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2 panoramas, each composed of four consecutive albumen prints. 1100 x 210 mm. Two of the earliest panoramic views of Xiamen, formerly romanized as Amoy. Xiamen Island was considered to possess one of the world's great natural harbors in Yundang Bay, and its served as China's main port for exporting tea. It was one of five Chinese Treaty ports agreed on by the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842. Under Deng Xiaoping Xiamen became one of the original four special economic zones opened to foreign investment and trade in the early 1980s. - Slightly foxed and browned. Rare.
Engraved map, fine original hand-colour, edged with blue silk, housed in original marbled paper chemise and slipcase, with red morocco label, lettered in gilt. 1470 x 1290 mm. The most accurate map of Asia published at the beginning of the 19th century. It shows significant advancement compared with other maps of the period, incorporating the work of surveyors like James Rennell, to whom the map was dedicated. Rennell was surveyor-general of the East India Company's dominions in Bengal, and the information published in his "Bengal Atlas" in 1779 appears here. Arrowsmith also included remarkable topographical detail such as mountain ranges in regions as remote as Tibet. Remarkably the region on the shore of the Arabian Gulf is already labelled as "Bani Yas" territory. Arrowsmith has marked the track of Lapérouse's voyage in the Indian Ocean and Far East. - Aaron Arrowsmith (1750-1823) was the finest cartographer of his generation. Although he received little formal education, it is believed that he was provided with some mathematical instruction by William Emerson, an author of several books on the application of mathematics to the area of cartography. Around 1770, Arrowsmith moved to London to seek employment. It is believed that he worked for William Faden before joining John Cary Sr. in the early 1780s. There he provided the measurements for John Cary's early publication detailing the roads from London to Falmouth, his first signed work. Arrowsmith set up on his own in 1790 and over the next thirty years produced some of the most beautiful and elegant maps of the era. - In perfect condition. Not in Al Ankary or Al-Qasimi. Cf. Sweet 238 (1811 edition only).
Folio (250 x 359 mm). 2 vols. Together 382 (instead of 384) coloured lithographed plates, some heightened with egg-white. The majority mounted on thick paper with the blind stamp of Eckert & Weiß. Captioned in German. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped spine and spine-title. Marbled endpapers. Luxury edition of the famous military costume series. A nearly complete run of the German and Austrian uniforms from the monumental artistic collection showing the armies of Europe. Vividly and brightly coloured, the splendid plates display costumes as well as characteristic scenes of army life, frequently featuring idyllic scenery or battle scenes in the background. The present volumes include uniforms from Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Braunschweig, Nassau, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Baden and other states. - The work was originally published in 48 issues comprising 8 plates each, resulting in a total of 384 plates. During the long period of publication, several plates were revised and adapted; many were published in different versions, and more than 425 known plates in total. - Calf somewhat rubbed, occasional light browning. Plates are crisp and clean. Additional title-page of the "Sämmtliche Truppen" series supplied in photocopy in volume I. Contemporary ownership on the title-page overpasted. A good copy of the sumptuous special edition of this magnificent work. Colas 935. Hiler 261. Lipperheide 2120 and Qc 26. For the edition and number of plates cf. Georg Ortenburg in his preface to vol. I. of the Harenberg facsimile edition, Bibliophile Taschenbücher 235, Dortmund 1981, p. 10.
Folio (208 x 280 mm). (16), 100 pp. Title printed in red and black. With woodcut title vignette and full-page woodcut of the author at the end of the preliminaries. Contemporary mottled calf ruled in blind, spine tooled in gilt, red morocco spine label titled in gilt. The second edition of Galvão's history of exploration and voyages, issued after the virtually unobtainable first edition of 1563. According to Sabin, this second edition "is also rare, the greater portion having been destroyed by an earthquake", specifically the catastrophic Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 (Sabin). Galvão's text was translated in 1601 by Hakluyt, who even at such an early date complained about the rarity of the first edition, and who was forced to rely on a copy sent from Lisbon. Currently, only three copies of the first edition are known in libraries, and none outside of North America. - Born in 1503, Galvão was sent to India in 1527. Having distinguished himself there, he was appointed governor of the Moluccas. He maintained a keen interest in military and religious affairs throughout his career, and spent the latter part of his life assembling accounts of the voyages that comprise this collection. He provides a relatively succinct chronological list of ancient and modern discoveries to the year 1550, including those by Columbus, Cabral, Cortés, and Pizarro. As a result, he is considered by some to have invented a new field of European literature: "The author has been styled 'the founder of historical geography.' The book gives a good summary of the geographical explorations of the Portuguese and other important voyagers, including the English" (Hill). - Though an early hand has attempted to cross it out, the inscription "Ex libris Antónii Lomellino d. Vasconcellos" appears on the title-page along with the handwritten date 1745, and "Lomellino" appears again on the final leaf of text. This is the ownership mark of António Lomellino de Vasconcellos, an 18th century bibliophile who collected particularly books of Portuguese origin. Lightly worn, with a few light crayon marks to the margins of some pages. An uncommon and well-preserved edition of this seminal work. Sabin 26468. Borba de Moraes 289. Bosch 180. Rodrigues 1059. Palau 182.290. Leclerc 225. Innocencio I, 147, 720. Hill 670. Bibliotheca Americana 642. European Americana 731/89. OCLC 83247823.
