New Acquisitions
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# 46111
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870)
The Works of Charles Dickens. The Pocket Volume Edition.
London : Chapman and Hall, 1880. Thirty volumes bound in fifteen, small octavo (150 x 105 mm); contemporary uniform bindings of half navy calf over marbled papered boards (very lightly rubbed), spines in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting red and brown leather title-pieces lettered in gilt (gleaming and bright); marbled edges and endpapers; bindings …
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# 46532
SWETTENHAM, Sir Frank A. (1850 - 1946)
Vocabulary of the English and Malay languages with notes
Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore & Yokohama : Kelly & Walsh, Volume I : 1909 (eighth edition; Volume II : 1908 (seventh edition). Two volumes, octavo, gilt-lettered blue cloth (a few marks, edges lightly rubbed), blind stamp to half-titles of Pritchard, Bookseller Penang, pp. viii; xxxii; 245; xxii; 170, text in English and Malay in Roman …
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# 46380
BLAGDEN, C. O.
An English-Malay phrase-book
Singapore : Malaya Publishing House, Limited, 1951. Octavo, lettered papered boards (stained and discoloured), sloth spine, pp. 265, edges browned, a very good copy.
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# 46442
INDIAN STATE RAILWAYS
Kashmir. Indian State Railways.
Bombay : Times of India Press, [c.1930]. Tall narrow octavo (250 x 110 mm, folded), colour-illustrated wrappers; 16 double pages (each folds out to 250 x 220 mm); b/w photographic illustrations, large map; contents starting to detach from wrappers, otherwise very good condition. Attractive Indian tourist brochure from the late Raj. The text includes historical …
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# 46443
[Photographer unknown].
View inside the trading post of Oloff & Co. at Lome, Togoland Protectorate, West Africa, c.1890.
Albumen print photograph, 100 x 140 mm, on original card mount, 185 x 220 mm, fully contemporary inscription in ink below the image: ‘T. Oloff & Co. / Factorei / Lome’; a very strong print with excellent clarity, in good condition; the mount is clean and stable. The Togoland Protectorate (Schutzgebiet Togo) was administered by …
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# 46418
GOVERNMENT OF SINGAPORE
Singapore Year Book 1965
Singapore : Government Printing Office, 1965. Octavo, decorated boards, illustrated dutjacket (light edge wear, a coupe of small tears, spine a little sunned), maps to endpapers, pp. [viii]; 360, numerous photographic illustrations, ‘Complimentary’ stamp to preliminary blank, a very good copy.
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# 46338
AMERICAN EXPRESS
Excursions in and around Singapore
Singapore : The American Express Company, Inc., [1920]. Tourist brochure, 180 x 85 mm (folded), four panels, pp. [8], double panel map of Singapore town, a few pen notes, adhesion marks on lower panel where stuck in an album, includes tours of Johore and Penang. A single example recorded on Worldcat (National Library of Singapore).
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# 46340
RICHARDS, William C.
The apostle of Burma : a missionary epic in commemoration of the centennial of the birth of Adoniram Judson [Prospectus]
Boston : Lee and Shepard, 1889. Octavo, self-wrappers, pp. 16, cover illustration, portrait frontispiece, includes a preface, two pages sample from the poem, letters to the publisher. Uncommon prospectus for the book.
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# 46412
WELLS, Charles (1838-1917)
The literature of the Turks. A Turkish chrestomathy, consisting of extracts in Turkish from the best Turkish authors (historians, novelists, dramatists, &c.), with interlinear and free translations in English, biographical and grammatical notes, and facsimiles of ms. letters and documents.
London : Bernard Quaritch, 1891. First edition. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked red cloth, spine lettered in gilt (slightly sun-faded); front pastedown with ex libris of [Lt. Colonel Victor] de Guinzbourg, pp. xix, 275, 4; texts in Turkish in Perso-Arabic script, with parallel translations and editorial notes in English; binding firm, clean throughout, …
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# 46461
[PAAR, Theodor, attributed]
Portraits of Himalayan types, including Nepalese and Tibetan, taken in Darjeeling, 1890s.
Group of 5 (five) albumen print photographs removed from the same late nineteenth-century album, all attributed to the Darjeeling photographer Theodor Paar. I. The Witch at Ghoom. [Caption on mount]. 200 x 150 mm, mounted recto of card mount; very good condition. The subject is believed to have been a Bhutia woman from Tibet, living …
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# 46373
GOSSE, Philip Henry
A naturalist’s sojourn in Jamaica.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851. Octavo, blind ruled pebbled cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine, very slight fading to the spine but a crisp and fine copy, pp. xxiv; 508; (2 – Other works by Mr. Gosse); 32 – publisher’s catalogue, tinted lithograph frontispiece; 8 tinted lithograph plates with tissue guards, …
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# 45902
[Anon.]
A girl’s scrapbook, 1870s
Quarto (300 x 255 mm), original blind-blocked navy cloth, upper board with the word ‘SCRAPS’ lettered in gilt, recent leather spine lettered in gilt ‘Scraps and Valentines’; [54] pages, filled with mounted die-cut chromolithographic scraps and other illustrated paper ephemera, the most common subjects being feminine beauty; animals; flowers; Christmas, Valentine’s Day and birthday greetings; religion; …
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# 46411
READE, Charles (1814-1884)
‘It is never too late to mend.’ A matter of fact romance.
/ by Charles Reade. New Edition. London : Richard Bentley, 1857. Second edition. Octavo (185 x 125 mm), contemporary gilt-ruled half black calf over marbled papered boards (heavily rubbed), spine in compartments decorated in gilt and with contrasting leather title piece lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers, early ownership inscription to dedication page; pp. 274, with several …
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# 46391
HOULDER, J. A.
[MADAGASCAR] Ohabolana, or Malagasy proverbs, illustrating the wit and wisdom of the Hova of Madagascar. Parts I and II
/ collected, translated, and arranged by J.A. Houlder ; with translations into French by Henri Noyer ; edited by James Sibree. Faravohitra, Antananarivo : Printed and published at the press of the Friends’ Foreign Missionary Association, 1915-1916. First edition (first printing). Two volumes bound in one, octavo (220 x 145 mm), red cloth over red papered …
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# 46336
LALL, Kesar
Nepalese customs and manners
Kathmandu : Ratna Pustak Bhandar, 1979. Second edition. Octavo, papered boards (lightly foxed) in illustrated dustjacket (small chip), pp. ii; 70, a very good copy.
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# 46463
A.Y.P. EXPO. CO.
Souvenir folding card … Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, Seatte, Washington, June 1st to October 16th 1909.
[Seattle] : AYP Expo. Co., 1909. Colour-illustrated wallet, 105 x 155 mm, containing a concertina foldout with 24 postcard-size chromolithographed photographic images of buildings and First Nations groups from the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition held in 1909 in Seattle; the wallet has a few small marks, contents in fine condition.