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copper engraving. text verso: Description des Indes. Barent Langenes' map of Southeast Asia from a French edition of his Caert-Thresoor "Thresor de Chartes, contenant les Tableaux de tous les Pays du Monde", pp. 41-42; the map depicts the East Indies including the Philippines, and the surrounding countries. French text on verso. Petrus Bertius was born at Beveren, Flanders, in November 1565. As a refugee, Bertius settled in Amsterdam and, after finishing his studies, he became a professor of mathematics and librarian at the University of Leiden. In 1618 he also became cosmographer and historiographer to Louis XIII of France, and lived in Paris, where he died in October 1629. His fame among geographers was established by his text in the pocket atlas 'Tabularum Geographicarum', with 10 editions from 1600-1650. Reference: Koeman Vis 4 (= Lan 15); Shirley T.LAN-1h; Tiele 1160; Quirino p. 79 (but Langenes/Bertius Latin edition 1606). Condition: with some marginal browning, top slightly slanted/cropped,… Read More

28.4 x 51.1 cm, original-colour lithograph, folded as issued, library stamp. EXTREMELY RARE Map. Printed by H.S. Hermann, Berlin..

etching; UNBELIEVABLY RARE. Very few copies known to exist. View from "Vierundzwanzig Vegetations-Ansichten" [24 Views of Vegetation] Tafel 3. title of this print is taken from the album text. This album 3 is an altogether separate publication from the more famous and equally rare "Atlas of the 'Voyage autour du Monde… l'Empereur Nicolas I.er. sur la Corvette Le Séniavine…pendant les annees 1826, 1827, 1828 & 1829, Partie historique", which documents the Russian Circumnavigation of Fréderic. P. Lütke. These 24 views compliment the lithographs contained in the Atlas. Condition: with tear on right edge, with some foxing, title in pencil on lower right margin.

etching; UNBELIEVABLY RARE. Very few copies known to exist. View from "Vierundzwanzig Vegetations-Ansichten" [24 Views of Vegetation] Tafel 22. title of this print is taken from the album text. This album 3 is an altogether separate publication from the more famous and equally rare "Atlas of the 'Voyage autour du Monde… l'Empereur Nicolas I.er. sur la Corvette Le Séniavine…pendant les annees 1826, 1827, 1828 & 1829, Partie historique", which documents the Russian Circumnavigation of Fréderic. P. Lütke. These 24 views compliment the lithographs contained in the Atlas. Condition: with some foxing, title in pencil on lower right margin.

etching; UNBELIEVABLY RARE. Very few copies known to exist. View from "Vierundzwanzig Vegetations-Ansichten" [24 Views of Vegetation] Tafel 4. title of this print is taken from the album text. This album 3 is an altogether separate publication from the more famous and equally rare "Atlas of the 'Voyage autour du Monde… l'Empereur Nicolas I.er. sur la Corvette Le Séniavine…pendant les annees 1826, 1827, 1828 & 1829, Partie historique", which documents the Russian Circumnavigation of Fréderic. P. Lütke. These 24 views compliment the lithographs contained in the Atlas. Condition: paper toning on all edges, title in pencil on lower right margin

etching; UNBELIEVABLY RARE. Very few copies known to exist. View from "Vierundzwanzig Vegetations-Ansichten" [24 Views of Vegetation] Tafel 21. title of this print is taken from the album text. This album 3 is an altogether separate publication from the more famous and equally rare "Atlas of the 'Voyage autour du Monde… l'Empereur Nicolas I.er. sur la Corvette Le Séniavine…pendant les annees 1826, 1827, 1828 & 1829, Partie historique", which documents the Russian Circumnavigation of Fréderic. P. Lütke. These 24 views compliment the lithographs contained in the Atlas. Condition: with minor foxing, not affecting plate, paper toning, title in pencil on lower right margin.