Small folio (224 x 284 mm). 2 vols. (12), 376 pp. (8), 283, (1) pp. With 2 engraved title pages, 25 engraved plates (mostly after Radl), and 1 folding population table. Without the folding map of Frankfurt. Contemporary red morocco, richly gilt to spine and covers with gilt spine label; leading edges gilt, gilt inner dentelle around silk endpapers; all edges gilt. First edition of this historical and topographical description of Frankfurt and numerous towns in the Anterior Taunus aera. A unique luxury copy on wove paper, very wide-margined and in a magnificent contemporary morocco binding. The flyleaf of the first volume bears an autograph inscription by the famous Frankfurt bookseller Hermann Joseph Baer (1811-81) to the Frankfurt-born educator Carl Bernhard Greiss in Wiesbaden (1809-73): "Seinem Freunde Dr. C. B. Greiss / Frankfurt a. M., den 13. März 1864 / Hermann Joseph Baer". - Bindings slightly rubbed; insignificant bumping to lower spine-ends. Some foxing to interior, with some waterstaining to the first leaves of the second volume, otherwise a very appealingly preserved luxury copy of the finest collection of views of Frankfurt published in its time. Brunet III, 669 (VI, 26661). Kayser I, 78.
Drawn in watercolour and pen on laid paper, mounted on contemporary linen (310 x 475 mm). (Bound in): Fellowes, Robert ("Philalethes"). The history of Ceylon, from the earliest period to the Year MDCCCXV; with characteristic details of the religion, laws, & manners of the people and a collection of their moral maxims & ancient proverbs ... To which is subjoined Robert Knox's historical relation of the island, with an account of his captivity during a period of near twenty years ... (With): Knox, Robert. An historical relation of the Island of Ceylon in the East Indies: together with an account of the detaining in captivity the author, and divers other Englishmen now living there; and of the author's miraculous escape. London, Joseph Mawman, 1817. 4to. 2 parts in one. XXII, 341; (1), VIII, 383 pp. With a folding engraved map of Sri Lanka by J. Smith, dated 1816, mounted on contemporary linen, an engraved portrait of Knox by Smith, dated 1816, and 15 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf with gold-tooled spine, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. Manuscript map of the middle third of the island of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), made before any detailed map of this area had been published. Bound in a book containing the first edition of Fellowes's history of Sri Lanka, published together with a then-current edition of Robert Knox's own account of his stay in Sri Lanka (first edition 1681). - The manuscript map provides great detail for inland Sri Lanka, ranging from Puttalam (upper left) to Kalutara (lower left) and from Batticaloa (upper right) to Kataragama (lower right). This area spans several provinces, including the ancient Kingom of Kandy, showing many roads, towns and villages in great detail, especially around the city of Kandy. The various provinces are distinguished by colour. The map is contemporary with the book, made on English paper watermarked "G L Paine 1813", indicating George Leeds Paine of Kent (cf. Shorter 1971, p. 198). The map thus dates between 1813 and 1817, the period leading up to the last armed conflict between the British colonial government and the Kingdom of Kandy, which resulted in the final defeat of Kandy and the British seizing control of the entire island. - The first part of the book has several manuscript annotations in the same hand as the manuscript map, primarily concerning the bureaucracy and administration of the Kingdom of Kandy. Several corrections are written in the margins of chapter LVI (Offices, Casts and Miscellaneous Particulars), and the list of Singhalese sovereigns on the last page of the first work is expanded in manuscript up to the year 1815, ending with: "The English government established 2 March 1815 - Esto perpetua (may it always be so)". There is no owner's inscription, but the person who drew the map and added the annotations was evidently an Englishman with special interest in Kandy, and the notes, the paper and the circumstances suggest a British officer with a knowledge of the Singhalese language and cartography stationed in Kandy at the time of its capture. - In 1821 John Davy published his new map of Sri Lanka, which for the first time showed especially fine detail in the area around Kandy. No earlier map provided detailed information on the topography of the interior of Sri Lanka, as only the coastal areas were well documented. The present manuscript map is therefore a very early - or maybe even the first - attempt to record the topography of the interior. It was a forerunner to Davy's map and might have provided Davy with information, lending it great importance for the history of Sri Lankan cartography. - Several manuscript corrections in ink in the margins of the first work and several faded annotations in pencil in the margins of the second work. Folding engraved map foxed and first title-page slightly foxed. Spine repaired. The manuscript map has a tear at the foot of the fold, otherwise in good condition. For the manuscript map cf. Ian J. Barrow, Surveying and Mapping in Colonial Sri Lanka: 1800-1900. - For Knox: Cox I, 276f. Henze III, 46f.
