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180412866Wien, Doll, 1804. 4 Bll., 452 Seiten, 2 Bll. (Anzeigen). Halbleder d. Zt. mit Rückenvergoldung und Rückenschild (leicht berieben).
1895235381895. Good overall. Large albumen photograph depicting a Cingalese Ceylon family consisting of a grandfather father and young daughter all dressed in their finest. The young father holds a cloth parasol. The young daughter about 6 or 7 years old already is wearing fine gold ornaments including necklaces nose ring and earrings. <br /> <br /> "Colombo Apothecaries Company was established by J. Smith Finlay and W.M. Smith in Colombo Ceylon in 1883. From a small mercantile establishment the Company grew rapidly into a large general store selling most commodities. The name Colombo Apothecaries Company was established in 1892 and by this time already had a photographic department. As an expansion of this department the company acquired the negatives of Charles Scowen Company and moved their studio to Kandy where the climate was considered better for photographic work than Colombo. After the acquisition of the Scowen portfolio the Colombo Apothecaries Company produced a fine catalogue and started selling their photographs worldwide". Our thanks to Palinda de Silva for the above information.<br /> <br /> This is just such an intimate portrait with the grandfather at the right slightly blurred as if he moved during a long exposure.<br /> <br /> A good bright image some light creasing and a little chipped at edges otherwise good condition. Large photo 8 1/4 x 10 1/2" hardcover
181316682Paris, Vve Lepetit, 1813 2 volumes In-8° (12,3 x 19,4cm) Reliure d'époque demi-veau vert; dos lisses ornés de 7 bandes de 4 filets dorés, roulettes dorées en queues, titre et tomaisons dorés; papier de couvrure des plats marbré à dominante verte. 2 tomes par volume: Vol.[1]: 1 faux-titre, 1titre, XX + 410p. et 1 faux-titre, 1 titre, 449p. dont 1 tableau dépliant; Vol.[2]: 1 faux-titre, 1 titre, 456p. et 1 faux-titre, 1 titre, 452p. Reliures un peu frottées (très petites épidermures en coiffes et charnière du dessus du 1er volume); rousseurs.
1920267071920. Hardcover. Very good overall. An interesting photograph album of about 88 photographs compiled by an unknown British businessman who visits Hong Kong Colombo & wider Ceylon. He visits Hong Kong as a bachelor and here there are several amusing snapshots of men in kimonos some parading with parasols. Arriving in Ceylon the businessman seems to have been involved with either rubber or coconut plantations. He appears to marry in Ceylon. There are also 13 vernacular shots of Colombo buildings and people including a lovely Sri Lankan woman and a Chinese street seller. There is a charming image of a young coolie asleep on the bottom rung of his rickshaw. A group of 4 photos show a large white ship from various angles includes one of the captain looking at native boats alongside by photographer Karl Lewis possibly related to the Great White Fleet. Then a group of personal family portraits and one of the Forth Bridge in Scotland.<br /> <br /> Lewis was an interesting photographer of the last century. Born in Kentucky in 1865 he started as a dock worker and eventually took to the sea living all over the world. He settled in Yokohama in 1901 had a common law wife and ran small photographic printing business issuing brochures postcards and covers that were sometimes hand colored. In 1905 his catalog advertised "take any photograph sketch or draw produce 100 elegantly colored postcards for $1.75 including shipping." Over the years he found sailors and the American Navy a popular subject possibly because of sales. His postcards & photographs have become very collectible. See great white fleet website.<br /> <br /> Photograph sizes vary 3 ¾ x 4 ¾"; c x 2 ¾"; 6 x 4 ¼";3 ¼ x 4 ¼"; 4 x 5 ¾"; 6 3/8 x 4 ¾". Most images are vernacular some have numbers/letters in the image but no identified photographer other than the Lewis images mentioned above. <br /> <br /> Thick oblong photograph album 11 ¾ x 9 ½ x 2 ½". Green two-tone cloth covers with thick album board varying between brown gray and dark green backing the photographs. Boards a bit speckled corners rubbed and a bit marked but firmly bound. <br /> <br /> An interesting vernacular album of Sri Lanka and the course of this man's life. hardcover
181147011ABWeimar, Vlg. geogr. Institut. 1811. 11.Bd. 20 cm. 574 S., Halbldr., 4 gefalt. Kupferkarten stärker berieben + bestoss., 2 kl . Löcher am Rücken, innen braunfleckig, insgesamt solider Zust., 11
In 8, pp. XIX + (1b) + XXVI + (1) di errata + (1b) + 592. Vignetta inc. all'acq. al fr. Fr. stampato in nero e rosso. Cartonat. rustica coeva. Solo il primo volume di tre della prima edizione italiana di quest'opera francese pubblicata anonima ad Avignone nello stesso anno. Padre Norberto cappuccino di Lorena (il cui vero nome era Pierre Parisot) fu missionario apostolico e procuratore presso la corte di Roma. Nell'opera analizza in particolare i motivi della separazione dei missionari Cappuccini dai Gesuiti del Malabar trattando poi dei locali riti malabarici. I Gesuiti arrivati la' si scontratono con i Cappuccini che avevano gia' aperto missioni e iniziarono una serie di contese teologiche. I Gesuiti, ad esempio, lasciavano maggiore liberta' agli Indiani, mentre i Cappuccini si oppossero a questo permissivismo. Bell'esemplare.
