[KATE GREENAWAY]:

Almanach de Kate Greenaway pour 1889. Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1889.

. 24mo. Lvs (12). With lovely colour illustrations throughout. Publisher's pictorial hard cover, somewhat rubbed, rebound with new endpapers. French ediiton, translated from the English. Printed by E. Evans.

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Book number: 100089

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, almanac, almanack, illustrations, illustrated, colour, french,

[DE LA FOREST-MOUET, J.]:

Alphabet geographique des empires, royaumes, etats, pays, isles, villes, caps, ... que l'on trouve dans l'histoire ancienne, tant sainte, que profane. Paris, Jean Luc Nyon, 1710.

. 12mo. Pp. (x), 110, 8, 111 - 135, (3). Contemporary calf, spine with five raised bands richly gilt, rubbed. Second edition (first 1708). Useful alphabetical listing of Greek and Roman (as well as Biblical) countries and places, providing young students with correct names, locations, dates, etc. A charming copy of a scarce work. Cf Cioranescu 30706.

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Book number: 24028

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, geography, juvenile, travel, exploration,

[KERTEN, A.F.W.]:

Auszug aus dem Tagebuch eines Russen auf seiner Reise nach Riga. (Riga) 1783.

. Pp.192. St.o.t. Contemporary boards, worn. Bibl. Russica K372.

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Book number: 20047

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, europe, russia, riga, europa, russie, russland

[LIGHTHOUSES - SWEDEN].

Beskrifning öfver svenska fyrarne, med kort underrättelse om fyrväsendets uppkomst och utveckling.+ Tillägg till den år 1872 utgifna beskifning öfver svenska fyrarne. 1:a häftet (all publ.). Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt & Söner, 1872 & 1875.

. Oblong 8vo. Pp. 163 + add. (ii), 12, (2). With one large folding coloured map and 97 plates (of which 5 in the addendum). Contemporary marbled boards, calf spine, rebacked. Recased with new end papers. Private stamps. First edition. This thorough study on Swedish lighthouses gives an historical background and some general information about regulations and schedules, etc. It's followed by a detailed account of 87 lighthouses giving information about their location, appearance and shape, postition, light range, etc., and with an illustration of each lighthouse. A charming and comprehensive work, the first of its kind in Sweden. Scarce, especially with the addendum.

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Book number: 99738

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, sweden, swedish, suede, schweden, fyr, fyrtorn,

[CZECHOSLOVAK PUPPET FILM].

Ceskoslovensky statni film. Panorama of puppet films. [Prague], Czechoslovak State Film, 1956.

. Pp. (52). Text in English, French, Spanish and German. As issued, stapled. Original pictorial paper wrappers. With more than 100 reproductions of film stills, of which many full-page and 30 coloured. Also including photo portraits of filmmakers and photographs of film set constructions. A comprehensive study of Czech puppet film production for the period 1945-56. Comprises accounts of life and works of the renowned Czech animators Jiri Trnka, Karel Zeman and Hermina Tyrlovâ. The appendix shows a table of international prizes won by Czech puppet films and a detailed index. A rare and important document of film history.

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Book number: 120586

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, czechoslovakia, czech, film,

[KIRKBY, CHARLES MAJOR]:

A Forced March from My Home in Old England, to My Home in the Regiment. Bangalore, Printed at the Columbian Press, by Thomas Beare, 1848.

. Small 8vo. Pp. (iv), 203, (1) with errata leaf tipped in. Original cloth, rubbed and spine ends chipped. Rare travelogue of a journey made in 1846 by an officer returning through Europe to his regimental base in India. The authorship is attributed to Charles Foveaux Kirkby, then a captain in the Fourteenth Madras Native Infantry. The account describes the visit to Paris and then is mainly devoted to his stay in Rome. From there he passed through Naples, Sorrento, Malta and Alexandria before taking a steamer from Cairo to Madras. This work is one of only two known from the Colombian Press at Bangalore! The second work is a Tamil language book printed in 1850. See: D.E. Rhodes article in The British Museum Quarterly, vol. 34 no. 3/4 (1970), pp. 83-86. Seems scarce, we've only found two library copies (British Library and Princeton University). Not in Diehl.

