DOW, T.K. (Editor):

The Government handbook of Victoria. An Australian Colony. Preface by J.W. Taverner. Melbourne, Robert S. Brain, about 1898.

. Pp. 194. With many photographic illustrations. Modern green cloth, gilt and with title label on spine with the original stapled paper covers bound in. Front cover strengthened.

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Book number: 29135

Catalogue: Oceania incl. Pacific

Keywords: Oceania incl. Pacific, oceania, australia, explore, exploration, oceanie, australie, explorations, expéditions, ozeanien, pazifisch, oceanie, pacifique, Victoria, taverner

DRUMMOND, H.:

Central-Afrika. Stockholm 1890.

. Small 8vo. Pp. 194. With one coloured large folding map and 8 plates. Old inscriptions on title. Modern half calf. A Swedish translation.

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Book number: 15069

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, africana, afrique, central africa, centralafrika, central africa, equatorial africa, l'Afrique centrale, afrika, zentralafrika, afrique central

DRYSELIUS, ERLAND BENEDIKT:

Luna turcica eller turkeste måne. Anwijsandes lika som uti en spegel det mahometiske wanskelige regementet, fördelter uti fyra qwarter eller böcker. Jönköping, Petter Hultman, 1694.

. Pp. (xvi), 350, (1), 352-424, 424-515, (3). With 12 plates of which 11 of sultans. Contemporary calf, worn, spine ends gone. Old inscriptions on paste downs. Occasionally some minor staining. Stamps on title page. Dryselius (1641-1708) was a Swedish priest and scholar. This work deals with the origin of the Turks, their history, religion, customs and manners, laws, commerce, churches, etc. The illustrations are done by the printer Hultman himself. It is the first Swedish work on the history of Turkey and the Ottoman empire. Hierta 913.

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Book number: 100245

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, turkey, turkish, islam, mohamed, east, eastern, levant, ottoman, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, exploration, travel

DUBEN (DÜBEN, DUEBEN), C. VON:

Forskningarna i Central-Afrika. Stockholm 1878.

. Pp.148. With a large folding map (in a pocket). Cloth. A Swedish translation of the English "Science Primers", mainly published for school use.

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Book number: 14216

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, afrika, afrique, africana, science, exploration, explore, central africa, centralafrika, central africa, equatorial africa, l'Afrique centrale, afrika, zentralafrika, afrique central

DÜBEN, GUSTAF VILHELM JOHAN VON:

Resa till Kap, Ostindien och Kina, åren 1844-1846. Stockholm, L.J. Hjerta, 1847.

. Small 8vo. Pp. viii, 159. Contemporary half calf, spine richly gilt, rubbed, top of spine chipped. Copy of Axel De la Gardie with his filt monogram on spine. This is a narrative of a voyage to South Africa, India and China. The author was a Swedish medical doctor and professor in anatomy and physiology. He was particulary interested in the natural history of the places he visited. The voyage went to the Cape and from there continued to Mocambique, Zanzibar, Aden (Yemen), Muskat, Bombay, Singapore before reaching Macao and (Whampoa) Canton. His interesting description of Canton contains information about crops and vegetation, opium smoking and its trade, foot binding, tea and bamboo, medical practices, pirates, etc. Cordier BS 2505. Not in Mendelssohn.

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Book number: 99965

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asie, asiatica, orient, east, asien, far east, china, kina, chinese, travel, exploration,

DUPUIS, JEAN:

[TRADE - TONKIN AND SOUTHERN CHINA]. L'ouverture du fleuve rouge au commerce et les événements du Tong-kin 1872-1873. Journal de voyage et d'Expédition. Prèface par le Mis de Croisier. Paris, Challamel Ainé, 1879.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), xiii, 324, (2). With one portrait and one large folding map ("routes commerciale du sud-quest de la Chine"). Marbled paper covered boards, calf spine lettered in gilt. Original wrappers bound in. Occasionally some staining. First edition. Jean Dupuis (1828-1912) was a French merchant who was very active seeking a trading route between Yunnan and the delta of Tonkin via the Red River. His account explains the difficulties with customs and the controversies and fights with the Black Flag Army who helped the Vietnamese government to defeat the French. In 1881 Dupuis was awarded the Delalande Guérineau prize by the Academy of Sciences in Paris. ("Mémoires de la Société Académique Indo-Chinoise de Paris. Tome deuxième"). Cordier BI 2518-9.

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Book number: 100255

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, tonkin, vietnam, vietnamese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, commerce, trade, china, chine, chinese, kina,

DUSÉN, PER KARL HJALMAR:

Om kartläggningen af Kejsar Frans Josefs fjord och Konung Oscars fjord. [On the mapping of Kaiser Frans Joseph Fjord and King Oscar Fjord]. Stockholm 1900.

. Pp. 229-236. Wrappers, Title in manuscript on front cover together with dedication to Prof. G. De Geer by the author. Offprint form Ymer (1900, H. 2). Hulth 228.

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Book number: 100155

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, grönland, greenland, nordic, norden, polar, arctic, travel, exploration,

DUSOMMERAND, M.A.:

Notices sur l'hotel De Cluny et sur le palais des Thermes. Paris 1834.

. 278 pp. Half calf by Vogt, Berlin. Barbier III,487.

