Asia
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# 50382
HEYLYN, Peter
Cosmographie, in four books. Containing the Chorographie & Historie of the whole World, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles thereof.
by Peter Heylyn. With an accurate and an approved Index of all the Kingdoms, Provinces, Countries, Inhabitants, People, Cities, Mountains, Rivers, Seas, Islands, Forts, Bays, Capes, Forests, &c. of any Remarque in the whole World; Much wanted and desired in the former, and now annexed to this last Impression, Revised and Corrected by the Author himself …
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# 50554
Java the wonderland. Illustrated. Guide and tourist’s handbook.
Weltevreden (Batavia) : Official Tourist Bureau, c. 1900. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, cloth spine, pp. 106, extensively illustrated in black and white, folding colour map at rear, the title page neatly excised and a photocopy supplied, else a very good copy.
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# 50532
ORANGE, James
The Chater collection. Pictures relating to China, Hongkong, Macao, 1655 – 1860
With historical and descriptive letterpress. London : Thornton Butterworth, 1924. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (lightly marked), top edge gilt, pp. 528, numerous colour and black and white plates, tissue guards; a very good copy. Limited to 750 numbered copies. “The book was compiled by James Orange in 1924 and is one of the most significant historical …
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# 38356
GONZALEZ CABRERA BUENO, José (c. 1670 - after 1733)
Navegación Especulativa, y Práctica, con la Explicación de algunos Instrumentos, que están mas en uso en los Navegantes … …
Manila : Impresa en el Convento de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de la Orden de Nro. Seraphico Padre San Francisco, 1734. First edition. Folio (315 x 210 mm), contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties, some age staining, small loss at front bottom corner), spine with title in manuscript in black ink; printed on rice and …
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# 49733
SCHMIDT, I. J. (Isaac Jacob)
Grammatik der Tibetischen Sprache,
verfasst von I. J. Schmidt. St. Petersburg : Gräff ; Leipzig, Voss, 1839. Quarto (280 x 210 mm), contemporary red calf, richly gilt, spine with gilt lettering and decoration, gilt dentelles; all edges gilt; blue endpapers; pp. xv, [1 blank], 318, [2 Errata]; text in German (roman) and Tibetan script; scattered light foxing, a fine …
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![Chronicas de la Apostolica Provincia de S. Gregorio de religiosos descalzos de N.S.P.S. Francisco en las Islas Philipinas, China, Japon, &c. Parte Prima [Parte Segunda / Parte Tercera]](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/02/2026_DSFB_1195-300x300.jpg)
# 49560
San Antonio, Juan Francisco de
Chronicas de la Apostolica Provincia de S. Gregorio de religiosos descalzos de N.S.P.S. Francisco en las Islas Philipinas, China, Japon, &c. Parte Prima [Parte Segunda / Parte Tercera]
Manila : Impressa en la imprenta del uso de la propria provincia, síta en el Convento de Nr̄a. Señora de Loreto del Pueblo de Sampaloc, Extra-muros de la Ciudad de Manila; por fr. Juan del Sotillo, 1738, 1741, 1744. Three volumes, folio, contemporary vellum, spines lettered in black ink with fleuron decoration, shelf marks to …
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# 48671
[EAST INDIA COMPANY]
A remonstrance of the Directors of the Netherlands East India Company,
presented to the Lords States Generall of the united Provinces, in defence of the said Company, touching the bloudy proceedings against the English Merchants, executed at Amboyna. Together, with the Acts of the Processe, against the sayd English, and the Reply of the English East India Company, to the said Remonstrance and Defence. Published by …
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![Historia de la Provincia del Sancto Rosario de la orden de Predicadores en Philippinas, Iapon, y China. [Libro Primero / Libro Segundo]](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/11/28141521/2017_DSFB_3252-300x300.jpg)
# 15197
Aduarte, Diego; González, Domingo
Historia de la Provincia del Sancto Rosario de la orden de Predicadores en Philippinas, Iapon, y China. [Libro Primero / Libro Segundo]