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Book number: 99981

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, indian, inde, bangalore, travel, exploration, italy, italian, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

[GYSPY].

[GYSPY]. Kongl. Maj:ts bref til samtelige cheferne wid the wärfwade regementerne, angående ther i krigstjenst stående zigeuners förpassande. Stockholm, Kongl. Tryckeriet, 1763

. 4to. Pp. (iv). Disbound. AND: Kongl. Maj:ts nådige bref til samtelige landshöfdingarne, angående tartarers och zigeuners förpassande. Stockholm, Kongl. Tryckeriet, 1763. 4to. Pp. (iv).

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Book number: 45006

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, gypsy, gipsy, rome, europe, european, romes, travel, exploration

[CRIMEA].

Halfön Krim. Fysiska, etnografiska och historiska skildringar, efter Kohl, v. Demidoff, v. Haxthausen m.fl. A translation. Stockholm, Eric Westrell, 1855.

. Pp. 111. With one large folding lithographed map of Crimea including a small map of the French, English and Turkish armies outside Sevastopol. Modern half cloth on marbled boards. Bookplate. Translated into Swedish by K.A. Lindström. (Included in "Europas brännande frågor").

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Book number: 18085

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, kirm, crimea, europe, european, travel, exploration, hsitory, geography, ethnography

[SAHLMOON, ISAAC]:

Hollands stats- och commerce-spegel, föreställande, under wisse anmärkningar, de förente Nederländers Republique, med des tilhörige länder och städer; til äldre och senare tiders historia. Parts i-ii in one volume. Stockholm, B.G. Schneider, 1731.

. Pp. (xvi), 398, (2) + (ii), 88, 1-48, 65-80, 1-80, 79- 90, 72. Old inscription on title. Title page printed in red and black. Contemporary full calf, rubbed. First and only edition of this Swedish work about Dutch commercial affairs, especially with regard to its overseas companies. Contains interesting information about the Dutch India Companies and their acitivities in Africa, Asia and America. Rare. Bygdén ii,924. Kress S 3380.

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Book number: 16049

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, holland, dutch, netherlands, dutch east, east india company, travel, exploration, voyage,

[ESKIMO LANGUAGE].

Imgerutsit nôtiggit 100. Hundert eskimoische Lieder, freie übersetzungen und nachbildungen deutscher Volksgesänge. [Leipzig] 1872.

. Pp. (vi), 90. Printed in Eskimo language. With some light water staining. Original purple silk binding, somewhat rubbed and spine faded. Old ownership signature on front paste down. Scarce work containing one hundred folk songs and musical notes translated from German by Freitag, Erdmann, Elsner, Kretschner, etc. Scarce. Pilling p. 45.

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Book number: 99541

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, greenland, eskimo, inuit, music, musical, europe, european,

[WORTLEY MONTAGU, LADY MARY]:

Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M---e: Written, During her travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe. ... Three volumes. London, printed for T. Becket & P.A. De Hondt, 1769.

. Small 8vo. Pp. xii, adv. (iv), 180; (iv), 195; (iv), 230. Contemporary calf, spines richly gilt and with title labels. Binding worn and some marginal wormholes to the first and third volumes. Some old annotations. Bookplates. Lady Wortley Montagu was the first lady to travel abroad for mere curiosity's sake. When her husband was appointed British ambassador to the Porte in 1716, she decided to join him. They settled in a hilltop palace at Pera, which became their home for 18 months. Lady Mary's letters first published after her death (1763) became enormously popular and reissued many times. She became a great admirer of Turkish culture and her work includes insights that were exceptional for their time. Robinson p.32. Cf Atabey 829. Weber 477.

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Book number: 121275

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, turkey, turkish, levant, asia, asie, asien, travel, exploration, near east, east, eastern, ottoman, lady traveller,

[PROMÉ, JEAN (Edit.)]:

[LEVANT, BALTIC STATES, RUSSIA, ETC.] Les voyages de Monsieur Des Hayes, baron de Courmesvin, en Dannemarc. Enrichis d'annotations. BOUND WITH: Les voyages de M. Quiclet a Constantinople par terre. Enrichis d'annotations. Paris, Pierre Bienfait, 1664.