Oversized hardcover presented with map in its original paper wallet. Boards are fully bound in dark green cloth by Kelly and Walsh, with lettering to front only. Second edition, 284pp. Former copy of Evelyn Gedge, with her bookplates to front pastdown, to reverse side of map and to map envelope. Boards are shelfworn with rubbing to edges and corners, spine is sunned, speckled and lightly chipped at ends. Endpapers and pastedowns are tanned at edges and there are a few small tears to paper in the gutter of front pastedown. Very faint foxing to a few internal pages, otherwise the contents are clean and unmarked throughout and the illustrations are bright and clear, binding is sound. Watermark to map envelope and small tear to opening. Map is unnumbered and is in excellent condition. More photos available upon request. AD Used
Paris, 1807 (atlas) - 1808 (text). 2 large 4to + 1 folio. All three volumes bound in contemporary half calf with gilding to spines - text volumes uniform. TEXT: Volume 1 with a split front hinge, but block still tight. A patch of paper missing from back board. Both volumes with some edge wear and bumped corners. Old paper labels to inside of front boards, and a stamp to half-titles and title-pages. A bit of brownspotting, but mostly marginal. Overall, most text-leaves are clean and bright. The plates in vol. 1 have some, mostly marginal, brownspotting. Both volumes with wide margins. Some of the text is printed on blue-ish paper. (4), LVI, 704 pp. & 32 folded engraved plates + (4), VIII, 691 pp. & 1 folded plate. Many tables with astronomical observations. In all 33 folded plates. ATLAS: Wear to extremities and bumped corners. Inner front hinge re-enforced. Top right blank corner of title-page repaired, far from affecting text. A stamp to title-page. A bit of brownspotting, mostly marginal. The last ab. 10 maps with a damp stain in the middle. The reast are very nice and bright. 4 (title-page + contents-leaf) pp. & 39 maps and charts, 29 of which are double-page. Fully complete with all 33 folded plates in the text-volumes and all 39 maps and charts in the atlas-volume. A contemporary handwritten note to the title-page of the atlas stating that THE COPY WAS GIVEN TO ADMIRAL VAN DOCKUM AT THE ORDER OF NAPOLEON I. (""à Mr. le Conte-Admiral Joost Van Dockum,/ par ordre de Sm l'Empereur Napoléon 1e."")
Berlin, Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1791. 4to. Bound in 3 uniform contemp. hcalf. Riased bands, gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels on spine with gilt lettering. Very light wear to spine ends. Slightly rubbed. Small stamps on foot of title-pages. Corners lightly bumped. X,130,302 (8),XXII,(2),314,(2) XVIII,74,380 pp. 4 large folded engraved maps and 27 engraved plates (some folding). Maps with closed tear at inner foldings. Scattered brownspots, mainly marginal. Occassionally some offsetting from plates. A few plates with light foxing and some with brownspots. In general fine, printed on good paper.
Paris, Chez Didot, 1746-61 (Vols. 1-16) a. Amsterdam, Arkstée et Merkus, 1761 (Vol. 17) a. Paris, Rozet, 1768 (Vol. 18) a. Paris, Panckoucke, 1770 (Vol. 19). 4to. Bound in 19 uniform contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Spines a bit rubbed with light wear to the gilding. All spine-ends neathly repaired with matching leather. Stamps on half-titles. Engraved portrait of Prevost as frontispiece to volume 1. (The portrait with faint brownspots). In all more than 10.000 pp. and with 561 maps, plans and plates, of these ca. 250 engraved maps, many large and folding. A few plates inserted in a wrong volume, but all plates seems to be present in accordence with the listings of the plates. One leaf torn in volume 18, but all text preserved. Very few scattered brownspots. A few quires in one volume with light browning. No repairs to maps. All volumes printed on good paper. A clean and attractive set. The last volume (XX) was issued much later (1789) and is not present here.
