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LACROIX, Fredéric. Les mystères de la Russie, tableau politique et moral de l'empire Russe. Ouvrage rédigé d'après les manuscrits d'un diplomate et d'un voyageur. Paris, Pagnerre, 1845.8vo. Contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt. With 30 steel-engraved plates. 472,(4) pp. From the contents: Histoire, Biographie, Statistique, Politique, Législation, Administration, Religion, Institutions, Armée, Marine, Industrie, Finances, Commerce, Agriculture, Moeurs publiques et privées, L'empereur et sa familie, etc. - Some foxing, otherwise a fine copy.Catalogue Russica L58; Vicare IV, 809. [Boeknr.: 31669 ]

€ 175,00

LACROIX, Paul. XVIIme siècle. Institutions usages et costumes. France 1590-1700. Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1880.8vo. Contemporary half red morocco, spine and boards richly gilt, a.e.g. With 16 chromolithographed plates and 300 woodengravings. VIII,580 pp. A very fine copy with beautiful illustrations showing manners, customs, and dress in seventeenth century France.Colas 1704; Lipperheide 1118; Hiler p.518. [Boeknr.: 33117 ]

€ 175,00

(LAET, Johannes de). Belgii confoederati respublica: sev Gelriae. Holland. Zeland. Traject. Fris. Transisal, Groning. chorographica Politicaque descriptio. Lugd. Batav., ex officina Elzeviriana, 1630.16mo. Contemporary calf, rebacked with part of spine laid down, a.e.g.. With engraved armorial title-page. (16),352,(9) pp. Second enlarged edition; the first edition was also published in Leiden in 1630. - Johannes de Laet (1582-1649) was director of the Dutch West India Company (WIC). Beglii Confedearti Respublica is a collection of various authors on North-Central Europe focusing primarily on Belgium.Willems 326; Tiele 633. [Boeknr.: 13717 ]

€ 125,00

LANE - POOLE, Stanley. The life of the right hounourable Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe; from his memoirs and private and official papers. London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1888. 2 volumes. Later blue cloth with green morocco title-labels. With 2 steelengraved portraits of Stratford Canning by G.J. Stodart (1 foxed), portrait of Mrs. Canning and folding facsimile. XXIX,519; XVIII,475; 24 pp. First edition. - Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford (1786 - 1880) was a diplomat who represented Great Britain at the Ottoman court for almost 20 years intermittently between 1810 and 1858, exerting a strong influence on Turkish policy. I [Boeknr.: 35198 ]

€ 375,00

LATTIMORE, Owen. The desert road to Turkestan. London, Methuen & Co., 1928.Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 2 double-page maps depicting the road to Turkestand and the Mongolian trade route and 48 photographic illustrations. XIV,331 pp. First edition. - Owen Lattimore (1900 - 989) was an American author, educator, and influential scholar of China and Central Asia, especially Mongolia. During his year in Beijing before departing on his expedition, he met his wife, Eleanor Holgate. For their honeymoon they planned to travel from Beijing to India, he overland, she by rail across Siberia. In the event, the plans were disrupted and she had to travel alone by horse-drawn sled for 640 km in February to find him. She described her journey in Turkestan Reunion (1934), he in The Desert Road to Turkestan (1928) and High Tartary (1930).Yakushi p.234. [Boeknr.: 36048 ]

€ 175,00

LEARY, Lewis Gaston. Andora the hidden republic. Its origin and institutions, and the record of a journey thither. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1912.Original decorated cloth gilt. With 3 maps and 34 photographic plates. X,(4),191 pp. First edition; title page is embossed 'Presentation Copy' with cover letter from the publisher. - Interesting description of Andorra, a sovereign landlocked microstate on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees, bordered by France to the north and Spain to the south. [Boeknr.: 36779 ]

€ 75,00

LEIGH. Leigh's new picture of London; or, a view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis. New edition, carefully revised. London, 1824-25. Sm.8vo. Contemporary calf (front hinge broken). With folding frontispiece, 2 (of 3) folding plans and 40 plates (1 dam. with loss of text).VIII,520,36 pp. - (Foxed). [Boeknr.: 32444 ]

€ 75,00

LICHNER, H. Gypsy dance. Philadelphia, Eclipse Publishing Co., 1914.Original pictorial frontwrapper depicting 4 gypsies. Brochure with musical scores. 5 leaves. Heinrich Lichner (1829 - 1898) was a prolific German composer, best known today for his teaching pieces - simple piano works written for students. He was born in Harpersdorf, Silesia. [Boeknr.: 21175 ]

€ 35,00

LIEFLAND, Joannes van. Utrechts oudheid in afbeelding en beschrijving. (No pl., P.W. de Weyer, 1857).2 volumes. 8vo. Modern half cloth. With 62 lithographed plates and illustrations by Joannes van Liefland. (2),174,(2) pp. Joannes van Liefland (1809 - 1861), a Dutch painter and draftsman, mainly painted and drew city views, he also made etchings and lithographs. Description of the town of Utrecht with fine lithographed plates.Scheen I, p.706. [Boeknr.: 37213 ]

€ 550,00

LOVBETT, Richard. Norwegian pictures drawn with pen and pencil. Containing also a glance at Sweden and the Gotha Canal. London, The Religious Tract Society, 1885.8vo. Original pictorial gilt cloth (spine sl. discoloured), a.e.g. With folding map, coloured in outline and 127 woodengraved illustrations by E. Whymper, R. & E. Taylor, Pearson, a.o. 224 pp. This book on Norway and Sweden gives detailed glimpses into the history, topography, trade & commerce as well as the character of the people towards the end of the 19th century. With many illustrations of varying sizes interspersed with the text. [Boeknr.: 37163 ]

€ 65,00

LUDWIG SALVATOR. Alboran. Prag, Heinr. Mercy Sohn, 1898.Folio. Original pictorial cloth. With 2 folding coloured maps, and many plates after drawings by the author. VII,89 pp. First edition. - It was of great importance to Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria (1847 - 1915) of the House of Habsburg, to stimulate public interest for landscapes, which he thought were unjustifiably little known rarely traveled. His attention focused less on classical cultural centers, but on small, undiscovered regions. Alboran Island is a small islet of Spain (province of Almería) in the Alboran Sea, part of the western Mediterranean Sea, about 56 km north of the Moroccan coast - Fine. [Boeknr.: 36834 ]

€ 575,00

LUDWIG SALVATOR. Columbretes. Prag, Heinr. Mercy, 1895.Folio. Original blue cloth, with illustration on cover in silver. With folding frontispiece, 2 folding coloured maps, mounted on linen, and many illustrations and plates. (14),177 pp. First edition. - It was of great importance to Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria (1847 - 1915) of the House of Habsburg, to stimulate public interest for landscapes, which he thought were unjustifiably little known rarely traveled. His attention focused less on classical cultural centers, but on small, undiscovered regions. The Columbretes Islands are a group of small uninhabited islets of volcanic origin, in the Mediterranean Sea, 49 kilometres off Orpesa, Spain. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 36815 ]

€ 575,00

LUDWIG SALVATOR. Ustica. Prag, Heinrich Mercy, 1898.Large folio. Original half cloth. With 2 coloured maps (1 large folding, mounted on linen) and 58 plates. XII,131 pp. First edition. - It was of great importance to Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria (1847 - 1915) of the House of Habsburg, to stimulate public interest for landscapes, which he thought were unjustifiably little known rarely traveled. His attention focused less on classical cultural centers, but on small, undiscovered regions. Ustica, is a small Italian island in the Tyrrhenian Sea: the black pearl of the Mediterranean. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 36698 ]

€ 575,00

MACKENZIE, Georgina Mary Muir & Adelina Paulin IRBY. Travels in the Slavonic provinces of Turkey-in-Europe. With a preface by W.E. Gladstone. 3rd edition. London, Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1877.2 volumes. Original green cloth, spines lettered in gilt. With 2 frontispieces, 2 maps (1 coloured and folding) and 17 plates. XVII,313; II,342 pp. First published in 1867; revised edition, with three additional chapters by Miss Irby, and with a preface by Gladstone. Three editions appeared in 1877. - 'The number of editions may be due to the events of 1876, but this book by two British school teachers is still important for an understanding of the complex nature of this part of the Balkans. Miss Irby and Miss MacKenzie travelled in Serbia and the Balkans from 1861 to 1864, during which time they established a teacher-training school in Sarajevo (Atabey p.377). Georgina Mary Muir Mackenzie (1833-1874) and Adelina Paulina Irby (1831-1911) spent 1861-1864 where few outside women had been before. They undertook researches to a much greater degree than their more genteel contemporaries. Their descriptions of landscapes and people are not over-romantic, but they provide ample local colour (Theakstone p.170). Valuable information on the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, i.a. Slovenia, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro. - A fine set.Blackmer Collection 1051 (first ed.); Atabey Collection 746 (5th ed.); Contominas Collection 429; Weber 770.. [Boeknr.: 16802 ]

