Travel & Exploration
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# 49431
KIÖPING, Nils Mattsson; WILLMAN, Olof Eriksson; [CARON, François]
Een kort beskrffning uppå trenne reesor och peregrinationer, sampt Konungariket Japan:
I. Beskrifwes een Reesa, som genom Asia, Africa och många andra hedniska Konungarijken sampt Öijar; med flijt är förrättat aff Nils Matson Kiöping, fördetta Skepz-Lieutnat. II. Beskrifwes een Resa till Ost Indien, China och Japan: III. Med förestlliande om förbenembde stoora och mächta konungarijketz Japan tillstånd, sampt thetz Inwånares Handel och Wandel: förrättat och beskrefwen …
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# 48356
MONTANUS, Arnoldus (1625 - 1683)
Ambassades memorables de la Compagnie des Indes orientales des Provinces Unies vers les empereurs du Japon.
Amsterdam : Jacob de Meurs, 1680. First edition in French. Folio, contemporary morocco, ruled in gilt with corner fleurons, spine in compartments with raised bands, elaborate gilt tooling, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, general scuffing, expertly rebacked, marbled endpapers, frontispiece engraving, 6 preliminary pages; large folding engraved map of the Tokaido road from …
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# 48554
Fróis, Luís
Lettera del Giapone degli anni 1591. et 1592.
Scritta al R. P. Generale della Compagnia di Giesu. Et dalla Spagnuola nella Italiana lingua tradotta dal P. Ubaldino Bartolini della Compagnia medesima. Rome : Luigi Zannetti, 1595. Duodecimo, later quarter vellum over marbled papered boards, gilt lettering to spine; pp. 184; title with woodcut Jesuit device, early inscription at upper margin shaved by binder; …
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# 49525
Piñeyro, Luis
La nouvelle histoire du Iapon, divisee en cinq livres,
; où il est traicte amplement de l’estat de sa Chrestienté, du progrés de la foy Catholique, des grandes persécutions qui y sont arrivées … jusques à l’année mil six cens quinze. Composée en Espagnol par le R.P. Louys Pigneyra … et traduicte … par I.B. Paris : Adrian Taupinart, 1618. Thick octavo, handsome binding …
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# 49563
HECO, Joseph; MURDOCH, James (editor)
The narrative of a Japanese; what he has seen and the people he has met in the course of the last forty years.
Yokohama : Japan Gazette, Meiji 28 [1895]. Two volumes, octavo (220 x 155 mm), original blind-blocked brown (Vol. I) and tan (Vol. II) cloth, upper boards and spines lettered in gilt (both volumes with a few light marks to the boards and softened at spine ends); pp. [4], iii, [1 blank], 346, [1 blank], [2 …
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# 48659
SUAREZ DE FIGUEROA, Cristobal
Historia y anal relacion de las cosas que hizieron los Padres de la Compañia de Jesus, por las partes de Oriente y otras, en la propagacion del Santo Evangelio, los años passados de 607. y 608
Sacada, limada, y compuesta de Portugues en Castellano por el Doctor Christoval Suarez de Figueroa. En Madrid : Juan Hasrey, 1614. Small quarto, later vellum over black cloth, spine with gilt decoration and morocco title label lettered in gilt; title set within decorative border, with woodcut Jesuit device and an easy ownership inscription; pp. [16], …
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# 49748
TRIGAULT, Nicolas; MORIN, Pierre (translator)
Histoire des Martyrs du Iapon depuis l’an MDCXII iusques a MDCXX.
Composée en Latin par le R.P. Nicolas Trigaut, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Et traduite en francois par le P. Pierre Morin, de la mesme Compagnie. A Paris, chez Sebastien Cramoisy, ruë sainct Jacques aux Cicognes, 1624. Quarto (240 x 180 mm), contemporary limp vellum (stained), spine with old lettering in manuscript; illustrated title-leaf engraved by Michel …
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# 46939
Martínez de Zuñiga, Joaquín
Historia de las Islas Philipinas
Impreso en Sampaloc : Por Fr. Pedro Arguelles de la Concepcion, Religioso Francisco, 1803. First edition. Quarto, modern tree calf, boards decorated in gilt, spine gilt and with contrasting title-piece in gilt, name label stamped in gilt ‘Al. Malavois’ at foot of spine; pp. [2], [7], 687; printed on rice paper; historiated initial, tail-piece; some insignificant worm holes …
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# 14925
Diego Francisco Aduarte, Bishop of Nueva Segovia (1569-1636)
Tomo primero de la historia de la provincia del Santo Rosario de Filipinas, Iapon, y China, de la Sagrada Orden de Predicadores.
