Asher Rare Books

“to this day a major source of information about the land and peoples of Paraguay and Río de la Plata”

AZARA, Félix Manuel de. Voyages dans l'Amérique Méridionale, ... depuis 1781 jusqu'en 1801; contenant la description géographique, politique et civile du Paraguay et de la rivière de La Plata; ...
Paris, Dentu, 1809. 8vo (4 text volumes) and folio (1 atlas volume). With 3 folding tables and 25 engraved maps, plans, views and plates of animals and birds. Modern black half calf, gold-tooled spine. LX, 389; [4], 388-562; [4], II, 479; [4], 380 pp. Full description

€ 12,500

Argentina Birds - Ornithology Charts & Maps City Plans, Topography & Views Faunas & General Zoology Latin America Mammals South America Travel & Voyages South America

California absolutely unfit for habitation

[BAEGERT, Jakob]. Nachrichten von der Amerikanische Halbinsel Californien: mit einem zweyfachen Anhang falscher Nachrichten. Geschrieben von einem Priester der Gesellschaft Jesu, welcher lang darinn diese letztere Jahr gelebt hat.
Mannheim, Churfürstliche Hof und Academie Buchdruckerey, 1772. 8vo. With an engraved folding map and two full-page plates engraved by E. Verelst, some woodcut pictorial frames for letters, and several nice woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary half calf. [16], 358 pp.; [1] errata l. Full description

€ 9,500

Anthropology & Ethnography Jesuits North America

Four months on a windjammer to India: how to shorten a tiresome voyage in 1835

[AUTOGRAPH]. BALDWIN, John Timins. [Manuscript diary and drawing of his voyage to India].
[Onboard the ship from Portsmouth to Madras, India, 1835]. 4to. With a half-page pen drawing on p. 168 and a loosely inserted full-page drawing (16.5 x 22 cm) by Baldwin of a mausoleum in India. 20th-century grey paper over boards. [4] ll.; 189 pp. Full description

€ 6,500

India & Sri Lanka Manuscripts & Documents Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia

Rare account of a journey to the Leti Islands with beautiful descriptions of the local people and nature

BARCHEWITZ, Ernst Christoph. Neu-vermehrte Ost-Indianische Reise-Beschreibung, darinnen I. Seine durch Deutsch- und Holland nach Indien gethane Reise; II. Sein elfjähriger Aufenthalt auf Java ...; III. Seine Rückreise ...
Erfurt, Johann Friedrich Hartung, 1762. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a full-page map, and 6 engraved plates (5 folding, 1 full-page). Later gold-tooled brown half calf. [20], 687, [16] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southeast Asia Southern Africa Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia VOC

First edition of the magnificent work on the Dutch colony of Brazil,
the folio edition, complete with all plates and maps

BARLAEUS, Caspar. Rerum per Octennium in Brasilia et alibi nuper gestarum.
Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1647. Folio. With an engraved title-page, an engraved portrait of Johan Maurits van Nassau, 25 double-page engraved maps and plans, and 31 double-page engraved plates. Further with a woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Contemporary vellum, upper cover ruled in blind with blind-stamped floral vignette in center. [12, including title-page, frontispiece and portrait], 340, [8] pp. Full description

€ 36,500

Atlases & Globes Brazil Latin America South America WIC

Dutch edition of Barrow's Travels in China

BARROW, John. Reizen in China, ...
Haarlem, François Bohn, 1807-1809. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 10 engraved plates (6 folding, 1 double-page), the double-page plate with 2 portraits hand-coloured, 4 leaves with engraved music, and several woodcut and engraved illustrations in the text. Original publisher's boards. VIII, 288; VI, 334; VI, 341, [1] pp. Full description

€ 950

Anthropology & Ethnography Armory, Military Science & Technology China Military History (19th Century) Music, Theatre & Dance Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia

32 photographs depicting Tasmania in full glory

BEATTIE, John Watt. [Album with 32 photographs of Tasmania].
Hobart, [ca. 1895]. Oblong folio (30 x 41cm). With 32 original photographs (ca. 17 x 23 cm), pasted on paperboard. Later gold-tooled red morocco. Full description

€ 13,500

Australia City Plans, Topography & Views Photography

60 photographs by Bechard of Egyptians and Nubians

BÉCHARD, Henri Égypte et Nubie.
[ca. 1880]. 60 photographs on albumen paper, measuring 28 x 22 cm each, signed and captioned in the plate, numbered 1 through 68. Contemporary green half calf with gilt spine and title "Égypte & Nubie", initialed "B.C.D." on first plate. Full description

€ 45,000

Anthropology & Ethnography Egypt North Africa Photography

Illustrated edition of Beechey's famous Pacific voyage, including an Eskimo vocabulary

BEECHEY, Frederick William. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait...
London, Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1831. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With 3 lithographed maps (2 large folding), 20 engraved plates, 3 two-page folding plates, and 1 engraved illustration in the text. Contemporary half green morocco, marbled sides, gold-tooled title on spine, marbled edges. XXVI, [1], [1 blank], 472; IV, 330, [1], 331-452 pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Alaska Arctic & Antarctic North America Pacific Islands Travel & Voyages Australia Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific

Very rare map of North Holland in 1575

BEELDSNIJDER, Joost Jansz. Vernieuwde Kaart van Noordholland en Westfriesland, benevens het voornaamste gedeelte van Rhynland, en daar aan grenzende Landen.
Amsterdam, Yntema & Tieboel, 1778. (92 x 68 cm). Large hand-coloured engraved map on 2 sheets, decorated with arms, figures and products from the regions shown, and with the title at the foot. Framed. Full description

€ 7,250

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