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First edition of a very important collection of early Jesuit letters from Japan, India, the Moluccas and Brasil View picture(s) 1 EPISTOLAE Iapanicae, de multorum gentilium in variis insulis ad Christi fidem per Societatis nominis Iesu theologos conversione. In quibus etiam mores, leges, locorumque situs, luculenter descibuntur. Louvain, Rutger Velpius, sub castro Angelico. 1569. 2 vols. in one. 8vo. Contemp. calf, ribbed spine in 5 compartments, both sides ruled in blind with gilt centre piece and four ornaments in the corners. Printer's device on second title and the last lvs of both vols.; first title in typographical border; interesting woodcut initials. (60), 263 (1); 310, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  India  Japan  Jesuits  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Only edition of a Calcutta printed poem View picture(s) 2 LAY OF CORNELIS, THE-, in three Cantos. By an Officer who was present at the storm of the French Camp, at that place, 26th August, 1811. Calcutta, Telegraph press, 1812. Contemporary half red morocco, spine gilt. With original folding manuscript map of the battle. IV, 64 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  India  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very early and unique reports on the Jesuit missions in India, south-east Asia, China and Japan View picture(s) 3 NUOVI AVISI dell' Indie di Portogallo, ricevuti dalli reverendi padri della compagnia di Giesu, tradotti dalla lingua Spagnuola nell' Italiana. Venice, Michele Tramezzino, 1559. 8vo. Nineteenth-century light brown polished calf, gilt double fillets along the edges of both sides with four corner-pieces, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title label lettered in gold, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Woodcut printer's device of a 'Sibylla' on title, woodcut initials. (4), 59 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Asia, East  China  India  Japan  Jesuits  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Eternal youth for helping St. Francis in India - unrecorded original edition View picture(s) 4 VERISSIMA relacion embiada a Don Fray Andres de S. Maria Obispo de Cochin, la qual trata de como en las Indias de Portugalay un hombre que tiene trezientos y ochenta años, y ha sido ocho vezes casado, y se le han caydo todos los dientes dos vezes, y le bolvieron a necer. Este el verdadero retrato del hombre que passô en braços al glorioso San Francisco por el rio de Ganga, el qual fue sacado a instancia del Reverendo padre Don Fray Andres de S. Maria Obispo de Cochin. Salamanca, Antonia Ramirez, 1609. 4to. Nineteenth-century vellum, spine with title and imprint written in ink. With 2 woodcut vignettes: one on the title with the man carrying S. Francis over the river Ganges in India, and one at the end representing a centaur; two nice woodcut initials. (4) lvs. (Collation: A4). Full description >> Related Subjects: Catholicism  India  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Medieval view on India View picture(s) 5 (ACHILLINI, A.). Secreta secretorum Aristotelis. (Lyon), L. M(artin), 1528. Sm. 8vo. Contemporary blind-stamped tooled vellum over wooden boards, remnants of clasps. Title-page decorated with woodcut border, some woodcut initials and woodcut printer's device on verso last page. LXXXIII leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Anatomy  Asia  Cartography  History  India  Medicine  Mineralogy  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Attractive collection of the most famous travel accounts in pocket-size View picture(s) 6 (COOK, BRUCE, NORDEN, MACARTNEY, BARROW & TAVERNIER). BIBLIOTHÈQUE PORTATIVE DES VOYAGES traduite de l'anglais par MM. Henry et Breton. Paris, Le Petit, An VII (1799)- 1810. 49 vols. (= 41 text vols. and 8 atlas vols.). 18mo. Nineteenth-century half green calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold; blue marbled boards and edges. With in total 189 full-page engraved plates and folding engraved maps. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Australia & New Zealand  Circumnavigation  Cook  Egypt  India  Persia  Travel  Turkey  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early extremely rare primary source for the Portuguese in India View picture(s) 7 (FREIRE DE ANDRADE, Jancinto). Primor e honra da vida soldadesca no estado da India. Livro excellente, antigament5e composto ... sem nome de Autor, & hora posto em orden de sair a luz, com hum Elogio sobre elle, pello P.M. Fr. Antonio Freyre da Ordem de Santo Agostinho, deputado do Santo Officio de Inquisiçao de Lisboa. Lisbon, Jorge Rodrigues, 1630. 