THE FRENCH IN SAINT-DOMINGUE & JAMAICA 1694
AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT
Journal fidele de ce qui s’est passé dans la Jamaïque à la gloire du Roy, contenant les avantages remportez par l’Escadre de Sa Majesté, commandée par le Sr. Rolon sur les Anglois, avec une Relation des tremblemens de terre, & autres choses remarquables. Bordeaux, Pierre Abegou, 1695.
by [JAMAICA/ SAINT-DOMINGUE]
4to. (227 x 170 mm.) 8 pp. Bound in marbled paper over boards. Margins short, cropping page numbers on 2 leaves and just touching but not obscuring the top of some letters of text. Generally very good. Very rare, with one recorded copy (in Bordeaux), of a detailed and lively account of this French expedition against Jamaica during the Nine Years War, comprising a string of brutal attacks over the summer of 1694... Read More
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Estat present de leglise et de la colonie francoise dans la Nouvelle France, par M. LEvêque de Quebec
by SAINT VALLIER, Jean Baptiste de la Crois de Chevrieres de, Bishop of Québec
Paris: Robert Pepie, 1688. Rare first edition of an account of an early trip to Quebec by Saint Vallier, the second Bishop of the Province and immediate successor to Laval. Saint-Vallier visited the country in 1685 three years before his consecration as Bishop in order to examine the state of the diocese. Lasting eighteen months, his itinerary included Quebec City, all the parishes along the St. Lawrence and Montreal, and following inland rivers and lakes eventually reached as far as... Read More
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Historia Universale dell’ Origine, Guerre et Imperio de Turchi
by SANSOVINO, Francesco Ed
Venice, 1654. Handsome copy of this collection of materials relating to the fall of Constantinople here in a luxurious Baroque binding, most likely Roman.
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L'Isle de la Martinique
by SANSON, N
Paris, 1667. No Binding. Near Fine. 12 ½ x 17 inches. Original outline color; excellent. Earliest map of Martinique listed in Phillips, featuring attractive original color and an elegant cartouche. This map depicts the situation on the island before 1660, when it was still largely inhabited by natives, and only about half of it had been claimed by colonists for sugar cane farming. The map goes so far as to mark with a printed line the partition... Read More
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Los vinos en las Esposition de Viena
by SANTOS, Jose Emilio (de)
Valencia: José Domenech, 1874. No Binding. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Small 4to. [20 x 14.5 cm], 32 pp. including title-page. Unbound [as issued?]. Title page lightly toned, some light foxing. Generally good. Very rare first... Read More
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Notice sur le voyage de M. Lelorrain, en Égypte; et Observations sur le zodiac circulaire de Denderah
by SAULNIER, Sébastien-Louis
Paris: chez l'auteur, 1822. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. . ,, . Tall 8vo. [21 x 13.5 cm], (3) ff., including half title, title and avis, [5]-92. Bound in original printed wrappers with engraved Egyptian-style vignette. Spine split. Some minor foxing, otherwise very good.First edition of an historically important volume describing the Dendera Affair, the Egyptian archaeological expedition of 1820 led by Saulnier, an antiquarian and treasure-hunter, and J.-B. Lelorrain, the master... Read More
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Novissima Inventione per dissegnare con grandissima facilità, e prestezza Horologi Solari
by SCANAVACCA, Bartolomeo
Padova: Stamperia del Seminario per B. Luciani, 1688. Rare first and sole edition of this description of a sundial of the author’s invention, which functioned as an astronomical perpetual calendar.The First Museum Of Surgical Instruments
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Il Microcosmo delle pittura, overa trattato diviso in due libri
by SCANNELLI, Francesco
Cesena: Neri, 1657. * Besterman, Old Art Books, p. 93; Schlosser-Magnino p. 614 (rather harsh elsewhere); Cicognara 204; Hollis BAL 6360 (specifying frontispiece and 18 preliminaries); not in Berlin Katalog.. Scarce first edition of this 17th-century survey of Italian painting, and a valuable document for developing Baroque “gusto” by a cultivated amateur. Scannelli follows Mancini’s tripartite division of Italian schools—Roman, Venetian and Lombard, and in an age in which microcosms were everywhere, he compared the whole of Italian... Read More
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The Seat of War./ Birds Eye View of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia
by SCHAUS, W
New York, 1861. No Binding. Very Good. 25 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches. Chromolithograph. Some scuffing, soiling, a mended tear, very good. Rare. A large, attractive, well-detailed map (not bird's-eye view, as it calls itself) of the key theatre of the early phase of the Civil War. The map includes street grids for Baltimore, Washington, Norfolk, Richmond, and Lynchburg. The map skillfully renders topography, in particular the Blue Ridge, Shenandoah, and Allegheny Mountain ranges. Town, courthouses, forts,... Read More
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Chemische Abhandlung von der Luft und dem Feuer. Nebst einem Vorbericht von Torbern Bergman
by SCHEELE, Carl Wilhelm
Upsala & Leipzig: Magn. Swederus... zu finden bey S.L. Crusius, 1777. First edition of this extremely scarce and important book which contains the announcement of Scheeles discovery of oxygen, made independently of, and two years prior to, Priestley. Scheeles monumental discovery was made by 1773; he had begun his experiments on oxygen in 1770. The publication of this book was delayed due to the fact that Tobern Bergman was two years late in delivering his promised preface. The work... Read More
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![JACQUES’ ADVENTURES AT SEA: A RARE PRINTED TEXTILE FROM 19TH-CENTURY FRANCE <br> [Maritime Story of Jacques Va-de-Bon-Coeur].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/602/713/1376713602.0.l.jpg)
JACQUES’ ADVENTURES AT SEA: A RARE PRINTED TEXTILE FROM 19TH-CENTURY FRANCE
[Maritime Story of Jacques Va-de-Bon-Coeur].
