ANQUETIL-DUPERRON, ABRAHAM HYACINTHE:

Législation Orientale, ouvrage dans lequel, en montrant quels sont en Turquie, en Perse, et dans l'Indoustan les principles fondamentaux du gouvernement, on prouve, .... Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1778.

. 4to. Pp. (xvi), vi, 312, (38) table. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with five raised bands and red title label, extremities worn, spine ends chipped. Small marginal hole to half title and some very light staining to lower right corner of first thirteen leaves. First edition. Devoted to Muslim law, politics and government in Turkey, Persia and India. The author argues that Montesqieu's view of oriental despotism was wrong. Anquetil-Duperron, French scholar and linguist who travelled to India to search for ancient Zoroastrian texts. He acquired and translated almost 200 such manuscripts.

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Book number: 121382

Catalogue: Central Asia

Keywords: Central Asia, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, turkish, turkey, persia, persian, india, inde, indian, oriental, exploration, legislation, islam,

ANSON, GEORGE:

Resa rundt omkring jorden aaren 1740, 41, 42, 43, 44, daa han, saasom chef oefwer en engelsk oerlogs-escadre, war afsaend til Soederhafwet ... Stockholm, L. Grefing, 1761.

. Pp. (xvi), 516, 20. Without endpapers. Contemporary wrappers, slightly worn. A Swedish abridgment. Original published in London 1748. Cf Borba Moraes I, 38.

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Book number: 15078

Catalogue: Travel general

Keywords: Travel general, exploration, travels, voyages, navy, naval, military, pacific, explore, , pacifica, england, travel, viajes, viaggio, reisen, pazifik

ARAI, YOSHIMUNE (Artist) & FLORENZ, KARL (Transl.):

Scènes du théátre japonais. Hiragami-bon. L'école de village (Terakoya). Drame historique en un acte. Tokyo, T. Hasegawa, éditeur, 1900.

. Large 8vo. Pp. (iv), vi, 32, 9. Richly illustrated with coloured woodcuts. Leaves double folded in the oriental fashion. Original decorated boards, chipped along edges. Internally fine. First edition published in connection with the Universal Exposition of 1900 at Paris. The first part presents the famous play Terakoya (temple school) comprising 13 different scenes accompanied with lovely colour illustrations. The second part is devoted to Japanese theater settings, stage, musicians and their instruments, stagehands, etc.

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Book number: 120157

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, theater, theatre, teater, illustrated,

ARDENNE DE TIZAC, JEAN HENRI D':

Les étoffes de la Chine. Tissus & Broderies. Paris, Librairie des Arts Décoratifs, ca 1915.

. Folio. Size: 39 x 29 cm. Pp. xii + 52 photogravure plates on heavy paper, sixteen with hand coloured details. The illustrations have French captions with the collector's name. Text and plates loose as issued in the original folder of illustrated yellow boards, cloth spine, cotton ties. A portfolio with rare and treasured ancient Chinese silk and velvet fabrics from the most prominent private French collections. Comprises images of embroidered clothes and garments. Scarce, especially in the original stunning boards.

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Book number: 100671

Catalogue: Textile

Keywords: Textile, china, chine, kina, chinese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, textile, design,

ARDENT DU PICQ, CHARLES GÉNÉRAL:

Histoire d'une citadelle annamite Bac-Ninh. Hanoi 1935.

. Pp. 176. With 19 plates made from photographs, 7 maps or plans (of which 6 large folding) and many woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary calf, rubbed. Original printed wrappers bound in. First edition of a comprehensive historical study of the province of Bac-Ninh, a province in the North of Vietnam. Includes a bibliography.

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Book number: 18012

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, far east, east india, indochina, indochine, indo-china, indo-chine, southeast asia, southeast asia, vietnam, annam

ARRHENIUS, LARS (Preses) / ULNERUS, ISRAEL (Resp.):

Dissertatio historico politica de origine et statu hoderino Turcarum, ... Upsala, Werner, 1723.

. Small 8vo. Pp. (viii), 84, (4). Disbound. Copy of Ericsberg. A dissertation dealing with the language, politics, government, education and military matters.

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Book number: 99784

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, turkey, turkish, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration,

THE ART SERVICE DEPARTMENT, UNION OF CHINESE ARTISTS (Compiler):

[CHINESE PAPER-CUTS]. Paper-cuts of Shantung Province. Peking 1956.

. With 20 mounted hand-coloured red paper-cuts (22.7 x 15.8 cm). Together with a 3-page description text printed in Chinese, English, French and German, and a 5-page booklet on Chinese paper-cuts in general. (Complete). Housed in original decorated paper folders with ivory clasps. Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art in China, each region having its own characteristic style. This set comprises two different styles of Shantung paper-cuts.

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Book number: 120683

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, paper-cuts, china, chinese, chine, kina, asia asie, asien, asiatic, illustrated, theatre, birds, flowers, art, artistic,

ARTAMOF, PIERRE [pseud. of Vladimir de La Fite de Pelleporc] & ARMENGAUD, JEAN GERMAIN DÉSIRÉ:

La Russie, historique, monumentale et pittoresque. Two volumes. Paris, Ch. Lahure et Co., 1862.

. Folio. Pp. 392, (12); 376, (12). With numerous illustrations and some maps throughout the text. Original half morocco on embossed cloth boards, spines richly gilt, g.e., lightly rubbed. Copy of Ericsberg. First edition of this monumental work on Russia.

