Kleiner Ritter Milchling (German Edition)

The copy used for this fine reprint was the copy of the "Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague". Albertus Seba's "Cabinet of Natural Curiosities" is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time, including flying dragons, diamond rattlesnakes, seamice, legendary seven-headed Hydra and a wealth of other curious creatures. Though it was common for men of his profession to collect natural specimens for research purposes, Amsterdam-based pharmacist Albertus Seba had a passion that led him far beyond the call of duty.

In new marbled portfolio. It deals with many subjects such as: Some few marginal restorations. We have many more manuscripts by M. Simrock - Recueil d'Airs de Chasse et Fanfares With numerous coloured folded maps and charts and many plates. See also our Siboga Expedition set in the periodical section! Voorschrift, hoedanig te handelen met voorwerpen van Natuurlijke Historie, ten einde dezelve behoorlijk te verzenden en voor bederf te bewaren; ten gebruike van het 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leyden Leiden A nice set of this dictionary.

Binding shows some light traces of use. Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff. Sein Leben und Wirken by E. Includes a long list of his works, a bibliography and all about this family. Oblong with 3 leaves of text by the artist and 20 tinted lithographs. Includes nice plates such as "Mooie Meisje", "Een Biljartpartij" and "Nice lady with a dandy with a death head". The last "Deuteronomium" or "De god der Heerscheren" was only printed in this edition Die Mutationen und die Mutationsperioden bei der Entstehung der Arten.

The first of these was William Bateson, who suggested as early as that the O. This idea was vigorously advocated by B. Davis, who questioned de Vries's arguments for the provenance and the purity of the lamarckiana". Small library stamp on halftitle. We also have his Opera et periodica collata in 7 vols.

A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid; Molecular structure of deoxypentose, nucleic acids; Molecular configuration in sodium thymonucleate; Genetical implications of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid; Evidence for 2-chain helix in crystalline structure of sodium deoxyribonucleate; Helical structure of crystalline deoxypentose nucleic acid. In full blue cloth volumes. Crick and Watson got the famous Nobelprice for medecine together in for the genetic function of the DNA.

This discovery was the key factor that enabled Watson and Crick to formulate a molecular model for DNA - a double helix - which can be likened to a double staircase of intertwined sugar-phosphate chains, with the flat base pairs forming the steps between them. Watson and Crick's model also showed how the DNA molecules could duplicate themselves. One spine with N. Please ask also for our complete set of Nature with volumes and see the periodical section.

A nice collection of 8 small monographs by this eminent German zoologist and evolutionist: Translated by Sir Robert Schomburgk and J. Taylor in 2 vols. Rare, first and only translation of the important German text of his privately printed: Some light marginal foxing. This business of Exploring. Antarctica - We have a large collection of the great antarctic explorers such as: Huxley and Markham in 2 vols. Antarctic tra av bland Sydpolens Isar in 2 vols. Le monde polaire ; Mawson, D. Zoologie in 20 vols. Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish river and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean in the years and appendix.

London, John Murray, The appendix encloses zoological remarks by John Richardson with 3 plates of fishes and geological notes by W. It is an early voyage to the northern part of Canada with interesting observations on the Eskimos. Due to the quality of the paper some pages and plates are a bit browned. Geographical notes of the Khedive's Expedition to Central Africa. Notes of a journey of Yemen. Railroad and steam communication in southern Peru. Second journey into Equatorial western Africa. On the effects of the destruction of Forest in the Western Ghants of India on the water-supply.

Baker's book on the Albert Nyanza Lake was published in the same year but this seems to be his first report. Half red morocco rebacked. Contains much valuable information. Especially interesting because the author was very much against slavery and he strongly advises to abolish it. A few marginal wormholes. Korea and Her Neighbours. A narrative of Travel with an account of the recent vicissitudes and present position of the country in 2 vols. Text with one folded tinted map, 23 photographs.

Inscribed by former owner on the first blanc. China under the Empress Dowager, being the history of the life and times of Tzu-Hsi, compiled from Statepapers and the private diary of the comptroller of her household. Text with one woodengraved frontisp. Especially important because of its zoological birds! The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum. Young was the first to grasp the idea and Champollion le Jeune deciphered the Rosetta Stone for the first time. But as far as we know it first was depicted in the famous Description de l'Egypte of which we had several times the second edition We have more Budge titles!