En Zaragoça, por Domingo Gascon, Infançon, Impressor del Santo Hospital Real, y General de Nuestra Señora de Gracia. Año 1693. Folio, polished full calf binding by Aquarius of London, boards and spine with intricate gilt tooling by Dave Nevitt; pp [viii], 767, [53 index]; paper repairs to margins of first few leaves; title with engraved vignette coat …
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# 49524
[FERREIRA, Cristóvão]
Relatione delle persecutioni mosse contro la fede di Christo in varii regni del Giappone ne gl’anni 1628. 1629. e 1630.
Al molto Rev.do in Christo P. Mutio Vitelleschi, Preposito Generale della Compagnia di GIESU. Rome and Milan : Filippo Ghisolfi, 1635. Duodecimo, handsome binding by Aquarius of panelled red calf, richly gilt; speckled edges; title-page with woodcut Jesuit device; pp. 218; small worm track to final ten leaves (sealed on pp. 207 – 218), with …
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# 49642
LUDOVICUS, Gaspar [LUIS, Gaspar]; MAIORICA, Girolamo; BONELLI, Giovanni-Battista [BONEL, Jean-Baptiste]
Rerum memorabilium in Regno Iaponiae gestarum litterae an. M.DC.XIX.XX.XXI.XXII. Societatis IESU.
Ad Rev. admodum in Christo Patrem P. Mutium Vitelleschi Praepositum Generalem eiusdem Societatis. Antwerp : Jerome Verdussen, 1625. Small octavo, contemporary limp vellum (covers slightly bowed, upper cover worn at top corner and fore-edge), spine with early manuscript title (short splits at ends); front pastedown with ex libris label of H. P. Kraus; title with …
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# 48557
ANDRADE, Padre Antonio
Relatione del Novo Scoprimento del Gran Cataio, overo Regno di Tibet. Fattodal P. Antonio di Andrade Portoghese della Compagnia di Gesù l’anno 1624
Rome : F. Corbelletti, 1627. Duodecimo, early vellum, lettered in manuscript on spine, ex libris label of H. P. Kraus to from pastedown, pp. 40, a fine copy. Antonio de Andrade, Portuguese member of the Society of Jesus, was dispatched to India in 1600 where he would spend over twenty years in sevice, including as …
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# 48657
SEQUEIRA, Luis de (1693-1763)
Relaçaõ summaria da prizam, tormentos, e glorioso martyrio dos veneraveis padres Antonio Joseph, Portuguez, e Tristam de Attimis, Italiano, ambos da Companhia de Jesus, da V. Provincia da China.
Lisbon : Francisco da Silva, 1751. First edition. Small quarto, calf ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and morocco title label lettered in gilt; ex libris label of H. P. Kraus to front pastedown; pp. 38; title with woodcut Jesuit device, woodcut head- and tailpieces, decorated initial; pp. 5-6 with tiny amount …
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# 50205
VIDAL DE FIGUEROA, Antonio
Novena en honra de el invicto, y glorioso proto-martyr del Japon San Felipe de Jesus.
Dispuesta por el P. Antonio Vidal de Figueroa, Presbitero, de la Congregacion de el Oratorio de San Felipe Neri, de esta Ciudad de México. Año 1711. Con licencia en Mexico : por los Herederes de Juan Joseph Guillena Carrascoso, 1711. Duodecimo (144 x 96 mm), marbled paper wrappers; title-leaf, pp. 30; a fine copy. A …
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# 50324
PEARY, Robert E.
The North Pole
With an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. Quarto, lettered boards with pictorial only (a little rubbed), contemporary owner’s name of Frank H. Downer dated Xmas 1910 to front free endpaper, pp. xii; 326, illustrated with 116 photographic plates and a folding map of the Arctic. A very good copy. Provenance …
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# 49569
SATOW, Ernest Mason
The Jesuit Mission Press in Japan 1591-1610.
[s.l.] : Privately printed, 1888. Quarto, original printed card wrappers (lightly marked, spine sunned); pp. [8], 54, errata slip tipped in after p. [8]; illustrated with 13 plates of facsimiles; front free-endpaper with previous owner’s red seal stamp, a few pages with scholarly annotations in fountain pen; a fine copy, housed in a quarter morocco …