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• Buy FROES, Luis Lettera annua del Giappone dell’anno MDXCVI. Scritta dal P. Luigi F... Christian missions in Asia in the 16th century
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• Buy DE LA MOTTRAYE, Aubry Voyages du Sieur A. de La Motraye, en Europe, Asie et Afrique. Où l... La Mottraye travelling with through Europe, Asia and Africa
• Buy NODIER Journal de l’Expédition des Portes de Fer rédigé par Charles Nodier... One of the rare copies not issued for sale of the Duke of Orleans' travel through Algeria
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• Buy BOUGARD, R. Le Petit Flambeau de la mer ou le veritable guide des pilotes cotie... The most famous marine pilot guide from the end of the 17th century
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• Buy NICOLAY, Nicolas d. Le Navigationi et viaggi nella nella Turchia, di Nicolo de Nicolai ... "Le Navigationi et viaggi nella nella Turchia" by Nicolay
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• Buy I. [PAEZ, Gaspar / MENDEZ, Father Alphonse] II. [KIRWITZER, Wencelas Pantaléon] III. [ANDRADE, Antonio de] I. Histoire de ce qui s’est passé au royaume d’Ethiopie Es années 1... Relations written by the Jesuits in Ethiopia, China and Tibet
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• Buy OF TERTRE, R. P. Jean-Baptiste Histoire générale des Antilles habitées par les François "L'Histoire des Antilles" de Du Tertre
• Buy SACCANO, Father Metelle Relation des progrez de la foy au Royaume de la Cochinchine és anné... Rare travel account to Cochinchina by the Jesuit missionary Metelle Saccano
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• Buy [JAPAN – EAST INDIES]. Recueil des plus fraisches lettres, escrittes des Indes Orientales,... Extremely rare 16th century French first edition about the discoveries of the Jesuit missionaries in Japan and in the East Indies
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• Sold CHAPPE D'AUTEROCHE, Jean Voyage en Californie pour l’observation du passage de Vénus sur le ... First edition of Chappe d’Auteroche’s scientific expedition to California
• Sold GRANDPIERRE DRALSE Relation de divers voyages dans l’Afrique, l’Amérique, & aux In... The rare travel relation by Dralsé de Granpierre in Africa, in America and in the Western Indies
• Sold MERCATOR, Gerard. Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricat... Mercator’s famous atlas printed in Amsterdam in 1623, illustrated with 162 engravings, most of them on double-page, all of them finely contemporary watercolored.
• Sold FROIS, R.P. Ludovico De rebus iaponicis historica relatio, eaque triplex… I. de Gl... Very rare reunion of works about China and Japan
• Sold DEMERSAY, Alfred Histoire physique, économique et politique du Paraguay et des établ... Paraguay and Brazil seen by Demersay
• Sold ZUDA ROKASHI (Hotan Priest) Nansenbushu Bankoku Shoka no zu (= carte d’ensemble de tous les pay... A superb and rare map of the Japanese Buddhists of the world by Zuda Rokashi.
• Sold SANSON D'ABBEVILLE, Nicolas L’Amérique en plusieurs cartes, & en divers traittés de géograp... One of the rarest french atlas on America
• Sold ZOLA, Emile  Carte manuscrite de la Chine. Superb manuscript map of China executed at the height of the Chinese Empire,
• Sold Bloch, Marcus-Elieser. Ichtyologie, ou histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des po... The most spectacular work dedicated to fishes
• Sold DASSIE. Description generale des costes de l’Amerique, Havres, Isles, Caps,... First edition of Dassie’s description of America and “its savages”, soon after the great Jesuit missions.
• Sold MERCATOR, Gerard. Atlas Sive Cosmographiae Meditationes De Fabrica Mundi Et Fabricati... Mercator’s famous atlas illustrated with 162 engravings, most of them on double-page, all watercolored at the time.
• Sold BERGIER, Nicolas. Histoire des grands chemins de l’Empire romain, Contenant l’origine... The rare first edition of the Grands Chemins de l’Empire romain
• Sold CHAMPOLLION THE YOUNGER. Lettres écrites d’Égypte et de Nubie, en 1828 et 1829. Collec... First edition of one of the rarest works by Champollion about Egypt.
• Sold Zienkowicz, Leon Les costumes du peuple polonais suivis d’une description exacte de ... First edition of this very rare album that shows the costume worn in various Polish regions during the Romantic period.
• Sold Ovalle, Alonso de, of the Society of Jesus. Historica relatione del regno di Cile, e delle missioni, e minister... Very attractive copy of this extremely rare Americana, of great importance for the knowledge of Amerindian populations of Chile and the cartography of the country.
• Sold Garcilaso de la Vega. Historia general del Peru trata el descubrimiento del ; y como lo g... A unique testimony about the history of the Incas.
• Sold Le Hay. Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant... The most beautiful book about the nations of the Levant illustrated with 102 watercolored engravings.
• Sold Mayer, Louis. Vues en Egypte, d’après les Dessins originaux en la possession de S... The superb album dedicated to Egypt by Mayer, illustrated with 48 finely watercolored plates “one of the finest landmarks of English typography and engraving”.
• Sold Zuallart, Jean. Le Très devot Voyage de Jerusalem, Avecq les Figures des lieux sain... Zuallart’s travel to Jerusalem from Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s library.