€ 650,00

MAILLEFER, P. Histoire du canton de Vaud dès les origines. Lausanne, 1903.Original decorated cloth (rebacked, original spine mounted, sl. dam.). With 248 illustrations. 553 pp. - (Margins of first and last lvs rep.). [Boeknr.: 8731 ]

€ 40,00

MALTE-BRUN, (Conrad). Tafereel van het koningrijk Saksen. Leyden, L. Herdingh en Zoon, 1815.Contemporary half calf (damaged). IV,112 pp. Dutch translation of Tableau de la Saxe, issued in Annales des voyages et de la géographie et de l'histoire, Paris 1808-1814. Description of Saxony, Germany. - Not in Tiele. [Boeknr.: 1889 ]

€ 95,00

MANNING, Samuel. Italian pictures, drawn with pen en pencil. A new edition, revised and partly rewritten by S.G. Green. London, The Religious Tract Society, (ca. 1880).8vo. Original pictorial gilt cloth, a.e.g. With numerous woodengravings (frontispiece missing). 224 pp. [Boeknr.: 37165 ]

€ 55,00

MARTELS, Z.R.W.M. von. Augerius Gislenius Busbequius. Leven en werken van de keizerlijke gezant aan het hof van Süleyman de Grote. Een biografische, literaire en historische studie met editie van onuitgegeven teksten. (No pl.), 1989. 8vo. Wrappers. 599 pp. - (Thesis). [Boeknr.: 23100 ]

€ 35,00

MASCART, Jean. Impressions et observations dans un voyage a Tenerife. Paris, Ernest Flammarion, (ca. 1911).Modern half green calf (original wrappers preserved). With map and 211 photographic illustrations. 366 pp. [Boeknr.: 36725 ]

€ 125,00

(MASSON , Charles François Philibert). Lettres d'un Français a un Allemand, servant de réponse a Mr. De Kotzebue, et de supplément aux Memoires secrets sur la Russie. Suivies d'un précis historique de la déportation et de l'exil de l'auteur. Basle, Decker, Coblence, Lassaul, 1802.Old wrappers. IX,328 pp. Charles François Philibert Masson (1762-1807) was a member of the Institut de France. He started his career as an apprentice watchmaker in Neuchâtel, but he was more interested in the arts and traveled to Russia where he became the tutor of the children of Count Nikolaj Ivanovitsj Saltykov, the Minister of War. The count made him his major domus. He made himself popular in the élite of Saint Petersburg through his wit, his taste in literature and his conversation and was popular in the great houses of Saint Petersburg and at court but the tyrannical Czar Paul I expelled him from Russia as an outspoken symphatiser of the French Revolution. He lived in Germany for a while before returning to France where he published his Mémoires secrets sur la Russie.Cf. Catalogue Russica M554. [Boeknr.: 31672 ]

€ 225,00

MEERTEN-SCHILPEROORT, A.B. van. Het Noorden van ons land; of vlugtige schetsen en aangename herinneringen van een reistogtje over Utrecht, door Vriesland, Groningen, Drenthe en Overijssel. Assen, T.J. van Tricht, 1840.Contemporary half calf, original printed wrappers preserved. With lithographed frontispiece after J. van Ravenswaay by H.J. Backer. XI,281,(1) pp. First edition. - Sketches and pleasant memories of a trip over Utrecht, through Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe and Overijssel by Anna Barbera van Meerten-Schilperoort (1778 - 1853). She is known as an advocate of good education for girls (with a relatively strong emphasis on natural sciences) and as a pioneer of professional women's professions. Schenkeveld-van der Dussen, Met en zonder lauwerkrans, p. 783. [Boeknr.: 37117 ]

€ 375,00

MEINERS, Christoph. Recherches historiques sur le luxe chez les Athéniens, depuis les temps les plus anciens, jusque'a la mort de Philippe de Macédoine; mémoire traduit de l'Allemand. Suivi du Traité du luxe des dames Romaines par Nadal .. Paris, Adrien Egron, 1823.Contemporary half calf. VIII,198,(1) pp. First published in German: Geschichte des Luxus der Athenienser von den ältesten Zeiten an bis auf den Tod Philipps von Makedonien, 1782. On luxury, weath, manners, and customs in classical Athens and Greece by Christoph Meiners (1747 - 1810) a German philosopher and historian. - (Foxed). [Boeknr.: 33125 ]

€ 95,00

MEYERBERG, Augustin von. Voyage en Moscovie d'un ambassadeur, conseiller de la chambre impériale, envoyé par l'empereur Leopold au czar Alexis Mihalowics, grand duc de Moscovie. Leide, Friderik Harring, 1688.Sm.8vo. Contemporary vellum, with rased bands. With woodcut title-vignette. 381 pp. First French edition. - The original manuscript is in Latin, an Italian translation was published in 1697. Augustin von Mayern, Freiherr von Meyerberg, a German diplomat, travelled together with Horace Guillaume Calvuccius to the Russian czar in Moscow, in 1661-1663. Mayerberg's account of his experiences contains much useful information on seventeenth century Russian manners and customs.- (Stamp partly erased from title-page; age-browned). - An early and rare ambassy.Cat. Russica M 623; Cf. Adelung 100 and Muller, Bibl. Neerl.-Russe, 888. [Boeknr.: 21754 ]

€ 795,00

MIDDELBURG. Ordonnatie voor de schippers varende in het Groote Veer der stad Middelburg. Middelburg, Willem de Klerk, (1741).4to. With woodcut city arms of Middelburg on titlepage. 31 pp. Order for sailing in the Groote Veer of the city of Middelburg. [Boeknr.: 36242 ]

€ 150,00

(MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel Riquetti de). Des lettres de cachet et des prisons d'etat. Ouvrage posthume, composé en 1778. Hambourg, 1782.2 volumes in 1. Modern half vellum. XIV,323; 203 pp. First edition. - The French political thinker and statesman Mirabeau (1749-1791) went to the United Provinces, where he lived by writing hack work for the booksellers; meanwhile Mirabeau had been condemned to death at Pontarlier for sedition and abduction, and in May 1777 he was seized by the Dutch police, sent to France and imprisoned by a lettre de cachet in the castle of Vincennes. His Lettres de cachet exhibits an accurate knowledge of French constitutional history, skillfully marshaled to demonstrate that the system of lettres de cachet was not only philosophically unjust but constitutionally illegal. - (Small brown stain at top of first 70 pages). [Boeknr.: 11107 ]

€ 295,00

MOLTKE, Helmuth Karl Bernhard von. Briefe über Zustände und Begebenheiten in der Türkei aus den Jahren 1835 bis 1839. 4. Auflage. Berlin, Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, 1882.Later half cloth. With portrait. VI,431 pp. First published in 1841. - Graf von Moltke was a German Field Marshal. The chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years, he is regarded as one of the great strategists of the latter 19th century, and the creator of a new, more modern method of directing armies in the field. He was seconded by the Prussian government to the service of the Porte. He spent two years in Constantinople charged with the reorganisation of the army and the refurbishment of the fortifications in the Dardanelles. He fought in the Syrian campaign against Mehmet Ali in the 1840�s (Atabey p.429). He surveyed the city of Constantinople and made many journeys to the Bosphorus, Dardanelles, Wallachia, Bulgaria, Rumelia, etc. 'No other book gives so deep an insight into the character of the Turkish Empire, and no other book of travels better deserves to be regarded as a German classic' (Encyclopaedia Britannica). [Boeknr.: 35193 ]

€ 175,00

MOLTKE, Helmuth Karl Bernhard von. The Russians in Bulgaria and Rumelia in 1828 and 1829; during the campaigns of the Danube, the sieges of Brailow, Varna, Silistria, Shumla, and the passage of the Balkan by Marshal Diebitch. London, John Murray, 1854.Original red cloth. With folding map and 12 battle-plans on 11 folding plates. VI,476 pp. With armorial bookplate of Mountgarret. - First English edition of Moltke's Der russisch-türkische Feldzug in der europäischen Türkei 1828-1829, Berlin 1845. Graf von Moltke was a German Field Marshal. The chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years, he is regarded as one of the great strategists of the latter 19th century, and the creator of a new, more modern method of directing armies in the field. 'He was seconded by the Prussian government to the service of the Porte; he spent two years in Constantinople charged with the reorganization of the army and the refurbishment of the fortifications in the Dardanelles' (Atabey p.429). He learned Turkish and surveyed the city of Constantinople, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles and travelled through Wallachia, Bulgaria and Rumelia, and made many other journeys on both sides of the Strait. [Boeknr.: 35186 ]

