A Szaharán keresztül (Through the Sahara)
Sopron: Röttig-Romwalter, 1943. In original illustrated paper. 189 p. 44 illustration. The history of the 1936 French-Hungarian soil biological Sahara expedition. More
Sopron: Röttig-Romwalter, 1943. In original illustrated paper. 189 p. 44 illustration. The history of the 1936 French-Hungarian soil biological Sahara expedition. More
Pesten (Pest): Szent-István-Társulat (Herz János), 1856. First edition. In contemporary half leather. Gilt ornaments and title on spine. VI, 2, (1)–416, (2) p., and 2 plates protected with tissue (portrait of Columbus and a double portrait of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile) and a folding map..... More
Zagreb: Tisak Kr. Zemaljske Tiskare, 1922. With a photographic portrait of Darwin and a double page folding map. Illustrated throughout. First Croat edition. In original printed wrappers. (7), (4)–165, (1) p., with a photographic plate and a folding map. Rare first Croat edition of the The Voyage of the Beagle..... More
A Paris: Chez Delamarche, Géographe, rue Jardinet, no. 13, vis-à-vis celle de l’Éperon, 1806. First edition. Published unbound, papered spine. [3] 4–59 [1] p. carce catalogue and price list of the Delamache map publishing firm. An early 19th-century price catalogue of the Delamache map publishing firm, producer of globes..... More
A Amsterdam: Chez Adrian Braakman, 1701. First edition. In later marbled paper. Double-page engrave frontispiece. [4 (blank pages)] [2 (a double-page frontispiece] [76 (letterpressed pages)] [80 (pages of engraved tables) [4 (blank pages)]. Extremely scarce early eighteenth-century merchant’s handbook. Henry Desaguliers scarce handbook for merchants with explanations and tables..... More
Port-de-France [Nouméa]: Imprimerie du Gouvernement. 1865. Two separate sheets. Printed on silk. Framed with light blue silk ribbon frame (papered on verso). Silk sheet size: ca. 33 × 44,5 cm; frame: 2 cm. The programme and the results of the first horse races in New Caledonia took place on August..... More
Budapest: Hornyánszky, 1905. In original cloth. 156 p. with phot illustrations. First editon of Gervai's memories of his journey in India. More
Madrid: Alonso Victor Panoja, 1654. In contemporary limp vellum. ff. [1 (woodcut frontispiece, verso blank)] [1 (letterpress title page, verso blank) [1 (“Ex.mo Señor”)] [1 (Distrito de la Audiencia […])]–4 [1 (“Armas que se d. First edition of the exceedingly rare work displaying the governing structure of the Spanish Indies..... More
Leipzig: : bey Johann Conrad Hinrichs, 1805. First German edition. In its first, blue paper binding. The first German translation of the first biography of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the first ruler of an independent Haiti, with one of the earliest portraits of the Emperor. First edition in German of Jean-Louis..... More
Paris: Chez Cl. J. B. Bauche, 1753. First edition. Duodecimo. In two volumes. In contemporary leather. Spine with five raised bands, gilt, each with red title vignettes. With marbled endpapers and fore-edge. (6), x, 261, (2) p. and 1 folding map of Louisiana and 5 plates; (4), 338 p. and..... More
[France / Africa]: [1937–1949]. Contemporary photo album in leather binding. More than 210 black and white photos, the majority captioned with typewritten labels. Picture size varies, the majority are 65 × 90 mm; some are up to 180 × 130 mm. . 19 album card leaves with photographs (and 5..... More
Buda: Typis Universitatis, 1791. First edition. In compemporary hard paper. (8°); XVIII, 385 p., 8 folding plates. An early and important description of Peru and Bolivia by Xavér Ferenc Éder (1727–1772) the Hungarian Jesuit missionary. After his studies at Nagyszombat Jesuit University he went to South America as a missionary..... More
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1859. First edition. In contemporary half leather, spine gilt. Publisher’s, green, illustrated wrappers bound into. With three illustrations (one text illustration and two on the wrappers). VI, 326 p. Rare Swedish travelogue about the East Indies, North America, Hawaii and Australia. This scarce travelogue..... More
