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- Lattré Graveur & Jean Thomas Herissant, Paris 1762, 3f. 36 cartes doubles (1f.), relié. - Edition originale illustrée d'un frontipice par Mounet et gravé par Prevost, d'une planche contenant plusieurs figures de sphère armillaire et 36 cartes rehaussées en couleurs sur double page. Table gravée. In fine catalogue de Lattré Graveur. La majorité des cartes sont l'oeuvre de Bonne et Rigobert, mais il y a quelques contributions de Janvier et Rizzi-Zannoni (la plupart sont datées entre 1761 et 1764). Reliure en pleine basane brune marbrée d'époque. Dos lisse joliment orné de fers à la lyre et aux roues dorées encadrés d'ornements. Pièce de titre refaite. Coiffes et mors habilement restaurés. Eraflures sur les plats. Rousseurs dans les marges. 4 trous de vers traversant les cartes dans la partie basse. 3 taches rouges sur la Russie dans la carte de l'Europe. En dehors des cartes européennes, on distinguera 3 cartes asiatiques, 3 africaines, 4 des Amériques, une des 12 tribus d'Israël et une de la terre sainte. Important atlas compilé des meilleurs cartographes du XVIIIe et qui donne un relevé exact du monde vers 1760. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
- Chez Jacques Le Febvre, à Paris 1688, in-4 (18x25,5cm), (20) 558pp. (11), relié. - Chez Jacques Le Febvre, in Paris 1688, in-4 (18 x 25.5 cm), (20) 558pp(11), bound New Edition. The author wrote this work in Italian and published it in Milan in 1674, he did the translation himself. Bound in full brown calf. Spine in decorated compartments. Title piece in brown morocco. Top spine end skillfully restored and redecorated. Title page mounted, as well as the first page of the foreword. Remnants of adhesive between the endpaper page and the title page. Good fresh paper, except on the pages of the epistle. A beautiful copy. The author, a Capuchin monk by the name of Justinien de Tours (he will have another pen name) lived for a long time in the Middle East and took many trips within the Turkish provinces. The work proposes to set the scene of the Turkish Empire's decadence and of its unrest. If the first chapters deal with Mohammedan religion by discrediting it, the whole book addresses the subjects of the most varied traditions and customs. [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Nouvelle édition. L'auteur écrivit cet ouvrage en italien et le fit paraître à Milan en 1674, il en fit lui-même la traduction. Reliure en plein veau brun. Dos à nerfs orné. Pièce de titre en maroquin brun. Coiffe de tête adroitement restaurée et redorée. Page de titre remontée, ainsi que la première page de l'avertissement. Décharges d'adhésif entre la page de garde et la page de titre. Bonne fraîcheur du papier, excepté sur les pages de l'épître. Bel exemplaire. L'auteur, un moine capucin du nom de Justinien de Tours (il prendra un autre nom de plume) résida longtemps au Moyen-Orient, et fit de nombreux voyages au sein des provinces turques. L'ouvrage se propose d'établir le tableau de la décadence de l'Empire turc et de ses désordres. Si les premiers chapitres traitent de la religion mahométane en la discréditant, l'ensemble du livre aborde les sujets de murs et coutumes les plus variés.