€ 175,00

MONDE, N. van der. Geschied- en oudheidkundige beschrijving van de pleinen, straten, stegen, waterleidingen, wedden, putten en pompen der stad Utrecht. Bevattende een overzigt van de oude plaatselijke gesteldheid der stad, van hare bewaking, verlichting en verdere maatregelen, tot veilgheid en gemak der ingezetenen, op de openbare wegen genomen. Utrecht, N. van der Monde, 1844-1846.3 volumes. Contemporary half calf, with red and green title labels to spines. With 3 lithographed frontispieces, 3 views (2 folding) and 9 folding plans. XVI,375,(1); VIII,380,(1); VIII,370,(1) pp. Historical and archaeological description of the squares, streets, alleys, water pipes, betting, wells and pumps of the city of Utrecht. Nicolaas van der Monde (1799 - 1847) was a Dutch bookseller, publisher and historian. He worked in the city of Utrecht and did a lot of research into topics related to the history of the city of Utrecht and the surrounding area.- Some browning otherwise a fine set. [Boeknr.: 37185 ]

€ 375,00

MONTAGU, MARY WORTLEY. 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 ... which contain, among other curious relations, accounts of the policy and manners of the Turks. New edition. London, T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1767.3 volumes. Sm.8vo. Contemporary calf with gilt fillets round sides (some hinges weak), spines ribbed with red morocco title-labels (extremities dam.). XII,(4),180; (4),195; (4),230 pp. First published in 1763; with written owner's name Moseley 1767. - Lady Mary Worthly Montague (1689-1762) was the first lady to travel abroad for mere curiosity's sake. In 1716 she accompanied her husband, Edward Montague, on his diplomatic mission to Constantinople, making the journey overland. The letters she wrote back home are justly ranked among the most celebrated of their kind in a century richly endowed with excellent letterwriters. She became a great admirer of Turkish culture and her work includes in sights that were exceptional for their time. A year after her death, her Turkish letters were published for the first time and they have not been out of print since. 'She was one of the most generous and accurate chroniclers of life in Constantinople since Busbecq'' (O'Neill, The Ömer Koç Collection, 138). 'She established the genre of European women's travel writting. Opinionated, energetic and flamboyant, they present a seductive, sophisticated and challenging vision of the European encounter with the Orient and they set a standard to which many subsequent writers aspired but few ever achieved' (Tuson, Western women travelling East, p.31).Blackmer Collection 1150; Atabey Collection 829; Contominas Collection 478; Gay 94; Paulitschke 682; Robinson, Wayward women, p.32-34. [Boeknr.: 22794 ]

€ 350,00

MOSER, Johann Jacob. Vollständiger Bericht von der so berühmt als fatalen Clausula Articuli IV. Pacis Ryswicensis, bestehende theils in einer historischen Erzählung/ wie diese Clausul gegen alle vormalige und öffters wiederhohlte Versicherungen auf die Bahn gebracht und durchgetrungen worden... Franckfurt, Wolffgang Christoph Multsens, 1732.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Modern wrappers. (8),456; 131 pp. The Nine Years' War (1688-97) - often called the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg, was a major war of the late 17th century fought between King Louis XIV of France, and a European-wide coalition, the Grand Alliance, led by the Anglo-Dutch Stadtholder-King William III, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, King Charles II of Spain, Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, and the major and minor princes of the Holy Roman Empire. By the terms of the Treaty of Ryswick (1697) Louis XIV retained the whole of Alsace, but he was forced to return Lorraine to its ruler and give up any gains on the right bank of the Rhine. Louis XIV also accepted William III as the rightful King of England, while the Dutch acquired their Barrier fortress system in the Spanish Netherlands to help secure their own borders. - (Waterstained). [Boeknr.: 7673 ]

€ 150,00

NANSEN, Fridtjof. Durch den Kaukasus zur Wolga. (Aus dem Norwegischen von Th. Geiger). Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1930.Original decorated cloth (soiled). With 4 maps and 42 photographic illustrations. 184 pp. First German edition; first published in Oslo in 1929. - Trip by the Norwegian polar explorer Fridjof Nansen (1861-1930) through the Caucasus and Armenia, made in 1925, with much information on Daghestan. [Boeknr.: 24430 ]

€ 45,00

NANSEN, Fridtjof. Sibirien. Ein Zukunftsland. 3. Auflage. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1919. Original pictorial boards. With 3 folding maps and photographic plates. VIII,383 pp. First published in 1914. - 'In August 1913 Nansen undertook his last voyage to the Arctic. The Norwegian enterpreneur Jonas Lied (1881-1969) had approached Nansen with a proposal to open the northern sea route to Siberia for the purpose of trade. He published Gjennem Sibirien an account of his travels (Howgego III, p.389). [Boeknr.: 24301 ]

€ 45,00

(NENY, Patrice-François de). Mémoires historiques et politiques des Pays Bas autrichiens. Neuchatel, Fauche, Favre & Compagnie, 1784.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. VIII,429 pp. Dedication printed in civilité. - A general political history of the Southern Low Countries, also dealing with the trade with Spain, England, Holland and Liege. A fundamental source for the political and diplomatic history of the period.- (Without the portrait).Cf. Dekkers, Bibliotheca Belgica Juridica. [Boeknr.: 13571 ]

€ 95,00

NIEUSTADT, Kornelis van. Decisien van den Hoogen ende Provincialen Raade van Holland / Seelandt ende West-Vrieslandt. Van nieus over-sien ende verbetert door A. de H. Advocaat. Leyden, Bonaventura ende Abraham Elzevier, 1617.4to. Contemporary overlapping vellum, with red morocco title label to spine. With printer's device on title-page. (8),238 pp. First edition. - A fine copy. - Willems 284. [Boeknr.: 37119 ]

€ 375,00

NORDENSKIÖLD, Adolf Erik. Die Umsegelung Asiens und Europas auf der Vega. Mit einem historischen Rückblick auf den frühere Reisen längs der Nordküste der Alten Welt. Autorisirte deutsche Ausgabe. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1882.2 volumes. Original red embossed cloth, spines gilt. With 2 steelengraved portraits, 19 maps (some folding) and 500 woodengraved illustrations. XIV,477,(1); XII,451 pp. First German edition, first published in Stockholm in 1880-1881 Vegas färd kring Asien och Europa. - The Vega Expedition of 1878-1880, named after the SS Vega and under the leadership of Swedish Finnish explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832 - 1901) was the first Arctic expedition to navigate through the Northeast Passage, the sea route between Europe and Asia through the Arctic Ocean, and the first voyage to circumnavigate Eurasia. Initially a troubled enterprise, the successful expedition is considered to be among the highest achievements in the history of Swedish science.With sketches of the visits to Japan, Hongkong, Singapore, Indonesia, and Ceylon. 'Some consider Adolf Nordenskiöld to be the greatest of all Arctic explorers' (Stam, Books on ice, p.65). - A very fine copy.Arctic Bibl. 12439; Howgego III, pp. 439-446; Liljequist, High latitudes, p.43-45. [Boeknr.: 36768 ]

€ 350,00

OEHLENSCHLÄGER, Adam Gottlieb. Brieven naar huis geschreven op eene reis door Duitschland en Frankrijk, in de jaren 1816 en 1817. Uit het Deensch naar de Hoogduitsche vertaling. Haarlem, Wed. A. Loosjes Pz., 1822.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf (rubbed). With 2 nice engraved title-vignettes by D. Veelwaard. IV,282; 271 pp. First Dutch edition; the German edition Briefe in die Heimath, auf einer Reise durch Deutschland und Frankreich was published in Altona in 1820. - Letters written home by Adam Gottlieb Oehlenschläger (1779-1850) during a journey through Germany and France in 1816-1817. - (Some foxing).Not in Tiele. [Boeknr.: 1180 ]

€ 150,00

PALLAS, (Peter Simon). Voyages du professeur Pallas, dans plusieurs provinces de l'empire de Russie et dans l'Asie septentrionale; traduits de l'Allemand par le C. Gauthier de la Peyronie. Nouvelle édition, revue et enrichie de notes par les CC. Lamarck & Langlès. Paris, Maradan, 1794.8 volumes + atlas volume. 8vo and large 4to. Contemporary half calf (some extremities of spines sl. dam.). Atlas volume with 108 engraved plates and maps, many folding or double-page. Second French edition, first published in 1788-1793; translation of the German edition Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. St. Petersburg 1771-1776 . - The German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and at the request of Catherine, he was placed in charge of an academy expedition into Russia and Siberia. The expedition set out from Moscow in April 1768 with five naturalists and seven astronomers. Pallas arrived back in St. Petersburg in July 1774 with a vast amount of data and many fossil specimens, but broken in health (Howgego p.784). His expedition was concerned with natural history in the widest sense, including geography, agriculture, and other disciplines.Bibl. Russica II, p.72; Wood p.511; Atabey Collection 918. [Boeknr.: 33654 ]

