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# 46365
ALBUQUERQUE, Alfonso de (c. 1453 - 1515)
Commentarios do grande Afonso Dalboquerque, capitão geral que foi das Indias Orientaes em tempo do muito poderoso rey D. Manuel, o primeiro deste nome.
Lisbon : Regia Officina Typografica, 1774. Four volumes, octavo, finely bound in contemporary speckled calf, ruled in blind, spines with gilt rule and contrasting morocco title labels, lettered in gilt, edges speckled red, marbled endpapers, private ex-libris book labels to pastedowns, engraved portrait frontispiece, pp. [viii]; xliv; 343; large folding map of the Indian Ocean; …
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# 46580
MEDINA, Balthasar de
Vida martyrio, y beatificación del invicto proto-martyr de el Japan San Felipe de Jesús, patron de Mexico, su patria,
imperial corte de Nueva España en el Nuevo Mundo … Segunda Impressión … Madrid : en la imprenta de los Herederos de la Viuda de Juan García Infanzón, 1751. Quarto (205 x 145 mm), contemporary limp vellum (ties replaced); pp. [28], 176, with one engraved plate depicting the crucifixion of San Felipe; scattered light foxing, else contents very good; …
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# 46648
ROBLEY, Horatio Gordon, Major-General (1840-1930)
Moko; or Maori tattooing
London : Chapman & Hall, 1896. Quarto, gilt-lettered brown cloth with moko decoration, (a couple of light stains, minor rubbing at edges, corners a little bumped, small impaction dent to spine), bookplate to front pastedown, photographic frontispiece, 180 illustrations and photographs; a good copy of this scarce publication. Horatio Gordon Robley (1840-1930) was a soldier, …
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# 46581
Anonymous.
Breve resumen de la vida y martyrio del inclyto mexicano y proto-martyr del Japón, el Beato San Felipe de Jesús.
Añadidas algunas obvias reflecciones en honor del mismo Héroe esclarecido, y de esta dichosísima Ciudad felize en ser su Patria. Por un Eclesiástico de este Arzobispado … … México : En la Oficina Madrileña de la Calle de Sto. Domingo y Esquina de Tacuba, 1802. Octavo (195 x 140 mm), contemporary full mottled calf (very good, with some minor staining and edge wear), spine with gilt decoration, …
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# 46683
BRIGHTWELL, L[eonard] R[obert] F.Z.S. (1889 - 1983)
Wild Friends at Home (original cover art)
Gouache on paper, measures 430 x 310mm, being the original painting illustrating the cover of E. Chivers Davies’ ‘Wild Friends at Home’ (London : 1920). In this volume a little boy enters the imaginary worlds of the wild animals whose pictures decorate the walls of his nursery. The fifteen short tales include his adventure with …
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# 46388
TASSO, Torquato [1544 - 1595]
Jerusalem delivered : an heroic poem (large paper edition)
Translated from the Italian of Torquato Tasso, by John Hoyle. London : printed by T. Bentley for J. Johnson [and others], 1803. Eighth edition. Two volumes, octavo, finely bound in full straight grained red Morocco, elaborate gilt tooled floral borders, spines in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt (slightly faded), edges a …
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# 42884
LANG, John Dunmore (1799-1878)
An historical and statistical account of New South Wales, both as a penal settlement and as a British colony.
London : Cochrane and M’Crone, 1834. First edition. Two volumes, octavo (190 x 125 mm), contemporary uniform calf, spines in compartments with gilt lettering and decoration; pastedowns with early ownership inscription of S. A. Cooper, Canterbury, Kent; Vol. 1. pp. xiv, 401, frontispiece folding engraved map with hand-coloured outlines; Vol. 2. pp. iv, 443; a …
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# 46800
AMTORG TRADING CORPORATION (New York)
Soviet Russian Art and Handicraft Exposition. Grand Central Palace, New York, February 1929
[Cover title]. Also titled: Art and Handicraft Exposition of Soviet Russia. New York : Peasant Art & Handicraft Department of Amatory Trading Corporation, 1929. Small quarto (265 x 180 mm), illustrated wrappers with original owner’s name to front, original ties, [15], [1] pp, numerous illustrations (some colour); an excellent copy. A scarce catalogue of Russian …
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# 42472
Van Gulik, Robert (1910-1967)
The given day : an Amsterdam mystery.
Kuala Lumpur : Art Printing Works, 1964. First edition. Octavo, pictorial wrappers (canted, lightly marked, glue marks to gutters of endpapers); pp. 132, with illustrations by the author; a very good copy (without the production fault found in other copies on pp.21-30). Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) was a Dutch orientalist, diplomat, musician, and writer. He …
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# 46820
BESLEY, Richard Bradfield (1912-1990)
Photograph album documenting experiences at a hydroelectric plant on the Swat River in Malakand District, Northwest Frontier Province, India, 1937-38.
Small oblong quarto album (200 x 270 mm), original brown cloth over boards with string ties, containing 116 b/w photographs in corner mounts, 113 being in 60 x 60 mm format, with 3 in larger 115 x 160 mm format; the majority are captioned in ink below the image; very good condition throughout. This album …
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# 46546
WOMEN'S THEATRE GROUP (Melbourne)
Report for the Theatre Board of the Australian Council for the Arts, for Jan. to Jul. ’78, from Women’s Theatre Group, Melbourne.
[Melbourne : Women’s Theatre Group, 1978]. Foolscap folio (330 x 220 mm), stapled self-wrappers, [10] pp, roneo-printed; very good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.
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# 46600
MALAYSIAN AIRLINE SYSTEMS
This is our Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur : Malaysian Airline Systems, circa 1975. Tourist brochure, DL size, printed in colour, pp. [12], folding central pages with map, includes features on Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Sabah, Sarawak, Malacca etc.
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# 46595
Bureau Officiel du Tourisme Indochinois
French Indochina
Saigon : Bureau Officiel du Tourisme Indochinois, circa 1930. Tourisme brochure, DL size, singe; sheet folded, pp. [8], illustrated, some light foxing and wear along folds, wet stamp for Cook’s travel agent in Shanghai to upper panel.
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# 46667
THOMPSON, Francis
Shelley
With an introduction by the Rt. Hobble. George Wyndham. London : Burne & Oates, 1909. Octavo, finely bound by Zaehnsdorf with their binder’s stamp in half crushed Morocco over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt with ornamentation, edges faintly rubbed, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, pp. 91, …
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# 46593
ATTENBOROUGH, David (1926 - )
The private life of plants. A natural history of plant behaviour (signed copy)
London : BBC Books, 1995. First edition. Octavo, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 320, extensively illustrated. Signed by David Attenborough in blue pen on the half-title ‘David Attenborough’. A fine copy. The second work in the ‘Life’ series by popular naturalist and television broadcaster David Attenborough.
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# 36315
Anon.
A man of Dakar, Senegal, holding guinea fowl and rifle. Circa 1840.
Watercolour on laid paper with watermark of a royal horseman with lance, 200 x 146 mm (sheet); captioned in ink ‘Dackar’ (i.e. Dakar) at bottom left, and with a foliation number ‘114’ in the same hand at bottom right; the sheet is unmounted (verso blank), and the drawing has survived in fine condition – virtually in …