BOUCHER, HENRI (Translator):

[Chinese title]. Koan-hoa Tche-nan. Boussole du langage mandarin traduit and annotée par H. Boucher, S.J. missionnaire au Kiang-nan. Two volumes in one. Zi-ka-wei, Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique à l'Orphelinat de T'ou-sè-wè, 1887.

. Pp. viii, 247; iv, 234. Titles printed in red and black. With text in Chinese and French. Contemporary boards, later cloth spine, rubbed. Stamp of "Missions de Scheut-Jambes". Partly with some light staining. First edition. This work was originally published for Japanese people living in Peking wishing to learn Chinese. Comprises a chapter devoted to business conversation between manadarins and merchants. Cordier BS 1696.

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Book number: 23098

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, orient, east, asien, asie, asiatica, asia, china, mandarin, missionary, far east, kina, language, langue, linguist, chine, chinese

BOURNAZEL, DIANE DE / GUÉGANT, AMELIE (Bookbinder):

Le Chant des Possibles. Marliac (Limousin) France 2018.

. An exquisite artist's book, a magical work without words, completely handmade. The beautiful binding is by Amelie Guégant. Narrow folio. (13.8 x 33.2 cm) Lvs. (8). Seven double-page illustrations, fully illuminated by hand, using water colour, ink and collage. The images have a window cut in centre and are surrounded by a zigzag border. One leaf with small crease at lower corner. Original sprinkled paper boards, blue on gold coloured paper, handwritten title labels, housed in matching slipcase. Diane Bournazel (born 1956) is a French painter, printmaker and book illustrator represented in both private and public collections in France and elsewhere. Her works contain mystical stories or wordless poetry with themes that include nature, human relations, life and death. She uses drawing, painting, paper cutting and collage. This work features imaginary animals, people, flowers, etc all floating in a dreamlike setting. The book can be read from front or back and the reader is encouraged to create their own imaginative story. The colophon reads: "Ce livre est unique - je l'ai imaginé et réalisé durant l'été 2018, a Marliac, oú, les nuits, nous contemplons les étoiles. Armelle Guégant l'a relié, en douceur". Ref: "L'Univers enchanté de Diane de Bournazel". Art & Métiers du Livre, 316, 2016, pp. 24-31.As a book artist, Diane de Bournazel is among the very best in seeing the livre dÕartiste as a total artistic creation, embracing all the special qualities of the codex form. She creates distinct and mysterious narratives, spurring us on to turn the pages, with her trademark papercutting opening windows between them, encouraging us to look forwards, backwards and beneath the surface. Subtle collage effects and gauffered edges invite us to touch the pages and to reanimate the books each time we return to them.Her themes are those of life and death itself, of childhood, love, loss and longing. Recognising that everyone experiences these universals as part of their own unique story, De BournazelÕs visual meditations are always open to interpretation and reinterpretation. Every encounter, even with the same book, yields new insights as new details appear and new connections are noticed between the pages. This is a rich symbolic world, full of unexpected resonances and symmetries.

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Book number: 120917

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, france, french, frankrike, illustrated, art, artistic, artists books, hand-made, book,

BOUSQUET, GEORGES:

Japan i våra dagar. Eight parts in five volumes. Stockholm; C.E. Fritzes, 1882.

. Pp. (iv), viii, 620. Title and list of content bound in the last part. With many textual illustrations. As issued, uncut in original wrappers, complete in five volumes. With inscriptions to C.F. Ridderstad (newspaper editor) by the translator. A Swedish edition of "Le Japon de nos jours et les échelles de l'Extrème-Orient" (Paris 1877), translated by Anton Stuxberg. Bousquet spent several years in Japan and his work is appreciated for its authenticity. One chapter is devoted to the Ainu. Cf Cordier BJ 632. Cf Nipponalia, Kyoto University, 1053.

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Book number: 100782

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, far east, east asia, east india, japan, nihon, nippon, japon, japanese, travel, exploration, voyage

BOUSQUET, GEORGES:

Japan i våra dagar. Stockholm 1882.

. Pp. (ii), viii, 620. With many textual illustrations. Original pictorial red cloth richly gilt, spine faded. Bookplate. A Swedish edition of "Le Japon de nos jours et les échelles de l'Extrème-Orient" (Paris 1877), translated by Anton Stuxberg. Bousquet lived in Japan between 1872 and 1874. One chapter is devoted to the Ainu. Cf Cordier BJ 632. Cf Nipponalia, Kyoto University, 1053.