€ 2250,00

PAULI, Reinhold. Bilder aus Alt-England. Gotha, Friedrich Andreas Perthes, 1860.Contemporary half morocco. With double-page coloured plan. VI,395 pp. First edition; Ex Bibl. Bibliothèque du chateau d'Oberhofen. - . - Pictures of Old England by Reinhold Pauli (1823 - 1882), a German historian. [Boeknr.: 9650 ]

€ 45,00

PERCY, (Henry Algernon George). Highlands of Asiatic Turkey. London, Edward Arnold, 1901.Original red cloth gilt, spine lettered in gilt. With frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 8 plates and 31 photographic illustrations. X,338 pp. First edition. - Account of the author's third expedition into the highlands of Asiatic Turkey, undertaken in Turkey in 1899. This book 'was inspired by his sympathy for Turks, but also by a deepened sense of evils of Hamidism, whose downfall he foreshaw' (DNB p.104). [Boeknr.: 17071 ]

€ 275,00

PETERMANN, A. Karte des Mittelländischen Meeres. Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1880.8 sheets, coloured in outline. Each ca. 37,5 x 46 cm. Fine detailed maps of the Mediterranean Sea and surrounding countries by the German cartographer Augustus Heinrich Petermann (1822 - 1878). [Boeknr.: 37404 ]

€ 150,00

PFEIFFER, IDA. Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian north. Translated from the German. 2nd edition. London, Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1853.Original embossed brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With tinted wood-engraved title-page with vignette, frontispiece and 6 tinted wood-engraved plates. 353 pp. First published in 1846 Reise nach dem Scandinavischen Norden und der Insel Island. - On her second trip Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858) set out from Reykjavik for the Geiser and Mount Hecla, travelling alone and on a tight budget, and making her way on pony carts and living like the Icelanders. Having visited every part of Iceland of interest, she embarked for Copenhagen, and after travelling through parts of Norway and Sweden returned to Vienna after an absence of about six months (Howgego II, p. 475). Including An essay on Icelandic poetry, from the French of M. Bergmann; A translation of the Icelandic poem the Voluspa; and a brief sketch of Icelandic history. Ida Pfeiffer was �the first full-time woman traveller of all, and one of the very few who never felt the need to qualify her impulse: she travelled because she wanted to see the world, and saw no reason why she shouln�t� (Robinson, Wayward women, p.25).Abbey, Travel, 161; Theakstone, Vicorian & Edwardian women travellers, p.214. [Boeknr.: 37304 ]

€ 175,00

PLAYFAIR, Robert Lambert. The scourge of Christendom. Annals of British relations with Algiers prior to the French conquest. London, Smith, Elder & Co, 1884.Original cloth with gilt illustration on cover (spine discoloured). With 7 plates. XIV,327 pp. First edition; with armorial bookplate of Thomas Baron Brassey; with autograph dedication by the author. - Sir Robert Lambert Playfair (1828 - 1899) was a British soldier, diplomat, naturalist and author and was appointed Consul-General in Algeria in 1867. [Boeknr.: 36092 ]

€ 150,00

PORTER, Robert Ker. Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808. 2nd edition. London, John Stockdale, 1813.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary half calf. With portrait, 12 sepia washed views (1 folding) and 28 aquatint costume plates (2 folding) by J.C. Stadler after the author. XI,(1),303; VIII,296 pp. Second edition; first published in London in 1809. - Robert Ker Porter (1775-1842), English traveller and artist, went to Russia as historical painter to the tsar for the first time in 1804. He there gained the affections of the Princess Mary, the daughter of Prince Theodor von Sherbatov. He travelled in Finland and to Sweden where in 1806 he received a knighthood from Gustavis IV. In 1808 he accompanied Sir John Moore to Spain, and in 1811-1812 returned to Russia to mary his Princess. He was knighted by the Prince Regent in 1813. In 1817 Porter travelled back to St. Petersburg' (Howgego II, p.487-488). 'A man of the most varied attainments, Porter was justly described as 'distinguished alike in arts, in diplomacy, in war, and in literature'. He was a splendid horseman, excellent in field sports, and possessed the art of ingratiating himself with people of every rank in life. Unlike some popular favourites, he was the idol of his own domestic circle' (DNB). His narrative includes observations and impressions of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Upsala, Stockholm, Russian and Scandinavian art collections and museums, the Russian army, law, religion, education, etc.The beautiful plates are made after drawings by the author. - Some offsetting of the plates as always, hole in blank margin of last leaf vol. I; half-title vol. II missing, otherwise a very fine copy.Abbey, Travel, 13; Tooley, Coloured plates, 382; Prideaux pp.225-227; Colas 2407; Lipperheide I, p.314;Hiler p.718; Catalogue Russica P1037; Nerhood 141. [Boeknr.: 28848 ]

€ 1750,00

POUJADE, Eugène. Chrétiens et Turcs. Scènes et souvenirs de la vie politique, militaire et religieuse en Orient. 3me édition. Paris, Didier et Cie., 1867.Modern boards, original printed wrappers mounted. IV,556 pp. Three editions had appeared by 1867; first published in 1859. - Important publication on the historical and diplomatical history of Turkey with France, England, Russia, Austria and Hungary dealing with nation-state situations still creating problems in the Balkans today. Poujade was a French consular official who served in many posts in the Levant, including Beirut, Malta, Tarsus and the Danubian principalities. - With autograph dedication by the author. - (Library stamps on title-page).Blackmer Collection 1339; Atabey Colledction 980. [Boeknr.: 21209 ]

€ 175,00

(QUINT, Paulus). Beknopte beschryving der provincie van Utrecht, bevattende een verslag van dit gewest in het algemeen, betreffende desselfs ligging, lucht- en grond-gesteldheid, geschiedenissen, koophandel, godsdienst, en regeering; benevens eene byzondere beschryving van alle de steden, dorpen, heerlykheden, ridderhofsteden, en andere lustplaatsen in dezelve gelegen. Utrecht, Paulus Quint, 1799.4to. Contemporary half calf, with red morocco title label to spine (foot of spine sl. dam.). IV,237,(2) pp. First edition. - Detailed description of the city and province of Utrecht by Paulus Quint, a book seller in Utrecht; employed there until 1824. - A fine copy.Nijhoff - Van Hattum 257. [Boeknr.: 37194 ]

€ 275,00

RAVERGIE, (Auguste-Lèonce). Histoire de la Russie et de ses projets d'envahissements depuis le règne de Pierre le Grand jusqu'a nos jours. Paris, P.H. Krabbe, 1854.8vo. Later half cloth, original printed frontwrapper mounted. With large folding coloured map depicting 'Des théatres de la guerre' surrounded by portraits, and 6 steel-engravings. VIII,424 pp. With armorial bookplate of A.C. Mijs. - History of Russia and its invasion projects from the reign of Peter the Great to the present day. - (Age-browned).Catalogue Russica 212. [Boeknr.: 31667 ]

€ 95,00

RETCLIFFE, John. Sebastopol. Geschiedkundige roman uit den tegenwoordigen tijd. Groningen, H.R. Roelfsema, 1856.2 volumes in 1. Modern half cloth. With 2 tinted lithographed title-pages (foxed). 387; 412 pp. Dutch translation of: Sebastopol: Historisch-politischer Roman aus der Gegenwart. Berlin 1856. Volume two of the Dutch edition was published in 1857. Hermann Ottomar Friedrich Goedsche is the real name of the author. Catalogue Russica R 1038. [Boeknr.: 22755 ]

€ 65,00

REYN, G.van. Geschiedkundundige beschrijving der stad Rotterdam; en beknopt overzigt van het hoogheemraadschap van Schieland. Deel I. Rotterdam, Wed. van der Meer & Verbruggen, 1832.Original cloth (rebacked with the original spine laid down). With engraved title-page after A. Bakker by W. Nieuwhoff (stained, name cut from title-page), large folding lithograped plan by Voorn Boers & co and 17 lithographed views (8 folding; some repaired on folds). XXXVI,405,132,(2) pp. The second part was issued 37 years later, in 1869. - Illustrated history and description of the city of Rotterdam; and concise overview of the Hoogheemraadschap of Schieland. [Boeknr.: 37460 ]

€ 275,00

RHINE. Der Rhein von Düsseldorf bis Mainz in 20 der interessantesten Städte und Burgen ausgeführt in feinsten künstlerischen Photochromien. Düsseldorf, Friedr. Wolfrum, (ca. 1900).Leporello with orignal printed wrappers. 20 fine chromolithographed views. 'Die Ansichten dieses Albums können auch einzeln als Postkarten verwendet werden'. [Boeknr.: 36638 ]

€ 35,00

RHINE. Neues Rheinpanorama. Frankfurt a/M, P.H. Frey & Co., (ca. 1880).Original decorated cloth leporello. Photographic scenic view of the Rhine from Köln to Mainz. With 16 pp. text in German, French and English.- (One fold torn). [Boeknr.: 31877 ]

