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First account of the first official British diplomatic mission to China

STAUNTON, George Leonard. An authentic account of an embassy from the king of Great Britain to the emperor of China.
London, W. Bulmer and Co. for G. Nicol, 1798. 2 text volumes and 1 plate volume. 4to and folio plate volume. With 44 engraved plates in the atlas (1 folding map, 6 double-page plates and 37 full-page), 2 frontispieces in the text volumes (1 each), 1 full-page plate, and 25 vignettes in the text. Early 19th-century elaborately gold- and blind-tooled brown calf, with a red morocco title label and green morocco author and volume label on the spine, gold-tooled edges and turn-ins, marbled end papers. The atlas in gold-tooled half brown calf, with the same spine as the text volumes, marbled paper sides. [2], XXXIV, 518; [2], XX, 626 pp. + 44 plates. Full description
€ 18,000
China Law & Politics Travel & Voyages East Asia UK - United Kingdom
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Unconventional travel account giving a fresh look at the declining Dutch overseas empire

STAVORINUS, Johan Splinter. Voyages par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance dans l'archipel des Molucques, de 1768 a 1771 et de 1774 a 1778 ...
Paris, Maradan, 1805. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 4 engraved plates (3 folding) and 5 folding engraved maps. 19th-century gold-tooled half sheepskin. VII, [1 blank], 5-386; 361, [7]; VIII, “434” [= 430], [2] pp. Full description
€ 1,450
Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Slavery Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia VOC
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Splendid large-paper copy in beautiful hand-colouring of the first English edition
of the most famous work on Dutch Surinam

STEDMAN, John Gabriel. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the history of that country, and the description of its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & negroes of Guiana ...
London, printed by J. Johnson and J. Edwards, 1796. 2 volumes. Large 4to (ca. 29 x 22.5 cm). With an engraved frontispiece, 2 identical engraved title pages with a vignette, and 80 engraved plates (including 3 folding maps and a large folding view of Paramaribo), all beautifully coloured by hand, and occasionally heightened with gold. Uniform contemporary gold-tooled calf, re-backed with a later gold-tooled spine with two red title labels lettered in gold. XVIII, 407, [9]; IV, 404, [7] pp. Full description
€ 35,000
Anthropology & Ethnography Faunas & General Zoology Fishes Floras & General Botany South America Surinam Travel & Voyages South America
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Explorations in Chinese Turkistan and adjacent parts of innermost Asia

STEIN, Marc Aurel. On ancient Central-Asian tracks. Brief narrative of three expeditions in innermost Asia and north-western China.
London, MacMillan and Co., 1933. With frontispiece, map and 147 illustrations (some folding). Original publisher's brown/red cloth. xxiv, 342, [2] pp. Full description
€ 1,800
Archaeology Art & Art History China Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia
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Romantic travels in Germany, Switzerland and Italy

STOLBERG, Friedrich Leopold. Reis door Duitschland, Zwitserland, Italie en Sicilie. Uit het Hoogduitsch.
Amsterdam, J. Allart, 1798-1801. 4 vols. + atlas-vol. 8vo. With 19 folding engraved views by D. Vrijdag after the German originals, and 6 folding leaves with engraved musical scores. Contemporary half calf. XVI, 469, (1); 479, (1); 586, (2); 386, (2) pp. Full description
€ 2,250
Germany Italy Switzerland Travel & Voyages Europe
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98 lovely engravings of the Vecht region by Stoopendaal

[STOOPENDAAL, Daniël and Andries de LETH]. De zegepraalende Vecht, vertoonende verscheidene gesichten van lustplaatsen, heeren huysen en dorpen; beginnende van Uitrecht en met Muyden besluytende.
Including: [BRUIN, Claas]. Speelreis langs de Vechtstroom, op de uitgegeevenen gezichten van de zeegepraalende Vecht.
Amsterdam, Widow of Nicolaus Visscher, 1719. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, 1 engraved map of the river Vecht and 102 engravings on 51 leaves (numbered 1-98). Contemporary red half sheepskin. [2], 16, 37, [1 blank] pp Full description
€ 2,000
Architecture Castles, Gardens & Mansions City Plans, Topography & Views Netherlands
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Best edition of Strabo's "Geographika" including Casaubon's notes, with descriptions of the Arabian Peninsula

STRABO. Rerum geographicarum libri XVII.
Paris, typis Regiis [Fédéric Morel], 1620. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With title-page printed in red and black with the engraved coat of arms of Louis XIII, and several woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled parchment, gilt edges. [12], 843, [112]; [4], 282, [8] pp. Full description
€ 8,500
Aldine Press Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Geography Iran / Persia North Africa & Egypt
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First Spanish edition of Strahlenberg’s work on the exploration of Russia and Northern Asia

STRAHLENBERG, Philipp Johann von and Josef Vicente TOMÁS Y CATALÁ (translator). Nueva descripcion geographica del imperio Ruso, en particular y en general de todas las provincias que componen aquel dilatado imperio, con muchas noticias historicas antiguas y modernas.
Valencia, Francisco Burguete, 1780. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. With a woodcut printers device on both title-pages (of part 1 and part 2) and two decorated initials (one at the start of each part). Contemporary vellum with ink-lettering to spine. [28], 188; [8], 237, [1] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Anthropology & Ethnography Arctic & Antarctic Central Asia Eastern Europe Geography Other World Religions Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Europe
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19th-century North America described in great detail: a Dutch translation of a three year-tour

STUART, James. (J.M. VERSTEEGH, transl.). Drie jaren in Noord Amerika.
Gorinchem, Jacobus Noorduyn, 1835-1836. 3 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved title-page in each volume, showing indigenous Americans stopping of an execution of two Europeans with a raiding convoy in the background, lithographed by Hilmar Johannes Backer (1804-1845) after a design by Haatje Peters Oosterhuis (1799-1854). Also with a frontispiece showing the Niagara Falls, a lithograph by Hilmar Johannes Backer. Contemporary half calf, brown marbled-paper sides. [2], XVI, 404, [1], [1 blank]; VII, [1 blank], 382; VII, [1 blank], 386, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
North America Travel & Voyages North America USA - United States of America
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Arabic travel account from the early Abbasid era, concerning China and India: rare English edition

SULAYMAN AL-TAJIR and ABU ZAID HASAN IBN YAZID, AL-SIRAFI. (Eusèbe RENAUDOT, editor). [Silsilat al-tawarik - English]. Ancient accounts of India and China, by two Mohammedan travellers, who went to those parts in the 9th century.
London, Samuel Harding, 1733. 8vo (ca. 12 x 20 cm). With a wood-engraved printer's device and the half-title-page and title-page printed in red and black. Contemporary blind-tooled panelled calf, sewn on 6 supports creating 6 compartments on the gold-tooled spine. With a red morocco title-label lettered in gold on the spine, red sprinkled edges. XXXVII, (1), 260, VII pp. Full description
€ 28,000
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East UAE - United Arab Emirates
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