2 volumi in 8, cm 13,5 x 20,5, pp. (4) + 6 + 316; (4) + 304 con 4 tavole fuori testo piu' volte ripiegate incise all'acquaforte cm 38 x 55. Mezza pelle coeva con tasselli al dorso. Edizione originale della traduzione francese contemporanea all'originale inglese. Descrizione dello stato dell'isola, delle colonizzazioni inglese, olandese e portoghese. Tra gli argomenti trattati: la pesca delle perle, le saline di Pountallom, porti dell'isola, Colombo, Galkiest, Pantoura, Caltoura, religione, usi degli olandesi, portoghesi e malaisiani che abitano l'isola. La seconda parte descrive poi la zona interna dell'isola denominata Regno di Candy, le isitituzioni civili e militari, gli animali e i vegetali, i minarali, le strade ecc. Percival fu un missionario anglicano che opero' in Bengala e a Ceylon, in particolare all'interno della minoranza Tamil nella cui lingua tradusse la Bibbia. Chadenat, 5438.
1ère édition de la traduction, par Pierre François HENRY (1759-1833), de "Voyages and travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt", publié en 1809 par le vicomte voyageur anglais George Annesley VALENTIA (Earl of Mountnorris, 1769-1844), relatant des voyages effectués en 1802-1806; préface du traducteur; glossaire; tableau généalogique du Pechouah. Exemplaire complet des 4 tomes reliés en 2 volumes, mais sans l'atlas du secrétaire et dessinateur de l'auteur Henry Salt annoncé. Français
19149682ABLeipzig, Baedeker, 1914 (Mai 1939). LXXIV, 358 S. Mit 22 Karten, 33 Plänen u. 8 Grundrissen. OLn., 9682A.jpg (etwas berieben, Rücken unter Verwendung des Orig.-Rückens fachgerecht erneuert).
191457476ABLeipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1914. kl8° (16x11), LXXIV, 358 S., mit 22 Karten, 33 Plänen und 8 Grundrissen, die große Übersichtskarte in Deckeltasche des hinteren Deckels (so komplett), roter Oln (Kaliko) mit goldTitel, marmorSchnitt, 2 Lesebändchen, nahezu ungenutzt, schönes gepflegtes Exemplar,
180420098Wien, Anton Doll, 1804. (4), 452, (4) SS. Mit einer mehrf. gefalt. gest. Karte und 2 gest. Tafeln. Marmorierter Halblederband der Zeit mit goldgepr. blauem Rückenschildchen und dekorativer Rückenvergoldung. Buntpapiervorsätze. 8vo.
2d600345 beidseitig beschriebene Blätter. wohl späteres 18. Jahrhundert. Geschnitzte Holzdeckel mit Kordelbindung 205 cm x 5 cm 5 Blatt mit Randausbruch. - es handelt sich bei diesen Aufzeichnungen um Eingeborenen-Medizin oder einer Sammlung von Ayurvedischen Behandlungsmethoden/seltenes Original - unknown
1803PHO-1636Paris, Dentu, an XI (1803). 2 volumes in-8 (191 x 124 mm). 4 cartes et plans repliés hors texte : une carte de l'île de Ceylan par Arrowsmith et de la pêche des perles et les plans des ports de Trinquemale et Colombo, basane mouchetée de l'époque, dos lisses ornés avec pièces de titre et tomaison, dentelles dorées sur les plats, frottements et vieille épidermure au tome 2.
