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Item #1489 [Memoria relativa a la navegacion del Rio Tajo.] Memoria que tiene por objeto...

Cabanes, Francisco Javier de; [Marco-Artu, Agustín]; [Antonelli, Giovanni Battista]; [Carduchi, Luis]; [Simón Pontero, Carlos]

[Memoria relativa a la navegacion del Rio Tajo.] Memoria que tiene por objeto manifestar la posibilidad y facilidad de hacer navegable el Rio Tajo desde Aranjuez hasta el Atlántico, las ventajas de esta Empresa, y las concesiones hechas á la misma para realizar la navegacion. Por el Brigadier de infantería de los Reales ejércitos Don Francisco Xavier de Cabanes. Publícase de Real Orden. [Together with:] Planos que representan los reconocimientos de las riberas del Rio Tajo verificados en 1641, 1755 y 1828. Con objeto de arreglar la navegacion de este Rio.

Madrid: Imprenta de Don Miguel de Burgos, 1829. First edition. [Atlas imprint: A Paris: Imp. Lith. de Engelmann & Cie. Lithographes de la Chambre et du Cabinet du Roi, 1829. (10 [desultorily numbered, but complete]), 11–118 p.]. Text volume: In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Atlas: In publisher’s printed wrappers. Lithographed throughout..... More

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Item #3823 Beschreibung des Portugiesischen Amerika vom Cudena. Ein Spanisches Manuskript in der...

Cadena de Vilhasanti, Pedro de; Lessing, Ephraim Gotthold; Leiste, Christinan

Beschreibung des Portugiesischen Amerika vom Cudena. Ein Spanisches Manuskript in der Wolfenbüttelschen Bibliothek, herausgegeben von Herrn Hofrath Lessing. Mit Anmerkungen und Zusätzen begleitet von Christian Leiste. Rektor de herzoglichen grossen Schule zu Wolfenbüttel.

Braunschweig: in der Buchhandlung des Fürstl. Waysenhauses, 1780. First edition. The original Spanish text is reproduced throughout with facing German translation. Later morocco, covers panelled in blind and gilt, spine lettered in gilt. 160 pp. A rare pre-Humboldt German Braziliana; the first publication of a 1634 survey of Portuguese America’s..... More

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Item #3684 [Signed Royal Circular Regulating the Administration of the Servicio de Millones —...

[Comisión del Reino de la Administración de Millones y Desempeño]; [Consejo, justicia y regimiento de Salamanca]

[Signed Royal Circular Regulating the Administration of the Servicio de Millones — Salamanca, 14 February 1613.] Nos el Consejo justicia, y Regimiento y Comissarios del servicio de millones de la ciudad de Salamanca […].

[Salamanca]: [S.n.], [1613]. First edition. Signed at foot by royal and municipal officers. The name of the city (“Villa de Grana dilla”) added in manuscript, with closure lines in ink after each paragraph. Unbound as issued. [4 ( last blank)] p. Unrecorded 1613 circular from Salamanca enforcing the Armada-era servicio..... More

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Item #3301 [Breve compendio de la sphera y de la arte de navegar] Tratado de la Esfera, Arte de...

Cortés, Martin

[Breve compendio de la sphera y de la arte de navegar] Tratado de la Esfera, Arte de Navegar y otras curiosidades correspondientes que escribió Martín Cortés, Año de 1545.

[Spain]: [around 1630]. Illustrated with tables and charts. Manuscript on paper. Written in ink by a neat hand. In contemporary vellum, title inked on spine. ff. 88 [3]. A manuscript copy of Martín Cortés’ Breve compendio de la sphera y de la arte de navegar (1551), with significant early Americana..... More

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Item #3829 Bemerkungen über die Flora der Südseeinseln. (Erste oder botanische Abtheilung.) Mit...

Endlicher, Stephan

Bemerkungen über die Flora der Südseeinseln. (Erste oder botanische Abtheilung.) Mit vier Kupfertafeln.