€ 75,00

RICHTER, W. Die Sklaverei im Griechischen Altertume. Ein Kulturbild nach den Quellen in gemeinfasslicher Darstellung. Breslau, Ferdinand Hirt, 1886.Original embossed cloth, gilt lettering. 168 pp. An overview of the origin, extent and condition of slavery in the pre-Hellenic age. - A nice copy. [Boeknr.: 19541 ]

€ 45,00

ROBERT, Cyprien. Les slaves de Turquie. Serbes, Monténégrins, Bosniaques, Albanais et Bulgares. Leurs ressources, leurs tendances et leurs progrès politiques. Paris, L. Passard et Jules Labitte, 1844.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half morocco (top of spine sl. dam.). III,(1),360; (4),416 pp. Treatise on the history and culture of the Slavs in the Orient. - (Age-browned; last lvs with small waterstain in blank corner). - Rare. [Boeknr.: 14061 ]

€ 275,00

ROBERTS, Samuel. Parallel miracles; or the Jews and the Gypsies. London, J. Nisbet, 1830.Sm.8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. 166,(1) pp. First edition. - From the contents: The ancient Egyptians; The Gypsies; Modern Egypt; English Gypsies; The Jews: their dispersion and restoration; The Jews: as connected with the Gypsies.Black 3367. [Boeknr.: 21180 ]

€ 225,00

ROBERTSON, William. Geschiedenis van oud Griekenland, van de vroegste tijden af, tot dat het een romeinsch wingewest werd. Naar den tweeden druk uit het Engelsch vertaald. Utrecht, Amsterdam, Haarlem, A. van Paddenburg, a.o., 1780 - 1781.3 volumes in 2. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt, with red morocco title-labels to spines. XIV,345; 330; 182,(21) pp. First Dutch edition; a translation of the second edition of The History of Ancient Greece, 1778. - Written by reverent William Robertson (1721-1793), the Scottish historian and minister of the Church of Scotland. [Boeknr.: 37153 ]

€ 125,00

ROO, Gerard de. Annales, oder historische Chronick/ der durchleuchtigisten Fürsten und Herren/ Ertzhertogen zu Oesterreich/ Habspurgischen Stammens/ fürnemlich von Rudolpho dem Ersten .. bis auff Carolum den Fünfften .. auf onkosten Conrad Dietzen von Weidenberg .. auss Lateinischer in unser Teutsche Sprach ubersetzt, jetzo von newen durchsehen, und inn Druck gegeben. Augspurg, Johann Schultes, 1621.Folio. Contemporary limp vellum (soiled; sl. dam.). Title printed in red and black with woodcut coat of arms on verso, full-page woodcut genealogical tree of the rulers of Austria, woodcut device at the end, 2 full-page woodcut portraits of archduke Ferdinand and his spouse, and ca. 400 woodcuts in the text of emperors, kings, counts, etc. and their coats of arms. (12),469 (wrongly numbered 481),(1),(46) pp. First German edition, the first Latin edition appeared in Innsbruck in 1592. - Inportant genealogical work on the annals of the Austrian line of the Habsburg dynasty compiled by the Dutch-born librarian Gerard de Roo. He was librarian to archduke Ferdinand. The House of Habsburg is one of the most prominent and important dynasties in European history, they were the ruling house of Hungary from 1526 till 1780. - (Somewhat waterstained throughout; wormholes in fly-leaves).Cf. Lipperheide I, p.195. [Boeknr.: 7054 ]

€ 850,00

RUË, Pieter de la. Geletterd Zeeland, verdeeld in drie afdeelingen, bevattende in zig de schrijvers, geleerden en kunstenaars, uit dien Staat geboortig, met bygevoegd levensverhaal der voornaamsten onder dezelve ; 2e druk, met eenige noodige veranderingen en ettelyke vermeerderingen; zynde hieragter ook geplaats de byschriften op de groote en smalle steden van Zeeland. Middelburg, M. & A. Callenfels, 1741.4to. Original marbled boards, uncut. With title-page printed in red and black and engraved title vignette (blank corner rep.). (50),576,(8),X,(4) pp. Secoind enlarged edition, first published in 1734. - Literary Zeeland, containing the writers, scholars and artists, born in that province, with attached biographies of the most important among them, with the captions on cities in Zeeland. - Large paper copy. [Boeknr.: 37462 ]

€ 275,00

SALMON, Thomas. Hedendaagsche historie of tegenwoordige staat van Spanje en Portugal. Behelzende eene beschryving van de gelegenheid dier ryken .. vaart op de Oost- en Westindien; de natuurlyke historie, enz. Amsterdam, IsaakTirion, 1759.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (top of spine restored). With engraved frontispiece, folding map of Spain and Portugal, folding map of the Strait of Gibraltar and folding plate of Gibraltar, 2 folding plates of Lissabon after the Earthquake and 1 other folding plate depicting an auto da fé (inquisition). (4),662,(18) pp. Part of the series Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren. An historical, geographical and ethnological description of the world of encyclopaedical proportions. This volume, published without a number, contains an ample description of Spain and Portugal with a special chapter on their colonies. - (Age-browned).Tiele 1033. [Boeknr.: 21574 ]

€ 375,00

SALMON, Thomas. Tegenwoordige staat der Oostenryksche, Fransche en Pruissische Nederlanden. Amsterdam, Isaac Tirion, 1738.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, folding view of Scherpenheuvel, folding plan of Brussels, Antwerp, Gent, Brugge, Doornik, Oostende, Yperen and Rijssel, and 4 folding maps. (12),548,(12) pp. Original issued as Modern history: or present state of all nations. London 1725-1739. Translated into Dutch:Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren. - Volume XI contains a description of Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg with fine engravings.Tiele 1033. [Boeknr.: 21677 ]

€ 375,00

SALMON, Thomas. Tegenwoordige staat van't Duitsche keizerryk in't algemeen; als mede van de Opper-Saxische, Neder-Saxische, Westphaalsche, en Nederrynsche Kreitsen in't byzonder. Nu vertaald en merkelyk vermeerderd door M. van Goch. Amsterdam, IsaakTirion, 1736.Contemporary vellum. With engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved portraits and 5 folding maps of Germany (browned). 12,(4),670,(10) pp. Original issued as Modern history: or present state of all nations. London 1725-1739. Translated into Dutch:Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren. Volume VIII contains an ample description of Germany. - A fine copy.Tiele 1033. [Boeknr.: 21657 ]

€ 295,00

SALMON, Thomas. Tegenwoordige staat van Rusland, Zweden, Denemarken en Noorwegen: als mede van de landen onder de Noord Pool gelegen, en van de Groenlandsche visschery. Nu vertaald en merkelyk vermeerderd door Matthias van Goch. Amsterdam, Isaac Tirion, 1735.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved plates (1 folding), 2 engraved plates depicting whales, 3 engraved portraits and 5 folding maps. (8),317-976,(8) pp. Original issued as Modern history: or present state of all nations. London 1725-1739. Translated into Dutch:Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren. - This volume VII contains a description of Russia, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, including chapters on English and Dutch whaling round Greenland and the Davis Strait. With fine plan of St. Petersburg and maps of Russia, the Arctic and others.Tiele 1033; Muller, Bibl. Neerlando-Russe, 311. [Boeknr.: 21656 ]

€ 475,00

SANDYS, (George). Voyagien, behelsende een historie van de oorspronckelijcke ende tegenwoordige standt des Turcksen rijcks: hare wetten/ regeeringe/ politie/ krijghs-macht/ hooven van justitie/ ende koophandel. Als mede, van Egypten .. Neffens een beschrijvinge van het H. Landt .. Eyndelyck, Italien beschreven met hare nabuerighe eylanden; als Cyprus/ Creta/ Malta/ Sicilia/ de Aolische eylanden; van Roomen/ Venetien/ Napels/ Syracusa/ Mesena/ Aetna/ Scylla/ ende Charybdis/ etc. Uyt 't Engels vertaelt door J. G(lazemaker). Amsterdam, Jacob Beniamin,1653.4to. Later marbled boards. With engraved title, 3 engraved plates and 26 full or half-page engravings in the text. 292 pp. First Dutch edition, first published in London in 1615: A relation of a journey begun an.Dom. 1610. Foure bookes, containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Egypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and islands adjoyning - George Sandys (1578-1644) was the son of the Archbishop of York and a literary figure of some standing. In 1609 he set sail for the East and he spent the next year travelling in Turkey, Egypt and Palestine and later studied antiquities in Rome. His observations first appeared in English in 1615 and his text was soon regarded as a special authority on the Levant. He has been called the first 'classical tourist' of England. Sandys also was interested in colonial promotion, and was one of the undertakers named in the third charter of the Virginia Company in 1611, and later treasurer and a member of the Council. He visited many islands in the Mediterranean Sea Sicily, Crete, Cyprus, Lesbos, Chios, Kythira, Malta, etc. This book also became popular in the Netherlands and was several times republished.- A fine clean copy of this standard account of the Eastern Mediterranean. Tiele 959; Cat. NHSM I, p.255; Blackmer Collection 1484 (English edition); Atabey Collection 1087 (English edition); Weber 245; Röhricht p.232; Ibrahim-Hilmy p.210; O'Neill, The Ömer Koç Collection, 37 (English ed.); Tobler p.91-92. [Boeknr.: 33658 ]

