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BAEDEKER, Karl. Northern Italy including Leghorn, Florence, Ravenna and routes through France, Switzerland, and Austria. Handbook for travellers. 14th remodelled edition. Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1913.Sm.8vo. Cloth. With 82 partly folding maps and plans. LXVIII,698 pp. [Boeknr.: 13076 ]

€ 25,00

BARTHELEMY, Jean Jacques. Reis door Italië. Uit het Fransch vertaald door P.G. Witsen Geysbeek. Amsterdam, G. Roos, 1803.Contemporary half calf. With engraved title by D.A. v.d. Wart and engraved plate. VIII,402,(8) pp. Dutch translation of Voyage en Italie de M. l'abbé Barthélemy. Paris 1801. - In 1755, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (1716 - 1795) accompanied the French ambassador, de Stainville to Italy, where he spent three years in archaeological research. - (Stained).Not in Tiele. [Boeknr.: 1105 ]

€ 125,00

BAYLE ST. JOHN. The Subalpine Kingdom; or experiences and studies in Savoy, Piedmont, and Genoa. London, Chapman and Hall, 1856.2 volumes in 1. Sm.8vo. Original red embossed cloth gilt, spine richly gilt (extremities of spine dam.), a.e.g. XIV,322;318 pp. First edition. - Detailed account of Piedmont, Genoa and Sardinia in the mid nineteenth century at the height of great political changes to the region. [Boeknr.: 36608 ]

€ 125,00

BEATIS, Antonio de. The travel journal of Antonio de Beatis. Germany, Switzerland, the Low Countries, France and Italy, 1517-1518. Translated from the Italian by J.R. Hale and J.M.A. Lindon. Edited by J.R. Hale. London, 1979. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With map and 2 illustrations. XII,206 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 150. - Travel-account of the leisurely tour by Luigi of Aragon, one of the most wealthy, cultivated and well-connected of Italian cardinals. [Boeknr.: 17226 ]

€ 30,00

BEAUFORT, Louis de. Dissertation sur l'incertitude des cinq premiers siecles de l'histoire romaine. Utrecht, Etienne Neaulme, 1738.Sm.8vo. Old marbled wrappers (spine damaged), uncut. With title-page printed in red and black, with engraved printer's device on title and engraved frontispiece by P. Yver. (12),348; (3) pp. First edition. - The French historian author Louis de Beaufort (1703 - 1795) explains what methods and documents might be used to give a truly scientific base to history. This was an ingenious plea, bold for its time, against traditional history. [Boeknr.: 33120 ]

€ 175,00

BENNET, J. Henry. Winter and spring of the shores of the Mediterranean: or, the Riviera, Mentone, Italy, Corsica, Sicily, Algeria, Spain, and Biarritz, as winter climates. 4th edition. London, John Churchill & Sons, 1870.Original green cloth, lettered in gilt. With chromolithographed frontispiece, folding table, 6 folding coloured maps, 11 engraved plates and 20 illustrations. XVI,621 pp. First published in 1861, its success led to subsequent editions. A handsome companion guide. [Boeknr.: 37321 ]

€ 275,00

GAUME, J. Les trois Rome. Journal d'un voyage en Italie. Paris, Gaume Frères, 1847-48.4 volumes. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt. With 2 large folding plans (Plan de Rome ancienne et moderne & Plan de Rome souteraine ou des catacombe). XII,563; 708; 659; 600,CIV pp. - First edition. [Boeknr.: 29336 ]

€ 175,00

GERBET, Ph(ilippe Olympe). Esquisse de Rome chrétienne. 4me édition. Paris, 1863.2 volumes. Sm.8vo. Contemporary half vellum, spines gilt. XII,506; 544 pp. First published in Paris in 1844. [Boeknr.: 8805 ]

€ 75,00

HORNE, John Fletcher. The mirage of two buried cities (Pompeii and Herculaneum). London, Hazell, Watson, and Viney, 1900. Original cloth gilt, top edge gilt. With plates. XII,354 pp. With autograph dedication by the author. - Dealing with Vesuvius and its eruptions, rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum, the domestic architecture of Pompeii, professional life of the Pompeians, handicrafts, social life, literature, art, amusements, religion and superstition of the Pompeians, marriage, divorce, death and burial etc. [Boeknr.: 10855 ]

€ 45,00

JANSEN, Wilhelm Xaverius. Reize door Italien, in den jaare 1785 .. beschreeven in een reeks van brieven aan Eduard Sandifort. Leyden, A. & J. Honkoop, 1793.2 volumes. Original blue boards (rebacked), uncut. XVI,314; XVI,391 pp. First edition. - Rare account in letters of a journey through Italy in 1785 visiting all the important cities. Written by a medicinae doctor in Düsseldorf to a Dutch collegua in Leiden.Tiele 532. [Boeknr.: 36239 ]

