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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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# 42334

Hoffmann, J. J. (Johann Joseph)

A Japanese grammar.

/ By J. J. Hoffmann. Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1876. Second edition. Quarto (280 x 200 mm), contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), spine with gilt bands and contrasting leather title-piece lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; [16], 367 pp; with 2 plates, one of them folding (short tear at bottom corner); a …

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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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# 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); …

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# 42470

Moraes, Wenceslau de (1854-1929)

Paizagens da China e do Japão.

Lisbon : Livraria Tavares Cardoso, 1906. First edition. Octavo, later red leather with gilt-lettered spine; original colour-illustrated upper wrapper bound in (chipped and with light staining); pp. [vi], 239, [2]; with numerous half-tone photographic illustrations; text in Portuguese; a good copy.

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# 42444

HEINE, Wilhelm

Die Expedition in die Seen von China, Japan und Ochotsk unter Commando von Commodore Colin Ringgold und Commodore John Rodgers, im Auftrage der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten, unternommen in den Jahren 1853 bis 1856,

unter Zuziehung der officiellen Autoritäten und Quellen. Deutsche Original-Ausgabe von Wilhelm Heine. Leipzig : Hermann Costenoble (Band 1) / Otto Purfürst (Bände 2-3), 1858-59. Three volumes, large octavo (245 x 175 mm), uniform publisher’s bindings of blind-blocked pebbled cloth with gilt-decorated and -lettered spines (rubbed and lightly marked, spines sunned); Band 1. XX, 330 pp., …

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# 43300

HOBSON, Benjamin [author]; GUAN, Maocai [translator]; MIYAKE, Gonsai [editor]

The first lines of the practice of surgery in the West [Seii ryakuron] [Xi yi lue lun] [西醫略論]

Edo [Tōkyō] : Yorozuya Heishirō, Ansei 5 [1858]. Four volumes (complete), original decorated Japanese Fukuro-toji binding with title labels, 25.6 x 17.5cm. 62, 48, 62, 22 leaves, woodcut illustrations of (sometimes graphic) surgical practices, previous owner’s stamps (in Japanese) on the wrapper of the first volume, and first & last pages on each volume, pale …

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# 43546

SHIBA, Kōkan [司馬江漢] (c.1738-1818)

Oranda tensetsu [和蘭天説] = Dutch astronomy explained

Tōto [i.e. Tokyo] : Shunharō, Kansei heishin [1796]. Octavo (267 x 180 mm), original Japanese fukurotoji binding of patterned blue paper, stitch bound, printed title label (rubbed); 38 folded leaves, illustrated with woodcuts of astronomical diagrams; a fine example. The Copernican Revolution comes to Japan: the first publication of the heliocentric model of the universe …

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# 42439

Matos (Mattos), Gabriel de (1572-1633)

Lettera annua del Giappone del M. DCXIV. Al molto Rever. Padre Generale della Compagnia di GIESU.

Scritta dal Padre Gabriel de Mattos della medesima Compagnia di Giesù. Rome : Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1617. Octavo, later papered boards with gilt-lettered leather title-piece to spine; title with woodcut Jesuit device, and with an early nineteenth-century ownership inscription to bottom margin; pp. 205; occasional browning, a fine copy. ‘The first Italian edition (the original was …

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# 38366

[MANUSCRIPT] A Journal or Narrative of the Proceedings betweene the Commissioners appointed by His Majestie, and the Commissioners Deputed by the States Generall, pursuant to the Treaty of Peace made at Westminster 9/19 Ffebruary 1673/4 Concerning a Treaty Marine to be observed throughout all the World. And also an Article particularly relateing to the English and Dutch East India Companyes Concluded in the yeare 1674.

[London, 1674-75]. Folio (300 x 200 mm), old mottled calf gilt, spine with raised bands, gilt ornament, and contrasting title labels lettered in gilt; all edges gilt; manuscript written in English, Latin, Dutch and French in several contemporary secretarial hands; ff 269; clean and fresh throughout. An important contemporary manuscript record of the Mixed Commission established to draw up …

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# 17953

DAM, Meyndert van; STICHTER, Cornelis

A VOC ship’s binding from the Chamber of Amsterdam.

d’Erven Stichters Comptoir Almanach, Voor ‘t Jaar 1800. Voorzien van eene aanwyzing der Jaar-, Paarden-, Beesten- en Leermarkten, welke in de Bataafsche Republiek gehouden worden, als mede de Vacantien, het Varen der Trekschuyten en Beurtschepen, het vertrek der Posten en Postwagens. Nevens de maans op- en ondergang. Te Amsterdam : by de erfgen. van de Wed. C. Stichter, …

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# 38365

POMPE VAN MEERDERVOORT, Johannes Lijdius Catharinus (1829-1908)

Beknopte handleiding tot de geneesmiddelleer : ten gebruike van de Keizerlijke Japansche Geneeskundige School te Nagasaki.

Desima [Nagasaki] : ter Nederlandsche Drukkerij, 1862. Octavo (190 mm), contemporary Japanese binding of half calf over marbled papered boards, mauve endpapers, the front free-endpaper with early inscription in Japanese and straight-line stamp of the Deutsche Jesuiten-Mission Japan e. V. Köln, half title with circular stamp of the same library and early Japanese owner’s seal stamp …

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# 30168

BIGOT, Georges Ferdinand (1860-1927)

Croquis Japonais par G. Bigot. 1886. Tokio. [Bound with] Le Jour de l’an au Japon.

[Tokyo : The artist, 1886]. Two volumes in one, large folio (480 x 330 mm) (as issued), slightly later half burgundy crushed morocco over marbled papered boards ruled in gilt, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, pastedown with bookplate of Grolier Club Library with its ‘WITHDRAWN’ stamp, marbled endpapers, original Japanese textured grey paper …

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# 44864

SONNERAT, Pierre (1748 – 1814)

Voyage à la Nouvelle Guinée, dans lequel on trouve la description des lieux, des observations physiques & morales, & des détails relatifs à l’Histoire Naturelle dans le Règne Animal & le Règne Végétal

Paris : Chez Ruault, 1776. Quarto, full speckled calf, corners subbed and bumped, rebacked with new head and tail caps, preserving original spine, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, bookplate for Henry White to front pastedown with bookseller’s label of A. H. Spencer, half-title, engraved frontispiece, …

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# 44855

GOOS, Pieter

Pascaerte vande Zuyd-Zee tussche California, en Ilhas de Ladrones

Amsterdam : Pieter Goos, op’t Waater inde Vergulde Zeespiegel, 1666. 430 x 538 mm (image), 465 x 555 mm (sheet), had coloured, decorative cartouche, a fine example. A fine example of Pieter Goos’ sea chart of the Pacific Ocean. Extending from Van Diemen’s Land to Japan, and from New Zealand to California, it significantly notes discoveries …

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# 44895

PINNOCK, William

Panorama of the old world and the new.

Comprising a view of the present state of the nations of the world, their manners, customs, and peculiarities, and their political, moral, social, and industrial condition. Interspersed with historical sketches and anecdotes by William Pinnock. Enlarged, revised, and embellished with several hundred engravings, from designs of Croome, Devereux, and other distinguished artists. Boston : L. …

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