HEUVEL, H.W.

Geschiedenis Van Het Land Van Berkel En Schipbeek

Arnhem, Gijsbers En Van Loon. 1903, Facsimile/reprint. Linnen, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 339 pp. Geillustreerd met uitslaande kaart. Herdruk van het onvindbare originaal uit 1903 uitgegeven in 1965. Erg fraai exx. van deze boeiende streekbeschrijving. Erg Goed/Fraai.

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Book number: 2303

Catalogue: Travel / Topography / Atlantes / Geography

Keywords: Berkel En Schipbeek

HEYERDAHL THOR / SOREN RICHTER / HJRISSER-LARSEN

Great Norwegian expeditions.

Oslo, Dreyers Forlag. 1950, First Thus. Full Calf, 4To. Book, Great Norwegian expeditions.4To.231 pp. This special private edition of Great Norwegian Expeditions, printed on fine, heavy paper, Orig. dark blue full calf, gildet spine. Ilustrations and (often rare)photographs. A very nice publication, profusely illustrated. Very neat copy, printed on heavy paper. Fine.

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Book number: 304

Catalogue: Travel / Topography / Atlantes / Geography

Keywords: Heyerdahl

HOBHOUSE, J.C.

A journey through Albania and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia

London, James Cawthorn. 1813. Half-Leather, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: Linckh & Cockerell. Book, A journey through Albania and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia to Constantinople during the years 1809 and 1810. 2 Vols. (xv) 1152 pp. With 2 folding maps & 17 coloured (aquatint) plates. (7 double page) 1/2 night blue Morocco, with corner pieces, spines with raised bands. Upper cover of Vol. I loosening,Vol. II upper cover detached. Uncut.The Second Ed. See at length: Blackmer 821 (for the 1st Ed.) & Abbey travel, 202. Not in Colas or Weber. Great , romantic plates. A superb travel book, with the most wonderfull plates one could wish for (Publ/ in the same year as the 1St. Ed.). Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 272

Catalogue: Travel / Topography / Atlantes / Geography

Keywords: Linckh & Cockerelltravel,Middle East

HOËVELL, DR.W.R. VAN

Togten Van Een Engelschman Door Den Indischen Archipel

Zaltbommel, Joh. Noman En Oon. 1853, First Dutch. Boards [Later], 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: C.C.A.Laso. Book, III-269 PP. Uncut. Title print Soeroebaja river, [col. lithograph] and 2 monochrome lithographies; Singapoera River and "Maleiers" With a lengty chapter on Malacca and extensive notes on local economy. THIS IS VOL.II ONLY!!!!! See: Bastin Brommer 406. In [slightly] later boards. Fine.

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Book number: 3117

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Keywords: C.C. A. Lasohoëvell. Indonesia. Travel. Malacca.

HUGO VICTOR, PELLETAN EUGENE, FOURNIER EDOUARD, RENAN ERNEST, SAINTE-BEUVE, BERTHELOT, LITTRE, MICHELET, GAUTIER THEOPHILE, HOUSSAYE ARSENE, QUINET EDGAR, VIOLLET-LE-DUC, DUMAS FILS ALEXANDRE, DUMAS ALEXANDRE, TAINE H. ET AL.

Paris Guide Par Les Principaux Ecrivains Et Artistes De La France, Vol.. II: La Vie

Paris, Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie Editeurs. 1867. Half-Leather, Large 8Vo. Book, XIV-1233 PP. VOLUME II ONLY!. "La Vie" Richly illustrated, with many full PP engravings and folding maps. -VICAIRE VI, 388. Deals with: foreign colonies in Paris, Parcs, Bois de Boulogne, the Quays, Montmartre, the streets, Fontainebleau etc. etc. A well illustrated indispensible "guide" for XIX-Th. Century Life in Paris. A good copy. orig. 1/2 leather, spine with raised bands. [some occasional foxing]. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 3084

Catalogue: Travel / Topography / Atlantes / Geography

Keywords: Paris. Guide Paris. Paris Guide

IRELAND, SAMUEL

A Picturesque Tour Through Holland, Brabant, and Part of France Made in the Autumn of 1789

