Asia
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# 46206
CATHAY PACIFIC
Singapore today
Hong Kong : Cathay Pacific, circa 1970. Tourist brochure, DL size, folded sheet, 5 panels printed both sides, illustrated, with a map of the city.
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# 29393
HUDDART, Joseph (1741-1816) (attrib.)
The Oriental navigator; or, new directions for sailing to and from the East Indies.
Also for the use of the country ships, trading in the Indian and China seas, to New Holland, &c. &c. Collected from the manuscripts, journals, memoirs, and observations, of the most experienced officers in the Hon. East India Company’s Service; and from the last edition of the French Neptune Oriental, by Mons. D’Après de Mannevillette. Being …
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# 39752
MILNE, John (1775-1841)
Some account of the diseases that prevailed in two voyages to the East Indies, in the Carnatic East-Indiaman, during the years 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, & 1798;
together with observations and medical remarks, in a series of letters to John Hunter, M.D. F.R.S, by John Milne, formerly surgeon of the Carnatic, now surgeon on the Bombay Establishment. London : Printed by E. Spragg, Bow-street, Covent-garden, 1803. Octavo (215 x 135 mm), contemporary calf (lower board heavily scuffed, corners worn), rebacked; front free-endpaper …
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# 39126
CAIRNS, John; STRACHAN, Robert
Sammelband of Hong Kong newspapers, 1845-54
A Sammelband of fifty-four individual issues of newspapers published in Hong Kong between 1845 and 1854, comprising twenty issues of the Overland Register, and Price Current and thirty-four issues of The Hongkong Register; together with two issues of newspapers published in India in 1852 and 1853. Large folio (510 x 340 mm), custom modern binding of …
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# 45630
FRIED. F. (Franz)
General-Karte von Asien
/ gezeichnet von F. Fried. [Also titled in French: Carte de l’Asie / par F. Fried]. Vienna : Artaria & Compagnie, 1839. “Neu berichtiget” (=Newly corrected). Copper-engraved map with hand-coloured outlines, dissected and laid on linen, 780 x 920 mm (sheet), folding to 230 x 195 mm, housed in the original marbled card chemise and slipcase …
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# 45935
ARMY IN BURMA
Routes in Burma. Routes in the northern Shan States and the Wa States. Routes “D”
Issued by the General Staff, Headquarters, Army in Burma, under the authority of the Government of Burma. Rangoon : Suppt., Govt. Printing and Stationary, Burma, 1938. Quarto, stringbound cloth ( a few stains), bookplate to front pastedown of the Army Headquarters Central Library, Simla, pp. 455; 19; diagrams of bridge construction, a few worm holes, …
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# 38375
BRAGA, J[ose] M[aria] (Jack)
With the flowery banner. Some comments on the Americans in Macao and South China.
Macao : printed by N. T. Fernandes & Filhos, 1940. Octavo (220 mm), modern marbled boards with gilt-lettered title label, original printed front wrapper bound in, pp [iv]; 56; age toning to the paper, but a very good copy. One of the rarest publications by Jack Braga, the noted historian of Portuguese colonial history in …
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# 21619
RUDOLPH FALCK; SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO.; PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP CO.; OCCIDENTAL & ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP CO.; OCEANIC STEAMSHIP CO.; UNION STEAMSHIP CO. OF NEW ZEALAND LTD.
To China & Japan … Australia & New Zealand. Via San Francisco.