€ 1950,00

SCHUYLER, Eugene. Turkistan. Notes of a journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja. New York, Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1876.2 volumes. Original decorated cloth gilt (top of spines sl. dam.). With 3 folding maps and woodengraved plates and illustrations. XII,411; VIII,463 pp. First edition. - Schuyler, an American career diplomat, went to Turkistan in 1873 while serving as consul-general in St. Petersburg. 'The chief aim of my journey in Central Asia was to study the political and social condition of the regions which had been recently annexed by Russia, as well as to compare the state of the inhabitants under Russian rule with that of those still living under the despotism of the Khans. In this I was a measure successful' (Preface). Volume I contains chapters on the Syr Darya, Tashkent, Muslim life in Tashkent, bazaars and trade, Samarkand, the Zarafshan Valley, and Hodjent (present-day Khujand, Tajikistan) and Kurama (present-day Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). Volume II contains chapters on Khokand, Bukhara, Issyk Kul (present-day Kyrgyzstan) and Semiretch (present-day Semirech'e, Kazakhstan), and Kuldja ( present-day China). Including a summary of early Chinese and medieval European travelers to Central Asia and the accounts of their voyages. - A nice set.Cordier, BS, col. 2616; Nerhood 313; Yakushi S99b. [Boeknr.: 11555 ]

€ 625,00

SCHWARZ, Franz von. Turkestan, die Wiege der indogermanischen Völker. Nach fünfzehnjährigem Aufenthalt in Turkestan. Freiburg, Herder, 1900.Original pictorial cloth (1 hinge dam.).. With coloured frontispiece, folding map and 178 illustrations. XX,606 pp. Illustrierte Bibliothek der Länder und Völkerkunde. - The author stayed in Tashkent surveying astronomy and meteorology for 15 years, and describes Russian Turkestan. Yakushi p.348. [Boeknr.: 21472 ]

€ 150,00

SCHWARZ, Franz von. Turkestan, die Wiege der indogermanischen Völker. Nach fünfzehnjährigem Aufenthalt in Turkestan. Freiburg, Herder, 1900.Later half cloth, original pictorial wrappers preserved. With coloured frontispiece, folding map and 178 illustrations. XX,606 pp. Illustrierte Bibliothek der Länder und Völkerkunde. - The author stayed in Tashkent surveying astronomy and meteorology for 15 years, and describes Russian Turkestan. - (With library stamp).Yakushi p.348. [Boeknr.: 36025 ]

€ 125,00

SCOTT, Walter. Keur van gedenkwaardige tafereelen uit de geschiedenis van Schotland. Naar het Engelsch (vertaald) door G. Engelberts Gerrits. Amsterdam, G. Portielje, (1832).2 volumes. Original cloth with gilt decorations, spines gilt (spines discoloured). With 2 engraved title-pages with engraved vignettes after H. Vettewinkel by W. van Senus and 12 aquatint plates on 6 leaves after H.P. Oosterhuis by W. van Senus (2 with marginal stains). XVI,224; VI,246,(2) pp. First edition. - Dutch translation of Tales of a Grandfather, being stories taken from Scottish history. [Boeknr.: 37301 ]

€ 175,00

SCRIVERIUS, Petrus & Frans van MIERIS. Chronyk van Holland, van den klerk uit de laage landen by der zee: nooit voorheen gedrukt. Met eenige aantekeningen zoo van Petrus Scriverius als van den uitgever (Frans van Mieris). Leyden, Pieter vander Eyk, 1740.4to. Old half cloth. With engraved title-vignette. (20),235 pp. First edition, published after the manuscript dating from ca. 1350. - Petrus Scriverius, the Latinized form of Peter Schrijver (1576 - 1660), was a Dutch writer and scholar on the history of Holland and Belgium. At the end: KORT CHRONYKJE van Holland, van den jaere IX ende LXXII tot het jaer MCCCC ende LXVI. - A clean copy. [Boeknr.: 13675 ]

€ 175,00

SHEYKH-ZADA. The history of the forty vezirs or the story of the forty morns and eves. Written in Turkish .. done into English by E.J.W. Gibb. London, George Redway, 1886.Original decorated cloth (stained). XL,420 pp. First edition. - Important collection of oriental tales known as the Forty Viziers with the similar frame-narrative structure as The thousand and one nights. [Boeknr.: 36093 ]

€ 95,00

SHIPWRECK OF THE ADDER. VERSLAG aan den koning van het onderzoek naar de vermoedelijke oorzaken waaraan de zeeramp van ZR.MS. Rammonitor 'Adder' moet worden toegeschreven. Uitgebragt door de commissie, benoemd bij 's konings besluit van 21 Julij 1882. 's Gravenhage, Algemeene Landsdrukkerij, 1882.Large 8vo. Original printed boards. With folding plate depicting the Adder and folding plate depicting the probable location of the wreck. II,181 pp. The Adder was a Dutch ram monitor who sank on the North Sea off the coast of Scheveningen on Wednesday evening 5 July 1882. All 66 people on board were killed. The wreck was never recovered.There was a lot of criticism because it was delayed until Saturday before sending a ship to locate the Adder, while the monitor was expected to be in Hellevoetsluis on Wednesday afternoon. This exceptionally slow course of action on the part of the Navy Department has been heavily criticized. A monitor was a relatively small warship which was neither fast nor strongly armored but carried disproportionately large guns. They were designed for shallow waters and served as coastal ships and used by some navies from the 1860s.Added 11 newspaper clippings from 1882-1883 on the shipwreck, including 1 of the Bataviaasch Handelsblad.Cat. NHSM I, p.483. [Boeknr.: 36142 ]

€ 375,00

SICILY. - TRACTAAT VAN COMMERCIE, tusschen sijne majesteit den koning der beide Sicilien en de Heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden &c. 's Gravenhage, Jacobus Scheltus, 1753.4to. With large printer's device on title. 39 pp. Treaty between Sicily and the Netherlands. - Not in Knuttel. [Boeknr.: 13212 ]

€ 95,00

SIMROCK, Karl. Rheinsagen aus den Munde des Volks und deutscher Dichter. Für Schule, Haus und Wanderschaft. 2. vermehtrte Auflage. Bonn, Eduard Weber, 1837.Original printed boards. With lithographed frontispiece. XI,472,(1) pp. [Boeknr.: 37222 ]

€ 65,00

SOUMAROCOW, Alexandre. Théatre tragique. Traduit du Russe par Manuel-Léonard Pappadopoulo. Paris, Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1801.2 volumes. Original boards (rubbed). XIV,(2),328; 320 pp. Six plays written by the Russian dramaturge Aleksandr Petrovich Sumarokow (1717-1777): Sinaw et Trouwor, Sémire, Laropolk et Dimise, Khorew, Aristone and Martésie et Thalestris.Catalogue Russica S1773 [Boeknr.: 31707 ]

€ 150,00

SOURTZINOS, Giorgos Ch. Corfu. A journey through the ages. History - monuments - museums - historical and archaeological places - engravings. 3rd edition. Corfu, Historical Folkloric Society of Corfu, 2008. Folio. Original boards, with dust-jacket. With numerous coloured illustrations. 177 pp. [Boeknr.: 36630 ]

€ 45,00

St. PETERSBURG. Geheime geschiedenis van het Petersburgsche hof, sedert de regering der keizerin Elizabeth, tot den dood van den grootvorst Constantijn. Uit de nagelatene papieren van een oud staatsman. Uit het Hoogduitsch. Leeuwarden, Steenbergen van Goor, 1833.Contemporary half calf (extremities of spine sl. damaged; 1 hinge sl. damaged but firmly holding). With lithographed portrait. IV,396 pp. Court-life at St. Petersburg. - (Age-browned).Catalogue Russica G455; not in Muller, Bibliographie Neerlando-Russe; not in WorldCat. [Boeknr.: 13563 ]

€ 275,00

STEEVENS, George Warrington. With the conquering Turk. Confessions of a Bashi-Bazouk. Edinburgh, London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1897.Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 4 folding coloured maps. VI,315;32 pp. First edition; with autograph dedication by Bertha Steevens, 'in memory of the author'. - George Warrington Steevens (1869 -1900) was a British journalist and writer. He was the most famous war correspondent of his time and was present during the Greco-Turkish war of 1897. - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 28844 ]