Paris, L'Imprimerie de la République, AN VIII (1800). 4to. a. Imperial folio. Bound in 4 uniform contemp. blue hcloth with marbled boards. Gilt lettering on spines. Minimal wear to extremities. Atlas with small repairs to spine-ends. (2,= htitle),XII,491 (6, incl. htitle),516 "(6, incl. htitle),562 pp. and 7 + 6 + 5 engraved plates (incl. 1 map), all with tissue-guards. Atlas volume (66 x 47 cm.): 4 pp. (incl. htitle) and 10 double-page folded maps and 6 engraved plates (landfalls - profiles). A fine clean copy, wide-margined. 1 leaf a bit brownspotted, 2 leaves a bit frayed in right margin, 2 leaves slightly brownspotted, 2 leaves with loss of a bit of lower corner. Atlas clean and fine, some minor marginal brownspots.
12mo. (20), 455, (1) pp. With separate double-page-sized engraved title and 24 engraved plates (mostly views). - (Bound after) II: Grundmann, Martin. Geist- und Weltliche Geschichtschule, oder ergetzliche nutz- und lehrreiche Geschichte, Beyspiele und Begebnüsse von mancherley wunderbare[n] Verhengnüssen, Gerichten, Wolthaten und Straffen Gottes, als auch seltsamen Zufällen, Eigenschafften und denckwürdigen Tugend- und Lasterthaten der Menschenkinder. Auß bewährten, gelährter Leute Geschicht- Zeit- und Kunstbüchern zusammenbracht. Dresden, Andreas Löffler, 1655. (12), 405, (11) pp. With separate engraved title page and a numismatic plate opposite p. 185. Contemporary vellum. Early, rare German-language gazetteer of the Ottoman Empire, describing many cities and places throughout the Middle East, the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe, including 17th-century accounts of Aden, Mecca and Medina in Arabia. The bird's eye views and plates include Aden, Alexandria, Algiers, and Rhodes; Constantinople; Buda, Pest, Kanizsa, Eger, Esztergom, and Temesvar, as well as Muhammad's grave in Medina. Prefixed to the work is an index of sources from whom this compilation has been drawn (including several Muslim and oriental authors). - Bound first is the first edition of Grundmann's historical manual, with alphabetical articles about the lives or rulers and saints, rare and fantastic plants and beasts, exotic godheads, historical events, commendable traits of character, etc. The fine engraved title includes eight emblematic vignettes. - Old stamps to titles of Grundmann's work; altogether a finely preserved specimen. I: VD 17, 23:315597C. Dünnhaupt 11 (citing only 22 plates). Nebehay/Wagner 1051 (citing only 17 plates). Jöcher II, 704. Will I, 463. Not in Aboussouan, Atabey, Blackmer. - II: VD 17, 39:119939P.
Large 4to (193 × 287 mm). "Komon" patterns for cloth or paper designs. 13 ff. with 159 (but: 156) katazome-dyed paper pattern sheets numbered and captioned by hand. Japanese block stitching in indigo wrappers and ms. cover label. The inside front cover has a ms. note providing the name and address of the seller or manufacturer: "Minato Onochô itchôme - Nanbenya Jûzô". The borders of the specimen sheets are fashioned by re-using an older manuscript. - "Komon" is a Japanese pattern dye style based on especially minutely patterned all-over designs. The intricacy of this style originated in 16th century Japan, when it served to decorate the "kami-shimo", or official Samurai garments, and the clothes of the Shogun's family and of some Daimyos. Occasionally, these would even have privileged ("forbidden") designs (so-called "tomegara") which nobody else could wear. Until well into the 19th century, the production of and trade in such "komon" patterns was subject to a special monitoring system. Since the end of the 18th century the patterns were increasingly used by the urban population. Due to the extreme costliness of their manufacture, such garments were worn mainly on semi-official occasions, especially for private ceremonies and celebrations. The patterns, distinguished by their superior delicacy and minute detail, are produced with the help of wax paste and paper stencils ("kata-gami-zome" or "katazome"; cf. Klein-Bednay, Japanische Musterbücher des 18. und 19. Jhs., in: Von Morris bis Memphis, p. 359). - Compared with five similar pattern books in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated "ca. 1680" and "ca. 1700", the present specimen shows a wider range of basic colours, while some designs are slightly less intricate. In all other respects, however - such as the arrangement of the pages, the materials use, the size and the scope - show evident parallels, while the 19th century katazome pattern books or other 19th century textile design collections differ markedly. - Binding rubbed; lower wrapper and 3 leaves show slight worming near the gutter. Cf. Metropolitan Museum of Art - Digital Collections, Identifier nos. 23.88.5 through 23.88.8 and 23.88.10.
