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Viagem ao interior da Nova Hollanda, obra moral, critica e recreativa…
Lisbon: Vicente Jorge de Castro, 1841.
Portuguese public servant's imaginary voyage to the interior
Three volumes bound in one, small octavo; some wear to the edges of the boards and a library reference at head of spine, an attractive copy in contemporary quarter calf. A rare Portuguese imaginary voyage to...
Price (AUD):
$4,850.00
Ref: #3005354
Viagem ao interior da Nova Hollanda, obra moral, critica e recreativa… Por V.J.A.
Lisbon: Vicente Jorge de Castro; Sociedade Propagadora dos Conhecimentos Uteis, 1841.
The pernicious contagion of immorality
Three volumes bound in one, small octavo; in contemporary marbled sheep preserved in folding cloth case. A rare Portuguese imaginary voyage to Australia, not recorded by most of the commentators on the genre. In...
Price (AUD):
$4,850.00
Ref: #4205917
Da Asia de Joáo Barros e de Diogo de Couto, Nova Edição…
Lisbon: Regia Officina Typographica, 1788.
Portuguese discoveries in a crisp uniform edition
24 volumes, duodecimo, with four portraits and five folding maps; contemporary blonde speckled calf. This extensive set is a fundamental travel book, and the basis for any history of Portuguese exploration. This is the first collected edition of...
Price (AUD):
$14,500.00
Ref: #3111076
A Liberdade dos Mares, ou o Governo Inglez Descoberto…
Rio de Janeiro: Miranda & Carneiro, 1833.
Unrecorded reference to Botany Bay
Three parts in one volume, small octavo; in contemporary green quarter calf, gilt. The first edition in Portuguese of this unrecorded reference to Botany Bay. First published in 1789 in Paris, Barère de Vieuzac's La Liberté des Mers.....
Price (AUD):
$1,350.00
Ref: #3409328
The Life of Prince Henry of Portugal surnamed the Navigator...
Abbeville: Paillart et Retaux, 1873.
A pioneering revisionist voyage historian
Octavo, 114pp., plus additional single leaf promoting the Société, old quarter roan. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author: a thorough examination of Richard Henry Major's Life of Henry the Navigator by a member of the Société de Géographie.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #3810923
Memoria sobre a Cultura das Oliveiras em Portugal…
Coimbra: Real Officina Typografica da Universidade, 1786. Small quarto, woodcut initial and tailpieces; contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt. A fine copy of the first edition of this comprehensive manual on the cultivation of olive trees. Dalla Bella had earlier published a work on the manufacture of olive oil - Memorias...
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #4211228
Quatrième Centenaire de la Découverte de la Route océanique de l'Inde (1498-1898).
Moulins: Imprimerie Bourbonnaise, 1898.
French celebration of Portuguese history
Large octavo, frontispiece portrait, some light offsetting to title, original printed wrappers bound in; a very good copy in a lavish presentation binding of mauve calf with red morocco inlay, moiré silk endpapers, both boards with gilt figures, the front board...
Price (AUD):
$2,950.00
Ref: #3706040