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# 15508

BESANT, Annie; COOPER-OAKLEY, I. (attrib.)

Theosophical gleanings, or, notes on the “Secret Doctrine”

Studies in Theosophy 1. Issued by the Indian Section of the Theosophical Society for free distribution to its members. Madras : printed by Thompson and Co., 1893. Octavo, printed wrappers (dusty, loss to lower panel), pp. ii; 57; [3], diagrams, light foxing, some finger marks. Madam Blavatsky’s ‘Secret Doctrine’ was first published in 1888 and …

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# 31131

KYU-IL, Choi; BALL, Sydney; BAINES, Robert

Traces : Australia-Korea – Korea-Australia : a book of paintings, prints and calligraphies

Townsville: Lyre Bird Press and Melbourne : Zimmer Editions, 2001. Quarto, blindstamped folding clamshell box containing three folios in gilt-lettered hand made paper wrappers; the first being an introduction to the project and the artists; the second containing two original signed paintings by Sydney Ball; the third containing two original signed woodcuts and a caligraphic …

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# 31173

[LESSEPS, Jean-Baptiste Barthélemy de]

[LA PEROUSE] Voyage de M. de Lesseps du Kamtschatka en France

avec une préface par Ferdinand de Lesseps. Paris : Maurice Dreyfous, [ca.1860]. Octavo (190 x 120 mm), pictorial gilt red cloth boards (fine and bright), all edges gilt; 248 pp, illustrated with 11 engravings; third plate (Kamtschatka volcano) has a 40 mm tear at fore-edge, occasional light foxing, but an excellent example. Scarce. Jean-Baptiste Barthélemy …

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# 31100

BENNETT, James

Treasure Ships : Art in the Age of Spices

Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2014. Folio, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 352, extensively illustrated. Treasure Ships: Art in the age of spices is the first exhibition in Australia to present the complex artistic and cultural interactions between Europe and Asia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries – a period known as the ‘Age …

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# 30478

S. C. AUDDY & CO. (CALCUTTA)

The handbook of Hindūstānī conversation : with a collection of familiar phrases and an easy vocabulary, English and Hindūstānī.

Calcutta : S. C. Auddy & Co., Booksellers and Publishers, 58 & 12, Wellington Street, 1909. “Revised and enlarged edition”. Duodecimo (160 mm), original printed wrappers (sunned and stained, upper wrapper chipped at bottom edge, lower wrapper with tear at foot of spine), pp [4], 60; bottom corners a little dog-eared, otherwise contents clean and …

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# 28334

PETELIN, Stanko (author); BRESKVAR, Silvo (illustrator)

[MISSIONS; JAPAN] Japonska

Domžale [Ljubljana] : “Unio Cleri” Misijonska tiskarna [Missionary Press], 1936. Series: “Unio Cleri” Miss. pro Jugoslavia, IX. Octavo (180 mm), original printed wrappers (sunned and lightly foxed), staple bound; 56 pp, 3 maps (one double-page); clean throughout, a good copy; with an inserted original mimeographed advertisement for the Missionary Press (toning and pale foxing). A …

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# 29938

YIEWA & CO.

Report of Fashion for Gentlemen : Autumn – Winter 1937 – 1938

Kyoto : Yiewa & Co., [1937]. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. [12], pale foxing, illustrated in black and white, a very good copy. Fashion catalogue for the firm of Yiewa with nine illustrations of fashionable men in western style dress, including formal wear, suits, overcoats and leisure wear, as well as two pages illustrating wool samples. …

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# 29176

RHEMREV, J. L. Th.; MULDER, P. J. (illustrator)

[JAVA] Serat Gurma Lelana : ri ngengga ing gambar 4 lembar.