Oblong folio (420 x 312 mm). Contemporary half leather album of 56 large format photographs, ca. 27 x 20 cm. A photograph album containing views of Burma, including images of the staff and works of the Burmah Oil Company, the majority uncaptioned, though several are captioned in the negative and a couple are identified by hand. The Burmah Oil Company was formed in Scotland in 1886 and by the early 20th century owned the largest oil fields in the British Empire, producing 90% of Burma's oil output. - The first eight images show group portraits of staff, the following 48 are topographical or portrait photographs, including views of oil fields, Rangoon, the countryside, an oil blaze and elephants at work. - Album slightly worn; 5 additional large format and 2 small photos (group portraits, a brass band, oil fields enveloped in smoke) loosely inserted. Overall in good condition.
8vo. (16), 427, (1) pp. With each page in a frame of thick-thin rules, mitred at the corners, 4 woodcut headpieces (plus 1 repeat) including 1 with the Portuguese coat of arms, 1 woodcut tailpiece, woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine with red morocco label, rebacked. Second edition (after the 1718 Macao edition printed entirely from woodblocks) of a journal of the voyage of António de Albuquerque Coelho (ca. 1682-1745) from Goa in India to Macao on the coast of southern China. The journal was written by João Tavares de Velez Guerreiro, a captain in the Portuguese navy serving in India, who accompanied the governor on the voyage as his chief of staff. Coelho had been appointed governor of the city of Macao in 1717, and they arrived there in May 1718. They travelled via Madras, through the Malay peninsula and along the coasts of Indochina and China. Part 1 gives an account of the voyage itself and part 2 an account of their stay in Johor at the southern tip of the Malay peninsula, where they played a role in a Sumatran adventurer's coup d'état. The publisher Jaime (or Jayme) de la Te y Sagau, better known for his musical publications and his own musical compositions, dedicated the book to the Duke of Cadaval, ending the dedication with a sonnet. It mentions the first Duke, Nuno Álvares Pereira de Melo, but he appears to have died in 1725 or 1727, so it may be addressed to the third Duke Jaime (1684-1749). - Printed on thick paper. With a 1732 inscription on the title-page. The first few leaves are slightly tattered at the fore-edge, not approaching the text, and have been professionally restored, and there are some stains on the fore-edge. Boards show a few minor cuts and scrapes, but binding remains in good condition. A valuable eye-witness account of India, Southeast Asia and China in 1718. Howgego A47. Cordier, Sinica 3219. Löwendahl 377. PorBase (4 copies).
8vo. 2 parts in one volume. (28), 175, (1) pp. (12), 128 pp. Second part contains: [Joachim Bouvet], Icon regia monarchæ Sinarum nunc regnantis. Both parts with separate title pages and frontispieces (repeated portrait of the Emperor K'ang-hsi); additional engraved dedicatory frontispiece (royal monogram) at the beginning of the volume. Contemporary full vellum with faded ink title to spine. Second edition of Leibniz's collection of texts relating to the Jesuit mission to China, the recent treaty between China and Russia, and the remarkable flowering of scientific culture at Beijing under the Manchu emperor K'ang-hsi (d. 1721). In his preface, Leibniz writes: "I consider it a singular plan of the fates that human cultivation and refinement should today be concentrated, as it were, in the two extremes of our continent, in Europe and in Tschina (as they call it), which adorns the Orient as Europe does the opposite edge of the earth." Leibniz had become interested in China after a meeting with the Jesuit missionary Claudio Filippo Grimaldi, who had been appointed mathematician to the court of Beijing. Grimaldi and Leibniz corresponded, and a letter from Grimaldi, addressed from Goa, is reproduced in the work. Leibniz also includes an extract in Latin from Ferdinand Verbiest's "Astronomia Europea sub Imperatore Tartaro Sinico Cam Hy". Verbiest had been entirely responsible for the reintroduction of Western astronomy to China. First published in 1697, this second edition has an additional appreciation for the Emperor by the Jesuit Joachim Bouvet appended which is lacking in the Wolfenbüttel and Berlin copies. - Some minor spotting and browning throughout. Leibniz’s name supplied in neat ink manuscript after initials on title; early notations on front free endpaper; an underlining in red ink. The name of the author of the second part is written on the second title in an early hand. Provenance: G. M and J. H. Farrell (bookplate); Sydney Ross (bookplate); latterly in the library of Jean R. Perrette (bookplate). Extremely rare: no copy of the Lyons first edition has appeared on the market, and this second edition only once. VD 17, 39:123687S. BL (German books) L398. Cordier (Sinica) 835, 634. Streit V, 2779. De Backer/Sommervogel II, 56.
