Sam Gatteño Books: Seventeenth Century Books, Travel, Illustrated Books
| found: 4 books |
Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East Indies. Through the Black-Sea and the Country of Colchis.
London: printed for Moses Pitt in Duke-Street Westminster, 1686. 0. Hardcover. Folio. [vi], [viii], 417, [viii], [ii], 154, [vi]pp. Engraved added title-page and frontispiece. First edition. Contemporary calf, repaired. With folding map and 16 plates (11 folding). With an additional engraved title-page plate. With a title-page vignette. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author signed: D: Loggan ad vivum sculp. ESTC R12885. Frontispiece, engraved added title-page, and five plates present. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2503
USD 3600.00 [Appr.: EURO 3123.25 | £UK 2669.5 | JP¥ 523497]
Memoirs and observations topographical, physical, mathematical, mechanical, natural, civil, and ecclesiastical: Made in a late journey through the empire of China, and published in several letters.
London: Printed for Benj. Tooke at the Middle Temple Gate, and Sam. Buckley at the Dolphin over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, 1697. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [24], 527, [1]pp. A4, a8, B8-LL8. First edition. Title-page enclosed in a plain rule-border. Contemporary calf, rebacked. With 4 plates, 3 folding. With engraved frontispiece portrait (plate) of Emperor Cam-hy [i.e. K'ang-hsi] signed: M. Vander Gucht sculp. Wing L831; Cordier, Sinica 40-41; Lust 51; Cox I, 330; ESTC R15898. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 849
USD 1600.00 [Appr.: EURO 1388.25 | £UK 1186.5 | JP¥ 232665]
Observations Topographical, Moral, & Physiological; made in a Journey through part of the Low-Countries, Germany Italy & France: with a Catalogue of Plants not Native of England.
London: printed for John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1673. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii]ff. 499pp.; [iv]ff. 115pp. A8-Z8, Aa8-Ii8, Kk2, Aaa8-Ggg8, Hhh6. First edition. Two parts in one volume. Contemporary sheep, rebacked. With three folding plates, a portrait and a woodcut diagram in the text. Wing R399; ESTC R5715. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 93
USD 2350.00 [Appr.: EURO 2038.75 | £UK 1742.75 | JP¥ 341727]
The History and Antiquities of the County of Rutland: Collected from Records, Ancient Manuscripts, Monuments on the Place, and Other Antiquities. Illustrated with Sculptures.
London: Printed for Bennet Griffin at the Griffin in the Great Old Bailey and are to be sold by Christopher Wilkinson at the Black Boy and by Samuel Keble at the Turks Head in Fleet Street, 1684. 0. Hardcover. Folio. [viii], 140, [iv], 3-12pp. A4-T4, A6. First edition. Titlepage in red-and-black. Includes "Additions to the History of Rutlandshire" (1687), lacking in most copies. Contemporary calf. Double-page map with engraved plates in the text. Among the many plates are ten architectural renderings of the area's great houses and churches at the time of William and Mary, several of which are the only seventeenth-century engravings of the buildings. From the library of Baron Northwick, with his bookplate. ESTC R25215. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 956
USD 1000.00 [Appr.: EURO 867.75 | £UK 741.75 | JP¥ 145416]
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