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Joined
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Möllinger, Oskar
- Lehrbuch der wichtigsten Kartenprojektionen mit besonderer
Berücksichtigung der stereographischen, Bonne’schen und Mercatorprojektion (…). Mit 50 in den
text gedruckten Figuren. Zürich, C. Schmidt, 1882, 8vo, cont. boards (rubbed) by
E.A. May
(Basel),
flat spine, viiii-142-[2] pp., 1 folding lithogr. pl. (paper age-toned). Good copy. (2 vols).
987 [Arabia - Asia - Islam]
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DAPPER, Olfert
- Naukeurige beschryving van Asie: behelsende de
gewesten van Mesopotamie, Babylonie, Assyrie, Anatolie, of Klein Asie: beneffens eene volkome
beschrijving van gantsch gelukkigh, woest, en petreesch of steenigh Arabie. Vertoont in een
bondigh ontwerp van ‘s lants benamingen, bepalingen, verdeilingen, steden, vlekken, gewassen,
dieren, zeden, en aert der inwoonders, bestiering, geschiedenissen en godsdienst, inzonderheit die
van d’oude Arabieren, Mahomet en Mahometanen (...). Amsterdam, J. van Meurs, 1680, 2 parts in
1 vol., folio, cont. calf (lower part & cover sl. stained), gilt orn. spine on 6 raised bands (joints sl.
rubbed, sm. repairs at lower part), [8]-357-[3], 324-[4] pp. (endpaper loosening, lower part missing,
tear in p. 83, 2nd part with lack of some paper, lower corner dampstained throughout, esp. in 2nd
part and somewhat mouldy at last quire, sm. tears in lower margin of pl. “de tooren van Babel”).
Good copy.
Cfr. ill.
€
1200/1600
First edition
of this detailed description of some Asian islamic countries and Arabia (part 2) by O.
Dapper (1639-1689), also translated in German.
Engr. ills
: title,
3 double-page maps
(“Delineatio
regionis Bassora cum pagis”, “Natolia quae olim Asia minor”, “Nova totius Arabiae foelicis,
Petraeae et desertae”),
13 double-page views
(some folding, 4 signed by Charles Vasteau and one
by K. Decker) showing
Babel and the Tower (2)
,
Bagdad
,
Ninive
,
Ephese, Smirne, Magnesie
,
etc. and
22 half-page ills in text
. Title in red & black. Text in 2 cols. Ownership entry on endpaper
“Franciscus Uyttenbroek Lier”.
Ref.
Haitsma Mulier/Van der Lem 141g. Tiele 300. STCN (i.a. BL).
BnF.
988 [Asia]
-
D’AVITY, Pierre
- Description generale de l’Asie, premiere partie du monde. Avec tous
ses empires, royaumes estats, et republiques. Paris, L. Cottereau, 1643, [8]-872-[20] p. [bound after]
IDEM
- Le monde ou la description generale de ses quatre parties, avec tous ses empires, royaumes,
estats, et republiques (…) [2nd ed. rev.] F. Ranchin. Ibid., 1643, [28]-358-[22] pp., 2 works in 1 vol.,
folio, cont. calf (rubbed, joints splitting), gilt spine on 6 raised bands (paper age-toned and spotted,
tear in Asia title (+/- 8 cm), tear in c’fold (+/- 6 cm) & lower fold of map (+/- 15 cm), sm. tears on
fold separations). Good copy
€
300/500
Initial volume(s), complete in themselves of the world history of P. d’Avity (1573-1635) edited
by François Ranchin (1564-1641). They combine the general geographical introduction with the
extensive volume on Asia, dealing with the Ottoman Empire (pp. 1-290), Persia (290-455), India
& South East Asia (455-647), China (647-694), Japan (695-714), the Southern Islands (Maldives,
Ceylon, Indonesia, Philippines (714-778), the Spanish possessions (779-835), and the Tartar
Empire (836-872). Engr. on titles. Titles in red & black. Full-page engr. portrait of d’Avity facing p.
1. Large folding engr. map of Asia (dated 1640).
Ref.
Cp. Cordier, Sinica 23 & Japonica 299 (other
issue). Not in BnF, Goldsmith (BL).
989 [Asia]
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Vierde reys van de Engelse Maatschappy na Oost-Indien, onder het beleyd van
Alexander Sharpey (...) en Richard Rowles (...)
; neffens het aandoen van de Roode-Zee door de
Ascension, gedaan 1608. en vervolgens beschreven door Thomas Jones. Mitsgaders de Voyagien
en Berigten van William Nicols, Samuel Bradshaw en Joseph Salbank (...). Als ook de vijfde reis
(...) bysonder na Java en Banda, gedaan en beschreven van Mr. David Middelton in ’t jaer 1609.
en volgende [trsl. from the English]. Leiden, P. vander Aa, 1707, folio, mod. half vellum, [1] f.- 32
cols.- [1] f. (paper age-toned). Very good copy.
€
100/150
“Offprint”, complete in itself, from Pt. 2 of “De wijdberoemde voyagien na Oost- en West-Indiën (...)
gedaan door de Engelsen”. Compilation from shorter English narratives of travels and expeditions
to Asia, i.a. by S. Purchas (1577-1626). Engr. on title by
J. Goeree
; 1 half-page engr. in text. Printed
in 2 cols in gothic type.
Ref.
STCN (4). BL. BnF.