Folio (285 x 430 mm). Engraved half-title, (8) pp., letterpress title with engraved vignette, letterpress half-title, engraved dedication, 15, (1), 17-71, (1), 73-129, (1), 142 ff., (8) pp. With 5 double-page engraved maps, 185 half-page engraved views in the text, and 22 plates (full-page, double-page, and folding, and foliated as 1 or 2 leaves), as well as an engraved headpiece and armorial tailpiece. - (Bound with): L'érection de toutes les terres, seigneuries, & familles titrées du Brabant. Ibid., 1699. (8), 108 pp. With engraved vignette on title page, double-page map of Brabant (same as in first work), engraved dedication, and 7 engraved views in the text. Contemporary full vellum with remains of ties. Fourth, expanded edition of this monumental suite of views showing the chateaux, abbeys, and cities of the Belgian province of Brabant, all finely engraved by G. Bouttats, H. Cause, J. Harrewijn, J. Meyssens, L. Vorsterman, R. Whitehand, and others, after F. Bauduin, W. Hollar, J. van Croes and J. van Werden. Includes a general map of Brabant (from Janssonius/Waesbergen) and four detail maps of the various parts (Louvain, Bruxelles, Antwerp, and Bois-le-Duc). Descriptive text in Latin, French, and Dutch. Among the large-scale plates are a plan of Antwerp and a view of the cathedral, St. Michael's Monastery, Eelwijt Castle, etc. Includes, as common, the author's separately published "Érection du Brabant", extracts from the letters patent granting the establishment of the various nobles' seigneuries. - Some slight waterstaining and brownstaining to margins. Dedication and map of the Louvain area loose with some edge flaws; large tears to the folding views of the Groenendael Priory and of Tongerlo Abbey. Binding rubbed and stained. Most views clean and crisp, in good, well-defined impressions. In all a good copy of this much-sought collection of views. Brunet III, 1002. Bibl. Belgica III, 852/854 (L 108).
8vo. (12), 267, (3) pp. With engr. portrait. Modern half vellum, using an older Hebrew manuscript. First edition. - J. A. Schall (1591-1666), missionary and astronomer at the Imperial court at Beijing, was one of the principal Jesuit missionaries in China. He reformed the Chinese calendar and redesigned the Imperial observatory. The present work is his report of his 44-year activity in Asia, also a first-rate source for the history of the 17th-century Jesuit mission in the East. It was edited by J. Foresi after his death. - Old ownerships deleted from title page; some browning and occasional brownstaining. Streit V, 2323. Cordier 821. Lust 845. De Backer/Sommervogel VII, 707, 29, & III, 877, 3 (Foresi).
London, John Churchill, 1855. 8vo. In publisher's original full embossed cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Spine faded and top of spine chipped. Extremities slightly rubbed. Gilt stamp to front board and stamp to upper part of pasted down front end-paper. Small mark to p. 172, otherwise internally fine and clean. xxxviii, 3-224pp. + 2 charts (""Dr. Kings Conjectual chart 1848"" + ""The Admiralty Chart 1848"") and 3 plates (one of them in text).
Schleswig, Johan Holwein, 1658. Folio. Contemp. full vellum. Covers and spine fully intact but with some spots. and light wear along edges. It seems to be bound for a person with the initials W L E M (in gold letters on top of frontcover) and the year, 1658 (also in gold letters at bottom of frontcover). Engraved frontispiece (by G. Rothgiesser) and engraved portrait (Mandelslo). (32),248,(36) pp., 21 large textengravings by Rothgiesser and 1 double-page engraved map (ca 29 x 34 cm.) ""Delineatio Indiæ Orientalis"". Frontispiece a bit frayed in margins, no loss. Printed title-page a bit frayed at bottom, no loss. Last leaf with errata on verso frayed in margins, no loss of letters. Occassionally some browning to some quires in the first part.
