New Acquisitions
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# 38391
Imprisoned American seamen. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting Correspondence relative to the visit of the “Preble” to the port of Nangasacki [Nagasaki], for the purpose of demanding imprisoned American seamen. August 28, 1850.
[Japan] : House of Representatives, 31st Congress, 1st Session. Ex. Doc. No. 84, [1850]. Octavo (225 mm), recent half black calf; pp. 44; a fine copy. In August 1848, the American whaler Lagoda was shipwrecked off Hokkaido. The 15 surviving crew were detained and taken to Nagasaki. Commander James Glynn, in the USS Preble, was …
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# 35558
Anon.
Malta : the island of sunshine
[Valetta : Government Tourist Bureau, circa 1924]. Tourist brochure, octavo, folded sheet, pp. [6], cover illustration, three panel map of ‘The Principal Routes to Malta’ showing Europe and the Mediterranean with land and sea routes to Malta, list of passenger lines calling at Malta, one panel with a history and description of the island.
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# 34918
MOTT, John R. (Raleigh) (1865-1955)
[MAORI] Te inoi motuhake = (the secret prayer life).
/ na Dr. J. R. Mott i tuhituhi ; na Pererika H. Peneha i whakamaori. Ki te hiahia tetahi tangata ki etahi me tuku mai ia te toru kapa mo te kape kotahi ; i te hereni mo nga ono kape, ki a Rev. F.H. Spencer, Whanganui. Gisborne, N.Z. : Na Te Wiremu Hapata i …
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# 31751
HUGHES, Sydney G.
Pocket map of Brisbane
Brisbane : Published by Sydney G. Hughes, [1943]. Colour map, 470 x 350 mm, folding to 170 x 100 mm, in original pictorial card covers, 190 x 110 mm (light vertical crease), verso of map with printed information for tourists on Brisbane and neighbouring centres.
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# 30478
S. C. AUDDY & CO. (CALCUTTA)
The handbook of Hindūstānī conversation : with a collection of familiar phrases and an easy vocabulary, English and Hindūstānī.
Calcutta : S. C. Auddy & Co., Booksellers and Publishers, 58 & 12, Wellington Street, 1909. “Revised and enlarged edition”. Duodecimo (160 mm), original printed wrappers (sunned and stained, upper wrapper chipped at bottom edge, lower wrapper with tear at foot of spine), pp [4], 60; bottom corners a little dog-eared, otherwise contents clean and …
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# 30394
METHODIST CHURCH (NEW GUINEA)
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] A Methodist hymn book and catechism in pidjin English for use in mission services held for indentured labourers.
Cover title: A Metodist him buk. Malakuna, Rabaul : Printed and published by the Methodist Mission, 1936. Second edition. Duodecimo (155 x 105 mm), original printed grey wrappers (chipped at corners and tail of spine), original stitch binding, pp 32; preliminaries with some light staining, bottom corners dog-eared, but a good example. An earlier edition …
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# 29938
YIEWA & CO.
Report of Fashion for Gentlemen : Autumn – Winter 1937 – 1938
Kyoto : Yiewa & Co., [1937]. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. [12], pale foxing, illustrated in black and white, a very good copy. Fashion catalogue for the firm of Yiewa with nine illustrations of fashionable men in western style dress, including formal wear, suits, overcoats and leisure wear, as well as two pages illustrating wool samples. …
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# 29176
RHEMREV, J. L. Th.; MULDER, P. J. (illustrator)
[JAVA] Serat Gurma Lelana : ri ngengga ing gambar 4 lembar.
Leiden : Brill, 1884. First edition. Octavo, original printed yellow wrappers, 92 pp, illustrated with [4] double-page chromolithograpic plates, including tiger, wild boar and deer hunting scenes and a native house on stilts; text in Javanese. A very good copy, partly unopened and clean throughout, the margins of the plates with some light foxing or …
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# 28533
[BEWICK, Thomas]
Tom Thumb’s Play Book to teach children their letters, by a new and pleasant method
Alnwick : W. Davison, s.n. [circa 1825]. Duodecimo, illustrated paper wrappers, pp. 35, woodcut illustrations, alphabet inside upper wrapper, a couple of pages roughly opened, one leaf unopened, else very good condition. Nineteenth century children’s chapbook illustrated by Thomas Bewick. Hugo 458
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# 28531
[CUNNINHAM, John]; [BEWICK, Thomas]
Day, a pastoral; in three parts, viz. Morning, Noon and Evening
To which is added, The Stubborn Dame. Alnwick : W. Davison s.n. [circa 1825]. Duodecimo, illustrated paper wrappers (small penned name), pp. 36, woodcut illustrations, small worm hole, very good condition. Nineteenth century children’s chapbook illustrated by Thomas Bewick. Hugo 306 : ‘One of the most beautiful productions of Davison’s Press. A charming little book’.
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# 28589
CITY OF MELBOURNE
Reception to meet Vice-Admiral Seizo Kobayashi, His Imperial Highness Prince Takamatsu and Officers of The Japanese Training Squadron. Given by The Lord Mayor of Melbourne and The Lady Mayoress (Alderman Sir Stephen and Lady Morell). Town Hall, Melbourne, 4th July, 1928.
Duodecimo folding card, 125 x 95 mm, front with embossed crest of the City of Melbourne in blue, 4-page programme printed in sepia sewn in, the first page with photogravure illustration of the Town Hall and the last with a view of Princes Bridge, the centre pages with the programme of the evening’s musical entertainment …
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# 28542
LEE, Edwin
Report upon the phenomena of clairvoyance or lucid somnambulism, (from personal observation), with additional remarks. An appendix to the third edition of “Animal Magnetism”.
London : John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, 1843. Octavo, disbound, pp 50; a very clean copy.
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# 28416
[FUJI-VIEW HOTEL, KATSUYAMA]; THE FUJIYA HOTEL, MIYANOSHITA]]
The Fuji-View Hotel, Katsuyama, on Lake Kawaguchi, (Fuji-Hakone National Park, Japan)
/ The Fujiya Hotel, Miyanoshita, Hakone, Japan (Fuji-Hakone National Park, Japan). [Japan, Katsuyama? : The Hotels, c. 1935]. Square octavo, folded to 200 x 110 mm, colour pictorial wrappers, [10] pp, black and white photographic illustrations, colour map; short tear at to edge of lower wrapper, otherwise fine.
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# 28415
BERGASSE, Nicolas and A.-M.-J. CHASTENET DE PUYSEGUR (attributed); [La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788]
[LA PEROUSE] La journée des dupes : pièce tragi-politi-comique : représentée sur le Théatre National par les grands Comédiens de la Patrie.
[Paris] : s.n., 1790. Octavo, modern marbled wrappers; 86 pp, engraved head-piece; a fine copy. Attributed to N. Bergasse and to A.M.J. Chasténet, marquis de Puysegur, this satirical play counts amongst its main characters the French explorer La Pérouse and his “Indian” (i.e. Polynesian) servant, O Paria. The other characters, all important figures in the …
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# 27131
JAPAN TOURIST BUREAU
How to see Nikko
Tokyo : Japan Tourist Bureau, April 1936. Octavo (187 x 127 mm), pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 9 pp, illustrated, with map; a fine copy.
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# 25798
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Pipiya gunaguna ba giu pipiyisi asi buka.
Catechism book in the Mukawa language, British New Guinea. Cover title: Giu Mukawai. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1905. First (and only?) edition. Duodecimo (167 x 108 mm), original tan-coloured buckram over boards with black lettering to upper board, title page with discreet old wet stamp of the Edinburgh Free Church College, 45 pp, …