etching; UNBELIEVABLY RARE. Very few copies known to exist. View from "Vierundzwanzig Vegetations-Ansichten" [24 Views of Vegetation] Tafel 20. title of this print is taken from the album text. This album 3 is an altogether separate publication from the more famous and equally rare "Atlas of the 'Voyage autour du Monde… l'Empereur Nicolas I.er. sur la Corvette Le Séniavine…pendant les annees 1826, 1827, 1828 & 1829, Partie historique", which documents the Russian Circumnavigation of Fréderic. P. Lütke. These 24 views compliment the lithographs contained in the Atlas. Condition: with some foxing, title in pencil on lower right margin.

etching; UNBELIEVABLY RARE. Very few copies known to exist. View from "Vierundzwanzig Vegetations-Ansichten" [24 Views of Vegetation] Tafel 13. title of this print is taken from the album text. This album 3 is an altogether separate publication from the more famous and equally rare "Atlas of the 'Voyage autour du Monde… l'Empereur Nicolas I.er. sur la Corvette Le Séniavine…pendant les annees 1826, 1827, 1828 & 1829, Partie historique", which documents the Russian Circumnavigation of Fréderic. P. Lütke. These 24 views compliment the lithographs contained in the Atlas. Condition: with tear on top edge, with some foxing, title in pencil on lower right margin.

etching; UNBELIEVABLY RARE. Very few copies known to exist. View from "Vierundzwanzig Vegetations-Ansichten" [24 Views of Vegetation] Tafel 6. title of this print is taken from the album text. This album 3 is an altogether separate publication from the more famous and equally rare "Atlas of the 'Voyage autour du Monde… l'Empereur Nicolas I.er. sur la Corvette Le Séniavine…pendant les annees 1826, 1827, 1828 & 1829, Partie historique", which documents the Russian Circumnavigation of Fréderic. P. Lütke. These 24 views compliment the lithographs contained in the Atlas. Condition: with small tears on top and right edges, with some foxing, paper toning, title in pencil on lower right margin.

etching; UNBELIEVABLY RARE. Very few copies known to exist. View from "Vierundzwanzig Vegetations-Ansichten" [24 Views of Vegetation] Tafel 19. title of this print is taken from the album text. This album 3 is an altogether separate publication from the more famous and equally rare "Atlas of the 'Voyage autour du Monde… l'Empereur Nicolas I.er. sur la Corvette Le Séniavine…pendant les annees 1826, 1827, 1828 & 1829, Partie historique", which documents the Russian Circumnavigation of Fréderic. P. Lütke. These 24 views compliment the lithographs contained in the Atlas. Condition: with some foxing, title in pencil on lower right margin.

original-colour lithograph map, with folds as issued.

original-colour lithograph map, with folds as issued.

original-colour lithograph map, with folds as issued.

original colour lithograph. RARE view from Neues Buch der Reisen.

867+282pp., hardbound, full calf, French text. SPCK was the first of several missionary societies in the 1800's who would contract with Oxford's Clarendon Press for the printing of their Bibles. By 1865, mission Bibles such as this one comprised over comprised over two thirds of all Oxford-printed Bibles. It was intended chiefly for circulation in the French-speaking Channel Islands/UK. Reference: Eliot, History of Oxford University Press. Condition: with wear on spine, chipped edge, age-toned pages. A very good copy. RARE

wood engraving. View from "A Travers la Toscane, par M. Eugène Müntz", by Eugène Müntz. Condition: minor stains and dirt spots along margins, slightly affecting plate, paper creases. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Müntz

c 30 x 15.5 cm, full cloth, with 8 original-colour double page maps and accompanying text descriptions of each country and colony; condition: map-block loose, binding rubbed, ink spot but all maps excellent. An early edition of a portable atlas of the German Colonies during the short period of German colonial prowess.. Hardcover.

softbound, pp. 791-908, with 67 black & white illustrations. RARE. Edited by Paul C. Freer, M. D., Ph. D.; Co-editors by Richard P. Strong, Ph. B., M. D., H. D. McCaskey, B. S., E. D. Merrill, M. S. McGregor, A.B.; L.D. Wharton, A.B.; H.E. Kupfer, Ph. B. Condition: with old crude paper tape repair on spine and back of front cover, paper toning on title page, worn front cover, untrimmed edges on some pages. Otherwise good.