Paris, Plassin, 1798. 8vo. and folio (44 x 30) cm. Textvolumes bound in 4 contemporary half calf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. Tome-label on volume one eroded. Stamp on title-pages. (4),LXVIII,368 (4),414 316,(120 = Tables) "(4),328 pp. A few scattered brownspots. Atlasvolume bound in matching hcalf. Spine gilt and rubbed. Lower compartment of spine with wear and tear. Engraved portrai of Pérouse as frontispiece. Engraved pictorial titlepage with cupids and naviogational instruments (dessinée par Moreau le Jeune) and 69 engraved maps, plans and plates of which 32 are large folded engraved maps. Mild foxing to some parts of some maps, occasionally mild dampstains to some plates, marginal browning and some spotting. One map with a repair to folding.
Large oblong folio (600 x 485 mm). IX leaves of text, 29 maps (4 multicoloured overview maps and 25 grey provincial maps, overprinted and with captions in red), 14 ff. of index of places (Pinyin typescript). Original printed grey waxed paper wrappers with cloth-reinforced spine edges, screw-bound. Rare CIA-produced atlas of the People's Republic a decade after the "loss of China", at the onset of the country's "Great Leap Forward". It was designed to provide U.S. analysts with "fuller information on Communist adminstrative units" and to aid their interpretation of data emanating from the PRC, of "its statistical reporting, and the complexity of the administrative structure". The names of counties, districts, and municipalities are listed in the margin of each provincial map in Chinese and English. As the editors write in their introduction, the "catastrophic overhaul now in progress requires that the atlas be provisional in content and economical in format". Curiously, the 25 provincial maps are larger-scale reproductions from a 1956 Communist Chinese school atlas, the pocket-size "Chung-kuo fen-sheng ti-t’u" ("Provincial Atlas of a China"), with additional Agency annotations, while the "maps give place names, hsien (county) seats, and some hydrography and roads. The accompanying marginal lists [...] are based on the '1957 Handbook of Administrative Subdivisions of the PRC' (Chung-hua jenmin kung-ho-kuo hsing-cheng ch’ü-hua chien-ts’e) which lists and indexes all administrative units at the hsien level and above as of 1 January 1957." - Maps, captions, and index are carefully coordinated by the editors, including tables of comparative keys to the Wade-Giles, Yale, and the then-new Pinyin romanization system as well as of the standard abbreviations of Chinese characters. A prefixed letter-sized typescript advises readers that the atlas is not intended foremost to convey topographical information, but rather "to aid research workers faced with problems of interpreting current information on Communist China in the light of its complex administrational structure", and requests recipients who find it "does not serve their needs" to return it ("because of the expense involved in the production of the atlas and the limited size of the edition") to the CIA's Record Center at the old CIA Headquarters in the E Street complex of Washington, DC. - A very light waterstain to the upper edge throughout; insignificant wrinkling, more pronounced in upper cover, which also shows light scuff marks and tiny loss to the lower right corner. A fine survival documenting the fraught U.S.-Chinese relations of another age. Phillips/Le Gear VI, 9622. OCLC 1709509.
Small folio (31.5 x 24.5 cm). 12 pp. Contemporary, vellum-backed, stiff marbled wrappers. Rare second edition, second state, of a journal of a voyage from Sumatra to Bengal, kept by Captain Robert Taylor on the ship Ceres, followed by additional comments from "a manuscript, which may be depended upon". Locations sighted include: Hog Island, the Cocos islands, Aceh, the Straits of Malacca, Barren Island and the Andaman Islands. - The journal was published by the eccentric Scottish geographer Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808), Captain Cook's leading rival. As hydrographer for the East India Company, Dalrymple would publish an annual series of memoirs and detailed ships' logs that he obtained in that function. He would compare historical sources gathered from extensive archival research with newly obtained data straight from the ships and his own careful observations. With these publications Dalrymple became the originator of official British hydrography and as such they give a unique impression of the (development of the) scientific background that laid behind the trade of the British Empire in the East. - The journal was first published in 1782 together with A brief statement of the prevailing winds from monsieur Après De Mannevillette. - A very good copy. A. S. Cook, Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808), (PhD diss., 1992), A120. ESTC T75520 (6 copies). For Dalrymple: A.S. Cook, "Dalrymple, Alexander (1737-1808)", in: ODNB online (2008); Howgego, to 1800, D4.
