Rare Books
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# 49526
MONTANUS, Arnoldus
Atlas Japannensis: being Remarkable Addresses by way of Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Emperor of Japan.
Containing a description of their several territories, cities, temples and fortresses; their religions, laws and customs; their prodigious wealth and gorgeous habits; the nature of their soil, plants, beasts, hills, rivers and foundations, with the Character of the ancient and modern Japanners. Collected out of their several writings and journals by Arnoldus Montanus. English’d, and …
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# 24318
[VOC]
Reglement voor de Opzieners bij het Mijnwezen in Nederlandsch Indie …
Japan, ter Drukkerij te Desima [Nagasaki], 1858. Octavo, original plain pink wrappers stitched in the Japanese style (loss of paper along spine), pp 80; early Japanese owner’s seal stamps in red to title and lower wrapper; some worming to lower wrapper and margins of first and last few leaves, else very good; housed in a …
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# 16576
[Bataillonschool]
Reglement op de exercitien en manoeuvres der infanterie. Derde gedeelte. Bataillonschool.
Breda, 1855 [but Dejima, 1857]. Octavo, contemporary Japanese binding of half green calf over marbled papered boards; front free-endpaper with early Japanese owner’s seal stamps in red; pp. vi, 147; Japanese inscription in kanji to rear pastedown; a few leaves with minor worming, else a good copy, housed in a gilt decorated morocco clamshell box …
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# 49729
CARDIM, António Francisco
Relatione della provincia del Giappone, scritta dal padre Antonio Francesco Cardim della Compagnia di Giesu, procuratore di quella Provincia.
All Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Innocentio X. In Roma : nella Stamperia di Andrea Fei, 1645. Duodecimo, contemporary limp vellum ruled and decorated in gilt (recased, some minor restoration to edges, mainly to lower cover), spine with gilt-stamped lettering and decoration; pastedowns renewed; pp. [12], 160; title with woodcut Jesuit device, woodcut initials; contents …
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# 48416
[PERRY, Matthew C.]
Japan Expedition Press : three printings made on board United States Steam Frigate “Powhatan” and “Mississippi”, dated May 8th, June 28th and September 4th, 1854.
Three rare Japan Expedition Press imprints printed in Hong Kong and at sea, including the critically important letter from Perry to the Emperor of Japan, accompanying the letter from the President of the United States. Printed at sea on board the U.S.S. Powhatan off the coast of Japan in May, 1854, on the small press supplied …
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# 13312
Encarnação, António da (Antonius ab Incarnatione), d. 1665
Breve relaçam das cousas, que nestes annos proximos, fizerão os Religiosos da Ordem dos Pregadores, e dos prodigios, que succedéraõ nes Christandades do Sul, que correm por sua conta na India Oriental.
Impressa por ordem do Padre Mestre Frey Antonio da Encarnação da mesma Ordem, & Deputado do S. Officio. Lisboa : Na Officina de Henrique Valente de Oliveira, Impressor del Rey N. S., 1665. Small quarto, superb modern binding of dark green crushed morocco, richly gilt; gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers; pp [2], 68; early foliation in manuscript; …
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# 48930
MEDHURST, W. H. (Walter Henry) (1796-1857)
An English and Japanese and Japanese and English vocabulary. Compiled from native works, by W. H. Medhurst.
Batavia : Printed by lithography, 1830. First edition. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), handsome modern binding of half calf over marbled papered boards, spine decorated and lettered in gilt; edges stained red; pp. viii, 343; lithographed handwritten text, the Japanese presented in both Roman and Japanese characters; title-page with red ownership stamps of ‘T. Flanaut, …
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# 49523
D'AVITY, Pierre
Relatione di alcune cose cavate dalle lettere scritte ne gli anni 1619. 1620. & 1621. dal Giappone.
Al P. Mutio Vitelleschi preposito generale della Compagnia de Giesu. Rome : heirs of Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1624. Duodecimo, contemporary limp vellum (recased), both covers with double gilt rule and stamped at centre with episcopal coat of arms in gilt, spine with traces of early manuscript shelf markings; pp. 232; title with woodcut Jesuit device, small …
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# 46940
SOUSA, Matías de (1598-1647)
Compendio de lo sucedido en el Iapon desde la fundacion de aquella Christiandad.
