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Discovery of the Canary Islands in classical Greek and Roman, Arabic and Portuguese sources

MACEDO, Joaquim José da Costa de. Memoria em que se pertende provar que os Arabes não conhecerão as Canarias antes dos Portuguezes.
Lisbon, printing office of the Academia Real das Sciencias, 1844. Folio. With a woodcut Portuguese coat of arms on the title-page. Modern brown paper wrapper. [4], 232 pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Navigation Portugal Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Middle East West Africa
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Educating the Austrian army in the anatomy of the horse, with 10 large colour plates

MACHOLD, Joseph (Josef). Zehn tafeln zur anatomie des Pferdes . . .
Vienna, the author "in Commission bei F. Paternos Nachfolger" (printed by Adolf Holzhausen), [1879]. Oblong 1mo (35×49 cm). With 10 numbered chromo-lithographed and double-tinted lithographed plates (35×49 cm), loose as issued. Original publisher's printed front wrapper preserved, back wrapper lacking. In a modern clamshell box. 15, [1 blank] pp. plus plates. Full description
€ 4,500
Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Medicine Faunas & General Zoology Horses & Horsemanship Military History (19th Century)
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Italian friar captured by Ottoman pirates

MAGGIO, Francesco Maria. Vita, e morte del venerabil P. F. Alipio di S. Giuseppe Scalzo di S. Agostino Palermitano della congregazione d'Italia, in odio della confessione della S. Fede di Giesù Cristo, crudelissimamente ucciso da' Turchi di Barberia, nella città di Tripoli, a 17 di febbraio l'anno 1645 ...
Rome, Ignatio de' Lazzari, 1657. 4to. With 3 engraved plates. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [40], 24, [4], 25-234, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Church History & Missions Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks North Africa Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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A proposal for stationing mortars along the coast, to save shipwrecked persons

MANBY, George William. Papers relating to Captain Manby's plan for affording relief in cases of shipwreck: viz. Copies of instructuions, given by His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department, for the purpose of carrying into effect the plan of Captain Manby, for affording relief in cases of shipwreck.
[London, House of Commons, 1816]. Folio. With several woodcuts and wood engravings of the inventions in text. Sewn. 37, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 850
Law & Politics Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Technology
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Captivating manuscript in Dutch, detailing a journey to the Arctic regions

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH - ARCTIC REGION]. [Anonymous eyewitness travel report of a journey to the Arctic region in search of good waters for whaling].
[ca. 1790]. 4to. Manuscript written in Dutch in black ink in one clear, although not very sophisticated, hand on paper (sheets varying in origin and size ca. 20-21 x 14-16 cm). Modern artificial brown leather, marbled pastedowns, with the late-18th-century decorated paper wrappers bound in. [17] ll. Full description
€ 9,500
Arctic & Antarctic Birds - Ornithology Canada & Greenland Faunas & General Zoology Fishery & Whaling Fishes Floras & General Botany Scandinavia & Arctic
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Scurvy and contagion between the Cape of Good Hope and Batavia:
medical reports of the Dutch East India Company

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH - VOC - HEALTH]. Ziekten aan boord der uitvarende schepen naar Indië 1774-1783.
1774-1783. Folio. Loosely inserted in contemporary wrappers with the manuscript title on the front. The work is kept in a brown cloth folder, with a red morocco title label on the front, lettered in gold. [5] ll. Full description
€ 8,500
Manuscripts & Documents Medicine & Pharmacy (18th Century) Naval History Southern Africa Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia VOC
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Early 18th-century Dutch student's manuscript on navigation and mathematics

[MANUSCRIPT - NAVIGATION - DUTCH]. De schat kamer ofte de konst der stuurlieden.
[The Netherlands], [ca. 1702/13?]. Folio (33.5 x 21.5 cm). With more than 300 mathematical figures and illustrations, mainly full-, half- and quarter-circle diagrams. The Dutch text is written in a clearly legible, 18th-century cursive hand in brown ink. Contemporary flexible paperboards. [213], [4 blank], [1] pp. Full description
€ 3,850
Manuscripts & Documents Mathematics Navigation
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A notable narrative with detailed information on Northwest America, in splendid bindings

MARCHAND, Étienne and Charles Pierre Claret de FLEURIEU. Voyage autour du monde, pendant les anneés 1790, 1791 et 1792, par Étienne Marchand, précédé d'une introduction historique; auquel on a joint des recerches sur les terres Australes de Drake, et un examen critique du voyage de Roggeween.
Paris, De l'imprimerie de la République, [1798-1800]. 6 volumes: 5 text volumes and 1 atlas. Large 8vo (23 x 15 cm) and 4to atlas. With 3 folding tables with vocabulary in 3rd volume and 15 engraved maps and 1 engraved plate in atlas volume. Contemporary light brown calf, gold-tooled spine gilt with star and flower pattern and 2 red morocco title labels, gold-tooled ornamental borders on the boards, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges (COURTEVAL). [4], VIII, CCI, [3], 294, [2]; VII, [1], 529, [1]; [2], VIII, 474, [2]; VIII, 494, [2]; XII, 559, [5]; [2], VIII, 158, [2] pp. Full description
€ 27,500
Alaska Anthropology & Ethnography Bindings Canada & Greenland Charts & Maps Hawaii Navigation North America Pacific Islands Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific
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