Auction 359 Old & Rare Books - Various subjects
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MARITIME HISTORY - TRAVELLING -- BARLAEUS, C. Rerum per octennium in Brasilia et alibi gestarum (…) comiti Mauritii (…) historia. Ed. 2a. Cui access. G. Pisonis (…) tractatus (…). Kleve, Th. Silberling, 1660. (12), 664, (21), (1) pp. W. engr. ti-p., portr. of Johan Maurits of Nassau, separate print of his coat of arms, 3 fold. maps and 5 fold. views, and the (often absent!) print of the eclipse of 12 nov. 1640. Old cf., spine w. raised bands, tastefully blindtooled & ruled sides, a.e.g. (Spine a bit worn at the upper hinge, some shelfwear to lower extremities, entry in pencil on paste down, a remarkably clean, well-preserved, handsome copy of this work).

First edition of the so-called "little Barleu", itself the 2nd edition of the folio edition by Blaeu in 1647. Much reduced in size, but unabridged and with an added work by W. Piso on Brasilian nature. Rare. - Borba de Moraes, p. 79; Sabin 3409.

€ 2400

result € 2200

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