India
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# 51418
THUNBERG, Carl Peter (1743-1828)
Resa uti Europa, Africa, Asia, förrättad åren 1770-1779.
Upsala : J. Edman & J. Edmans enka, 1788-1793. Four volumes octavo, original uniform binding of marbled papered boards (an expected amount of rubbing), spines with leather title labels in gilt; Vol. 1: pp. [26], 390 + [2] engraved plates; Vol. 2: pp. [32], 384 + [4] plates; Vol. 3: pp. [14], 286, 289-389, 400-414; …
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# 51316
[PROPAGANDE FIDE]
Augusto Friderico, magnae Britanniae principi, Georgii Regis filio, Carmina linguis exoticis in honorem Dei pueri a tribus magis adorati …
[Rome : Propaganda Fide Press, 1793], Folio (360 x 230 mm), original decorative paper wrappers (upper wrapper almost detached, and lacking backstrip); ff. [1 blank], I-XXIII (i.e. 23 numbered leaves); printed on recto only and within an ornamental border; engraved arms of the Duke of Sussex at the head of title-page; verso of first blank …
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# 49787
EMPRESS SHOTOKU-TENNO (718 - 770 CE)
Hyakumantō Dhāraṇī (百万塔陀羅尼) : an example of the earliest printed text that can be accurately dated (with the Jishin-in darani).
Japan : Nara period [764-770 CE]. Three-tier turned wooden pagoda made of hinoki (Japanese cypress), with original white gesso wash made from seashells in the eighth century (a crack to upper ring expertly conserved), separate turned katsura wood finial (edge chips to the rings), overall height 220 mm; housed in the cavity of the pagoda …
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# 50382
HEYLYN, Peter
Cosmographie, in four books. Containing the Chorographie & Historie of the whole World, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles thereof.
by Peter Heylyn. With an accurate and an approved Index of all the Kingdoms, Provinces, Countries, Inhabitants, People, Cities, Mountains, Rivers, Seas, Islands, Forts, Bays, Capes, Forests, &c. of any Remarque in the whole World; Much wanted and desired in the former, and now annexed to this last Impression, Revised and Corrected by the Author himself …
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# 48659
SUAREZ DE FIGUEROA, Cristobal
Historia y anal relacion de las cosas que hizieron los Padres de la Compañia de Jesus, por las partes de Oriente y otras, en la propagacion del Santo Evangelio, los años passados de 607. y 608
Sacada, limada, y compuesta de Portugues en Castellano por el Doctor Christoval Suarez de Figueroa. En Madrid : Juan Hasrey, 1614. Small quarto, later vellum over black cloth, spine with gilt decoration and morocco title label lettered in gilt; title set within decorative border, with woodcut Jesuit device and an easy ownership inscription; pp. [16], …
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# 48557
ANDRADE, Padre Antonio
Relatione del Novo Scoprimento del Gran Cataio, overo Regno di Tibet. Fattodal P. Antonio di Andrade Portoghese della Compagnia di Gesù l’anno 1624
Rome : F. Corbelletti, 1627. Duodecimo, early vellum, lettered in manuscript on spine, ex libris label of H. P. Kraus to from pastedown, pp. 40, a fine copy. Antonio de Andrade, Portuguese member of the Society of Jesus, was dispatched to India in 1600 where he would spend over twenty years in sevice, including as …
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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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# 13336
HAY, John, 1546-1607
De rebus Iaponicis, Indicis et Peruanis epistolae recentiores.
A Joanne Hayo Dalgatttiensi Scoto Societatis Jesu in librum unum coacervatae. Antuerpiæ : Ex officina Martini Nutij, ad insigne duarum Ciconiarum, Anno M. DC. V. [Antwerp : Martin Nutius, 1605]. Octavo, fine Jesuit binding of full calf ruled in gilt with ornamental cornerpieces; upper board with central Jesuit device, lower board with heraldic crest; flat-panel spine tooled …
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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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# 49285
TAYLOR, W. Cooke
A popular history of British India, commercial intercourse with China, and the insular possessions of England in the Eastern Seas.
London : James Madden & Co., 1842. Octavo, publisher’s green cloth (rebacked, preserving original spine with is rubbed), remnants of gilt lettering to spine, pp. viii; 508, internally clean, many leaves remaining unopened (a few have been roughly opened), a very good copy. With a detailed contemporary account of the war with China which saw …
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# 49980
Various
A rare collection of menus from Chinese restaurants in India, circa 1930s.
A collection of six rare menus, early to mid twentieth century, from Chinese restaurants in Bombay, Madras, Chittagong, and Rawalpindi, servicing expatriate diners, during the 1930s and the wartime of the 1940s. Highly ephemeral and evocative of the melting post of British, Indian, Chinese and American cultures just prior to and during the Second World …
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# 49236
Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ; WOLLASTON, Arthur N.
The Anwár-i-Suhailí, or, Lights of Canopus commonly known as Kalilah and Damnah
commonly known as Kalílah and Damnah : being an adaptation by Mullá Husain bin ʼAlí al Wáiʼz-al-Káshifí of the fables of Bídpáí. Translated from the Persian by Arthur N. Wollaston, M.R.A.S. London : Wm. H. Allen & Co., publishers to the India Office, 1877. Quarto, gilt-decorated cloth over bevelled boards (spine sunned, flecked), recased, hinges …
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# 49931
DUMASIA, Naoroji M.
Jamnagar. A sketch of its ruler and its administration
By Naoroji M. Dumasia, with a preface by Dr. L. F. Rushbrook-Williams. Bombay : The Times press, 1927. Quarto, elaborately gilt-decorated blue cloth, edges rubbed, pp. [xvi]; xxvii; [v]; 261, numerous photographic plates, some folding, a very good copy. A scarce history of Jamnagar while under the administration of Colonel Kumar Sri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji …
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# 49322
[PHAROAH, J. B., publisher]
The Madras New Almanac, General Directory and Register for 1841
Madras : J. B. Pharaoh, 1841. Octavo, modern half calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with gilt lettering, new endpapers, folding frontispiece map with original hand colouring titled ‘Map exhibiting the present partition of the country dependant on Fort St. George into military divisions with the several stations of troops’, engraved title page with …
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# 49243
MARSHALL, Sir John, editor
Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus Civilization
Being an official account of Archaeological Excavations at Mohenjo-daro carried out by the Government of India between the years 1922 and 1927. London : Arthur Probsthain, 1931. Three volumes, quarto, publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth with gilt designs to upper boards, in the rare original printed dustjackets (edges chipped and worn, a long tear with detached section …
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# 49512
CAMÖENS, Luis de; MICKLE, William Julius (editor)
The Lusiad; or, the Discovery of India.
An epic poem. Translated from the original Portuguese of Luis de Camoëns. Oxford : printed by Jackson and Lister for J. New [and others], 1778. Second English edition. Quarto, half speckled calf over marbled papered boards (some paper loss), spine elaborately gilt, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, etched frontispiece by J. Mortimer, title …