Asher Rare Books

Imaginary voyage around the world, nicely bound copy from the Huth library

DRALSÉ DE GRANDPIERRE. Relation de divers voyages faits dans l'Afrique, dans l'Amérique, & aux Indes Occidentales. La description du Royaume de Juda, & quelques particularitez touchant la vie du roy reignant. La relation d'une isle nouvellement habitée dans le détroit de Malaca en Asie, & l'histoire de deux princes de Golconde.
Paris, Claude Jombert, 1718. 12mo. With some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled polished calf, spine richly decorated with floral ornaments in compartments and with dark brown morocco labels lettered in gold, triple filets on boards, gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges. [12], 352 pp. Full description

€ 9,500

Argentina Brazil Imaginary Voyages & Utopias Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Latin America Mexico Middle America South America West Africa

Detailed account of a commercial expedition to Senegal and Sierra-Leone, attractive copy with 18 engraved plates and 16 maps

DURAND, Jean-Baptiste-Léonard. Voyage au Sénégal, ou mémoires historiques, philosophiques et politiques sur les découvertes, les établissemens et le commerce des Européens dans les mers de l'Océan Atlantique, depuis le Cap-Blanc jusqu'à la rivière de Serre-Lionne inclusivement; suivis de la relation d'un voyage par terre de l'île Saint-Louis à Galam, et du texte arabe de trois traités de commerce faits par l'auteur avec les princes de pays.
Paris, Henri Agasse, 1802. 2 volumes (1 text and 1 atlas). 4to. Atlas with an engraved portrait of Léonard Durand, 16 double-page engraved maps (mostly folding) and 27 engraved plates. Modern dark green half morocco, gold-tooled spine, upper edges gilt. [4], XXXII, 420; VIII, [4], 68 [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Charts & Maps Travel & Voyages Africa West Africa

First printing of a rare 18th-century map of Portuguese Angola

FEO CARDOZO DE CASTELLOBRANCO E TORRES, João Carlos. Memorias contendo a biographia do vice almirante Luiz da Motta Feo e Torres. A historia dos governadores e capitaens generaes de Angola, desde 1575 até 1825, e a descripção geographica e politica dos reinos de Angola e de Benguella.
Paris, Fantin, 1825. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With one large folding map at the start of the first volume, showing the coast of Angola, and a small vignette on the title page. Contemporary gold-tooled tree-marbled calf. [14], 375, [6] pp. Full description

€ 2,950

Bibliography & Biography Portugal Southern Africa

A previously unobtainable complete set of magnificent wall maps by Nicolas de Fer

FER, Nicolas de. [Set of five wall maps: America (1698), Africa (1698), Asia (1696), Europe (1695), and the World (1695)].
Paris, chez lauteur / van Loon, 1695-1698. Approximately 114 x 165 cm each. Copperplate engravings in original outline colour, tissue-backed for stability, laid down to modern cartographic linen. All with title banner dated 1698 with the Royal Privilege, and text panels dated 1703. Each map printed on four joined sheets with title surmounted and engraved text panels at sides and bottom. Full description

€ 850,000

Charts & Maps World Atlases & Maps

2 offprints discussing De Frobervilles researches on languages and races in sub-equatorial East Africa,with an autograph letter from De Froberville

FROBERVILLE, Eugène de, and [Louis BOUTON]. Analyse d'un mémoire de M. Eugène de Froberville sur les langues et les races de l'Afrique Orientale au sud de l'equateur.
[Port Louis, Mauritius], [Société dHistoire Naturelle de Maurice], [1846]. Offprint, with its own pagination, from Procès-verbaux de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Ile Maurice, du 6 octobre 1842 au 28 août 1845, [1846].
With: (2) FLOURENS, Pierre, [Louis-Isidore?] DUPERREY and Etienne SERRES. Rapport sur les races nègres de l'Afrique Orientale au sud de l'équateur, observées par M. de Froberville.
(Colophon: Paris, printed by Bachelier, [1850]). Offprint, with its own pagination, from Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Sciences, XXX (1850).
2 works in 1 volume. Small folio & large 8vo. 19th-century black half morocco, with the blue paper back wrapper of the second offprint bound in. Full description