Narrative of a journey through the interior of Japan from Nagasaki to Yeddo in On the trade of the eastern Archipelago with New Guinea and its Islands. Notes on the Yang-tse-Kiang. The Burke Exploring Expedition was first published in in Melbourne and is extremely rare containing only 36p. This enlarged version contains p. Report of the various Expeditions fitted out to relieve or ascertain the fate of Messrs. Burke and Wills, comprising a report of W.

Norman, a diary of J. Itineraries of a second East African Expedition. An account of an exploration of the Elephant Mountain in western Equatorial Africa. A visit to the Island of Tsusima. Journey to Medina with Route from Yambu 18p. Extract of a letter from Dr. Beke, dated Timbuctu, Sept. Explorations into the Interior of South Africa 16p.

Important early travel reports into Saudi Arabia to Mecca. Small library stamp on verso of title. The map includes an interesting profile from the East-African coast to Tanganyika Lake. This same large monograph was published as a book by Longman and Green in with slightly more text, but illustrated with 10 plates and one map. Top and bottom of spine skillfully repaired and only the spine is slightly faded. Notes of a reconnaissance of the Anti-Libanus. Summary of observations on the geography, climate and Natural History of the Lake region of Equatorial Africa made by Speke and Grant Expedition Itineraries of the second Khedival Expedition: A visit to Lissa and Pelagosa.

It contains a list of all fellows of this famous British Society! His book The land of the Midian was published in Text, 2 lithographed frontisp. A miscellany of information about unknown regions of Syria compiled during several months wanderings in the desert. Burton and his wife were station at Damascus; Charles Tyrwhitt-Drake and Edward Henry Palmer, who were working under the auspices of the Palestinian Exploration Fund, did a bit of exploring on their own and happened to meet up with Burton in Damascus.

Edward Rice, in his biography of Burton, strongly suspects that the meeting was not just happenstance, and that the pair, if not the three, were following some secret anti-Turkish mission. A very special copy because of the yellow cloth, extremely rare! Cauterets et ses Environs. A nice collection of 12 mounted photographs of views of the Pyrenean Mountains all with a border and printed name at the bottom around ? Londres, Moyse Pitt, Very fine full new calf binding in old style extremely well done. See Ottoman World in the Sefik Alabey collection lacking there the portrait. The plates are numbered: This edition is a publication of the first volume of Chardin's manuscript only and deals with the period Chardin was of French origin, the son of a jeweller.

He went to the Levant to purchase gem stones in , and after a succesful journey set out again in , spending seven years on his travels, much of the time in company with Guillaume Grelot q. After his return from his travels he settled in London. The plates in Chardin's work are said to be after Grelot; they include illustrations of Tiflis, Erivan, Kashan, Kom and a large folding map of the Black Sea.

A valuable work, highly praised by Montesquieu, Rousseau etc. Several repairs in the faults or edges of some folding plates. Petersbourg and of Irkutsk as a titlevignette, one folded engraved map of Tchukchi. Cochrane set out from Dieppe, on foot for reasons of economy, intending to make his way round the world, crossing from Asia to North America by the Behring Straits. Petersburg and obtained help for his travels from the Russian government. This is from the Constable's Miscellany of original and selected Publications being vol.

Some light foxing on the title. Exploration in Syria in and and published by the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. With gilt coat on the cover of the Library of Parliament. Bibliography of Antarctic Exploration. Expedition accounts from to New cloth but orig. Eine Uebersetzung nebst Anmerkungen von J.

Berlin, Haude, Spener, Handwritten date on each page in an upper corner by an old hand. Louis et au camp de Daccard.

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A vague library stamp on tp. London, Paris, Maradan, First French edition of this first woman who described and descended into the grotto of Antiparos. Several of the plates a bit waterstained but mostly inoffensive. Small repair to the map. Naukeurige Beschrijving van Asie: Na 't leven getekent en in koper gesneden. Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, First edition with all the fine folding engravings of Babel, Bassora, Smirna etc.

Some small repairs to the edges of the folding plates and some thumbing in the margins. Old handwritten text in the margin of the frontisp. All plates with a strong impression. This is one of the finest Dapper's ever published. Very few marginal repairs in the lower part of the text and some very few inoffensive brown spots. The Zoology of the Voyage of H. Beagle during the years Fossil Mammalia by R. Wellington, Nova Pacifica, Text with plates amongst which 50 fine coloured plates on birds after John Gould.

