China
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# 48657
SEQUEIRA, Luis de (1693-1763)
Relaçaõ summaria da prizam, tormentos, e glorioso martyrio dos veneraveis padres Antonio Joseph, Portuguez, e Tristam de Attimis, Italiano, ambos da Companhia de Jesus, da V. Provincia da China.
Lisbon : Francisco da Silva, 1751. First edition. Small quarto, calf ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and morocco title label lettered in gilt; ex libris label of H. P. Kraus to front pastedown; pp. 38; title with woodcut Jesuit device, woodcut head- and tailpieces, decorated initial; pp. 5-6 with tiny amount …
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# 50231
PEPLOW, S. H. and BARKER, M.
Hongkong around and about
Hong Kong : Ye Olde Printerie, 1931. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo, quarter cloth over lettered papered boards, paper title label to spine, edges lightly rubbed, bookplate and early inscription to front free-endpaper, folding map in outline colour, pp. [ii]; 196; [6 – index], a fine copy. A charming guide to daily life in …
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# 48940
HIRTH, F. (Friedrich)
Notes on the Chinese documentary style.
/ By F. Hirth, Ph.D.,Deputy Commissioner and Assistant Statistical Secretary, Inspectorate General of Customs, Shanghai. At head of title: Wên-chien tzü-chü ju-mên. Shanghai, Hongkong, Yokohama, and Singapore : Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1888. Small octavo, contemporary half cloth over marbled papered boards (rubbed), spine with gilt rule and lettering; pp. vi, [2], 150, [1 Errata], …
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# 48927
TEIXEIRA, P. Manuel
Camões em Macau.
Contribuições para o estudo do problema. Macau : Imprensa Nacional. Macau, 1940. One of 450 copies on “papel vulgar”. Small quarto (250 x 183 mm), later quarter morocco over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; pp. 68, with a photographic frontispiece plate; original upper wrapper bound in at rear; an excellent copy. This work is …
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# 48918
BRAGA, José Maria
Macao : a short handbook. (Presentation copy)
Macao : Information and Tourist Department, 1963. First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the half-title, ‘With compliments and every good wish, from J. M. Braga’. Octavo (225 x 160 mm), later marbled boards with gilt-lettered black morocco title label to front; pp. 64, with 27 b/w photographic illustrations, and a folding map; …
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# 48675
DE SOUSA, Antonio et al.
Lettere annue del Giappone, China, Goa, et Ethiopia. Scritte al M.R.P. Generale della Compagnia di Giesù. Da Padri dell’istessa Compagnia ne gli anni 1615. 1616. 1617. 1618. 1619.
Volgarizati dal P. Lorenzo delle Pozze della medesima Compagnia. In Napoli : per Lazaro Scoriggio, 1621. Small octavo, sumptuous modern binding of red calf ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and lettering, gilt dentelles; pp. 404, [3], [1 blank]; title with woodcut Jesuit device; a fine copy. An important collection of Jesuit …
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# 14164
Argensola, Bartolome Leonardo de
Conquista de las Islas Malucas
Madrid : Alonso Martin, 1609. Small folio, contemporary limp vellum (somewhat cockled, lacking ties); endpapers sympathetically renewed; engraved title-leaf (expertly re-margined at fore- and bottom edges with penwork in facsimile (including for the imprint, which is folded over at bottom edge – the imprint is commonly lacking); pp. [10], 407 (i.e. 411, as 316-319 are …
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# 49427
ACOSTA, Emanuel (1541-1604), et al.
