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Promoting Catholicism through missionary work as the Jesuits lost power:
a manuscript from the Sir Thomas Phillipps collection

[PROPAGANDA FIDE]. Africa [-] Greci - Italo Greci [-] Armeni di Venezia [-] varie.
[Rome and perhaps elsewhere, ca. 1758-1764 (transcribing original documents going back to at least 1664)]. 4to. Collection of manuscript transcriptions of about 30 letters and other documents. Contemporary Italian sheepskin parchment over flexible boards. [416] pp., including about 15 blank leaves. Full description

€ 39,500

Balkan & Greece Church History & Missions Italy Japan & Far East Jesuits Manuscripts & Documents North Africa

One of the earliest maps of Arabia, with unique contemporary illumination

[MAP - ARABIAN PENINSULA]. PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius. [Jacobus ANGELUS, trans.; Nicolaus GERMANUS, ed.]. Sexta Asie Tabula.
Ulm, Lienhart Holle, 1482. Oblong 1mo (whole sheet: 41.5 by 57 cm). With a double-page woodcut map. Finely coloured by a contemporary hand, with near-contemporary manuscript vignette illustrations of an Ababeel bird, Makkah (Mecca) and the Kaaba in pen and wash highlighted in gold. Full description

€ 150,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Charts & Maps Early Printing - 15th century Qatar

Second map of the Arabian peninsula ever published

[MAP - ARABIAN PENINSULA]. PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius. Sexta Asiae tabula.
[Rome, Petrus de Turre, 1490 (engraved Rome, ca. 1478)]. Engraved map of the Arabian peninsula (topographic image 25.5 x 46 cm) printed, as usual, on two joined folio leaves (together 39.5 x 56 cm). Mounted on paper board, in a modern gilt frame (50.5 x 67 cm). Full description

€ 50,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Charts & Maps Early Printing - 15th century

The First Anglo-Afghan War: an extraordinary snapshot of the North-West Frontier of British India
between 1840 en 1845.

[PUNJAB-BRITISH SECRETARIAT]. Press lists of old records in the Punjab Secretariat - Volume VII. - North-West Frontier Agency. Correspondence with Government, 1840-1845.
Lahore, printed by the superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab, 1915. 1 volume bound as 2. Folio. With an addendum slip facing p. 197. Brown calf, with "Book 1" and "Book 2" in gold on the spines. [2?], 993 pp. Full description

€ 6,500

India & Sri Lanka Military History (20th Century) UK - United Kingdom

A Chinese Qur'an Juz'

[QUR'AN JUZ']. [An illuminated Qur'an, Juz' XXVIII].
[Qing China, perhaps Yunnan or Gansu, ca. 18th century]. 4to (212 x 285 mm). Arabic manuscript on paper, written in a black Sini script in 5 lines, with some diacritics picked out in red, and the leaves outlined in red. The Arabic text on the opening page is calligraphed within a golden circle, surrounded by a gold border, the opening and closing bifolia have wide gold borders with multicoloured designs, and Chinese knots in the margins, the verse markers and Surah titles are calligraphed on fields of gold, with the Surah titles calligraphed with jade green ink. 19th-century gold tooled leather, blue cloth end papers. 60 ll. Full description

€ 18,000

Arabic Printing & Calligraphy China Islam & Qurans Manuscripts & Documents

Rare catalogue of the plants of Java and printed there

RADERMACHER, Jacobus Cornelis Matthieu de. Naamlyst der planten, die gevonden worden op het eiland Java. Met de beschryving van eenige nieuwe geslagten en soorten, ...
Batavia, Egbert Heemen (vols. 1-2) and Pieter van Geemen (vol. 3), 1780-1782. 7 parts in 3 volumes, bound as 1. 4to. Lacking pp. 85-102 in vol. 3. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers. 60; 67, [1 blank], 88, 40; [4], 84 (lacking pp. 85-102), 42, [2], 70 pp. Full description

€ 12,500

Floras & General Botany Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southeast Asia VOC

Revised Dutch translation of a classic history of Java

RAFFLES, Sir Thomas Stamford and Jacques Eduard de STURLER. Geschiedenis van Java ... vertaald, wat betreft de onderwerpen, welke voor Nederland en Indië wetenswaardig zijn, en voorzien van aanteekeningen, tot verbetering, beoordeeling en vervolg van het oorspronkelijke werk, door J.E. de Sturler.
The Hague and Amsterdam, Van Cleef, 1836. 8vo. With folding letterpress table. Modern half parchment, gold-tooled spine, gilt upper edge. LIV, 244, [1], [3 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Economic History & Trade Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southeast Asia

Radical critique of European overseas expansion in 10 volumes. Extremely rare second Dutch edition

RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas François. Wysgeerige en staatkundige geschiedenis van de bezittingen en den koophandel der Europeaanen, in de beide Indiën.
Amsterdam, Matthijs Schalekamp, 1792-1803. 10 volumes bound as 9. 8vo. With 2 different engraved author's portraits, 8 engraved plates (5 as frontispieces), 12 engraved folding maps and 23 letterpress folding tables. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. VI, [4], 469, [19]; [8], 533, [1 blank], 11, [1 blank]; [8], 508, [11], [1 blank]; [8], 427, [9], [2 blank]; [8], 365, [9]; [8], 426, [10]; [10], 501, [7]; [8], 458, [11], [1 blank]; [8], 339, [10], [1 blank]; [4], 432, [13], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 7,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Brazil Charts & Maps Economic History & Trade India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Iran / Persia Latin America Law & Politics Middle America North America South America Southeast Asia USA - United States of America

Brief and complete history of Japan

REIN, Johannes Justus. Japan: travels and researches. Undertaken at the cost of the Prussian government. ... Translated from the German. With twenty illustrations and two maps.
London, Hodder and Stoughton (back of title-page: Butler & Tanner, The Selwood printing Works, Frome, and London.), 1888. 8vo. With 8 wood engraved plates, 3 lithographed maps, 4 small engravings in text and 5 black and white phototypes and 2 tinted, lithographed folding maps. Modern half morocco. X, [2], 543, [1 blank], [2] pp. Full description

€ 650

Japan & Far East Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia

Rare description of Russia just after the Turkish war,
with a revised version of the first map of the entire Russian Empire

REITZ, Johann Frederik, and others. Oude en nieuwe staat van't Russische of Moskovische Keizerryk, behelzende eene uitvoerige historie van Rusland en deszelfs groot-vorsten; benevens de beschryvinge van dat uitgestrekte ryk, de zeden en godsdienst der inwoneren: zyne opkomst en voortgang in koophandel, kunsten, land- en zeemacht, oproeren, oorlogen en verdere wisselvalligheden, tot dezen tegenwoordigen tydt toe.
Utrecht, Johannes Broedelet, 1744. 4 volumes. 4to. With 4 folding maps, 3 folding plates and a folding letterpress table. Early 19th-century half red sheepskin. [2], 296; [2], 200, 200a-200d; [2], 501; [2], 830 pp. Full description

€ 4,250

Eastern Europe Economic History & Trade Military History (18th Century) Russia (incl. Siberia)

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