Auction 80, 13-17 May 2024

6 491 lots

Lots

Lot 1563FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[France]. Nolhac, P. de. Le Trianon de Marie-Antoinette.

Paris, Goupiel et Cie, 1914, (6),182,(1)p., 45 plates (4x col.), 10 ills., printed in 500 numb. copies, contemp. gilt orange mor. w. contrasting blue inlaid calf vignettes on front and back covers, gilt inside dentelles, ivory moiré silk doublures, gilt board edges, t.e.g., folio.

Estimation 70 € – 90 €Adjugé 80 €

Lot 1564FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[France]. Rodin, A. Les Cathédrales de France. Introd. C. Morice.

Paris, A. Colin, 1914, (8),CIX,(3),164p., 100 plates by A. RODIN, contemp. giltlettered hmor., t.e.g., 4to. Lavergne, A. de. Chateaux et ruines historiques de France. Paris, 1845, XVIII,(2),396,(3)p., 21 woodengr. plates, woodengr. divisional titles and num. ills., contemp. gilt mor., a.e.g., 4to. AND 4 others, incl. J.-J. BOURASSE, Les plus belles Cathédrales de France (Tours, 1865, ills., contemp. gilt cl., a.e.g., 4to).

Estimation 60 € – 80 €Adjugé 80 €

Lot 1565FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[France]. Roy, J. Turenne. Sa Vie, les Institutions Militaires de son Temps.

Paris, Georges Hurtrel, 1884, (6),XXII,520p., 6 double-p. lithogr. maps/ plans (2x w. brown & blue details), 5 chromolith. plates (incl. frontisp., 1x double-p.), num. ills., contemp. red hmor. w. richly gilt spine, a.e.g., large 4to. AND 1 other: P. CHAMPION, Louis XI (Paris, 1927, 2 vols., phototype plates, modern unif. giltlettered blue rexine).

Estimation 60 € – 80 €Adjugé 70 €

Lot 1566FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[France]. Schulz, F. Geschiedenis der Groote Omwenteling in Frankrijk.

Amst., P.D. Hengst and J.A. Swalm, 1791, "Naar den tweeden vermeerderden druk uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald", (4),196,(2)p., engr. title, fold. plan (w. sm. inset view) of the Bastille, contemp. marbled wr.

Estimation 50 € – 70 €Adjugé 110 €

Lot 1567FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[France]. Ségur, L.P. Tableau historique et politique de l'Europe, depuis 1786 jusqu'en 1796, ou l'an 4; contenant l'histoire des principaux évenemens du règne de F. Guillaume II, roi de Prusse; Et un Précis des Révolutions de Brabant, de Holande, de Pologne et de France.

Paris, F. Buisson, 1801, 2nd revised ed., 3 vols., (4),398; (4),372; (4),402p., engr. frontisp. portrait of Friedrich-Wilhelm II, contemp. unif. marbled calf w. gilt spine and contrasting letterpieces. Le moniteur secret, ou Tableau de la Cour de Napoléon, de son caractère, et de celui de ses Agens. Paris/ London, Les marchands de nouveautés/ Schulze and Dean, 1814, 2 vols., (4),IV,263; (4),267p., contemp. unif. hcalf w. gilt spines.

Estimation 60 € – 80 €Adjugé 60 €

Lot 1568FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[France]. Wallon, H.

Saint Louis. Tours, Alfred Mame et fils, 1878, 1st ed., 554p., 4 double-p. col. lithogr. maps, 31 woodengr./ col. lithogr. plates, 3 (2x double-p.) facs. plates, 225 woodengr. ills., bound by GRUEL in fine dark blue hmor., ribbed back w. 4 gilt fleur-de-lis, t.e.g., 4to. Dumas, A. Histoire de la Vie Politique et Privée de Louis-Philippe. Paris, Dufour et Mulat, 1852, 2 parts in 1 vol., (4),320; (4),311,(1), 20 steelengr. portraits and scenes (incl. frontisp.), contemp. hmor. w. giltlettered spine, 4to.

Estimation 100 € – 150 €

Lot 1569FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[France]. Lot

of 12 vols. on French history, all attractively bound in contemp./ later gilt red (9x) and black hleather, t.e.g. (9x).

