[LLOBRESSOLS, BENITO]:

Memoria circa certi riti Tunchinesi sostenuti da' Pp. Agostiniani e da Alcuni altri missionarj presentata da' Pp. Domenicani Spagnuoli della provincia delle Filippine alla Sacra Congregazione di Propaganda Fide. [Rome] 1757.

. Small 4to. Pp. 22. Green boards (19th century), cloth spine. With early ecclesiastical stamp on title and remains of old shelf label on upper cover. Some light foxing. First edition. Rare Spanish Dominican report on Confucian funeral customs in Tonkin, and about the Jesuits tolerance of these rites. Only one library copy found (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana).Vietnam, along with Korea and Japan, has been heavily influenced by China concerning its Confucian culture of certain funerary rites, especially in the cult of ancestors. The Chinese Rites Controversy and the Roman position regarding ancestor worship affected Vietnamese Catholicism as well, profoundly and extensively, even until today. The Dominicans and the Augustinians in contrast to the Jesuits refused any adaptation to local customs and were horrified by the practices of the Jesuits. Benito Llobresols was born in Gerona and served as Apostolic missionary in Tonkin between 1754 -1762.

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Book number: 100423

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, tonkin, vietnam, vietnamese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, missionary, jesuit, chinese rites controversy, chinese rites, ancestor veneration, ancestor worship

[FRENCH FASHION].

La Mode Illustrée Journal de la Famille. Cinquième année de la publication. Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1864.

. Folio.Pp. iv, 416. With numerous woodcut illustrations throughout the text depicting clothes, accessories, hairstyles, patterns, etc. Without any coloured plates. Contemporary quarter cloth on marbled boards, lightly rubbed. The journal was first published in 1859 and became one of the most important French magazines at the later half of the 19th century. Distributed on a weekly basis, each issue featured a description of women's fashion and hair styles of the day, accompanied by numerous illustrations as well as inserted hand-coloured prints.

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Book number: 120696

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Fashion, design, fashion, mode, journal, style, illustration, illustrated, french, france, magazine, women, woman,

[FRENCH FASHION].

La Mode Illustrée Journal de la Famille. Sixième année de la publication. Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1865.

. Folio.Pp. iv, 416. With fourteen beautiful hand-coloured fashion plates (all?) and numerous woodcut illustrations throughout the text depicting clothes, accessories, hairstyles, patterns, etc. Contemporary quarter cloth on marbled boards, lightly rubbed. The journal was first published in 1859 and became one of the most important French magazines at the later half of the 19th century. Distributed on a weekly basis, each issue featured a description of women's fashion and hair styles of the day, accompanied by numerous illustrations as well as inserted hand-coloured prints. 

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Book number: 120698

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Fashion, design, fashion, mode, journal, style, illustration, illustrated, french, france, magazine, women, woman,

[EHRENBORG, ANNA FREDRIKA]:

Några brev från England 1852-1853. Upsala, Wahlström & Co., 1854.

. 12mo. Pp. 339. With wood engraved vignette on title. Contemporary half cloth on marbled boards,flat spine gilt. Old ownership signature. Bookplates. No endpapers. One quire loose. First edition. Contains letters written by Ehrenborg during her stay in London. Discusses i.a. Swedenborg's theology and spirituality, and other religious movements in England at the time. Some browning.

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Book number: 99166

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, england, english, travel, exploration, euorpe, european,

[HINDUSTANI].

The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, in the Hindustani language. Translated from the Greek, by the Calcutta Baptist missionaries with native assistants. Calcutta, The Baptist Mission Press, 1844.

. Pp. (vi), 720. Text in Hindustani or Urdu written in Perso-Arabic script. Including title in English. Contemporary panelled calf, flat spine ruled in gilt and with title lables, somewhat rubbed, corners worn, small repair to front cover. Stamp on title. Reprint of the 1839 edition translated by William Yates. Darlow & Moule 5299.

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Book number: 42023

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, pakistan, hindustan, hindustani, urdu, language, langue, linguistic, bible, biblia, asia , asie, asien, asiatic

[MAP: NEW SOUTH WALES - AUSTRALIA].

