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First-hand information on the journey of La Pérouse

LESSEPS, Jean-Baptiste-Barthelemy, Baron de. Voyage de Lapérouse, rédigé d'après ses manuscrits originaux, suivi d'un appendice renfermant tout ce que l'on a découvert depuis le naufrage jusqu'a nos jours, et enrichi de notes par M. de Lesseps, consul général de France à Lisbonne, et seul débris vivant de l'expédition dont il était interprète; accompagné d'une carte générale du voyage, orné du portrait et d'un fac-simile de Lapérouse.
Paris, Arthus Bertrand and Delaunay (colophon: printed by Casmir), 1831. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece with a portrait of Lapérouse, a facsimile of one of his letters, and a large engraved folding map. Modern half calf. [3], [1 blank], [2], XVIII, 436 pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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Maarten Gerritsz. de Vries' journey to the north of Japan (1643), with accompanying information by Von Siebold

LEUPE, Pieter Arend. Reize van Maarten Gerritsz. Vries in 1643 naar het noorden en oosten van Japan.
Including: SIEBOLD, Philipp Franz Balthasar von. Aardrijks- en volkenkundige toelichtingen tot de ontdekkingen van Maerten Gerritsz. Vries, met het fluitschip Castricum a[nn]o. 1643.
Amsterdam, Frederik Muller; [The Hague], Koninklijk instituut voor taal-, land en volkenkunde van Nederlandsch Indië, 1858. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With lithographed folding plate with reproductions of six signatures and a folded lithographed reproduction of Maarten Gerritsz. de Vries's original map, coloured in outline. Contemporary half cloth. [4], 440 pp. Full description
€ 1,800
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An account of Japan during the late Tokugawa Shogunate

LINDAU, Rudolf. Japan. Eene reisbeschrijving.
Leiden, De Breuk & Smits, 1865. 8vo. With lithographed title-page including a tinted lithographic view of a Japanese house and 6 people, after a photograph (protected by a tissue guard, tipped in). Original publisher's letterpress-printed boards. VII, [1 blank], 264 pp. plus lithographed title-page. Full description
€ 4,950
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Opening the East for trade for the Dutch and the English

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van. Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert, ... naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien ...
Amsterdam, Cornelis Claesz., [1595-] 1596.
With:
(2) IDEM. Reys-gheschrift van de navigatien der Portugaloysers in Orienten ...
Including: IDEM. Een seker extract ende sommier van alle de renten, domeynen, tollen, ... importen, trubuyten, thienden, derde-penninghen en[de] incomsten des coninghs van Spaengien ...
Amsterdam, Cornelis Claesz., 1596 [= 1595].
(3) IDEM. Beschijvinghe van de gantsche custe van Guinea, Manicongo, Angola, Monomotapa, ende teghen over de Cabo de S. Augustijn in Brasilien ...
Amsterdam, Cornelis Claesz., 1596. 4 parts in 1 volume. Small folio (ca. 31 x 21 cm). With 6 folding maps, 36 folding or double-page plates, a full-page author's portrait, and a large illustration on each of the 4 divisional title pages, all engraved. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum over modern boards (?), with the manuscript author, title, and year of publication on the spine, red and blue sprinkled edges. [8], 160; 134, [4], 135-147; [82], [2 blank], [8] pp. Full description
€ 110,000
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Influential guide to the East and West Indies, featuring 42 double-page and folding plates,
including 6 detailed maps.

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van. Histoire de la navigation... aux Indes Orientales. Contenant diverses descriptions des lieux jusques à present descouverts par les Portugais: observations de coustumes & singularitez de delà, & autres declarations. Deuxiesme edition augmentee.
Amsterdam, Evert Cloppenburg, 1619. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 2 parts. Folio (31 x 21 cm) With an engraved title page for each work, 42 engraved plates (31 double-page and 11 folding), including 6 maps, and a full-page portrait of the author within collation. Including: LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen van. Le grand routier de mer, ...
[LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van]. Description de lAmerique & des parties dicelle ...
Near-contemporary gold-tooled calf. [1], [1 blank], [6], "205" [= 206]; [1], [1 blank], [2], 181, [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], "86" [= 80]. Full description
€ 65,000
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Seminal guide to the East and West Indies, with 42 double-page and folding plates, including 6 maps, all engravings beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen van. Histoire de la navigation ... aux Indes Orientales ... Avec annotations de B. Paludanus, ... Troixiesme edition augmentee.
Including:
LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen van. Le grand routier de mer, ...
[LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van]. Description de l'Amerique & des parties d'icelle, ...
Amsterdam, Evert Cloppenburg, 1638. Folio (32.5 x 21 cm). With 3 title pages (2 from the same full-page engraving and 1 letterpress with an engraving of a ship in a cartouche with 4 inset city views), a nearly full-page engraved portrait of the author in a cartouche with 4 inset views, 42 engraved plates including 6 maps (31 double-page & 11 larger folding). All plates coloured by a contemporary hand. Near contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. [8], 206 pp.; [4], 181, [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], “86” [= 80], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 275,000
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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
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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
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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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