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[30], 243, [4], [1 blank] pp.Rare and richly illustrated work on the three-year journey (1692-1695) of a Russian envoy from Moscow to Beijing, in order to negotiate trade relations between Russia and China. The expedition was undertaken by a small group of people, led by the Danish merchant of Dutch descent and diplomat Evert Ysbrand Ides (1657-1708), in the service of Tsar Peter the Great (1672-1725). It greatly added to the geographical knowledge on Northern Manchuria and China. The present account provides one of the first Western descriptions of the Gobi Desert, the Dalai Lama & Buddhism, Lake Baikal, the Great Wall, Mongolia, the city of Beijing, Guangzhou, Siberia, and the customs of the Siberian people.The map Ides used for his journey had been created by Dutch cartographer, wroter, diplomat, and Amsterdam mayor Nicolaas Witsen (1641-1717) in 1687. Ides supplemented and improved it during his travels. After his return, Ides sent Witsen the new map and the transcription of his travel journal.…
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Driejaarige reize naar China, te lande gedaan door den Moskovicen afgezant, E. Ysbrandts Ides...Including: KAO, Dionyzius. Korte beschrijving van Â’t magtig keizerryk China Â…Amsterdam, Pieter de Coup, 1710. 4to. With an engraved title-page bound as a frontispiece before the typographical title-page, which is printed in red and black, a large folding map of Russia and parts of Asia, 8 folding engraved plates of cities and other views, 1 full-page engraving, and 21 half-page engravings in the text. Further with woodcut and engraved decorated initials, a large engraved head-piece at the start of the main text, 2 woodcut floral tail-pieces, and a small woodcut floral vignette on the typographical title-page. 19th-century gold-tooled light brown splattered paper with a red title-label on the spine.
by IDES, Evert Ysbrants.
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Zeichnungen. Adam Johann Ingruber der Heilkunde Doctor und praktischen Arzte zu Ofen.Ofen (Buda), 1804. Small folio (31.5 x 20 cm). With manuscript title-page followed by 18 leaves of coloured drawings of plants and trees. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers.
by INGRUBER, Adam Johann.
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[19] ll.Collection of high quality drawings of plants and trees by the physician Adam Johann Ingruber, who graduated from the faculty of Medicine of the University of Pest in 1803. The 18 leaves of drawings mostly show two species of plants or trees (each with captions in French, Latin and German at the foot), the last two show silkworms, bees, a rattlesnake and a scorpion. Most species are from Asia, South America, Africa and the southern part of Europe.Water stained, some occasional smudges, a few leaves cut short, tattered spine: in fair condition.
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Fábulas literarias.Madrid, Imprenta Real, 1782. 4to. With rococo decorated capitals. Mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine with red morocco label lettered in gold, double blind fillets on boards.
by IRIARTE (YRIARTE) y Oropesa, Tomas de.
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[4], 157, [16] pp.First edition of the best-known work of the famous Spanish neo-classical poet Tomás de Iriarte (or Yriarte) y Oropesa (1750-1791). His name is most intimately associated with the present Fábulas literarias (1782), composed in a great variety of metres, and known for its humorous and satirical attacks on literary men and methods, many aimed at Juan Pablo Forner (1756-1797). R. Merit Cow writes: “The appearance of the literary fables of Tomas de Iriatre definitely established him as the great literary arbiter of his day Â… With the publication of his collection of poetry, his dominance of the literary scene ... was now hailed from all sides. He was considered from this time forth one of the first, if not the first.” Schopenhauer characterizes the poems as the “allerliebsten litterarischen Fabeln” (Parega, p. 255).With the ownerÂ’s inscription “Catherine de Courlande” on the title-page: Katharina Friederike Wilhelmine Benigna (1781-1839), Princess of Courland (western Latvia)…
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[above the title: "Jesus."] Breve tratado da arte da artelharia, e geometria, & artificios de fogo ...Lisbon, Domingos Carneyro, 1676. Small 8vo. With woodcut arms of Portugal on the title-page. Contemporary limp vellum with manuscript title on spine, lacking ties.
by ISLA, Lázaro de la [and José HOMEM DE MENEZES, translator].
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96 pp.Extremely rare first Portuguese translation of a brief treatise on the "art of artillery" by the Genovese artillerist De la Isla, who served in the Spanish Armada. First published in Spanish in 1595/96 by Madrigal in Madrid (Breve tratado del arte de artillerÃa, geometrÃa y artificios de fuego). Although Vicente Alvarez published a Spanish-language edition at Lisbon in 1609, the present edition appears to be the first in the Portuguese language. The present translation, by José Homem de Menezes, provided a textbook for the training of engineers and artillerymen in Portugal. We have located only one other copies at the Portuguese National Library in Lisbon, and have found no record of an other copy in auction catalogues.With the bookplate of the Portuguese architect and collector José Maria Nepomuceno (1836-95) on the front paste-down; his stamp to verso of title-page. Later in the collection of Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe (1862-1956), commander of the Territorial Army and president…
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Reize naar Oost-Indië en Persië, en de daar omliggende landen. Ondernomen langs een' ongewoonen weg.Amsterdam, De Compagnie, 1779. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With 2 engraved title-pages, 2 folding engraved maps, one of India (44 x 51 cm), the other tracking Ives's journey from Basra to Latakia (ca. 42 x 56 cm), and 9 engraved plates (including 1 large folding). Early 20th-century boards.
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[16], 324; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 379, [1] pp.First Dutch edition (second issue) of Ives's account of his voyage from England to India and his journey from Persia to England. From 1753 to 1757 the naval surgeon and traveller Edward Ives (1719-1786) was surgeon of the Kent, the flagship of Vice-Admiral Charles Watson, commander-in-chief in the East Indies. The squadron sailed via the Cape of Good Hope and Madagascar to India, where they visited the chief English settlements and major cities, Ives attending the company hospitals and staff in each place. When Admiral Watson died in August 1757, Ives's own health was also somewhat impaired and he resigned his appointment, travelling home overland from Basra, through Baghdad, Mosul and Aleppo, via Cyprus to Livorno and Venice, and finally through Germany and the Netherlands, arriving in England in March 1759 (ODNB). The plates include depictions of an altar, a Hooka (a Persian tobacco water-pipe, in the large folding plate), the tower of Babel,…
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Reize naar Oost-Indië en Persië, en de daar omliggende landen. Ondernomen langs een' ongewoonen weg.Amsterdam, De Compagnie, 1779. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 2 engraved title-pages, 2 folding engraved maps, one of India, the other tracking Ives's journey from Basra to Latakia, and 9 engraved plates (including 1 large folding). Contemporary blind-tooled vellum.
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[16], 324; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 379, [1] pp.First Dutch edition (second issue) of Ives's account of his voyage from England to India and his journey from Persia to England, first published in English in 1773. From 1753 to 1757 Edward Ives (1719-1786) was surgeon of the Kent, the flagship of Vice-Admiral Charles Watson, commander-in-chief in the East Indies. The squadron sailed via the Cape of Good Hope and Madagascar to India, where they visited the chief English settlements and major cities. When Admiral Watson died in August 1757, Ives's own health was also somewhat impaired and he resigned his appointment, travelling home overland from Basra, through Baghdad, Mosul and Aleppo, via Cyprus to Livorno and Venice, and finally through Germany and the Netherlands, arriving in England in March 1759. The plates include depictions of an altar, a Hooka (a Persian tobacco water-pipe, in the large folding plate), the tower of Babel, views of the forts St. David and Geriah, and an amulet with Arabic…
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