One of all major pieces of "Darwiniana" including also the palaeontology part by Richard Owen and the important introduction by Charles Darwin and the "Mylodon Darwinii" in a fine fresh copy. Jomard , Geoffroy St. Hilaire, Delile, Savigny etc. From the French by C. Solothurn, Jent and Gassmann, The text is foxed throughout due to the quality of the paper and library stamp on verso of frontisp. Paris, Sandoz et Fischbacher, Lechner, Eroberung der Alpen informs: Small erased library stamp on titlep.

Includes several nice portraits like Horace de Saussure. He also published another edition on the Mont-Blanc in being: Histoire de Mont-Blanc, but without engravings. Many more editions have been published. We have the 3rd ed. Atlas to accompany the monograph of the Tertiary history of the Grand Canyon A narrative of a Nine months' residence in New Zealand in , together with a journal of a residence in Tristan d'Acunha, an island situated between South America and the Cape of Good Hope. London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Lacks most probably the unimportant advertisement pages.

Former owner signed on titlepage. Descriptive, historical and picturesque. Translated from the original German by C. Bell and with an introduction by S. Birch in 2 vols. London, Cassel and Comp. Text with 31 woodengravings and about woodengravings in the text. The original German edition was published in Some with imprint of: Lekegian, Fiorillo, Heiser, G. Sarolides and an indication what's taken such as: Some Albumens have been mounted on paper. Some have a pencil note on verso indicating the spot depicted and some with numbers.

In new cloth box. Some few Albumen photo's have faded a bit. Some light foxing on the maps and title. Elliot's expedition to the Ruwenzori mountains, under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society, produced a thorough investigation of the terrain and bot. Roberts in 2 vols. One engraved titlepage, one woodblock engraving printed in oil colours by G. Baxter as a frontisp. Leide, Elie Luzac, With engraved folding map, engraved title vignette and 9 engraved plates of which 4 on animals amongst which the "Le Porc-Epy" or "ijzer-varken" and "Une Baleine".

French translation of the original English work that appeared in , the first venture to prove the non-existence of a northwest passage from Hudson's Bay. Rapports Scientifiques in 12 issues. Fragments du recit de voyage Tuniciers, Embryogenese by Beneden a. Faujas de Saint-Fond, B. Il Principe Luigi Amedeo di Savoia. Text with coloured frontisp. Iceland, its volcanoes, geysers and glaciers. Nice red morocco binding, marbled flyleaves and edges. Reisen in den Savoyer Alpen Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, Carl Forstmann was one of the rare German teaplanters in Darjeeling and a great expert of the Himalayan mountains.

Travels and life in Ashanti and Jaman. The author was assistant colonial surgeon and Anglo-German boundary commissioner and this was his first book. Two ex-libri pasted in on front. Published by Leo Frobenius. Parts all publ. Loosely inserted in a cardboard cover from the publisher. Mostly on the history and development of the arrows, bows, tribes, textiles, costumes and material culture of Africa published during 10 years and never finished.

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Voyage de la Belgica. Quinze mois dans l'Antarctique. Some vague library stamps. Au pays des Manchots. An account of the search for the Jeannette and a sledge journey through Siberia. New York, Scribner, The search for the Jeannette was organized by James Gordon Bennett, who had provided the vessel for G. De Long's ill-fated expedition to the North Pole. Gilder accompanied it as correspondent for the New York Herald. He returned to America across Siberia and published this account of his journey and the discovery of the fate of De Long's expedition and the exploration of the Lena river delta with its many rather unknown islands in the Borchia Bay and New Siberian Islands.

The work is illustrated by many of his own drawings. Tiny brown spot on the bottom of some pages and the map is repaired. Translated from the German by M. Small library stamps on titles. Repair to halftitle, new flyleaves. Inscribed by former owner. Geographie Physique et Astronomique. Atlas with 50 plates or maps many coloured. In red cloth box. Some plates with small chips missing in the border again not effecting image.

