Asia
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# 51561
LEE, Kuan Yew
From Third World to First. The Singapore story: 1965 – 2000. Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew (presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)
Singapore : Times Media, 2000. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 778, illustrated. Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew (1923 – 2015), the first Prime Minister of Singapore. Provenance : The Hon. Alexander Downer, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs 1996 – 2007. With a presentation bookplate inscribed to him pasted on the front free endpaper signed by …
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# 51560
LAKE, Andrew
Changes and chances : a personal history of All Saints Jakarta
Jakarta : All Saints Church, 2004. Octavo trade paperback, pp. xix, [1 blank], 202; with numerous b/w photographic illustrations; an excellent copy, inscribed on the half-title for the visiting Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon. Alexander Downer, presumably by an Australian embassy staff member: ‘Dec. ’04. Dear Minister Downer, Welcome back to Jakarta. I …
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# 51567
Col. Sharom bin Hashim, Editor-in-Chief
The Malaysian Army’s battle against communist insurgency in Peninsula Malaysia 1968-1989 (signed presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)
Kuala Lumpur : Army Headquarters, Ministry of Defence, 2001. Folio, gilt-lettered leather in dustjacket, slipcase, pp. 218, illustrated. A very scarce book about guerrilla warfare in Malaysia in the twentieth century. Provenance: The Hon. Alexander Downer, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs 1996 – 2007. With a signed presentation inscription to him from Minister of Defence …
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# 51566
Hassanal Bolkiah Muiz'zaddin Wad'daulah, Sultan of Brunei
Abode of Peace : Brunei Darussalam (signed presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)
Singapore : Editions Didier Millet, 1993. Folio, boards in illustrated dustjacket, laminated illustrated slipcase (slightly scuffed), diecut endpaper, pp. 208, illustrated. An illustrated photobook about the small southeast Asian nation Brunei, formally named Negara Brunei Darussalam which translates to ‘The country of Brunei : Abode of Peace’. With a foreword by His Majesty The Sultan …
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# 51564
LIU, Gretchen
Singapore. A pictorial history 1819 – 2000 (presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)
Singapore : Archipelago Press, 2000 (second impression). Quarto, illustrated boards in dustjacket, light edge wear and sunning to spine, pp. 400, extensively illustrated. Historical photographs of Singapore. Provenance : The Hon. Alexander Downer, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs 1996 – 2007. With a signed presentation inscription to him from Low Choon Ming, High Commissioner for …
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# 51143
MEYER, A. B. and WIGLESWORTH, L. W.
The birds of Celebes and the neighbouring islands.
Berlin : R. Friedlander, 1898. Two volumes, quarto, fine modern binding of quarter green goatskin over cloth bound boards, ruled in blind, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels, tooled in gilt, vellum tips, pp. xxxii; 392; 393 – 962, 7 coloured maps and 45 lithographed plates, of which 42 are hand-coloured; internally clean, …
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# 51030
LUBACH, D. & LOGEMAN, W. M.
Panorama der bewoonde aarde. Eene afbeelding en beschrijving van de merkwaardigste voortbrengselen der aarde en hare bewoners, naar de verschillende aardgordels.
/ door D. Lubach en W. M. Logeman. Schoonhove : S. E. van Nooten, 1851. First edition. Quarto (295 x 225 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked green cloth (boards rubbed and with scattered marks), spine lettered in gilt (sunned, ends frayed, outer hinge split near head); both inner hinges split; pp. i-xxviii, 1-180; illustrated with 10 folding …
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# 51244
SCHILDER, Gunter & KOK, Hans.
Sailing for the east. History & catalogue of manuscript charts on vellum of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) 1602 – 1799
Houten (The Netherlands) : Hes & De Graaf, c. 2010. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, light edge wear, pp. 707, extensively illustrated, CD-ROM. A detailed study of the sea routes the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company) took from Europe to Asia, illustrated with maps and charts on vellum, instruments and books from the period.
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# 51418
THUNBERG, Carl Peter (1743-1828)
Resa uti Europa, Africa, Asia, förrättad åren 1770-1779.
