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 STRABO (64/63 B.C.-ca 25 A.D.)
Strabonis Rerum Geographicarum Libri XVII. Isaacus Casaubonus Recensuit, Summóque Studio & Diligentia, Ope Etiam Veterum Codicum, Emendauit, Ac Acmmentariis Illustrauit
Geneva: Eustathius Vignon, 1587. (13 3/4 x 8 5/8 inches). Two parts in one. [8],602,[2],[8],223pp., printed in Greek and Latin in double-columns, plus double-page engraved map by Mercator: "Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio." Geneva, 1587 (13 x 21 inches). Titles on titlepage and section-page for second part within historiated woodcut border. Seventeenth-century green vellum over paste-boards, boards gilt with floral roll within two triple-fillets of plain vellum and central oval gilt coat-of-arms of "Ferdinand Hoffman Freyher Herr auf Grevenstein," spine gilt with floral rolls within triple-fillets of plain vellum, title inscribed by hand in plain vellum of top compartment with later number "26" written over title, lacking silk ties, edges sprinkled with red bands. Large (10 x 6 1/2 inch) engraved allegorical bookplate of Ferdinand Hofmann, Freiherr von Grevenstein, designed by M. Göndelach and engraved by L. Kilian.
An excellent example of this essential work with a highly important Mercator world map.
The first edition of Strabo's Geographia edited by Isaac Casaubon, with the excessively rare double-hemispherical world map by Rumold Mercator based on his father Gerald's renowned 1569 world map. One of the earliest and most important scientific treatises on historical geography, and Strabo's only surviving work, the Geographia represents an initial attempt to compile geographical knowledge in a unified manner. The work provides a survey of the topographical, historical, and political characteristics of the principal regions of the Roman world, also including information concerning philosophy, political theory, geology, mathematics, science, and history. Causabon's famous edition is based on four manuscripts which were in the library of his father-in-law Henri Estienne, the esteemed Geneva printer and humanist.
The first appearance of Mercator's only obtainable world map, the two-page double-hemispherical world map is handsomely decorated with elaborate strap-work borders, an armillary sphere, and a compass rose. "Gerald Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into double-hemispherical form by his son Rumold ... Later Rumold's map was incorporated into editions of Mercator's long-lived and influential Atlas from 1595 onwards ... The engraving is a model of clarity and neatness, with typical cursive flourishes to the lettering of the sea names" (Shirley).
An important 16th-century edition of Strabo with the first appearance of Mercator's only obtainable world map, bound in a remarkable 17th-century green vellum binding with elaborate gilt decoration.
Strabo: Adams S-1908. Mercator: Shirley 157; Wagner, Northwest Coast 146; Koeman Me12.
#19439 $45,000.00  
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 STRAHLENBERG, Philipp Johann von (1676-1747)
An Histori-Geographical Description of the north and eastern part of Europe and Asia; but more particularly of Russia, Siberia, and Great Tartary; both in their ancient and modern state: together with an entire new polyglot-table of the dialects of 32 Tartarian nations: and a vocabulary of the Kalmuck-Mungalian tongue. As also, a large and accurate map of those countries ... Written originally in high German ... Now faithfully translated into English
London: printed for J. Brotherton, J. Hazard, W. Meadows [and others], 1738. Quarto (8 5/8 x 6 5/8 inches). 1 large folding engraved map "Nova descriptio geographica Tattariae Magnae..." (by Seale, dated 1737, sheet size: 26 x 39 inches), 1 folding woodcut map, 1 folding letterpress chart, 10 engraved plates (3 folding) at rear, and numerous illustrations in the text (old dampstaining). Modern antique calf, covers panelled in blind, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettering-piece in the second, repeat decoration in blind in the other compartments. Provenance: J. Lind (inscription dated 1778): discrete indistinct blindstamp to leaves a2-4.
Second edition in English of a key work on Siberia and Mongolia, with an important large folding map of the region.
A Swedish officer taken prisoner during Charles XII's campaign in Russia, Strahlenberg was held captive in Siberia for thirteen years. Situated in Tobolsk from 1711 to 1721, he was able to explore the lower basins of the Ob and Yenisey rivers, gathering the geographical information regarding the northern and eastern parts of Europe and Asia recorded in this book and its large folding map.
The text is of great importance offering much first-hand information -- geographical, historical and ethnographic -- about Siberia and Great Tartary. The work also includes early descriptions of the linguistics of the region, with a Kalmyv vocabulary including the translations of Mongolian words.
The most important aspect of the present work, however, is Strahlenberg's rare and significant map representing the Russian realm and Great Tartary, containing extensive information regarding Siberia. Strahlenberg utilized a wide array of sources in preparing his map. He used his own latitude calculations, as well as readings he had taken with Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt, a Prussian naturalist with whom he travelled in Russia. Measurements and other geographic information were obtained from other sources as well, including Swedish officers on different expeditions, Swedish and German travellers, and Russian cartographers and explorers.