€ 275,00

STOLL, Heinrich Wilhelm. Bilder aus dem altgriechischen Leben. 2. Auflage. Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1875.Original embossed cloth, spine gilt. With folding maps, illustrations and plates. VIII,560 pp. First published in Leipzig in 1870. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 33128 ]

€ 45,00

(TEMMINCK, Matthias). Geschiedkundige verhandeling, betreffende het regeerings-reglement, door zyne hoogheid Willem de IIIde, in den jaare 1674, aan de provincie van Utrecht voorgeschreeven. Waarby de onwettigheid en onbestaanbaarheid van het zelve, zo met eene vrije staats-regeering als met de Unie van Utrecht ten duidelysten wordt aangetoond. (Met) Bylagen. Utrecht, 1784.Contemporary half calf, spine richly gilt. IV,247;42 pp. Historical treatise concerning the rules of government, prescribed by Willem III, in the year 1674, to the province of Utrecht demonstrating illegality. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 37316 ]

€ 225,00

TEMPLE, William. Aenmerckingen over de Vereenighde Nederlandtsche provintien. In't Engels beschreven door Willem Tempel .. Over-geset naer den tweeden druck, door den autheur verbetert en vermeerdert. Tot London, gedruckt by A. Maxwel, 1673. Na de copye .. Amsterdam, Jacob Vinckel, (ca. 1673).4to. Old marbled wrappers. (6),88 pp. Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. - William Temple (1628-1698), ambassador in The Hague, had friendly relations with Johan de Witt. In 1668 he made the Triple Alliance between England, the Netherlands and Sweden within four days. He also arranged the marriage between England's Princess Mary and the Netherlands' Prince Willem III. His Dutch sympathies found clear expression in his masterful Observation, first published in 1672.Knuttel 11008 (other edition). [Boeknr.: 13468 ]

€ 225,00

THÉAULON, EMMANUEL & Armand d' ARTOIS. De vrouwen-soldaten of de slecht verdedigde vesting. Vrolyk blyspel met zang. Naar het Fransch door De Quack en Falle. Amsterdam, Hendrik van Kesteren, 1809. Sm.8vo. Old wrappers. 64 pp. First Dutch edition. - Written by Emmanuel The�aulon (1787-1841) and Armand d' Artois (1788-1867) Les femmes soldats, ou la forteresse mal defendue, folie-vaudeville en un acte (1809) The women soldiers or the badly defended fortress, cheerful vaudeville. Translated by Jan de Quack (1769-1852) and Bernard Antoine Falle�e (1773-1847). - (Some annotations). [Boeknr.: 36137 ]

€ 95,00

THEUNISSEN, H., A. ABELMANN & W. MEULENKAMP. ( Red.). Topkapi & Turkomanie. Turks-Nederlandse ontmoetingen sinds 1600. Amsterdam, De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1989. 8vo. Wrappers. With many illustrations (several in colours). 232 pp. This richly illustrated book discusses Dutch-Turkish historical contacts and trade relations in detail. including also the 'Turkomania', the Turkish influence on Dutch culture in the areas of fashion, music, architecture, coffee and tobacco. [Boeknr.: 79 ]

€ 35,00

THIELMANN, Max von. Journey in the Caucasus, Persia, and Turkey in Asia. Translated by Charles Heneage. London, John Murray, 1875.2 volumes in 1. Original green pictorial cloth gilt, a.e.g. With folding map and 14 woodengraved plates. XV,308; X,302 pp. First English edition; first published in Leipzig in 1875 Streifzüge im Kaukasus, in Persien und in der asiatischen Türkei. - An account of a journey undertaken in 1872-73. Max Franz Guido Freiherr von Thielmann (1846 - 1829) was Political Secretary to the German Embassy in St. Petersburg, Kopenhagen, Bern, Washington D.C., Brussel, Paris and Konstantinopel.Weber I,730; Ghani p.386; Wilson p.226. [Boeknr.: 31081 ]

€ 450,00

TREATY BETWEEN SWEDEN & HOLLAND. Tractaet van navigatie en commercie, tusschen den Koningh van Sweden, ter eenre, ende de Heeren Staten Generael der Vereenighde Nederlanden, ter andere zijde, den 26. November, sestien honderdt vijf en seventigh, tot Stockholm geslooten en geteeckent. 's Gravenhage, Jacobus Scheltus, (ca. 1700). 4to. With woodcut coat of arms of the United Provinces on title. (12) pp. First published in 1676, reprinted in Recueil van de tractaten, gemaeckt ende geslooten tusschen de Hoog Mogende Heeren Staten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden ter eenre, ende verscheyde Koningen, Princen ende Potentaten ter andere zyde. 's Gravenhage, ca. 1700. - Dutch translation of the treaty between King Charles XI of Sweden and the Dutch Republic pertaining to freedom of navigation and commerce. Cf. Knuttel 11392a (suppl.); Tiele 7434. [Boeknr.: 37407 ]

€ 125,00

(TULLY, Miss). Narrative of a ten years' residence at Tripoli in Africa: from the original correspondence in the possession of the family of the late Richard Tully, Esq. the British Consul. Comprising authentic memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning Bashaw, his family, and other persons of distinction; also, an account of the domestic manners of the Moors, Arabs, and Turks. London, printed for Henry Colburn, 1816.4to. Contemporary half calf, with green morocco title-label to spine. With engraved folding map and 5 fine hand-coloured aquatints. XIII,(2),370 pp. First edition; with armorial bookplate of C. Robert Bignold. - These letters were written by the sister or sister-in-law of Richard Tully, British consul at Tripoli from 1783 to 1793. The work is particularly valuable for its details of family life in the seraglio. The female members of Tully's family were on intimate terms with the Bashaw's family and were admitted into all the life of the seraglio. 'It is a delicious mixture of sensational subject-matter and deadpan delivery' (Robinson, Wayward Women, p.248). 'The volume will be found an object of particular curiosity, from the lively and artless manner in which it lays open the interior of the Court of the Bashaw of Tripoli. It contains, we believe, the only exact account which has ever been made publicly known of the private manners and conduct of this African Despot, and details such scenes and events, such sketches of human weakness and vice, the effects of ambition, avarice, envy, intrigue, as will scarcely appear credible in the estimation of a European'. (Preface). This is one of the most important records of Tripolitan life during the 18th century. The very attractive plates depict genre scenes and costumes. - A fine copy.Abbey, Travel, 299; Tooley, Coloured plates, 493; Blackmer Collection 1682; Atabey Collection 1241. [Boeknr.: 1753 ]

€ 1450,00

ULLOA, Alfonso de Historie/ ende het leven van den aldermachtichsten ende victorieusten keyser Caerle de Vijfde van dien name. Inden welcken niet alleen beschreven en zijn de .. daden vanden selven Prince/ maer oock de merckelijckste saken die over alle de werelt/ insonderheyt inde Oost ende West-Indyen geschiet zijn. Eerstmael in Italiaensche tale beschreven. Amsterdam, Jacob Pietersz. Paets, 1610.Folio. Contemporary vellum. With printed title within engraved architectural border and 18 engraved portraits by N. de Clerck in text. (2),221,(8) lvs. Second Dutch edition, first Italian edition was published in Venice in 1560 La vita dell' invitissimo imperator Carlo Quinto, first published in Dutch in Antwerp in 1570. - 'A general history of the time of Charles V, noting European expansion in both eastern and western hemispheres and its impact in Europe' (James Ford Bell Library U8). 'This highly esteemed biography of Charles V, includes an account of all the events, which took place during the years 1500-1560, and especially of all the achievements of the Spaniards in America' (Muller, America, p.365). With extraordinary attention to the glorious Spanish exploration and colonial conquests in Mexico and Peru. - (Margins first 2 lvs sl. dam.; tear in 1 leaf; some wormholes; waterstained). - Rare.Cf. Cat. NHSM I, p.565; Not in Tiele; Sabin 97678; European Americana 610/111. [Boeknr.: 7818 ]

€ 1750,00

VEERE & VLISSINGEN - DEVASSALLAGE.. Enkele resoluties rakende de erfenis van Willem III en de stad Veere en Vlissingen. September, Oktober, November, December 1732.Manuscripts. 16 pp. After the death of William III, who remained childless, in 1702, not only the succession as stadtholder was discredited, but the succession of the Marquisate of Veere was also disputed. It was not until 1732 that the division of William III's inheritance took place. It was decided by the States that the feudal status of Veere and Vlissingen were lifted and promoted to free count cities, and were thus placed directly under the States themselves. [Boeknr.: 37501 ]

€ 275,00

VIBE, A. Küsten und Meer Norwegens. Gotha, J. Perthes, 1860.4to. Wrappers. With coloured lithographed frontispiece and folding map. 24 pp. Supplementary publication for Petermann's Geographische Mittheilungen, one of the oldest German-language specialist journals for geography. [Boeknr.: 10793 ]

