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  • Die Stammenverwandtschaft der meisten Sprachen der Alten und Australisches Welt.

    # 50802

    EUROPAEUS, David Emanuel Daniel (Taneli)

    Die Stammenverwandtschaft der meisten Sprachen der Alten und Australisches Welt.

    [=The genealogical relationship of most languages ​​of the Old World and the Australian world]. St. Petersburg : Typografiya Tovarishchestva “Obshchestvennaya Pol’za”, Bol’shaya Pod’yacheskaya no. 39, 1877. Large folio, 49 x 43 cm, pp. [10] (the last blank), comprising four double-page tables, preceded by the author’s explanatory essay illustrated with two wood-engravings; text in German; contemporary …

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  • Old Korea : the land of morning calm

    # 50624

    KEITH, Elizabeth (illustrator); SCOTT, Elspet Keith Robertson (text)

    Old Korea : the land of morning calm

    London : Hutchinson & Co., 1946. Quarto, decorated cloth in dustjacket (lightly marked), 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.

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  • Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les Hollandois;

    # 49454

    LODEWIJCKSZ, Willem

    Premier livre de l’histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les Hollandois;

    et des choses a eux advenues: ensemble les conditions, les meurs, & manieres de vivres des Nations, par eux abordees. Plus les Monnoyes, Espices, Drogues, & Marchandises, & le pris d’icelles … … Amstelredam [Amsterdam] : Cornille Nicolas [Cornelius Nicolaius], 1598. Folio, later full polished calf (sunned and lightly marked), spine with raised bands and …

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  • 天文図解 Tenmon Zukai (= Illustrated Explanation of Astronomy)

    # 49135

    IGUCHI, Jōhan

    天文図解 Tenmon Zukai (= Illustrated Explanation of Astronomy)

    Osaka : Ganshōdō, 1897 (first published in Osaka by Itamiya Mohe Kaihan, 1689). Five volumes, octavo, original printed wrappers (lightly marked); printed title labels, 32, 31, 37, 64, 54 folding leaves, with 60 woodcut illustrations of astronomical diagrams, devices and star maps, including a volvelle in volume three; complete; housed in a modern slipcase. A …

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  • World Pictures (deluxe edition, with original signed watercolour)

    # 50463

    MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

    World Pictures (deluxe edition, with original signed watercolour)

    London : Adam & Charles Black, 1902. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (spine ruled, light wear), top edge gilt, others uncut, pp. x; 332, illustrated with 100 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, a very good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 500 numbered copies printed on hand-made paper. This is copy …

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  • Cosmographie, in four books. Containing the Chorographie & Historie of the whole World, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles thereof.

    # 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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  • Excursions in and around Singapore

    # 50542

    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, includes tours of Johore and Penang, a fine copy. A single example recorded on Worldcat (National Library of Singapore).

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  • The Chater collection. Pictures relating to China, Hongkong, Macao, 1655 - 1860

    # 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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  • Seeing Singapore.

    # 50390

    AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., LTD.

    Seeing Singapore.

    [Cover title]. Singapore : Printers Ltd., [c.1935]. Octavo leaflet in the form of a single folding sheet (185 x 125 mm), [4] pp, illustrated; with information about the American Express Travel Service, excursions on Singapore Island and Johore, and a Suggested Tour in Malaya; very good condition.

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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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  • Navegación Especulativa, y Práctica, con la Explicación de algunos Instrumentos, que están mas en uso en los Navegantes ... ...

    # 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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  • Grammatik der Tibetischen Sprache,

    # 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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  • Views in Japan, India, & China

    # 48431

    BEATO, Felix; FLOYD, William Pryor; BOURNE, Samuel

    Views in Japan, India, & China

    [1867-1870]. Photograph album, large oblong folio (320 x 480 mm), original red morocco richly gilt (worn at corners and spine ends), upper board lettered in gilt ‘Views in Japan, India, & China’; all edges gilt; moire pastedowns and endpapers; verso of front free-endpaper with the inscription of the original owner Frederick Woods, dated July 1871; …

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  • A remonstrance of the Directors of the Netherlands East India Company,

    # 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]

    # 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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  • Annales Indiques, contenantes la vraye narration et avis de ce qu'est advenu & succedé en Iapon, & autres lieux voisins des Indes,

    # 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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