Marshall Rare Books
Travel & Exploration
Pacific, Americas, Polar, Asia
A Large Collection of Maritime Coastal Charts of Europe, Including the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
A Collection of 47 of Maritime Charts of Europe, copper engraved, mostly double-page, many with coastal profiles, vignettes, inset charts, former…
Four Watercolours of Chinese Birds
1820] 250 x 170mm, Four Brightly Coloured Paintings of the Rufous -Throated Partridge; Chinese Bulbul; Jocobin Cuckoo; and Green Iora. Painted on…
Four Engravings of Persian Customs and Costumes
[Paris], 1710, four hand coloured engravings depicting Persian customs and costumes, slight overall toning,
Three Fine Prints of Persian Costume
[Paris], 1714-15, three copper engraved prints, one hand coloured, depicting Persian costumes.
Tombleson’s Views of the Rhine
Lacking title, 68 steel engraved plates, tissue guards, fold out map of the Rhine, occasional light foxing to plates, half calf, rebound, 8vo, W…
Select Views of the Borough of Reading, and Adjacent Scenery.
[Reading: Published May 19, 1823, by J. Rusher, King Street, Reading; and W.H. Timms, engraver, tinter of prints, and mounter of drawings, &c. No. 6…
Fauna Boreali-Americana, or, The Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America: containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions
London: John Murray, Richard Bentley and Josiah Fisher, 1829- 1837, 4 vols, 4to, (275 x 200mm), Contemporary red half morocco gilt, with 110 engraved…
Observations on the Diseases of the Army in Jamaica
First edition, 8vo, half-title, contemporary tree calf, gilt tooled spine with red morocco gilt label, bookplates, blindstamps of [Shirburn Castle]…
Hidden gem
Arrest Warrant Issued for the Capture of Two English Pirates for Heresy and a Prison Break.
Pedro Moya de Contreras, Mexico City, 9th day of March,1573, size 450 x 320mm SIR FRANCIS DRAKE'S ENGLISH PIRATES Arrest Warrant For English Pirates…
A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies
4to, Contemporary tan calf, with 7 plates of plans and charts including a fine engraved oval portrait frontispiece of Bligh by Conde after Russell…
The Natural History of Cornwall: The Air, Climate, Waters, Rivers, Lakes,Sea and Tides; of the Stones, Semimetals, Metals, Tin, and the Manner ofMining; the Constitution of the Stannaries
Jackson, Oxford: 1758.Folio,full tan calf gilt, xix, 326, (2) pp.with 28 engraved plates, large folding map; leaf of errata and directions to the…
Chinese Pilot. Drawings of Chinese Coastal Profiles from HMS Cornwallis.
Scarce Survival from The Opium Wars. China, On board ship, [1840],Oblong small folio (151 x 235mm.), 21 leaves with 19 pages of drawings of coastal…
Observations upon the Marine Barometer, made during the Examination of the Coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the Years 1801, 1802 and 1803. By Matthew Flinders
FIRST EDITION, From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the Year MDCCCVI. Part II, pp. [239]-266, unbound, 4to, 1806.
Manuscript Letter to Edward Harene of HMS Conway to Transfer to HMS Blonde where he is promoted to Lieutenant replacing Lieutenant William McCan discharged through illness.
DARWIN/BEAGLE VOYAGE Printed Heading ‘By Francis Mason, Esq C.B.Commodore and Senior Officer of His Majest’s Ships and Vessels in the Pacific. A Fine…
AN ACCOUNT OF ROMAN ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED AT WOODCHESTER IN THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER.
Sold by Cadell & Davies, B.& J. White, Edwards, Payne, Robson, Nicol, Elmsley, and Leigh & Sotheby.London 1797 Large elephant folio, (17½ x 23½…
Journal du Voyage fait a la Mer de Sud, avec les Flibustiers de l’Amerique en 1684. & annees suivantes.
Jean Baptiste Coignard, Paris, 1690, 12mo, title with woodcut device, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt.
JAHLEEL SAUMAREZ`S ACTIONS OFF ALGECIRAS AND GIBRALTAR July 6 th and 12 th 1801
Scarce Set of five aquatint engravings by Hubert & Stadler from drawings by Captain Jahleel Brenton London, Published January 1, May 13 & 19, 1802 by…
A Briefe Description of the Whole World. Wherein is particularly described all the monarchies, empires and kingdoms of the same, with their academies.
As also, their severall titles and scituations thereunto adjoyning. Written by the most Reverend Father George – Late Archbishop of Canterbury…
Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae navigationum…
4to oblong (233 x 177 mm) ; 275 pp. and 25 folding engraved plates and maps. First Latin edition. A fine copy in contemporary vellum.
A Voyage round the World by Way of the Great South Sea
Folding engraved map showing California as an island, 4 engraved plates, 2 folding. Contemporary blind-panelled calf, spine with gilt-lettered…
L’Egeo Redivivo o’sia Chrorographia dell’Arcipelago
A General Collection of the Best And Most Interesting Voyages And Travels In All Parts of the World…
Prima pars descriptionis itineris navalis in Indiam Orientalem