Leiden : Brill, 1884. First edition. Octavo, original printed yellow wrappers, 92 pp, illustrated with [4] double-page chromolithograpic plates, including tiger, wild boar and deer hunting scenes and a native house on stilts; text in Javanese. A very good copy, partly unopened and clean throughout, the margins of the plates with some light foxing or …

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# 27283

[GUGK] ALIEV, Heydar; ALIEV, Sh. D. et al

Атлас Азербайджанской CCP. / Atlas Azerbaĭdzhanskoĭ SSR.

Moskva : GUGK (Glav. upr. geodezii i kartografii pri Sovete Ministrov SSSR), 1979. Oblong quarto (250 x 310 mm), publisher’s pictorial stiff wrappers (light marks and corner wear), pp 40; table of contents, symbols, abbreviations etc. (3-5), full-page colour maps with differing scales (6-40), some with colour illustrations; text in Russian; contents clean and sound. …

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# 27131

JAPAN TOURIST BUREAU

How to see Nikko

Tokyo : Japan Tourist Bureau, April 1936. Octavo (187 x 127 mm), pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 9 pp, illustrated, with map; a fine copy.

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# 25843

PARFITT, Iris G.J.

Jail-bird jottings : the impressions of a Singapore internee.

[Cover title]. Also titled : Jailbird Jottings (title page). [Kuala Lumpur, Malaya] : [The Author?], printed by The Economy Printers, [1947]. First (and only) edition. Small square quarto, original stiff pictorial wrappers (a couple of short tears with small section of tape repair to head of the spine; some loss of paper along spine, traces …

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# 25525

PAM, Max (1949 - )

Max Pam : The sea of love (deluxe edition with original photograph ‘Papier mache Mercedes, Bangkok, 1976’)

Paris : Editions Bessard, 2019. Folio, blind embossed red calf, illustrated dustjacket and glassine wrapper, unpaginated, photobook of the artist’s images, printed on high quality matt photographic paper. Edition limited to 1000 copies, with an original signed photograph ‘Chim, Bangkok 1973’ measuring 190 x 125 mm loosely housed within a pocket inside rear pastedown. This …

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# 22385

Photographer unknown.

[GOLD MINING] Photograph album compiled by a globetrotting mining engineer between 1900 and 1910, with his unique panoramic views of the King of the Hills mine in Western Australia, and topographical views in West Africa, Colombia, and the Caucasus, many of them documenting gold mining enterprises.

Late nineteenth century photograph album, oblong folio (280 x 370 mm), half calf over black crushed morocco ruled in gilt (heavily worn, front board detached), all edges gilt, containing a total of 150+ silver gelatin photographs (and one albumen print) mounted on thick leaves; over 50 of the photographs were taken with a special panoramic …

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# 18737

石川俊之(流宣) [Ishikawa Toshiyuki (Ryūsen)]

萬國総界圖 (万国総界図) [Bankoku Sōkaizu] [Map of the Whole World]

Edo (Tokyo), Japan : 須原屋茂兵衛 [Suharaya Mohē], [1708] (Hōei 5). Woodblock print with yellow colours added by hand, 1315 x 595mm, original covers and title slip; complete. An early Japanese map of the world. Japan is displayed in the centre of the map, which is oriented so that east [東] is at the top of the …

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# 25038

Photographer(s) unknown.

Archive of photographs belonging to a Dutch East India Company coffee plantation overseer in East Java, early 1900s.

This small archive of 32 photographs – taken with a variety of camera types, and for the most part by different amateur photographers – was compiled by a Dutch East India Company employee, and documents his life as an overseer on a Company coffee plantation in East Java in the early 1900s. The backs of …

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# 24707

LOVECHILD, Mrs. (attributed)

A peep at old Asia

Merrill’s Pictorial Gallery. Part III. Concord, N.H. : Rufus Merrill, [1847]. Royal octavo, pictorial yellow wrappers (front lightly marked), stitched, title page with original owner’s presentation inscription, 24 pp, illustrated, internally clean and sound, a very good copy. Although predominantly an introduction for young readers to Chinese culture, this scarce pamphlet also includes text about Maori …

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