Although not a great copy, quite scarce! We have more of this huge set, see Milne-Edwards in this catalogue, no. Gibel Chelyuskina the sinking of the Chelyuskina. The ship "Chelyuskina" was destroyed by ice. Justus Perthes Spezialkarte von Afrika in Masstab von 1: Lieferung I-V with supplement in the 3rd edition. Gotha, Justus Perthes, Folio with 12 coloured maps with explanation sheet incl. Includes also the brochure of the "Deutsche Kolonial-Atlas by P. If interested in a set of the Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, please see no.

Some foxing throughout but mostly in the text. Four important extracts on the volcanic outburst of the Vesuvius Louisiana Products, Resources and Atractions, with a sketch of the Parishes. A handbook of reliable informations concerning the State. New Orleans, Times-Democrat Print, Voyages dans le levant dans les annees , contenant des observations sur l'Histoire Naturelles, la Medicine, l'Agriculture This was the first French translation of the German ed.

His work is the first systematic natural history of the Holy Land. Their Language and Folklore. Their Language and Folk-lore. There is also a French and a German edition. One of the earliest descriptions of the Libyan desert going from Cairo to Fezzan and now rare. The 2 maps give a lot of new indications such as lakes, mountains, desert, town, etc.

This copy is not fair, as most edges of the text are waterstained and the 2 maps are even discoloured, but all the weak folds have been reinforced, overall a very medium copy. There is a old handwritten note on page 70 in the margin, explaining or adding some of the text. The Naturalist in La Plata. London, Chapman and Hall, Ex libris on first endpaper and one blind stamp on the title. A very popular account on the Natural History in this part of Argentina. Amiet-Lutiger and Leipzig, Fleischer, From the library of G. Several pencilnotes on p. Some foxing as usual.

He describes mostly Alpes from the Berner Oberland and was one of the first, apart from Saussure, to study glaciers. Reise in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des Neuen Continents. Translated into German by H. Some foxing in the later parts and 2 library stamps on verso of the titlepage of the bound volumes. The Lake Plateau Basin of the Nile. The ornament of the people of Siberia in its historical contents.

The people of the north and the extreme Far East. Topographische und naturwissenschaftliche Reisen Essai sur l'Histoire Antique d'Abyssinie. Le Royaume d'Aksum et ses voisins d'Arabie et de Meroe. The most important work on Arabic cartography in existence. Text with plates and maps 36 in colour , 1 portr. In the 1 st. It is divided in Vol. Complete runs, as it was published over 23 years, are rare now. Very well illustrated, especially the colourplates are fine and including the 2 important large coloured maps.

A good copy with broad margins. We have another cheaper set, please ask. New cloth with mounted title. Rather rare ethnographical contribution to Persia or Iran. A waterstain at the bottom in the beginning and mostly marginal foxing due to the quality of the paper. Sketch of the surveying voyages of his majesty's ship Adventure and Beagle This article is communicated by Sir John Barrow , secretary of the Admiralty and founder of the Royal Geogr. Darwin's name is mentioned on a number of occasions such as on p.

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Charles Darwin is called "a Zealous volunteer, examining the shores". He will make known the results of his 5 years voluntary seclusion and disinterested exertions in the cause of science and geology has been his principal pursuit. It contains numerous pencilnotes by a former owner especially in this important "Beagle" article by Captain King.

There are other contributions by Ch. Parish , River Negro of Patagonia; R. Arlett , Survey of some of the Canary Islands etc. Smith , Expedition for exploring Central Africa etc. In total we have 6 engr. King item has no plates. London, Sampson, Low, Text with one nice chromolithograph of the "Arrival of the Hansa", 2 large tinted maps of East Greenland and Iceland one large folded , 3 chromolithographs, 2 portraits, numerous woodengraved plates, one being the "Hansa in distress".

The famous account of the first Russian Circumnavigation by Capt. Krusenstern which mainly is important for the Far-East and Pacific and especially for Japan , of which this is the second German edition, the original was published in St. Helena and a curious plate depicting a cementary on the Isle of Nukahiwa.

The map shows the northwester part of the Pacific size 42x32cm. Text with engraved frontisp. Frontispiece has been cleaned and vague library stamp on verso of title and some foxing in the margins. Histoire de la Colombie. Paris et Bruxelles, A. Bolivar and 6 costumes. Interesting early study on this South American country. Although in a later h. The Antiquities of Wisconsin as surveyed and described.