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Book number: 99711

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, russia, russian, travel, exploration, russie,

AUBARET, LOUIS GABRIEL G. (Transl.):

Hoang-viêt-luát-le. Code annamite. Lois et règlements du royaume d'Annam traduits du texte chinois original. Two volumes in one. Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1865.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. (iv), xvi 394; (iv), 309. Text in French. Modern half calf on marbled paper boards, title printed in gilt on spine. Original printed wrappers bound in. Front cover to volume one and 7 more leaves with traces of deleted tape. First edition. Published by order of M. de Chasseloup-Laubat, Ministre de la Marine des Colonies. Aubaret (1825-94) commanded the French vessel Prégent on the expedition to Cochinchina in 1860. Cordier BI 1847.

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Book number: 22021

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, annamite, asia, asiatica, asie, asien, orient, east, southeast asia, far east, vietnam, annam, indochine, indochina, indo-china

AUBERT, MARY JOSEPH (SUZANNE):

New and Complete Manual of Maori Conversation: Containing Phrases and Dialogues on a Variety of Useful and Interesting Topics, Together with a few General Rules of Grammar; and a Comprehensive Vocabulary. Wellington, Lyon and Blair, 1885.

. 12mo. Pp. 197. Original cloth printed in red, faded. First edition. Mary Joseph Aubert (first known as Suzanne Aubert), born in France in 1835, devoted her life to missionary work and teaching. At the age of 25 she sailed to New Zealand and with the exception of a period spent in Rome she remained in New Zealand until the end of her life.

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Book number: 100613

Catalogue: Oceania incl. Pacific

Keywords: Oceania incl. Pacific, new zealand, maori, language, langue, vocabulary, manual, conversation

AURIVILLIUS, CARL WILHELM SAMUEL:

Eine Anguillulide aus der Schneefauna Spitzbergens. Stockholm 1883.

. Pp. 15. With one plate. Wrappers. Inscribed to G. De Geer by the author. A monograph about species of Nematode (of the Anguilluilidae family) found at Spitzbergen during a Geological expedition in 1882 headed by Nathorst. (Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handlingar. Band 8. No. 11.). Hulth 615.

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Book number: 100137

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, polar, arctic, spitzbergen, spetsbergen, travel, exploration, fauna, botany, botanical,

AVRIL, PHILIPPE:

Voyage en divers etats d'Europe et d'Asie, entrepris pour découvrir un nouveau chemin à la Chine. Contenant plusiers remarques curieuses de physique, de geographie, d'hydrographie & d'histoire. Avec une description de la grande Tartarie, & les differens peuples qui l'habitent. Paris, Claude Barbin, Jean Boudot, George & Louis Josse, 1692.

. 4to. Pp. (xx), 406, (ii), (24) table. With engraved portrait of Gen. Stanislas Jablonowski, one folding engraved map, three engraved plates and five large engraved vignettes. Contemporary calf, covers ruled in gilt, flat spine with elaborate gilt decoration and red title label, r.e. Bookplate on front paste down. First edition of Avril's narrative of his two journeys through Central Asia aiming to discover new overland routes to China. Philippe Avril, Jesuit professor of philosophy and mathematics at Paris, was summoned by Father Ferdinand Verbiest in Peking to join the mission there. For eight years, from 1682 to 1690, Avril travelled overland as far as North and Northwest China but ultimately failing to reach Peking. This narrative covers both journeys; the first by caravan through Syria, Kurdistan, Armenia, Persia and across the Caspian to Astrakan where he had to turn back, and the second about his attempt to cross Siberia from Moscow to China, with his return to the West through Constantinople, Moldavia, Poland and Lithuania. Avril's narrative is based on earlier Jeusit reports but also on new information given to him by caravan travellers and rulers he met en route, in particular the king of Syria. Cordier BS 2088. Cf Walravens (1987) 55.

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Book number: 100546

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, china, chine, kina, chinese, syria, persia, turkey, levant, ottoman, travel, exploration, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, central asia, kurdistan, siberia, russia, russian,

BACKHOUSE, JAMES:

Extracts from Letters of James Backhouse now Engaged in a Religious Visit to Van Dieman's Land, and New South Wales. Accompanied by George Washington Walker. Ten parts in one volume. London, Harvey and Darton, 1838; 1837-41.

. Pp. 94; 78; 86; 80; 66 (wrong pagination); 83, (1); 91,(1); 94; 99, (1) and ; 100. Each part published separately with individual title pages. First editions except part one which is in third edition. Contemporary half calf on papercovered boards, rebacked with the original back preserved, rubbed. Bookplate. Light foxing to endpapers. A small hole on title page with loss of one letter. Comprises: Parts 1-5 devoted to Australia; part 6 to Mauritius and parts 7-10 to South Africa. Backhouse was a Quaker missionary who lived in South Africa during the years 1838-41. Ferguson 2434-7 & 2703-4.

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Book number: 29099

Catalogue: Oceania incl. Pacific

Keywords: Oceania incl. Pacific, australia, mauritius, south africa, africa, africana, travel, voyage, exploration, oceania, afrique

BACKHOUSE, JAMES:

A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies. London, Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1843.

. Pp. xviii, 569, appendixes pp. cxliv. With three large folding maps by James Wyld, 15 full page etchings and many illustrations in the text. The maps are of the world, Tasmania and New South Wales. Later half green calf, spine gilt with five raised bands and title label, extremities somewhat rubbed. Bookplate. Some light foxing. This narrative is based on the author's journal kept during his six years of travels. He visited most of the Australian colonies and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), made natural history observations and collected a variable herbarium which was sent to Kew. The appendices include accounts of prison conditions and letters to the government about the plight of the Aborigines. Ferguson 3558. Mendelssohn p.60.

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Book number: 29100

Catalogue: Oceania incl. Pacific

Keywords: Oceania incl. Pacific, australia, australian, australien, travel, exploration, botany, botanical, natural history,