London, Egerton, Whites, Robson &c. 1796, 2-Nd. - Enlarged. Half Calf. Roy. 8Vo. Ill.: Ireland, Samuel. Book, 2 Vol. XX-217 & IV-21 PP. Illustrated with 49 full page Aquatint plates. 2 small, oval aquatint plates at titles, The enlarged 2-Nd. Edition, with " An Entire New Set Of Copper-Plates In Aqua-Tinta From Drawings Made On The Spot" The Plate: "Delft Towards the Hague" though not listed at the plates-index is present, opp. pp.67. Printed on fine, strong paper. Vol.I : badly shaken, first quires loose/loosening, Vol 2, partly unopened , very tight and sound, top of spine damaged. All prints present as called for Most aquatints are views, in England (2), Belgium (4), France (8) and The Netherlands (27). The others depict costumes, a sworn midwife under a tree full of babies (Arbor Vitae), Rubens" chair and altar, and the National Assembly in Paris. See: Abbey 185 ; Cox I, p. 159 Lipperheide 951; Brunet III, 457. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 3038

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Keywords: Ireland, Samuelsamuel Ireland. Aquatinta, Topography. Holland. Illustrated.

IRVING, WASHINGTON.

Ontdekkingsreizen Van Eenige Der Vroegere Togtgenooten Van Columbus.

Haarlem, Loosjes, Wed. A. Pz. 1834. Original Wraps, Roy. 8Vo. Ill.: D.Veelwaard Jr. Book, Naar het Engelsch van Washington Irving, in deel met eene kaart zijnde een aanhangsel op deszelfs leven en reizen van Columbus. With a folding map of middle & South America.VIII-390 pp. Uncut. in orig. publ. sprinkled wrapper, paper hinges torn, but firmly holding. The Dutch translation of Wash. Irvings famous work on the travels of Comumbus. Good.

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Book number: 832

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Keywords: D. Veelwaard Jr. Columbus

IRWIN, EYLES

A Series Of Adventures In The Course Of A Voyage Up The Red Sea, On The Coasts Of Arabia And Egypt; And Of A Route Through The Defarts Of Thebais. Hitherto Unknown To The European Traveller In The Year M.DCC.LXXVII In Letters To A Lady.

London, J.Dodsley. 1780. Half-Leather, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book, XV-400 pp.Illustrated with 3 maps, 1 chart and 2 views [folding] Later, Fine half calf with red Morocco title piece. A good and clean copy. Irwin was born in Calcutta and served with the East India Company. He left India in 1777 for England, when his ship was captured by pirates. From Cossier he was forced to cross the desert to Suez and then on to Luxor, Cairo and Alexandria. which took him 11 months to reach England. In the autumn of 1780 he returned to India. This work includes two poems by Irwin "Ode to the desert" and "Ode to the Nile". See; -Blackmer; 865; Atabey; 609; Ibrahim-Hilmy ; pp.325. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 2628

Catalogue: Travel / Topography / Atlantes / Geography

Keywords: Travel, Exploration, Egypt

[JANIN, J.]

Léte a Paris

Paris, Curmer, L. 1843, First Edition. Decorated Cloth, Large 8Vo. Ill.: Eugène Lami, Allen, Heath, Witmore .a.o. Book, VIII-279 [1] PP, 18 steel engr. plates and 35. woodengr. ills. Hardcover. Or.gilt decor. cloth. A.E.G.Some occasional foxing, generous margins. Upper cover loosening. A fine set of steel engravings giving a tremendous and intimite look at Paris in the mid XIX- Century. A fine copy. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 2790

Catalogue: Travel / Topography / Atlantes / Geography

Keywords: Eugène Lami, Allen, Heath, Witmore .A. O. Paris. Prints

KEATE, GEORGE

An Account of the Pelew Islands , Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean;composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson and Some of His Officers Who, in August 1783, Were There Sipwrecked in the Antelope,[ Etc..]