The present second English edition (after the first edition in 1730 and the first edition in English of 1736) was re-engraved by R.W. Seale. The map encompasses the area between 50° and 185° east longitude and 32° and 75° north latitude. It records the Russian territories from west of Moscow to Japan in the east and includes northern China, Tibet, and Turkestan in the south. Neighboring countries such as Poland, Persia, India, and Mongolia are documented. Numerous important geographic features are also represented: the Arctic and Pacific oceans, and the Caspian Sea; the Urals, Caucasus, and the Himalayan mountains; and the Gobi desert.
The map is most notable, however, for its accurate representation of Siberia, particularly the settlement patterns of the region's various populations. Bagrow notes that after Semyon Remezov's map, Strahlenberg's map is the "most important source of historical-geographical information about Siberia."
Cf. Cordier 2713; cf. Cox I, 194; Lowndes III, 2528.
#24506$11,000.00
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 STRAHLENBERG, Philipp Johann von (1676-1747)
Das nord- und ostliche Theil von Europa und Asia, in so weit solches das gantze Russische Reich mit Siberien und der grossen Tatarey in sich begreiffet, in einer historisch-geographischen Beschreibung der alten und neuren Zeiten ... nebst einer noch niemahls ans Licht gegebenen Tabula polyglotta von zwey und dreyssigerley Arten tartarischer Völcker Sprachen und einem kalmuckischen Vocabulario, sonderlich aber einer grossen richtigen Land-Charte von den benannten Ländern
Stockholm: in Verlegung des Autoris, 1730. Quarto (8 5/8 x 7 1/8 inches). 10 engraved plates (4 folding, 1 double-page), 1 folding woodcut chart, 1 folding letterpress table, 12 woodcut illustrations and samples of alphabets. (Light worming to final twenty leaves). Contemporary sheep over bevelled wooden boards, spine in five compartments with raised bands, lettering-piece in second compartment, repeat tooling in gilt in the others, two leather and brass clasps to covers, red-stained edges.
First edition of the author's important survey of Siberia and Great Tartary.
A Swedish officer taken prisoner during Charles XII's campaign in Russia, Strahlenberg was held captive in Siberia for thirteen years. Situated in Tobolsk from 1711 to 1721, he was able to explore the lower basins of the Ob and Yenisey rivers, gathering the geographical information regarding the northern and eastern parts of Europe and Asia recorded in this book.
The text is of great importance offering much first-hand information -- geographical, historical and ethnographic -- about Siberia and Great Tartary. The work also includes early descriptions of the linguistics of the region, with a Kalmyv vocabulary including the translations of Mongolian words. A large folding table contains a comparative list of words in thirty-two dialects from Eastern Europe and Asia. The work would be translated into English, French and Spanish before 1800.
This copy without the separately-issued map "Nova descriptio geographica Tattariae Magnae", as usual.
Bell S698; Brunet V, 558.
#24507$3,000.00
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 STÜBEL, Alphons (1835-1904); Wilhelm REISS (1838-1908); and B. KOPPEL
Kultur und Industrie Südamerikanischer Völker ... Text und Beschreibung der Tafeln von Max Uhle ...
Berlin: Verlag Von A. Asher & Co., 1889-1890. 2 volumes, folio (19 5/8 x 14 1/2 inches). 55 plates lithographed by Julius Klinkhardt, including chromolithographs and collotypes. Expertly bound to style in half red morocco over red pebbled cloth covered boards, flat spine in six compartments, lettered in the second and third, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.
An important illustrated ethnographic survey of the art, culture and industry of South America.
Stubel and Reiss conducted their groundbreaking scientific research in the fields of mineralogy, geology, archaeology, astronomy and ethnography in South America between 1868-1877. The present illustrated survey is devoted to the ancient (volume 1) and then-present day (volume two) ceramics, metalwork, basketry and weaving of Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru. The superb illustrations are a combination of chromolithographs as well as photomechanical process all by the lithographer Klinkhardt in Leipzig.
Palau 323043.
#26163$8,000.00
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 SWIFT, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon
London: Printed for Benj. Motte, 1726. 4 parts in two volumes (as issued), octavo (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 6 engraved maps and plates. Contemporary panelled calf, spine with raised bands, morocco lettering pieces in the second compartments. Neat repairs to hinge of vol. 1. All within a modern black morocco-backed box.
First edition, second issue of this 18th century masterpiece of English literature: both the greatest of all satirical fables and a classic children's tale.