A description of the Province of Khuzistan Persia. A rather early Austin Layard travel account in Persia. Journal of an overland Expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of miles during the years XX, an inserted slip of the publisher, p. Rare first edition of these classics on the opening up of Australia , uncommon in its original cloth binding.

Baker's History of geographical Discovery: Includes for the first time observations on geology, botany and zoology and a lot about the unknown Natives Small repair on one page and plates have been cleaned. The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia and the Peninsula of Sinai, with extracts from the chronology of the Egyptians with reference to the Exodus of the Israelites, revised.

Ex libris pasted in and some damage to the marbled flyleave, otherwise a good copy. Travels in Portugal and through France and Spain, with a dissertation on the literature of Portugal and the Spanish and Portuguese languages. Translated from the German by J. London, Longman and Rees, Extract of a letter from W. Oswell, regarding the interior lake of South Africa. A fourth excursion to the Passes into Tibet.

Some account of the volcanic group of Santarin or Thera once called Calliste or "the most beautiful". Notes taken during a journey through Part of northern Arabia in Considerations on the great Isthmus of Central America. David Livingstone's Missionary travel to South Africa was only published in Extracts from the despatches of Dr. The Province of Caravaya in southern Peru. Lacking however one map not from any described above and one extra letter proof from the ship Erebus and Venor.

Livingstone's discovery of Lake Nyassa was only published in , thus this is an earlier contribution. Explorations to the West of the Lake Nyassa in On the Antiquity of the physical geography of Inner Africa. Notes on the physical geography of Vancouver Island. Livingstone's book on the discovery of the Lake Shirwa and Nyassa was only published in , thus this seems to be his first contribution.

An archaeological study of Central Panama in 2 parts. The first part is in the second edition and the second part in the first. A basic contribution to the archaeology of Panama, its artifacts and ornaments. Symbolism of the Huichol Indians. It depicts also 2 fine coloured plates of feathers on ceromonial arrows. Baessler und bearbeitet von F. The Physiography of the River Nile and its Basin.

Puteshestvie na Amur, sovershennoe po rasporyashcheniya Sibirskago Otdhila Imperatorskayo Ruskago geograficheskago obshchestva Journey down the Amur, undertaken by order of the Siberian section of the Imp. Scientific expedition to the river Amur in the eastern part of Siberia and being since long the much disputed border between China and Russia. Gibson, Imperial Russia in frontier America p. Russia's seizure of the valley of the Amur river in the mid 's during the downfall of Manchu China fulfilled an old Russian dream that envisaged the river as a busy commercial artery between the Siberian interior and the Pacific and the valley as a fertile granary and a prolific sable reserve Petersburg and collected in Siberia.

See Stafleu and Cowan vol. But we suppose that the botanical plates are all by himself and it seems that these are the very first botanical plates published on this Siberian area and it includes the very first botanical map of the Amur river region dated Some of these plates have partly been cleaned, otherwise a good Atlas with very few brown spots. The Site of the lost Colony of Greenland determined and pre-Columbian discoveries of America confirmed from the 14th century documents.

Michell , Notes on M. Fedchenko's map of Maghian.

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A memoir of Central India, including Malwa and adjoining provinces with the history and copious illustrations of the past and present conditions of that country in 2 vols. London, Kingsbury, Parbury and Allen, The other map has been added in reprint. Examination of the southern half of Lake Tanganyika by V.

Travels in Great Tibet and trade between Tibet and Bengal. Discoveries in eastern New Guinee by Capt. Moresby and the officers. Ex libris of Sir T. Burton pasted in on front. Notes on the Journey through Shantung. Exploring Expedition in search of the remains of the late Dr. Leichhardt and partly undertaken by order of the government of western Australia. Topographical sketch of the Zarafshan Valley near Bokhara. Library stamp on verso of title.

On the geographical positions of the Tribes which formed the Empire of the Yncas with an appendix on the name "Aymara". Account of an Excursion into the interior of Southern Arabia. The Landfall of Columbus. Account of the Mr. Baines Exploration of the Gold-bearing region between the Limpopo and Zambesi rivers. Devided in 12 chapters a. Journal of the Royal Geograpical Society vol. An important contribution to the knowledge of geography of the world esp. The titlepage is inscribed by a former owner and with a library stamp on verso.

