Kingston: A. Duperly (Printed: Paris, Thierry Brothers), [1844]. First edition. In contemporary half cloth, panels covered with marbled papers. Marbled endpapers, tinted edges. Folio (ca. 435 × 295 mm), 24 tinted lithographed plates [by Louis Julien Jacottet (no.: 1, 2, 11–2, 16–8, 21–2), Philippe Benoist (no.: 3, 4, 7, 9..... 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

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

[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

[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

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

[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

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

Burgdorf: Langlois, 1837. First edition of this exceedingly rare 19th-century Swiss-Americana. 107 p. Briefe aus Nordamerika consist of four letters by the Swiss immigrant Johann (Hans) Hostettler. Hostettler, born in 1805, was a deaf-and-dumb teacher in Kalchstätten near Guggisberg, in Schwarzenburg District, and, together with her wife, emigrated to the..... More

Budapest: In contemporary half cloth, 1911. In contemporary half cloth. 250 p. Many photo illustration and 1 plate of Jerusalem. János Havrán (Zólyomlipcse 1860- 1930): elected bishop. - He completed secondary school in Besztercebány and Eger, and theology as a pazmanite in Vienna. More

Antwerp: Hieronymous Verdussiun Press, 1619. First edition. In contemporary leather. [16] ff, 518 pp, [9] ff + [3] small engraved plates and [5] folding plates, 24 cm. Account of a journey by Johannes Cotovicus (graduated as Doctor of Laws at the Utrecht University) to Jerusalem and Syria (through Crete and..... More

Naples: Borel et Bompard, 1841. With a contemporary gouache paint of Mount Vesuvius erupting, with four vessels in the sea in the foreground (10.5 × 7 cm) on p. (7). First edition. In contemporary half leather. Gilt spine. (9), 10–61, (1) p. The painting is depicting probably the eruption of..... More