- San Francisco jeudi 10 décembre 1902, 11,2x17cm, 2 pages sur un feuillet. - Signed handwritten letter sent from San Francisco addressed to Emile Mignard on Asian wood paper San Francisco Thursday 10 December 1902, 11.2 x 17 cm, 2 pages on one leaf Handwritten signed letter from Victor Segalen addressed to Emile Mignard, two pages written in black ink on a leaf of Asian wood letter paper printed in the margin with blue Asian silhouettes and landscapes. Emile Mignard (1878-1966), also a doctor and Brest-born, was one of Segalen's closest friends of youth whom he met at the Jesuit Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours School in Brest. The writer interacted with this comrade in an abundant and closely followed correspondence in which he described, with humour and intimacy, his daily life in all corners of the world. It was at Mignard's wedding, on 15 February 1905, that Segalen met his wife, Yvonne Hébert. Segalen, who left Le Havre on 11 October 1902 for Tahiti, had his journey interrupted by contracting typhoid fever, which kept him in San Francisco for two months. This was the opportunity for the young man to discover China Town, the Asian quarter that he mentions in this letter: "Je t'ai déniché chez un petit singe à figure jaune du quartier japonais un petit porte-carte qui aura toujours, à défaut d'autre chose, l'intérêt de «venir de loin» et de son authenticité...et aussi peut-être celui d'être donné avec la plus profonde affection que je puisse dédier à un Ami." "I have unearthed you in a little yellow-faced monkey in the Japanese quarter, a little card wallet that will always have, in the absence of anything else, the interest of "coming from afar" and its authenticity...and also perhaps that of being given with the deepest affection that I can dedicate to a Friend." Segalen left San Francisco for Tahiti on 11 January 1903. Handwritten letters from Victor Segalen are very rare. [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Lettre autographe signée de Victor Segalen adressée à Emile Mignard, deux pages rédigées à l'encre bleue sur un feuillet de papier à lettre de papier bois asiatique imprimé en marge de silhouettes et paysages asiatiques bleus. Emile Mignard (1878-1966), lui aussi médecin et brestois, fut l'un des plus proches amis de jeunesse de Segalen qu'il rencontra au collège des Jésuites Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, à Brest. L'écrivain entretint avec ce camarade une correspondance foisonnante et très suivie dans laquelle il décrivit avec humour et intimité son quotidien aux quatre coins du globe. C'est au mariage de Mignard, le 15 février 1905, que Segalen fit la connaissance de son épouse, Yvonne Hébert. Segalen, parti du Havre le 11 octobre 1902 en direction de Tahiti, voit son voyage interrompu par la contraction de la fièvre typhoïde qui l'immobilise deux mois à San Francisco. Ce sera l'occasion pour le jeune homme de découvrir China Town, le quartier asiatique qu'il évoque dans cette lettre : "Je t'ai déniché chez un petit singe à figure jaune du quartier japonais un petit porte-carte qui aura toujours, à défaut d'autre chose, l'intérêt de "venir de loin" et de son authenticité...et aussi peut-être celui d'être donné avec la plus profonde affection que je puisse dédier à un Ami." Segalen quittera San Francisco pour Tahiti le 11 janvier 1903. Les lettres autographes de Victor Segalen sont d'une grande rareté.
- Chez Jacques Vincent, à Paris 1730, Fort in-12 (9,5x16,8cm), (10) 647pp. (1), relié. - Edition originale, rare. Reliure en plein veau blond marbré d'époque. Dos à nerfs orné. Pièce de titre de chagrin rouge refaite. Un léger manque en tête. Coiffe de queue élimée. Coins émoussés. Relation de voyage établie par le père Nicolas Frizon sur des mémoires écrits par un missionnaire lors de son passage par la Turquie vers la Chine, Jacques Villotte. Le voyage par mer étant très dangereux, on choisit deux routes, une par la Moscovie, l'autre par la Turquie, les jésuites espérant convertir les peuples de Tartarie. Narration établie à la troisième personne commençant par le séjour de trois semaines du jésuite à Constantinople. Suit une ample description des voyages en caravane. Considérations sur les Perses. Ville d'Ispahan. Situation du paradis terrestre et considérations sur l'ancienne Babylone. Considérations sur les Perses et les Arméniens. C'est la vision éclairée et tolérante sur des murs étrangères par un jésuite s'attardant aussi sur les affaires et l'histoire de son ordre. Le Père jésuite, parti de Marseille en 1688, atteignit Ispahan en octobre 1689 où il se fixa durant douze années. Il ne parvint pas à passer en Chine et fut rappelé en France. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
Copper engraving. 285:720 mm. Matted. Top left notes to the letters (A-D) in English and Dutch. - After the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie was driven out of Taiwan in 1662, it tried to gain access to the porcelain and silk trade at the port of Fuzhou, then also known as Hocksiew, though the Company's attempts to trade there were hampered by a string of bureaucratic restrictions. As early as 1655 a Dutch delegation had visited the Imperial court in Beijing, but had had little opportunity to discuss trading conditions. A visit of this kind was regarded solely as a token of the respect to which the emperor was entitled. In 1666 a second delegation was sent to Beijing, led by the ambassador Pieter van Hoorn. But aside from some dazzling descriptions of China, this journey yielded nothing. Although the trading post at Fuzhou barely made a profit, the VOC kept it on until 1681.
