Exploration and Travel 2021
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Third Dutch edition, large paper copy, 2 volumes in 2 parts in 4 volumes, folio (59 x 37 cm); Dutch text; 4 letterpress titles printed in red and black, 4 engraved titles in 3rd state, 4 engraved portraits (one of which double-page), engraved plate of coat-of-arms, double-page genealogical table, 136 engraved maps, plans, bird's-eye views, or plates, together with the additional single-page plate of the monument to Charles Emmanuel II on the Voie Sarde, engraved head- and tailpieces and initials (occasional very light and insignificant browning, a few plates with some scattered light spotting confined to extreme margins). Contemporary Dutch panelled mottled calf, richly gilt, spine with raised bands forming 9 compartments, morocco labels in second and third, gilt edges.
£30,000 -
Ten parts, landscape elephant folio (39.4 x 51.7 cm), text in German and French, 60 hand-coloured lithographed plates, hand-coloured lithographed pictorial title and dedication page; hand-coloured pictorial wrappers, occasional light spotting.
£20,000 -
First edition. 8vo, xxiii, [3], 408 pp, frontispiece, title-page vignette, folding map, 3 plates, 5 illustrations in text, ex libris to pastedown and corresponding ink ownership inscription to endpaper; original green cloth gilt, spine slightly bumped, in a modern green moire slipcase with green morocco corners and entry, gilt ruled, an excellent copy.
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Second edition, 8vo, xv, 560 pp., two folding maps, one with tape repairs, both with minor foxing, text block slightly loose from lower cover, contemporary ink ownership inscription to title-page; original red decorated cloth gilt, spine bumped, a good copy.
£250 -
First and only edition. 4to (27 x 22 cm). Title +18 pp., Original brown paper wrappers stitched in brown cotton, subscription slip for Unedited Antiquities of Attica, dated 1816, mounted on upper cover.
£350 -
First edition, 8vo, large folding map, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, pink endpapers, upper joint cracked but firm, lightly rubbed, early notices affixed to prelims, a very good copy.
£1,500 -
First editions throughout, together 9 volumes, comprising 8 volumes 4to text, and folio atlas. Occasional light spotting, late eighteenth/early nineteenth century polished calf gilt, sometime neatly rebacked preserving spines, morocco labels, atlas bound to match, a fine set. [FIRST VOYAGE] First edition. 3 volumes. 52 engraved maps, charts and views, of which 44 folding; includes 'Streight of Magellan' plate (short tears and repairs to folds). [SECOND VOYAGE] First edition. 2 volumes. 64 engraved plates, maps, and charts (large chart with short tear to fold). [THIRD VOYAGE] First edition. 3 volumes text plus atlas, 87 engraved plates, charts, and maps. Beddie 650, 1216, 1543; Hill 782, 358, 361; Holmes 5, 24, 47; Mitchell Library Cook 648, 1216, 1552; Sabin 30934, 16245, 16250; Hill, 782, 358, 361; Printing and the Mind of Man 223, Rosove 77 & Taurus 1 (Second voyage); Forbes 62 and Lada-Mocarski 37 (3rd voyage). Height of text: 30 cm Overall width of set: 39 cm; Atlas Height 57cm, Depth 41cm.
£35,000 -
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, lxxxiv, 357; vi (but iv, mispaginated, complete); 509 pp., 2 large folding maps, large folding plate of inscriptions, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rebacked preserving spines, rubbed, internally clean and fresh.
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First edition in English. 2 volumes, 4to, complete with half-titles, xlii, 339; ix, 373 pp., 2 pages ads at end, engraved portrait frontispiece, 4 folding maps, 86 plates and plans by Michallon after Badia (a number folding or double-page), a little light foxing, occasional neat repairs to large folding maps, modern half calf gilt, a very good set.
£5,000 -
First edition. 4to (27.5 x 22 cm)., xvi, 596 pp., folding engraved frontispiece, folding firman, 2 maps (1 large folding), 20 plates (including 16 hand-coloured aquatints), contemporary half calf, marbled boards,neatly rebacked, a large, well-margined copy.
£3,500