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Book number: 99730

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, far east, east asia, east india, japan, nihon, nippon, japon, travel, exploration, voyage

BOVALLIUS, CARL:

Resa i Central-Amerika 1881-1883. 2 parts in one volume. Upsala, Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri, 1887.

. Pp. xii, 275; xii, pp. 276-483. With front, 6 maps (including coloured maps on Talamanca, Nicarauga and Costa Rica, and Zapatera), 18 fullpage plates and many more illustrations throughout the text. Modern half cloth. First edition of Bovallius' narrative of his journey to Central America. Carl Bovallius (1849-1907), Swedish biologist, visited Panama, the islands of Perlas, Costa Rica, Talamanca, Nicauraga and Zapatera.

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Book number: 99630

Catalogue: Americas

Keywords: Americas, central america, panama, nicarauga, costa rica, talamanca, travel, exploration

BOWDICH, THOMAS EDWARD:

Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo, during the Autumn of 1823, while on His Third Voyage to Africa; by the Late T. Edward Bowdich, esq. To which is added by Mrs. Bowdich, 1. A narrative of the continuance of the voyage to its completion, ... ; 2. A description of the English settlements on the river Gambia ... ; 3. Appendix, containing zoological and botanical descriptions, and translations from the Arabic. London, George B. Whittaker, 1825.

. 4to. Pp. xii, 278. With four hand-coloured lithographs by C. Hullmandel after S. Bowdich and eighteen monochrome engraved plates, of which ten devoted to natural history specimens, seven about fish and one linguistic plate. Contemporary half calf, rebacked with original spine preserved, rubbed. Old signature on title. Two small holes on title without any text loss. Bookplate. Some browning and staining throughout. First edition of this interesting work on Madeira and the Cape Verde Islands mainly devoted to geology, zoology and botany. Bowdich, born in 1791, participated in several voyages to Africa but died on this mission only 33 years old at Bathurst (Banjul) when he was about to undertake a trigonometric survey of the Gambia region. This work was published posthumously by his widow and travel companion Sarah Bowdich. Abbey Travel 194. Colas 418. Gay 2983.

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Book number: 99106

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, madeira, africa, ashantee, cape verde, travel, travels, exploration, exploring, afrique, afrika, african,

BOXER, CHARLES RALPH:

A Portuguese Embassy to Japan (1644-1647). Translated from an Unpublished Portuguese Ms. and Other Contemporary Sources, with Commentary and Appendices. London 1928.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. viii, 64. With two facsimile plates. Publisher's printed boards, cloth spine, rubbed and with light staining. Old ownership signature on front endpaper. First edition of Boxer's first separately published work about the Portuguese Embassy of Captain Gonçalo de Sigueira de Souza to Japan 1644-7 whose goal was to re-establish trade relations between the countries. Howgego S143.

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Book number: 120952

Catalogue: East Asia

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

BOYLESVE, RENÉ / BRUNELLESCHI, UMBERTO (Ill.) :

La leçon d'amour dans un parc. Paris, Albin Michel, 1933.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), 174, (1). With engraved front and twenty engraved plates protected by tissue guards and many vignettes, all illustrated by Brunelleschi and coloured by the atelier Daniel Jacomet. Original illustrated wrappers, glassine jacket. Modern slipcase. Binding slightly shaken, one querie loose. A limited edition of 464 copies, one of 375 numbered on Arches (no. 344). A wonderful clean and crisp copy. Umberto Brunelleschi, a famous Italian artist who lived and worked in Paris as a printer, book illustrator and costume designer.

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Book number: 121506

Catalogue: Art Deco

Keywords: Art Deco, french, france, illustrations, art deco, romance, literature, erotic, art nouveau,

BRAAM HOUCKGEEST, ANDREAS EVERARDUS VAN:

An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, of the Court of the Emperor of China, in the Years 1794 and 1795; (subsequent to that of the Earl of Macartney). ... Two volumes. London, Printed for R. Phillips, 1798.

. Pp. lii, 288; (ii), 324. With one folding engraved map (foxed, two small tears, one restored at rear). Without the advertising lvs. Contemporary tree calf, flat spines ruled in gilt and with red title labels, marbled edges, lightly rubbed. Old ownership signature on titles. Some minor browning in parts and/or spotting but overall a very pleasant copy.Scarce first English edition translated from the second French edition by M.L. Moreau de Saint-Méry. The original manuscript was written in Dutch, translated into French and first published in Philadelphia in 1797-8. Braam Houckgeest was a Dutch-American merchant who had served as a supercargo for the Dutch East India Company in Canton and Macao. He accompanied the embassy to China in 1794-5 together with Isaac Titsingh and Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes. Of the three accounts dealing with the embassy, Braam Houckgeest's work is considered the most extensive and also the most interesting. (Löwendahl). His account contains a detailed and accurate description of several parts of China not previously visited by Europeans. Cordier BS 2351. See Löwendahl 700.

