Cartography & Exploration

LUDOLF, Job (Hiob LUDOLPHUS). Sciagraphia historiae Aethiopicae, sive regni Abessinorum, quod vulgo perperam Presbyteri Johannis vocatur, deo volente, aliquando in lucem proditurae.
Jena, Samuel Krebs, 1676. 4to. Set in roman types with some italic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and especially Ethiopic type. Late 19th-century textured blue half cloth. [40] pp. Full description

LUNET DE LA JONQUIÈRE, Étienne. Le Siam et les Siamois.
Paris, Armand Colin (colophon: printed by Charles Hérissey), 1906. 8vo. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. [4], 358 pp. Full description

LUYNES, Honoré d'Albert de. Voyage d'exploration à la mer Morte, à Petra et sur la rive gauche du Jourdain. ... Oeuvre posthume publiée par ses petit-fils sous la direction de M. le Comte de Vogüé.
Paris, Arthus Bertrand (on back of half-title: printed by E. Martinet (vols. 1-2) and Arnous de Rivière (vol. 3)), [1874]. 3 volumes of text and 1 atlas of plates. Imperial 4to (35.2 x 26.5 cm). With 14 numbered lithographed plates in volume 3 (4 double-page chromolithographed maps, views and geological sections; 2 further geological plates and 8 plates showing archaeological specimens), 85 plates in the atlas volume (including 65 photogravures and double-page chromolithographed maps) and numerous wood-engravings in the text. Set in roman and italic types with occasional passages in Greek and especially Arabic. Text volumes in original publisher's letterpress-printed light blue wrappers, atlas in half cloth portfolio with the original publisher's letterpress-printed paper sides, matching the text volumes; the 4 volumes preserved in 2 modern black half calf clamshell boxes. [8], 388; [6], 226; [4], VI, 326; [4] pp. Full description

LYNCH, Henry Blosse. Notes on the present state of the Karun river, between Shushter and the Shat-el-Arab.
[London, Wiley, October 1891]. 4to. With a lithograph illustration in the text. Modern blue wrappers. 592-595 pp. Full description

[MAASKAMP, Evert]. Reis door België in het jaar 1814.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp; Brussels, P.J. de Mat, 1815. 8vo. With a lithographed title-page, 3 folding engraved plates (1 hand coloured in outline), 3 aquatint plates printed in sepia, 2 engraved plates printed in sepia (1 double-page) and 2 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin. XX, 200, [2 blank], [10] pp. Full description

[MAASKAMP, Evert (editor)]. Merkwaardige gezigten, gebouwen, monumenten en standbeelden in de noordelijke provintien van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden. | Vues remarquables, edifices, monumens et statues dans les provinces septentrionales du Royaume des Pays-Bas.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1816. Oblong 8vo. With an engraved illustration on title-page and 37 sepia aquatints by Ludwig Portman after Gerrit Jan Michaëlis, Franciscus Aandreas Milatz, and Cornelius Overman. Contemporary gold-tooled dark blue boards. [40] ll. + 37 plates. Full description

[MAASKAMP, Evert (publisher)]. [Collection of 13 aquatint views of Amsterdam].
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, [ca. 1826]. Oblong 4to (21 x 25 cm). With 13 sepia aquatint plates (image size ca. 15.5 x 19 cm). Contemporary green boards. [13] ll. Full description

MAASKAMP, Evert. Geschiedkundige kaart der Nederlanden. | Carte historique des Pays-Bas.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1830. Map (plate size 48 x 38 cm) engraved by "Giersbergen et fils", printed on silk and hand-coloured in outline, with the title at upper left, a dedication at lower left, and a key and scale (ca. 1:1,000,000) at lower right.
With: (2) MAASKAMP, Evert. Handboek, ter verklaring der geschiedkundige kaart van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden, en der wereldkaart; behelzende eene opgave van de roemrijkste en lofwaardste daden der Nederlanders, derzelver krijgsbedrijven te land en ter zee, scheepstochten, ontdekkingen, uitvindingen enz.; als mede van zoodanige voorname personen, die in wetenschap, kunst of heldenmoed, hebben uitgeblonken.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1830. 8vo. With a folding engraved map of the world, with the continents hand-coloured. Contemporary red boards, boards gold-tooled along the extremities. VIII, 8, 1-38, 37-77, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank]. Full description

MACEDO, Joaquim José da Costa de. Memoria em que se pertende provar que os Arabes não conhecerão as Canarias antes dos Portuguezes.
Lisbon, printing office of the Academia Real das Sciencias, 1844. Folio. With a woodcut Portuguese coat of arms on the title-page. Modern brown paper wrapper. [4], 232 pp. Full description

MACKIE, J.B. Hasa: an Arabian oasis.
[London, W. Clowes, March 1924]. 4to. With 9 black and white photograph illustrations. Modern blue wrappers. 189-207 pp. Full description