Folio. (8), 566, (2) pp. T. p. printed in red and black. With engr. title vignette, 3 folding maps, 1 full-page map in the text, and several engr. headpieces. Contemporary vellum with giltstamped red spine label. Edges sprinkled in red. First edition. - The only comprehensive account of the entire Via Appia, one of the main ancient roads through Italy. A standard work in spite of several shortcomings. "Travail important et rempli d'érudition" (Brunet). In the 19th c., the Italian priest and antiquary Francesco Maria Pratilli (1689-1763) was discovered to have been involved in a vast series of skilled forgeries. "Als Werk über die gesamte Via Appia ist immer noch einzig F. M. Pratilli Della via Appia riconosciuta da Roma a Brindisi, Napoli 1745, leider voller unzuverlässiger Angaben und Fälschungen" (Pauly, RE II, 242). - Old library stamps on t. p. and flyleaf; "Westdean Library" bookplate on pastedown. A good copy. Ebert 17903. Brunet IV, 857f.
8vo. 293, (1) pp. Ottoman Turkish in Arabic type. With 17 reproductions of pen-and-ink drawings, 15 of which full-page, a headpiece, as well as a folding map of India and a folding table of type specimens. Contemporary red half cloth with giltstamped spine and printed title to upper cover, table of contents to lower cover. First edition. - An informative account of diplomatic travel describing a journey by the Ottoman ambassador, Sirvanli, to India, illustrated by lithographic reproductions of pen-and-ink drawings. Rich in detail, they show Hindu temples, ports and city views, while the folding table of script specimens shows the alphabets of Sanskrit, Brahmi and Devangari and their pronunciations in Latin and Arabic alphabets. The travelogue begins with the journey from Istanbul to India by ferry, and goes on to describe Indian cities including Bombay, Poona, Jaipur, Calcutta, Delhi, Lahore, Ceylon, and Madras, as well as Kashmir, Afghanistan, and Kabul, and gives an account of Mecca, which the diplomat visited on his way home. Reflecting on the cities' names and origins as well as on peoples' customs and traditions, the book also mentions a meeting with Sayyid Ahmed Khan, the founder of Aligarh Muslim University, one of the first institutions of higher education in British India. - Extremities lightly bumped, paper evenly browned throughout. Merely 7 copies in libraries worldwide, only one in Turkey (KOC University Library). Özege 7654. Karatay I, 268. TBTK 1438. History of geographical literature during the Ottoman period I, 270. OCLC 030091889.
(2), 24 colour lithographed plates in contemporary green blind-stamped cloth binding with gilt title to cover (18.5 x 15 cm). Presentation inscription to first blank leaf. Beautiful mid-19th c. introduction to the delights of Switzerland, depicting scenic views as well as charming inhabitants in their native costumes. The first work consists of 12 colour scenic plates after Deroy, lithographed by Muller or Aubrun (not found in Longchamp). The second work includes 12 plates of local costumes, signed "Charles Vallet" (Lonchamp attributing it to the publisher Bicherat). - First work not in Waeber, Barth, or Lonchamp. Lonchamp 2743.
4to [28 x 22 cm]; xiv, 487, [i, errata] pp, 20 fine hand colored stipple and line engravings (complete) on heavier paper, index, list of plates. contemporary full calf, new spine, spine title lettering on leather labels, original gilt decorated boards, marbled endpapers, light edge wear, few lower margins with light stain, short tear in margin of index pages, very good, clean in handsome binding. A comprehensive description of Peru including the territory, natural history, mineralogy, commerce, Lima, native peoples, topography, literature, climate, etc. The Longevity section describes Don Juan Modesto who lived to 133 years. Appendices describe missions to Caxamarquilla, travels to river Huallago, lake of Gran Cocama in 1790, rivers Maranon and Ucayali, and to Manoa tribes in 1791, travels in mountainous territories, itinerary from Chavin to Chicoplaya. The colored plates show the costume of various parts of Peruvian society, including nobility, natives, bullfighter, llamas, etc. Abbey Travel 723. Hiler 802. Sabin 81615. Palau 315564. Lipperheide I, 389. Skinner seems to have based the work on his translated portions from El Mercurio Peruano.
