Sam Gatteño Books: Eighteenth Century Books, Travel
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Atlas Elementar. metodo nuevo, breve, facil y demostrativo para aprender la Geografia por si mismo, ó enseñarla aun á los Niños.
En Madrid: en la Oficina de Pantaleon Aznar, 1786. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Two parts in one volume. I: [x], 222pp.; II: [ii], 44, [ii]pp. A4-Z4, Aa4-Ff4, A4-F4. "Nuevo tratado de la esfera," has separate title-page and separate pagination. Contemporary sheep, rubbed. With 22 maps and 2 plates of spheres, all hand-colored. With an ink stain in the middle of page one of part one. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1928
USD 2250.00 [Appr.: EURO 2101.75 | £UK 1802 | JP¥ 356070]
The Chinese Traveller containing a Geographical, Commerical and Political History of China.
London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly, 1775. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. Two volumes. I: vii, 267pp.; II: iii, [300]pp. I: a4, A12-L12, M2; II: []2 A12-M12, N6. Second edition. Modern light blue half goatskin. Spine slightly darkened. With 6 plates & map. Map mounted, due to slight damage to gutter & foreedge. Frontispiece of Confucius & folding plate of Vegetation & Chinese language list in vol I. Folding map of China, Silk Manufacture scenes & Catching Water Fowl plates in vol II. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1946
USD 2900.00 [Appr.: EURO 2709 | £UK 2322.5 | JP¥ 458934]
Curiöse Beschreibung der auserlesnesten Merckwürdigkeiten, so in denen dreyen Welt-Theilen Asia, Africa und America zu Finden, ...
Augsburg: Zu finden bey Andreas Brinhausser, 1765. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [4], 362, [18]pp. A12-Q12. Contemporary quarter vellum over marbled boards. Three leaves of plates. With engraved frontispiece by J. Bäck and 2 folding engraved plates [1721 first edition]. Sabin 17986 (1784 edition); not in Cordier. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1951
USD 700.00 [Appr.: EURO 654 | £UK 560.75 | JP¥ 110777]
Windsor, and its environs. Containing the curiosities of the town and palace, the Royal chapel of St. George, and the seats in the neigbourhood of Windsor. With a particular account of the ceremonies of the installation of the Knights of the Garter.
London: printed for Newbery and Carnan, at No. 65, the North Side of St. Paul's Church-Yard; and J. Blakeney, in Windsor, 1768. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [iv], 94, [ii]pp. First edition. With final leaf of addenda and errata. Below imprint in square brackets: price One Shilling. Nineteenth-century red morocco over marbled boards. With two frontispieces. ESTC T65422; Roscoe, A631 (1). With the armorial bookplate of Sir Archibald Grant of Monymusk, Second Baronet, as well as his signature and acquisition date, August 1771, on title-page. ESTC records copies at the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the Bodleian, Harvard, McMaster, and Northwestern (the on-line catalogue does not record it). Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2746
USD 3500.00 [Appr.: EURO 3269.5 | £UK 2803 | JP¥ 553886]
A Voyage to Guinea, Brasil, and the West-Indies; in His Majesty's Ships the Swallow and Weymouth, ...
London and Scarborough: Printed for Ward and Chandler, at the Ship, just without Temple Bar; and at their shops in Coney-street, York, and the Corner of the Long-Room-street, Scarborough, 1737. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [iv], [xxv], 265, [vii], 16pp. []2, a8, b5, B8-R8, A4-B4. Second edition. Engraved title-page vignette. Erratic pagination. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Hanson 4805; Cox I, pp. 78-79; Hough & Hough 164; Sabin 2275; European Americana 737/27; Palau 19361; JCB (1)III:534; Cundall 2014; Borba de Moreas I, pp.53-54. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1927
USD 2500.00 [Appr.: EURO 2335.25 | £UK 2002.25 | JP¥ 395633]
Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Travel
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773.