London: Imprinted by John Wolfe and are to bee sold at his shop at Poules chayne, 1592. First edition. Woodcut device on the title page. Woodcut initials, head and tailpieces throughout. In later blind-tooled calf. Spine gilt, with title vignettes. Marbled endpapers. Tinted edges. 4º: A2–4, B–O4; [6], 103, [1]..... More
Kostantiniyye [Constantinople]: Mekteb-i Bahriye-i Sahane Matbaasi, 1285 AH [1868 AD]. First edition. Text in Ottoman Turkish. In publisher’s half leather. The panels are decorated with floral ornamentation. (1), (1)–62, (1), (63)–81, (1) p. Extremely scarce, first edition of Mühendis Faik’s memoir about his adventurous travel from Constantinople to Basrah through..... More
[Mahe?]: [before 1909]. Autograph notes in a vintage folder. Notes in colored pencil and ink on 16 different-sized leaves. 37 manuscript copies of maps on tracing paper, in different sizes, many colored, and one printed map, augmented with several toponyms in pencil and ink. An important collection of the author’s..... More
Spain: 1815. First edition. Unbound as published. [4] p. Royal order concerning the establishment and finance of schools in Indian communities in South America for the teaching of the Castilian language. This 1815 Royal order is a reinforcement and partly a reprint of a previous ordinance concerning the establishment of..... More
Budapest: Pesti Lloyd, 1897. Includes the very first publication of Sándor Ferenczi "A turisták lélektanából" (About Psychology of Tourists; pp. 201–205). In original paper. 35, (1) p. Sándor Ferenczi (1873–1933) was a Hungarian psychoanalist, desciple and close associate of Sigmund Freud. More
[N.p.]. 1818–1821. Manuscript in brown ink. Text in Danish. Two, sewn-spine, otherwise unbound booklets, . ff. [8] [12] 115 × 185 mm; 105 × 165 mm. Transatlantic logbook, recording the vessel La Laura’s travels from Europe to the Caribbean, North and South America between March 1818, and May 1821... More
Budapest: Hartleben, 1860. First Hungarian edition. In contemporary half cloth. 151 p.; 144 p.; 146 p.; 135 p. Friedrich Gerstäcker (1816-1872), was a German novelist and travelogue, went to North America in 1837, where he lived an adventurous life as a hunter in the primeval forests, and then traveled around..... More
London: Printed by W. Botham, for James Knapton, at the Crown in St Paul’s Church’s Church-yard, 1707. First edition. In contemporary (publisher’s?) leather, panels blind-tooled, spine gilt. Rebacked, later endpapers. Printed bibliographical note mounted on front pastedown. [24] 300 [i.e., 302] [18] p., and 10 engraved plates and 5 folding..... More
Budapest: KGM Műszaki Tudományos Tájékoztató Intézet Információs Főosztály (KGM Technical Scientific Information Institute Information Department), 1974. Numbered, one of the 100 copy. In original portfolio, 21 p. Description of the Saudi Arabian economy, published by the Hungarian Ministry of Metallurgy and Machinery for internal use. More
[S.l. (Madrid?)]: s.n.], [no date, but 1763]. First edition. In later cardboard with title vignette on front panel. 22 p. Extremely scarce document related to the treason trial of the Spanish officials after the Siege and Surrender of Havana in 1762. Infantry Captain Joseph García Gago’s confession at..... More
Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1847. First edition. In contemporary half leather. Spine with four raised bands, gilt ornaments and title. (6); (1)–317, (1) p., and a folding map, with hand coloured frontiers. A tale of German immigrant life in the lower Mississippi Valley with an accurate map of the United..... More
Papeete (Tahiti): Cie Ricar Imp.-Lith. du gouvernemmente[!], September 1844. First edition. Folio. Lithographed entirely. [4] p. Extremely scarce journal, single number of the first newspaper published in French Polynesia. L’océanie française was the first French newspaper to be published in the South Pacific. It was a four-sheet, weekly..... More