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Rare German translation of Speelman's expedition against the Kingdom of Makassar

[SPEELMAN, Cornelis Janszoon]. Journal, oder kurtze Erzehlung des Anfangs, Fort- und Aussgangs des Krieges, welcher zwischen dem König und mehrerer Regierunge des Reichs Macassar und der Oost-Indischen Compagnie der Vereinigten Niederlanden in den Jahren 1666, 1668 und 1669 geführet worden.
Hamburg, Gottfried Schulken, 1670. 4to. Disbound, preserving the original endpapers. [18] ll. Full description
€ 3,250
Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Military History (17th Century) Netherlands Southeast Asia VOC
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The bombardment of Alexandria, a night-attack of jihadic troops in Sudan and a survey in the Far East and Australia

SPINKS, Walter. [Album of watercolours drawn aboard HMS Myrmidon].
On board HMS Myrmidon, [1884-]1886[-1887]. Oblong 4to (17.5 x 25 cm). With 25 watercolours (including 1 double-page) and 13 pencil drawings, most of them captioned in pencil. Contemporary half-sheepskin album. [32] ll. Full description
€ 12,500
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Australia East Africa Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Malta Manuscripts & Documents Military History (19th Century) Naval History Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Australia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages Pacific Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia UK - United Kingdom
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A prosecutors enquiry into the traumatic 1796 Dutch capitulation
at Saldanha Bay near the Cape of Good Hope

SPOORS, Jakob. Rapport van Jakob Spoors, als fiscaal van den Hoogen Zee-krygsraad, omtrend het gedrag van den capitein Engelbertus Lucas en verdere commandanten der schepen behoord hebbende tot het esquader in den jaare 1796. Naar de Oost-Indien gedestineerd; benevens de resolutie en sententie ten deze door den Hoogen Zee Krygsraad genomen en geslagen.
The Hague, 's Lands-Drukkery, 1798. 8vo. With the woodcut great seal of the Batavian Republic - the French-dominated republican government of the Netherlands from 1795 to 1806 - on the title-page (an allegorical female figure representing Freedom, with spear and freedom hat and with her hand on a book on a stand, next to the Dutch lion holding a Dutch flag). Modern blue cloth, title in gold on spine, new endpapers. [2], 151, [1] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Law & Politics Military History (18th Century) Naval History Southern Africa
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First Dutch translation of medical manual by the surgeon general of Frederick the Great

THEDEN, Johann Christian Anton and A. SCHRAGE (translator). Genees- en heelkundig onderwys voor land- en zee-chirurgyns, vervattende een kort begrip der ontleed-, gezondheid-, ziekte-, genees- en heelkunde, nevens de nieuwste en zekerste genees- en heelmiddelen.
Amsterdam, J.B. Elwe, 1782. 8vo. With a small typographical ornament on the title-page. Contemporary gold- and blindtooled sheepskin, with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold on the spine, red sprinkled edges. [4], 439, [5] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
Military History (18th Century) Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea
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A voyage to India and China, edited by Linnaeus

TORÉN, Olof. Voyage de Mons. Olof Torée aumonier de la Compagnie Suedoise des Indes Orientales, fait à Surate, à la Chine &c. depuis le prémier avril 1750. jusqu'au 26. juin 1752.Milan, Les Freres Reycends, 1771. 12mo. Contemporary blue paper wrappers. 92 pp. Full description
€ 2,400
Agriculture China India & Sri Lanka Naval History Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia
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Conflict in the Caribbean: the Anglo-Spanish War resolved by the second Treaty of Madrid (1670)

[ENGLAND & SPAIN - TREATY OF MADRID]. [Gaspar de BRACAMONTE] and William GODOLPHIN. A treaty for the composing of differences, restraining of depredations, and establishing of peace in America, between the crowns of Great Britain and Spain. - Concluded at Madrid the 8/18th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1670. Translated out of Latin.
[London], in the Savoy, printed by the assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker [= Thomas Newcombe], printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1670. Small 4to. With a woodcut factotum and decorative bands built up from typographic ornaments (the crowned rose, harp, leak - depicted by a fleur-de-lis - and thistle representing England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland). Sewn. [1], [1 blank], 11, [1] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
Caribbean Islands Law & Politics Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Naval History Spain UK - United Kingdom
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Autograph letters, signed, and a draft, by a leading French Republican naval officer

[AUTOGRAPH]. TRUGUET, Comte Laurent Jean François. [Autograph letters, signed, to several recipients, mostly military colleagues and government officials].
Paris, 1815-1839. 8vo (mostly ca. 19 x 13 cm). 10 signed autograph letters in French, plus a draft for another, written in ink on laid and wove paper, 3 with their red wax seals or parts of seals (2 more with traces of former seals), and 6 with recipients' addresses. [24] ll. incl. 2 blanks. Full description
€ 6,500
Autographs & Letters France Military History (19th Century)
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The conflict between Europe and the Ottoman Empire for control of the Mediterranean

[ULLOA, Alfonso de]. La historia dell'impresa di Tripoli di Barbaria, fatta per ordine del Sereniss. Re Catolico, l'anno M.D.LX. Con le cose avenute a Christiani nell'Isola delle Zerbe. Nuovamente mandata in luce.
Venice, Francesco Rampazetto, 1566. 4to. 18th-century(?) sheepskin parchment. [7], [1 blank], 88, [4] ll. Full description
€ 7,500
Early Printing - 16th century Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Malta Military History (16th Century) North Africa & Egypt Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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Famous Dutch voyages of discovery, with 2 maps, 1 plan and 61 plates

[VOC - WIC]. Nederlandsche reizen, tot bevordering van den koophandel, na de meest afgelegene gewesten des aardkloots. ... Met plaaten. Eerste[-veertiende of laatste] deel.
Amsterdam, Peterus Conradi; Harlingen, W. van der Plaats, 1784-1787. 14 volumes bound as 6. 8vo. With 2 engraved folding maps, 1 engraved folding city plan and 61 engraved plates (56 folding) including many topographic views. Uniform half tree calf (ca. 1820?), gold-tooled spines. Full description
€ 9,500
Australia China Eastern Europe Japan & Far East Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Pacific Islands Russia (incl. Siberia) Scandinavia South America Southeast Asia Southern Africa Surinam Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages South America VOC WIC
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