1914115713ABJena:, Diederichs;, 1914. 43,5 cm. 252 S., 1 Bl., 98 Sp., 3 Bll. OHLn. - OHLn-Mappe mit lila-farbenen Schließbändchen aus Leinen. - Papierrand unbeschnitten. [3 Warenabbildungen] Mappe etw. berieben bzw. kratzspurig. Rücken der Mappe und des Buches etw. stockfleckig. Oberste Fadenheftung bei manchen Bögen gelöst. Dennoch schönes, festes und sauberes Exemplar auf kräftigem Bütten. Exlibris der bibliophilen Büchersammlerin "Lucy Spi
Sm. 8vo., Tenth Edition, on India Paper, with 38 folding coloured maps, 11 full-page maps and plans (a number coloured), numerous illustrations, plans and tables (several full-page) in the text, and a very large folding coloured map mounted on cloth in pocket at rear, some mild offsetting to blank preliminaries, endpapers very lightly age-soiled; handsomely bound in full crushed red morocco BY HATCHARDS, upper board lettered in gilt, back with five shaped raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, wide gilt doublures elaborately tooled in gilt with a floral border enclosing multiple frames, laid paper endpapers, red, yellow and green silk head- and tail-bands, red buckram pocket, a splendid and ornate copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. THE BINDING IS SIGNED ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. IT WAS COMMISSIONED BY GUY WESTMACOTT WHOSE NAME IS LETTERED IN GILT ON FRONT BOARD (this could well be Guy Randolph Westmacott of the Grenadier Guards). A SPLENDID AND UNIQUE COPY OF THE ONE OF THE BEST EDITIONS OF THE FINEST TRAVELLER'S GUIDE TO INDIA AND SURROUNDING REGION. VERY SCARCE IN ANY CONDITION.
174521089Erfurt, Jungnicol, 1740 - 1745. 4 Bll, 280 S., 123 S. 8°. Mod. Pp. [4 Warenabbildungen]
1706PHO-1901Amsterdam, Jacques Desbordes, 1706. 3 volumes in-12° (sur 3), 10ff-405pp-3pp (catalogue); 2ff-402pp-14ff( table) ; 4ff.-388pp.-10ff., illustré de 3 frontispices, 1 portrait et 30 (32) cartes et planches dépliantes dont une belle carte (25x36cm), manque la page de titre tome 1. Relié plein veau époque, dos à nerfs ornés avec pièce de titre et tomaison, tranches rouges, charnières frottées, début de fente (tome 1), coiffes usées, petit manque de cuir au dos, mouillure au tome 3, traces de restauration, manque la grande carte mais la carte de Ceylan est bien présente.
