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WILLIGEN, Adriaan van der. Aanteekeningen op eene reize van Parijs naar Napels, door het Tirolsche en van daar door Zwitserland en langs den Rhijn terug naar Holland.
Haarlem, Adriaan Loosjes, (back of half-title parts 2-4: Utrecht, G. Post), 1811-1813. 4 parts in 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With an engraved title-page to the first part (with a stipple-engraved medallion portrait of the author) and 13 engraved plates by J. P. Visscher Bender. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spines. VIII, 269, [1]; IV, 292; VIII, 322; "VIII"[=6], 405, [3] pp. Full description
€ 4,000
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On icebergs seen by Captain Parry and eruptions of the Vesuvius, with 12 double-page aquatints

[WITSEN GEYSBEEK, Peter Gerardus]. Reizen naar vreemde landen, in het hoekje van den haard.
Amsterdam, Diederichs brothers, [1829]. 16mo in 8s. With 12 double-page aquatint views by W.H. Hoogkamer, 6 in grey tint and 6 in sepia. Original publisher's printed yellow paper covered boards. 115, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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Extremely rare 1788 Russian edition of Zimmermann's account of Cook's third voyage

ZIMMERMANN, Heinrich. Posliednee puteshestvie okolo svieta Kapitana Kuka s obstoiatel'stvami o ego zhizni i smerti ...
St Petersburg, P.B. [= Peter Bogdanovich], 1788. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled calf. [4], 211, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 28,500
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Early work on whaling

ZORGDRAGER, Cornelis Gijsbertz. and Abraham MOUBACH. Bloeyende opkomst der aloude en hedendaagsche Groenlandsche visschery. Waar in met eene geoeffende ervaarenheit de geheele omslag deezer visscherye beschreeven, en wat daar in dient waargenomen, naaukeurig verhandelt wordt. Uitgebreid met eene korte historische beschryving der noordere gewesten, voornamentlyk Groenlandt, Yslandt, Spitsbergen, Nova Zembla, Jan Mayen Eilandt, de Straat Davis, en al 't aanmerklykste in d'ontdekking deezer landen, en in de visschery voorgevallen. Met byvoeging van de walvischvangst, in haare hoedanigheden, behandelingen, 't scheepsleeven en gedrag beschouwt, door Abraham Moubach.
Amsterdam, Joannes Oosterwyk, 1720. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece by J. Folkema after F. Ottens, 6 folding engraved maps, and 7 engraved plates (including 1 folding showing ships at sea by A. Salm after Van der Hem). Further with the title page printed in red and black, a small woodcut vignette on the title page, some woodcut decorated initials, and some large woodcut floral tailpieces. Contemporary half sheepskin, marbled paper sides. [38], 330, [14] pp. Full description
€ 6,950
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