4to. Contemporary brown mottled calf, gilt spine with red morocco title label lettered in gold. Woodcut vignette on title with 'S. Thome padroeiro da India Oriental', woodcut tail pieces and woodcut initials. (8), 133 (=132: misnumb.: 87, 89); 58; (4) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Discovery & Exploration  India  Portugal  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of an extensive history of the Roman Catholic church in Malabar, India View picture(s) 8 (GOUVEA, Antonio de). Historia Ecclesiae Malabaricae cum Diamperitana Synodo Apud Indos Nestorianos, S. Thomae Christianos nuncupatos coacta ab Alexio de Menezes Augustinensi An. MDXCIX. Nunc primum e Lusitano in Latinum versa (curia) JO.FACUNDI RAULIN, cui Accedunt, cum Liturgia Malabarica, tum Dissertationes variae: omnia perpetuis animadversionibus illustrata. Roma, Hieronymus Mainardi, 1745. Large 4to. Contemporary vellum, red mottled edges. With title printed in red and black, engraved papal coat-of-arms on title, fine engraved headpiece by Hieronymus Rossi, and 3 large engraved initials. (36), 529, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  India  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The people of the world updated View picture(s) 9 (MOLHUYSEN, P.C.). Aardrijkskundig leesboek tot uitbreiding der kennis van verschillende volken op den aardbol. Tweede verbeterde druk. Deventer, A.J. van den Sigtenhorst, 1838. Contemp. half calf, spine gilt, marbled edges. With large emblematic vignette on engraved title, and illustrations of the costumes of the main peoples of the world on 28 full-page engraved plates. (8), 412 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, Central  America, North  America, South  China  Costumes  Geography  India  Japan  Middle East  Schoolbooks  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) 10 (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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Rare missionary reports from the great-nephew of the famous St. Francis Xavier View picture(s) 11 (XAVIER, Girolamo). Raguagli d'alcune missioni fatte dalli padri della Compagnia di Giesu nell'Indie Orientali, cioè nelle provincie di Goa, e Coccinno, e nell'Africa in Capo Verde. Rome, Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1615. 8vo. Contemporary (or sl. later) vellum. Woodcut 'IHS' vignette on title, woodcut ornaments and initials. 165 (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  India  Jesuits  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic in the field of Portuguese discoveries, settlements and sea-borne empire View picture(s) 12 ANDRADA, Francisco d'. Cronica do muyto alto e muito poderoso Rey destes Reynos de Portugal dom Ioão o III. deste nome. Dirigida ha C. R. M. del Rey dom Felipe o III. deste nome nosso senhor. Lisbon, Jorge Rodriguez for the author & Francesco Lopez livreiro, 1613. Folio. Contemporary vellum over boards, spine with four raised bands and two (later) red morocco labels lettered in gold, blind fillets and stamped centre-piece on both sides. Title in ornamental woodcut border with a vignette of the coat of arms of Portugal, many charming woodcut initials. (19), 113, 134, 131, 155 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Brazil  India  Portugal  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare French Sea Atlas mapping the route to China in unrecorded edition View picture(s) 13 APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE, Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d'. Neptune oriental. (Paris, Dépôt général de la Marine, ca. 1810-30(?). Grand in Folio. Contemporary black painted calf, gilt spine lettered in gold: "Daprès Hydrographie française" and "469 à 537" (= 69 maps) With 69 large engraved maps of which 32 are double-page (ca. 500x690mm) and 37 full-page (ca. 500x360mm). 2 lvs and 101 lvs. containing the maps. Full description >> Related Subjects: Atlases, Sea  India  Indochina  Indonesia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the second Burmese war View picture(s) 14 BAKER, Thomas Turner. The recent operations of the British forces at Rangoon and Martaban. London, Harrison for Thomas Hatchard, 1852. 