Y relacion de los martires que padecieron estos años de 1629 y 30. Sacada de las cartas que escrivieron los Padres de la Compañia que alli assisten. Madrid : en la Imprenta del Reyno, 1633. Quarto (200 x 150 mm), contemporary limp vellum; [10], 43, [1 colophon] leaves; title with woodcut Jesuit device; text in …
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# 49431
KIÖPING, Nils Mattsson; WILLMAN, Olof Eriksson; [CARON, François]
Een kort beskrffning uppå trenne reesor och peregrinationer, sampt Konungariket Japan:
I. Beskrifwes een Reesa, som genom Asia, Africa och många andra hedniska Konungarijken sampt Öijar; med flijt är förrättat aff Nils Matson Kiöping, fördetta Skepz-Lieutnat. II. Beskrifwes een Resa till Ost Indien, China och Japan: III. Med förestlliande om förbenembde stoora och mächta konungarijketz Japan tillstånd, sampt thetz Inwånares Handel och Wandel: förrättat och beskrefwen …
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# 48356
MONTANUS, Arnoldus (1625 - 1683)
Ambassades memorables de la Compagnie des Indes orientales des Provinces Unies vers les empereurs du Japon.
Amsterdam : Jacob de Meurs, 1680. First edition in French. Folio, contemporary morocco, ruled in gilt with corner fleurons, spine in compartments with raised bands, elaborate gilt tooling, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, general scuffing, expertly rebacked, marbled endpapers, frontispiece engraving, 6 preliminary pages; large folding engraved map of the Tokaido road from …
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# 48554
Fróis, Luís
Lettera del Giapone degli anni 1591. et 1592.
Scritta al R. P. Generale della Compagnia di Giesu. Et dalla Spagnuola nella Italiana lingua tradotta dal P. Ubaldino Bartolini della Compagnia medesima. Rome : Luigi Zannetti, 1595. Duodecimo, later quarter vellum over marbled papered boards, gilt lettering to spine; pp. 184; title with woodcut Jesuit device, early inscription at upper margin shaved by binder; …
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# 49525
Piñeyro, Luis
La nouvelle histoire du Iapon, divisee en cinq livres,
; où il est traicte amplement de l’estat de sa Chrestienté, du progrés de la foy Catholique, des grandes persécutions qui y sont arrivées … jusques à l’année mil six cens quinze. Composée en Espagnol par le R.P. Louys Pigneyra … et traduicte … par I.B. Paris : Adrian Taupinart, 1618. Thick octavo, handsome binding …
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# 49563
HECO, Joseph; MURDOCH, James (editor)
The narrative of a Japanese; what he has seen and the people he has met in the course of the last forty years.
Yokohama : Japan Gazette, Meiji 28 [1895]. Two volumes, octavo (220 x 155 mm), original blind-blocked brown (Vol. I) and tan (Vol. II) cloth, upper boards and spines lettered in gilt (both volumes with a few light marks to the boards and softened at spine ends); pp. [4], iii, [1 blank], 346, [1 blank], [2 …
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# 48659
SUAREZ DE FIGUEROA, Cristobal
Historia y anal relacion de las cosas que hizieron los Padres de la Compañia de Jesus, por las partes de Oriente y otras, en la propagacion del Santo Evangelio, los años passados de 607. y 608
Sacada, limada, y compuesta de Portugues en Castellano por el Doctor Christoval Suarez de Figueroa. En Madrid : Juan Hasrey, 1614. Small quarto, later vellum over black cloth, spine with gilt decoration and morocco title label lettered in gilt; title set within decorative border, with woodcut Jesuit device and an easy ownership inscription; pp. [16], …
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# 49748
TRIGAULT, Nicolas; MORIN, Pierre (translator)
Histoire des Martyrs du Iapon depuis l’an MDCXII iusques a MDCXX.
Composée en Latin par le R.P. Nicolas Trigaut, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Et traduite en francois par le P. Pierre Morin, de la mesme Compagnie. A Paris, chez Sebastien Cramoisy, ruë sainct Jacques aux Cicognes, 1624. Quarto (240 x 180 mm), contemporary limp vellum (stained), spine with old lettering in manuscript; illustrated title-leaf engraved by Michel …