Copenhague, Nicolas Möller, 1778. 4to. Bound in a fine (20th Century) full calf. Raised bands. Gilt lineborders on spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Engraved title-vignette. XLIII,(3),372 pp., folded table, 1 large folded map (Terræ Yemen) and 24 engraved plates (of which 6 are charts, many large folding). The large map with some browning and foxing. Otherwise clean and fine, wide-margined, printed on good paper.
London, Longman, Brown, Green, And Longman, 1856, 8vo. In the original full embossed red cloth, rebacked, preserving most of the original spine. Map with 10 cm long tear. Wear to extremities and 1 quire lose. Otherwise internally fine. (I)-XV, 300, (1)-4, 24 pp. + 1 folded map.
Wisingsborg, J. Kankel, 1674. 4to. Nyere hpergamentsbd. (4),304 pp. Gl. ejernavne på titelbladet. Øverste højre hjørne af titelbladet fornyet, intet tab af tekst. Titelbladet med brunpletter og nogle blælpletter. Nogle blde med gl. understregninger. Spredte brunpletter og brugsspor.
Amsterdam, 1776-1780. 4to. Bound in two contemporary uniform brown half calf bindings with gilt lines and gilt title-labels to spines. Spines with some wear and tear and vol. 2 with a couple of glue-repairs to upper capital. A small marginal damp stain to first quire of vol. 2 and (mostly very faint) marginal damp stain later on as well, otherwise internally very nice and clean. Tt2 with a tear to top margin, no loss. Beautiful allegorical vignettes to title-pages. VIII, (6), 484, (1, -errata) + 71 engraved plates (out of 72) + engraved folded map " (16), 455, (1) pp. + 52 engraved plates. In all with 123 splendid engraved plates, many of them folded, out of 124 - missing plate 29 in vol. 1. + the famous map of Yemen.
Paris, Olivier de Varennes, 1678. 4to. Lovely contemporary full mottled calf with five raised bands to richly gilt spine. Spine with signs of wear and cords just showing at the front hinge. But overall very nice indeed. Internally very nice, clean, and fresh. Printed on good paper and with good margins. With the Coyet-book plate from the Torup estate to inside of front board. Engraved title, (14), 408 pp. + 1 folded engraved map, 21 engraved plates and 7 engraved illustrations in the text.
4to [24.5 x 19 cm]; [xii], [i, directions for binder], 335, [ix, index] pp, 37 engraved plates, maps & charts by J. B. Scotin, N. Guerard & others after Frezier, complete with frontis and all plates including 36 & xxxvi, musical notation. contemporary full leather, rebacked with leather spine, gilt title lettering on spine leather labels, cover with blind design, light offsetting on frontis, minor foxing, mainly marginal, a fine copy in attractive binding. A picture of this book is availab Frezier's voyage was made on the orders of Louis XIV to obtain military information for a possible operation against Spanish colonies on the Pacific coast. He surveyed the Le Maire Strait and the west coast of Tierra de Fuego and produced the most accurate description of South America to date (including Chile, Peru). Sabin 25936. Cox II, 267: 'One of the most valuable of our early records of the Falkland Islands, and to Frezier we are indebted for the clearest contemporary account of the navigation of the French seamen there. This English edition contains Dr. Edmund Halley's Postscript, correcting certain Geographical errors made by Frezier. Halley is of course most famous now as the discoverer of Halley's Comet. At the end is a 13 pp. account of the Joint Settlement in Paraguay '. Hill 115: 'Frezier brought back information of considerable geographical and scientific value. Much data is included about the native inhabitants This first English translation contains the same engravings as the French original but is preferable to the latter because it contains Halley's postscript, which corrects certain geographical errors made by Frezier The frontispiece map, showing the route, was created for the English edition'. Borba de Moraes I 329: 'This English edition is much sought after because of Halley's postscript'. This edition also contains a section on the early settlement of Paraguay. A superb travel classic. Besides the fine maps and charts, there are plates of people, including natives in sea-kayak, early golf, natural history and botanical plates, etc.