. 12mo. Pp. (viii), 284, (4); (viii), 246. Contemporary calf, spine with four raised bands, decorated in gilt, rubbed, sprinkled edges. Old ownership signature on title. First edition.The first work is written as a diary dealing with Louis Des Hayes' stay in Denmark and his preparations for a diplomatic mission to Moscow regarding a commercial treaty for the Baltic Sea trade. Includes descriptions of various parts of Denmark, Schleswig-Holstein and the Baltic countries. The second work recounts the journey of Quiclet to the Levant in 1658. He visited the cities of Ragusa, Sarajevo, Belgrad and Andrianople (Edirne). At end a description of Constantinople. It was published posthumously by Jean Promé. Blackmer 1360. Weber 317 (Quiclet).

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Book number: 100520

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, levant, europe, constantinople, turkey, turkish, turque, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, oriental, travel, exploration, russia, russe, commerce, trade, bosnia, dubrovnik, dalmatia, serbia, denmark, scandinavia,

[EHRENBORG, ANNA FREDRIKA]:

Några brev från England 1852-1853. Upsala, Wahlström & Co., 1854.

. 12mo. Pp. 339. With wood engraved vignette on title. Contemporary half cloth on marbled boards,flat spine gilt. Old ownership signature. Bookplates. No endpapers. One quire loose. First edition. Contains letters written by Ehrenborg during her stay in London. Discusses i.a. Swedenborg's theology and spirituality, and other religious movements in England at the time. Some browning.

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Book number: 99166

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, england, english, travel, exploration, euorpe, european,

[SWEDISH RYA CARPET DESIGNS].

A pupil's work comprising 73 designs for rugs and furniture fabrics. No date or place, but Sweden, ca 1941.

. A collection containing 73 beautiful designs, most of which are painted with water colours on paper, a few b/w printed, pasted on strong paper. The size of the designs varies but most are about 12-17 cm x 20-25 cm. The weaving designs are meant for carpets such as Rya, Rollakan (Röllakan) and Flossa. In addition, there are twenty designs for furniture fabrics including printed patterns of Damast (Damask) and Finnväv (double weave). Housed in a specially made decorated box (21.4 x 34.6 cm). Already in the fourteenth century Scandinavians had developed the art of Rya (or Ryijy). They were specially designed to help the Scandinavian people cope with their notoriously harsh winters. Ryas were made thick with shaggy long piles and mainly used as mantles or bedding rather than floor covering. By the 1880s traditional Scandinavian rugs, especially the thick-piled Ryas, were popular throughout northern Europe. Another type of flat-woven rug was also developed in Sweden, called Rollakan (Röllakan). It's a very distinct style of rug, which is thinner than the Ryas. Rya had been made with abstract, geometric designs for centuries and became hugely popular among modern designers by mid 20th century in Europe and North America. Sweden had several well-known rug designers during this period. Märtha Måås-Fjetterström, probably the most famous, was active between 1919 and 1941.We believe this set belonged to a student at a weaving school. She has copied patterns but also created her own designs, all made in a very delightful and artistic way. Two plates include "1941" in print which means we assume the designs were made around this time. In very good condition.

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Book number: 120735

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, carpet, design, designs, illustrations, röllakan, flossa, rya, fabric, weaving, weave, double weave, damask,

[KING OSCAR II]:

Reseminnen från skilda tider. (Travel memories of different periods). Stockholm 1888.

. Pp. (viii), 227, (1). Text in Swedish. Elegant half calf, spine decorated in gilt and with red title label. Gilt floral end papers. First edition.Oscar II was king of Sweden between 1872 and 1907, and also king of Norway until 1905 when the union was dissolved. This work, printed in a small number (150 copies), was meant for family and friends only. Includes the king's travels to Venice, Nice, Paris, Egypt, Turkey, North Africa, Seville, Alhambra etc.

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Book number: 121166

Catalogue: Travel general

Keywords: Travel general, sweden, swedish, travel, exploiration, europe, egypt, spain,