TRAVEL]. LANGSDORFF, GEORG HEINRICH. Bemerkungen auf einer Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803 bis 1807... Frankfurt, 1812. 2 vols. in 4, 4to, 264 x 212 mm., modern cloth; scattered light foxing to plates. FIRST EDITION, 2 engraved portraits and 44 engraved plates. Sabin 38894 ("Langsdorff was naturalist to Krusenstern's expedition, which he quitted at Kamschatka, and explored the Aleutian Isles, the Northwest Coast, California, etc. His work contains a fuller account of Sitka, the Settlement of St. Francisco, etc. than any other"). KKM/HSNY, bookplate; Robert de Belder -- HASSELQUIST, FREDERIK. Voyages and Travels in the Levant in the Years 1749 [-52]... published by Charles Linnaeus. London, 1766. 8vo, 209 x 127 mm., contemporary calf, spine gilt. Engraved folding map. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 2459 -- LINNAEUS, CARL. Olanska och Gothlandska Resa pa Riksens Hogloflige Standers befallning forrattad Ahr 1741... Stockholm and Uppsala, 1745. 8vo, 182 x 102 mm., half calf; some browning. FIRST EDITION, 2 engraved folding maps, one engraved folding plate and woodcut illustrations in text. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 4737 -- TOURNEFORT, JOSEPH PITTON DE. Relation d'un Voyage du Levant... Amsterdam, 1718. 4to, 250 x 195 mm., old vellum; some rather obtrusive waterstains. 89 engraved plates (48 plants, others of shells, maps, costume, views, etc.) and 46 engraved illustrations in text. First published at Paris in the previous year. Hunt 444. Ownership inscription "la Bruyere (?) Florence 1743" on title; Colloection of Capper Brooke of Ufford, Sufflok (typical manuscript notes on inserted slips at pp. 117 and 179); Arpad Plesch, bookplate; Robert de Belder -- PALLAS, PETER SIMON Voyages de Professeur Pallas, dans plusiers Provinces de l'Empire de Russie et dans l'Asie Septentrionale... Paris, 1794. 9 vols., (including Atlas) 197 x 125 mm. (Atlas 327 x 245 mm.), contemporary half calf, rebacked, using old spine, upper covers of Atlas (not rebacked) detached, spine worn. Second french edition, 109 engraved plates (some folding, some double-page) including an unnumbered map, not recorded in Stafleu. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 2742. Philippe de Vilmorin, bookplate; Robert de Belder -- HERBERT, THOMAS. Relation du Voyage de Perse et des Indes Orientales. Paris, 1663. 4to, 236 x 172 mm., contemporary calf, worn; light marginal dampstaining at beginning and end. First French Edition, woodcut device on title and woodcut ornaments in text. Brunet III:109 -- HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER VON and AIMÉ JACQUES ALEXANDRE BONPLAND. Reise... nach den Wendekreisen... ein Auszug aus ihren Memoiren von J.C. Delametherie... Erfurt, 1805. 8vo, 150 x 90 mm., boards. (18)
TRAVEL]. LANGSDORFF, GEORG HEINRICH. Bemerkungen auf einer Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803 bis 1807... Frankfurt, 1812. 2 vols. in 4, 4to, 264 x 212 mm., modern cloth; scattered light foxing to plates. FIRST EDITION, 2 engraved portraits and 44 engraved plates. Sabin 38894 ("Langsdorff was naturalist to Krusenstern's expedition, which he quitted at Kamschatka, and explored the Aleutian Isles, the Northwest Coast, California, etc. His work contains a fuller account of Sitka, the Settlement of St. Francisco, etc. than any other"). KKM/HSNY, bookplate; Robert de Belder -- HASSELQUIST, FREDERIK. Voyages and Travels in the Levant in the Years 1749 [-52]... published by Charles Linnaeus. London, 1766. 8vo, 209 x 127 mm., contemporary calf, spine gilt. Engraved folding map. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 2459 -- LINNAEUS, CARL. Olanska och Gothlandska Resa pa Riksens Hogloflige Standers befallning forrattad Ahr 1741... Stockholm and Uppsala, 1745. 8vo, 182 x 102 mm., half calf; some browning. FIRST EDITION, 2 engraved folding maps, one engraved folding plate and woodcut illustrations in text. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 4737 -- TOURNEFORT, JOSEPH PITTON DE. Relation d'un Voyage du Levant... Amsterdam, 1718. 4to, 250 x 195 mm., old vellum; some rather obtrusive waterstains. 89 engraved plates (48 plants, others of shells, maps, costume, views, etc.) and 46 engraved illustrations in text. First published at Paris in the previous year. Hunt 444. Ownership inscription "la Bruyere (?) Florence 1743" on title; Colloection of Capper Brooke of Ufford, Sufflok (typical manuscript notes on inserted slips at pp. 117 and 179); Arpad Plesch, bookplate; Robert de Belder -- PALLAS, PETER SIMON Voyages de Professeur Pallas, dans plusiers Provinces de l'Empire de Russie et dans l'Asie Septentrionale... Paris, 1794. 9 vols., (including Atlas) 197 x 125 mm. (Atlas 327 x 245 mm.), contemporary half calf, rebacked, using old spine, upper covers of Atlas (not rebacked) detached, spine worn. Second french edition, 109 engraved plates (some folding, some double-page) including an unnumbered map, not recorded in Stafleu. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 2742. Philippe de Vilmorin, bookplate; Robert de Belder -- HERBERT, THOMAS. Relation du Voyage de Perse et des Indes Orientales. Paris, 1663. 4to, 236 x 172 mm., contemporary calf, worn; light marginal dampstaining at beginning and end. First French Edition, woodcut device on title and woodcut ornaments in text. Brunet III:109 -- HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER VON and AIMÉ JACQUES ALEXANDRE BONPLAND. Reise... nach den Wendekreisen... ein Auszug aus ihren Memoiren von J.C. Delametherie... Erfurt, 1805. 8vo, 150 x 90 mm., boards. (18)
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