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The definitive edition of the famous Thevenot collection of voyages

THÉVENOT, Melchisédech. Relations de divers voyages curieux ...
Paris, Thomas Moette, 1696 (1663-1696). 5 parts in 2 volumes. Folio. With the title-pages and tables of contents printed in red and black, 11 engraved maps (10 folding, 1 double-page), 25 engraved plates (11 folding, 1 double-page and 13 full-page), 75 illustrations in the text (2 full-page), numerous decorated woodcut initials, ornaments, and headpieces. Contemporary sprinkled calf, richly gold-tooled spines with two red morocco labels lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, red sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers. Full description
€ 65,000
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Dutch edition of Thévenot's travels in the Levant, with Jan Luyken's splendid illustrations of 1681

THÉVENOT, Melchisedec Jean-Baptiste. Alle de gedenkwaardige en zeer naauwkeurige reizen ...; mitsgaders de voornaamster byzonderheden van d'Archipel, Konstantinopolen, 't Heilige Land, Egypten, de woestynen van Arabie, Mekka ...
Amsterdam, Gerrit Bos, 1731. 4to. With engraved title-page, standing portrait of the author in Eastern garb, 19 engraved plates (including 2 folding) drawn, etched and engraved by Jan Luyken. 18th-century half calf, sprinkled-paper sides, refurbished in the 19th century and with a 20th-century spine label. [4], 484, [4] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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A biography of Lawrence of Arabia and his experiences in the Arab Revolt,
written for younger readers

THOMAS, Lowell. The boys' life of colonel Lawrence.
London, Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., undated [c. 1930?]. 8vo. With 31 illustrations on 16 leaves; the first of the entrance to the lost city (Petra) through a narrow gorge functions as a frontispiece. Red cloth. 285, [1] pp. Full description
€ 750
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Russian mission to China, with a plan of Beijing

TIMKOWSKI, Egor Fedorovitch. Voyage à Peking, à travers la Mongolie en 1820 et 1821.
Paris, Dondey-Dupré père et Fils, 1827. 2 text volumes (8vo) and one atlas volume (folio). With lithographed title-page, 3 lithographed maps and plans, 8 lithographed plates with copies after Chinese and other drawings. Text volumes in contemporary half calf and atlas in original brown wrappers. [8], XII, 480; [4], 459; 32 pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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Important contribution to our knowledge of medicine on voyages to the Americas

TITSINGH, Abraham (editor). Geneeskonst der heelmeesters, tot dienst der zeevaart.
Amsterdam, Adriaan Wor, 1752. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, and two decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary marbled wrappers, with a 19th-century paper label on the spine with the author and title in manuscript. 8, 662 pp. Full description
€ 3,750
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Second editions of Titsingh's "Cérémonies" and "Mémoires et anecdotes"

TITSINGH, Isaac. Cérémonies usitées au Japon, pour les mariages, les funérailles, et les principals fêtes del'année; ... Orné de 24 gravures, faites d'après des peintures japonaises.
Paris, Nepveu (back of half-title: printed by dHautel), 1822. 3 volumes. 18mo. With 23 (of 24?) etched plates (including 3 as frontispiece, and 17 folding), all but one in contemporary hand-colouring. Late 19th-century, gold-tooled brown half morocco, gilt edges. XXX, IV, 127, [1 blank]; [4], 139, [1 blank]; [4], 206 pp. Full description
€ 5,000
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Presentation copy of a travel account including a description of the Osage Nation in the American Midwest

TIXIER, Victor. Voyage aux prairies Osages, Louisiana et Missouri, 1839-40.
Clermont-Ferrand & Paris, Perol & Roret, 1844. 8vo. With a somewhat crude lithographed frontispiece and 3 lithographed plates in the same style by Perol after designs by the author, depicting people of the Osage Nation, and 1 lithographed sheet of music. Original printed yellow wrappers, with a white/translucent protective paper wrapper, the whole preserved in a modern red half morocco slipcase, gold-tooled spine. 260, [4] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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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
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"Pioneering botanical, entomological, and petrographic observations"

TOWNSON, Robert. Travels in Hungary, with a short account of Vienna in the year 1793.
London, G. G. & J. Robinson, 1797 4to. With a folding hand-coloured engraved map, 16 engraved plates (some folding), and a folding engraved table. Modern half calf with gold on red spine label, marbled sides. xviii, [1], 506 pp. Full description
€ 2,000
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