Asia

  • Manuscript letter written by Abbé Huc, sent from Macau in November 1846, addressed to his parents in Toulouse and reporting on his just-completed epic journey through Tartary and Tibet.

    # 45888

    HUC, Évariste Régis, Abbé (1813-1860)

    Manuscript letter written by Abbé Huc, sent from Macau in November 1846, addressed to his parents in Toulouse and reporting on his just-completed epic journey through Tartary and Tibet.

    Macao, 1er. Novembre 1846. Entire letter, manuscript in ink on a single folio sheet of Chinese paper, folded to form 4 pages, written on 3½ pages; the panel on the outer side addressed to ‘Monsieur Huc, Rue Pargaminières 73, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne’, circular postal markings in black ‘Paris 8 Janv. 47’ and ‘Toulouse 11 Janv. 47’; …

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  • Catálogo de la Biblioteca Filipina de W. E. Retana. (Limited edition, presentation copy inscribed by Retana for Hiersemann)

    # 46753

    RETANA, W. E. (Wenceslao Emiliano)

    Catálogo de la Biblioteca Filipina de W. E. Retana. (Limited edition, presentation copy inscribed by Retana for Hiersemann)

    Edición de treinta ejemplares. Madrid : Imprenta de la viuda de M. Minuesa De Los Rios, 1893. Folio (350 x 250 mm), original leather-backed marbled papered boards (a trifle scuffed), spine with raised bands and red morocco title label lettered in gilt; original marbled endpapers; the limitation page records the names of institutional and private …

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  • Histoire de la Navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois, aux Indes Orientales.

    # 38432

    LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van (1563-1611)

    Histoire de la Navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois, aux Indes Orientales.

    Contenant diverses descriptions des lieux jusques à présent descouverts par les Portugais: observations des Coustumes & singularitez de delà, & autres declarations … … Troisieme édition, augmentée. Amsterdam: Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638. Three parts in one volume, folio (310 x 200 mm), contemporary mottled calf (rubbed), spine in compartments with ornate gilt decoration and lettering; edges speckled …

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  • Primo volume et quarta edizione. Delle Navigationi et viaggi raccolto da m. Gio. Batt. Ramusio et con molti vaghi

    # 15201

    RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista (1485-1557)

    Primo volume et quarta edizione. Delle Navigationi et viaggi raccolto da m. Gio. Batt. Ramusio et con molti vaghi

    discorsi da lui in molti luoghi dichiarato et illustrato … … Venetia : nella Stamperia de’ Giunti, 1588. [TOGETHER WITH] Secondo volume Delle Navigationi et viaggi raccolto da m. Gio. Batt. Ramusio … Venetia : Appresso i Giunti, 1583. [TOGETHER WITH] Terzo volume Delle Navigationi et viaggi raccolto da m. Gio. Batt. Ramusio … Venetia : nella Stamperia de’ Giunti, …

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  • Tomo primero de la historia de la provincia del Santo Rosario de Filipinas, Iapon, y China, de la Sagrada Orden de Predicadores.

    # 46761

    ADUARTE, Diego Francisco (1569-1636)

    Tomo primero de la historia de la provincia del Santo Rosario de Filipinas, Iapon, y China, de la Sagrada Orden de Predicadores.

    Zaragoça : Domingo Gascon, Infançon, Impressor del Santo Hospital Real, y General de Nuestra Señora de Gracia, 1693. Folio, contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties), spine with early ms. title and decoration in black ink; hinges cracked; pp [viii], 767, [53 index]; title page with engraved vignette coat of arms; woodcut initials and tail-pieces; last section of main …

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  • The Orient Missionary Exhibition, in the Central Hall, Academy Street, Cork, March 25th to 29th, 1912.

    # 46811

    WESLEYAN METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY

    The Orient Missionary Exhibition, in the Central Hall, Academy Street, Cork, March 25th to 29th, 1912.