8vo. (4), II, IV, (1), V, 154, VI, (1) pp. (including small errata leaf). With two plans of troop formation mounted in the text, including one folding. The title-page is set within a decorative frame and part of the appendix is set in Arabic script. Modern half brown calf, with gold lettering o Very first edition, printed in Lahore in the Punjab region in 1858, of a controversial account by "a Punjab employé". This employee was Frederick Henry Cooper (1827-69), a British civil servant working with the British East India Company in the Punjab region. A very early publication on the Indian Mutiny of 1857, the present work was possibly published before, or in any case simultaneously with, the London edition of the same year. Both the Lahore and London editions are dedicated to Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence, a British military officer, surveyor, administrator and statesman in British India, who died during the Revolt of 1857. Only the Lahore edition was, according to the title-page, published "for the benefit of the 'Lawrence Asylum'", a military-style boarding school envisaged by Sir Henry Lawrence in the Indian subcontinent highlands for the sons and daughters of British soldiers. - The Revolt (also known as the Indian Rebellion, Sepoy Mutiny, or First War of Independence) was a major uprising in India against the rule of the British East India Company. The conflict took place from May 1857 until November 1858, during which time the British brutally inflicted on the Sepoys and local Indian civilians losses of more than 800,000 people. This eventually resulted in a British victory, the end of the East India Company's rule in India, and the transfer of rule to the British Crown. - A notorious participant in the Revolt, Cooper - together with James Neill, John Nicholson and William Hodson - was responsible for the killing of some 500 Sepoys and civilians. The present work was controversial even at the time of its publication, as it includes an entirely unapologetic and almost gleeful account of Cooper's ruthless actions. Regardless of the controversy surrounding Cooper and his work and its condemnation by an MP in the House of Commons in 1859, Cooper was appointed CB by Queen Victoria in the 1860 Birthday Honours while serving in the Bengal Civil Service. Taylor places the work in context: "Cooper was Deputy Commissioner of the Punjab, based at Amritsar and, although a civilian, was responsible for the 'extermination' of the disarmed 26th BNI at Ujnalla, in particularly inhumane and unpleasant circumstances, for which he was praised and supported by his superiors but roundly condemned by many in the House of Commons when news reached London. He wrote this book to vindicate his conduct which he considered ‘prompt, spirited, and thorough’". - The title-page is signed by the author "Fred Cooper C.B.". The margins contain pencil and ink annotations, most of which give translations of terms and occasional comments on the text itself, by someone who served with the 61st Brigade and has initialled some of his notes "K.C.". Corners of the boards very slightly scuffed; outer margin of pp. 25-28 cut slightly short without affecting the text; some occasional very slight spotting. Otherwise in very good condition. Ladendorf 244. Taylor, Companion to the Indian Mutiny of 1857 (OUP, 1996), 170.
Folio (325 x 530 mm). With 31 double-page engraved maps, including one world map, partly in original hand colour, and 36 engraved city views. 18th century half calf over marbled boards. A collection of maps from the famous Danckerts atlas, created around 1685 and compiled in this version in the late 18th century. The volume contains 28 maps by the Dutch engraver and publisher Justus Danckerts (1635-1701), including a world map showing the Eastern and Western hemispheres, maps of Europe, Asia, Africa and America, as well as maps of Spain, France, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Bohemia, Hungary, the Balkan Peninsula, Greece, and Poland. The views show various cities in Hungary and Greece, also including Constantinople. There are three maps not originating from Danckerts: a postal map of Germany published in Augsburg by Matthias Seutter; another showing the Holy Land, by Guillaume Sanson; and the third showing the Habsburg empire in 1781, which suggests the terminus post quem for the compilation of this volume. - Lacks a title-page. With 19th century bookplate of a member of the Lasser von Zollheim family, probably Johann Baptist (1822-89), librarian and later the abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Lambach in Upper Austria. A handwritten table of contents on the reverse of the first map; each map numbered by hand. On the back of the maps of France and Poland is a list of field marshals who served under Napoleon. Handwritten bibliographical notes to flyleaf. - Binding rubbed, spine-ends bumped. Paper variously brownstained and fingerstained. A few remarginings with slight loss of text. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel with his signed and stamped ownership, dated 1978, to pastedown. Tibbetts 141. Tooley I, 331. Cf. Philipps 540-541 (1703?), 3470 (1710). Cf. Tooley IV, 104 (Sanson, not mentioning this map), 150 (Seutter, not mentioning this map). Not in Al Ankary, Al-Qasimi, or Couto.