The Disturbed State of the Russian Realm
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. Hardcover. xlii, 244p., cloth-covered boards, 6x9.25 inches, illus., very good condition. No dj. On the Time of Troubles (1598-1613). More
Cat.No: 272218
Sixteenth century
Caravaggio
Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Arte, 1991. Paperback. 62p., 7.5x10.25 inches, color plates, very good slim oversized trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 169141
Palaces of Goa; Models and types of Indo-Portuguese Civil Architecture. Photogrpahs by Nicolas Sapieha
London: Cartago, 1999. Hardcover. 223p., a fine big artbook with the usual bells and whistles: glazed alkaline paperstock, excellent reproduction of contemporary photos (of which many, all in color) and b&w period images. Find numerous elevations, facades, and especially interiors (pillows on the divans are good guesses, not originals), promenades..... More
Cat.No: 264511
The Portuguese Expedition to Abyssinia in 1541-1543. As Narrated by Castanhoso, with some Contemporary Letters, the Short Account of Bermudez, and Certain Extracts from Correa
Millwood NY / London: Kraus Reprint / The Hakluyt Society, 1967 / 1902. Hardcover. cxxxii, 296p., illustrated with a frontispiece and a large folded map made for The Society. Hardbound in medium-blue cloth boards gilt, styled after the Hakluyt original. Casebinding and textblock are perfectly sound and square, cleanly and..... More
Cat.No: 280674
Tabuas Dos - Roteiros da India de D. Joao de Castro. Codice 33 do cofre da biblioteca geral da Universidade de Coimbra. Introducao de Luis de Albuquerque
Lisboa: Edicoes Inapa, 1988. Hardcover. 12p., color plates as called for, presswork on very heavy alkaline paperstock, 17x11.5 inch gigantic hardbound in green cloth boards gilt-titled with a large color plate laid down on the front cover. Lower corner-tips of boards bear a small wrinkled bump, a fine clean sound..... More
Cat.No: 275849
The Publications of the Champlain Society, The Works of Samuel de Champlain [reprinted 1971] // [complete set of seven bindings in fine shape]. The Works of Samuel de Champlain in Six Volumes; Reprinted, translated and annotated by six Canadian scholars under the general editorship of H.P. Biggar. Volume I, 1599-1607, translated and edited by H.H. Langton and W.F. Ganong, the French texts collated by J. Home Cameron. With a portfolio of plates and maps. Toronto The Society 1922 [exemplary description; ditto for vols II, III, IV, V, VI, and mapcase]
Toronto: University of Toronto Press [the reprinting institution], 1971. Hardcover. Set complete in as-new condition. A labor of love showing very careful insertion of folded maps in amongst the texts of first two books. Red-orange buckram gilt, top edges also gilded. The mapcase was a lot of work, being a...... More
Cat.No: 279873
Sino-Portuguese Trade from 1514 to 1644. A Synthesis of Portuguese and Chinese Sources
New York: AMS Press, 1973. Hardcover. viii, 157p., modern reprint of the 1934 original, clearly reproduced or possibly re-set, hardbound in 9x5.5 inch red cloth boards gilt. Bright sound copy, clean and unmarked. Author Chang in 1934 was doctor of philosophy at Leyden. More
Cat.No: 277974
The Grand Peregrination; being the life and adventures of Fernao Mendes Pinto
London: Faber and Faber, 1951. Hardcover. 313p., illustrated with 16 pages of "beautiful collotypes" (b&w, kinda dim), second printing of the first issue. Hardbound in openweave orange cloth, titling in yellow, enclosed in its dust jacket. Pretty book in great shape; spine panel of dj has a nibbled top rim..... More
Cat.No: 275760
Fuentes para el Estudio del Mineral de Fresnillo 1566-1872 - Un acercamiento-
Ciudad de Zacatecas: Fresnillo Zacatecas, 2000. Paperback. 148p., text in Spanish, illustrated with b&w period images, very good first edition paperback in pictorial white wraps. Issued in a run of 500. Brief business history of the largest silver-from-ore mining company in Mexico (second-largest gold producer) headquartered in the UK. More
Cat.No: 205926
The Travel Journal of Antonio De Beatis - Germany, Switzerland, the Low Countries, France and Italy, 1517-1518. Translated from the Italian by J.R. Hale and J.M.A. Lindon. Edited by J.R. Hale
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1979. Hardcover. First edition in English: xii, 206p., illustrated with one folded route map, a family tree, a portrait, and a sketch of the Holy Shroud. Hardbound in Hakluyt's blue cloth boards gilt & blind and enclosed in the dust jacket. Top edge of casing bears..... More
Cat.No: 281092
Voyages de Vasco de Gama: Relations des expéditions de 1497-1499 & 1502-1503
Paris: Chandeigne, 1998. Paperback. 397p., wraps, 6.25x8.75 inches, illus., very good second edition revised in like dj. Text in French. Collection Magellane. More
Cat.No: 270060
Voyage au Levant (1553): Les observations de Pierre Belon du Mans de plusieurs singularités choses mémorables, trouvées en Grèce, Turquie, Judée, Égypte, Arabie & autres pays étranges
Paris: Chandeigne, 2001. Paperback. 606p., wraps, 6.25x8.75 inches, illus., very good condition in like dj. Text in French. Collection Magellane. More
Cat.No: 270117
Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Surrey, England: 9781472415332, 2014. Hardcover. xx, 184p. + [4]p. of plates, cloth-covered boards, 6.25x9.5 inches, illus.,very good condition in like dj. Transculturalisms, 1400-1700. More
Cat.No: 269856
The peasant war in Germany
New York: International Publishers, 2000. Paperback. 107p., very good paperback. Based on the 1926 edition. More
Cat.No: 257921
The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606. Translated and Edited by Sir Clements Markham. In To Volumes. - Vol. I, Vol.II [complete in the pair, which are bound in a single casing]
Millwood NY / London: Kraus Reprint / Reproduced by permission of the Hakluyt Society, 1967 / 1904. Hardcover. xlviii, 320, viii, to 555p., illustrations and maps as called for (several folded), hardbound in light blue cloth boards gilt. One map very slightly misfolded, which we have amended (it may revert)..... More
Cat.No: 280713
Town Plans of the British Isles, series appearing in atlases from 1580-1850 (entire contents of Map Collectors' Circle no. 22)
London: Map Collectors' Circle, 1973. Magazine. Pp.1-17 (text) plus 32 fullpage b&w plates, professionally printed on alkaline paperstock, softbound in plain printed buff wraps, 10x7 inches. Mildest edgewear with a small corner-tip crease to back cover and adjacent leaves. Generally sound and entirely clean and unmarked. Map collectors' series, third..... More
Cat.No: 276434
L'accumulation mondiale 1500-1800
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1977. Paperback. 344p., mildly worn wraps, text in French. More
Cat.No: 169565
Traité de Luís Fróis, S.J. (1585): sur les contradictions de moeurs entre Européens & Japonais
Paris: Chandeigne, 1994. Paperback. 187p., wraps, 6.25x8.75 inches, illus., very good second revised edition in like dj. Text in French. Collection Magellane. The Portuguese Jesuit's account of his missionary work in Japan. More
Cat.No: 269966
Balboa: conquistador; the soul-odyssey of Vasco Núñez, discoverer of the Pacific
New York: Lyle Stuart, 1971. Hardcover. 256p., very good first edition in cloth boards and price-clipped dj. More
Cat.No: 43998
Mostra - L'Asia nella Cartografia degli Occidentali" - Catalogo descrittivo a cura di Tullia Gasparrini Leporace
Venezia: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 1954. Paperback. Unpaginated preliminaries, 95p., plates (tavoli) number 1-31, these printed on glazed inserted stock in b&w, one plate per leaf ergo relatively small reproductions, clear enough without being superb, softbound in 11.5x8 inch printed buff wraps with overlapping (yapp) edges, all overlaps are crimped and..... More
Cat.No: 279489
Izmir and the Levantine World, 1550-1650
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990. Hardcover. xv. 236p.,cloth-covered boards, 6x9.25 inches, illus., very good condition in an unclipped dj with light foxing to the verso of the front panel. Publications on the Near East, No. 5. More
Cat.No: 274540
A Catalogue of the Harsnett Library at Colchester; in which are included A Few Books Presented to the Town by Various Donors Since 1631.
London: Printed by Richard Amer [Not Published.], 1888. Hardcover. xxxiv, 170p., fine presswork employing several fonts, illustrated with a monochrome folded frontis portrait of Archbishop Harsnett (resembles a brass rubbing), hardbound in 10.5x6.5 inch green cloth boards gilt and blind; textblock in excellent condition with signatures opened neatly throughout. One..... More
Cat.No: 262750
The True and Perfecte Newes of the Woorthy and Valiaunt Exploytes, Performed and Doone by that Valiant Knight Syr Frauncis Drake: Not only at Sancto Domingo, and Carthagena, but also nowe at Cales, and Uppon the Coast of Spayne. 1587. Now Reproduced in Facsimile from the Original Edition in the Private Library of Henry C. Taylor. With an Introduction, Notes, and a Bibliography of English Military books by David W. Waters
Hartford: Printed for H.C.T [provider]. by C.P.R. [Yale binder], 1955. Hardcover. 95p., illustrated with double-spread charts in facsimile, a frontis portrait, and Greepe's pictorial titlepage. A stylish hardbound in 12x8.5 inch laid-lined brown boards with a buff cloth backstrip spine-titled gilt. A great copy - crisp and square - sound..... More
Cat.No: 277847
The Pylgrymage of Sir Richard Guylforde to the Holy Land, A.D. 1506. From a copy believed to be unique, from the press of Richard Pynson. Edited by Sir Henry Ellis, principal librarian of the British Museum. Printed for the Camden Society. Reprinted with the permission of the Royal Historical Society.
New York: AMS Press, 1968. Hardcover. xvi, 92p., illustrated with a vignette, a coat-of-arms, and a folded genealogy. Hardbound in electric blue cloth boards gilt, a nice clean unmarked copy, really as new, perfectly sound &c. AMS series no. I, 51. More
Cat.No: 281537
Early English Intercourse With Burma, 1587-1743. Second Edition, With The Tragedy of Negrais as a New Appendix.
London: Frank Cass & Co., 1968. Hardcover. viii, 357p., cloth-covered boards, corners bumped, bookstore label on front paste-down endpaper, offsetting to endpapers else very good condition in a worn and price-clipped dj. More
Cat.No: 265493