[DE LAET, JOANNES] (EDITOR):

De Imperio Magni Mogolis, sive, India vera commentarius e variis auctoribus congestus. Lugd. Bat., Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1631.

16mo. Pp. (xii), 299, index (16). Including an engraved title by Duysend and one woodcut in the text. Contemporary vellum. Copy of Ericsberg. First edition, second issue. Joannes De Laet (1593-1649), a Flemish naturalist and geographer, was Director of the Dutch West Indies Company. This work was compiled from various sources including previously unpublished material in the VOC archives. It is a valuable description of India, especially interesting for the northwestern parts, and it is probably the first attempt to provide a systematic account of the Mughal Empire for Western readers. Berghman 1918. Willems 354.

-- Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books

Book number: 99691

Catalogue: India

Keywords: India, india, indian, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration

[LAET, JOANNES DE] (EDITOR):

De Imperio Magni Mogolis, sive, India vera commentarius e variis auctoribus congestus. Lugd. Bat., Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1631.

16mo. Pp. (viii), 285, index (16). Including an engraved title by Duysend and one woodcut in the text. Contemporary vellum, title label (later) on spine. Bookplate. First issue of the first edition. A second issue appeared in the same year which seems more common. Joannes De Laet (1593-1649), a Flemish naturalist and geographer, was Director of the Dutch West Indies Company. This work was compiled from various sources including previously unpublished material in the VOC archives. It is a valuable description of India, especially interesting for the northwestern parts, and it is probably the first attempt to provide a systematic account of the Mughal Empire for Western readers. Berghman 1918. Willems 354.

-- Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books

Book number: 35030

Catalogue: India

Keywords: India, india, indian, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration

JOANNES DE LAET; PIETER VAN DEN BROECKE; HOYLAND, J. S. (TRANSLATED BY); BANERJEE, S. N. (ANNOTATED BY)

The Empire of the Great Mogol: A Translation of de Laet's "Description of India and Fragment of Indian History"

Bombay, D.B. Taraporevala Sons & Co. 1928, First Printing. Brown Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, textblock slightly shaken, otherwise clean and tight. binding moderately shelf worn, bumped at the corners and spine extremities; boards lightly surface soiled in spots; 252p. including index; translated from De Laet's Latin by John S. Hyland of Hilsop College, Nagpur. The Flemish geographer, philologist and naturalist Joannes De Laet regarded this, "De Imperio Magni Mogolis.." (1631) as his most important and valuable work, and in the introduction it is called "a monument of painstaking industry." Included as the second part of this small volume, is Broecke's "Fragmentum" a consecutive history of the reigns of Akbar and Jahangir. Good.

-- Clausen Books

Book number: SJ8880

Catalogue: Asian/Indian/Eurasian Studies

Keywords: Great Mogol Empire History, Indian history, Indian Ruling class, Eurasia, Indian Subcontinent

LAET, JOANNES DE

IAERLYCK VERHAEL VAN DE VERRICHTINGHEN DER GEOCTROYEERDE WEST-INDISCHE COMPAGNIE IN DERTHIEN BOECKEN.

's-Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1931. 2e.,Condition: Good,Halflinnen, 4 delen (1931-7), (XXIX) 186p. (XV) 215p. (XIII) 234p. (LXXXVI) 330p. onafgesneden, herdruk verzorgd door S.P. L'Honoré Naber. Elk deel bevat een portret, meerdere platen en (uitvouw)kaarten, en een register. Deel 4 bevat een losse kaart van Mauritsstad en Recife. Banden deels iets vlekkerig, maar mooie serie.

-- Antiquariaat Hagendoorn

Book number: 000125

Catalogue: Geschiedenis; history

Keywords: West-Indische Companie, Zeereizen;

DE LAET, JOANNES:

Persia seu regni Persici status. Lugd. Bat., ex officina Elzeviriana, 1633.

16mo. Pp. 374 pp + index (8). Including engraved title and 8 woodcut costume plates. Contemporary boards, calf spine with title label, rubbed. Copy of Ericsberg. First edition. "Cet ouvrage, dit Boucher de la Richarderie, est plus recherché pour les relations que J. de Laet a jointes à sa description de la Perse, que pour sa description même, qui est très-superficielle." (Schwab 330). De La Faye p. 24. Willems 386.

-- Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books

Book number: 99693

Catalogue: Persia

Keywords: Persia, persia, persian, perse, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration

SMITH, SIR THOMAS. LAET, JOANNES DE.

De Republica et Administratione Anglorum Libri Tres.

Smith, Sir Thomas [1513-1577]. Budden, John [1566-1620], Translator. De Republica et Administratione Anglorum Libri Tres. London [i.e. Marburg]: [Paul Egenolff] Pro Officina Nortoniana, [c. 1610]. 165, [3] pp. Octavo (5-3/4" x 3-3/4"). Contemporary limp vellum, early hand-lettered title to spine. Some soiling to covers, darkening to spine, pastedowns loose. "F. Pollock/ Linc: Inn" to verso of front cover. Woodcut head and tail-pieces. Light toning, internally clean. $850. * First edition (of this translation). De Republica Anglorum; the Manner of Government or Policie of the Realme of England was written between 1562 and 1565 and first published in 1583. "It is the most important description of the constitution and government of England written in the Tudor age" (DNB). It went through eleven editions in English between 1584 to 1691. Four Latin editions appeared between 1610 and 1641. Abridged editions in Dutch and German were published in 1673 and 1688. Smith, an English scholar and diplomat, was Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge University. Sir Frederick Pollock [1845-1937] was one of the greatest British judges and legal scholars of his day. His treatises on contracts, jurisprudence the common law and other subjects did much to clarify and systematize English law. Several of these were standard texts that went through several editions. He is also remembered for his collaboration with F.W. Maitland on The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I and his correspondence with Oliver Wendell Holmes, which was published posthumously as The Holmes-Pollock Letters. Dictionary of National Biography XVIII:535. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:107 (103, 104).

-- Lawbook Exchange

Book number: 55574

Keywords: GREAT BRITAIN POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT CONSTITUTIONAL POLLOCK