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BOUGAINVILLE, Louis-Antoine de. Reis rondom de weereld, gedaan op bevel des konings van Frankrijk, in de jaren 1766 tot 1769, met het fregat La Boudeuse en het fluitschip L'Etoile. Uit het Fransch vertaeld en met eenige aenteekeningen verrijkt, door Pieter Leuter. Dordrecht, De Leeuw & Krap, 1793.4to. Old marbled boards, uncut. With engraved title-vignette, engraved plate and 21 folding engraved maps by A. van Krevelt. XII,370 pp. First Dutch edition published in 1772, first published in Paris in 1771 Voyage autour du monde. - First French circumnavigation of the world. Louis Antoine Bougainville (1729 - 1811) gives an account of the discovery, occupation and natural history of the Falkland Islands, which he handed over to Spain. He describes in detail the expulsion of the Jesuits of Paraguay. He visited Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Patagonia, Buenos Aires, the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tahiti, the Samoa Islands, the New Hebrides, the Solomon, Luisiada, and New Britain archipelago, and the Moluccas, Batavia and Mauritius were visited before he sailed for home by way of the Cape of Good Hope and Ascension Island and arrived once again in France in 1769. He created a great deal of interest among the French in the Pacific and his work echoed Jean Jacques Rousseau's concept of the 'noble savage'. - (Last p. foxed). Tiele 177; Cat. NHSM I, p.137 (French ed. only); Sabin 6872; Hill 163; Borba de Moraes I, p.115; Howgego B142; Mendelssohn I, p.161. [Boeknr.: 1751 ]

€ 650,00

BRYAN, C.D.B. The National Geographic Society. 100 years of adventure and discovery. New York, Harry N. Abrams, (1994). 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 406 photographic illustrations (290 in colours). 484 pp. Brings to life the flamboyant explorers and innovative photographers, starting in 1888. - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 9384 ]

€ 45,00

HOFFMEISTER, Eduard von. Durch Armenien. Eine Wanderung und der Zug Xenophons bis zum Schwarzen Meere. Eine militär-geographische Studie. Leipzig, Berlin, B.G. Teubner, 1911.8vo. Cloth (spine sl. faded). With 4 maps (2 folding), 5 plates and 96 photographic illustrations by the author. VIII,252 pp. [Boeknr.: 24721 ]

€ 95,00

MANGIN, Arthur. The desert world. From the French. Edited and enlarged. London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1869.Contemporary morocco, richly gilt, a.e.g.. With 160 fine wood-engravings by W. Freeman, Foulquier and Dargent. 624 pp. First English edition, first published in Tours in 1866 Le désert et le monde sauvage; with the bookplate of William B. Rice. - Desert-life in Africa, Australia, America, Asia and the polar regions. Dealing with the scenery, animal and vegetable life, and physical character of the wildernesses and waste places of the earth. - A very fine copy. [Boeknr.: 37161 ]

€ 150,00

SKOGMAN, C(arl Johan Alfred). Reise um die Welt mit der Schwedischen Kriegsfragatte Eugenie. In den Jahren 1851-1853 aufgeführt unter dem Befehl des Admiral C.A. Virgin. Berlin Otto Janke, 1857.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half red morocco, spine gilt. With 3 folding maps (including the chart showing the track of the Eugenie) , 4 woodengraved plates, 19 (of 20) chromolithographed plates,and several woodengravings in the text. VIII,304; VI,306 pp. Second German edition with the title altered; first Swedish edition Stockholm,1854-1855. - The official account of the first Swedish circumnavigation of the Eugenie under the command of Captain C.A. Virgin. Skogman (1820-1907) was the astronomer on the voyage and charged with writing its offical account. They set out for commercial and political reasons, and visited the East and West coast of South America, and the Pacific and Indian Ocean islands (Honolulu, Tahiti, San Francisco, Sydney, Manilla, Hongkong, Singapore, Batavia, etc.). N.J. Andersson, the ship's naturalist, was the first Darwinian botanist in Sweden. 'Skogman's account is prized for its fine color plates' (Hill p.562). - 'Copies of the re-issue are, as usual, more uncommon than copies of the original issues (Du Rietz, Kroepelien, 1198). - (Missing plate: Kanal in Honolulu; foxed). - With fine coloured costume plates. Hill 1579; Borba de Moraes II, p.815; SAB IV p.221; Engelmann p.1086; O'Reilly-Reitman 9943; Forbes III, 2231. [Boeknr.: 37885 ]

€ 350,00

WESSELING, H.L. Verdeel en heers. De deling van Afrika 1880-1914. Amsterdam, Bert Bakker, 1991. Boards. With illustrations. 521 pp. [Boeknr.: 25993 ]

€ 25,00

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