Estimation 70 € – 90 €Adjugé 70 €

Lot 1573FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[France. Paris]. Lenôtre, G. Le Vieux Paris. Souvenirs et Vieilles Demeures.

Paris, Ch. Eggimann, 1912-1913, 3 vols., (2),77,(3); (2),89,(1); (2),99,(1)p., num. photogr. ills., contemp. unif. blue hmor. w. giltlettered spine, t.e.g., folio. D'Andigné, F. Les Musées de Paris. Paris, Alpina, 1931, (2),155,(5)p., 6 col. plates, num. (photogr.) ills., printed in limited numb. ed., contemp. hmor. w. gilt spine, t.e.g., folio.

Estimation 50 € – 70 €Adjugé 70 €

Lot 1578FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Germany. Rhine]. Halenza's Neuestes Rhein-Panorama von Mainz bis Cöln.

Mainz, J. Halenza, n.d. (±1850), loosely inserted text booklet (23,(1)p., French text, without wr.), steelengr. leporello showing the course of the Rhine surrounded by num. views, orig. hcl., 4to. ADDED: a Baedeker guide for Sachsen (1920, Hinrichsen D234a).

Estimation 50 € – 70 €

Lot 1581FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Great Britain]. Gurney, J.J. Notes on a visit made to some of the prisons in Scotland, and the North of England, in company with Elizabeth Fry; with some general observations on the subject of prison discipline.

Norwich, J. Fletcher, 1847, 2nd [= 3rd] enl. ed., IV,162p., contemp. cl. - BOUND WITH: Idem and Fry, E. Report addressed to the Marquess Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland by -, respecting their late visit to that country. Ibid., idem, 1847, 3rd ed., 99,(1)p. The Black Book; or, Corruption Unmasked. Being an account of Places, Pensions, and Sinecures, the Revenues of the Clergy and Landed Aristocracy; the Salaries and Emoluments in Courts of Justice and the Police Department (...). London, J. Fairburn, 1820, (4),480p., later hcl. AND 1 other: THE MAXIMA CHARTA OF 1832, for England, Ireland, and Scotland (...) (London, 1832, engr. frontisp., contemp. hcl.).

Estimation 70 € – 90 €

Lot 1583FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Great Britain]. Tuke, J. General View of the Agriculture of the North Riding of Yorkshire. Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement.

London, B. McMillan for G. Nicol etc., 1800, XV,(1),355,(1)p., fold. handcol. engr. map, 14 (fold.) plates, contemp. hcalf w. mor. letterpiece and giltlettered "Board of Agriculture 1818" on frontcover and "[idem] 1807" on backcover. Strickland, H.E. A General View of the Agriculture of the East-Riding of Yorkshire; published by order of the Board of Agriculture. York, T. Wilson and Son for the author, 1812, VIII,332,(1)p., fold. handcol. engr. map, 8 plates (2 fold. handcol.), fold. table, contemp. hcalf w. mor. letterpiece and giltlettered "Board of Agriculture 1818" on frontcover. AND 1 other similar on the West Riding of Yorkshire (1799).

Estimation 100 € – 150 €

Lot 1584FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Great Britain]. Watts, J. The Facts of the Cotton Famine.

London/ Manchester, Simpkin, Marshall & Co./ A. Ireland & Co., 1866, XII,472p., fold. col. lithogr. table, contemp. blindst. cl. Brown, R. General View of the Agriculture of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Edinb., J. Watson etc., 1799, (8),XIV,293,(3),123p., fold. engr. map, sl. later hvellum w. mor. letterpiece.

Estimation 80 € – 100 €Adjugé 80 €

Lot 1587FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Greece]. Busch, M. Bilder aus Griechenland.

Triest, Literarisch-artistische Anstalt (Julius Ohswalt), 1870, (4),123p., 18 steelengr. views after A. LÖFFLER, 7 woodengr. ills., orig. gilt and blindst. orange-brown cl., folio.

Estimation 200 € – 300 €Adjugé 210 €

Lot 1589FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Guinea]. (Fennekol, W.F.).

