Kiev (Kyiv) Mit deutschem Auszug (with German extract)
In original illustrated paper. 79 p., 16 photo, 1 map. Travel guide to Kiev by the Hungarian author. More
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A rubinok hazájából. (Ceylon).
Budapest: Az Atheneum Részvénytársulat kiadása, 1897. First edition. Illustrated with sixteen full-page black-and-white photographic reproductions. Text in Hungarian. In somewhat later cloth with embossed horizontal lines running through. [6], 133, (1) p. and 16 plates. Richly illustrated travel memoir of the Hungarian vintner, hunter and writer, member of the parliament..... More
Le Brésil, ou, histoire, moeurs, usages et coutumes des habitans de ce royaume; par M. Hippolyte Taunay, Correspondant du Muséum d‘histoire naturelle de Paris, et M. Ferdinand Denis, Membre de l‘Athénée des sciences, lettres et arts de Paris. Ouvrage orné de nombreuses gravures d‘après les dessins faits dans le pays par M. H. Taunay. Tome premier[–sixième].
Paris. Nepveu, Passage des Panoramas, No 26, 1822. First edition. Six volumes, in their first binding: contemporary half leather, spine with raised bands, gilt ornaments and title, panels covered with marbled paper. Illustrated with 54 hand-colored lithographs (many protected with the original tissue paper). Shelfmark vignettes at the head of..... More
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[Extracted from:] [Recüeil de plusieurs relations et traitez singuliers et curieux.] Relation du Japon, & de la cause de la persecution contre les chrestiens dans ses isles [avec la carte du païs]. [With map:] Carte des Isles du Japon.
[Paris]: [1679]. Extracted from the first edition. In later paper wrappers. With the large map of Japan, engraved by Jean-Louis Durant. 72 p. and a large engraved map of Japan, size: ca. 78 × 55 cm. Tavernier’s Relation du Japon, with the scarce large map of Japan Carte des Isles..... More
Carmen elegiacum Ibnu-l-Faridi cum commentario Abdu-l-Ghanyi e duobus codicibus
Helsinki (Helsingfors): 1850. First editon. In contemporary paper. 46 p. Georg Augustus Wallin (1811–1852) was a Finnish orientalist and explorer. He travelled the Arab world for six years, and disguised himself as Muslim to gain acceptance in the two holy Islamic cities, Mecca and Medina, which at the time were..... More
Memoria sobre el uso del termómetro en la navegacion presentada a la Sociedad Filosófica Americana de Filadelfia para promover los conocimientos utiles por Jonathan Williams uno de sus secretarios. Sacada del volumen tercero de sus transacciones filosóficas. Traducida del idioma ingles de order de S. M.
En Madrid: en Casa de la Viuda de D. Joaquin Ibarra, Año de MDCCLXXXXIV [1794]. First Spanish edition. Alain Gerbault’s copy, with his bookplate on the inner front panel. In later leather. Gilt edges. Panels with gilt frame, spine gilt. Marbled endpapers. I. [12 (last blank)] 21 [1 (blank)] p...... More
Xántus János levelei éjszakamerikából. tizenkét eredeti rajzok után készült kő- és egynéhány fametszettel. Közli Prépost István. [Letters of János Xantus from North America. With Twelve Lithographs.]
Pesten [Pest]: Lauffer és Stolp kiadó könyvkereskedés tulajdona, [1858]. Illustrated with twelve lithograph plates and two text illustrations. First edition. In somewhat later half cloth, gilt spine. 175 [1] p. and 12 tinted lithograph plates [frontispiece included]. John Xantus de Vesey (1825–1894) was a Hungarian exile naturalist and zoologist. He..... More