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Rare fine complete set of the great Atlas of Denmark

PONTOPPIDAN, Erik and Hand de HOFMAN. Den Danske Atlas, eller Konge-Riget Dannemark, med dets naturlige Egenskaber, Elementer, Indbyggere, Vaexter, Dyr og andre Affödninger, dets gamle Tildragelser og naervaerende Omstaendigheder i alle Provintzer, Staeder, Kirker, Slotte og Herre-Gaarde. Forestillet ved en udförlig Lands-Beskrivelse, ... Tomus I[-VII].
Copenhagen, Andreas Hartvig Godiche, Royal University Printer (vols. I-V) and heirs (vols. VI-VII), 1763-1781. 7 volumes. 4to. With 296 mostly folding engraved maps, plans and views of Denmark and Danish cities, castles, houses and gardens, including engraved plates showing Danish antiquarian relics, plants, animals and costumes. Contemporary uniform calf, richly gold-tooled spines. 723 to 1104 pp. per volume, giving more than 6000 pp. in total. Full description
€ 13,500
Atlases & Globes Charts & Maps Scandinavia
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Russian and Swedish costumes

PORTER, Robert Ker. Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808.
London, for John Stockdale (back of title-page: Strahan and Preston), 1813. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With 41 etched plates (12 sepia washed views, 1 uncoloured portrait, and 28 aquatint costume-plates) by J.C. Stadler after drawings by the author. Contemporary half cloth. XII, 303, [1 blank]; VIII, 296 pp. Full description
€ 1,950
Costumes & Uniforms Eastern Europe Russia (incl. Siberia) Scandinavia Travel & Voyages Europe
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A kind Muslim, an English mummy snatcher and John Smith before Pocahontas

[PURCHAS, Samuel], John SANDERSON, Henry TIMBERLAKE and others. Seer gedenckwaerdige vojagien, van Johan Sanderson, Hendrick Timberly, en Capt. Johan Smith, door Europa, Asia en America. ...
Amsterdam, Joachim van Dyck, 1678. 4to. With engraved title-page, letterpress title-page with a woodcut floral ornament, 4 folding engraved illustration plates (including 1 with 4 small views). 18th-century half vellum. [12], 158 pp. including integral frontispiece. Full description
€ 4,500
Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Egypt North Africa Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Middle East Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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16th-century travel account of a journey from Venice to the Ottoman Empire

RAMBERTI, Benedetto. Delle cose de Turchi. Libri tre. ...
(Colophon:) Venice, Bernardino Bindoni, 1541. 8vo. With a small typographical ornament on the title-page. Modern vellum, sewn on 4 tapes, laced through the joints. 37, [1], [2 blank] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
Balkan & Greece Islamic Art, Culture & Science Italy Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Middle East Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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A Danish traveller in Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia and Bahrain, meets Mubarak al-Sabah and Ibn Saud, presentation copy

RAUNKIAER, Barclay. Gennem Wahhabiternes land paa kamelryg. Beretning om den af det Kongelige Danske Geografiske Selskab planlagte og bekosterde forskningsrejse i Ost- og Centralarabien 1912.
Copenhagen, Gyldendalske boghandel, Nordisk forlag, 1913. 8vo. With a frontispiece showing the author in Arab garb, 88 illustrations in text, most of them reproductions of drawings and photographs by the author, and a folding map loosely inserted in a pocket at the end. Publisher's green cloth. [1], [1 blank], [2], 304 pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Kuwait Scandinavia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Middle East Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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Very rare and lavishly illustrated description of the Rhine

[RHINE RIVER]. Beknopte beschrijving van den Rhijn-stroom. ...
Amsterdam, A.B. Saakes, 1796. 4to. With a double-page frontispiece and view of the source of the river Rhine and the pierced rock near Basel, large folding map of the river basin of the Rhine from its source in Switzerland to the Dutch coast, and coloured in outlines, 13 double-page and 20 half-page views on 10 leaves with views on the Rhine . Contemporary red half roan with marbled boards, gilt spine. 58 pp. Full description
€ 4,950
Castles, Gardens & Mansions Charts & Maps City Plans, Topography & Views Germany Netherlands Switzerland
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Extremely rare complete series of maps, plans and illustrations
of the most extensive Dutch historical, geographical and anthropological description of the world

SALMON, Thomas, Matthias van GOGH, Jan WAGENAAR and others. Hedendaagsche historie of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren.
Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion and his widow, and other places and publishers, 1729-1803. 44 volumes. 8vo. With 35 (of 36) engraved allegorical title-pages as published in the 44 volumes and the complete set of 386 engraved maps, plans, views, portraits, tables and other illustrations. Vols. 1-33: contemporary sprinkled calf; vols. 34-37: half calf; vols. 38-41: half calf; vol. 42: contemporary half sprinkled calf; vol. 43: contemporary half calf; vol. 44: contemporary blind-tooled sprinkled calf. All volumes with a a black title label. Full description
€ 22,500
Amsterdam Anthropology & Ethnography Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Balkan & Greece Belgium Brazil Canada & Greenland Caribbean Islands Central Africa Central Asia Central Europe Chile China City Plans, Topography & Views East Africa Eastern Europe Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus France Germany Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Iran / Persia Italy Japan & Far East Latin America Mediterranean Regions Mexico Middle America Netherlands North Africa North America Philippines Poland & Baltic Scandinavia South America Southeast Asia Southern Africa Spain Surinam Switzerland Turkey & Ottoman Empire UK - United Kingdom West Indies
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Dutch translation of an important work on Lapland, with 17 engraved plates by Jan Luyken

SCHEFFER, Johannes Gerhard. Waarachtige en aen-merkens-waardige historie van Lapland: ... Met noch een kort bericht van den toestand der Finnen.
Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1682. 4to. With engraved frontispiece and 16 engraved plates by Jan Luyken, and 1 folding engraved map. Contemporary vellum. [6], 99; 146; 73, [7] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Anthropology & Ethnography Scandinavia Travel & Voyages Europe
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First edition of an account of Tsar Peter's visits to the Dutch Republic, with 3 plates

SCHELTEMA, Jacobus. Peter de Groote, keizer van Rusland in Holland en Zaandam in 1697 en 1717.
Amsterdam, Hendrik Gartman, 1814. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 2 engraved title-pages showing a portrait of Peter the Great, 1 letterpress title-page and 2 half-titles, and 3 engraved plates. Mid-19th-century tree calf, each board with a gold-tooled fillets, gold-tooled spine and board edges, antique spot marbled endpapers, green ribbon markers. XXVI, 339; [2], XXXI, [1 blank], 328 pp. plus engraved titles and plates. Full description
€ 1,500
Eastern Europe Netherlands Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages Europe Travel Low Countries VOC
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