Amsterdam, d'Estienne Roger, 1702-07. Small 8vo. (15,5 x 10,5 cm.). Bound in 7 contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spines, titlelabels with gilt lettering. 3 titlelabels gone. Slightly rubbed, a few repairs to top of spines. Stamp on title-page and verso of. 7 engraved frontispieces. Ca. 4500 pp., 69 engraved plates, mostly large folded maps and charts.
4to [24.5 x 19 cm]; [xii], [i, directions for binder], 335, [ix, index] pp, 37 engraved plates, maps & charts by J. B. Scotin, N. Guerard & others after Frezier, complete with frontis and all plates including 36 & xxxvi, musical notation. orig full leather boards with later spine and gilt title lettering on leather labels, light corner wear, joint cracked with repair but holding, map skillfully laid down, minor spotting, old bookplate of John Lenvis Petit, very good, interior clean & fine. Frezier's voyage was made on the orders of Louis XIV to obtain military information for a possible operation against Spanish colonies on the Pacific coast. He surveyed the Le Maire Strait and the west coast of Tierra de Fuego and produced the most accurate description of South America to date (including Chile, Peru). Sabin 25936. Cox II, 267: 'One of the most valuable of our early records of the Falkland Islands, and to Frezier we are indebted for the clearest contemporary account of the navigation of the French seamen there. This English edition contains Dr. Edmund Halley"s Postscript, correcting certain Geographical errors made by Frezier. Halley is of course most famous now as the discoverer of Halley"s Comet. At the end is a 13 pp. account of the Joint Settlement in Paraguay '. Hill 115: 'Frezier brought back information of considerable geographical and scientific value. Much data is included about the native inhabitants This first English translation contains the same engravings as the French original but is preferable to the latter because it contains Halley's postscript, which corrects certain geographical errors made by Frezier The frontispiece map, showing the route, was created for the English edition'. Borba de Moraes I 329: 'This English edition is much sought after because of Halley's postscript'. This edition also contains a section on the early settlement of Paraguay. A superb travel classic. Besides the fine maps and charts, there are plates of people, including natives in sea-kayak, early golf, natural history and botanical plates, etc.
12mo. 63, (1) pp. Stab-sewn in contemporary marbled wrappers (nonpareil pattern). Rebacked with brown cloth. Rare edition of the Acts of the Apostles in Kosraean (Kusaiean), spoken on the islands of Kosrae, the Caroline Islands, and Nauru. The translation is by Benjamin G. Snow, a pioneer of the Micronesian Mission. He settled in Kosraea in 1852 and published several translations of parts of the New Testament from 1862 until his death in 1880, all printed at Honolulu. - The printer of the present booklet, Henry Martyn Whitney, was born at Waimea in 1824. He was educated in the United States, where he became acquainted with the printing trade, working as foreman in the printing office of Harpers & Bros, New York. Upon his return to Hawaii, Whitney became the editor of the newspaper "Polynesian". He later founded an independent newspaper at Honolulu and imported the first power press to Hawaii. - In very good condition. OCLC 9610715. Cf. Darlowe/Moule 6036-6045 (other Kosraean translations by Snow). Not in Forbes. For Whitney cf. The Independent vol. XVIII, no. 2894, 18 August 1904.