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Book number: 14218

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, europe, europa

EBERS, GEORG MORITZ:

Aegypten in bild und wort. Dargestellt von unseren ersten Künstlern. Two volumes. Stuttgart & Lpz 1879-80.

. Folio. Pp. iv, vi, vi, 387; xii, 432. With 2 coloured lithographed maps, many full page woodcut plates and further more textual illustrations. Publisher's original morocco backed cloth richly gilt, upper covers elaborated in gilt and with turqouise stones, spines gilt in compartments, lettered in gilt, g.e. Somewhat rubbed and corners slightly bumped. Bookplates. Slight foxing to endpapers and occasionally some staining. First edition. Ebers, professor in Egyptology at Leipzig, made two journeys to Egypt in 1869-70 and in 1872. Blackmer 528. Ibrahim-Hilmy i, 205.

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Book number: 17018

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, afrika, africana, afrikana, travels, exploration, exploring, voyage, egypt, aegypten, egypten, Egyptology

EDINBURGH.

EDINBURGH. Set of the City of Edinburgh, with the Acts of Parliament. Edinburgh 1783.

. Pp. x, 145. Contemporary calf, slightly stained. With 4 raised bands and title-label on spine. Fine, interleaved copy.

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Book number: 13057

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, europe, europa, england, scotland, edinburgh, royaume umi

EEKMAN, NICOLAS (Ill.) / GAUTHIER-VILLARS, MARGUERITE (Comp.):

Voyageur immobile. 33 petits poèmes dont un avec musique. Textes, dessins en couleurs et agréments de Eekman. Musique de Mlle. M. Gauthier-Villars. Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1933.

. Small 4to. (19 x 24.3 cm). Pp. 73, (1). With 16 colour lithographs, one coloured plate of music and 25 text illustrations. Publisher's coil binding, pictorial front cover, some light wear to covers. First edition of this charming book with poems for children together with lovely imaginative illustrations. (Not one of the signed copies). Nicolas Eekman, a Belgian-born artist who in 1921 settled in Paris and was a part of all the artistic movements of the time.

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Book number: 120865

Catalogue: Old & Rare Books

Keywords: Old & Rare Books, children, music, french, france, frankrike, barnbok, illustrated, avant garde,

MUSTAFA SåMI EFENDI:

Avrupa Risalesi (Pamphlet on Europe). Istanbul, Takvimhane-i Amire, 1256 H (1840).

. Small 8vo. Pp. 40. Text in Turkish. Contemporary blue wrappers in modern marbled folder. Copy of Alix Desgranges (1793-1854), professor of Turkish at Collège de France and L'Ecole des Jeunes de langues. First edition. Rare. An early Turkish attempt to explain the causes of things to be admired in the civilization of Europe. Diplomat Mustafa Sámi travelled extensively within Europe and participated as a member of a Turkish legation to Paris in 1838. Upon his return he wrote this work about people, lifestyle, science, climate, education etc. in Europe. He felt that the advanced state of Europe stemmed from its excellence in science. See Niyazo Berkes, The development of secularism in Turkey, 1999 p. 129. Özege 1323.

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Book number: 100497

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East,

EFENDI SCHILI / NORBERG, MATTHIAS (Translator):

Beskrifning om regementsförändringen i Circasiska riket. Stockholm, Fr. Cederborgh & Comp., 1816.

. Pp. 80. Uncut copy in later marbled boards. A Swedish translation from the Arabic about the regiment alteration in the Circassian domain by the Swedish orientalist Mattias Norberg. The Circassians migrated from Egypt in the beginning of the 19th century (probably after the 1811 massacre) and have then founded the city of Misrata in Libya.

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Book number: 99663

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, egypt, egyptian, africa, afrika, afrique, travel, exploration, history. historical, circassian,

EGEDE, HANS POULSEN:

Description et histoire naturelle du Groenland. Copenhague et Geneve, Chez les Frères C. & A. Philibert, 1763.

. Small 8vo. Pp. (iv), xxviii, (iv), 171. Without the map and 10 plates. Old boards, spine faded. Bookplate (Carl Jedvard Bonde, Ericsberg). First French edition, translated by Jean-Baptiste Des Roches de Parthenay. An early account of Greenland, about its natural history and life and manners of the inhabitants. Bibl. Dan. iii, 641. Lauridsen viii, 197. Nuuk 149.

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Book number: 99924

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, greenland, groenland, travel, exploration, eskimo, eskimos, voyage, europe, european, denmark

EGEDE, PAUL (POUL HANSEN):

Efterretninger om Gr¿nland, utdragne af en Journal holden fra 1721 til 1788. Ki¿benhavn, Hans Christopher Schr¿der, 1788.

. Pp. (xii), 284. Text in Danish. With engraved front portrait, one folding engraved map (tear along fold) and three engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, flat spine with title label (chipped), binding rubbed. Old ownership signature. First edition based on Paul Egede's journal. He was a Danish-Norwegian missionary and scholar who at a young age moved to Greenland with his family. His father Hans Poulsen Egede, known as the Apostle of Greenland, started the missionary work in Greenland in 1721. Paul continued his father's work as a missionary among the Kalaallit people (Inuits). Bibliographia Groenlandica p. 38, no. 70.

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Book number: 100363

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, greenland, denmark, nordic, europe, european, eskimo, travel, exploration, inuit, kalaallit, missionary, missions,