[Drop title]. Liverpool, U.K. : Rudolph Falck, General European Agent, [c.1900]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers (light vertical fold, some mild toning), staple bound, pp 24 (including wrappers), photographic illustrations, deck and cabin plans, tables of fares etc.; a good, clean copy. Very scarce pre-Panama Canal brochure compiled by travel agent Rudolph Falck for prospective passengers from …
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# 45914
HAZELL, Denis H. (1897 - 1930)
Picturesque Hongkong
Hongkong : Ye Olde Printerie, [c.1925]. Oblong folio, string bound lettered card wrappers with pasted on photograph of Hong Kong by night, title page with pasted on photograph, previous owner’s name neatly written in ink, pp. [vi – foreword]; 26 sepia photogravures tipped-on to 24 sheets with accompanying descriptive letterpress, a fine example A fine …
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# 45819
HAMILTON, Walter
The East India gazetteer;
containing particular descriptions of the empires, kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, towns, districts, fortresses, harbours, rivers, lakes, &c. of Hindostan, and the adjacent countries, India beyond the Ganges, and the Eastern archipelago; together with sketches of the manners, customs, institutions, agriculture, commerce, manufactures, revenues, population, castes, religion, history, &c. of their various inhabitants. London : Printed …
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# 44771
LANMAN, Charles Rockwell (1850-1941); MÜLLER, Friedrich Max (1823-1900)
Charles Rockwell Lanman, American Sanskritist, to Professor Max Müller, German Orientalist: a handwritten postcard, sent from Harvard to Oxford in 1896.
United States of America two cents postcard, 90 x 140 mm, recto addressed Professor Fr. Max Müller, K.M., etc. etc., University of Oxford, England, with an Oxford arrival postmark of July 4 1896, and re-directed address of Spitalhaugh, West Linton, S. B. [i.e. Scottish Borders]; verso imprinted ‘C. R. Lanman, 9 Farrar Street, Cambridge, Mass. / Harvard …
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# 44770
LANMAN, Charles Rockwell (1850-1941)
A Sanskrit reader : text and vocabulary and notes. (Lanman’s copy)
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1920. Seventh issue. Large octavo (260 x 180 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered black cloth over boards; front free-endpaper with the dated ownership wet stamp of ‘Charles R. Lanman, 9 Farrar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts OCT 3 1921’ and fully contemporary inscription in ink: ‘C. R. Lanman’s copy / for use in …
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# 45982
Anon.
A rare Russo-Japanese War era map of Japan and its trading routes, including with Australia, published as a fan
Tokyo : Koyama, circa 1905. Map printed in colour, 240 x 400 mm (opened), red-striped design verso; fine condition, with the Tokyo maker’s label on the bamboo baton. A rare Russo-Japanese War era patriotic Japanese map in two parts, presented in the shape of a fan. The left portion is a detailed map of Japan …
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# 42446
CRASSET, Jean
La storia della chiesa del Giappone
del rev. Padre Giovanni Crasset della Compagnia di Gesù. Traduzione dal francese di Selvaggio Canturani. Venice : Baglioni, 1737. Four volumes, duodecimo, uniform 19th-century bindings of quarter calf over marbled papered boards, spines lettered and decorated in gilt; with 6 folding copper-engraved plates; a very fine set. Second Italian edition of Crasset’s history of the …
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# 40188
MANLEY, Thomas C.
Housing : Hong Kong, Singapore and London, England. Illustrative album.
A study by Thomas C. Manley. Summer 1973. 16-970-698-20. Special Studies in Urban Planning. [Title from typed title leaf]. Folio scrapbook, 360 x 310 mm, wooden boards with typed label affixed to front with variant title Housing : Hong Kong, Singapore and London, England. A study by Thomas C. Manley. Summer 1973. 16-970-698-20. Special Studies in …
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# 45631
AL-JOHARI [AL-JAUHARI], Bukhari
[ISLAM] De kroon aller koningen, van Bochârie van Djôhor, naar een oud Maleisch Handschrift vertaald door P. P. Roorda van Eijsinga,
Hoofdkommies belast met de afdeeling van Inlandsche Zaken, Lid van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. Batavia : ter Lands Drukkerij, 1827. Square quarto (205 x 170 mm), contemporary gilt-lettered half morocco over marbled papered boards (boards rubbed and scuffed, leather worn and with backstop reattached, front hinge cracked, rear hinge almost completely split); …