Large 4to. Issues 1 through 12 (January-December) in one volume. 96 (instead of 100), (4) pp. Contemporary marbled boards with handwritten spine title. The complete first year of this monthly journal issued by the just-founded German-Chinese Foundation, a Hessian missionary society. "The Chinese Foundation (or Kassel Missionary Society) (CS) was established in 1846 as the Deutsch-Chinesische Stiftung by members of the Evangelische Missionsverein in Kurhessen (founded in 1833) in response to Karl Friedrich Gützlaff's appeal for support of his 'Chinese Union' at Hong Kong [...] Sectarian friction in the Evangelical Missionary Society in Electoral Hesse [...] hastened the demise of the CS after 1855. The China work commenced in 1840 with the arrival of Karl Vogel at Hong Kong" (Tiedemann). - Articles include: Protestant missionary activity for China from 1805 until the Anglo-Chinese War; Gützlaff's latest journey to Northern China; The Imperial Tolerance Edict; North Chinese emigrants to Mongolia; The effectiveness of the Christian Association in Hong Kong; The imprisonment of the Catholic missionary Mr. Carayon in China; Chronicle of the German-Chinese Foundation; News about the missions in Hunan and Hupi, etc., as well as a list of the missionary activities in China. - The two final appended leaves discuss the purpose of the Foundation as well as the arrangement of the periodical, which from 1850 onwards was published quarterly as "Quartalberichte der Chinesischen Stiftung" (cf. Kirchner). - Issue 7 lacks pp. 55-60, containing the text of a letter from the board to Gützlaff (cf. Walravens 26). Hinges weakened; endpapers a little foxed; some browning throughout. Traces of old folds, but generally well preserved. Very rare; only three copies in OCLC. Kirchner 8265. Tiedemann, Reference Guide to Christian Missionary Societies in China, p. 174.
Engraved map, 394 x 404 mm. Framed. Rare, early 19th century Italian engraved facsimile of the greatest medieval map of the world: the famous world map made around 1450 by Fra Mauro, "considered the greatest memorial of medieval cartography" (Almagià). At the time it was the most detailed representation of the world ever produced, and it remains one of the most important works in the history of cartography, marking the new embrace of scientific method which placed accuracy ahead of religious or traditional beliefs. Strikingly, it is oriented with south at the top, recalling the Arab tradition and more specifically al-Idrisi's famous 12th century world map, copies of which Fra Mauro may have known: Europe is shown at the bottom, and Africa and Asia dominate the image, with Arabia (not Jerusalem) at the centre and America as yet missing. Fra Mauro incorporated "the discoveries of Marco Polo and the Portuguese", also showing "many countries later known, which the learned monk doubtless shaped after ideas gathered from the oral narratives of occasional travellers" (Müller). Much of the map's novel information was lost to early modern cartographers when printed Ptolemy atlases proliferated in the final decades of the 15th century, replacing the manuscript mappamundi tradition. - Today the original Fra Mauro Map, drawn on vellum, is held by the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice and shown at the Museo Correr. An impressive manuscript facsimile, now in the British Library, was prepared in 1804 by the British antiquarian William Frazer; a large engraving was made in Paris in 1849, and in 1869 the Venetian bookseller Münster produced the first photographic reproduction. The present edition of the map was issued with Placido Zurla's book "Il Mappamondo di Fra Mauro Camaldolese" (1806), the first study of Fra Mauro's map ever published and indeed the only substantial early work on the map. (Later, Zurla would also include the engraving in his 1818 study "Di Marco Polo e degli altri viaggiatori veneziani più illustri dissertazioni"). Rarely encountered on the market, this is at the same time a very early example of world map facsimiles in general. - A repaired tear to the left edge, touching the engraved border, otherwise in perfect condition. OCLC 163267775. For Zurla's book cf. Cicogna 3323. For the mappamundi cf. A. Müller, Venice. Her Art-Treasures and Historical Associations. A Guide to the City (Venice 1873), p. 113; R. Almagià, Monumenta cartographica vaticana, vol. 1 (Città del Vaticano, 1944); P. Falchetta, Storia del Mappamondo di Fra' Mauro (Rimini, 2016).