New South Wales. Map, Illustrations, and Decorative text. Sydney, Thomas Richards, 1884.

. A large tinted folding map titled: Principal towns and districts in New South Wales possessing railway communication with Sydney. Size: 88 x 62 cm. With accompanying text with illustrations on verso. One tear at fold and another tiny tear also at fold (without any loss). Some minor browning. Kept in 4to size original pictorial brown cloth stamped in black and gold. Two maps printed on paste downs. An excellent copy. Not in Ferguson.

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Book number: 99281

Catalogue: Oceania incl. Pacific

Keywords: Oceania incl. Pacific, australia, australiana, oceania, sydney, north south wales, map, maps, exploration, travel, voyage

[BECKER, JOSEPH ERNEST DE]:

The Nightless City, or the "History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku". Shanghai, Yokohama, Bremen: Max Nössler & London, Probstain, [1905-6].

. Large 8vo. Pp. xvi, 386, (1). With two folding maps of old and new Yoshiwara, 19 colour plates and 25 black and white fullpage plates. Numerous illustrations throughout the text. Publisher's pictorial blue cloth, stamped in gilt and black, spine faded. Fourth revised edition of this informative work about the Yoshiwara district of Tokyo. Not in Cordier. Nipponalia 1067. Wenckstern ii, 341.

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Book number: 100754

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, geisha, travel, exploration, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, far east, geisha,

[BECKER, JOSEPH ERNEST DE]:

The Nightless City, or the "History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku", by an English Student of Sociology. Yokohama, Z.P. Maruya & Co. Ltd., 1899.

. Pp. (vi), iv, (2), 441, (3), xix, (3). With twenty plates including nine coloured, of which seven folding beautiful chromolithographs, and many textual illustrations. Publisher's pictorial red cloth, tooled in black and gilt, spine slightly faded, recased. Bookplate. Occasionally some light staining. First edition of this informative work about the Yoshiwara ("pleasure") district of Edo (Tokyo). The author was an English lawyer who came to Japan in 1887. He assumed Japanese nationality and after a few years set up legal practices in Yokohama and Kobe. This controversial and comprehensive work describes the Yoshiwara district of Tokyo and its organisation, manners, ceremonies as well as its medical aspects and legal constraints. Not in Cordier. Nipponalia (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies) 1067. Wenckstern ii, 341.

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Book number: 35111

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, geisha, travel, exploration, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, far east, geisha,

[NIKKO GUIDE BOOK - JAPAN].

Nikko-san Manganji Otakaramono Zukai (Illustrated book of the Treasures of Manganji Temple in Mount Nikko). Tokyo, Inoue Mohei, Meiji 29 (1896).

. Size: 12.7 x 18.5 cm. Lvs. 64 folded in the Japanese fashion. Richly illustrated throughout by Oshima Keizaburo. Captions in Japanese and English. Original yellow wrappers, title label on upper cover, resewn, stained. Red Asian stamps. Occasionally some light staining. A fascinating informative guide of Nikko, a small city in Tochigi Prefecture situated in the mountains north of Tokyo. It is devoted to the history of Nikko, its Buddhist temples and the famous Shinto shrine Toshugu (Manganji Temple) established in 1617 as a memorial of Togugawa Ieyasu. It was later renamed Rinnoji temple. Includes many woodcut illustrations of Buddhist paintings, interiors such as offering jars, masks and clothing, musical instruments, furnitures, dining utensils, incense burners, offering bowls, screens, pots, lanterns, etc.

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Book number: 120508

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, guide,

[FERREIRA, MANUEL]:

Noticias summarias das perseguicoes da missam de Cochinchina, principiada, & continuada pelos Padres da Companhia de Jesu: offerecidas pelos mesmos missionarios a el rey nosso senhor Dom Pedro II. Lisboa, Miguel de Manescal, Impressor do Santo Officio, 1700.

