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The Rugendas Letters:
Johann Moritz Rugendas’
First Voyage to Brazil
1821-1825
The Sections of Cap Trafalgar
The First Prussian Maritime Atlas
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maritime rarities
from XVth to XIXth centuries
— a selection —

Album de Marine
Series of 80 chalk lithographs after Louis Lebreton and Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio

From the age of Le Roi Soleil
Carte de la Mer d’Allemagne,
Contenant les Bancs Isles et Costes Comprises depuis Bergen
et les Isles Schetland jusque au Pas de Calais

With ships beyond number before & in the harbor
Amsterdam. Panoramic general view from the seaside

Rare pioneer of English marine painting
Thomas Baston, The Tempest at Sea
Vellum drawing along with its corresponding print

“Important Colorist”
Alexander Bertelsson, Boats at Lake Walchen, Bavaria

The lavishly illustrated modern monograph of the legendary admiral :
P. J. Blok, Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruyter

Hans Bol, Shipbuilding at the River amidst Woody Landscape

Abraham Bosse, The Oyster Vendor

Snow-white, eye-flattering copy of the 1st edition :
Jacques Pierre Bourdé de Villehuet,
Manuel des Marins, ou Dictionnaire des Termes de Marine

Seven original documents on slavery in Brazil

Demonstration of progress & power before the declaration of the Crimean War :
Oswald Walters Brierly, The Naval Review at Spithead (1853).
Her Majesty The Queen Reviewing the Fleet in Action

Paul Bril, Rocky Coastal Landscape

Carte Nouvelle des Costes de Hollande, Zeelande, Flandre, Picardie et Normandie … avec une Partie des Costes d’Angleterre

Beschrijvende Catalogus der Scheepsmodellen
en Scheepsbouwkundige Teekeningen 1600-1900

Chancellery License by the Royal Schleswig=Holstein Chancellery at Copenhagen in regard of the exemption of the commanders of evers and other freight vessels and their sons from army service (March 7, 1814)

E. Keble Chatterton, Old Sea Paintings

E. Keble Chatterton, Old Ship Prints

Circular Decree by the (royal Danish) Supreme Court of Schleswig at Gottorf
in regard of the clearance of the crafts loading and unloading in the Flensburg Fiord
(Aug. 29, 1826)

In the original coloring :
John Heaviside Clark, Bird Catching from below

In the original coloring :
John Heaviside Clark, Greenland Seal Catching

“Eminent above all as Graphic Artist”
Paul-Émile Colin, Sunday on the Marne

The Abendroth Copy as exemplaire enrichi
with 23 mounted drawings by Lüder Arenhold
Edward William Cooke, Fifty Plates of Shipping and Craft

Carel Lodewijk Dake, Fishermen on the beach with flat-bottom ships

Honoré Daumier, Nous ne nous serions jamais doutés tout de même
que nous naviguerions un jour sur ce vaisseau-là

Ludwig Dill, Coral Fishers

Commander of the victorious Christian Fleet
at Lepanto 7 Oct. 1571
Don Juan d’Austria. About 1572

“Painter of the Galleys and Big Ships”
Anthony van Dyck, Andreas van Ertvelt. Pictor Triremivm Navivmqve Maiorvm Antverpiae

“The Eldest of the Flemish Sea Painters of the 17th Century”
Andries van Eertvelt, Entrance of the Port of Genoa with Papal Galleon

Formentera abstract
Alfred Eichhorn, Archipelago (Formentera)

On Rhine Rafts into Emigration
 
The 13 plates complete with the text :
Forges des Ancres (Anchor Forge)

All about water :
Ahasver Fritsch, Jus Fluviaticum,
Romano-Germanicum Tripartium

German Ironclads

Royally approved Draft
for a new fee for the ferrymen of the city of Glückstadt
(Sep. 27, 1820)
 
The most shining side of customs :
Poster by Frederick VI, King of Denmark, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein etc.,
regarding several special tariffs because of suffered average or winter quarters
(Dec. 22, 1830)

Jan van Goyen, The Capuchin Monastery at the Canal

Jan van Goyen, The Path along the Wide River

Jan van Goyen, The two Round Towers by the Canal

Gerrit Groenewegen, Boot ship, zeylende voor de wind

Gerrit Groenewegen, Koopvaardey-buys zeylende by de wind

The original edition
of additionally ducal Bavarian provenance
Léon Guérin, Les Navigateurs Français.
Histoire des Navigations, Découvertes et Colonisations Françaises

An expedition into the pathless :
Rudolf Ritter von Gutmann, My Hunting Expedition in the Year 1909
With 87 heliogravures on mounted China