    Cork [Ireland] : Eagle Printing Works, 1912. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), original pictorial wrappers (chipped at corner and spine ends, mild edge wear) pp. 28; with b/w photographic illustrations, advertisements; internally clean, a very good copy. The title is somewhat misleading, since as well as exhibits from China, India and Ceylon, the exhibition included …

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  • Historia general de Philipinas (partial set)

    # 22102

    Concepción, Juan de la, 1724-1787

    Historia general de Philipinas (partial set)

    Conquistas espirituales y temporales de estos españoles dominios, establecimientos progresos, y decadencias. Comprehende los imperios, reinos y provincias de islas, y continentes con quienes hà havido communicacion, y comercio por inmediatas coincidencias. Con noticias universales geograficas, hidrograficas de historia natural de politica de costumbres y de religiones, en lo que deba interesarse tan universal titulo. Manila …

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  • [BIOLOGICAL RACISM] Betrachtungen über die Fruchtbarkeit, oder Unfruchtbarkeit, über den vormahligen und gegenwärtigen Zustand der vornehmsten Länder in Asien,

    # 46347

    MEINERS, C. (Christoph) (1747-1810)

    [BIOLOGICAL RACISM] Betrachtungen über die Fruchtbarkeit, oder Unfruchtbarkeit, über den vormahligen und gegenwärtigen Zustand der vornehmsten Länder in Asien,

    von C. Meiners…. [=Observations on fertility and sterility in the ancient and present states of the main regions of Asia]. Lübeck und Leipzig : im Verlage bey Bohn und Compagnie, 1795-96. Two volumes, octavo (195 x 125 mm), matching contemporary bindings of marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed, first volume with small paper loss, otherwise very …

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  • Vocabulary of the English and Malay languages with notes

    # 46532

    SWETTENHAM, Sir Frank A. (1850 - 1946)

    Vocabulary of the English and Malay languages with notes

    Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore & Yokohama : Kelly & Walsh, Volume I : 1909 (eighth edition; Volume II : 1908 (seventh edition). Two volumes, octavo, gilt-lettered blue cloth (a few marks, edges lightly rubbed), blind stamp to half-titles of Pritchard, Bookseller Penang, pp. viii; xxxii; 245; xxii; 170, text in English and Malay in Roman …

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  • An English-Malay phrase-book

    # 46380

    BLAGDEN, C. O.

    An English-Malay phrase-book

    Singapore : Malaya Publishing House, Limited, 1951. Octavo, lettered papered boards (stained and discoloured), sloth spine, pp. 265, edges browned, a very good copy.

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  • Kashmir. Indian State Railways.

    # 46442

    INDIAN STATE RAILWAYS

    Kashmir. Indian State Railways.

    Bombay : Times of India Press, [c.1930]. Tall narrow octavo (250 x 110 mm, folded), colour-illustrated wrappers; 16 double pages (each folds out to 250 x 220 mm); b/w photographic illustrations, large map; contents starting to detach from wrappers, otherwise very good condition. Attractive Indian tourist brochure from the late Raj. The text includes historical …

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  • Singapore Year Book 1965

    # 46418

    GOVERNMENT OF SINGAPORE

    Singapore Year Book 1965

    Singapore : Government Printing Office, 1965. Octavo, decorated boards, illustrated dutjacket (light edge wear, a coupe of small tears, spine a little sunned), maps to endpapers, pp. [viii]; 360, numerous photographic illustrations, ‘Complimentary’ stamp to preliminary blank, a very good copy.

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  • Excursions in and around Singapore

    # 46338

    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, a few pen notes, adhesion marks on lower panel where stuck in an album, includes tours of Johore and Penang. A single example recorded on Worldcat (National Library of Singapore).

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  • The apostle of Burma : a missionary epic in commemoration of the centennial of the birth of Adoniram Judson [Prospectus]

    # 46340

    RICHARDS, William C.

    The apostle of Burma : a missionary epic in commemoration of the centennial of the birth of Adoniram Judson [Prospectus]

    Boston : Lee and Shepard, 1889. Octavo, self-wrappers, pp. 16, cover illustration, portrait frontispiece, includes a preface, two pages sample from the poem, letters to the publisher. Uncommon prospectus for the book.

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  • Portraits of Himalayan types, including Nepalese and Tibetan, taken in Darjeeling, 1890s.

    # 46461

    [PAAR, Theodor, attributed]

    Portraits of Himalayan types, including Nepalese and Tibetan, taken in Darjeeling, 1890s.

    Group of 5 (five) albumen print photographs removed from the same late nineteenth-century album, all attributed to the Darjeeling photographer Theodor Paar. I. The Witch at Ghoom. [Caption on mount]. 200 x 150 mm, mounted recto of card mount; very good condition. The subject is believed to have been a Bhutia woman from Tibet, living …

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  • The alphabets of Korea and English for the students.

    # 46409

    The alphabets of Korea and English for the students.

    Seoul : East-West Academic Research Society [c.1950?]. Folding sheet, 175 x 380 mm (opened), 175 x 95 mm (closed), printed on both sides; front panel illustrated with the Taegukgi, followed by 6 panels with the two alphabets presented in tabular form with equivalents in each language, and a colophon in Korean on last panel; good …

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