[Vienna]: [Annalen des Wiener Museums der Naturgeschichte], [1836]. Illustrated with four engraved botanical plates (XIII–XVI), drawn by Joseph Zehner and engraved by Ferdinand Bauer. First separate issue, reprinted from Annalen des Wiener Museums der Naturgeschichte, vol. 1, retaining the continuous pagination of the journal. Unbound, with remnants of the original..... More

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Item #3417 [Chronographia reportorio dos tempos] Chronographya reportorio dos tempos, no qual se...

Figueiredo, Manoel de

[Chronographia reportorio dos tempos] Chronographya reportorio dos tempos, no qual se contem VI. partes, s. dos tempos: esphera, cosmographia, & arte da navegação, astrologia rustica, & dos tempos, & pronosticação dos eclipses, cometas, & samenteiras. O calendario romano, cõ os eclypses ate 630. E no fim o uso, & fabrica da balhestilha, & quadrante gyometrico, com hum tratado dos Relogios. Composto por Manoel de Figueiredo natural de Torres Novas.

Empresso com licença em Lisboa [Lisbon]: por Iorge Rodriguez a custa de Pero Ramires, Anno de 1603. Woodcut armorial device on the title page, with a few woodcut initials throughout. Illustrated with several tables and nearly one hundred woodcut images, some full-page. Among them is a large world map (f..... More

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Item #3855 Hydrographie contenant la theorie et la practique de toutes les parties de la...

Fournier, Georges

Hydrographie contenant la theorie et la practique de toutes les parties de la navigation. Composée par le Père Georges Fournier de la Compagnie de Jesus.

A Paris: Chez Michel Soly, rue Saint Jacques, au Phoenix, M. DC. XLIII [1643]. First edition. Eighteenth-century printed Collège d’Harcourt prize certificate awarded to François de Montpezat, completed in manuscript and dated 1744, signed by Thomas-Gilles Asselin, principal of the college, and retaining its original red wax seal. 18th-century calf..... More

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Item #3525 Extracto del diario de observaciones hechas en el viage De la Provincia de Quito al...

La Condamine, Charles-Marie de

Extracto del diario de observaciones hechas en el viage De la Provincia de Quito al Pará poe el Rio de las Amazon; Y del Pará a Cayana, Surinam y Amsterdam. Destinado para ser leydo en la Assemblea publica de la Academia Real de las Ciencias de Paris. Por Monsr. De La Condamine, Uno de los tres Embiados de la misma Academia a la Linea Equinoccial, oara la medida de los Grados terretres. Traducida del francès en Castellano.

A Amsterdam: En la Emprenta de Joan Catuffe, MDCCXLV [1745]. First edition, second state. Bound in late 19th-century dark blue half morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt titling, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. [3] (Title page, “Aviso al lector” and “Segundo aviso al lector. Paris, Febrero..... More

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Item #3746 Discours sommaire de la navigation et du commerce, jugements et pratique d’iceux....

Le Fèvre, Thomas

Discours sommaire de la navigation et du commerce, jugements et pratique d’iceux. Par Thomas Le Fevre, escuyer, sieur du Grand-Hamel Conseiller du Roy, Maître des Requestes de Monsieur le Duc d’Orleans, et cy-devant Lieutenant en l’Amirauté de France au Siege General de la Table de Marbre du Palais à Roüen. Dedié a la Reyne.

A Rouen: Chez Julien Courant, derriere le Pallais pres la Bastille à l’Image Sainct Nicollas, M. DC. L [1650]. First edition. Woodcut title ornament, headpieces, and initials throughout. Printer’s corrections in ink and mounted paper slips in the dedication; a corrected royal printing privilege mounted over the originally printed text..... More

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Item #3590 Loi Relative à la découverte des deux Frégates Françoises, la Boussole &...

[Louis XVI]; [Assemblée Nationale]; [La Pérouse]

Loi Relative à la découverte des deux Frégates Françoises, la Boussole & l’Astrolabe, commandées par M. de La Pérouse. Donnée à Paris, le 25 Février 1791. (1791. No. 214.)