Reise in das innere Nordamerika. The geographical, natural and civil history of Chili. With notes from the Spanish and French versions and an appendix containing copious extracts from the Araucana of Don Alfonzo de Ercilla. Middletown and New York, Riley, Rare only English edition of this early and important book on the physical geography and natural history of Chile including its Volcanology, Mineralogy and also the Araucana first epic poem of Spain. Includes also a methodical table of the various species of natural products described in this work on animals, minerals and plants, on the Islands of Juan Fernandez and an essay on the Chilian language.

Mes chasses, mes voyages. Industrie des Cafres du Sud-Est de l'Afrique. Two last plates are in a good photostat, some text has been repaired in the margins. Natural History, ethnographical sketch of the Natives of Point Barrow including vocabulary and list of ethnological specimens collected, meteorology, magnetism, tides, earth currens, narratives etc. Washington, House of representatives, Journey to Lake Chad and the neighbouring regions.

Stanley's Exploration of the Victoria Nyanza. An early contribution by Gustav Nachtigal on Africa and most probably his only English contribution. Text with 12 fine woodcuts of Stonehenges and other prehistorical scenes, numerous figs. Nansen and Johansen, with Appendix by O. Sverdrup in 2 vols. Text with one engraved portrait of the author and another one of a sailing kayak, 4 folded tinted maps and over plates of which 13 in colour. A good copy in its original binding. The record of one of the greatest feats of endurance in Arctic history.

Nansen's theory was that if he built a ship which would rise to ice pressure and deliberately allowed it to be frozen in near the New Siberia Islands, the ship would drift to within a short distance of the Pole itself. The "Fram", commanded by Otto Sverdrup, was specially built for the venture and set sail with a crew of thirteen.

Nansen's expedition proved for the first time, however, that the North Pole was on perpetually frozen ice and not in open see, as had been believed by Kane and others, and provided the foundation for all future Arctic exploration. Apart from some very light wear to the cloth a fine copy. Der Mond, betrachtet als Planet, Welt und Trabant. Translated with additions by H. The English edition was published in the same year. The photographs are very sharp and rather early as James Nasmyth made these "pain stickingly" through his telescope. One of the great splendors in 19th century photography.

Rare first French edition of Niebuhr's narrative of his important Danish expedition to Arabia and Yemen during the years to He was the only one who survived the expedition and returned overland through Persia, Palestine and through Constantinople. Furthermore it depicts the great Mosque in Medina and a famous plate on horseriding of the Arabs in Yemen.

Some waterstaining in the beginning and the end of the text in right lower corner. Some of the plates have been cleaned and a repair on the title due to erased stamps. Apart from all this the interior is nice and fresh. Reize naar Arabie en andere omliggende landen and Beschrijving van Arabie, uit eigene waarnemingen en in 't land zelf verzamelde narigten uit het hoogduits vertaald en vermeerderd and J.

Amsterdam, Baalde and Utrecht, Van Schoonhoven, In total engravings and 2 fold. Vragen aan een Gezelschap van geleerden mannen die op bevel zyner Majesteit des Konings van Deenemarken naar Arabie reizen Includes fine engraved maps of Yemen, the Persian Gulf incl.

Kuwait, Bahrain and the City of Basrah in Iraq. Carsten Niebuhr travelled extensively in the Near East and it was the first scientific expedition to these countries esp. The map of the Persian Gulf is the earliest map to mention Kuwait and Bahrein and much more illustrated than the first French edition see above. He was the sole survivor of this expedition. A fine copy with all plates in a fresh print. Historia Naturae, maxime peregrinae, libris XVI distincta.

In quibus rarissima Naturae arcana, etiam astronomica et ignota Indiarum animalia First and only edition of this rare work on the Natural History of the East- and West-Indies and especially on Mexico. In total 54 figs depict animals of which 17 are on exoticbirds and 15 on plants. The paper is a bit browned as usual. The margin of the title page and first few pages are repaired. Some small wormholes in the margins in the beginning and end.

Ex libris of a Polish library pasted in on front. Compiled for the commission appointed by the president of the U. An enormous and important compilation of maps of the Orinoco delta region including many maps of the Amazone area in Brasil and other South American regions. Also with "recent" maps: New full calf in old style. The Swedish traveller and botanist Pehr Osbeck describes in this book many native plants he found in China and South East Asia.