Edinburgh: printed by J. Ruthven, for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, London, 1790. 0. Hardcover. Large quarto. First authorized edition. Five volumes. I: 6ff. lxxxiii, 535pp.; II: 2ff. viii, 718pp.; III: 2ff. viii, 759pp.; IV: 2ff. viii, 695pp.; V: 2ff. xiv, 230, [9]index, [1]errata pages. Modern half calf over marbled boards. Engraved title-page ornaments, engraved head- piece, fifty-eight engraved plates and three engraved folding-maps by Heath and I. Beuge, along with seven typographic pages of Ethiopic characters. I: 8 plates & 4 leaves Ethiopian script; II: 4 plates; IV: 3 battle plans; V: 43 plates and 3 folding maps. Blakmer 221; Cox I, 388; Ibrahim-Hilmy, p. 90; ESTC T51608. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1567
USD 3500.00 [Appr.: EURO 3269.5 | £UK 2803 | JP¥ 553886]
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773.
Dublin: printed by William Sleater, for P. Wogan, L. White, P. Byrne, W. Porter, W. Sleater, J. Jones, J. Moore, B. Dornin, C. Lewis, W. Jones, G. Draper, J. Milliken, and R. White, 1790. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Six volumes. I: lxxx, 381pp.; II: [viii], 592pp.; III: [vi], 687pp.; IV: [viii], 775pp.; V: [viii], 496pp.; VI: xxiv, 286, [xii], [iii] pp. First authorized Dublin edition. Contemporary blue half calf over marbled boards. With 56 plates on 63 leaves, including 6 folding maps and plans, tables of weather, index. Altogether 60 engraved plates (1 double-plate) and 3 large engraved maps by Bruce. I: six plates; II: three plates including one fold-out: III: three plates including one fold-out map; IV: three sheets, printed on one side only, offering a "First Battle Observation" followed by "Second" and "Third." Illustrated with four plates including three fold-out battle plans and maps; V: no plates; VI: Forty-three plates plus three large fold-out maps. Cox I, p. 381; Nissen 6127; Blackmer 434; NZI 617; ESTC N27890 Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1629
USD 3500.00 [Appr.: EURO 3269.5 | £UK 2803 | JP¥ 553886]
Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and part of the East-Indies. Containing, an accurate description of whatever is most remarkable in those countries.
London: printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, S. Birt, C. Davis, J. Clarke, S. Harding D. Browne, A. Millar, J. Shuckburgh, and T. Osborne, 1737. 0. Hardcover. Folio. Two volumes. I: [vi], 246pp.; II: [ii], 223, [xii]pp. Text printed in double-columns. First English edition, originally published in Dutch (Amsterdam 1711) and preceded by a French translation (Amsterdam 1718). Contemporary calf. With engraved allegorical frontispiece by Bernard Picart, portrait of De Bruyn by Valck after Kneller, 3 double-page maps (route from Amsterdam to Moscow and Ispahan, Russian Empire, route from the Gulf of Hormuz to Java), 43 illustrations in the text and 261 engravings on 104 sheets (28 double-page or folding and including the long folding panoramas of Archangel, Astrakhan, Persepolis and Moscow). Ghani p. 221; Wilson p. 33; Lipperheide 547 (Dutch edition), ESTC T110676 Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1631
USD 10000.00 [Appr.: EURO 9340.75 | £UK 8008.5 | JP¥ 1582532]
A Voyage to the Levant: or, Travels in the principal parts of Asia Minor, the islands of Scio, Rhodes, Cyprus, With an account of the most considerable cities of Egypt, Syria and the Holy Land.
London: printed for Jacob Tonson, within Gray's Inn-Gate in Gray's Inn-Lane; and Thomas Bennet, at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1702. 0. Hardcover. Folio. [3]ff. 288pp. [4]ff. The first edition of the English translation. Contemporary calf. With 200 folded copper-plates, a map, and an engraved portrait of Bruyn after Kneller. Atabey 160 (60); Cobham-Jeffery p.7; cf. Blackmer 225 (later French edition); ESTC T128612. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1641
USD 10000.00 [Appr.: EURO 9340.75 | £UK 8008.5 | JP¥ 1582532]
A Tour to the East in the Years 1763 and 1764, with remarks on the City of Constantinople and the Turks. Also select pieces of Oriental wit, poetry and wisdom.
