Travel & Exploration
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# 50377
PHILLIP, Arthur
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island;
Compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several departments. To which are added, the Journals of Lieutenants Shortland, Watts, Ball and Captain Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries. The views &c. &c. drawn on the spot, by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall, &c. Dublin : Printed for …
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# 50585
WHEATCROFT, Andrew
Bahrain in original photographs 1880 – 1961
London and New York : Kegan Paul International, 1988. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket (light handling wear), pp. xiv; 142, photographically illustrated, a few small marks to endpapers, else internally fine. Loosely enclosed are a lengthy article on Bahrain extracted from the National Geographic Magazine in 1979, and some receipts and postage forms from Bahrain in …
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# 50492
RICHARD, L., S.J.
Géographie de l’Empire de Chine (Cours Inférieur) = Fa wen Chung-kuo kʻun yü lüeh chih
Chang-hai [Shanghai] : Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique a l’Orphelinat de T’ou-Sè-Wè, 1905. First edition. Small octavo (187 x 127 mm), publisher’s tan cloth with pictorial device and lettering in English and Chinese in black, spine lettered in English and Chinese in gilt (flecking to both boards and spine); front pastedown bearing the original owner’s …
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# 50450
BAUDIN, M. Pierre
La république orientale de l’Uruguay, quelques renseignements statistiques
Souvenir du Conseil National de Statistique aux membres de la mission spéciale du gouvernement français … Montevideo : Tipografia Moderna, 1915. Octavo, lettered red cloth (a couple of small marks and water stains), pp. 66; [4]; large folding statistical table, large folding colour map, occasional light foxing, the stapled binding loosening, receipt card for the …
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# 50553
BEST, Elsdon
The stone implements of the Maori.
Wellington, NZ : John Mackay, Government Printer, 1912. Series: Dominion Museum. Bulletin No. 4. First edition. Quarto (285 x 225 mm), recent half calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with gilt-lettered black leather title label; title-leaf, pp. 410; with 50 b/w photographic plates and one folding line-drawn plate, plus other illustrations in the …
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# 50534
SPENCER, Baldwin and GILLEN, F. J. (Francis James)
The northern tribes of Central Australia
London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth over boards (some flecking and light marks), spine lettered in gilt; bookseller’s label removed from pastedown; pp xxxv, 784, [2 publisher’s advertisements], illustrated with black-and-white plates and diagrams, folding colour and black-and-white, folding colour plates; front hinge cracked, lightly foxed, extensively annotated in pencil.
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# 38356
GONZALEZ CABRERA BUENO, José (c. 1670 - after 1733)
Navegación Especulativa, y Práctica, con la Explicación de algunos Instrumentos, que están mas en uso en los Navegantes … …
Manila : Impresa en el Convento de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de la Orden de Nro. Seraphico Padre San Francisco, 1734. First edition. Folio (315 x 210 mm), contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties, some age staining, small loss at front bottom corner), spine with title in manuscript in black ink; printed on rice and …
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# 49733
SCHMIDT, I. J. (Isaac Jacob)
Grammatik der Tibetischen Sprache,
verfasst von I. J. Schmidt. St. Petersburg : Gräff ; Leipzig, Voss, 1839. Quarto (280 x 210 mm), contemporary red calf, richly gilt, spine with gilt lettering and decoration, gilt dentelles; all edges gilt; blue endpapers; pp. xv, [1 blank], 318, [2 Errata]; text in German (roman) and Tibetan script; scattered light foxing, a fine …
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# 48431
BEATO, Felix; FLOYD, William Pryor; BOURNE, Samuel
Views in Japan, India, & China
[1867-1870]. Photograph album, large oblong folio (320 x 480 mm), original red morocco richly gilt (worn at corners and spine ends), upper board lettered in gilt ‘Views in Japan, India, & China’; all edges gilt; moire pastedowns and endpapers; verso of front free-endpaper with the inscription of the original owner Frederick Woods, dated July 1871; …
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# 48671
[EAST INDIA COMPANY]
A remonstrance of the Directors of the Netherlands East India Company,
presented to the Lords States Generall of the united Provinces, in defence of the said Company, touching the bloudy proceedings against the English Merchants, executed at Amboyna. Together, with the Acts of the Processe, against the sayd English, and the Reply of the English East India Company, to the said Remonstrance and Defence. Published by …
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# 46947
CONFUCIUS (551-479 BCE)
Sinarum philosophus, sive scientia sinensis latine exposita.
Paris : Daniel Horthemels, 1687. First edition. Folio, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, preserving the original spine, in compartments with raised bands, gilt ornamentation and lettering, book labels for Levenside and H.P. Kraus to front pastedown, front free endpaper detached, pp. cxxiv; 108; 21; [iii – blanks]; 159; [blank]; xx; 108; 8; [I – privilege], [blank], …
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# 50258
HUNTINGTON, Randolph
History in brief of “Leopard” and “Linden”, General Grant’s Arabian Stallions, presented to him by the Sultan of Turkey in 1879.
Also their Sons “General Beale”, “Hegira” and “Islam”, bred by Randolph Huntington. Also reference to the Celebrated Stallion “Henry Clay”. [Philadelphia] : printed for the author by J. B. Lippincott Company, 1885. First edition. Quarto, gilt-lettered green cloth over bevelled boards (stained, edges rubbed), decorated endpapers, contemporary presentation inscription to front free endpaper, crease to …
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# 15197
Aduarte, Diego; González, Domingo
Historia de la Provincia del Sancto Rosario de la orden de Predicadores en Philippinas, Iapon, y China. [Libro Primero / Libro Segundo]
En Manila : en el Colegio de Santo Thomas, por Luis Beltran impressor de libros, 1640. First edition. Two volumes in one, folio, contemporary limp vellum (a little stained, lacking ties), spine with manuscript title in ink; front pastedown with old ex libris of the Bibliotheca Magni Mexicani Conventus S. P.N. S. Francisco (early Convent …
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# 49520
Coelho, Gaspar (c.1529-1590); Valignano, Alessandro (1539-1606)
Lettera annale delle cose del Giapone del M. D. LXXXII.
Rome : Francesco Zannetti, 1585. Octavo, early full vellum,, spine with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; pp. 118; title with woodcut Jesuit device; stamp from the Casa Professa to title leaf a fine copy. A slightly expanded edition of the Lettera annale, the annual report from Japan on missionary progress during the year …
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# 48752
Fróis, Luís et al.
Brevis Iapaniae insulae descriptio,
à Patribus Societatis Iesu nuper gestarum, succincta narratio : item, insigne quoddam martyrium, quod in Aphrica quidam pro Christiana religione Catholica inuicta constantia subijt. Coloniae Agrippinae [i.e. Köln] : Birckmann, 1582. Duodecimo (157 x 100 mm), modern gilt-panelled red morocco with gilt dentelles; title leaf with woodcut device, and with early ownership inscriptions; [2], 46 leaves; …
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# 49894
PRÉMARE, Joseph Henri-Marie de (1666-1736); JULIEN, Stanilas Aignan (1797-1873)
Notitia linguæ Sinicæ. Auctore P. Premare (with acknowledgement leaf)
Malaccæ : Cura et sumptibus Collegii Anglo-Sinici [Anglo-Chinese College], 1831. First edition. Quarto (230 x 183 mm), plain wrappers stitch-bound in the Chinese manner; title leaf with pencil annotations, acknowledgement leaf (sometimes not bound in), pp. [1]-262 (numbering erratic at pp. 144-149 as in all copies), [2 blank], 28 (Index, with a short tear internally …