10 etched plates after drawings by a pupil of Rembrandt
"This work ranks with the voyages of Cook and La Pérouse among the most important of the 18th and 19th centuries"
One of only two 19th-century English colour-plate books mentioning the Gulf
Large paper copy of a collection of travelogues on Russia, Poland, Scandinavia and the British Isles
Three "attestaties de vita" (life certificates) for a single employer who served the Dutch (1805), French (1811) and British (1814) governments of the East Indies
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€ 2,250
Description
Introducing Indian music to the Western world
A magnificent and extremely rare contemporary hand-coloured suite of 115 numbered plates of the protagonists of the Austrian Succession wars
Rare complete first edition of Visentini's print series with views of Venice after Canaletto, "crucial to forming the image of Venice in the mind of its visitors"
Catalogue of the famous Portland Museum, with many objects collected during Cook's Pacific voyages, with manuscript prices and purchasers
Japan through the eyes of the last Dutch governor of Deshima (Nagasaki)
The beneficial climate of the Isle of Pines near Cuba