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Rare treatise on three posthumously published maps of Syria by Guillaume de l'Isle

L'ISLE (DELISLE), Joseph Nicolas de. Mémoire sur trois cartes nouvellement publiées en juillet 1764, destinées a servir de suite a la carte de l'ancienne Palestine ou Terre-Sainte, publie l'année dernière; Sçavoir: 1. Une carte particuliere de la Syrie, ou seulement de la partie septentrionale à la Palestine. 2. Une carte plus générale de la Syrie, qui comprend en même tems la Palestine avec les pays voisins, pour servir à l'histoire des croisades, etc. 3. Une carte encore plus générale & plus étendüe pour la recherche de la situation du paradis terrestre.
Paris, Imprimerie Veuve Delatour, 1764. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, a large woodcut headpiece, and a decorated woodcut initial. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled quarter brown calf. 15, [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,700
Charts & Maps West Asia
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Detailed eye-witness reports of a voyage around the world as it unfolded, 1847-1851

LORGE, Louis Anne Paul de Durfort Civrac, Comte de. [46 letters].
Chili, Macao, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Batavia, Ceylon, Calcutta, Delhi, etc., 1847-1851. 8vo & 4to. 46 autograph letters, mostly signed, written during a voyage around the world by the Comte de Lorge, to his father, the Duc de Lorge. Loose letters in clear plastic sleeves in a modern notebook. Full description
€ 9,500
Autographs & Letters Ceylon China Circumnavigation India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Latin America Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages South America Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia
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"the finest work on seventeenth-century Thailand"

LOUBÈRE, Simon de la. Du Royaume de Siam.
Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1691. 2 volumes bound as 1. 12mo. With the same woodcut printer's device on both title-pages, 2 folding engraved maps, 17 double-page engraved plates with printed music, Siamese alphabets, inhabitants etc., 21 full-page engraved plates, engraved headpiece and several woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary vellum. [8], 436, [2]; [4], 324, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 8,950
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14th-century tales of travels in Turkey, the Middle East, Near East, India and the East Indies,
illustrated with about 60 woodblocks

MANDEVILLE, John [= Jehan d'OUTREMEUSE]. The voyages & travels of Sir John Mandevile, Knight, ... to the Holy Land, and to Hierusalem: as also to the lands of the Great Caan, and of Prestor John: to Inde, and divers other countries: ...
London, Richard Chiswell, Benjamin Walford, Matthew Wotton, George Conyers, 1696. 4to. With a woodcut ship on the title-page and about 60 woodcut illustrations in the text (mostly about 5.5 x 8 cm) plus about 10 repeats. Gold-tooled, red goatskin morocco by Robert Riviere in London (ca. 1875/80), one of England's best binders. [4], “139” [= 135], [5] pp. Full description
€ 22,500
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Bindings Iran / Persia North Africa & Egypt Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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Secret military expedition to China

MANNERHEIM, Carl Gustav. Across Asia from West to East in 1906-1908.
Helsinki, Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, 1940. 2 volumes. (30.5 x 22 cm). With numerous illustrations in text, one small map after the preface, and 15 folding maps in the second volume. Half sheepskin, cloth sides. IV, 741; IV, 54, 16, 48, 36, 36, 12, 6, 30, 12 pp. Full description
€ 9,500
Anthropology & Ethnography China Eastern Europe Japan & Far East Military History (20th Century) Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia
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Remarkable logbook of the lesser-known part of l'Archimède's diplomatic mission to Asia

[MANUSCRIPT - EAST ASIA - LAGRENÉ MISSION]. [Ship's log of the "Archimède"].
At sea between Macao and Calcutta, 1846. 2 volumes. Folio (ca. 32 x 22 cm). With two pencil sketches on pp. 58 and 59. Contemporary blue cloth, blue sprinkled edges, pink paste paper endpapers. 65, [40 blank]; 76-106 [=30], [100 blank], [1], [2 blank], [2], [10 blank] pp. Full description
€ 8,500
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Ottoman map of Iraq, Kuwait and southwestern Iran, used by its army in World War I

[MAP - OTTOMAN ARMY]. [Iraq, Kuwait and Iran].
Istanbul, [Erkan-i Harbiye-i Umumiye], 1331 Rumi [= 1915 CE]. Colour-lithographed map of Iraq, Kuwait and southwestern Iran (65.5 x 66 cm) in black, brown, blue and green at a scale of 1:1,000,000, dissected into 12 sections and mounted on contemporary cloth. Full description
€ 3,500
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