Bucharest: 1856. 23 x 29 cm. One of the earliest photo of Bucharest, showing parts of the city before they were redeveloped during the late 19th century. Ludwig Mária Mauritius Angerer was a 19th-century pharmacist and photographer. He belonged to the most important Viennese photographers of his time, along..... More
Paris: : per Gullielmum de Bossozel [Guillaume de Bossozel], 1540. First edition. In later vellum. Woodcut bird's-eye view of Jerusalem on title page. Printed signet mounted on title page with the name of Pope Honorius II and his motto. Sign.: [A]4 B-N4 O6; Pag.: ff. 58. An early and extremely..... More
![Item #3099 [Caption title:] Catalogue des Globes, Sphères, Atlas, Cartes, et Autres Ouvrages,...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3099.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1698678532)
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
Pest: Trattner, 1830. Offprint editions of Tudományos Gyujtemény. In original paper. 18 p., 18 p. Scarce accounts of travels on Caucasus and Crimea. The author was a Hungarian who served in the Prussian army during the Napoleonic Wars and then with the French. In 1829 he travelled to..... More
Edwin Smith: Sheffield, 1848. Topographic Model in a Wooden Case. 33X28cm. A large topographic plaster model of Jerusalem and the mountains surrounding it. The model is painted by hand and placed in a wooden case. At first, Edwin Smith made such models as an educational tool; however, before long, he..... More
Impresso en Cadiz: por Juan Lorenzo Machado, Año de 1670. First edition. In contemporary limp vellum. Title lettered on spine. ff. [6] [1 (engraved plate)] 245 [17]. A scarce Americana and Judaica, the life of a Portuguese converso who became a merchant in Lima. The life of Antonio de..... More
Impressa en Madrid: : en casa de Querino Gerardo Flamenco, a costa de Blas de Robles librero, Año de. 158. First edition with the narrative of the Espejo-expedition, first Madrid edition. In later vellum, with ties, title lettered in ink on spine. Collation: Sign.: ¶12, A-Z8, 2A-2Z8; ff.: [12], 268..... More
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A Bordeaux: Chez Michel Racle, Imprimeur de l’intendance, & de l’Hôtel-de-Ville, rue Saint-James, 1771. First edition. Unbound as published. 137 [3] p. Unrecorded publication of a legal case of inheritance of a planter family in pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue. This unrecorded legal brief contains the summary of an interesting and seemingly..... More
Hungary: Around 1900. Vintage photo. 19*18 cm. Jenő Zichy ( 1837 -1906, ), was a Hungarian nobleman, writer, orientalist and politician. At his own expense, he organized and led several scientific expeditions in the Caucasus to find traces of the Hungarians' origins. More
Romania, Vienna: Around 1860. Vintage albumen print. Very early photo from the Banat. One of the first photographer who worked in Romania. Andreas Groll Born in 1812 in Vienna as a son of servants Anna and Joseph Paul Groll. I. In 1845-1853 he worked at the Viennese Polytechnic Institute..... More
Paris: : Se vend à Paris chez Depeuille, Rue Franciade, Section de Bon Conseil [François Jules Gabriel Depeuille], [1794]. First edition. Hand-colored engraving. In contemporary or near contemporary frame. Engraved by Louis Darcis, after Boizot (Boizot del.t : Darcis Sculp.t). Showing a black man with a red Phrygian liberty cap..... More
Paris: Librairie de Peytieux, Galerie Delorme, 1824. . In contemporary leather. Panels with gilt floral frame, spine gilt with title vignette. Marbled endpapers. Marbled edges. (4) VII (1) 156 p. An extremely scarce work on the history of the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath. The book opens with a...... More
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Imprinted at London: by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie; And by the Assignes of Iohn Bill, 1630. First edition. In later boards, vellum-paper spine with title. Armorial bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron to upper pastedown. [68] p. The Treaty of Madrid (1630), as the conclusion of..... More
[Paris]: [appeared in: Recueil de voyages et de mémoires de la Société de Géographie de Paris, t. IV], [1839]. First edition. Text in Spanish. In later leather binding. IV [69]–130 [2] p. First edition of this important source of the Peruvian expeditions to the South Pacific in the 18th century..... More
Paris: Chez Ledoyen, Libraire-Éditeur, Galerie d’Orléans, ou chez l’Auteur, a Roumaziéres, prés Chabanais (Charente), 1853; 1855. Both works are first editions (Voyage pittoresque en Californie with the 2-page “Post-face”). In somewhat later hard paper binding, panels covered with blue paste paper. Spine with title vignette. XI [1] 295 [ie. 293]..... More
Late 18th-century manuscript in ink. In contemporary vellum with overflap. 76 unpaginated pages. Interesting, contemporary, likely first hand, manuscript reports about Pedro de Cevallos’ second expedition, capturing the island of Santa Catarina (today Florianopolis, Brazil) (1777), and the Invasion of Algiers (1775), besides other, partly poetic texts. The Spanish-Portuguese..... More