A Dijon: De l’Imprimerie de Capel, 1791. First edition. Woodcut headpiece. Contemporary manuscript certification at the end, signed by two officials of the Département de la Côte-d’Or, dated Dijon, 23 avril 1791. Unbound as issued. 3 [1 blank] p. The first formal document acknowledging fears of La Pérouse’s disappearance, in..... More

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Item #3157 [Libre de Consolat] Le Consulat, Contenant les Loix, Status, & Coustumes touchant...

[Mayssoni, François]

[Libre de Consolat] Le Consulat, Contenant les Loix, Status, & Coustumes touchant les Contracts, marchandises, & negociation Maritime. Ensemble de la Navigation, tant entre Marchands, que Patrons de Navires, & autres Mariniers. Le tout traduict de langage Espagnol, & Italien, en François.

A Aix: Par Estienne David, Imprimeur du Roy, du Clergé, & de ladicte Ville, Heretier de I. Tholosan, M. DC. XXXV [1635]. In contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine. Second French edition. [12] 222 [10] p. A scarce and important French translation of Libre de Consolat de Mar, the..... More

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Item #3683 [Instruction of the Council of Salamanca for the Execution of the “Eighteen...

[Philip III of Spain]; [Concejo, Justicia y Regimiento de la ciudad de Salamanca]

[Instruction of the Council of Salamanca for the Execution of the “Eighteen Millions” Service and the Wine and Oil Excise (1601)]. Instrucion que el Concejo, Iusticia, y Regimiento de la ciudad de Salamanca da […] assiente el seruicio […] de los diez y ocho millones en seys años enla sisa de la octaua parte del vino, y azeyte […].

[Salamanca?]: [S.n.], [1601]. First edition. Signed at foot by a municipal officer (Diez de la Puente). One-page contemporary manuscript on p. [3] relating to the administration of the tax. Unbound, as issued. [4 (last 2 blank)] p. Unrecorded 1601 ordinance from Salamanca enforcing the Armada-era servicio de millones, Spain’s foundational..... More

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Item #3394 Tabulae Motuum Caelestium Universales. Serenissimi Magni Ducis Etruriae Ferdinandi II....

Reinieri [Renieri], Vincenzo

Tabulae Motuum Caelestium Universales. Serenissimi Magni Ducis Etruriae Ferdinandi II. Auspiciis primo editae, & Mediceae nuncupatae. Nunc vero auctae, recognitae, atque illustriss. Excellentissimisq; Principis D. Bernadini Fernandez de Velasco & Tovar, Castellae Comestabilis, Mediolani Proregis, summiq; Catholicae Maiestatis apud Italos exercituum Praefecti, iussu, ac sumptibus recusae. Quibus Planetarum calculus iuxta praecipuos Astronomiae restauratores, Alphonsem Regem, Copernicum, atq; Tychonem facili methodo exhibetur, & Alphonfini, Prutenici, Danici, Rudolphini Lansbergianique Canones continentur. Authore D. Vincentio Renerio Genuensi Olivetano in celeberrima Pisarum Academia ordinario Matheseos Professore. Et Serenissimi, ac Reverendissimi Principis Io. Caroli Cardinalis Medices Theologo

Florentiae (Florence): Typis Amatoris Massae Forolivien, M.DC.XLVII [1647]. First edition. Two parts in one volume. Title page printed in red and black, featuring a woodcut device, and woodcut initials throughout. Certain values are highlighted in red in the table on pp. 151–156. Includes a large folding sexagenary table at the..... More

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Item #3354 Primera parte de las diferencias de libros que ay en el universo. Declaradas por el...

Vanegas del Busto, Alejo

Primera parte de las diferencias de libros que ay en el universo. Declaradas por el maestro Alexio Vanegas. […].

[Toledo]: [Juan de Ayala], [1540]. Title page with armorial woodcut, three large woodcut illustrations, and woodcut initials throughout. First edition (only part published). Complete. Bound in modern full leather, with raised bands and title vignettes on the spine. ff. [8] 240 (many misnumbered); sign.: +8 a–z8 [et]8 A–F8. An important..... More

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Item #2475 Memoria sobre el uso del termómetro en la navegacion presentada a la Sociedad...

Williams, Jonathan

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

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