This copy is a first edition, Teerink's "AA" issue, with the portrait of Gulliver in the second state as usual. Unusually, both volumes conform to Teerink's AA, with that issue more commonly found with a Teerink B of the second volume.
Swift's best known work was published anonymously. Written in Dublin between about 1720 and 1725, the finished manuscript was brought to England by Swift when he left Ireland for London in March 1726. During his visit he stayed with friends, including Alexander Pope. Pope, along with John Gay and John Arbuthnot, helped Swift arrange for the publication of the book which was first published on 28 October 1726. Even after its publication Swift kept up the public pretence of having had no hand in it, but the immediate popularity of the work can be gauged from the fact that there were four printings within a year, as well as translations in French, German, and Dutch.
Ashley VI, p.28; Grolier English 42; PMM 185; Rothschild 2104; Teerink 293.
#25940$15,000.00
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 TAYLOR, James (Major, of his Majesty's 48th Regiment of Foot)
Three panoramic views of Port Jackson, in New South Wales, with the town of Sydney, and the adjacent scenery. After original drawings by...Taylor...drawn from nature...between 1817 and 1822 and engraved in London by R. Havell and Son in 1823. Printed from the original plates now in the Dixson Galleries of the State Library of New South Wales
London: Alecto Editions and the State Library of New South Wales, 1988. Large oblong folio (24 ½ x 31 inches). Letterpress title, 1 leaf explanatory text, 1 leaf colophon. 1 letterpress and half-tone key plate, three plates, engraved by Robert Havell and son, printed by Edward Egerton-Williams in colours 'a la poupee' and finished by hand, each with printer's blindstamp and pencilled notation on the margin 'B[onne] A T[irer]', extra-illustrated with three uncoloured printer's initial trial proofs, printed in black. Unbound as issued in original cloth portfolio by A. W. Lumsden of Edinburgh, with original printed card label inset on upper cover, small format limitation leaf mounted on front pastedown, ribbon ties.
Unique copy of this fine limited edition, with 'bonne a tirer' plates and printer's trial proofs. The edition was limited to 110 copies, but the present copy is, not surprisingly, unnumbered. The brilliantly detailed prints are complimented by the proofs which give a fascinating insight into the working methods of a master craftsman.
"By 1820, Sydney was a town of 12,000 inhabitants, about a third of whom were convicts. It had grown dramatically during the administration of Lachlan Macquarie who was appointed governor of New South Wales in 1810. Unlike previous governors, Macquarie was not content merely to oversee a penal colony. His vigorous building programme changed forever the appearance of Sydney, while his policy of accepting emancipated convicts as respected citizens demonstrated a social attitude strangely out of step with the times. Both these policies earned him criticism. In 1819, alarmed by Macquarie's extravagant public works, the British Government commissioned a lawyer and civil servant, J.T.Bigge, to investigate. The attacks by his critics were met head on by Macquarrie's supporters in New South Wales. Books, pamphlets and paintings luded the governor's undoubted achievements. Almost certainly Major Taylor's drawings were used in, if not commissioned for, this cause. The engraved views of the Panorama present a flattering image of the Australian seat of government and, by extension, of Macquarie's term there...Taylor arranged the engraving and printing of the of the three sheet Panorama.. upon his return to England in July 1822...Havell appears to have worked from [Taylor's].. large watercolours, but amended them with additional details.. and decorative elements...It is most fortuitous that the copper plates...have survived. There is no other example of such a case for 19th century Australian engravings..."
#2908$7,500.00
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 [THOMAS, Dalby (c.1650-1711)]
An Historical Account of the Rise and Growth of the West-India Collonies, and of the great advantages they are to England, in respect to trade
London: Jo. Hindmarsh, 1690. Small quarto (7 3/4 x 4 5/8 inches). [6],53pp. (Title repaired at inner margin, margins chipped, some browning). Modern quarter brown calf, spine gilt in compartments.
With an account of early Maryland.
"The author was general manager and director of the Royal Africa Company, and thus interested in the trade and wealth of the American colonies. He sets forth the economic value of the colonies, and protests the additional duties that have been levied by the Act of 1685...there is an interesting passage on the production of tobacco in Maryland and Virginia, its commercial value, with details about planting, harvesting and curing" (Baer).
This copy once owned by Sir William Boothby, third Baronet of a distinguished English family, and a well-known book collector.
Arents II, 410; Baer Maryland 13, Kress 1749; Sabin 32056; Wing T961.
#25212$6,750.00
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 THOMPSON, George
The Palm Land; or, West Africa, illustrated
Cinncinnati: 1859. Octavo. 456pp. 1 frontispiece map, numerous illustrations (15 full-page). (Two leaves loosening, a few scattered stains). Original publisher's cloth, blocked in gilt and blind (light wear and fading to cloth). Provenance: Bookplate on front pastedown.
