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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) 21 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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Astronomical and geographical information on regions in China and India View picture(s) 22 GOUYE, (Thomas). Observations physiques et mathematiques, pour servir a l'histoire naturelle & à la perfection de l'astronomie & de la geographie: envoyées des Indes et de la Chine à l'Académie Royale des Sciences à Paris, par les Peres Jesuites. Paris, Jean Anisson, Imprimerie Royale, 1692. 4to. Contemporary calf with gilt spine. Woodcut coat-of-arms on title, 2 double-page engraved maps, one depicting a part of India with the course of the river Ganges and the other one with the course of the river Ava, one engraved plate with the alphabet of Bengalen and the people of Baramas. (4), 114 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Cartography  China  India  Jesuits  Mathematics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Thomas Christians on the Malabar coast View picture(s) 23 GOVEA (or GOUVEA), Antonio & Aleixo de MENEZES. Histoire orientale des grans progres de l' Eglise Cathol. Apost. & Rom. en la reduction des anciens Chrestiens, dit de S. Thomas, de plusieurs autres schismatiques & heretiques a l' union de la vraye Eglise. Conversion encor des Mahometains, Mores et payens. Par les bons devoirs du Don Alexis de Meneses, de l' Ordre des Eremites de S. Augustin, Archevesque de Goa, & Primat de tout l' Orient. Composée en langue Portugaise, & puis mise en Espagnol par venerable P.F. Francois Munoz, & tournée en Francois par F. Jean Baptiste de Glen. Bruxelles, Rutger Velpius, 1609. 8vo. Contemp. brown calf, spine gilt in compartments, title lettered in gold. With a small vignette on title, some woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. (44), 748 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Catholicism  India  Portugal  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Account of travels in India, Bengal, the Seychelles, Sri Lanka and Yemen, with 7 folding plates View picture(s) 24 GRANDPRÉ, Louis Marie Joseph Ohier de. Voyage dans l'Inde et au Bengale, fait dans les années 1789 et 1790; contenant la description des îles Séchelles et de Trinquemalay. Paris, Dentu, 1801. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine, green boards. With 7 folding engraved plates. [4], 288; [4], 318, [1 errata] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Arabia  Coffee & Tea  India  Libraries & Collections  Travel & Voyages  Yemen  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A French historian on ancient and modern India View picture(s) 25 GUYON, Claude-Marie. Histoire des Indes Orientales, anciennes et modernes. Paris, J. H. Butard, 1744. 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with light brown title label, gilt binding edges, red painted edges. With 2 large engraved folding maps by Desbruslins of India and Indonesia, and several nice woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. (22), 396; (2), 353 (1); (2), 471, (9) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  India  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Indian fables: original Dutch edition, from the library of the Duke of Arenberg View picture(s) 26 HEYNS, Zacharias. Voorbeelsels der oude wyse, handelende van trouw, ontrouw, list, haet, gheswindicheyt, ende alle andere menschelijcke gheneghentheden. Wit d'Indische sprake, in d'Arabische, Hebreische ende Latijnsche overgheset, ende nu in de Duytsche vertaelt, verçiert met vele rijm-spreucken, ende figueren. Amsterdam & Zwolle, Broer Jansz. for Zacharias Heyns (in Zwolle), 1623. Sm. 8vo. 19th-century calf, spine ribbed with brown morocco title label, sides blind-stamped with triple fillets in a geometrical pattern decorated with small stamps of animal emblems and with the coat of arms of Arenberg in centre on both sides, green painted edges. With woodcut printer's device on title, and 101 woodcuts in text, many composed from blocks cut in small parts and joined together in order to get the correct illustration for the fable text, including 9 woodcuts decorated by ornamental borders at either side. 8, 125, (3) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Dutch  Fable Books  India  Provenance  Schoolbooks  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the conversion of heathens View picture(s) 27 HOORNBEEK, Johannis. De conversatione Indorum & gentilium. Libri duo. Accessit Ejusdem Vita ab amico edita. Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius à Waesberge & the widow of Elizaeus Weterstraet, 1669. 4to. Modern half vellum, marbled boards, spine with red morocco title-label lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. Title printed in red and black. (56, including last blank), 259, (13) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  China  India  Indochina  Indonesia  Japan  Mission  Protestantism  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting story of a shipwreck on the Coromandel coast in 1761 View picture(s) 28 KEARNY, Monsieur DE. Naufrage et retour en Europe de monsieur de Kearny (= half title). Lettre à M. le comte d'Estaing, lieutenant-Général des armées du Roi, contenant un détail du naufrage dans l'Inde, & du retour en Europe de M. de Kearny ... Capitaine dans le Régiment de Lally (p. 3). (No place, 1762). 8vo. Contemporary speckled wrappers. 48 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  India  Shipwrecks  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) 29 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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Did St. Thomas introduce Christ to India? View picture(s) 30 LA CROZE, Maturin Veyssière. Histoire du Christianisme des Indes. The Hague, chez les frères Vaillant & N. Prevost, 1724. Small 8vo. Eigtheenth-century boards, with blindstamped title on spine, red sprinkled edges. Engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 3 full-page engarved plates with Hindu deities after drawings of Aug. Voelckner, large engraved folding map ''Cotes de Malabar et de Coromandel (351 x 309 mm). (16), 570, (54) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: India  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a voyage to India View picture(s) 31 LA FLOTTE, M. de. Essais historiques sur l'Inde, précédés d'un journal de voyages et d'une description géographique de la Côte de Coromandel. Paris, Herissant le Fils, 1769. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt. With 3 full-page engraved plates. [4], 360, [12] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  India  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Portuguese in Brazil & Asia, with a folding world map View picture(s) 32 MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro. Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI. Selectarum, item, ex India epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV. Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita. Cologne, [successors to Arnold?] Birckman, Arnold Mylius, 1593. Folio. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with a triple border of rolls (1 initialled EW A[ugsburg]) around central panel stamps with allegorical figures (Patience and the 3 theological virtues on the front; the 4 cardinal virtues on the back), with seventeenth-century(?) gold tooling added, including a centrepiece with Saint Urban and the St. Urban coat of arms on the front board, and the boards coloured brown. With a large folding engraved map of the world (26 x 48.5 cm), woodcut publisher's device on the title-page, 2 part-titles, a woodcut tailpiece, and about 30 woodcut initial letters (plus about 100 repeats) from 10 series (13-48 mm, the main series 39 mm), and bands of arabesque fleurons. [4], 541, [1], [2 blank], [36] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  America [South]  Brazil  China  Colonial History  East Indies  India  Jesuits  Mission  Persia  Portugal  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An unbiased view on the Dutch East Indies View picture(s) 33 OLIVIER, Johannes. Tafereelen en merkwaardigheden uit Oost-Indië. Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1836-38. 2 volumes. 8vo. 19-century boards covered with marbled paper. With 25 plates (containing 76 numbered steel-engraved illustrations; number 37 is signed by J.W. Kaiser and used as frontispiece to volume I). VIII, 333, [1]; VIII, 346 [= 348] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  East Indies  India  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a richly illustrated and most extensive description and history of British India View picture(s) 34 OTTERLOO, Anthony van. Britsch-Indië, beschreven naar de nieuwste bronnen. Amsterdam, Gebr. Kraay, 1859. 8vo. Contemporary half cloth. With illustration on steel-engraved title, double-page map of the British Indies, and 24 full-page steel-engraved plates and views. VI, 390 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: India  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) 35 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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On the life and martyrdom of a Jesuit missionary from Lisbon View picture(s) 36 PEREYRA DE BRITTO, Fernaõ. Historia do nascimento, vida, e martyrio do ven. padre Joaõ de Britto da Companhia de Jesu, martyr da Azia, e protomartyr da missaõ de Madurey, composta por seu irmaõ Fernaõ Pereyra de Britto. Coimbra, No Real Collegio das artes da Comp. de Jesu, 1722. Folio. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt, red morocco title label, lettered in gold, blue marbled edges. Title printed in red & black, with woodcut vignette, large woodcut head- and tailpieces. (52), 250 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  Biography  India  Jesuits  Mission  Portugal  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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French intentions regarding the Far East - Presentation copy of the author View picture(s) 37 RÉNOUARD DE SAINTE-CROIX, Félix. Voyage commercial et politique aux Indes Orientales, aux iles Philippines, a la Chine, avec des notions sur la Cochinchine et le Tonquin, pendant les années 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806 et 1807, contenant des observations et des renseignements, tant sur les productions territoriales et industrielles que sur le commerce de ces pays; des tableaux d'importations et d'exportations du commerce d'Europe en Chine, depuis 1804 jusqu'en 1807; des remarques sur les moeurs, les coutumes, le gouvernement, les lois, les idiômes, les religions, etc.; un apperçu des moyens à employer pour affranchir ces contrées de la puissance anglaise. Paris, Imprimerie de Crapelet for Clament frères, 1810. 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red and green title labels, gilt borders on sides, gilt binding edges, green mottled edges. Engraved folding map of India with coloured outlines by P. F. Tardieu after E. Mentelle and P. G. Chanlaire in vol. 1; folding table in vol. 2; engraved folding map of the Indonesian archipelago with coloured outlines by the same engraver, and 2 folding tables in vol. 3. X, 301, (1); (4), 390; (4), 291, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: China  Discovery & Exploration  India  Philippines  Politics  Trade  Travel & Voyages  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A Portuguese attempt to invade Sri Lanka View picture(s) 38 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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Antidotes for snake and scorpiobites View picture(s) 39 SADA, A. Flore medicale comprenant les éléments botaniques, probriétés et usages  des plantes. 1er & 2me fascicule. Pondichéry, Imprimerie Rattina Modéliar, 1891. 2 (of 5) vols. 8vo. Original green and red wrappers. 23; 26 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany [Herbals]  India  Medicine  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Original edition of an extensive description of India and regions east of the Ganges, present-day Myanmar, Arrakan, India and Sri Lanka View picture(s) 40 SALMON, Thomas. Tegenwoordige staat van de Koninkryken Pegu, Ava, Arrakan, Acham. Als mede van het eigentlyke India, of het Ryk van den Groten Mogol, en van Malabar, Kormandel, en het eiland Ceilon. Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, 1731. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red and green title-labels lettered in gold, blue marbled edges. Engraved allegorical and partly hand coloured frontispiece by J.C. Philips, large folding and partly hand coloured map of India, including the Malabar and Coromandel coasts, Burma and Sri Lanka, and 3 full-page (emperor of the Mogols, male and female Mogol costumes) and 7 folding engraved plates by J.C. Philips (dated 1730-31) of Pegu and Arrakan costumes, pearl fishermen at Toute Koryn, view of Kochin, Indian pagodas and fakirs, Indigo and cotton plants. (8), (3-680), (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Burma  India  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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