At the end there is account of a trip to China by Olof Toren originally in the form of letters to Linnaeus. One plate depicts also a fish. Early contribution to the natural history and esp. As usual some browning in the text. Ex libris from the Lundsbergs Skola and a small repair on the first blanc. Reise nach Ostindien und China, nebst O. Toreens, Reise nach Suratte und C. Ekebergs Nachricht von der Landwirtschaft der Chineser. Early contribution to the natural history of China and South Asia. Some browning as usual and a note in an old hand on the titlepage.

For more information see footnote of previous item. Traduits de l'Allemand par C. Gauthier de la Peyronie. In total plates on leaves. Important because of the southern Russian and Siberian and Ural early exploration on plants and mammals birds by Lamarck , all before Humboldt. Only the French edition has Lamarck's Notes et Observations. Pallas' expedition, which took him six years to complete, proved to be one of the richest of the whole century regarding the scientific results, being of considerable importance for the ethnology, geography, linguistics, botany, zoology and geology of Asia, especially of Siberia.

More then half of the plates show plants ; among the map is the fine large one of the Russian Empire, measuring 57xcm. The large folding map has been restored, otherwise fine strong impression of the plates. Voyages du Professeur Pallas dans plusieurs provinces de l'Empire de Russie et dans l'Asie septentrionale.

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Traduit de l'Allemand par C. Gauthier de la Peyronie et revue et enrichie de notes par C. Atlas with engravings incl. Atlas in the 2nd. French edition lacking the first plate; the large folding map of Siberia and the text of the first French edition Several plates with some foxing in the margins esp. For more information see footnote of item no. Narrative of a residence in Algiers comprising a geographical and historical account of the regency, biographical sketches of the dey and his ministers and observations on the relations of the Barbary states with the Christian powers.

With notes and illustrations by E. Reis ter ontdekking van eene noordwestelijke doorvaart uit de Atlantische in de Stille Zee, gedaan in de jaaren en door de schepen The Hecla en The Griper. Amsterdam, Van der Hey, A classic arctic narrative describing the first of the scientific efforts to penetrate the Northwest passage. The North Pole with an introduction by T. London, Hodder and Stoughton, Fine copy but not one of the limited edition, but a presentation copy.

Text with 60 nice tinted lithographs of daily life in Paris incl. Relation de voyage in 5 parts. The others are nice views of the island and the coast incl. Some foxing as usual in the margins, sometimes going into the image. The complete expedition by Pollen comprises 4 vols. See also Grandidier, no. Textaufnahmen und Beobachtungen unter Mexikanischen Indianern. Highly specialised monograph on the Cora-Indians from the Sierra del Nayarit in Mexico divided in several sections being: Reise des Russischen Generalstabs-Obersten N.

Hommes fossiles et hommes sauvages. Razoumowski, a Russian, spent most of his life in Switzerland and Italy and he wrote many noteworthy works on geological and mineralogical subjects see Zittel, P. The first 10 leaves have a small pinhole with slight loss of text repaired and still readable. This is a rather unknown contribution to the anthropology and botany of New Guinea.

Stockholm, Aftonbladets Druckerei, Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara in the years of en in 2 vols. Text, 2 engraved frontisp. First and only edition.

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He landed in Algiers, then traveled to Tripoli, from where he set out into the Sahara. Heading southward, he made a stopover at Ghadames, and in late October he arrived at the oasis town and former caravan center of Ghat, in present-day southwerstern Libya, miles south of the Mediterranean coast. During the next several weeks, Richardson recorded his observations of the native people at Ghat and established contacts with Arab sheiks who controlled the desert lands between there and Lake Chad".

Ex library copy and all plates cleaned, however a bit of foxing remains in the text. Text with plates, 4 maps, figs. Reistogten in de afdeeling Gorontalo, gedaan op last der Nederlandsch Indische Regering and: Bound together in one cont. Rosenberg was appointed assistant to Franz Junghuhn. Text with one engraved portrait of the author, one engraved frontisp.

Rare with the Appendix on Natural History and vocabularies of the several natives and the discovery of the magnetic Pole. This journey is remarkable for the lenght of time spent during the baron winters 4 years! It was however not a succes in regard to the passage to be found from the Atlantic to the Pacific which is only now found and "used" as the icecap retreates in all of the Arctic regions! The plates, mostly after drawings of Captain Ross are very nice especially in vol. Several plates have marginal foxing.

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