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Dutch translation of a Russian travel account of the US that describes steamboats
and native American dance rituals

SVINYIN, Pavel Petrovic (here Paul SWININ, elsewhere SVIN'IN or SUININE). Tafereelen uit eene reis naar Noord-Amerika.
Haarlem, A. Loosjes Pz., 1818. Large 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides. [4], IV, 127 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Anthropology & Ethnography North America Ships & Shipbuilding USA - United States of America
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"One of the most influential maps of America ever made"

[TODESCHI, Pietro]. [Nova et accurata totius Americae tabula auct. G. I. Blaeu] America quarta pars orbis quam plerunq, nuvum orbem apellitant primo detecta est anno 1492 a Christophoro Columbo...
[Bologna, Giuseppe Longhi?, 1673]. Ca. 86 x 110 cm. A hand-coloured engraved wall map, printed on 4 joined sheets. Full description
€ 65,000
Charts & Maps Middle America North America South America
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Chinese botany and agriculture, North America, Linnaeus and Benjamin Franklin

TORÉN, Olof. Voyage de Mons. Olof Torée[,] Aumonier de la Compagnie Suedoise des Indes Orientales, fait à Surate, à la Chine &c.
Milan, Reycends brothers, 1771.
With:
(2) ECKEBERG, Carl Gustaf. Précis historique de l'économie rurale des Chinois.
Milan, Reycends brothers, 1771.
(3) BLACKFORD, Dominique de. Précis de l'état actuel des colonies Angloises dans l'Amérique Septentrionale.
Milan, Reycends brothers, 1771. 3 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary French mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. 92; [4], 47, [1 blank]; 99, [1] pp. Full description
€ 3,250
Agriculture China Floras & General Botany India & Sri Lanka North America Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Southern Asia USA - United States of America
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Treatise on the decolonization of America

TURGOT, Anne Robert Jacques. Mémoire sur les colonies Américaines, sur leurs relations politques avec leurs métropoles, et sur la manière dont la France et L'Espagne ont dû envisager les suites de l'indépendance des Etats-Unis de l'Amérique.
Paris, Pierre-Samuel Dupont, 1791. 8vo. 19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine. 75 [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,000
Law & Politics North America
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The second recorded copy of the Kanagawa Treaty, negotiated by Perry and effectively opening Japan to trade with the West

[USA - JAPAN - TREATY]. Treaty between the United States of America and the Empire of Japan. Concluded March 31, 1854; Ratified August 7, 1854; Proclaimed June 22, 1855.
[Washington D.C., 1855]. Folio. Signed in type by Franklin Pierce as President and by W. L. Marcy as Secretary of State. Original printed self-wrappers, stitched. 5, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 20,000
Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets Economic History & Trade Japan & Far East Law & Politics North America Pacific Islands
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"This work ranks with the voyages of Cook and La Pérouse among the most important of the 18th and 19th centuries"

VANCOUVER, George. Reisen nach dem nördlichem[!] Theile der Südsee während der Jahre 1790 bis 1795. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen begleitet von Joh. Friedr. Wilh. Herbst.
Berlin, (colophon: printed by Johann Wilhelm Schmidt) for the Vossische Buchhandlung, 1799-1800. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a large folding engraved map (52 x 42 cm) by Ferdinand Sprögel (Berlin, 1800) of the northwest coast of America, and 2 folding aquatints. Contemporary half calf. [2], 386; VIII, 406 pp. Full description
€ 2,950
Arctic & Antarctic Canada & Greenland China Hawaii North America Pacific Islands Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific
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Vanderbilt's hippodrome in watercolour

[HORSE RACING TRACK]. [VANDERBILT, William Kissam]. Hippodrome de Carrieres-sous-Poissy, Seine et Oise, appartenant a Mr. Vanderbilt W. K.
Poissy, Ch[arles] Robin, 1903-1904-1911. Large hand-coloured four-sheet plan (90 x 170 cm as assembled). Drawn in pen and ink, graphite and watercolour on paper mounted on canvas. Framed (105 x 205 cm). Full description
€ 45,000
Architecture Drawings & Watercolours France Horses & Horsemanship Manuscripts & Documents
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One of the earliest works on California

VÉNEGAS, Miguél and Andrés Marcos BURRIEL. Histoire naturelle et civile de la Californie, contenant une description exacte de ce pays, de son sol, de ses montagnes, lacs, rivières & mers, de ses animaux, végétaux, minéraux, & de sa fameuse pêcherie des perles; les moeurs de ses habitans, leur religion, leur gouvernement, & leur façon de vivre avant leur conversion au Christianisme; un detail des différens voyages, & tentatives qu'on a faites pour s'y établir, & reconnoître son Golfe & la côte de la Mer du Sud.
Paris, Durand, 1767. 3 volumes. 8vo. With a folding engraved map of California. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spines, gold-tooled binding edges. [2], XXIV, 360; VIII, 375; VIII, 354, [2] pp. Full description
€ 1,400
Faunas & General Zoology North America Travel & Voyages North America
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Horrifying account of a shipwreck, bound together with the travels of Pierre Poivre

VIAUD, Pierre (and Jean Garpard DUBOIS-FONTANELLE). Naufrage et aventures de M. Pierre Viaud; natif de Rochefort, capitaine de navire.
Bordeaux, the Labottiere brothers; Paris, Lejay, 1780.
With: (2) [POIVRE, Pierre]. Voyage d'un philosophe, ou observations sur les moers & les arts des peuples de l'Afrique, de l'Asie et de l'Amerique.
Yverdon, 1768. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled tree calf, richly gold-tooled spine; very subtly rebacked, preserving original backstrip. XXIV, 307, [4], [1 blank]; 140, [2] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
China Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks North America Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia
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