Philippines

  • Navegación Especulativa, y Práctica, con la Explicación de algunos Instrumentos, que están mas en uso en los Navegantes ... ...

    # 38356

    GONZALEZ CABRERA BUENO, José (c. 1670 - after 1733)

    Navegación Especulativa, y Práctica, con la Explicación de algunos Instrumentos, que están mas en uso en los Navegantes … …

    Manila : Impresa en el Convento de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de la Orden de Nro. Seraphico Padre San Francisco, 1734. First edition. Folio (315 x 210 mm), contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties, some age staining, small loss at front bottom corner), spine with title in manuscript in black ink; printed on rice and …

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  • Chronicas de la Apostolica Provincia de S. Gregorio de religiosos descalzos de N.S.P.S. Francisco en las Islas Philipinas, China, Japon, &c. Parte Prima [Parte Segunda / Parte Tercera]

    # 49560

    San Antonio, Juan Francisco de

    Chronicas de la Apostolica Provincia de S. Gregorio de religiosos descalzos de N.S.P.S. Francisco en las Islas Philipinas, China, Japon, &c. Parte Prima [Parte Segunda / Parte Tercera]

    Manila : Impressa en la imprenta del uso de la propria provincia, síta en el Convento de Nr̄a. Señora de Loreto del Pueblo de Sampaloc, Extra-muros de la Ciudad de Manila; por fr. Juan del Sotillo, 1738, 1741, 1744. Three volumes, folio, contemporary vellum, spines lettered in black ink with fleuron decoration, shelf marks to …

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  • Historia de la Provincia del Sancto Rosario de la orden de Predicadores en Philippinas, Iapon, y China. [Libro Primero / Libro Segundo]

    # 15197

    Aduarte, Diego; González, Domingo

    Historia de la Provincia del Sancto Rosario de la orden de Predicadores en Philippinas, Iapon, y China. [Libro Primero / Libro Segundo]

    En Manila : en el Colegio de Santo Thomas, por Luis Beltran impressor de libros, 1640. First edition. Two volumes in one, folio, contemporary limp vellum (a little stained, lacking ties), spine with manuscript title in ink; front pastedown with old ex libris of the Bibliotheca Magni Mexicani Conventus S. P.N. S. Francisco (early Convent …

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  • Lettres patentes concernant les Missions Étrangères.

    # 50248

    LOUIS XV, King of France

    Lettres patentes concernant les Missions Étrangères.

    [France, c.1773]. Manuscript in ink, [5] pp., folio; extremely well preserved; bound in modern papered boards with gilt-lettered red leather title label to the front; ex libris label of H. P. Kraus to front pastedown. One of the most important institutions in the history of evangelisation in Asia, the Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP), or …

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  • Historia de las Islas Philipinas

    # 46939

    Martínez de Zuñiga, Joaquín

    Historia de las Islas Philipinas

    Impreso en Sampaloc : Por Fr. Pedro Arguelles de la Concepcion, Religioso Francisco, 1803. First edition. Quarto, modern tree calf, boards decorated in gilt, spine gilt and with contrasting title-piece in gilt, name label stamped in gilt ‘Al. Malavois’ at foot of spine; pp. [2], [7], 687; printed on rice paper; historiated initial, tail-piece; some insignificant worm holes …

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  • Tomo primero de la historia de la provincia del Santo Rosario de Filipinas, Iapon, y China, de la Sagrada Orden de Predicadores. 

    # 14925

    Diego Francisco Aduarte, Bishop of Nueva Segovia (1569-1636)

    Tomo primero de la historia de la provincia del Santo Rosario de Filipinas, Iapon, y China, de la Sagrada Orden de Predicadores. 

    En Zaragoça, por Domingo Gascon, Infançon, Impressor del Santo Hospital Real, y General de Nuestra Señora de Gracia. Año 1693. Folio, polished full calf binding by Aquarius of London, boards and spine with intricate gilt tooling by Dave Nevitt; pp [viii], 767, [53 index]; paper repairs to margins of first few leaves; title with engraved vignette coat …

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  • De rebus Iaponicis, Indicis et Peruanis epistolae recentiores.

    # 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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  • Conquista de las Islas Malucas

    # 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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  • Catálogo de los religiosos de N.P. S. Agustin de la Provincia del Smo. Nombre de Jesus de Filipinas

    # 13560

    Cano, Gasper

    Catálogo de los religiosos de N.P. S. Agustin de la Provincia del Smo. Nombre de Jesus de Filipinas

    desde su establecimiento en estas islas hasta nuestros dias, con algunos datos biográficos de los mismos. Compuesto y ordenado siendo provincial de dicha provincia el M.R.P. Fr. Juan J. Aragonés, por su secretario Fr. Gaspar Cano. Manila, Imprenta de Ramirez y Giraudier, 1864. Small quarto, contemporary parchment over boards (slightly bowed; a few ink stains); preliminaries …

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  • Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI. : Selectarum item ex India epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV.

    # 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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  • Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus.

    # 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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  • La Vie de Saint François Xavier de la Compagnie de Jesus, Apostre des Indes et du Japon.

    # 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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  • A cruising voyage round the world : first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and finish'd in 1711.

    # 50060

    ROGERS, Captain Woodes

    A cruising voyage round the world : first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and finish’d in 1711.

    Containing a journal of all the remarkable transactions; particularly of the taking of Puna and Guiaquil, of the Acapulca ship, and other prizes : an account of Alexander Selkirk’s living alone four years and four months in an island; and a brief description of several countries in our course noted for trade, especially in the …

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  • The China Directory for 1863 (with contemporary provenance from a Tientsin based company listed in the Directory)

    # 49578

    Anon.

    The China Directory for 1863 (with contemporary provenance from a Tientsin based company listed in the Directory)

    Fourth Annual Publication. Hong Kong : A. Shorted & Co., 1863. Octavo, gilt-illustrated black cloth (spine expertly replaced), contemporary ownership inscription for the company of Pedder & Co. of Tientsin, dated 7th March,1863 to front pastedown (Pedder & Co. are listed in the Directory on p. 52), folding table ‘Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co.’s …

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  • Perfecta religiosa : contiene tres Libros.

    # 15180

    LETONA, Bartolomé de

    Perfecta religiosa : contiene tres Libros.

    Libro I. De la vida de la Madre Geronima de la Asuncion de la Orden de N.M.S. Clara. Fundadora, y primera abadessa de las Descalcas de Manila en Philipinas: dechado perfecto de religiosas, y espejo admirable de todas las virtudes. Libro II. De la oracion, y exercicios, que con exemplo, y doctrina, por escrito, y …

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  • Relations de divers voyages curieux,

    # 48825

    Thévenot, Melchisédec (1620-1692)

    Relations de divers voyages curieux,

    qui n’ont point esté publiees, ou qui ont esté traduites d’Hacluyt, de Purchas, & d’autres Voyageurs Anglois, Hollandois, Portugais, Allemands, Espagnols; et de quelques Persans, Arabes & autres Orientaux. Enrichies de Figures de Plantes non décrites, d’Animaux inconnus à l’Europe, et de Cartes Geographiques de Pays dont on n’a point encore donné de Cartes. Paris : Jacques Langlois, …

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