Asia
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# 46050
CEYLON & INDIA GENERAL MISSION
Ceylon & India General Mission collection box, circa 1920.
[London : CIGM, c.1920]. Wooden box, 152 x 80 x 70 mm, with chromolithographic label on five sides (one illustrated); surface wear commensurate with extensive use. The Ceylon and India General Mission (CIGM) was a non-denominational organisation founded in 1892. Initially its evangelical work was carried out among Ceylon’s Sinhalese Buddhists and Tamil Hindus, but …
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# 46357
M. STERNGERG & TURCO-EGYPTIAN TOBACCO STORE (publishers)
Hongkong. View of the Peak Hotel taken from the Peak.
Hong Kong : Published by M. Sternberg, [c.1910]. Lithographic postcard, 91 x 135 mm; not mailed, in very fine condition.
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# 46361
[Photographer unknown]
Kuala Lumpur v. Special Service Squadron. [16 February, 1924].
[Title from caption on mount]. Large format gelatin silver print photograph, 230 x 280 mm; on original board mount, 355 x 460 mm, captioned in ink across the upper margin ‘KUALA LUMPUR v. SPECIAL SERVICE SQUADRON’; a strong print with excellent clarity, in very good condition; the mount is clean and stable (verso blank). In …
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# 46001
BEDDOME, Captain R. H. (1830 - 1911)
The ferns of southern India. Being descriptions and plates of the ferns of the Madras Presidency
Madras : printed by Gantz Brothers, 1863. First edition. Quarto, half crushed morocco over cloth, edges scuffed, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt, rebacked, marbled endpapers, title page, notice to subscribers, pp. [I – creased]; xv; [blank]; 88; vii (index), extensively illustrated with 271 lithographed line illustrations of ferns, a few contemporary …
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# 46000
MARSHALL, Captain G. F. L.
Birds’ nesting in India. A calendar of the breeding seasons, and a popular guide to the habits and haunts of birds.
Illustrated. By Captain G. F. L. Marshall, R.E., F.Z.S., and member of the British & Indian Ornithological Unions. Calcutta : Calcutta Central Press Co., 1877. Octavo, cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine (rubbed at head and foot), corners bumped, pp. [vi]; ii; 184; thirteen finely lithographed plates by Marshall (some with a marginal water …
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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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# 45823
APIANUS, Petrus (1495-1552); FRISIUS, Reiner Gemma (1508-1555)
Cosmographia
Petri Apiani, per Gemmam Frisium apud Lovanienses Medicum & Mathematicu[m] insignem, … … Antwerp: Aegidius Coppenius Diesthensis for Gregorius Bontius, 1545. Small quarto (230 x 160 mm), contemporary limp vellum envelope binding with (possibly later) calf ties; front and rear endpapers with extensive relevant early notes in Dutch on the astrolabe and calculations of the sun’s …
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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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# 42307
Valignano, Alessandro (1539-1606) et al.
Avvisi della Cina, et Giapone del fine dell’anno 1587.
Con l’arrivo de’ Signori Giapponesi nell’India. Cavati dalle lettere della Compagnia di Giesù. Ricevute il mese d’ Ottobre 1588. Con licentia de’ superiori. In Venetia, appresso i Gioliti. 1588. Small octavo (160 x 105 mm), modern quarter red morocco over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands and lettered in gilt ‘AVVISI DELLA CINA’; new …
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# 38352
STALKER, John
A treatise of Japaning and varnishing, being a compleat discovery of those arts.
With the best way of making all sorts of varnish for Japan, wood, prints, plate or pictures. The method of guilding, burnishing and lackering, with the art of guilding, seperating, and refining metals, and the most curious way of painting on glass, or otherwise. Also rules for counterfeiting tortoise-shell, and marble, and for staining or …
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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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# 38392
PALMER, Aaron Haight (1779-1863)
Letter to the Hon. John M. Clayton, Secretary of State, enclosing a paper, geographical, political, and commercial, on the independent oriental nations;
and submitting a plan for opening, extending, and protecting American commerce in the East, &c. Respectfully submitted to the President and Cabinet, by Aaron Haight Palmer, Counsellor of the Supreme Court of the U.S. Published by direction of the Department of State in the National Intelligence of the 6th September, 1849. Revised, and now published with …
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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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# 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 …