“Nederlands laatste zeeheld”
Here the first edition with the rare supplement separatum
M(auritz) C(ornelis) van Hall, Het Leven en Karakter van den Admiraal Jhr. Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen. – Bijvoegselen tot den eersten Druk van het … uit den tweden Druk verzameld

View on the Elbe and Hamburg Harbor

Maritime South — Heckendorf’s South
Franz Heckendorf, Ships in the Porto Vecchio of Trieste

John Postle Heseltine, River Landscape

“… painted with the greatest pleasure”
William Hogarth, Captain Thomas Coram

The embarkation :
William Hogarth, The Idle ‘Prentice turn’d away and sent to Sea

The much adored ‘Crab Girl’ –
“There’s flesh and blood for you; – them!” :
William Hogarth, Shrimps!

“Very rare” :
Wenceslaus Hollar, Nauis Bellica Hollandica

Rotterdam in its whole Grandeur :
Roman de Hooghe, Caart van de Stad Rotterdam en gezigt langs de Maas,
benevens de Afbeldingen van de voornaamste publique Gebowen

In the original coloring :
Samuel Howitt, Seamen killing a Polar Bear

100 Years ago — A “World of Yesterday”
Imperial Cruise of “Imperator” July 7 to 9, 1913
Roll of Guests & Dinner Menu

A Backhuysen for the Birthday :
Horst Janssen, Backhuizen greets Stubbe at June 7, 1988

Zeeland’s first luitenant-admiraals
J. C. de Jonge, Levens-beschrijving van Johan en Cornelis Evertsen, Luitenant-Admiralen van Zeeland

Rudolf Jordan, Lifeguard (at Scheveningen)

Gerard van Keulen, The New Sea Map Chanell Betwext England et France

Two Silk Proofs in Early Restoration Framing
Hendrik Kobell, Gezicht van het Bergsche Veld … in de Overstrooming, den 15.den Nov. 1775. / Gezicht van den Storm en hogen Vloed, voor Elburg, den 21.sten Novemb. 1776

The Whole Plenitude of Large and Small Sailing-vessels
Pieter le Comte, Afbeeldingen van Schepen en Vaartuigen in verschillende Bewegingen

The Abundant Text & Plate Work by the Practician for the Practician
Le Comte, Pieter. Praktikale Zeevaartkunde en theoretische kennis voor Handel en Scheepvaart

Hoi Lebadang, Barques before Cabins in the Jungle

Hoi Lebadang, Barques in the Jungle

Hoi Lebadang, Barques en Orient

License by the royal Danish Accounts Office
in regard of the permission for another 2 years to sail for Raudarhavn on Iceland and to trade there (April 14, 1825)

License by Frederick VI, King of Denmark, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein etc.,
in regard of the examination for the Elbe skipper license
(Sep. 9, 1823)

License by Frederick VI, King of Denmark, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein etc.,
lifting the general embargo on the ships and crafts
along the Elbe coast and Western coast
(March 29, 1813)

Ferdinand Lindner, Life Boat putting to Sea

The dot over the i among the legendary old wall-maps :
Matthäus Albrecht + Georg Friedrich Lotter
Carte Géographique Représentant le Cours entier du RHIN ,
de la MOSELLE / de la MEUSE et de l’ESCAUT

In its colors just as beautiful as rich portrait :
Ferdinand Magellanus

Man-of-war of the Hansa in the 17th century

Commissioned 155 Years ago on 4 October 1864
“The Famous Double-Turreted Iron-Clad Monitor”
Monadnock, United States Iron Clad Battery
![Giovanni Monleone + Guiseppe Pessagno [ed.], Cristóbal Colón / Christophe Colomb](books/thumbs/28915_title.jpg)
Raymond Lestonnat’s copy :
Giovanni Monleone + Guiseppe Pessagno [ed.]
Cristóbal Colón. Documentos y pruebas de su origen genovés
Christophe Colomb. Documents prouvant son origine génoise
Spanish-French edition
![Giovanni Monleone + Guiseppe Pessagno [ed.], Christopher Colvmbvs / Christoph Colvmbvs](books/thumbs/28916_title.jpg)
“The facsimiles of documents are excellent” :
Giovanni Monleone + Guiseppe Pessagno [ed.]
Christopher Colvmbvs. Documents and Proofs of his Genoese origin
Christoph Colvmbvs. Dokumente und Beweise seiner Genueser Herkunft
English-German edition

The van der Neer of the collections Maas – Fürstenberg (?) – Zingel
Aert van der Neer, River Landscape by Moonlight

