Edmund OLLIER

History of the United States

Cassell Petter & Galpin, London & Paris & New York s.d. (circa 1880), 18,5x26cm, 3 volumes reliés.

Edition adorned with many in-text illustrations.
Bindings half shagreen bottle green, back with five nerves adorned with jewels and golden nets, golden name of the author in tails of the backs, some friction without too much gravity on the backs, framing of cold nets on the boards of cartonnage [...]

400 €

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Johann Baptist HOMANN

Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima Geographica ...

Nuremberg s.d. (circa 1716), 61,4x53cm, une feuille rempliée.

Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima Geographica exhibita


Nuremberg | [ca 1716] | 61.4 x 53 cm | one map
Beautiful copy of one of the rare maps of the American North-East in the early eighteenth century, showing the region as [...]

1 500 €

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José Maria de HEREDIA & Bernal DIAZ DE CASTILLO

Véridique histoire de la conquête de la Nouvelle Espagne

Alphonse Lemerre, Paris 1877-1887, 10x17,5cm, 4 volumes reliés.

First edition of the French translation by José Maria de Heredia.
Bindings in half brown morocco with corners, back with five nerves set with gilded nets and adorned with crossed golden swords overcoming a honorific golden distinction, golden dates in tails, framing of gilt fillets on marbled [...]

900 €

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Manuel BERNARDEZ

Le Brésil. Sa vie, son travail, son avenir

Ortega y Radaelli, Buenos Aires 1908, 15,5x22,5cm, broché.

First edition.
Binding full blue canvas, smooth back decorated with double golden nets, preserved cover.
Book decorated with in-text illustrations and planks unfolding inset (two boards were torn where they were folded and are therefore in two parts).

30 €

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MILLIET DE SAINT ADOLPHE

Diccionario geographico, historico e descriptivo, do Imperio do Brazil

J. P. Aillaud, Pariz 1845, In-8 (12,5x20cm), 566pp. et 794pp., relié.

First edition, translated into Portuguese of the unpublished French manuscript by Gaetano Lopez de Moura. The map of Brazil and the 5 city maps have not been linked in this copy.
Binding half shagreen green fir contemporary. Back with false nerves adorned with 3 fetuses caissonés. Title and [...]

1 200 €

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Jorge AMADO

Les terres du bout du monde

Editions Messidor, Paris 1985, 14x21,5cm, broché.

First edition of the French translation for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Pleasant full copy of his illustrated jacket.
Signed autograph dedication of Jorge Amado, in Portuguese, to his translator Alice (Raillard) and her husband the art critic Georges.
 

150 €

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Jorge AMADO

La découverte de l'Amérique par les Turcs ou comment Jamil Bichara, défricheur de terres ...

Stock, Paris 1992, 14,5x22cm, broché.

First edition of the French translation and for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Pleasant full copy of his jacket illustrated despite a trace of folding in the head of the first sheets.
Signed autograph dedication of Jorge Amado, in Portuguese, to his translator Alice [...]

150 €

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FERREIRA DE CASTRO & Blaise CENDRARS

Forêt vierge

Grasset, Paris 1938, 14,5x19,5cm, broché.

First edition of the French translation by Blaise Cendrars, one of 150 numbered copies on Alfa paper, only leading copies after 16 "pur-fil" paper.
Back slightly insolated and wrinkled without gravity.

100 €

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