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Battle of words over the best practical solution to the determination of longitude before Harrison's chronometer

LEY, Jan Hendrick Jarichs van der. Het gulden zeeghel des grooten zeevaerts, daerinne beschreven wordt de waerachtige grondt vande zeylstreken en platte pas-caerten ...
Leeuwarden, Abraham vanden Rade, 1615. Oblong 4to (16.5 x 22 cm). With an emblematic engraved device/navigational diagram on the title-page and 27 (of 28) woodcut figures: 18 printed on integral leaves and the others on 3 folding plates. 18th-century(?) half vellum, blue-green paper sides, with manuscript author and title on spine. 114, [2] pp. Full description
€ 55,000
Atlases & Globes Navigation VOC
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Opening the East for trade for the Dutch and the English

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van. Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert, ... naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien ...
Amsterdam, Cornelis Claesz., [1595-] 1596.
With:
(2) IDEM. Reys-gheschrift van de navigatien der Portugaloysers in Orienten, inhoudende de zeevaert, soo van Portugael naar Oost-Indien, als van Oost-Indien weder naer Portugael ...
Amsterdam, Cornelis Claesz., 1596 [= 1595].
Including: IDEM. Een seker extract ende sommier van alle de renten, domeynen, tollen, ... importen, trubuyten, thienden, derde-penninghen en[de] incomsten des coninghs van Spaengien ...
Amsterdam, Cornelis Claesz., 1596.
(3) IDEM. Beschijvinghe van de gantsche custe van Guinea, Manicongo, Angola, Monomotapa, ende teghen over de Cabo de S. Augustijn in Brasilien ...
Amsterdam, Cornelis Claesz., 1596. 4 parts in 1 volume. Small folio (ca. 31 x 21 cm). With 6 folding maps, 36 folding or double-page plates, a full-page author's portrait, and a large illustration on each of the 4 divisional title pages, all engraved. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum over modern boards (?), sewn on 5 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript author, title, and year of publication on the spine, red and blue sprinkled edges. [8], 160; 134, [4], 135-147; [82], [2 blank], [8] pp. Full description
€ 110,000
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Brazil East Africa Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Navigation North America South America Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages South America Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia West Africa West Indies
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Seminal guide to the East and West Indies, with 42 double-page and folding plates, including 6 maps, all engravings beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen van. Histoire de la navigation ... aux Indes Orientales ... Avec annotations de B. Paludanus, ... Troixiesme edition augmentee.
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen van. Le grand routier de mer, ...
[LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van]. Description de l'Amerique & des parties d'icelle, ...
Amsterdam, Evert Cloppenburg, 1638. Folio (32.5 x 21 cm). With 3 title-pages (2 from the same full-page engraving and 1 letterpress with an engraving of a ship in a cartouche with 4 inset city views), a nearly full-page engraved portrait of the author in a cartouche with 4 inset views, 42 engraved plates including 6 maps (31 double-page & 11 larger folding). All plates coloured by a contemporary hand. Near contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. [8], 206 pp.; [4], 181, [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], “86” [= 80], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 275,000
India & Sri Lanka Middle America Navigation Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia USA - United States of America West Indies
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Ground-breaking work on Brazilian ports

LISBOA, Alfredo (editor). Portos do Brasil 1822-1922. Texto e atlas.
Rio de Janeiro, Norte (vol. 1) and Castro, Mendonça & Cia. (vol. 2), 1922 & 1923. 2 volumes in 1. 4to. With 30 folding maps, 24 of which are coloured in blue and partly in red. Original publisher's dark green leather over paperboards, rebacked in black cloth. [1], [1 blank], IX, [1], “338” [= 336], [6]; [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Brazil Latin America South America
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Rare Dutch satire on Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

[LONGUEVILLE, Peter]. De kluizenaar; of de weergalooze rampen, en verwonderenswaerdige gevallen van Filip Quarll, Engelschman.
Rotterdam, Jan Daniel Beman, 1728. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, signed by Collan, a folding map of Quarll's island, and a folding plate of the shipwreck. The title page is printed in red and black and shows a small woodcut ornamental vignette, the work includes headpieces built up from typographic material, woodcut ornamental tailpieces, and woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, sprinkled paper sides, and a red paper label on the spine. [16], 292, 189, [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
Caricature & Satire Imaginary Voyages & Utopias Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Pacific Islands
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One of the best Robinson Crusoe imitations

[LONGUEVILLE, Peter]. The hermit: or, the unparalleld sufferings and surprising adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll, an Englishman: who was lately discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol merchant, upon an uninhabited island in the South-Sea...
London, printed for J. Wren, J. Jefferies and J. Fuller, 1751. 12mo. With engraved frontispiece and engraved map. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold fillets and red morocco title-label on spine. XII, 263, [1] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
English & American Literature Imaginary Voyages & Utopias Literature Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks
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Rare only edition of a Portuguese naval warfare handbook

LOPES DA COSTA ALMEIDA, Antonio. Compendio theorico-pratico de artilharia naval. Extractado, e redigido das obras dos mais celebres, e modernos authores e accomodado para servir de compendio lectivo ...
Lisbon, Royal Academy of Sciences, 1829. 4to. With 10 numbered folding lithographed plates. Contemporary gold-stamped red morocco with gold-stamped spine label. [4], VII, [1], 434, [4] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Armory, Military Science & Technology Military History (19th Century) Naval History Portugal
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Very rare early 19th-century naval prints of the Dutch East Indies

[LUTZ, J.A. (engraver) and Haatje Pieters OOSTERHUIS (draughtsman)]. De roemryke overwinning, der Palembangsche expeditie op de rivier de Sounsang in de Oost-Indien, door de Nederlandsche land en zeemagt op den 24 Juny 1821.
[Amsterdam, Js. Groenewoud, ca. 1822].
With:
(2) IDEM. Het naar boord brengen, van den Sultan Machmoed Badaroedin naar Z: M: Schooner de Johanna op de rivier de Sousang in de Oost-Indien op den 27 Junij 1821, na de roemrijke overwinning der Palembangsche expeditie.
[Amsterdam, Js. Groenewoud, ca. 1822].
Plate size ca. 32.5 x 43.5 cm. Two hand-coloured aquatint plates with engraved Dutch title and "Proefdruk" below the image. In passepartouts and uniformly framed behind glass (ca. 53.5 x 63.5 cm). Full description
€ 3,750
Art & Art History Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Prints & Print Series Ships & Shipbuilding Southeast Asia
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