€ 30,00

VOETIUS, Gysbertus. Hondert-jaarige jubel-gedachtenisse der Academie van Utrecht. Bestaande in een beknopt verhaal, van derselver oorsprong, opkomst, inwydinge en jubel-feesten; als meede, in een reedenvoeringe tot derselver inwydinge, den 13 maart O.S. 1636, van de nuttigheit der Academien en schoolen ... Voorts in een naam-lyst van alle de heeren professoren deser Academie .. beneffens een korte levens beschryvinge van G. Voetius .. thans grootelyks vermeerdert door Isaac le Long. Utrecht, Matthaeus Visch, 1736.4to. Half calf, with red morocco title-label. (12),211,(4) pp. Commemorative book in celebration of the centenary of the university in utrecht. With list of professors. - (Some waterstaining and wormholes). [Boeknr.: 37258 ]

€ 295,00

(VRIEMOET, B.). Kort verhaal van de nare en zeer beklagelyke toestand der provincie en stad van Utrecht, desgelyks van gantsch Nederlandt, in de jaaren 1672 en 1673 door de invadeeringe der Franschen, nevens deszelfs gecombineerde machten, &c. en hoe dat van hun dreygent verderf, door den Heere prince van Orange, Willem de III .. Strekkende tot den jaarlykze Utrechtsen dankdag, voor de burgers en inwoonders aldaar. Door B.V. Utrecht, Roeland de Meyere, 1757.Contemporary calf, spine gilt with red morocco title-label to spine. 144 pp. Bound with: GYSBERTUS VOETIUS. Redenvoering van de nuttigheid der academien en de schoolen, mitsgaders der wetenschappen en konsten .. Gedaan in den Doms-kerk .. Waar agter nog bygevoegt is de eerste predicatie .. na dat de Fransche macht de stad .. hadden verlaten .. Utrecht, Jan Hendrik Vonk, 1736. 87 pp. - (Age-browned). [Boeknr.: 37303 ]

€ 275,00

VRIES, D. de (Ed.). Kaarten met geschiedenis 1550-1800. Een selectie van oude getekende kaarten van Nederland uit de Collectie Bodel Nijenhuis. Utrecht, (1989). 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations (4 in colour). 123 pp. [Boeknr.: 14202 ]

€ 18,00

WAGNER, Wilhelm. Hellas. Das Land und Volk der alten Griechen. Bearbeitet für Freunde des klassischen Alterthums für die deutsche Jugend. 4e verbesserte Auflage. Leipzig, Otto Spamer, 1877.2 volumes. Original embossed red cloth with gilt illustration on front cover, spines gilt (spine ends sl. dam.). With folding map, 9 tinted woodengraved plates and 270 woodengraved illustrations. X,372; IV,330 pp. First published in 1859; Neue Jugend und Hausbibliothek. - Wilhelm Wagner (1843-1880), was a German scholar of medieval and modern Greek poetry. - Fine illustrated description.The Dimitris Contominas Collection 778. [Boeknr.: 37324 ]

€ 125,00

WALLACE, D(onald) Mackenzie. La Russie. Le pays - les institutions - les moeurs. Traduit de l'Anglais par H. Bellenger. Paris, G. Decaux et M. Dreyfous, 1877.2 volumes. Original half cloth. III,431; 448 pp. First English edition published the same year. - Wallace's book had great success, going through several editions and being translated into many languages. He learned Russian and spent five years in Russia, from 1870-1875. 'His work is a classic treatment that examines every aspect of European Russia, with special emphasis on the rural scene' (Nerhood 302). - The standard authority on Russia before the 1917 revolution. [Boeknr.: 7947 ]

€ 75,00

WALSH. Explorations en Normandie: Rouen. Rouen, E. le Grand, 1835.Original printed wrappers. VII,592 pp. The work was to inaugurate a series on the different parts of the province, but only this volume appeared and it concerns only the city of Rouen. At the time, the royalist journalist Joseph-Alexis Walsh (1782-1860) directed the Gazette from Normandy. [Boeknr.: 9774 ]

€ 65,00

WATSON, (Robert). Histoire du regne de Philippe II, roi d'Espagne. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois. Amsterdam, D.J. Changuion, 1778.4 volumes. Sm.8vo. Contemporary calf (spine ends sl. dam., sl. rubbed). With engraved portrait. Philip II (1527 - 1598) was King of Spain from 1556 and of Portugal from 1581. From 1554 he was King of Naples and Sicily as well as Duke of Milan. During his marriage to Queen Mary I (1554-58), he was also King of England and Ireland. From 1555, he was lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands. [Boeknr.: 7007 ]

€ 125,00

WEALE, B.L. Putnam (Bertram Lenox SIMPSON). Manchu and Moscovite. Being letters from Manchuria written during the autumn of 1903. London, Macmillan and Co., 1904. Original red cloth. With many photographic plates (map missing). XX,552 pp. First edition. - With an historical sketch entitled 'Prologue to the crisis' giving a complete account of the Manchurian frontiers from the earliest days and the growth and final meeting of the Russian and Chinese empires in the Amur Regions'. [Boeknr.: 25154 ]

€ 35,00

WEISS, M.Ch. L'Espagne depuis le règne de Philippe II jusqu'a l'avénement des Bourbons. Paris, Hachette, 1844.2 volumes. Original printed wrapppers. VIII,442; 408 pp. Analysis of the causes of Spanish decline in the 16th and 17th centuries in industry, agriculture and commerce, as well as in literature and art, and examination of the new policies introduced by the Bourbons.Palau 374537. [Boeknr.: 10229 ]

€ 65,00

WICHMANN, Yrjö. Wotjakische Sprachproben. Im Auftrage der Finnisch-Urgrischen Gesellschaft. Helsingfors, 1893-1901. 2 volumes. Original printed wrappers. XX,199; IV,200 pp. Journal de la Societé Finne-Ougrienne. - The Wotjaken live in the Russian Republic Udmurtien. Volume I: Lieder, Gebete und Zaubersprüche; Volume II: Sprichwörter, Rätsel, Märchen, Sagen und Erzählungen. Parallel Votyak and German texts. [Boeknr.: 31747 ]

€ 65,00

WILLINK, Daniel. Amstellandsche Arkadia, of beschryving van de gelegenheit, toestant en gebeurtenissen van Amstellandt, met deszelfs onderhoorige dorpen, heerlykheden, ambachten, lusthoven, wateren, enz. In orde geschikt, en nader overzien, door .. Gerrit Schoemaker. Amsterdam, Arent van Huyssteen, 1737.2 volumes. Sm.8vo. Contemporary vellum. With 2 engraved title-vignettes, engraved frontispiece, folding table, and 12 folding engraved views of the Amstel, Oudekerk, Amstelmond, Amstelveen, Waverveen, Sloten, Sloterdijk, etc. by J.C. Philips, C. Pronk a.o. (16),400; 327,(8) pp. First edition. - Daniël Willink (1676 - 1722) was a Dutch poet, writter and wine-merchant. He described with accuracy the places of interest of Amsterdam and surroundings with glorification of the beauty of the town and landscape.A fine copy. - Nijhoff-Van Hattum 335. [Boeknr.: 28993 ]

€ 450,00

WINDHAM, Charles. The Crimean Diary and letters of Lieut.-General Sir Charles Ash Windham, with observations upon his services during the Indian mutiny and an introduction by Sir William Howard Russell. The whole edited by Major Hugh Pearse. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1897.Original decorated cloth (spine faded), top edge gilt. With engraved portrait. X,272 pp. First edition. - Sir Charles Ash Windham (1810 - 1870) was a British Army officer and Liberal Party politician. Promoted colonel on 20 June 1854, Windham was assistant quartermaster-general of the 4th Division in Crimea and was present, but saw little action, at the battles of Alma River, Balaklava, and Inkerman. He was outspoken in his criticism of laggard British military leadership in the Crimea. Given command of the assault on the Great Redan at Sevastopol on 8 Sept. 1855, he personally rode back to ask for reinforcements after suffering heavy losses, but a retreat had been ordered. He was criticized by soldiers for his conduct but made a popular hero by William Howard Russell, correspondent of the Times, for having �saved the honour of the army. With preface by Charles Windham jr. and an introductory chapter by W.H. Russell, famous for his reports on The Crimean War for Times Newspaper. [Boeknr.: 35205 ]

€ 95,00

ZINKEISEN, Johann Wilhelm. Geschichte des Osmanischen Reichs in Europa. Erster Theil. Urgeschichte und Machsthum des Reiches bis zum Jahre 1453. Hamburg, Friedrich Perthes, 1840.Later half calf, old green title labels mounted. XXII,863,(2) pp. Volume I: Geschichte der europaischen Staaten. Herausgegeben von A.H.L. Heeren & F.A. Ukert [Boeknr.: 36096 ]

€ 75,00

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