18 stiff card leaves with 61 black and white photographs, adhesive mounted on both sides, with a few items of ephemera. All photos have detailed captions on applied small sheets of typescript. An album depicting India with an emphasis on Hindus engaged in religious rituals, many of which appear quite painful. It was created by a missionary in Benares, India, W. K. Norton, who deemed these images "self-torture". His goal in creating the album was to raise funds for the mission by showing "the great need the Hindu people are in for 'something better', that is found only in accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour". To further drive home the need for funds, one caption for a photo named "Devil Dancers in India" reads "worshiping the devil is a part of nearly all heathen religions". As of 1930, it seems Norton's fundraising efforts were suffering, as his newsletter included here shows that financial conditions were dire and that there was "a serious lack of interest which alarms us". - Around 25 photos show people engaged in self-suffering. These include men who held their arms above their heads for years, one who has moved his foot above his shoulder, and several which show people lying on beds of nails or spikes, including a young boy. Others show a man with his head buried in the ground, while another shows a man buried up to his head. One shows people lying on cacti, another shows a man who vowed he would never again lie down so he slept suspended by ropes under his arms. A couple show a man hanging by his feet, his head just over a fire. Two show a man getting hooked in his back and then suspended far above the ground to swing. Other views include street scenes in villages, people worshipping stone figures of snakes and the tulsi plant, and animal sacrifices. There are two shots of preparation for a cremation, one of a souvenir shop, another showing a crowd of thousands bathing in the Ganges, and more. Although more than one online reference states Norton was the photographer, four of the photos in the book are clearly commercial, and a few appear to be photographs of photographs. We know that Norton and his wife produced another original photograph book of 12 pages in the 1920s with two copies in institutions. OCLC locates no copies of this expanded work, but we note the online sales of two others since 2012 with 61 and 53 photographs respectively. - In very good condition: front wrapper with light foxing and surface abrasions, a couple of leaves with small stains; photos fine save for two with small losses. An outstanding album filled with arresting images, all described in great detail.
Copper engraving. 295:356 mm. Matted. A depiction of the welcoming of the Dutch ambassador by the Chinese near the Beijing (Peking) city.
Oblong 8vo (234 x 146 mm). 59 uniforms, 16 horses and 4 mules on 41 plates. Watercolour raised in gilt, silver, and egg-white. Original embossed and illustrated cloth album. All edges gilt. Charming watercolour album depicting the uniforms of the French army in the late 19th century, including 16 plates of cavalry units, 4 of mules carrying ordnance and strongboxes, and several legendary colonial units such as the Chasseurs d'Afrique, the Spahis, Zouaves, Turcos, and Tirailleurs Tonkinois. - Paper slightly browned evenly; binding rubbed and bumped at extremeties but still very appealing.
Folio (295 x 364 mm). (8), 93, (7) pp. With 38 (9 full-page) woodcuts in the text and 27 etched plates on China paper. Splendid original blue cloth binding; spine and front cover richly giltstamped; oval view of Peles Castle on front cover. All edges red. A perfect copy owned by Marie Therese of Austria-Este (1849-1919), gifted by King Carol I of Romania, with Marie Therese's autograph note on the front endpaper: "Erhalten vom Könige Karl von Rumänien. Pelesch, Montag, 9. 8. 1909. Marie Therese" ("Received from King Charles of Romania. Peles, Monday, 9 August 1909. Marie Therese"). Ultimately removed from the library of the Dukes of Bavaria at Tegernsee Castle. - Construction of Peles Castle commenced in 1873 under the Viennese architect Carl Wilhelm Christian Ritter von Doderer; after 1876 Doderer's assistant Johannes Schultz took over and changed the original plans. The building was inaugurated on 7 October 1883. Between 1893 and 1914, the Czech architect Karel Liman was commissioned to build the main tower. The castle served as the summer residence of the Romanian royal family until the death of King Carol in 1914.
Royal 8vo. XLVIII, IV, 1478 pp. + (2), 8 pp. of publisher's catalogue. With 11 folded maps and charts. Publisher's original full cloth, blindstamped and with gilt lettering. Third edition of Findlay's monumental navigational directory of Eastern Asia, including the Straits of Malacca, Sunda, and Singapore, the east coast of Sumatra, the Gulf of Siam (now Thailand), the coasts of Cochin China, Tonkin, Borneo, the Philippines, the China Sea, Java and the Java Sea, the islands, the coast of China, Hong Kong, Formosa (Taiwan), Shanghai, and Korea. - Inner front hinge reinforced, but clean and fine. Stamps of the Royal Danish Navy Library and the Royal Danish Maps and Charts Archive on title-page. Rare: OCLC lists a single copy (in the National Library of Sweden). OCLC 940735103.
