Highlights

INTORCETTA, Prospero. R.P. Prosperi Intorcetta societatis Jesu missionarii sinensis testimonium de cultu sinensi, datum anno 1668.
Paris, Nicolas Pepié, 1700. 8vo. With a small woodcut ornamental vignette on the title page and some head- and tail-pieces built up from typographical ornaments. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, blue sprinkled edges. [2], 318, [10] pp. Full description

JAGOR, Fedor. Singapore - Malacca - Java. Reiseskizzen.
Berlin, Julius Springer, 1866. Ca. 23.5 x 17.5 cm. With 24 full-page illustrations. Original half (faded) burgundy sheepskin and decorated paper sides. [6], 252 pp. Full description

KIRCHER, Athanasius. Tooneel van China.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and the widow of Elizaeus Weyerstraten, 1668. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, engraved author's portrait, 24 engraved plates (including 2 double-page maps and 1 folding plate) and 60 engraved illustrations in text (plus another copy on a separate leaf, without letterpress text, of the engraving on 2F3v). Including maps of China and Asia, traditional Chinese costumes, illustrations of the Chinese and the Mughal rulers in abundantly decorated rooms, linguistic illustrations, zoological illustrations, etc. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges, later endpapers (re-cased). [12], 286, [10] pp. Full description

LABORDE, Alexandre de. Voyage pittoresque et historique de l'Espagne.
Paris, Pierre Didot l'aîné, 1806-1820. 2 volumes, each in 2 parts, bound as 4. 1mo (57 x 44 cm). With engraved illustrated title-page by Du Parc after Charles Percier, 4 letterpress title-pages, each with a different engraved illustration, 272 engraved plates and 2 large double-page engraved maps, of Spain and Portugal. Contemporary green half morocco. XLVI, 72, [2]; 73-132; XLV, [1 blank], 33, [1 blank] [2]; XCI [= LXXXI], [1 blank] pp. Full description

LABORDE, Léon Emmanuel Simon Joseph de. Voyage de l'Arabie Pétrée.
Paris, Giard (colophon: printed by the Imprimerie Normale/Jules Didot l'ainé), 1830[-1834]. Royal 1mo (42 x 59.5 cm). With a lithographic title page (with a large lithographed title vignette separately printed on "India" paper and mounted on the title page) and lithographed coat of arms of the dedicatee Wilhelm II of Hesse printed directly on dedication leaf, 69 lithographed plates (3 double-page and 1 larger folding) showing views, maps and plans after Laborde and Linant de Bellefonds, most separately printed on "India" paper and mounted on the leaves. With 1 zoological plate (of a marmot and young: "El Oueber") subtly coloured as published. Period-style half calf with gilt title to spine. Full description

LAIRESSE, Gerard de. Grondlegginge ter [!] teekenkonst, zynde een korte en zekere weg om door middel van de geometrie of meetkunde, de teekenkonst volkomen te leeren ...
Amsterdam, Jan Hartig, 1727. 3 works in 3 volumes, the second in 2 parts. 4to. Ad 1 with a woodcut vignette on the title page, 8 full-page engraved plates (of which one by Matthijs Pool after Philip Tideman, facing p. 35) including one mezzotint portrait of a young woman and 7 (half- or three-quarter) engravings in the text. Ad 2 with an engraved allegorical vignette on the title page, 6 full-page engraved plates, including one mezzotint portrait of an old woman, 6 (half- or three-quarter) engravings in the text, and 3 folding engraved plates depicting 15 illustrations in the additional part on lamp-designs by J.A. von Segner. Ad 3 with an ornamental vignette on the title page, an allegorical vignette engraved by Reinier Vinkeles after Jacobus Buys, 21 full-page engraved plates including 6 plates (nos. 22-27) of the musculatures printed in sanguine. With: (2) LAIRESSE, Gerard de. Grondlegginge der teeken-konst, zynde een korte en zeekere weg om door middel van de geometrie of meetkunde, de teeken-konst volkomen te leeren ... Eerste deel. Tweede druk.
Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg, 1766.
Including: SEGNER, Johann Andreas von. Beschryving van twee verscheide zeer bekwame en zuinige als mede het gezicht bewarende Lampen.
With: (3) PLOOS VAN AMSTEL, Cornelis. Aanleiding tot de kennis der anatomie, in de tekenkunst, betreklyk tot het menschbeeld. Met eenige plaaten, en daar bygevoegde verklaaringen ...
Amsterdam, J. Yntema, 1783.
Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf with a green (ads 1 and 2) or red (3) morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, a round green morocco label lettered in gold in a gilt laurel wreath in the centre of both boards, with the text "Vernuft en vlyt" on the front, and the date "26 June 1822" on the back of ad 1, and 26 August 1795 on the backs of ads 2 and 3, two ornamental borders on the boards of ads 1 and 3, and one border on ad 2, gold-tooled edges, marbled edges, ad 1 with marbled endpapers, and ads 2 and 3 with paste paper endpapers, a round red wax seal of the Academy of drawing at Middelburg on the front pastedown. [14], 115; [16], 115, [1 blank], [4], 16; [12], IV, 12, 114, [2 blank] pp. Full description

LOPEZ, Gregorio. Lettera annua della Provincia delle Filippine dell' anno M.DC.VIII.
Rome, Bartolomeo Zanetti, 1611. Small 8vo (16 x 11.5 cm). 18th-century limp sheepskin parchment. 124, [2 blank] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - CHINESE RITES CONTROVERY - Lourenço de SANTA MARIA E MELO et al]. [Collection of manuscript anti-Rites oaths, from the years 1746-1767].
[Goa?, 1746-1767]. Folio. With 19 manuscript documents (18 in Latin, 1 in Italian) in different sizes, some with a papered seal.
19th-century brown paper boards from Thomas Phillipps' Middle Hill Press, with the manuscript title on the spine. The work is housed in a clamshell box of gold-tooled quarter brown calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, yellow cloth sides, and a brown paper lining. [51] ll. Full description

MARCHAND, Étienne and Charles Pierre Claret de FLEURIEU. Voyage autour du monde, pendant les anneés 1790, 1791 et 1792, par Étienne Marchand, précédé d'une introduction historique; auquel on a joint des recerches sur les terres Australes de Drake, et un examen critique du voyage de Roggeween.
Paris, De l'imprimerie de la République, [1798-1800]. 6 volumes: 5 text volumes and 1 atlas. Large 8vo (23 x 15 cm) and 4to atlas. With 3 folding tables with vocabulary in 3rd volume and 15 engraved maps and 1 engraved plate in atlas volume. Contemporary light brown calf, spine gilt with star and flower pattern and 2 red morocco title labels, gilt ornamental borders on sides, gilt board edges, gilt inner dentelles with meander pattern, g.e. (COURTEVAL). [4], VIII, CCI, [3], 294, [2]; VII, [1], 529, [1]; [2], VIII, 474, [2]; VIII, 494, [2]; XII, 559, [5]; [2], VIII, 158, [2] pp. Full description

MARSDEN, William and Cornelis Pieter Jacob ELOUT. Nederduitsch en Maleisch woordenboek, gevolgd van een Fransch en Maleisch woordenboek ... naar het Engelsch en Maleisch woordenboek van den Hr. W. Marsden. | Dictionnaire Hollandais et Malai, suivi dun dictionnaire Français et Malai ... daprès le dictionnaire Anglais et Malai de Mr. W. Marsden.
Haarlem, Johannes Enschedé and sons, 1826. 4to. With several wood engraving ornaments throughout. Later half black sheepskin. [8], 432 pp. Full description