Proeve over de kust van Guinea, houdende eene poging tot onderzoek, hoe, en in hoeverre, dat land tot eene ware volksplanting zou kunnen gevormd worden. The Hague, J. Immerzeel Jr., 1831, 154,(1)p., modern cl.

Estimation 50 € – 70 €Adjugé 50 €

Lot 1590FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[India]. Haafner, J. Reize in eenen palanquin; of lotgevallen en merkwaardige aanteekeningen op eene reize langs de kusten Orixa en Choromandel.

Amst., G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1827, 2nd ed., 2 parts in 1 vol., X,260; IV,289,(1)p., 2 ident. engr. titles, 4 handcol. costume plates, 3 fold. views, sl. later giltlettered hmor. Idem. Lotgevallen op eene reize van Madras over Tranquebaar, naar het eiland Ceilon. Ibid., idem, 1826, 2nd ed., VIII,263p., engr. title w. ill. by R. VINKELES, contemp. hcl.

Estimation 100 € – 150 €Adjugé 100 €

Lot 1593FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Italy. Rome]. Nuova collezione di vedute di Roma. Antiche, e moderne.

Rome, Piale, n.d. (±1816), engr. title and 32 engr. views and plates, contemp. simple cordbound wr., obl. 4to. AND 1 other: NUOVA RACCOLTA DELLE PRINCIPALI VEDUTE ANTICHE E MODERNE DELL' ALMA CITTÁ DI ROMA E SUA VICINANZE (Rome, n.d., num. woodengr. views, orig. engr. wr., obl. 8vo).

Estimation 80 € – 100 €Adjugé 500 €

Lot 1594FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Japan]. Cortazzi, H. Isles of Gold. Antique Maps of Japan.

New York and Tokyo, Weatherhill, 1992, XVII,(1),177,(1)p., (fold./ double-p./ full-p.) (col.) plates, orig. gilt cl. w. (sl. sunned) dustwr., 4to. - AND 9 others, i.a. S.E. MORISON, "Old Bruin" (London, 1968, ills., orig. cl.); C.O. PAULLIN, American Voyages to the Orient (Annapolis, 1971, orig. cl. w. dustwr.) and Y. KAMIBAYASHI, Johannis de Rijke (Zutphen, 1999, ills., orig. boards w. dustwr.).

Estimation 50 € – 70 €

Lot 1596FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Japan]. Titsingh, (I.).

The private correspondence. Ed. F. Lequin. Amst., J.C. Gieben, 1990, 2 vols., XIL,(1),534; XXVII,(1),931,(1)p., 41 plates, orig. unif. giltlettered cl. Lequin, F. A la recherche du Cabinet Titsingh, its history, contents and dispersal. Catalogue raisonné of the collection of the founder of European Japanology. Alphen a/d Rijn, Canaletto/ Repro-Holland, 2003, 409p., num. (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr. (fine).

Estimation 70 € – 90 €

Lot 1597FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Japan]. Warren Clark, E. Life and Adventure in Japan.

New York, American Tract Society, 1878, 247p., 31 woodengr. plates (1x col.), orig. pict. cl. w. gold vignette on front cover and w. gilt spine.

Estimation 70 € – 90 €

Lot 1599FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

Linschoten, Jan Huygen van. Itinerário, Viagem ou Navegação de Jan Huygen van Linschoten para as Índias Orientais ou Portuguesas. Ed. A. Pos and R.M. Loureiro.

Lisbon, Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, 1997, text vol.: 414p., orig. wr., 4to; atlas vol.: (6)p. and 39 (double-p.) facs. plates/ maps w. description on verso, loosely inserted in orig. folder; together in dropback box w. ties, folio. Boogaart, E. van den. Johan Maurits' Brazilië. Het land van de suikermolen. Zwolle, WBooks, 2021, 131,(1)p., num. col. ills., orig. boards, 4to (a few ballpoint annots.). - AND 2 others on Colonial Brazil.

Estimation 70 € – 90 €Adjugé 70 €

Lot 1600FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Maritime history]. Adams, A. and Woodman, R. Light upon the Waters.

