FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

Auction 84, 19-22 May 2026

77 lots

Lots

Lot 1610

[America]. Roux de Rochelle, J.B.G. États-unis d'Amérique.

Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1837, (2),400,(1)p., steelengr. fold. map, 96 steelengr. plates, contemp. gilt hcalf. - Vague stamp on htitle. Binding partly rubbed. AND 2 others from the same series, both unif. bound w. the preceding: F. DENIS, Brésil/ M.C. FAMIN, Colombie et Guyanes (2 parts in 1 vol., 1837) and J.A.F. ARTAUD-DE MONTOR, Italie/ E.A. DE LA SALLE, Sicile (2 parts in 1 vol., 1837).

Estimate €60 – €80Result €60

Lot 1614

[Asia]. Chandra, L. Society and Culture of Southeast Asia. Continuities and Changes.

New Delhi, Aditya Prakashan, 2000, XI,394p., maps (1x fold.), plates, ills., giltlettered rexine w. dustwr., 4to. - AND 5 others, i.a. W. OTTERSPEER, Leiden Oriental Connections 1850-1940 (Leyden, 1989, photogr. plates, orig. wr.) and K. KUIPER, Catalogue of Chinese and Sino-Western Manuscripts in the Central Library of Leiden University (Leyden, 2005, num. ills., orig. wr.).

Estimate €40 – €60

Lot 1618

[Asia]. Watson, C.W. and Ellen, R. Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia.

Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1993, VIII,222,(2)p., orig. giltlettered cl. w. dustwr. Allsen, T.T. The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History. Singapore, ISEAS, 2013, X,406p, ills., orig. wr. - AND 10 others, i.a. W. HOENERBACH, Der Orient in der Forschung. Festschrift für Otto Spies (Wiesbaden, 1967, ills. and plates, orig. cl.).

Estimate €50 – €70

Lot 1619

[Atlases]. Delamarche, F. Atlas de la géographie ancienne, du moyen âge, et moderne.

Paris, chez l'auteur, 1839, title and list of contents, double-p. steelengr. plate, 36 double-p. maps w. handcol. borders, modern hcl., folio. - Library stamp on title; several maps margins strengthened on verso; partly vaguely waterstained in outer margins. AND 2 others, i.a. C.V. MONIN and A. VUILLEMIN, Atlas de Géographie Ancienne et Moderne à l'usage des Collèges et Maison d'Education (Paris, n.d., 42 steelengr. maps w. handcol. borders, modern boards, folio).

Estimate €80 – €100Result €90

Lot 1622

[Belgium]. Génard, P. Anvers à travers les ages.

Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe et Cie., n.d. (1888), XLp., fold. map and num. ills., orig. gilt pict. hcl. by L. TITZ, folio. WITH the original fold. silkscreen and offset poster issued with the publication.

Estimate €30 – €50

Lot 1625

[Belgium. Antwerp]. Thys, A. Historique des rues et places publiques de la Ville d'Anvers.

Antw., L. Gerrits, 1873, VII,(1),520p., contemp. gilt hmor. (fine). Le double guide commercial ou livre d'adresses de la ville d'Anvers. Ibid., Ratinckx Frères, 1877-1878, 13th ed., 2 parts in 1 vol., (4),343; (4),345-523p., contemp. hmor. AND 3 others similar, i.a. G. BEETEMÉ, Anvers. Métropole du commerce et des arts (Louvain, 1887-1888, 2nd ed., 2 vols., (double-p./ full-p.) woodengr. ills., gilt unif. hmor. Both vols. leather dam.).

Estimate €60 – €80Result €60

Lot 1626

[Brazil]. Dutch Brazil.

Ed. C. Ferrão, J.P. Monteiro Soares a.o. Rio de Janeiro, Editora Index, 1997-2000, 3 parts in 9 vols., (col.) (facs.) ills., orig. unif. wr. in 3 slipcases.

Estimate €50 – €70Result €150

Lot 1627

Carruthers, M. and Ziolkowski, J.M. The Medieval Craft of Memory. An Anthology of Texts and Pictures.

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004, 312p., ills., orig. wr. (very fine). Carruthers, M. The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 3rd ed., 399p., ills., orig. wr. (very fine). - AND 5 others, i.a. M. CARRUTHERS, The Book of Memory. A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture (ibid., 2006, 12th ed., ills. orig. wr.) and K. VARTY, Reynard, Renart, Reinaert, and other foxes in Medieval England: the iconographic evidence (Amst., 1999, 1st ed., ills. orig. boards).

Estimate €50 – €70Result €50

Lot 1630

[Cook, J.]. Banks, J. The Journal of Joseph Banks in the

Endeavour. Introd. A.M. Lysaght Guildford/ Adelaide etc., Genesis/ Rigby, 1980, 2 vols., 101; (10) textp., 2 diff. tipped-in frontisp. portraits, num. facs. plates, printed in 500 numb. copies, orig. unif. gilt and blindst. hleather, a.e.g., 2 board slipcases, large 8vo.

Estimate €120 – €150Result €200

Lot 1631

Dubeux, L. Historia de la Persia.

Barcelona, Imprenta del Liberal Barcelonés, 1842, 366p., 2 fold. steelengr. maps and 86 (fold.) plates, views etc., contemp. calf. - Occas. the maps and a few plates sl. browned. Spine sl. rubbed. AND 3 others from the same series (bound in unif. gilt hcalf): Historia de la Polonia (1840); Historia de Inglaterra (1844) and Historia de Cartago (n.d.).

Estimate €80 – €100Result €110

Lot 1634

[Economics]. Schumpeter, J.A. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy.

