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First edition of a detailed description and illustration of the cities along the coasts of the Baltic Sea
in the context of the Crimean War

[BOSCHETTI, Ambrogio]. Il Mar Baltico e le sue coste descritti e illustrati con alcune carte geografiche topografiche ed orografiche per la guerre d'Oriente.
Triest, Colombo Coen, 1854. Large 4to (32.5 x 23.5 cm). With 1 folding map of the Baltic Sea as the frontispiece, 1 military plan of Kronstadt, 15 plates of Finnish, Swedish, Baltic and Russian cities, and 1 small illustration in the text on p. 58. Contemporary half brown cloth, grey paper sides, with the publishers front wrapper (for the "seconda edizione") printed letterpress on pink paper. 131, [1] pp. Full description
€ 3,250
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"The first authoritative and detailed account of the West Coast of Africa"

BOSMAN, Willem. Voyage de Guinée, contenant une description nouvelle & très-exacte de cette côte où l'on trouve & où l'on trafique l'or, les dents d'elephant, & les esclaves: ...
Utrecht, Antoine Schouten, 1705. Large 12mo (17 x 10 cm). With an engraved author's portrait, an engraved frontispiece and 27 folding engraved plates. Contemporary marbled boards. [16], 520 pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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Quixotic adventures in Corsica

BOSWELL, James. An account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island; and memoirs of Pascal Paoli.
Glasgow, printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis for Edward & Charles Dilly London, 1768. 8vo (ca. 21 x 13 cm). With an engraved vignette on the title page incorporating the crowned coat of arms of the Republic of Corsica, and a large folding map (plate size 27.5 x 45 cm) of Corsica engraved in Edinburgh by Thomas Phinn in 1768. Contemporary calf, rebacked with the original backstrip, with the red morocco title label lettered in gold, laid down. XXI, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 382 pp. Full description
€ 2,000
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The first German edition of Boswell's Account of Corsica with a folding map

BOSWELL, James. Beschreibung von Corsica nebst vielen wichtigen Nachrichten und Anecdoten vom Pascal Paoli dem General der Corsen.
Leipzig, Caspar Fritsch, 1768. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved folding map of Corsica (29 x 44 cm). Contemporary paper-covered boards, spine with red title label lettered in gold, red edges. [14], 346 pp. Full description
€ 1,875
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Rare description of Mozambique in the 19th-century, written by a former captain general of the colony

BOTELHO, Sebastião Xavier. Memoria estatistica sobre os dominios Portuguezes na Africa oriental.
Lisbon, José Baptista Morando, 1835. 8vo. With six folding lithographic plates in the back, including maps of the Maputo, Inhambane, Quelimane and Mocambo bays, as well as a plan of its capital Maputo and a view of the residence of the Portuguese "capitão generales" (Captain-General) of Mozambique, a position which Botelho himself had held. Contemporary calf. [1], [1 blank], 400, [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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Official record of an important French circumnavigation around the world

BOUGAINVILLE, Hyacinthe-Yves-Philippe POTENTIEN, Baron de. Journal de la navigation autour du globe de la frégate la Thétis et de la corvette l'Espérance pendant les années 1824, 1825 et 1826.
Paris, Impr. De Rignoux for Arthus Bertrand, 1837. 2 text volumes (4to) and 1 atlas volume (folio: 545 x 350 mm). With 34 full-page lithographed views and costume plates, 12 hand-coloured, full-page engraved plates, a double-page, hand-coloured aquatint, 7 engraved maps (1 folding, 6 double-page), 2 double-page plates, and few steel-engraved illustrations in the text. Later three-quarter red morocco. VIII, 742; XVI, 351, 165, [3] pp. Full description
€ 45,000
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Five rare publications on the 17th-century French mission in southeast Asia

BOURGES, Jacques de. Relation du voyage de Monseigneur l'evesque de Beryte, vicaire apostolique du royaume de la Cochinchine, par la Turquie, la Perse, les Indes, &c. jusqu'au royaume de Siam, & autres lieux.
Paris, Charles Angot, 1683. 5 works in 1 volume. 8vo.
With: (2) PALLU, François. Relation abregée des missions et des voyages des evesques François envoyez aux royaumes de la Chine, Cochinchine, Tonquin, & Siam.
Paris, Charles Angot, 1682.
(3) [FERMANEL DE FAVERY, Luc (editor)]. Relation des missions des evesques François aux royaumes de Siam, de la Cochinchine, de Camboye, & du Tonquin, &c. Divisée en quatre parties.
Paris, Charles Angot, 1684.
(4) [FERMANEL DE FAVERY, Luc (editor)]. Relation des missions et des voyages des evesques vicaires apostoliques, et de leurs ecclesiastiques és années 1672, 1673, 1674 & 1675.
Paris, Charles Angot, 1682.
(5) [FERMANEL DE FAVERY, Luc (editor)]. Relation des missions et des voyages des evesques vicaires apostoliques, et de leurs ecclesiastiques és années 1676 & 1677.
Paris, Charles Angot, 1682.
Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [8], 167, [1]; [6], 51, [1 blank]; [16], 248; [16], 389, [1 blank]; [16], 170, [1] pp. Full description
€ 12,500
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Bound in contemporary red morocco, from the library of Charles de Lorraine;
primary French source-books on Vietnam, Siam (Thailand), and the Far East

BOURGES, Jacques de. Relation du Voyage de Monseigneur l'evesque de Beryte, Vicaire Apostolique du Royaume de la Cochinchine
Paris, Charles Angot, 1683.
With: (2) PALLU, Francois. Relation abregee des mission et des voyages aux Royaumes de la Chine, Cochinchine, Tonquin & Siam.
Paris, Charles Angot, 1682. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. 18th-century gold-tooled sang-de-boeuf calf, with a triple fillet border on both boards, spine richly gilt in compartments, gilt edges. VIII, 168; 51 pp. Full description
€ 7,500
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Spain at the end of the 18th century

[BOURGOING, Jean François de]. Nouveau voyage en Espagne, ou tableau de l'état actuel de cette monarchie.
Paris, chez Regnault, 1789. 3 volumes. 8vo. Volume 1 with a folding general map of Spain coloured in outline (23.8 x 28.4 cm) as a frontispiece, a folding plan of Madrid (23 x 33.8 cm), both engraved by P.F. Tardieu, 4 folding and 2 full-page engraved plates; volume 3 with a folding plan of Cadiz by Tardieu and 3 folding engraved plates. Contemprary gold-tooled mottled calf. [1], [1 blank], IV, 368, [1], [1 blank]; [1], [blank], [1], [1 blank], 382; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 404, [2] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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