Travel & Exploration
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# 13560
Cano, Gasper
Catálogo de los religiosos de N.P. S. Agustin de la Provincia del Smo. Nombre de Jesus de Filipinas
desde su establecimiento en estas islas hasta nuestros dias, con algunos datos biográficos de los mismos. Compuesto y ordenado siendo provincial de dicha provincia el M.R.P. Fr. Juan J. Aragonés, por su secretario Fr. Gaspar Cano. Manila, Imprenta de Ramirez y Giraudier, 1864. Small quarto, contemporary parchment over boards (slightly bowed; a few ink stains); preliminaries …
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# 49430
CRASSET, Jean
Außführliche Geschicht der in dem äussersten Welt-Theil gelegenen Japonesischen Kirch,
worinn die glückliche Vertilgung der Abgötterey, Einführung, Fortpflanzung, Verfolgung. Augsburg : Franz Anton Ilger, 1738. Folio, contemporary full calf, ruled in gilt, the upper panel stamped in gilt ‘AD USUM JOSEPHI DE LONDRES C.R.C’, expertly rebacked with new spine to style, in compartments with elaborate gilt tooling and lettering, small wet stamps to first two …
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# 14845
COXE, William (1748-1828)
Account of the Russian discoveries between Asia and America.
To which are added, the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China. London : J. Nichols, 1780. First edition. Quarto, full polished calf (a couple of scuffs to the boards), spine extensively decorated in gilt, contrasting morocco title label, expertly rebacked, folding frontispiece map of the Russian …
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# 46950
PINTO, Fernam (Fernão) Mendez
Peregrinacam
… … no reyno da China, no de Tartaria, no de Pegu, no de Martavao, & em outros muitos reynos y senhorios das partes Orientae … … Lisbon : A. Craesbeeck de Mello, 1678. Folio (330 x 225 mm), later quarter calf over marbled papered boards (rubbed), spine with gilt decoration and black morocco title-piece …
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# 13714
MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro, 1533-1603
Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI. : Selectarum item ex India epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV.
Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita. Coloniæ Agippinæ [i.e. Cologne] : in Officina Birckmannica, sumptibus Arnoldi Mylii, MDXCIII. [Arnold Mylius], 1593. Folio, contemporary vellum with bevelled edges, embossed centrepiece with armorial device to both boards; spine with manuscript title; edges stained blue; title page with woodcut printer’s device; folding world map (255 x 480 mm) supplied; pp 541, [blank], …
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# 13310
GOBIEN, Charles le (1653-1708) (compiler); QUERBEUF, Y.M.M.T. de (editor)
Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus.
Paris, Chez J.G. Merigot, 1780-1783. Twenty-six volumes, small octavo; contemporary uniform speckled calf, spines in compartments with gilt tooling and contrasting morocco labels; edges stained red; marbled endpapers; pastedowns with armorial bookplate of Rev. G.C. Fenwicke (Franks 10381); with a total of 55 maps, plans, plates and tables hors texte, including 28 folding maps and plans, 24 plates …
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# 50099
ANSON, George, Baron (1696-1762); WALTER, Richard
A voyage round the world in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. (Large paper copy)
By George Anson Esq; Commander in Chief of a squadron of His Majesty’s ships, sent upon an expedition to the South-Seas. Compiled from the papers and other materials of the Right Honourable George Lord Anson, and published under his direction, by Richard Walter, M. A. Chaplain of his Majesty’s ship the Centurion, in that expedition. …
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# 50093
ANDERSON, John
English intercourse with Siam in the seventeenth century
London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1890. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-lettered maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt (corners bumped, edge wear, lower board marked); endpapers foxed; pp. xiii, [blank], folding map printed in colour (a couple of corners creased), 503, [blank], bound without advertisements; internally clean, a good copy. Very scarce account of English …
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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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# 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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# 49881
GULICK, John Thomas et al.
New student atlas accompanied by maps of phisical geography
Osaka : A. T. Szando[w] (ie: Aoki Sūzandō), Meiji 29 (1896). Small quarto, 200 x 170 mm, quarter calf over lettered silk bound boards (generally rubbed), spine lettered in gilt in English and Japanese, patterned endpapers, title page in English and Japanese (misspelling ‘physical’) with vignette illustration of a globe, tellurium, telescope, charts and atlases, …
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# 50100
STOKES, John Lort (1811-1885)
Discoveries in Australia : with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43, by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, also, a narrative of Captain Owen Stanley’s visits to the islands in the Arafura Sea.
London : T. and W. Boone, 1846. Three volumes, octavo, later uniform half green calf over green cloth (boards with some flecking), spines in compartments with gilt decoration and with contrasting leather title labels lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; pp. xv, 521; x, 543, with 26 plates (15 engraved, 11 lithographed) depicting events and scenes …
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# 12525
HELPS, Arthur
The Spanish conquest in America and its relation to the history of slavery and to the government of colonies.
London: John W. Parker And Son, 1855-61. First editions. Four volumes, octavo, original deluxe bindings of half maroon morocco over marbled boards with gilt rule, spines with raised bands, gilt ornament and lettering, top edges gilt, with half-titles; vol I xv, 528 pp; maps in the text; vol II vii, 526 pp; 1 plate; bibliography, …
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# 49893
WALLACE, Alfred Russell (1823 - 1913)
The Malay Archipelago : the land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise.
A narrative of travel with studies of man and nature. London : Macmillan and Co., 1869. Second edition. Two volumes, octavo, gilt-decorated green cloth (rebacked, preserving the spines, corners bumped, edges rubbed), new endpapers, name to half-titles, tear to title leaf with residue from old tape repair, pp. xx; 312; 341; engraving and folding maps, …
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# 49516
BOUHOURS, Dominique
La Vie de Saint François Xavier de la Compagnie de Jesus, Apostre des Indes et du Japon.
Paris : Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1682. Quarto, contemporary full calf, spine in compartments with elaborate gilt-tooled decoration and title in gilt; verso of front endpaper with bookseller label of Thomas-Scheler, Paris; pp. [16], 634, [10]; title with woodcut device, and with early manuscript ‘par le P. Bouhours, Dominique S.J.’, and old label and stamps of the …
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# 49499
CRASSET, Jean
Histoire de l’eglise du Japon.
Paris : François Montalant, 1715. Two volumes, quarto, uniform contemporary mottled calf (expertly rebacked, repairs to head caps), spines in compartments with contrasting title and volume labels and gilt decoration; edges stained red; original marbled endpapers; pp. [28], 659 [i.e. 657], [11]; [10], 678, [6]; with a total of 8 copper-engraved plates (one folding) and …