by [SHIPWRECK] / [TEXTILE].
Textile [81.5 x 70.5 cm], Fabric images printed from copperplate, with maroon body color printed by woodblock. Occasional very minor toning, otherwise very well preserved, with printing clear and color still fresh. Highly attractive and unusual mid-19th-century printed textile illustrating an archetypal story of the ideal French mariner, a fisherman's son named Jacques, who left home as a boy to sail to the Antilles with the merchant marines, met with many adventures on the high seas (shipwreck, pitched battle on deck,... Read More
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Nova Virginiae Tabula
by SMITH, CAPT. J./ HONDIUS, H
Amsterdam, 1636. No Binding. Near Fine. 15 x 19 ¼ inches. Fine hand color; some spotting near upper margin, else excellent. Hondius' beautiful, enlarged, engraving of Capt. John Smith's map of the Chesapeake Bay and region, in its only English-text edition. The first printed map of Virginia, Smith's work was remarkably accurate for its period. It was based on surveys personally commanded by him. Not only is it a valuable record of early Indian tribes, but it... Read More
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Nova Virginiae Tabula
by SMITH, CAPT. J./ BLAEU, W
Amsterdam, 1630. No Binding. Near Fine. 14 ¾ x 18 ¾ inches. Fine original color; marginal mend, else excellent condition. A beautiful example in superb original color of the classic Dutch engraving of Capt. John Smith's map of the Chesapeake Bay and region, the first European map of the area. Smith's map was a remarkably accurate work for its period and is a valuable record of Indian tribes that existed at the time. In fact, the map... Read More
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A New Map For Travelers Through The United States Of America Showing The Railroads, Canals & Stage Roads
by SMITH, J. Calvin
New York, 1850. Hardcover. Very Good. 21 ¾ x 26 inches. Lithograph with original hand color; some fold reinforcements, with some mended losses at intersections, very good condition. A delicately beautiful map of mid-19th century United States with extensive transportation-related content. Four of the work's five inset maps focus on rail lines and canals in specific parts of the country. The large inset of the western United States at bottom right completes the picture of the... Read More
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Viertzehende Schiffart, Oder Gründliche vnd warhaffte Beschreibung desz Neuwen Engellandts einer Landschafft in Nordt Indien, eines Theils in America, vnter dem Capitein Johann Schmidt
by SMITH, John
Frankfurt: In verlegung der Hulsischen, 1617. * Church 304; Sabin 33,667 (and 82,819n); JCB I.492 no. 569; Alden-Landis II.617/137; Brunet III.370; Bibliotheca Grenvilliana I.352; Asher, p. 72; Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, "Captain John Smith," http://www.apva.org/history/jsmith.html (1997/2000).. Rare first edition of the fourteenth part of Hulsius’s voyage anthology, a translation into German of Captain John Smith’s Description of New England (London, 1616; Church 369), which includes an early copy of Smith’s map of New England. Goodspeed... Read More
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Icones Embryonum Humanorum
by SOEMMERRING, Samuel Thomas von
Frankfurt: Varrentrapp & Wenner, 1799. Hardcover. Good. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. Large folio. [63.5 x 43.5 cm], title with engraved vignette, 2 full-page engravings with 20 illustrations, 10 pp. Bound in contemporary publishers boards with original printed label on front cover. Covers soiled. Large uncut copy. ... Read More
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A Map of Virginia and Maryland
by SPEED, J
London, 1676. No Binding. Near Fine. 14 3/4 x 19 ¼ inches. Fine hand color; wear to bottom of centerfold, else fine condition. A very attractive, near-mint example. Speed's handsomely engraved work is one of the earliest English maps of the area and one of the first to demarcate the borders of colonial Virginia and Maryland. Just three years before the publication of Speed's map, Augustine Herrman had conducted the first thorough surveys of Maryland at the... Read More
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A BEAUTIFUL & INTERESTING TABLE GLOBE
Globe Terrestre Dresse par Fx. Delamrche, Succr. de R. De Vaugondy 1832.
by Terrestrial Globe/ Pacific Geography. DELAMARCHE, Felix.