8vo. Original blindstamped cloth with gilt title on spine: "Rangoon", made by J. DEAN, at the Strand. Lithographed frontispiece in a beautiful colouring showing the Burmese deputation presenting the King of Ava's letter, one lithographed plate of a vessel which the Burmese gave th name "Yathunah-gee-mhou", meaning "Precious, Sleek, Excellent sailing ship" and two folding lithographed plates, one being a coastal view of the town of Rangoon and the other showing the attack of the Dunnoo Stockade, all platesd lithographed by Martin & Hood. VII, 78 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Burma  Colonial History  Colour Plate Books  England  India  Militaria  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Most important work on the Jesuit missionary activities in Goa View picture(s) 15 BARTOLI, Danielle. Missione al Gran Mogor del P. Ridolfo Aquaviva della Compagnia di Giesu, Sua vita e morte, e d'altri quattro compagni uccisi in odio della fede in Salsete di Goa. Roma, Per il Varesi, 1663. 8vo. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. 218, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  India  Italy  Japan  Jesuits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Hindustan alphabet View picture(s) 16 BELIGATTI, Cassianus da Macerata & Giovani Cristoforo AMADUZZI. Alphabetum Brammhanicum seu Indostanum Universitatis kasi. Rome, Typis Sa. Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1771. 8vo. Contemporary half sprinkled calf, red gilt title label, blue sprinkled edges. Woodcut title vignet of the seal of the congregation, Nagari script throughout text. (4), XX, 152 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: India  Linguistics  Mission  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare travel account, mainly on India View picture(s) 17 BOHAN, Henry. Voyage aux Indes Orientales. Coup d'oeil sur leur importance politique et commerciale; recherches sur différentes origines. Paris, E. Thunot for Librairie Chamerot & Lauwereyns, 1866. 8vo. Modern half brown grained morocco, ribbed spine lettered in gold, boards covered with modern painted paper, marbled endpapers. With 12 full-page lithographed plates printed in two colours by F. Sorrieu, Forget and Duruy after the designs by the author. (4), 262, 4 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: India  Indonesia  Japan  Malaysia  Mauritius  South Africa  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare first and only edition of an account of a voyage to India View picture(s) 18 BORGHESI, Giovanni. Lettera scritta da Pondisceri a' 10 di Febbraio 1704. Dal dottore Giovanni Borghesi medico della missione sepedita alla China dalla Santità di N.S. Papa Clemente XI. Nella quale si contengono, oltre a un pieno racconto del Viaggio da Roma fino alle Coste dell' Indie Orientali, varie nuove osservazioni mediche, anatomiche, bottaniche, naturali, e d'altri generi. Rome, Gaetano degli Zenobi, 1705. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, ribbed spine with title in ink: 'Historia dela China'. With folding engraved map, indicating the route to Pondicherry, a folding plate of a compass card, indicating the winds, and six small woodcuts in the text. (XIV), 245, (17) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  India  Mission  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Adventures in India View picture(s) 19 CAMPBELL, Donald. A narrative of the extraordinary adventures, and sufferings by shipwreck & Imprisonment of Donald Campbell, Esq. of Barbreck: With the singular humours of his tartar guide, Hassan Artaz: comprising the occurrences of four years and five days in an overland journey to India. London, Printed for Vernor and Hood, 1796. 8vo. 19th century cloth with black title label. Frontispiece. XI, 1 blank, 276 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  India  Shipwrecks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With manuscript dedication by the author View picture(s) 20 CHASSIRON, Charles de. Notes sur le Japon, la Chine et l'Inde. 1885-1859-1860. Paris, E. Dentu & Ch. Reinwald, 1861. 8vo. Contemporary half brown shagreen, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. 17 plates outside text of which 15  coloured by hand: 2 full-page maps (one of Japan and of Korea, and one of Northern China), 2 large folding plates (400 x 520 mm) of a beautiful view on the city of Yeddo and a plan of Nagha-Saki (380 x 460 mm), both 'reproductions' of Japanese woodcuts, and 13 plates (of which 3 folding) with reproductions of Japanese woodblock prints with plants and animals. XI, 356, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: China  India  Japan  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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