Aert van der Neer, River Landscape by Moonlight

“Finest Photo Covering”
The Great Dike Breach in the St. Peter’s Flood 1651
Pieter Nolpe, Het Door Breecken vande St. Anthonis Dyck buyten Amsterdam … op den 5. Martij 1651

Representation of an Orlog or Man-of-War
with complete Rigging Flags & Pennants also Prow and Stern,
likewise of a Boat and Sloop and other things
  
Cadet’s training :
(Nicolas-Marie) Ozanne, Marine militaire
ou recueil des differens vaisseaux qui servent a la guerre

Charming Land & Seascapes
Nicolas-Marie Ozanne, Paisages et Marines

She carried Rochambeau to the American Revolutionary War :
Nicolas-Marie Ozanne, Vüe du Vaisseau du Roy le Duc de Bourgogne,
Lancé a la Mer dans le Port de Rochefort le 20 Octobre 1751

“… a great service to civilisation”
Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan’s Voyage

Proclamation by the (Royal Danish) General Customs Chamber and Commercial Council
in regard of licensing + procedure of a pilot signal flag (Jan. 26, 1825)

Hamburg’s Shipping & Trade
during the American War of Independence :
Regulation, in regard of Hamburg’s Trade and Shipping,
during the War (September 18, 1778)

Regulation On The Commissioned Wasser=Schout’s
In Hamburg Office and Execution (August 31, 1691)

In marvelous impression :
Representation of the Bloody Sea Encounter
between the Dutch, and English, so lasting three days,
happened in August, Anno. 1653

Resolution + Publication by the Royal Holstein=Lauenburg Supreme Court at Glückstadt
in the matter of privateers and their prizes in the harbors and navigable waters of the duchies (May 17, 1823)

Karl Lorenz Rettich, Boats on the Beach

Patroness of the powder magazine :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Saint Barbara

The rare series :
Jacques Rigaud, Galleys
Set of 6 sheet in engraving with etching

Of final creation :
Peter Paul Rubens, Coastal Landscape in a Thunderstorm

He discovered Brazil
Johann Moritz Rugendas, Picturesque Voyage through Brazil
in 100 colored lithographs
as the quintessence of his first voyage
Facsimile edition in the original Solander box as furnished only initially

Sailfish – Bayonet Fish – Istiophorus triactis
(= Istiophorus platyterus) e Mari rubro

Bremen Monumental
Rudolph Ernst Schilling, PERSPECTIVE REPRESENTATIONS
of the Imperial and Hanse City BREMEN
First Piece (all)

Gustav Schönleber, Koffs

Gustav Schönleber, Tjalks

Hamburg – Nitrate-Chili – Hamburg
A live-illustrated PADUA tall ship voyage
Günther T. Schulz, Under Sail around Cape Horn
The able-bodied publisher’s 5-piece canon
Drawing – Engraver’s Proof – Clean Sheet – Book in Preferential & Ordinary Binding
as exemplaire enrichi in quite extraordinary maritime-bibliophile presentation

Ships-in-a-Bottle

For the encouragement of the industrious & proficient
“the legal fixing of daily pay … is completely released by this”
Newly Revised Order of the Shipwrights (April 3, 1788)

Freedom of Service 400 Years Ago :
The Shipwrights Order (August 29, 1631)

Signal Lamp Red
Massive copper model with 360° Fresnel lens

The shipping scene :
Henry Singleton, Industry and Oeconomy
The shipowner giving last orders to the young clerk at the harbor

Sphere Map

Abraham Storck, Marine

Klaus Störtebeker’s Capture off Heligoland

Pietro Todeschi, Shipwreck in Tempest at the Coast. 2 sheet

Trapezunt – Trébizonde

Troisieme Figure de la Coupe d’un Vaisseau du premier rang

Willem van de Velde II, Marine

Claude Joseph Vernet, Vue d’un Port de Mer pendant le Brouillard

In its colors just as beautiful as rich portrait :
Americus Vesputius

The first cruise ship
Visitors’ Book of “Prinzessin Victoria Luise”
June 1905 – December 1906
In the cuir ciselé master binding of Georg Hulbe

Franz Edmund Weirotter, At Civita Vecchia

Franz Edmund Weirotter, Wide River Landscape

“One of the decisive battles in the world”
as the start of England’s supremacy on the oceans
and at the same time one of Benjamin West’s main works
Benjamin West, The Battle at La Hogue

“He who won’t dike must vanish”
100 Years after the Devastating Christmas Flood 1717
(Karl Friedrich von Wiebeking), The Course of the River Elbe
from Grodenstack over Cuxhaven till northwest of Kugelbake

Wrasses – Labrus
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