9 ½ inches (24 cm.) diameter; 21 inches (53 cm.) total height. Single pedestal globe with horizon ring, armature & meridian all of wood, wear and staining on meridian at point where fits into stand, some chipping at extremities, else fine; globe with vibrant original color and clear, sharp patina; some abrasion & losses, mostly in lower and upper extremities; overall very good plus condition.An attractive, very capably executed table or desk globe, in the distinctive style of the Delamarche... Read More
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Relation des missions des evesques françois aux royaumes de Siam, de la Cochinchine, de Camboye, & du Tonkin, &c.
by [THAILAND/VIETNAM] [FERMANEL DE FAVERY, Luc]
(8) ff., 367 (1) pp. Bound in contemporary calf, gilt heraldic stamp on covers, gilt spine with raised bands worn with joints cracked but sound, head, foot and corners bumped. Lacking endleaves; illegible ownership inscription on lightly soiled title; very good overall. Rare first edition of this account of the state of Christianity in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam by rivals of the Jesuits. The Société des Missions Etrangères, a new apostolic missionary group established in Paris in 1660, was as a society... Read More
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A Chart of the Caribe Islands
by Thornton, J./ Mount, W.& J./ Page, T
London, 1730. No Binding. Very Good. 16 ¾ x 20 ¾ inches. Fine hand color; centerfold reinforced, mended split & repair to lower left corner; very good. The primary, printed chart used by English navigators of the Caribbean during the latter part of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th century. It was published in The English Pilot, Book IV, the first English, navigational atlas specifically devoted to American waters. This chart appeared in... Read More
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Storia distinta e curiosa del tabacco; concernente la sua scoperta, la introduzione in Europa, e la maniera de coltivarlo, conservarlo, e prepararlo, ec
by [TOBACCO] / GAVELLI, Niccolo
Pesaro: Stamperia Gavelliana, 1759. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 84 pp., with typographical diagram in text. Bound in old patterned wrappers. Fore-edge of one leaf shaved, with loss of 1-2 letters per line; a few dark spots on one page, without loss; mild dampstains. Overall good. ... Read More
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![Dredge Photographs. Dordrecht (Holland): A. Bos & J. P. Heijblom, [c. 1910].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/083/684/1358684083.0.l.jpg)
Dredge Photographs. Dordrecht (Holland): A. Bos & J. P. Heijblom, [c. 1910].
by TOLLENS, Johannes Henricus (Henk)
A TYPOLOGY OF DREDGES--THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF J. H. TOLLENS Portfolio of photographs (cards 36 cm x 30 cm; mounted photos approx. 22.5 x 17 cm), [55] cards on which are mounted a total of (58) photographs, with (1) further unmounted dredge photograph apparently not from this series. Preserved in original red buckram portfolio, title gold stamped on front, remnants of ties. Only minor fading and rubbing to the portfolio. The cards with only very minor edge toning and the occasional marginal... Read More
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Lezioni Accademiche
by TORRICELLI, Evangelista/BONAVENTURI, Tommasso, ed
Florence: Jacopo Guiducci & Santo Franchi, 1715. First edition of 12 collected lectures composed for the Academia della Crusca, posthumously published; “an important summary of Torricelli’s theories,” including reprints of his important letters on the barometer. Torricelli (1608-47) was Galileo’s pupil and secretary, succeeding him as professor of mathematics at Florence. Calling himself “a Galileist by profession and sect,” Torricelli was the first in Rome to make a careful study of Galileo’s Dialogo. The extensive preface reprints the... Read More
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Coltivazione e governo del lino mazuolo
by TRECCO, Giovanni Battista
Vincenza: Domenico Bardella, 1792. Rare first edition of this handsomely illustrated treatise on the cultivation and manufacture of linen, a staple of the textile and paper industries until the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney (a mere two years after this book was published) and cheaper methods of paper processing curtailed its markets. The work covers all phases of the crop’s life from seedling to mature plant and treats the six stages of pulling, rippling, retting, drying,... Read More
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18TH C SURVEYING MANUSCRIPT WITH HAND-COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS
Géométrique pratique.
by [TRIGONOMETRY and SURVEYING].
Manuscript 4to. [23.5 x 17.5 cm], (2) ff. pencil sketch of arms [Marlborough?] and blank, [196] ff., and with 27 drawn folding plates, many of which are colored. Bound in contemporary French calf, spine gilt in six decorative compartments with title on letterpiece. Excellent, with all plates drawn, and many some colored, in a very professional hand.Very attractive early 18th-century French illustrated manuscript of practical geometry in seven books, including individual sections on longimetry, planimetry, and stereometry—the fundamentals of precision... Read More
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