London: Printed by W. Richardson and S. Clark, 1767. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [ii], iv, 167pp. []1, A2, B8-L8, M4. Engraved title-page with vignette. First edition. There was also a revised and enlarged edition in the same year, with plates and a map (ESTC N13716). Later cloth. Atabey 183; Weber II, 551; Blackmer 272; ESTC T144998. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1774
USD 3500.00 [Appr.: EURO 3269.5 | £UK 2803 | JP¥ 553886]
Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768.
London: C. Dilly, H. Payne, and J. Phillips, 1781. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [6], 22, [16], i-xvi, 17-543, [21]pp. []2, A4, A4-C4 [C4 blank], b8, A1, A8, []3?, B8-Z8, Aa8-Mm8, Nn4, Oo2. Third edition, considered the best. Per Howes, second issue. Contemporary calf. With handcolored maps and plates. With engraved frontispiece portrait, four black and white engraved plates, two hand-colored engraved maps, and one hand-colored engraved plate of a tobacco plant. Howes C215; Field 251; Sabin 11184; Vail 670; Parker, The Journals of Jonathan Carver and Related Documents 1766-1770 222-224 (I, III). Lowndes I, 383; Cox II, 151; Arents III, 890, 916A; Streeter III, 1772; ESTC T133716. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2170
USD 5000.00 [Appr.: EURO 4670.5 | £UK 4004.25 | JP¥ 791266]
Travels in North-America, in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782. Translated from the French by an English Gentleman, who resided in America at that Period.
London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row, 1787. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Two volumes. I: xv, 462pp.; II: xii, 432pp. I: A8-Z8, Aa8-Ff8, Gg7; II: a4, b2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Ee8. First English edition. Contemporary half calf. With two folding engraved maps and three folding plates. ESTC T74648. Ex-library copy, with the name of the institution perforated on the title-pages and some other ones. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2073
USD 950.00 [Appr.: EURO 887.5 | £UK 761 | JP¥ 150341]
Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and America. To Which are added, the Conquest of Siberia, and the History of the Transactions and Commerce between Russia and China.
London: printed by J. Nichols for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1780. 0. Hardcover. Large quarto. xx, 344, [xvi]pp. First edition. Three parts in one. With four large folding plates by T. Kitchin and one engraved folding plate by Cheevers. Modern sheep with red spine label. ESTC T134277; Sabin 17309; Hill, p. 71; Streeter VI, 3481. A very good copy. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2710
USD 4200.00 [Appr.: EURO 3923.25 | £UK 3363.5 | JP¥ 664664]
A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople in a Series of Letters from the Right Honourable Elizabeth Lady Craven, to His Serene Highness the Margrave of Brandenbourg.
London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1789. 0. Hardcover. Large quarto. [viii], 327pp. []4, B4-Z4, Aa4-Tt4. With the half-title present. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked. With a folding map as a frontispiece and six plates (one folding). From the library of Chalmers Hadley. Blackmer, 424; Robinson (Wayward Women), p. 87; Cox I, pp.197-8; Weber GT695; Atabey 2976; ESTC T134670. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2072
USD 1200.00 [Appr.: EURO 1121 | £UK 961 | JP¥ 189904]
A new Voyage Around the World. Describing particularly, The Isthmus of America, several Coasts and islands in the West Indies, the Isles of Cape Verd, the Passage by Terra del Fuego, the South Sea Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, ...
London: printed for James Knapton, 1703, 1699, 1703. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Three volumes. I: vi, 550, [4]pp.; II: preface, 184, 132, 112pp. Plus index; III: ?. Contemporary calf. With: I: 5 maps and charts; II: 4 maps; III: 1 map and 14 plates. With the ownership inscription of George Weller. Cox, p. 43; Sabin 18375. According to Sabin, volume I is 5th edition, and volumes II and III are first editions. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2167
USD 6000.00 [Appr.: EURO 5604.5 | £UK 4805 | JP¥ 949519]