Asia
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# 44206
HAZELWOOD, Art; RÖTZCHER, Klaus-Ulrich
Tora Bora / توره بوره / Black dust : an opera in three acts
[San Francisco : Art Hazelwood], 2011. Handmade artist’s book in the form of a foldout diorama. Screenprinted boards with cloth joints which open and assemble to create a theatrical stage 320 mm high, 250 mm deep, 710 mm wide, the floor of the stage lined with grooves into which can be inserted one or more …
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# 44804
Malaya 1948
Survey Dept. Malayan Union No. 15, 1948 Large scale separately issued map printed in colour, 910 x 635 mm, old folds, inset map of Langkawi Islands, lightly handled, very good condition. Detailed map of the Malayan Peninsula during the short lived period of the Malayan Union (1946 – 1948), which saw the Federated Malay States, …
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# 44765
HIBI, Sadao
Japanese detail : traditional table and kitchen ware (from the library of Criss Canning)
London : Thames & Hudson, 1989. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 140, illustrated. From the library of noted Australian artist Criss Canning, signed in ink on the half-title. Provenance: Criss Canning, acquired in 2023
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# 43801
CLAVELL, James (1921 - 1994)
Shōgun : a novel of Japan
London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1975. Octavo, gilt-lettered black cloth (a little bumped at head and foot of spine), illustrated dust jacket (by Paul Bacon), not price-clipped, lightly handled, chipped and with short tears at head and foot of spine; very small stain to lower corner of front free endpaper, pp. [viii]; 802; (1); internally …
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# 44490
LATHAM, J. G.
The Australian Eastern Mission, 1934. Report of the Right Honorable J. G. Latham, Leader of the Mission.
At head of title: 1932-33-34. The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. Canberra : L. F. Johnston, Government Printer, August 1934. Foolscap folio, pp. 27; a very good copy of this Parliamentary paper. The Mission visited the Netherlands East Indies, British Malaya, French Indo-China, Hong Kong, China (this included an Anzac Ball in Shanghai), Japan, …
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# 44366
NEWTON, Douglas (ed.)
Arts of the South Seas : island Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia : the collections of the Musée Barbier-Mueller
Munich : Prestel, 1999. Large quarto (315 x 250 mm), publisher’s cloth-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket (slightly rubbed), pp. 368, profusely illustrated in colour and b/w; a fine copy of one of the best surveys of Oceanic Art available.
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# 44453
ROW, T. Subba
Discourses on the Bhagavat Gita.
To help students in studying its philosophy. By Mr. T. Subba Row, B.A., B.L., F.T.S. Printed for the Bombay Theosophical Publication Fund by Tookram Tayta. Bombay : printed at the Joint-Stock Printing Press, 1888. Octavo, plum cloth (spine sunned, lightly marked), offsetting to endpaper, pp. viii; 94, a few pencil annotations.
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# 13321
Maffei, Giovanni Pietro, 1533-1603
Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI. : Selectarum item ex India epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV. Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita.
Coloniæ Agippinæ : in Officina Birckmannica, sumptibus Arnoldi Mylii, MDXCIII. [Cologne : Arnold Mylius, 1593]. Second Cologne edition. Small folio, contemporary calf with embossed armorial device to boards, ruled in blind, rebacked, spine with raised bands; edges stained blue, later endpapers, title with woodcut printer’s device, manuscript inscription lower margin; woodcut initials and tail-pieces; pp 541, …
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# 38367
CALLANDER, John (1722–1789)
Terra Australis Cognita : or, voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth Centuries.
Containing an account of the manners of the people, and the productions of the countries, hitherto found in the Southern latitudes; the advantages that may result from further discoveries on this great continent, and the methods of establishing colonies there, to the advantage of Great Britain. With a preface by the Editor, in which some …
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# 44369
MARSHALL, John (1748-1819) (attributed)
[FIRST FLEET] Manuscript map showing the track of the ship “Scarborough” on its return voyage from Port Jackson in 1788.
Manuscript chart showing the track of a ship [the Scarborough] on a voyage from Port Jackson to Canton [in 1788], on verso of printed map A New Chart of the Southern Coast of Africa, From The Cape of Good Hope To Dalagoa Bay; with the Bank of Cape Agulhas … (1781); 627 x 848 mm …
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# 29226
HUNTER, John (1737-1821)
An historical journal of the transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island,
with the discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the publication of Phillip’s Voyage, compiled from the official papers; including the journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the voyages from the first sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the return of …
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# 43015
FEMBO, Christoph (editor and publisher)
[INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS]. Abbildungen der Bewohner der Erde,
aus den besten Schriften zusammengestellt … … Nürnberg : Christoph Fembo, 1816. Broadsheet, 610 x 500 mm, copper engraving with original hand colouring; light creasing, some short edge tears and a few expert repairs. A spectacular early nineteenth-century coloured engraving illustrating the traditional costume of peoples of the world. The sixty-six full-length portraits are arranged …
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# 41879
DELATTRE, Charles
Voyages et naufrages curieux en Océanie.
Paris ; Limoges : Martial Ardent, 1850. Octavo (187 x 11 3 mm), publisher’s original embossed cloth over boards gilt (corners worn, spine with small loss at head and with loss to cloth at tail), front paste-down with original owner’s name, lithographed frontispiece with ethnic types of the Americas and Oceania (including natives of the …
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# 41661
DEAN MAHOMED [DIN MAHOMED] (1759–1851)
Sake Dean Mahomed : surgeon, traveller, introducer of Indian cuisine and shampoo to Europe, and the first Indian to publish a book in English : cut signatures in Roman and Arabic script, dated at Horsham (West Sussex), 22 July 1841.
Manuscript in ink on paper, 50 x 118 mm; mounted on a section cut from a nineteenth-century album leaf, along with an accompanying cutting, in a different hand, recording the place and date the signatures were obtained: Horsham, July 22nd 1841 (Horsham is just 18 miles from Brighton, where Dean Mahomed lived from 1814 until …
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# 43543
Maker unknown.
A Batak shaman’s calendar, “porhalaan”.
[Northern Sumatra, twentieth century]. Comprised of twelve bamboo slats incised with Batak script, suspended by twine from a bone finial incised with shamanic symbols; dimensions 180 x 110 mm; intact, darkened patina overall. A Batak datu or shaman’s calendar, “porhalaan”, used not for determining the date but rather auspicious times for rituals. Each of the …
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# 43440
A Meiji-era album of original kimono designs.
Japan (probably Kyoto) : circa 1900. Silk-bound folding album measuring 485 x 335 x 60 mm, containing 68 original watercolours on card of exquisite kimono designs; numbering in Japanese; housed in a modern Japanese box, plain manuscript label to spine Hinagata (=Designs). A stunning collection of original kimono designs in vivid colour and with fine …