€ 495,00

KAMPEN, Nicolaas Godfried van & Klaas SIJBRANDI. De valleijen der Waldenzen, geschied- en aardrijkskundig geschilderd. Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, (1840).4to. Original half red cloth. With steelengraved title-page after W.H. Bartlett by R. Wallis, folding map and 70 steelengraved plates after W.H. Bartlett, J.D. Harding by G. Richardson, J.T. Willmore, J.C. Bentley. H. Adlard, R. Wallis, S. Fisher, a.o.VI,206,(2) pp. The valleys of Piedmont: Turin, Pignerol, Luzerne, St. Jean, La Tour, Castelluzzo, Angrogna, Rora, St Martin, Clusone, Perosa, Pragelas, Dauphiné and Ban de la Roche. - (Light age-browned). [Boeknr.: 34090 ]

€ 275,00

KELLER, Gerard. Bergen en dalen. Rotterdam, Jacs.G. Robbers, (1878).Folio. Original pictorial blue cloth gilt. With 8 steelengravings (some foxing) and numerous woodengravings. (8),215 pp. Europa in al zijn heerlijkheid geschetst. - Fine illustrated book on cities in the mountains of Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Norway and Switzerland. - A nice copy. [Boeknr.: 32908 ]

€ 75,00

KELLER, Gerard. Wouden, kusten en rotsen. Rotterdam, Jacs.G. Robbers, (ca. 1880).Folio. Original pictorial blue cloth gilt. With 8 steelengravings (some foxing) and numerous woodengravings. (8),216 pp. Europa in al zijn heerlijkheid geschetst. - Fine illustrated book on North-Italy, France, Norway, Spain, Italy, Germany, Sweden and Gibraltar. - A nice copy. [Boeknr.: 32910 ]

€ 75,00

LUDWIG SALVATOR. Ustica. Prag, Heinrich Mercy, 1898.Large folio. Original half cloth. With 2 coloured maps (1 large folding, mounted on linen) and 58 plates. XII,131 pp. First edition. - It was of great importance to Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria (1847 - 1915) of the House of Habsburg, to stimulate public interest for landscapes, which he thought were unjustifiably little known rarely traveled. His attention focused less on classical cultural centers, but on small, undiscovered regions. Ustica, is a small Italian island in the Tyrrhenian Sea: the black pearl of the Mediterranean. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 36698 ]

€ 575,00

MANNING, Samuel. Italian pictures, drawn with pen en pencil. A new edition, revised and partly rewritten by S.G. Green. London, The Religious Tract Society, (ca. 1880).8vo. Original pictorial gilt cloth, a.e.g. With numerous woodengravings (frontispiece missing). 224 pp. [Boeknr.: 37165 ]

€ 55,00

SANDYS, (George). Voyagien, behelsende een historie van de oorspronckelijcke ende tegenwoordige standt des Turcksen rijcks: hare wetten/ regeeringe/ politie/ krijghs-macht/ hooven van justitie/ ende koophandel. Als mede, van Egypten .. Neffens een beschrijvinge van het H. Landt .. Eyndelyck, Italien beschreven met hare nabuerighe eylanden; als Cyprus/ Creta/ Malta/ Sicilia/ de Aolische eylanden; van Roomen/ Venetien/ Napels/ Syracusa/ Mesena/ Aetna/ Scylla/ ende Charybdis/ etc. Uyt 't Engels vertaelt door J. G(lazemaker). Amsterdam, Jacob Beniamin,1653.4to. Later marbled boards. With engraved title, 3 engraved plates and 26 full or half-page engravings in the text. 292 pp. First Dutch edition, first published in London in 1615: A relation of a journey begun an.Dom. 1610. Foure bookes, containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Egypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and islands adjoyning - George Sandys (1578-1644) was the son of the Archbishop of York and a literary figure of some standing. In 1609 he set sail for the East and he spent the next year travelling in Turkey, Egypt and Palestine and later studied antiquities in Rome. His observations first appeared in English in 1615 and his text was soon regarded as a special authority on the Levant. He has been called the first 'classical tourist' of England. Sandys also was interested in colonial promotion, and was one of the undertakers named in the third charter of the Virginia Company in 1611, and later treasurer and a member of the Council. He visited many islands in the Mediterranean Sea Sicily, Crete, Cyprus, Lesbos, Chios, Kythira, Malta, etc. This book also became popular in the Netherlands and was several times republished.- A fine clean copy of this standard account of the Eastern Mediterranean. Tiele 959; Cat. NHSM I, p.255; Blackmer Collection 1484 (English edition); Atabey Collection 1087 (English edition); Weber 245; Röhricht p.232; Ibrahim-Hilmy p.210; O'Neill, The Ömer Koç Collection, 37 (English ed.); Tobler p.91-92. [Boeknr.: 33658 ]

€ 1950,00

SICILY. - TRACTAAT VAN COMMERCIE, tusschen sijne majesteit den koning der beide Sicilien en de Heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden &c. 's Gravenhage, Jacobus Scheltus, 1753.4to. With large printer's device on title. 39 pp. Treaty between Sicily and the Netherlands. - Not in Knuttel. [Boeknr.: 13212 ]

€ 95,00

STOOMVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ NEDERLAND. Varen en genieten. Toeristenreizen naar Southampton - Algiers en Genua per Stoomvaart-Mij 'Nederland'. Een vacantiereis naar het zonnige zuiden !. Amsterdam, Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland, 1927. Oblong 8vo. Original decorated wrappers. With 66 photogravures. A guide with information and fine plates. - In good condition. [Boeknr.: 37435 ]

€ 95,00


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