Third edition of this history of missionary activities in West Africa
This work offers a vivid description of the animals, inhabitants, and ways of life in West Afica, with many illustrations.
#24281$100.00
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 THOMSON, Thomas (1773-1852)
Travels in Sweden, during the Autumn of 1812
London: for Robert Baldwin, 1813. 4to (10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches). 13 engraved plates, plans and maps (comprising: 2 engraved portraits, 6 maps [4 folding], 5 plates and plans [1 plate printed in bistre]). (Occasional old repairs to folding maps, some light spotting to maps and plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, rebacked to style, recent endpapers.
First edition of a rare and important work: a scientific exploration, a description of the country at an important time in its history and a description of its people.
The author intended this work as a compendium of available information about Sweden, mostly scientific. Thomas Thomson travelled 1200 miles in seven weeks, keeping a journal as he went. He was a well-regarded analytical chemist, a member of the Geological Society, the Wernerian Society, the Imperial Academy at St. Petersburg and a fellow of the Linnaean Society and the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and a prolific author. He described his reasons for visiting Sweden in the first chapter: "My objects were not only to observe the manners and dispositions of the people, and the progress which they had made in the arts and civilization; but likewise to make a mineraological survey of the country, as far as that could be done by hastily traversing it; to view as nearly as possible the state of chemistry in Sweden, and to make myself acquainted with the discoveries made in that science by the Swedes in the last ten years" (p.1). The interesting plates and maps include two stipple-engraved portraits of Swedish royalty, a large folding engraved general map of Sweden, a folding engraved map of Gothland, two folding engraved geognostic maps of Nerike and Sconia, a folding engraved plan of Stockholm, a full-page engraved plate showing the geognostic structure of the country, two views of the Hill Kinnekülle and the Mountain Taberg, two full-page engraved plans of the copper mine of Fahlun, and, printed in bistre, a fine full-page engraved plate of a falcon.
Poggendorff II, 1098.
#21599$1,200.00
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 TOD, James (1782-1835)
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India ... Second edition
Calcutta: [printed by G.C. De. The New Sanskrit Press] published by Harimohan Mookerjee, 1877. 2 volumes, quarto (10 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches). Pp.[i]-xxxiii, [1], [1]-639 [1]; [1-4], [i]-xxvi, [1]-674. 2 folding letterpress tables. 16 plates by N.C. Bose, S.C. Dass, T.N. Dev and others after Captain Waugh (6), Ghafsi (5) and others (including: 1 folding engraved cross-sectional map and 1 folding plate of script printed on recto and verso), occasional illustrations. Original green cloth, covers blocked in blind, the flat spines divided into five compartments with double fillets in blind, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth compartments.
Very rare Calcutta edition of this valuable early study of the history, beliefs and topography of Rajasthan: only a single incomplete copy is recorded by OCLC.
No complete copies of this Calcutta edition are recorded by OCLC, and no copy is listed as having sold at auction in the past thirty-five years. The plates are of particular interest. The plates are after the London edition of 1829-1832, and provide an interesting insight into the work of engravers working in the region at the time: little is known or recorded of the work of native engravers working in India in the mid-19th century.
The author went to India as a cadet in the Bengal army of the British East India Company in 1799. He commanded the escort attached to the Resident at Sindhia from 1812 to 1817. In the latter year he was in charge of the Intelligence Department which largely contributed to the break up of the Maratha Confederacy in the Third Anglo-Maratha War, and was of great assistance in the campaign in Rajputana. In 1818 he was appointed political agent for the states of western Rajputana, where he successfully acted as an arbitrator between rival chieftains, settling their feuds. While Resident in Rajputana, Tod collected materials for his Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, a work of great importance for South Asian scholars. Tod presents the contemporary geography and a detailed history of Rajputana along with the history of the Rajput clans who ruled most of the area at that time. Tod's work drew on local archives, Rajput traditional sources, and monuments such as the Edicts of Asoka found at Junagadh. He returned to England in 1823 with a wealth of material for what became a fundamental study of Rajasthan's historical development. The first edition was published in London between 1829 and 1832, with a total of fifty plates. Most of the images were engraved by Edward Finden from originals from various sources - most notably a local artist whose name is given as Ghafsi, or Captain Waugh, a friend and kinsman of the author. The present edition demonstrates the esteem in which the work was held in the region, even fifty years later. A more immediate token was given by the ruler of Udaipur, who, when the work first appeared, renamed a village in Tod's honour: Barsawada became "Todgarh" (or Tods fort) - a name that it still bears today.
OCLC 504180584 (British Library copy, imperfect: i.e. BL integrated catalogue, shelf mark 9057.cc.12)
#25126$2,750.00
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