Iesus. Cartas que los padres y hermanos de la Compañia de Iesus, que andan en los reynos de Iapon escriuieron a los de la misma Compañia,
desde el año de mil y quinientos y quare[n]ta y nueue, hasta el de mil y quinientos y setenta y uno : en las quales se da noticia de las varias costumbres y idolatrias de aquella gentilidad : y se cuenta el principio y successo y bondad de los Christianos de aquellas partes. En Alcala …
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# 13318
Orlandini, Nicolo, 1553-1606; Sacchini, Francesco, 1570-1625
Historia Societatis Iesv,
authore Nicolao Orlandino, Societatis eiusdem sacerdote. Nunc primum in Germania in lucem edita. Accessit index rerum memorabilium locupletissimus. Coloniæ Agrippinæ : Sumptibus Antonij Hierat, Anno M. DC. XV. [Cologne : Antonius Hierat, 1615] Quarto, contemporary vellum over boards with manuscript title in ink to spine; pp [viii], 578, [42 index]; pages 89, 268, 365, 488, …
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# 13447
Bartoli, Danielo, 1608-1685
Dell’ Historia della Compagnia di Giesv : l’Asia
In Roma, M.DC.LIII. Nella Stamperia d’Ignatio de’ Lazzeri. [Rome : Ignazio de’ Lazzeri, 1653-1663] Folio, contemporary vellum over boards, spine with raised bands, manuscript title in ink and manuscript label with collection number “1692”; front pastedown with nineteenth century label of the Fürstlich Auerspergische Fideikommissbibliothek, Laibach; pp [iv], 904, [8]; engraved frontispiece by Bloemaert after a drawing …
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# 46950
PINTO, Fernam (Fernão) Mendez
Peregrinacam
… … no reyno da China, no de Tartaria, no de Pegu, no de Martavao, & em outros muitos reynos y senhorios das partes Orientae … … Lisbon : A. Craesbeeck de Mello, 1678. Folio (330 x 225 mm), later quarter calf over marbled papered boards (rubbed), spine with gilt decoration and black morocco title-piece …
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# 13714
MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro, 1533-1603
Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI. : Selectarum item ex India epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV.
Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita. Coloniæ Agippinæ [i.e. Cologne] : in Officina Birckmannica, sumptibus Arnoldi Mylii, MDXCIII. [Arnold Mylius], 1593. Folio, contemporary vellum with bevelled edges, embossed centrepiece with armorial device to both boards; spine with manuscript title; edges stained blue; title page with woodcut printer’s device; folding world map (255 x 480 mm) supplied; pp 541, [blank], …
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# 13310
GOBIEN, Charles le (1653-1708) (compiler); QUERBEUF, Y.M.M.T. de (editor)
Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus.
Paris, Chez J.G. Merigot, 1780-1783. Twenty-six volumes, small octavo; contemporary uniform speckled calf, spines in compartments with gilt tooling and contrasting morocco labels; edges stained red; marbled endpapers; pastedowns with armorial bookplate of Rev. G.C. Fenwicke (Franks 10381); with a total of 55 maps, plans, plates and tables hors texte, including 28 folding maps and plans, 24 plates …
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# 50099
ANSON, George, Baron (1696-1762); WALTER, Richard
A voyage round the world in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. (Large paper copy)
By George Anson Esq; Commander in Chief of a squadron of His Majesty’s ships, sent upon an expedition to the South-Seas. Compiled from the papers and other materials of the Right Honourable George Lord Anson, and published under his direction, by Richard Walter, M. A. Chaplain of his Majesty’s ship the Centurion, in that expedition. …
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# 49516
BOUHOURS, Dominique
La Vie de Saint François Xavier de la Compagnie de Jesus, Apostre des Indes et du Japon.
Paris : Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1682. Quarto, contemporary full calf, spine in compartments with elaborate gilt-tooled decoration and title in gilt; verso of front endpaper with bookseller label of Thomas-Scheler, Paris; pp. [16], 634, [10]; title with woodcut device, and with early manuscript ‘par le P. Bouhours, Dominique S.J.’, and old label and stamps of the …
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# 49958
ERMAN, Adolph
Travels in Siberia : including excursions northwards, down the Obi, to the Polar Circle, and southwards, to the Chinese frontier.
Translated from the German, by William Desborough Cooley. In two volumes. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1848. First English edition. Two volumes, octavo, contemporary full polished calf ruled in gilt, bindings in compartments with gilt decoration and red and green leather title and volume labels lettered in gilt; marbled edges, pastedowns and endpapers; …