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North-West Passage not through Hudson Bay

ELLIS, Henry. Reize naar de baai van Hudson, ter ontdekkinge van eenen Noord-wester doortogt, gedaan in de jaaren 1746. en 1747.
Leiden, Elie Luzac jun., 1750. 8vo. With large folding engraved map (18 x 44.5 cm), and 9 engraved plates, mostly folding by N. van Frankendaal, with captions in French and Dutch. Contemporary red half roan. XXXII, 440 pp. Full description
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Cook's third voyage - an account by the assistant surgeon of the expedition

ELLIS, William. An authentic narrative of a voyage performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in his majesty's ships Resolution and Discovery, during the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780; in search of a North-West passage between the continents of Asia and America. Including a faithful account of all their discoveries, and the unfortunate death of Captain Cook.
London, G. Robinson, J. Sewell and J. Debrett, 1783. 2 volumes. 8vo. With one folding engraved chart showing the tracks and discoveries in the Pacific Ocean made by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke and 21 full-page engraved plates showing natives from the Sandwich Islands, views of islands, natives in canoes, a Kamtschatka travelling in the winter and many more. Contemporary calf. [12], 358, [1]; [4], 347, [4] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
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"A bouquet of poetic flowers" for the newly crowned Emperor of the First Mexican Empire (1822-1823)

EL RUSTICO ANFRISO [= Mariano BARAZÁBAL?]. Ramilletito alegorico de flores poeticas que de su simple huertecillo ofrece á nuestro amado Emperador, en el dia fausto de su coronacion, el rústico Anfriso.
[Mexico City], Mexico, Imprenta Imperial del Señor Valdés [= Alejandro Valdés y Téllez Girón], 1822. 22 x 16.2 cm. Marbled paper wrappers. 11, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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Collection of 28 early instalments of the most comprehensive scholarly work on Brazilian plants,
printed on large paper

ENDLICHER, Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus and Carl Friedrich Philipp von MARTIUS (editors). Flora Brasiliensis sive enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum ... Fasciculus I-XVIII(1-3), XIX-XX, XXIII, XXIX, XXXIV-XXXV, XLIV, and XLVII.
Vienna, Friedrich Beck and Leipzig, Friedrich Fleischer, 1840-1869. 28 fascicles in 20 volumes. Large folio (ca. 48 x 32.5 cm). With one large folding lithographed map of Brazil (hand-coloured in outline), 572 lithographed botanical plates (depicting numerous illustrations of plants and their seeds) and 57 tinted views (printed on 56 leaves) depicting landscapes with native vegetations lithographed by F.W.E. Bollmann, A. Brandmeyer, F. Hohe, M. Kuhn and C.A. Lebschée after designs by J.A. Ackermann, F. Deppe, T. Ender, G. Leuzinger, B. Mary, J.M. Rugendas, J.J. Steinmann, F.J. Stephan and H.A. Weddell.
Loose as issued in the original publishers printed wrappers or sewn with the spines covered in 19th century cloth. Full description
€ 15,000
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Conflict in the Caribbean: the Anglo-Spanish War resolved by the second Treaty of Madrid (1670)

[ENGLAND & SPAIN - TREATY OF MADRID]. [Gaspar de BRACAMONTE] and William GODOLPHIN. A treaty for the composing of differences, restraining of depredations, and establishing of peace in America, between the crowns of Great Britain and Spain. - Concluded at Madrid the 8/18th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1670. Translated out of Latin.
[London], in the Savoy, printed by the assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker [= Thomas Newcombe], printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1670. Small 4to. With a woodcut factotum and decorative bands built up from typographic ornaments (the crowned rose, harp, leak - depicted by a fleur-de-lis - and thistle representing England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland). Sewn. [1], [1 blank], 11, [1] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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One of the very few contemporary sources on pirates in the seventeenth century

EXQUEMELIN, Alexandre Olivier. Histoire des avanturiers qui se sont signalez dans les Indes ...
Paris, Jacques le Febvre, 1686. 4 parts in 2 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved title page in vol. 1, 3 engraved folding maps (the Caribbean, the Bay of Maracay in Venezuela, and the Isthmus of Panama), 4 engraved plates outside of collation, 5 decorated woodcut initials, 5 woodcut headpieces, and 4 woodcut tailpieces.
Contemporary gold tooled mottled brown calf. [32], 342, [22]; [6], "384"[=390], [24] pp. Full description
€ 8,500
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Collection of anti-British poetry written during a diplomatic crisis
between the Empire of Brazil and the British Empire

FAGUNDES VARELA, Luís Nicolau. O estandarte auri-verde cantos sobre a questao Anglo-Brazileira.
São Paulo, Typ. Imparcial, de J.R. de A. Marques, 1863. 8vo. Half dark green leather, marbled paper sides, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, marbled endpapers, and with the original blue printed wrappers bound in. [1], [1 blank], 24, [2] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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The division of Oregon Country between Britain and the United States of America

FÉDIX, P. A. L'Orégon et les côtes de l'Océan Pacifique du Nord, aperçu géographique, statistique et politique, avec une carte du pays d'après les documens les plus récens.
Paris, Librairie de Amyot (printed by Éd. Proux et Cie), 1846. 8vo. With a large folding map (40 x 52.5 cm) depicting what the United States called Oregon Country, dated 1846 and partly coloured in outline. Modern maroon half morocco. 258 pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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A previously unobtainable complete set of magnificent wall maps by Nicolas de Fer

FER, Nicolas de. [Set of five wall maps: America (1698), Africa (1698), Asia (1696), Europe (1695), and the World (1695)].
Paris, chez lauteur / van Loon, 1695-1698. Approximately 114 x 165 cm each. Copperplate engravings in original outline colour, tissue-backed for stability, laid down to modern cartographic linen. All with title banner dated 1698 with the Royal Privilege, and text panels dated 1703. Each map printed on four joined sheets with title surmounted and engraved text panels at sides and bottom. Full description
€ 850,000
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