• Sold BLAEU, Joan. Atlas Major, Sive Cosmographia Blaviana, Qua Solum, Salum, Coelum, ... First edition illustrated with 593 maps and views entirely colored and illuminated at the time.
• Sold Langlès, Louis. Monuments anciens et modernes de l’Hindoustan, décrits sous le doub... First edition of this "very sought-after work illustrated with 3 maps and 144 engraved plates" which offers a complete description of Hindustan.
• Sold Ovalle, Alonso de, of the Society of Jesus.  Historica relatione del Regno di Cile, E delle missioni, e mi... Very attractive copy of this extremely rare Americana, of great importance for the knowledge of Amerindian populations of Chile and the cartography of the country.
• Sold BRETON DE LA MARTINIERE, Jean-Baptiste Joseph. L’Égypte et la Syrie, ou Mœurs, Usages, Costumes et Monumens des Ég... Egypt and Syria illustrated with 84 hand-coloured plates, bound in superb contemporary morocco signed by Chilliat, binder from the First Empire.
• Sold [MANUSCRIPT]. Cayer de canonage du Sieur Jean-François Marie Icard de Saint-Trope... A fascinating historical manuscript testifying to the activity of a gunner assistant from Saint Tropez who embarked on a warship at the end of the 18th century.
• Sold COCKBURN, James Pattison Major. Views to illustrate the route of Mont Cenis. Drawn from nature, by ... First edition of this rare album gathering 50 views of the Alps drawn from life by the Major-general Cockburn at the very beginning of the 19th century.
• Sold RHODES, Alexandre de Divers voyages et missions en la Chine, & autres Royaumes de l’... Precious copy dedicated to Queen Anne of Austria (1601-1660) of the first edition of journeys to the Far East by Alexander of Rhodes (1591-1660).
• Sold CASTANEDA, Fernand Lopez de. L’Histoire des Indes de Portugal, contenant comment l’Inde a esté d... This volume contains the first book of Lopes de Castanheda in which the author gives an account of the voyage of Pedro Alvarez Cabral in India in 1500, in the course of which ...
• Sold BELON, Pierre. Les Observations de plusieurs singularitez & choses memorables,... Belon's travels in Orient.
• Sold BRY, Théodore de / PIGAFETTA, Filippo. Regnum Congo est Vera descriptio regni Africani, quod tam ab incoli... Very rare account of a journey to Congo undertaken at the end of the 16th century whose abundant illustration is of the highest interest both on the ethnographic and geographi...
• Sold BEVERLEY, Robert. Histoire de la Virginie ; contenant I. L’histoire de son étab... The delicious volume on the Histoire de la Virginie printed in 1707 bound with Madame de Pompadour’s arms.
• Sold BRUCE, James. Voyage aux sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssinie, Pendant les an... « One can notice inside Bruce’s accounts some events so extraordinary that they often look like novels. The exactness of several facts that was at first contested was however a...
• Sold SAGARD-THEODAT, Gabriel Le Grand Voyage du Pays des Hurons, situé en l’Amérique vers la Mer... Very rare first edition of Gabriel Sagard’s famous travel account to Canada printed in 1632.
• Sold RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista. Delle Navigationi et Viaggi in molti luoghi corretta, et ampliata, ... A precious collection that deserves to be highly sought after by travel collectors.
• Sold HERRERA, Antonio de Histoire generale des Voyages et Conquestes des Castillans, dans le... First French edition of this travel book "dans les Isles et Terre-ferme des Indes Occidentales".
• Sold LA CONDAMINE, Charles-Marie de  Relation abrégée d’un voyage fait dans l’intérieur de l... First edition of this remarkable account by La Condamine of the first scientific descent of the Amazon.
• Sold LINDLEY, Thomas Voyage au Brésil ; où l’on trouve la description du pays, de ses pr... First French edition "rarer than the first English " according to Borba de Moraes.
• Sold VISSCHER, Nicholas Atlas Minor Sive totius Orbis Terrarum contracta delinea (ta) ex co... La dorure des cartes de l’Atlas Mellon est si impressionnante que Cornelis Koeman, le célèbre spécialiste néerlandais d’Atlas, l'a décrit comme « l’Atlas le plus spectaculaireme...
• Sold LE ROUGE, George Louis. Recueil des Côtes Maritimes de France Sur quatre Lieues de large en... Second enlarged edition of this important coastal atlas of France, compiled by Georges-Louis Le Rouge and revised by Louis Brion de la Tour.
• Sold ROBERTSON (1721-1793). L’Histoire de l’Amérique, Par M. Robertson, Principal de l’Universi... First 12mo edition, published 3 years after the English original.
• Sold CHARDIN, Jean. Voyages de M. le chevalier Chardin, en Perse, et autres lieux de l’... First complete edition, partly original, of Chardin's Voyages en Perse illustrated with 78 folding plates.
• Sold CORTEZ Histoire de la conqueste du Mexique
• Sold HEARNE, Samuel Voyage de Samuel Hearne, du Fort du Prince de Galles dans la Baie d... First French edition of the travel to the Hudson Bay in the North Ocean illustrated with 5 maps and 4 engravings.
• Sold NIEBUHR Carsten Description de l’Arabie, faite sur des observations propres et des ... Niebuhr’s Description of Arabia adorned with 26 highly interesting engravings.