London, Corporation of Trinity House, 2013, 1st ed., 320p., num. (col.) ills., orig. boards w. dustwr., sm. 4to. King, J.W. and Hull, T.A. The Pilot's Handbook for the English Channel (...). London, Potter, J.D., 1898, 13th ed., XX,219,(1),6(publ. cat.)p., fold. map, table, 22 (fold.) plates, booklet w. 2 movable compass roses loosely inserted, orig. gilt pict. cl. AND 3 others, i.a. J. VAN ROON and P. HAVERKAMP, Leerboek der zeevaart (Den Helder, 1940-1942, 4th ed., 2 vols., fold. charts, table, ills., orig. unif. cl.).

Estimation 50 € – 70 €Adjugé 50 €

Lot 1602FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Maritime history]. Bruijn, J.R. a.o. Dutch-Asiatic shipping in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The Hague, M. Nijhoff, 1979-1987, 3 vols., XI,(1),356; XI,(1),765,(3); XI,(1),626,(2)p., num. tables, orig. unif. giltlettered cl., 4to. Dam, P. van. Beschryvinge van de Oostindische Compagnie. Ed. F.W. Stapel. Ibid., idem, 1976, 4 parts in 7 vols., orig. unif. giltlettered cl., large 8vo.

Estimation 80 € – 100 €Adjugé 100 €

Lot 1604FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Maritime history]. Drake, F./ Schouten, W.C.

The World Encompassed./ The Relation of a Wonderful Voiage. Cleveland, The World, (1966), facs. ed., 2 parts in 1 vol., 108; (8),82,(1)p., facs. map, ills., printed on laid paper, orig. gilt overlapping vellum w. ties, orig. cl. box.

Estimation 50 € – 70 €Adjugé 50 €

Lot 1605FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Maritime history]. Gelder, M.G. de. Elementair overzicht van den bouw der hedendaagsche oorlogschepen.

Amst., Scheltema & Holkema, 1897, (4),II,212p., ills., orig. gilt pict. cl., 4to. Dodson, A. The Kaiser's Battlefleet. German Capital Ships 1870-1918. Barnsley, Seaforth, 2019, 256p., ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., sm. 4to. - AND 7 others, i.a. N. TRACY (ed.), Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail (London, 1990, ills., orig. boards w. dustwr, 4to) and S. BREYER, Battleships and Battle Cruisers. English transl. by A. Kurti (London, 1973, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr.).

Estimation 100 € – 150 €

Lot 1606FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Maritime history]. Hakluyt Society.

Lot of 11 vols. from the second, third and extra series. Cambridge, Hakluyt Society, 1906-1997, 11 vols. (incl. 1 duplicate), fold. maps, plates, portraits, orig. unif. gilt cl. (all but one) w. dustwr.

Estimation 60 € – 80 €

Lot 1607FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Maritime history]. Hakluyt, R. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation. Made by Sea or Over-land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 Yeeres.

Glasgow, J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903-1905, 12 vols., (helio-engr.) (fold.) maps and plates, 4to. Purchas, S. Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes, Containing a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and others. Ibid., idem, 1905-1907, 20 vols., num. (facs.) plates, printed in 1000 copies (100).

Estimation 2 000 € – 3 000 €

Lot 1610FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Maritime history]. Hilster, N. de Navigation on Wood. Wooden Navigational Instruments 1590-1731. An analysis of early modern western instruments for celestial navigation, their origins, mathematical concepts an accuracies.

Castricum, the author, 2018, 1st ed., 815p., num. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., large 8vo, thesis. Water, D.W. The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times. London, Hollis and Carter, 1958, XXXIX,(1),696p., 87 plates, 43 ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., large 8vo. Brewington, M.V. The Peabody Museum Collection of Navigating Instruments with Notes on Their Makers. Salem, Peabody Museum, 1963, XII,154,(1)p., 56 plates, orig. cl., 4to. - AND 3 others, i.a. J. RANDIER, Nautische instrumenten (Deventer/ Antw., 1980, num. (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to).

Estimation 70 € – 90 €Adjugé 70 €

Lot 1611FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Maritime history]. Howse, D. and Thrower, Norman J.W. (ed.). A Buccaneer's Atlas. Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner.

