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[LØVENØRNS (POUL)] Beskrivelse over den Iislandske Kyst og alle Havne fra Fugle-Skiærene og til Stikkelsholm i Brede-Bugten med Forklaring over deres Indseiling, additional engraved title within ornamental border, 10 engraved maps and plates (5 folding, 3 of which sectional), 4 engraved vignettes (one a map), plate list bound at end, original stiff marbled wrappers, spine worn, 4to, Copenhagen, Frid. Wilh. Thiele, 1788--ALMEIDA (FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE LACERDA E) Diario da viagem do Dr. Francisco José de Lacerda e Almeida pelas capitanias do Pará, Rio Negro, Matto-Grosso, Cuyabá, e S. Paulo, nos annos de 1780 a 1790, woodcut title device, 2 single wormholes throughout (last dozen or so leaves with one longer trail), dampstaining with loss to lower margins (last few leaves with text just affected and some repairs), untrimmed and partially unopened in publisher's printed wrappers, upper cover with title and ship device within ornamental border, repair to head of spine, lower cover defective, 4to, São Paulo, Typ. de Costa Silveira, 1841--[D'ESNEVAL (PIERRE JOSEPH LE ROUX)] Relacion de los viages que el conde Desneval emprendio por tiera, y por mar para la Etiopia, y de lo que le aconteciò con los Ingleses en las islas de Cabo Verde, del Dominio de su Magestad Portuguesa, 20 pages, drop-head title, text ends "yo Felix Joseph Rodriguez Brasco la hice escrivir, y subscrivi, è firmè", some slight creasing in margins, contemporary marbled wrappers, folio (292 x 206mm.), [Lisbon, c.1745?]; and 5 others on China and Japan etc. (8) Fußnoten The first work is a rare description of the Icelandic coast, its harbours and their approaches (the plate list noting that 4 of the 14 maps were too large to bind in, and these are hardly ever found); the second work is one of the earliest books printed in São Paolo, in original wrappers; and the third work is a justificatory account of the colourful life and exploits of the Frenchman Pierre Joseph le Roux D'Esneval, only two copies of which have been traced, both in Italy. D'Esneval was commissioned along with F.L. Norden to explore a new trade route to Ethiopia in 1737, and was later captured in the Cape Verde islands by the English.