Cartography, Exploration & Voyages

PALMQUIST, Erich. Nagre widh sidste Kongl. ambassaden till Tzaren i Muskou giorde observationer öfwer Ryszland, dess wäger, pasz med fästningar och gräntzer - Sammandragne aff Erich Palmquist anno 1674.
Stockholm, Generalstabens Litografiska Anstalt, [1898]. Large oblong folio. With the 1674 title-page, the text, 14 maps and charts, 13 full-page illustrations and several figures on one page (1 page illustrating flags hand-coloured as published). All lithographed after the original manuscript. Paper imitating tree calf, with a gilt-stamped frame, gold-tooled spine. [72] pp, some leaves printed on one side only. Full description

[PANORAMA - AMSTERDAM]. Johan Conrad GREIVE jr. (illustrator). Panorama dAmsterdam.
[Amsterdam], [printed by R. de Vries for] François Buffa & Sons, [ca. 1860]. Oblong (ca.16.4 x 24.6 cm. per leaf). The panorama is made up of 8 numbered lithographed views, printed in monochrome with beige tone block. The viewer looks southward from the IJ over the city from the Oosterdok (eastern dock) and the Oosterkerk (eastern church) along the docks and wharfs, via the recognisable towers of several churches and the view of the Royal Palace, to the Westerdok (western dock), a large factory, and the Blauwhoofd, the northwestern-most bulwark of the city. Original brown blind-stamped wave-grained cloth with the title and imprint information lettered in gold on the front board in a rococo frame, yellow endpapers. 8 numbered views folded making 24 pages. Full description

PARKINSON, Sydney. Voyage autour du monde, sur le vaisseau de sa majesté Britannique l'Endeavour, ... précédé d'un discours en forme d'introduction sur les principaux navigateurs anglais et français qui ont précédé l'Endeavour: suivi d'un abrégé des deux derniers voyages du capitaine Cook, ... Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglais. Par le C. Henri.
Paris, Guillaume, 1797. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 6 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf. 12, LVI, 344; [4], 309, [1 blank] pp. Full description

PARRY, William Edward. Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819-20, in his Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper. With an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations.
London, (printed by William Clowes for) John Murray, 1821. Large 4to (27 x 21.5 cm).
With 6 engraved maps and charts (4 folding), and 14 plates (9 lithographed and 5 engraved); many figures and tables in the text (1 folding). Contemporary richly gold-tooled calf.
With: (2) SABINE, Edward. The North georgia gazette and winter chronicle.
London, (printed by William Clowes for) John Murray, 1821. 4to. Later half calf. Untrimmed, leaving deckles intact. [8], XXIX, 310, [2], CLXXIX pp. Full description

PARRY, William Edward. Reis ter ontdekking van eene noordwestelijke doorvaart, uit de Atlantische in de Stille Zee, gedaan in de jaren 1819 en 1820 door de schepen The Hecla en The Griper...
Amsterdam, Johannes van der Hey, 1822. 8vo. With engraved title-page, 1 large folding map and 3 plates (2 folding). Contemporary half calf. XII, 333, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[PATTISON, John]. Neu-Südwales. Seine Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft, oder Erfahrungen und Beobachtungen während eines zwölfjährigen Aufenthaltes in Australien.
Leipzig, Christian Ernst Kollmann, 1850. 8vo. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin. [4], 190, [2] pp. Full description

PAUSANIAS. Pausaniou tes hellados periegesis [= in Greek]. Hoc est, pausaniae accurata Graeciae descriptio, qua lector ceu manu per eam regionem circumducitur ...
Frankfurt am Main, Heirs of Andreas Wechel [Claude de Marne, Johann Aubry], 1583. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a woodcut printer's device on the divisional title page of each part and the final leaf, 30 decorated woodcut initials, 7 woodcut headpieces, and 3 woodcut tailpieces. With: PAUSANIAS and Romolo AMASEO (translator). Pausaniae de veteris graeciae regionibus commentarii luculentissimi.
Frankfurt am Main, heirs of Andreas Wechel [Claude de Marne, Johann Aubry], 1583.
17th-century overlapping vellum over recycled blind tooled calf panels (from an older binding, unclear if original binding of present work or just general recycling), sewn on 5 vellum tapes previously laced through the joints, the manuscript author on the spine, remnants of closing ties. [12], 357, [1 blank] pp., 359-374 cols., 375-377 pp., 378-507 cols., [1 (=p. 508)], [1 blank], [76]; [12], 302, pp., 303-352 cols., [1] pp. Full description

PAZ SOLDAN, Mariano Felipe. Atlas geografico del Peru.
Paris, Firmin Didot brothers, children and comp., 1865. Large folio (51.5 x 37.5 cm). With 50 engraved maps, plans and views (including 20 coloured) and 24 tinted lithographs by F. Delamare. Contemporary black half sheepskin, rebacked. [2], 82 pp. Full description

PÉRON, François Auguste and Louis Claude de Saulses de FREYCINET. Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes, fait par ordre du gouvernement, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste et la goëlette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804 ...
Paris, limprimerie imperial, 1807-16.
With:
(2) IDEM. Voyage de découertes aux Terres Australes navigation et geographe.
Paris, de l'Imprimerie royale, 1815. 4 volumes. Large 4to and folio. With the plate volume, the first part contains 40 plates, including a map, 5 coloured coastal profiles, 14 ethnographic plates, of which 8 are coloured, 8 other views, one of which is coloured and 2 folding, including Lesueurs view of Sydney, 11 natural history plates, 9 coloured, 1 technical plate, and 1 engraved vignette on the title page. The second part contains 14 maps, 2 of which are double-page folding. There is also 1 text volume with a portrait of F. Péron and 2 folding tables. Uniformly bound by Bayntun in 19th-century three-quarter brown morocco, marbled boards, with the title, year, and volume number lettered in gold on the spine. [3], [1 blank], XV, [1 blank], 496, [2]; [2]; XXXI, [1 blank], 471, [1 blank] pp.; plate volume: [60] ll.; ad 2: "VXI" [= XVI], 576 pp. Full description

PÉRON, François Auguste and Louis Claude de Saulses de FREYCINET. Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes, fait par ordre du gouvernement, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste et la goëlette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804; historique.
Paris, (printed by Lebel for) Arthus Bertrand, 1824. 4 text volumes (8vo) and 1 atlas volume (folio). With lithographed portrait of François Péron; the atlas with engraved title-page and 68 (27 hand-coloured) lithographed plates, maps and charts, including a double-page map of Australia. Contemporary gold-tooled red half sheepskin. XXIV, 400; 532; 432; 353, [4] pp.; Atlas vol. [10] pp. text (Index of plates). Full description