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1944, 2nd impression, X,382p., orig. cl. Bücher, K. Die Entstehung der Volkswirtschaft. Vorträge und Versuche. Tübingen, Laupp, 1901, XI,(1),466,(1)p., orig. (sl. dam.) cl. Galbraith, J.K. The great crash 1929. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1955, 1st Engl. ed., 186,(2)p., orig. boards w. (sl. dam.) dustwr. - AND 2 others, i.a. J. STUART MILL. Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy (New York etc., 1909, orig. cl.).

Estimate €80 – €100Result €120

Lot 1645

[Germany. Rhine]. Delkeskamp, F.W. Panorama des Rheins. Mainz bis Cöln.

Frankf. a.M., F. Wilman, ±1840, later ed., steelengr. leporello of the course of the Rhine, folded in 14 sections (panorama size 22,5x±240 cm.), w. the additonal booklet Der Begleiter auf der Rheinreise (ibid., idem, ±1850, 36p., without wr. as published), orig. leatherbacked boards (backcover w. title in French), 4to. - Binding sl. worn. = Der Rhein im Panorama 2. ADDED: a series of 18 gelatin silver prints: Dresden um 1930 (Berlin, ±1970, w. loose colophon leaf (recto and verso), loosely inserted in hcl. binding, 4to).

Estimate €80 – €100

Lot 1649

Gullan-Whur, M. Within Reason. A Life of Spinoza.

New York, St Martin's Press, 1998, 1st Am. ed., XVIII,398p., plates, orig. boards w. dustwr. Braudel, F. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Phillip II. London, Collins, 1972-1973, 2 vols. w. continuous pagination, 1375p., plates, orig. unif. cl. w. dustwr. Hale, J. The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance. Ibid., HarperCollins, 1993, XX,(2),648,(1)p., num. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr. Pückler-Muskau. Puckler's Progress. The Adventures of Prince Pückler-Muskau in England, Wales and Ireland as told in letters to his former wife, 1826-9 (Ibid., 1987, plates, orig. boards w. (yellowed) dustwr.). - AND 17 others, i.a. W.S. MALTBY, Alba. A Biography of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Third Duke of Alba 1507-1582 (Berkeley etc., 1983, plates, orig. boards w. dustwr.); M. BENCE-JONES, The Catholic Families (London, 1992, ills., orig. boards w. dustwr.); J. LEES-MILNE, The Last Stuarts (ibid., 1983, plates, orig. boards w. dustwr.); D. JUDD, Lord Reading. Rufus Isaacs, First Marquess of Reading, Lord Chief Justice and Viceroy of India, 1860-1935 (ibid., 1982, plates, orig. boards w. dustwr.) and J.E. WILLS, 1688, A Global History (London, 2001, ills., orig. boards w. dustwr.).

Estimate €60 – €80

Lot 1653

[Italy]. Orville, J.P.d'.

Sicula, quibus Siciliae veteris rudera, additis antiquitatum tabulis, illustrantur. Edidit, et commentarium ad numismata sicula, (...) Petrus Burmannus Secundus. Amst., G. Tielenburg, 1764, 2 parts in 1 vol., (4),IV,XL,XI,(3),276,(20); (2),VIII,277-675,(1)p., engr. portr., 2 ident. title-vignettes, 1 dedic. vign., 53 (of 54) plates (17 fold.), bound in a schoolprize binding of HAARLEM in contemp. gilt panelled marbled calf w. central gilt coat of arms of Haarlem on both covers and w. red mor. letterpiece, folio.

Estimate €400 – €600Result €550

Lot 1661

[Papua New Guinea]. Het aandeel van de Koninlijke Luchtmacht in de gebeurtenissen rondom Nederlandsch Nieuw Guinea gedurende de periode november 1958 t/m november 1962.

N.pl. (The Hague), Bureau Maritieme Historie, n.d. (1962?), 450p., plates, orig. wr., 4to. AND 2 others: LEVEN VAN HET LAND EN DE ZEE. Eenvoudige handleiding inzake eetbare planten voorkom. in trop. bossen en langs de stranden van N.N.G. (Hollandia/ Jayapura, 1961, ills., orig. wr., 4to. Military instructions for soldiers) and UITTREKSEL UIT HET VERSLAG DER COMMISSIE ter voorbreiding van de aanwijzing eener natuurlijker grens tusschen het Nederlandsche en het Duitsche gebied op Nieuw-Guinea (The Hague, 1910, fols. maps, plates, orig. wr.).

Estimate €70 – €90

Lot 1662

[Paraguay]. Samaniego, C.C. Caña de azúgar. Tacua rhê-hê y caña Paraguay.

Ascunción, the author, 1936, 120,(1)p., ills., orig. wr. Idem. Ilex Paraguayensis yerba-mate "Caá". N.pl., the author (?), 1927, (10),124,(2)p., ills., orig. lithogr. wr. Idem. Samuhú. Asunción, Imprenta Nacional, 1937, 23p., 3 plates, orig. (sl. defective) wr.

Estimate €100 – €150Result €100

Lot 1663

Pernau, M. Bürger mit Turban. Muslime in Delhi im 19. Jahrhundert.

Göttingen, V&R, 2008, XI,404p., orig. boards. Bruyne, J.L. De. Rudrakavi' s Great Poem of the Dynasty of Râsṭraudha Cantos 1-13 and 18-20. Leiden, Brill, 1968, XII,161p., 1 fold. map, orig. giltlettered cl. AND 9 others, incl. vol. 16 and 18 of the same series: G. G. LEONARDI, Bhaṭṭikâvyam/ E.P. MATEN, Budhasvâmin's Bṛhatkathâúloka saṃgraha (ibid., 1972/1973, orig. unif. giltlettered cl.).

Estimate €50 – €70Result €50