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An important source on 18th-century Japan

TITSINGH, Isaac. Bijzonderheden over Japan, behelzende een verslag van de huwelijkse plegtigheden, begrafenissen en feesten der Japanezen. De Gedenkschriften der laatste Japansche keizers en andere merkwaardigheden nopens dat Rijk.
The Hague, the widow of J. Allart, 1824-1825. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 4 hand-coloured folding aquatint plates, and a hand-coloured engraved vignette on the title page of each volume. Contemporary marbled boards. XVI, 250; [1], [1 blank], 264 pp. Full description
€ 6,900
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"One of the most influential maps of America ever made"

[TODESCHI, Pietro]. [Nova et accurata totius Americae tabula auct. G. I. Blaeu] America quarta pars orbis quam plerunq, nuvum orbem apellitant primo detecta est anno 1492 a Christophoro Columbo...
[Bologna, Giuseppe Longhi?, 1673]. Ca. 86 x 110 cm. A hand-coloured engraved wall map, printed on 4 joined sheets. Full description
€ 65,000
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Chinese botany and agriculture, North America, Linnaeus and Benjamin Franklin

TORÉN, Olof. Voyage de Mons. Olof Torée[,] Aumonier de la Compagnie Suedoise des Indes Orientales, fait à Surate, à la Chine &c.
Milan, Reycends brothers, 1771.
With:
(2) ECKEBERG, Carl Gustaf. Précis historique de l'économie rurale des Chinois.
Milan, Reycends brothers, 1771.
(3) BLACKFORD, Dominique de. Précis de l'état actuel des colonies Angloises dans l'Amérique Septentrionale.
Milan, Reycends brothers, 1771. 3 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary French mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. 92; [4], 47, [1 blank]; 99, [1] pp. Full description
€ 3,250
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"Pioneering botanical, entomological, and petrographic observations"

TOWNSON, Robert. Travels in Hungary, with a short account of Vienna in the year 1793.
London, G. G. & J. Robinson, 1797 4to. With a folding hand-coloured engraved map, 16 engraved plates (some folding), and a folding engraved table. Modern half calf with gold on red spine label, marbled sides. xviii, [1], 506 pp. Full description
€ 2,000
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Very rare first edition of a very interesting early 19th-centure travel guide for The Netherlands

[TRAVEL GUIDE - THE NETHERLANDS]. Le voyageur dans les Pays-Bas Unis. Ouvrage indispensable pour chacun qui voyage dans ces Pays. Orné de 28 cartes, plans, vues, etc.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1815. 12mo. With a title vignette showing the Amsterdam publishing house of Evert Maaskamp, 3 folding maps, 13 double-page maps by I.B.D.B., 3 double-page city plans of Amsterdam, the Hague and Rotterdam, 6 full-page plates of the coins in use in The Netherlands on 1 folding leaf and 2 full-page plates of the ground floor of the Amsterdam city hall and Paleis Het Loo; all coloured by a contemporary hand. Original publisher's blue paper wrappers over boards. [2], 380, XXII, [10] pp. Full description
€ 1,850
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Spanish Infanta Maria Anna's journey to Vienna to marry the King of Hungary and Bohemia,
and future Holy Roman Emperor

[TRAVEL - INFANTA MARIA ANNA]. Relacion del viage de la Señora Reina de Ungria y alegrissimo recebimiento que la cesare magestad del Señor Emperador de Alemania, y Rey de Ungria su esposo le hizieron en primero de março de 1631.
Seville, Simon Faxardo, 1631. Folio. With the engraved Spanish royal coat of arms and a woodcut decorated initial, both on the first leaf. [4] pp. Full description
€ 2,000
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18th-century travel account along the estates and country houses of the Netherlands

[TRAVEL - LOW COUNTRIES] Het avantuurlyk zomer-tochtje, of omlands reisje, uit Holland door 't Sticht Utrecht, Over-Yssel, Gelderland, Cleeffland, de Myery van den Bosch, Breda, enz. Behelzende eenige nauwkeurige beschryvinge van vele aardige gevallen, vermakelyke gesprekken en aangename historien, op die reize gebeurt of gehoort. Opgestelt door iemand welke dat tochtje zelf met gezelschap gedaan heeft.
[Amsterdam?], printed for the author, 1735. Small 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, blue sprinkled edges. [8], 439 pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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