Travel & Exploration

  • Brevis Iapaniae insulae descriptio,

    # 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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  • Notitia linguæ Sinicæ. Auctore P. Premare (with acknowledgement leaf)

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

    # 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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  • [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.

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

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

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

    # 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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  • Lettres patentes concernant les Missions Étrangères.

    # 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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  • The Emigrants' Voyage [to Australia]. (Complete set of 12 magic lantern glass slides)

    # 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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  • Descriptio Regni Japoniae et Siam ...

    # 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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  • An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary and Grammar.

    # 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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  • Relation de la province du Japon,

    # 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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  • Atlas Japannensis: being Remarkable Addresses by way of Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Emperor of Japan.

    # 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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  • Reglement voor de Opzieners bij het Mijnwezen in Nederlandsch Indie ...

    # 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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  • Relatione della provincia del Giappone, scritta dal padre Antonio Francesco Cardim della Compagnia di Giesu, procuratore di quella Provincia.

    # 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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  • Japan Expedition Press : three printings made on board United States Steam Frigate "Powhatan" and "Mississippi", dated May 8th, June 28th and September 4th, 1854.

    # 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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