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Explorations, Discoveries, Inventions

They discovered America or penicillin. They explored the immense Terra Incognita and infinite space. They are researchers, explorers or poets. They came, they saw and overcame prejudice and ignorance.
"E pure si muove!"

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First edition

Josias SIMLER & Johan Jakob LEU

Von dem Regiment de lobl. Eydgenossschaft zwey Bücher / In deren Ersterem ein kurtzgefasste ...

David Gessner, Zurich 1722, Pet. in-4 (15x20cm), (16) 717pp. (23), relié.

First edition, rare, this revised edition, annotated and commented Johann Jakob Leu of the major work of Josiah Simler, "De republica helvetiorum" (1576). A large folding map of Switzerland by Michael Kauffer by Christoph Weigel. Frontispiece of Fussli, also often absent, was not attached to this [...]

800 €

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First edition

Antonio de CAPMANY

Ordenanzas de las armadas navales de la corona de Aragon

En la imprenta real, Madrid 1787, in-4 (17,5x22,5cm), (44) 147 (3) 63pp., relié.

First Edition.
Full contemporary parchment. Smooth spine with title pen dimmed in mind. Missing a third of the leather on the upper flat, also on the edge. No cover page. Good fresh paper.
Orders of the Aragonese navy fourteenth century. In appendix, the orders of the British navy and [...]

950 €

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First edition

BONNE

Carte du Paraguay et partie des pays adjacants

Chez Lattré, Bordeaux 1782, 39x51cm, une feuille.

First edition.
Mp of the Paraguay, partly in color.
Faint angular dampstain to head.

150 €

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Henri MAUNDRELL

Voyage d'Alep à Jerusalem, à Pâques en l'année 1697

Chez Guillaume van Poolsum, à Utrecht 1705, In 12 (9x15cm), (10) 251pp., relié.

Reprint of the first edition published in French in 1704, rare, illustrated with 9 figures including 5 folding plates of Mount Tabor, Baalbek, cisterns of Solomon ... A Paris edition will also be published in 1705 The first edition English Date from 1703 to Oxford.Pleine sheepskin blond rooted [...]

850 €

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First edition

Jacques VILLOTTE

Voyages d'un missionnaire de la Compagnie de Jesus, en Turquie, en Perse, en Armenie, en Arabie & ...

Chez Jacques Vincent, à Paris 1730, Fort in-12 (9,5x16,8cm), (10) 647pp. (1), relié.

Original rare Edition.
Binding in full mottled calf blond period. Back with nerves decorated. As part red grief repeated. A slight lack in mind. Threadbare tail fairing. Corners bumped.
Travel relation established by Father Nicolas Frizon on memoirs written by a missionary when he visited [...]

2 500 €

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First edition

John SHEBBEARE

Le peuple instruit ; ou Les Alliances dans lesquelles les Ministres de la Grande-Bretagne ont ...

S.n., s.l. 1756, in-12 (9x16,2cm), (2) xxiv, 212pp., relié.

Edition originale, rare.
Reliure en demi maroquin cerise moderne. Confondant pastiche d'une reliure Restauration. Dos à faux nerfs plats orné de cinq fers à froid, de filets dorés ; roulette en queue et en tête. Très bel exemplaire.
Important document concernant l'histoire du Canada [...]

700 €

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Antonio de SOLIS Y RIVADENEYRA

Historia de la conquista de mexico, poblacion, y progressos de la America septentrional, conocido ...

En la impreta de Don Antonio Mayoral, en Madrid 1768, Pet. in-4 (15x21cm), (24) 549pp., relié.


SOLIS Y RIVADENEYRA Antonio de
Historia de la conquista de Mexico, poblacion, y progressos de la America septentrional, conocido por el nombre de Nueva Espana
En la impreta de Don Antonio Mayoral, en Madrid 1768, small in-4 (15 x 21 cm), (24) 549 [...]

500 €

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First edition

James RENNELL

Description historique et géographique de l'Indostan, traduite de l'anglais par J.B. ...

De l'imprimerie de Poignée, à Paris 1800 - An VIII, 3 tomes en 3 Vol. in 8 (12,5x20,5cm), xxxviij, 299pp. (2), relié.

Original French edition, rare, led Bouscheseiche. Without atlas containing 11 cards that are often found separately. Half green calf marbled posterior ca 1850; beautiful pastiche of a confusing time binding. Smooth back adorned with Greek and four finials. Parts of title and volume number in brown [...]

900 €

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