Berkeley/ Los Angeles/ Oxford, University of California Press, 1992, XII,(2),314,(1)p., (facs.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to. Waters, D.W. The Rutters of the Sea. The Sailing Directions of Pierre Garcie. New Haven/ London, Yale University Press, 1967, XV,(1),478p., fold. maps, num. facs. ills., orig. blindst. cl. w. (sl. dam.) dustwr., 4to. - AND 3 others, i.a. J. DENUCÉ, Afrika in de XVIde eeuw en de handel van Antwerpen (Antw., 1937, double-p. facs. plates, ills., orig. cl., 4to) and A. D'HAENENS, De wereld van de Hanze (ibid., 1984, col. ills., orig. gilt cl. w. dustwr., 4to).

Estimation 50 € – 70 €Adjugé 60 €

Lot 1613FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Maritime history]. Laughton, J.K. The Defeat of the Spanish Armada Anno 1588.

New York, B. Franklin, 1971, 2 vols., LXXXIV,365; (4),418p., 1 fold. map, orig. unif. giltlettered cl. (reprint of the ed. New York, 1894). Gallagher, P. and Cruickshank, D.W. (ed.). God's Obvious Design. Papers for the Spanish Armada Symposium, Sligo, 1988. London, Tamesis, 1990, VII,(1),256p., ills./ plates, orig. giltlettered cl. w. (sl. stained) dustwr. Marsden, W. The History of Sumatra. Introd. J. Bastin. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford Univ. Press, 1975, VIII,479,(11)p., frontisp., 26 plates, 1 fold. map, orig. cl w. (sl. frayed) dustwr., 4to (reprint of the 3rd ed. Kuala Lumpur, 1966). - AND 6 others, i.a. H.J.M.W. PETERS, The Crone Library. Books on the Art of Navigation Left by Dr. Ernst Crone to the Scheepvaart Museum in 1975 (...) (Nieuwkoop, 1989, ills., orig. cl.) and K. SIERKSMA (ed.), Flags of the World 1669-1670. A seventeenth century manuscript (Amst, 1966, col. plates, orig. cl., 4to).

Estimation 70 € – 90 €

Lot 1614FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Maritime history]. Lecky, S.T.S. "Wrinkles" in Practical Navigation.

London, G. Philip & Son, 1881, 1st ed., XXIII,(1),366,(2),(4 publ. advert.)p., 21 (fold.) (col.) plates/ maps, ills., contemp. cl. Purey-Cust, H.E. Sumner's Method. London, J.D. Potter, 1928, 2nd ed., 31,(1)p., plates, ills., orig. boards.

Estimation 50 € – 70 €

Lot 1616FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Maritime history]. Lubbock, B. Sail. The Romance of the Clipper Ships. Ed. F.A. Hook and A. Campbell.

London, P. Stephens, 1972, 3 vols., (14),153,(1); (10),152,(2); (10),102p., 3 diff. frontisp., 1 fold. map, col. plates after J. SPURLING, orig. unif. gilt cl., orig. slipcase, large 4to. Napier, R. Reconditioning an Eighteenth-Century Ship Model Valkenisse Retourship of 1717. Florence (OR), SeaWatch Books, 2008, XIV,(2),237p., 4 fold. plans in rear pocket, num. (col.) ills., orig. giltlettered cl. w. dustwr., 4to (fine). Wegener Sleeswyk, A. De Gouden Eeuw van het Fluitschip. Franeker, Van Wijnen, 2003, 206,(1)p., num. (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to (fine). - AND 3 others similar.

Estimation 80 € – 100 €Adjugé 80 €

Lot 1618FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Maritime history]. Mahan, A.T. The Influence of Sea Power upon History 1660-1783.

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., n.d. (1890), 1st ed., XXIV,557p., 4 (fold.) engr. maps, 21 plates, orig. gilt cl. AND 5 other English and Dutch works on maritime history, i.a. R. DE VOS, Nederlandse Clippers (Franeker, 2003, num. col. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., folio).

Estimation 70 € – 90 €Adjugé 70 €

Lot 1619FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

[Maritime history]. The Mariner's Mirror.

The Journal of the Society for Nautical Research. Vol. 1-109. Cambridge etc., Society for Nautical Research, 1911-2023, num. ills., orig. unif. giltlettered cl. (vol. 1-95)/ in parts as issued in orig. wr. (vol. 96-109).

Estimation 800 € – 1 000 €