First edition

Friedrich HORNEMANN

Voyage dans l'Afrique septentrionale, depuis le Caire jusqu'à Mourzouk

Dentu, Paris 1803, In-8 (12,5x20cm), xlviij, 236pp. (2) ; (4) 235-476p., 2 tomes en un volume relié.

First edition of Langlès' translation from German, accompanied by 2 large folding maps on strong paper. Langlès is also responsible for the various notes and the thesis on the oases, composed according to the Arab authors.

Vintage half calf binding. Smooth decorated back. Golden [...]

600 €

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First edition

Johann Baptist HOMANN

Amplissimae Regionis Mississipi Seu Provinciae Ludovicianae A R.P. Ludovico Hennepin Francisc. ...

s.d. (circa 1720), 60,4x53,1cm, une feuille rempliée.

Amplissimae Regionis Mississipi Seu Provinciae Ludovicianae A R.P. Ludovico Hennepin Francisc. Miss. In America Septentrionali Anno 1687...


[ca 1720) | 60.4 x 53.1 cm | one map
First edition of this well-margined map, copper engraved and heightened in colors by a [...]

1 200 €

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First edition

MAC GEOGHEGAN

Histoire de l'Irlande ancienne et moderne

Chez Antoine Boudet, A Paris 1758 - 1763, In-4 (19,5x25,5cm), xlviij (2) 488pp. (2) et lxxxiv, x, 376pp. et xj (1) 379-798p. (2), 3 volumes reliés.

First edition.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with ornate nerves. Title and volume piece in red morocco.

1 000 €

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First edition

Johann Baptist HOMANN

Topographische Vorstellung der Neuen Russischen Haupt-Residenz und See-Stadt St. Petersburg samt ...

s.d. (circa 1720), 63,2x53cm, une feuille rempliée.

Original map enhanced in color.

1 350 €

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First edition

Johann Baptist HOMANN

Accurate Vorstellung der Orientalisch- Kayserlichen Haupt- und Residenz-Stadt Constantinopel - ...

s.d. (circa 1720), 62x53,5cm, une feuille rempliée.

Original map fully enhanced in color.

1 500 €

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First edition

Sebastian MUNSTER

Tabula Asiae VIII

s.l. [Bâle] s.d. (circa 1550), 42,1x33cm, une feuille.

Tabula Asiae VIII
[Basel ca 1550]
| 42.1 x 33 cm | one map
Original map, titled and heightened in colors by a contemporary hand. Published for the first time in 1540 in Munster’s Geographia.
Central fold. Two repairs with paper strips to verso and two little wormholes [...]

1 000 €

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First edition

Sebastian MUNSTER

Africa XXV Nova Tabula

s.d. (circa 1800), 42,9x34,2cm, une feuille.

Original map enhanced in color.
Very nice copy of one of the first modern maps to show the whole continent of Africa.

150 €

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First edition

Matthäus SEUTTER

Accurata delineatio celeberrimae Regionis Ludovicianae vel Gallice Louisiane ol. Canadae et ...

Augsburg s.d. (circa 1730), 62,6x53,3cm, une feuille rempliée.

Accurata delineatio celeberrimae Regionis Ludovicianae vel Gallice Louisiane ol. Canadae et Floridae adpellatione in septemtrionali America descriptae quae hodie nomine fluminis Mississippi vel St. Louis


Augsburg [ca 1730] | 62.6 x 53.3 cm | one map
First edition, full [...]

2 000 €

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