Travel & Exploration
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# 48653
CARDIM, Antonio Francisco (1596-1659)
Relaçam da Viagem do Galeam Saõ Lourenço, e sua perdiçaõ nos bayxos de Moxincale em 3 de Septembro de 1649.
Escrita pelo Padre Antonio Francisco Cardim da Companhia de JESUS, Procurador ge[ne]ral da Provincia do Japaõ. A Manoel Severim de Faria. Em Lisboa : por Domingos Lopes Roza, 1651. Small quarto, modern panelled calf, both boards embellished with a gilt cross at centre; pp. 43, [1 blank]; title with woodcut device (the leaf repaired at …
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# 50248
LOUIS XV, King of France
Lettres patentes concernant les Missions Étrangères.
[France, c.1773]. Manuscript in ink, [5] pp., folio; extremely well preserved; bound in modern papered boards with gilt-lettered red leather title label to the front; ex libris label of H. P. Kraus to front pastedown. One of the most important institutions in the history of evangelisation in Asia, the Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP), or …
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# 49774
[THEOBOLD & CO.]
The Emigrants’ Voyage [to Australia]. (Complete set of 12 magic lantern glass slides)
[London : Theobold & Co, c.1900]. Complete set of twelve magic lantern glass slides, uniform 82 x 82 mm format, illustrated by the chromolithographic transfer process; numbered printed caption labels to top edges of mounts; one slide is lacking its label, another has a diagonal hairline crack across the front glass, otherwise the set is …
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# 49740
VARENIUS, Bernhadus
Descriptio Regni Japoniae et Siam …
At head of title: Bernhardi Vareni Med. D. Cambridge : John Hayes for Samuel Simpson, 1673. Octavo, contemporary calf ruled in blind (a few scuff marks, worn along the outer hinges), spine in compartments with contrasting title label lettered in gilt (scuffed, small loss to leather at head and foot); front pastedown with armorial bookplate …
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# 49562
BATCHELOR, John
An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary and Grammar.
By the Rev. John Batchelor, Church Missionary Society, Hakodate. Tokyo : Printed for the Hokkaido Cho by Y. Kumata, 1889. Large octavo (240 x 165 mm), quarter black morocco over blind-blocked black cloth (expertly recased with new spine replicating the original), upper board with gilt lettering and device, spine in compartments with gilt lettering and …
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# 48548
HEIDEN, Frans Janszoon van der
Vervarelyke schip-breuk van’t Oost-Indische jacht ter Schelling onder het landt van Bengale
Harderwiljk : Dirk en Jan Rampen, 1707. Quarto, contemporary vellum; pp. [1]-81 (Vervarelyke schip-breuk), 82-96 (accounts of Arakan, Martavan, Tanassery, Bengal, and the Pathans); title with woodcut vignette of Terschelling during the fateful storm in the Bay of Bengal, a further [18] woodcuts in the text; [BOUND WITH] Joosten, Jaques. De kleyne wonderlijke wereld, waar onder …
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# 48798
António Francisco Cardim (1596-1659)
Relation de la province du Japon,
ecrite en Portugais par le Pere François Cardim de la Compagnie de IESUS, Procureur de cette province … A Tournay : De l’Imprimerie d’Adrien Quinqué, 1645. Duodecimo, contemporary calf, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt; edges stained red; marbled endpapers, front pastedown with ex libris label of …
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# 49572
BATCHELOR, John
Ainu Karisia Eiwange Gusu an Inonno-itak oma kambi. The Book of Common Prayer, translated into Ainu, by the Rev. John Batchelor (Church Missionary Society). 1896 (signed copy)
[Yokohama? : Bible Societles’ Committee for Japan?], 1896. Large octavo (215 x 150 mm), original blind-blocked black cloth, upper board with gilt lettering; speckled edges; front pastedown with previous Japanese owner’s bookplate; recto of first blank inscribed and signed by the author ‘J. M. Batchelor, March 9th 1940’; title-leaf in English; pp. [2], 417, [1] …
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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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# 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 …