1780ABC_45700Batavia = Amsterdam 1780. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. 8vo. With a decoration on the title page headpiece and factotum all built up from rococo typographic ornaments. First edition of an economic survey of the VOC Dutch East India Company trading posts and possessions in Asia. As might be expected it centres on Indonesia but also discusses the activities of the Dutch in other places at length: Ceylon "one of the main possessions"; Coromandel where the Dutch brought all goods from the smaller trading posts to their outpost and regional capital Nagapattinam a woman governed the region!; Malabar exporting no less than 2 million pounds of pepper cardamom and other spices yearly; Surat "a complete disorder".The book provides detailed information about the social-political structures of these trading posts the valuable goods and materials that the country produces and the way the Dutch operate with the local population. The author is very critical of the abuses in the Dutch East Indies an observation that was ahead of his time.A French translation État présent des Indes Hollandaises contenant une peinture varie et fidelle du gouvernement appeared most likely in the same year. Landwehr suggests that the two were published simultaneously and may have been printed in Amsterdam.With a manuscript list of readers from a Haarlem reading society beginning on 28 March 1780 on the back of the front wrapper supporting the date ca. 1780 in the literature. The list includes the names of prominent Haarlemmers: Joh. Enschede 2x A. Hugaart Heems Pieter Klaarenbeek and others. Wrappers and leaves slightly frayed the title page slightly soiled. Otherwise in good condition.l Cat. NHSM I 506; Landwehr VOC 1596; Rouffaer p. 62. unknown
1870ABC_501171870. Oblong album ca. 31.5 x 35.5 cm. Near-contemporary half red velvet spine rubbed/faded beige and multi-colour floral cloth sides decorated with brown woven ribbon trims the velvet and cloth cover greenish-blue pebble-grained cloth boards blue marbled endpapers the pastedowns covered with red silk. With 125 black-and-white photographic prints mounted on cardboard accompanied by numerous handwritten annotations in French on the album pages. 45 ll. A substantial and historically important late 19th-century photograph album comprising 125 photos documenting British India and Ceylon present-day Sri Lanka. Of the total 100 photographs depict India and 25 Ceylon. The album offers a wide-ranging visual survey of architecture urban life religious monuments landscapes botanical subjects and scenes of daily activity during the high colonial period. 21 photographs within the album are identified to named photographers or studios. 7 prints bear the imprint of Charles Thomas Scowen 1852-1948 of Scowen & Co. Kandy and Colombo with a further 3 issued from Scowen negatives by the Colombo Apothecaries Company after that firm acquired Scowens stock in the early 1890s. Scowen was one of the most accomplished photographers active in 19th-century Ceylon establishing his studio in Kandy by 1876 and later opening in Colombo. His work produced primarily for the tourist and commercial market is distinguished by technical refinement clarity of detail and strong compositional qualities and is today represented in major institutional collections including the Getty Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The album also contains 1 identified photograph by Bourne & Shepherd the pre-eminent photographic firm of 19th-century India renowned for its architectural and landscape views and for its official role at imperial events such as the Delhi Durbar. 2 photographs are attributed to Lala Deen Dayal 1844-1905 the most celebrated Indian photographer of his generation court photographer to the Nizam of Hyderabad and recipient of a Royal Warrant from Queen Victoria his work is widely regarded for both artistic merit and documentary importance. Further identified material includes one photograph by the Bombay studio of Edward Taurines 5 architectural views attributed to Charles Lickfold 1846-1909 in Ahmedabad one view of the Ellora caves attributed to John Johnston and one Ceylon photograph by the German Alfred William Amandus Plâté 1859-1931.The Indian and Pakistani section includes extensive architectural and topographical views from Lahore Amritsar Peshawar Jaipur Amber Ahmedabad Baroda Vadodara Aurangabad since 2023 Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Ellora Caves Bijapur Hyderabad Golconda Pondicherry now Puducherry Trichinopoly now Tiruchirappalli and Madurai. Among the Lahore subjects are views of the Wazir Khan Mosque the Badshahi Mosque the Shalimar Gardens and the tomb of Jahangir Amritsar is represented by the Golden Temple Jaipur and Amber by palace complexes zenana quarters gateways and lakeside views Ahmedabad by the Jami Masjid Sidi Saiyyed Mosque Rani Sipri Mosque and Jain temples; while the Deccan is illustrated through monuments at Aurangabad Daulatabad Fort Bijapurs Gol Gumbaz and Ibrahim Rauza and Hyderabad and Golconda fortifications.The Ceylon section presents Colombo harbour and jetty views Kandy and its lake Peradeniya Botanical Gardens Nuwara Eliya tea cultivation scenes indigenous fishing craft and a number of carefully composed botanical studies including breadfruit talipot palms bamboo ferns and ficus. The album ends with a panoramic view of Aden Yemen then an important British coaling station and strategic port at the entrance to the Red Sea.The binding shows some wear with the fabric around the boards and on the pastedowns slightly loosened. Some of the unidentified photographs display mild sepia tonal fading consistent with age. The final unidentified photograph in the India section exhibits some surface loss the album shows some foxing browning and occasional staining to the card mounts not affecting the photographs. Otherwise in good condition.l Cf. Edwards "Photography in colonial India" Emire and Art: British India 2017 pp. 110-143; Paranavitana"Image in Photographic Print in the Context of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Sri Lanka." 2009; Shinde "Photography in India" Studii si cercetari de istoria artei Seria Arta plastica 10.54 2020 pp. 107-118. hardcover