. Folio. Pp. (xii), 460, (2). Pagination irregular but the text is complete. Partly some browning to the text. Old inscription on title page and old annotations on front endpaper. Contemporary calf, spine decorated in gilt with five raised bands and title label (with loss), worn. First edition of an important account of the Portuguese mission in Cochinchina and Tonkin, today's Vietnam.The Jesuit mission in Vietnam began in 1615 and was active until Pope Clement's suppression in 1733. Manuel Ferreira (1639-99) was a Portuguese Jesuit who served for many years in Vietnam in the late 17th century, several of which were spent in prison. Ferreira baptized more than 20,000 people at the mission in Tonkin (according to Barbosa Machado). This work begins with a description of Tonkin including information about the people, their history and customs, geography, flora and fauna etc. It's followed by information about the establishment of the Jesuit mission in Cochinchina in 1627; the difficulties, imprisonment and persecution of the missionaries, etc. Barbosa Machado iii, 265. Brebion 242. Cordier BI 1924. De Backer-Sommervogel ii, 1258. Innocêncio v, 423. Palau 194164. Streit vi, 1460.

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Book number: 26099

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, cochinchina, cochinchine, tonkin, annam, vietnam, annamese, annam, vietnamese, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, travel, exploration, travels, voyage,

[SOLANO, MANUEL ALVARES DO]:

Nova relacao de hum grande terremoto, que no dia 9 do mez de dezembro do anno de 1752 succedeo na Cidade de Tunes, capital do reyno de Argel: calamidades, que experimentao aquelles Barbaros na prezente secca; noticia de algumas expiaçoes ridiculas, que tem feito par a applacar o seu falso Profeta, copiado de huma carta escreveo hum Marinheiro cativo naquella Cidade, natural da Ericeira. Lisboa, Officina Alvarense, 1753.

. Small 4to. Pp. (8). Text browned. Old wrappers, spine chipped. A small rare work devoted to the earth quake in Tunis on December 1752.

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Book number: 100500

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, afrique, afrika, africana, travel, exploration, earthquake

[ARMENIAN BIBLE].

The Old and New Testament. Constantinople 1915.

. Folio. Size: 21 x 28,7 cm. Pp. (iv), 875; (ii), 273 + content (1) + pp. 9 index. Text in Turkish with Armenian script. Contemporary black cloth. Old ownership signature in ink on front endpaper.

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Book number: 100901

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, turkey, turkish, turque, armenian, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, religion, bible, religious,

[ORIENTAL TALES].

Oriental Fairy Tales, or Fancy's Wanderings in the East. London 1854.

. Pp. (iv), 338. With 32 illustrations (8 full page) by William Harvey, engraved by the brothers Dalziel. Publisher's blindstamped cloth cloth, spine decorated in gilt, faded and with some wear.

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Book number: 100408

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, oriental, fairy, tales, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration,

[PERFUME TRADE CATALOGUE].

Parfums Bienaimé. Paris, Draeger, 1947.

. 4to (30.4 x 24.3 cm). Pp. (30) and twenty exclusive colour illustrations printed on glossy paper, with gold highlights. Original cream coloured card covers, lettered in gilt. A few small creases to the cover.Extravagant trade catalogue promoting exclusive perfume brands with exquisite pictures. Robert Bienaimé was a French perfumer who is known for his work at Houbigant Parfum where he created several well-known fragrances for the company. In 1935 he established his own business Parfums Bienaimé in Paris. A superb copy of a rare work.

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Book number: 121237

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Fashion, perfume, parfym, french, france, bienaimé, design, fashion,

[JAPAN: TWO SALES CATALOGUES FOR SAFES].

Patent Fire & Barglar - Resisting Safes Catalogue Manufactured by Z. Takenouchi. (Tokyo) Meiji 24 (1891).

. Size: 15 x 22 cm. Pp. (20). With many illustrations of varies safes and of the production factory. Original printed wrappers. AND: Patent Fire-Proof Iron Safes. With Patent Lock. Manufactured and Improved by R.K. Kunisuye, Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo Meiji 27 (1894). Size: 18,5 x 25,5 cm. Pp. (32). With several illustrations of different safes. Original printed wrappers.

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Book number: 100455

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, Japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, safe, safes, commerce, commercial