Upsala : J. Edman & J. Edmans enka, 1788-1793. Four volumes octavo, original uniform binding of marbled papered boards (an expected amount of rubbing), spines with leather title labels in gilt; Vol. 1: pp. [26], 390 + [2] engraved plates; Vol. 2: pp. [32], 384 + [4] plates; Vol. 3: pp. [14], 286, 289-389, 400-414; …
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# 51229
LANGSDORFF, Georg Heinrich von
Bemerkungen auf einer Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803 bis 1807,
von G. H. von Langsdorff, Kaiserlich-Russischen Hofrath, Ritter es St. Annen-Orens zweiter Classe, Mitglied mehrerer Akademien und gelehrten Gesellschaften … … Frankfurt am Mayn : Im Verlag bey Friedrich Wilmans, 1812. Two volumes, quarto (270 x 220 mm), contemporary uniform bindings of half calf over marbled papered boards (rubbed, corners somewhat worn), spines in compartments …
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# 51227
[HARTGERS, Joost]
Wonderlijcke Voyagie, by de Hollanders gedaen, door de Strate Magalanes, ende voorts den gantschen kloot des Aertbodems om, met vier Schepen : onder den Admirael Olivier van Noort,
uytghevaren Anno 1598. Hier achter is by-gevoeght de tweede Voyagie an Iacob van Neck, naer Oost-Indien. t’Amstelredam : Joost Hartgerts, 1648. Quarto (240 x 185 mm), later vellum-backed marbled papered boards; pp. 88; title with large woodcut, one foldout plate with 6 woodcuts; decorated initials, tailpieces; a very good copy with wide margins. The fourth European …
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# 50759
HULSIUS, Levinus
Four German-language editions from Hulsius’ collection of voyage accounts, chronicling early Dutch and English voyages to the East Indies.
The publishing enterprise of Flemish-born scientific instrument maker, linguist, and bookseller Levinus Hulsius (1550-1606) was inspired by Theodor De Bry’s celebrated series of voyage accounts. The first volume in the collection published by the Hulsius workshop appeared in 1598; and, although Hulsius died in 1606, his publishing project was continued by his widow and heirs, with 26 …
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# 51228
MENDES PINTO, Fernão
Les voyages advantureux de Fernand Mendez Pinto.
Fidelement traduicts de Portugais en François par le Sieur Bernard Figuier, Gentil-homme Portugais. Et dédiez à Monseigneur le Cardinal de Richelieu. Le contenu de la présente histoire se verra à la page suivante. Paris : Mathurin Henault, 1628. Thick quarto (230 x 170 mm), contemporary full calf, boards with double-gilt rule (minor staining, one corner restored), spine …
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# 51220
POLO, Marco (1254-1324)
Marco Polo Venetiano, delle merauiglie del mondo per lui vedute :
del costume di varij paesi, & dello stranio viuer di quelli, della descrittione de diuersi animali, del trouar dell’oro, & dell’argento, delle pietre preciose : cosa non meno vtile, che bella. Di nuouo ristampato, & osseruato l’ordine suo vero nel dire. In Venetia: Appresso Ghirardo & Iseppo Imberti, MDCXXVI [1626]. Duodecimo, contemporary limp vellum, spine …
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# 51191
KIÖPING, Nils Mattsson; WILLMAN, Olof Eriksson; [CARON, François]
Een kort beskriffning uppå trenne resor och peregrinationer, sampt Konungarijket Japan:
I. Beskrifwes een Reesa, som genom Asia, Africa och många andra hedniska Konungarijken, sampt Öjar; medh flijt är förrättat aff Nils Matson Kiöping … II. Förstelles thet stoora och machtiga Konungarijke Japan, samt thes invånares handel och wandel. III. Beskrifwes een Reesa till Ost Indien, China och Japan, giordh och beskrefwen aff Oloff Erickson Willman … IIII. Uthföres een reesa …
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# 50624
KEITH, Elizabeth (illustrator); SCOTT, Elspet Keith Robertson (text)
Old Korea : the land of morning calm
London : Hutchinson & Co., 1946. Quarto, decorated cloth (a few marks), pp. 72, colour frontispiece, illustrated with colour and black and white plates, preliminaries foxed, internally fine. Scarce, a very good copy, an important illustrated account of Korea.