New Acquisitions
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# 49881
GULICK, John Thomas et al.
New student atlas accompanied by maps of phisical geography
Osaka : A. T. Szando[w] (ie: Aoki Sūzandō), Meiji 29 (1896). Small quarto, 200 x 170 mm, quarter calf over lettered silk bound boards (generally rubbed), spine lettered in gilt in English and Japanese, patterned endpapers, title page in English and Japanese (misspelling ‘physical’) with vignette illustration of a globe, tellurium, telescope, charts and atlases, …
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# 50081
RICARDO, David
On the principles of political economy and taxation
London : John Murray, 1821. Third edition. Octavo, contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards, title label to spine (chipped), gilt rule, marbled edges and endpapers, armorial bookplate for Charles William Boase to front pastedown, pp. xii; 538, internally clean, a very good copy. The final edition of economist Daniel Ricardo’s On the principles of …
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# 50100
STOKES, John Lort (1811-1885)
Discoveries in Australia : with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43, by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, also, a narrative of Captain Owen Stanley’s visits to the islands in the Arafura Sea.
London : T. and W. Boone, 1846. Three volumes, octavo, later uniform half green calf over green cloth (boards with some flecking), spines in compartments with gilt decoration and with contrasting leather title labels lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; pp. xv, 521; x, 543, with 26 plates (15 engraved, 11 lithographed) depicting events and scenes …
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# 49887
"PARLEY, Peter" [i.e. Samuel Griswold GOODRICH (1793-1860)]
The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare (Shakespeare)
London : Charles Tilt, circa 1840. Publisher’s fitted wooden cabinet, 145 x 170 mm, bound in straight grained morocco, lettered in gilt across upper pediment, a few scratches and scuffs, split to lower panel, glass-fronted door with clasp containing eight duodecimo volumes, each in publisher’s blind-embossed cloth, gilt titles and decorations to spines, each approximately …
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# 12525
HELPS, Arthur
The Spanish conquest in America and its relation to the history of slavery and to the government of colonies.
London: John W. Parker And Son, 1855-61. First editions. Four volumes, octavo, original deluxe bindings of half maroon morocco over marbled boards with gilt rule, spines with raised bands, gilt ornament and lettering, top edges gilt, with half-titles; vol I xv, 528 pp; maps in the text; vol II vii, 526 pp; 1 plate; bibliography, …
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# 49893
WALLACE, Alfred Russell (1823 - 1913)
The Malay Archipelago : the land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise.
A narrative of travel with studies of man and nature. London : Macmillan and Co., 1869. Second edition. Two volumes, octavo, gilt-decorated green cloth (rebacked, preserving the spines, corners bumped, edges rubbed), new endpapers, name to half-titles, tear to title leaf with residue from old tape repair, pp. xx; 312; 341; engraving and folding maps, …
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# 49516
BOUHOURS, Dominique
La Vie de Saint François Xavier de la Compagnie de Jesus, Apostre des Indes et du Japon.
Paris : Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1682. Quarto, contemporary full calf, spine in compartments with elaborate gilt-tooled decoration and title in gilt; verso of front endpaper with bookseller label of Thomas-Scheler, Paris; pp. [16], 634, [10]; title with woodcut device, and with early manuscript ‘par le P. Bouhours, Dominique S.J.’, and old label and stamps of the …
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# 49499
CRASSET, Jean
Histoire de l’eglise du Japon.
Paris : François Montalant, 1715. Two volumes, quarto, uniform contemporary mottled calf (expertly rebacked, repairs to head caps), spines in compartments with contrasting title and volume labels and gilt decoration; edges stained red; original marbled endpapers; pp. [28], 659 [i.e. 657], [11]; [10], 678, [6]; with a total of 8 copper-engraved plates (one folding) and …
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# 49506
TAVERNIER, Jean-Baptiste
Recüeil de plusieurs relations et traitez singuliers & curieux
de J.B. Tavernier, escuyer, Baron d’Aubonne, qui n’ont point esté mis dans ses six premiers voyages : divisé en cinq parties. I. Une relation du Japon, & de la cause de la persecution des chrestiens dans ses isles … II. Relation de ce qui s’est passe dans la negociation des deputez qui ont este en Perse …
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# 49942
MORGAN & ALLPORT
Messrs. Money Wigram & Sons’ Line of Steam & Sailing Ships to Australia. 1878.
London : Morgan & Allport (agents for Money Wigram & Sons), 1878. Single quarto sheet (265 x 200 mm), printed recto only in red, blue and black on blue paper with vignette ensign of the shipping company at head; presents a sailing schedule set out in tabular form for Money & Wigram’s ships departing for …
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# 50129
GILLRAY, James (1756 - 1815)
Consequences of a successful French invasion
No. 1. Plate 1st. “We come to recover your long lost liberties” – Scene. The House of Commons. London: James Gillray, March 1st 1798. Etching printed in sanguine, on paper watermarked 1794, 319 x 361 mm, trimmed to just within the plate line, to small chips lower edge (one detached and held in place with …
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# 49966
English indenture from the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Henry VI (1458).
Manuscript in brown ink on vellum, 210 x 330 mm (single membrane); lacking the seal, otherwise well preserved.
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# 49885
BATCHELOR, John
Uwepekere, or Ainu Fireside Stories. As told by one of themselves
Translated by the Van. Dr. John Batchelor, Sapporo, Hokkaido. Tokyo : Kyobunkan, 1924. Octavo, flush cut papered boards with laid on illustration, lightly foxed, private collection stamp from Library of Tokito to front free endpaper, pp. [vi]; 2; 104, vignette illustrations, 50 folk tales written in Ainu and English, a very good copy. Englishman Rev. …
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# 49935
吉田晋 / YOSHIDA, Susumu
北海道沿海圖 / Japan Yezo Islands Coast of Hokkaido. The 16th year of Meiji 1883
[Tokyo], Matsui Chūbē, Meiji 16 [1883] / [東京], 松井忠兵衛, 明治 16 [1883]. Lithographed map, outline hand colour, 77 x 75 cm, folded into cover 23 x 16 cm, mounted in cover boards with title label, a few small worm holes and tears, a very good copy. Scarce separately issued map in English and Japanese of …
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# 19684
LINDHARDT, Knud
Europe’s Gay Gateway. See wonderful Copenhagen via SAS
[Copenhagen : Scandinavian Airlines System, circa 1956]. Offset lithograph, 970 x 720 mm, printed lower left ‘Printed in Denmark – Interprint A/S Stosv 1860’, light handling marks, else fine. A fabulously kitsch 1950s travel poster for the Danish capital, designed by Knud Lindhardt. The poster was issued in two sheets in mirror image, of which …
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# 49958
ERMAN, Adolph
Travels in Siberia : including excursions northwards, down the Obi, to the Polar Circle, and southwards, to the Chinese frontier.
Translated from the German, by William Desborough Cooley. In two volumes. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1848. First English edition. Two volumes, octavo, contemporary full polished calf ruled in gilt, bindings in compartments with gilt decoration and red and green leather title and volume labels lettered in gilt; marbled edges, pastedowns and endpapers; …