€ 1,950

Anthropology & Ethnography Autographs & Letters Language & Linguistics Literature Slavery Travel & Voyages Africa

A Portuguese expedition to the Kingdom of Kazemba

GAMITTO, Antonio Candido Pedroso. O Muata Cazembe e os povos Maraves, Cheva, Muiza, Muembas, Lundas e outros da Africa austral.
Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional, 1854. 8vo. With 22 hand-coloured lithographed plates, and a folding lithographed map (45 x 28 cm), hand-coloured in outline. Contemporary straight-grained, gold-tooled black sheepskin, gilt edges. XXV, [1 blank], 501, [1 blank], [2] pp. Full description

€ 9,000

Anthropology & Ethnography Charts & Maps Southern Africa Travel & Voyages Africa

The customs and legends of Malta, Syria, Lebanon, Jerusalem and Egypt

GENTIL, Emile. Souvenirs d'Orient. Anecdotes de voyage. - Légendes. - Moeurs, coutumes, etc. Détails nouveaux sur Malte, le Liban, la Syrie & l'Egypte, avec un grand nombre de dessins inédits, et les plans des principaux sanctuaires de Terre-Sainte.
Paris, Lyon, Metz, Librairie Catholique de Pétisse frères, 1856. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With 2 engravings and 4 engraved plans, one of which folding, and numerous illustrations in text by J. Verronnais after the original drawings by Emile Gentil. Original brown half morocco, gilt spine, title on spine lettered in gold. 580 pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Egypt Mediterranean Regions North America Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Middle East West Asia

Rare charming pocket-atlas of the world, complete second edition with 6 more maps

[GEOGRAPHY].

Geografisch-toneel, of uitgezochte kaarten, tot gemak der officieren, reizzigers en liefhebbers; behelsende alle de generale kaarten van de waereld, met de bysondere, der plaatsen daar den oorlog in Europa gevoerd word, en de plans der forten … verrykt door de militaire bouwkunde, en door een korte manier om gemakkelyk de geographie te leeren en begrip van de waereldkloot te hebben.
Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Ratelband & Comp., 1735. Upright oblong 8vo (20 x 8.5 cm). With a woodcut ornament on the title-page, 1 folding plate and 40 folding numbered engraved maps (ca. 18 x 26.5-42 cm), many of them surrounded with coat-of-arms, city plans and views, all coloured by hand, of all parts of the world. The plate and maps are all folded 3 or even 4 times to the upright oblong format of the atlas. Contemporary calf. Hand-written list of plates on the first fly-leaf, listing only 38 of the 40 maps. 16 pp.

Full description

€ 3,750

Over forty plates of East Africa based on daguerrotypes

GULLAIN, Charles. Documents sur l'histoire, la geographie et le commerce de l'Afrique orientale.
Paris, Arthus Bertrand, [1856-1857]. 3 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. Text volumes: 8vo; atlas volume: folio. With 55 tinted plates. Contemporary leather-backed marbled boards. XXXI, [1], 628; XXIII, [1], 556; [4], 527, [1 blank] pp. Atlas volume: [4] pp. and 55 plates. Full description

€ 35,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States East Africa Economic History & Trade Photography Saudi Arabia Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Middle East

First substantial English translation of Ibn Batuta's travels through the Islamic world and beyond

IBN BATUTA and Samuel LEE (editor). The travels of Ibn Batuta; translated from the abridged Arabic manuscript copies, preserved in the public library of Cambridge. With notes, illustrative of the history, geography, botany, antiquities, &c. occurring throughout the work.
London, printed for the Oriental Translation Committee (colophon: by J.L. Cox). Large 4to (32 x 26). With various passages including the original Arabic text. Later half calf. "XVIII" [=XX], [2], 243, [1] pp. Full description

€ 17,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States North Africa Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East Turkey & Ottoman Empire

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