Asia
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# 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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![Década primeira [-terceira] da Asia de João de Barros dos feitos que os Portugueses fizerão no descobrimento & conquista dos mares & terras do Oriente. [WITH] Quarta década da Asia de João de Barros ...](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3786-300x300.jpg)
# 50134
BARROS, João de
Década primeira [-terceira] da Asia de João de Barros dos feitos que os Portugueses fizerão no descobrimento & conquista dos mares & terras do Oriente. [WITH] Quarta década da Asia de João de Barros …
Lisbon : Jorge Rodriguez, 1628 (complete second edition of the first three Décadas) ; Madrid : na Impressão Real, 1615 (first edition of the fourth Década). Four volumes, folio (300 x 205 mm, the fourth volume slightly taller), uniform early twentieth-century bindings of gilt-ruled quarter black morocco over marbled papered boards, spines in compartments lettered and …
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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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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 …