Travel, Exploration from Georg Schneebeli :: Rare Books & Prints

Atlas to the English edition of the report of the famous voyage around the world by La Pérouse, who - in addition to Bougainville and Cook - contributed decisively to the exploration of the Pacific region. Without the two text volumes. Description: Contemporary quarter calf with marbled paper boards. Flat spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Quarto: 44 × 28.5 cm;… Read more about this item

A nice Victorian travel book of twenty-four original watercolour drawings dated 1898–1902. Description: Original beige cloth binding, titled on front cover Ilfracombe 1898, Scotland 1901 and Wales 1902. Bookbinder's label on the front paste-down. Obl. octavo: 14 × 24 cm; pp. 24ll., [1 loosely inserted]. 24 watercolour drawings on Whatman's handmade drawing paper. Provenance: Owner's name written in pencil on the front… Read more about this item

A beautiful historical document with personal notes taken while travelling in Egypt in 1899. Description: Publisher's brown limp boards, decorations on upper cover in gilt, spine lettered in gilt. Endpapers marbled. Octavo: 18 × 12 cm; pp. xv, 443. Illustrated throughout, 2 maps. All edges marbled. Provenance: Autograph of Dudley H. [illegible], S.S. Nitocris, Mar: 1899. Condition: Some rubbing to extremities and… Read more about this item

Accounts of shipwrecks and other fateful events that happened at sea. Description: Vol. 1 (of 2), contemp. tree calf, spine gilt in compartments with lettering-piece. Marbled endpapers. Sextodecimo: 17 × 10 cm; [3] ll., 399 pp., [2] ll. 2 engravings. Condition: Binding somewhat rubbed and creased at corners. Edges and contents somewhat stained.

First German edition with 39 superb engravings in vigorous impressions. Rare German edition. Description: 3 parts in 1 vol. Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink. Quarto: 31 × 20 cm; pp. [4] ll; 206, [1] ll; 209-336; 76, [2] ll; 164, [4] ll. Internally illustrated with a engraved titel page, 39 engravings on 38 plates of which 27 double-page and… Read more about this item

First edition of Louis Antoine de Bougainville's account of his famous circumnavigation between 1766 and 1769. Description: Near contemp. green and brown morocco, separated with gilt fillet; spine with 4 raised bands decorated with gilt fillets; gilt titling on spine. Brown marbled endpapers. Quarto: 27 × 20 cm; [4] ll., 417, [3] pp. With 20 maps (17 fold-outs, incl. the… Read more about this item

First edition in French detailing superstition and the cult of witchcraft in India. Translated into French by Thomas La Grue from the Dutch. Description: Contemprary calf, gilt titles to spine and decoration in compartments between five raised bands. Octavo: 24 × 18 cm; pp. [7] ll., 375. With an engraved frontispiece plate and seven engravings, (five of which are full-page), and… Read more about this item