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FORBES-LINDSAY, C.H. America's insular possessions. Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Co., 1906.2 volumes. Original decorated cloth gilt, with dust-jackets, top edges gilt. With folding profile of the Panama Canal, folding coloured map and 51 plates in photogravure. 560; 566 pp. Contents: The Great Antilles, Porto Rico, Guam, Hawaii, Panama and the Philippines. - A fine set. [Boeknr.: 36765 ]

€ 125,00

GODDIO, Franck & Evelyne JAY GUYOT DE SAINT MICHEL. Griffin on the route of an indiaman. London, Periplus, (1999). Folio. Boards, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations (several in colours). 351 pp. The authors present the final results and conclusions of fifteen years of research and preservation of the thousands of items found on the wreck of the East India Company ship Griffin which sank with a cargo of porcelain, silks and tea from China in the Sulu Sea off the coast of the Philippines in 1761. [Boeknr.: 31911 ]

€ 75,00

GODDIO, Franck, Monique CRICK, Peter LAM, Stacey PIERSON, Rosemary SCOTT. Lost at sea. The strange route of the Lena Shoal junk. London, Periplus, 2002. Folio. Boards. With numerous coloured illustrations. XII,288 pp. The Lena Shoal junk carried with it a valuable cargo from China, Siam and Annam when it wrecked north-east of the Philippine island of Palawan round 1490. High quality ceramics such as blue and white wares, ewers, boxes and inkstands, and other merchandise such as iron and tin ingots, copper utensils and cooking pots comprise some of the more than 3000 artefacts retrieved from the site (Foreword). [Boeknr.: 31910 ]

€ 75,00

MALASPINA, Alejandro. Expedición Malaspina. Un viaje científico-político alrededor del mundo 1789-1794. (Edited by) Javier Reverte, Miguel Angel Puig-Samper, José María Moreno Martin, Fernando Vallespín. Turner, 2010. 4to. Original boards, with dust-jacket. With numerous illustrations (some in colours). 143 pp. The Malaspina Expedition (1789-1794) was a five-year maritime scientific exploration commanded by Alejandro Malaspina and José de Bustamante y Guerra. The expedition was funded by the Spanish government and originally pursued strictly scientific goals. They were to survey and chart the islands and coasts under Spanish control or claim, visit the major settlements throughout the Pacific, and collect information on botany, zoology, ichthyology, ethnography and geography. [Boeknr.: 36632 ]

€ 40,00

MALASPINA, Alejandro. The Malaspina expedition 1789-1794. Journal of the voyage by Alejandro Malaspina. Edited by Andrew David, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Carlos Novi, Glyndwr Williams. Introduction by Donanld C. Cutter. Translated by Sylvia Jamieson. London, 2001-2004. 3 volumes. 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jackets. With many maps and illustrations. XCVIII,338; XX,511; XXI,487 pp. Hakluyt Series, 3rd series, 8,11,13. - The Malaspina Expedition (1789-1794) was a five-year maritime scientific exploration commanded by Alessandro Malaspina and José de Bustamante y Guerra. The expedition was funded by the Spanish government and originally pursued strictly scientific goals. They were to survey and chart the islands and coasts under Spanish control or claim, visit the major settlements throughout the Pacific, and collect information on botany, zoology, ichthyology, ethnography and geography. Volume 1- Cadiz to Panama, Volume II - Panama to the Philippines and Volume III - Manila to Cadiz. [Boeknr.: 34646 ]

€ 175,00

PIGAFETTA, Antonio. Magellan's voyage. A narrative account of the first circumnavigation. New Haven, London, 1969. 2 volumes. Folio. Original cloth, in slipcase. With maps and facsimiles in colours. Vol.I: translation of the manuscript., edited by R.A. Skelton. Vol.II: coloured facsimile of the manuscript of Yale university. - 'One of the most important geographical manuscripts known, and one of the handsomest. The report of man's first voyage around his world' (Foreword). For the geography and history of the pre-Spanish Philippines, Pigafetta's account is a primary source, objective and sympathetic. For the history of Borneo, 'the European sources .. have importance .. because there are almost no native annals or monuments of so early a date to tell of the island's past' (Introduction). He sighted the Cape of Good Hope and the Cape Verde Islands. [Boeknr.: 939 ]

€ 175,00


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