London, Bulmer & Co for Captain Henry Wilson. 1803, 5-Th. Edition. Half-Leather [ Later], 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book, XVII-244pp. Bound with; Supplement to the account of the Pelew Islands; [IV]-72 pp. Modern [fine] half calf with Morocco title piece. [Contains a Vocabulary of the Pelew language. With the chart of the Pelew Islands, the portrait of Henry Wilson, and all plates called for in the Direction to the binder, except : "view of the land" Opp. pp.190, in an old hand, scratched from the list, giving a total of 21 plates. See:Cox ii, p. 302. Hill pp 160-61 A highly interesting travel accound of this poor lot that managed to get back to their own country in a small sized boat, build from the wreck. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 2630

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Keywords: Travel , Exploration

KOLLBACH, KARL

Bilder Vom Rhein

Koln, Reubner, Paul. 1890, 2nd. Ed. Decorative Cloth, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book, Eine Wanderung Von Basel Bis Zur Hollandische Grenze. 414 pp. A.E.G. With 21 full page plates .and over 150 text ills. Fine decorated cover. Top and foot of spine worn. some plates loose/loosening. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 1485

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Keywords: Rhein

KRUIKIUS, NICOLAAS & JACOB

`t Hooge Heemraadschap Van Delfland

Delft, Hoogheemraadschap Van Delfland. 1712, First Edition. Half-Leather, Atlas Folio - over 23" - 25" tall. Ill.: Kruikius. Book, Wall map in 27 large sheets, each 51,5 x 59 Cm. Scale 1: 10.000(!) With the title in a long panel to be intended to run across the top, with the "Delfland" coat of arms, supported by two allegorical figures, 9 large coats of arms of the officials, and a elaborately engaved, large, compass rose, and at the bottom a very nice, large etched, pastoral scene, after Arnold Houbraken , engraved by P.Sluyter. A most sumptuous publication. As well as a loosely inserted single sheet overview map, dated 1712. Fockema Andrea & Koeman wrote in Old maps and their makers(1975) "the most beautifull map of Delfland, the Kruikius map is stunning". According to M.Donkersloot de Vrij ( Topographical maps in the Netherlands before 1750, 1981) " the total price of this map, that took so many years to conceive, was 20,000 guilders(!!) and was sold for 12 guilders, then.... A very good impression, very fresh, uncut copy. See Donksloot de Vrij pp. 159 # 806 for an extensive description. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 468

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Keywords: Kruikiuswall Map

LEDEN, CHRISTIAAN

Drie Jaar Onder De Canadeesche Eskimo's

Amsterdam, J.H. De Bussy. 1927, First Thus. Decorative Cloth, Large 8Vo. Book, Nederlandse bewerking van Christian Linden. 277 pp. 65 bl/white photo's, a map and musical scores. A well documentd travel account in a handsome edition. (Dutch edition). Good.

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Book number: 983

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Keywords: Eskimo' S

LEURS.DR IR.. STAN

Steden En Landschappen, V- De Kust

Antwerpen, De Sikkel. 1925, First Edition. Orig.Publ. Dec. Paper Wrappers, Large 8Vo. Book, Steden en landschappen, deel V, De Kust, 91-(IV) pp. A fine descrption in a very nice decorated Art Deco wrapper. Not dated. Published a s part 5 in the series Steden en landschappen. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 1502

Catalogue: Travel / Topography / Atlantes / Geography

Keywords: Vlaanderen

LITH, P.A.VAN DER

Nederlandsch Oost Indie

Leiden, E.J.Brill. 1893, 2e - Enlarged. Decorated Cloth, Sm. 4To. Book, 2 Vols.VIII- 548- VI-544 PP. + 50 PP. Index. With 32 plates, [8 coloured] See Tiele 690 Bastin Brommer 683. A description of the Indonesian people, daily life, various customs & festivities, music, etc. etc. interesting account. Bindings slightly used but strong. Good/Fine.

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Book number: 2901

Catalogue: Travel / Topography / Atlantes / Geography

Keywords: Dutch East Indies