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Ceylon as seen by the great expert on Ceylon and father of the inventor of the Geiger-counter View picture(s) 1 GEIGER, Wilhelm Ludwig. Ceylon. Tagebuchblätter und Reiseerinnerungen. Wiesbaden, C. W. Kreidel's Verlag, 1898. 8vo. Original blue cloth, decorated with a 'Jugendstil' flower design. With decorated title and 23 illustrations of which several full-page and one printed in two columns. XI, [1], 213, [7] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  Ceylon  India  Photography  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Plants of Ceylon and the Himalayas, with 99 lithographed plates View picture(s) 2 KLOTZSCH, Johann Friedrich, and Christian August Friedrich GARCKE. Die botanischen Ergebnisse der Reise seiner Königl. Hoheit des Prinzen Waldemar von Preussen in den Jahren 1845 und 1846. Durch Dr. Werner Hoffmeister (...) auf Ceylon, dem Himalaya und an den Grenzen von Tibet gesammelte Pflanzen. Berlin, Königliche Geheime Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei (R. Decker), 1862. 2 vols. Folio. Contemporary brown cloth backed boards, with gilt title on spine. With 98 full-page and 1 double-page lithographed botanical plates, numbered 1-100. (2), 164; (6) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Botany  Ceylon  Colour Platebooks  India  Natural History  Tibet  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The latest and by far best edition of the Cosmographia with 68 new maps View picture(s) 3 MÜNSTER, Sebastian. Cosmographia, das ist: Beschreibung der gantzen Welt,... Basel, [Sebastian Henricpetri], 1628. Folio (38 x 27.5 cm). Contemporary nicely blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, brass clasps and catches intact. With an additional engraved allegorical title with a portrait of Sebastian Munster in a cartouche at the bottom by Mathäus Merian, title printed in red and black with woodcut portrait of Münster on verso, 98 maps (26 double-page engraved maps with printed title and woodcut headpiece on versos, 72 double-page woodcut maps, plans and views in the text), and approx. 1500 smaller woodcut illustrations of maps, plans, views, plants, animals, monsters, etc. in the text (including repeats). [2, engraved title], [24] pp.; 26 double-page woodcut maps; 1752 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Americana  Asia  Cartography  Ceylon  Indonesia  Libraries & Collections  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Sri Lanka under Dutch and Portuguese rule - an account by an Irish officer View picture(s) 4 PERCIVAL, Robert. Voyage a l'île de Ceylan, fait dans les années 1797 à 1800; contenant l'histoire, la géographie et la description des moeurs des habitans, ainsi que celle des productions naturelles du pays. Suivi de la relation d'une ambassade envoyée, en 1800, au roi de Candy. Traduit de l'Anglais par P. F. Henry. Paris, Dentu, An XI (1803). 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, with red and green title labels, marbled edges. With 2 large folding maps, one by M. Arrowsmith drawn after an original map of the East India Company, depicting Ceylon, and one depicting the port of Trinquemale in vol. 1; and 2 large folding plates depicting places of pearl fishery and the port of Colombo in vol. 2. (4), 6, 316; (4), 304 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  Ceylon  India  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A Portuguese attempt to invade Sri Lanka View picture(s) 5 RODRIGUEZ DE SAA DE MENEZES, Juan Rodriguez de. Rebelion de Ceylan, y los progressos de su conquista en el gobierno de Constantino de Saa, y Noroña. Lisbon, Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello, 1681. 4to. Contemporary limp vellum, spine lettered in ink, red sprinkled edges. With several woodcut head- and tailpieces. (20), 243 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Ceylon  India  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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127 striking nature prints of Ceylonese plants View picture(s) 6 [NATURE PRINTING - CEYLON]. GREEN, Samuel Fisk. Leaf prints. Ceylon. [Sri Lanka, ca. 1849]. Large folio (ca. 43 x 28 cm). Contemporary half roan. With 127 full-page nature prints of Ceylonese plants. [2 blank], [127], [2 blank] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Ceylon  Printing Techniques  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important account of a fleet sent to India in 1690 to rescue the French interests View picture(s) 7 [POUCHOT DE CHANTASSIN, Claude Michel]. Relation du voyage et retour des Indes Orientales pendant les années 1690. & 1691. Par un garde de la marine  servant sur le bord de Monsieur Duquesne commandant de  l'escadre. Paris, Widow of Jean-Baptiste Coignard; Brussels, George de Backer, 1692. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine. Title printed in red & black with woodcut printer's device; woodcut head- and tail pieces. (8), 298, (6) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Ceylon  East Indies  France  India  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Box for storing documents, used by a high VOC official in third quarter of the 18th century View picture(s) 8 [VOC]. Wooden box of tropical hard wood, in the shape of a book, with brass fittings: lock, decorated corner pieces, hinges, large and smaller bosses and a large central brass ornament with the VOC monogram and the date, 1757, engraved on the middle part, flanked by two birds (eagles?) looking outward; similar decorated ornaments on the edges of the 'book'. (Colombo), 1757. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Bindings  Ceylon  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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