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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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# 49585

BEATO, Felice (1832-1909)

Peeps at Japan.

[Yokohama, 1872]. Oblong quarto (230 x 300 mm), half morocco over marbled papered boards (rubbed), upper board with original printed title label ‘Peeps at Japan’, spine lettered in gilt ‘Beato / Peeps at Japan’; original marbled endpapers, containing [20] albumen prints in format 155 x 200 mm, mounted recto only on leaves of lightweight card …

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# 49560

San Antonio, Juan Francisco de

Chronicas de la Apostolica Provincia de S. Gregorio de religiosos descalzos de N.S.P.S. Francisco en las Islas Philipinas, China, Japon, &c. Parte Prima [Parte Segunda / Parte Tercera]

Manila : Impressa en la imprenta del uso de la propria provincia, síta en el Convento de Nr̄a. Señora de Loreto del Pueblo de Sampaloc, Extra-muros de la Ciudad de Manila; por fr. Juan del Sotillo, 1738, 1741, 1744. Three volumes, folio, contemporary vellum, spines lettered in black ink with fleuron decoration, shelf marks to …

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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 …

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# 49752

FROÍS [FROES], Luís; [SAILLY, Thomas, translator]

Annales Indiques, contenantes la vraye narration et avis de ce qu’est advenu & succedé en Iapon, & autres lieux voisins des Indes,

envoyez par les Peres de la Socieré de IESUS au R.P. Claude Aquaviva GVeneral de la dicte Compagnie, en l’an 1588. Nouvellement traduictes en François. A Anvers : En l’Imprimerie Plantinienns, Chez la Vefue, & Jean Mourentorf, 1590. First Antwerp edition. Dudecimo, later quarter calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with gilt rule …

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# 49441

GONÇALVES, Gaspar; GHETTINI, Agostini (translator)

[TENSHŌ EMBASSY] Oratione fatta in Roma alla presenza del sommo Pontefice Gregorio XIII. Dal molto R. P. Guasparri Consalvi Portughese, Sacerdote Theatino, à stanzia delli Re, & Legati Giapponesi.

Et novamente posta in luce ridotta dal latino in lingua volgare da Agostino Ghettini studente in Fiorenza. In Firenze : A stanza di Francesco Dini da Colle, [1585]. Quarto (210 x 140 mm), old full calf with gilt lettering to upper board, spine with raised bands; [6] leaves; title with woodcut coat of arms of …

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# 49683

Sande, Duarte de; d'Almeyda, Antonio; Coelho, Gaspar; Fróis, Luís, et al.

Lettere del Giapone, et della Cina de gl’anni M. D. LXXXIX & M. D. XC.

Scritte al R. P. Generale della Compagnia di GIESV. Milan : Pacifico Pontio, 1592. Duodecimo, later papered card covers; early manuscript title to bottom edge ‘Lettere del Giapone’; pp. 214 (last three pages misnumbered 112-113-114); title with woodcut Jesuit device and early ownership inscription; decorated initials; contents crisp and clean, a very good example.. A …

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# 13684

Gonsalves, Gaspar, 1540-1590; Boccapaduli, Antonio, 1530-1593

[TENSHŌ EMBASSY] Breve relatione del consistoro publico, dato àgli Ambasciadori Giapponesi : dalla buona memoria

della Santità di Papa Greg. XIIIj. in Roma, il dì 23. di Marzo 1585 : con l’arriuo fatto in Pisa, & la riceuuta fattagli da S.A.S. per tutto il suo felicissimo stato : et di nuouo baciati li piedi alla Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Sisto V. In Firenze : Dalle scalee di Badia, 1585. …

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# 13319

LUCENA, João de (1550-1600)

Historia da vida do Padre Francisco de Xavier, e doque fizerão na India os mais Religiosos da Companhia de Iesu.

Lisboa [Lisbon] : Impresso per Pedro Crasbeeck, 1600. Small folio, contemporary vellum; engraved title-page, pp [vi], 908, [38]; [2] copperplate engraved portraits of Francis Xavier, and a copperplate of Francis Xavier’s tomb; woodcut initials; text in double columns; loss to margins of pp 183-86, a few light stains; housed in a magnificent custom clamshell box by …

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# 49558

SHEARSTON, John S.

H.M.S. “Nelson” : an account of her first commission on the Australian Station. The voyage out – arrival at Sydney – description of the ship – cruises and doings out here; with a detailed account of the establishment of British protectorate at New Guinea in 1884.

Sydney : Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1885. First edition. Octavo (212 x 142 mm), original printed pink wrappers (light stains); pp.78; title-page with off-setting, else contents clean and sound; [TOGETHER WITH] An albumen print photograph (c.1885) by Charles Bayliss of HMS Nelson alongside the ferry Brighton in Sydney Harbour, inscribed verso in period hand ‘From …

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