" des Norddeutschen Lloyd vom 27. Juni - 25. Juli 1908. Original-Aufnahmen Atelier Schaul, Hamburg. Album with 73 gelatin silver prints (157 x 222mm). Original red cloth, oblong folio (250 x 355mm)
EUR 1200,-