En Manila : en el Colegio de Santo Thomas, por Luis Beltran impressor de libros, 1640. First edition. Two volumes in one, folio, contemporary limp vellum (a little stained, lacking ties), spine with manuscript title in ink; front pastedown with old ex libris of the Bibliotheca Magni Mexicani Conventus S. P.N. S. Francisco (early Convent …
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# 49752
FROÍS [FROES], Luís; [SAILLY, Thomas, translator]
Annales Indiques, contenantes la vraye narration et avis de ce qu’est advenu & succedé en Iapon, & autres lieux voisins des Indes,
envoyez par les Peres de la Socieré de IESUS au R.P. Claude Aquaviva GVeneral de la dicte Compagnie, en l’an 1588. Nouvellement traduictes en François. A Anvers : En l’Imprimerie Plantinienns, Chez la Vefue, & Jean Mourentorf, 1590. First Antwerp edition. Dudecimo, later quarter calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with gilt rule …
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![[TENSHŌ EMBASSY] Breve relatione del consistoro publico, dato àgli Ambasciadori Giapponesi : dalla buona memoria](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/02/04225714/2016_DSFB_1996-202x300.jpg)
# 13684
Gonsalves, Gaspar, 1540-1590; Boccapaduli, Antonio, 1530-1593
[TENSHŌ EMBASSY] Breve relatione del consistoro publico, dato àgli Ambasciadori Giapponesi : dalla buona memoria
della Santità di Papa Greg. XIIIj. in Roma, il dì 23. di Marzo 1585 : con l’arriuo fatto in Pisa, & la riceuuta fattagli da S.A.S. per tutto il suo felicissimo stato : et di nuouo baciati li piedi alla Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Sisto V. In Firenze : Dalle scalee di Badia, 1585. …
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# 13319
LUCENA, João de (1550-1600)
Historia da vida do Padre Francisco de Xavier, e doque fizerão na India os mais Religiosos da Companhia de Iesu.
Lisboa [Lisbon] : Impresso per Pedro Crasbeeck, 1600. Small folio, contemporary vellum; engraved title-page, pp [vi], 908, [38]; [2] copperplate engraved portraits of Francis Xavier, and a copperplate of Francis Xavier’s tomb; woodcut initials; text in double columns; loss to margins of pp 183-86, a few light stains; housed in a magnificent custom clamshell box by …
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# 50248
LOUIS XV, King of France
Lettres patentes concernant les Missions Étrangères.
[France, c.1773]. Manuscript in ink, [5] pp., folio; extremely well preserved; bound in modern papered boards with gilt-lettered red leather title label to the front; ex libris label of H. P. Kraus to front pastedown. One of the most important institutions in the history of evangelisation in Asia, the Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP), or …
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# 49740
VARENIUS, Bernhadus
Descriptio Regni Japoniae et Siam …
At head of title: Bernhardi Vareni Med. D. Cambridge : John Hayes for Samuel Simpson, 1673. Octavo, contemporary calf ruled in blind (a few scuff marks, worn along the outer hinges), spine in compartments with contrasting title label lettered in gilt (scuffed, small loss to leather at head and foot); front pastedown with armorial bookplate …
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# 48548
HEIDEN, Frans Janszoon van der
Vervarelyke schip-breuk van’t Oost-Indische jacht ter Schelling onder het landt van Bengale
Harderwiljk : Dirk en Jan Rampen, 1707. Quarto, contemporary vellum; pp. [1]-81 (Vervarelyke schip-breuk), 82-96 (accounts of Arakan, Martavan, Tanassery, Bengal, and the Pathans); title with woodcut vignette of Terschelling during the fateful storm in the Bay of Bengal, a further [18] woodcuts in the text; [BOUND WITH] Joosten, Jaques. De kleyne wonderlijke wereld, waar onder …
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# 48798
António Francisco Cardim (1596-1659)
Relation de la province du Japon,
ecrite en Portugais par le Pere François Cardim de la Compagnie de IESUS, Procureur de cette province … A Tournay : De l’Imprimerie d’Adrien Quinqué, 1645. Duodecimo, contemporary calf, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt; edges stained red; marbled endpapers, front pastedown with ex libris label of …
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# 24318
[VOC]
Reglement voor de Opzieners bij het Mijnwezen in Nederlandsch Indie …
Japan, ter Drukkerij te Desima [Nagasaki], 1858. Octavo, original plain pink wrappers stitched in the Japanese style (loss of paper along spine), pp 80; early Japanese owner’s seal stamps in red to title and lower wrapper; some worming to lower wrapper and margins of first and last few leaves, else very good; housed in a …