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Book number: 120272

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, kina, chinese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, east-india,

BRADLEY, ELIZA:

An Authentick Narrative of the Shipwreck and Sufferings of Mrs. Eliza Bradley, Wife of James Bradley, of Liverpool, Commander of the Ship Sally, which was Wrecked on the Coast of Barbary, in June 1818. Boston, George Clarck, 1821.

. Small 8vo. Pp. 108. With one folding plate of Eliza Bradley on a camel brought into captivity, and one more plate in the text. Modern paper wrappers. According to the narrative Eliza Bradley set sail with her husband in the ship Sally, heading for Teneriffe in the spring of 1818. About five weeks later the ship was lost on the coast of Morocco. Mrs. Bradley was separated from her husband and held captive for six months by the Arabs before ransomed by the British consul. Most likely a fictive account and partly influenced by James Riley's account of life among the Arabs. First published in 1820, reprinted many times. Robinson, Wayward Women, pp. 276-77.

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Book number: 45012

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, afrika, africana, travel, travels, exploration, afrique, barbary, arab. arabs, arabic

BRANCHI, GIOVANNI:

Tre mesi alle isole dei cannibali nell'arcipelago dell Figi. Firenze, successori Le Monnier, 1878.

. Small 8vo. Pp. (iv), 340. Original printed wrappers, corners of front wrapper restored and with a new spine. Occasionally some light staining. Scarce first edition. Comprises an account of a voyage to the Fiji islands, followed by another journey to Melbourne; a short trip to Tasmania; a chapter about the Chinese living in Australia. Cardon p. 185.

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Book number: 100518

Catalogue: Oceania incl. Pacific

Keywords: Oceania incl. Pacific, fiji, figi, pacific, travel, exploration, australia, australien, voyage, tasmania

BRAND, ADAM:

Relation du voyage de Mr. Evert Isbrand envoyé de sa majesté czarienne a l'empereur de la Chine, en 1692,93 & 94. Avec une lettre de Monsieur ..., sur l'etat présent de la Moscovie. Amsterdam, Chez Jean-Louis de Lorme, 1699.

. Small 8vo. Pp. (ii), 249, (1). With engraved frontispiece and one large folding engraved map. Contemporary calf, spine with five raised bands, rubbed and hinges weak, marbled edges, spine expertly restored.First French edition (orig. in German 1698). A journal of the Russian embassy headed by Everard Isbrand Ides which went over land from Moscow to Peking, written by the secretary of the embassy, Adam Brand. The aim of the expedition was to conclude commercial agreements with the Chinese but, in fact, this was not incorporated. Includes a table "des chiffres de la carte" (pp. 183-92) with numbers of cities and other places passed along the route, indicated on the map. The map only to be found in this edition. At end there is an anonymous letter about the present state of Moscow included. Chadenat 5335. Cordier BS 2469. Lust 506. Löwendahl 230. Walravens, China Illustrata 70.

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Book number: 100499

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, russia, siberia, china, chinese, kina, chine, russe, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, expedition, travel, travels,

BRANDEL, R.A.:

Om och ur den arabiske geografen Idrisi. Akademisk afhandling. Upsala 1894.

. Pp. (iv), vi, 40, (32), 114. Contemporary half morocco. With inscription by the author. A diss. about the Arabic geographer Idrisi.

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Book number: 18046

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, near east, middle east, arabia, arabic, asia, asie, asiatica, asien, east, orient, arab, geography, géographie, moyen orient, nahe osten, islam, arabien, arabisch, naher osten, arabishe

[ABU ABD ALLAH MUHAMMAD AL-IDRISI] / BRANDEL, R.A.:

Om och ur den arabiske geografen Idrîsî. Akademisk afhandling. Uppsala 1894.

. Pp. (iv), vi, 40, 32 (Arabic text), 114. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. Inscription by the author to his father. A dissertation in Swedish about the famous Muslim geographer al-Idrîsî and his momentous work "Nuzhat-al-mustaq" composed in 1154. He was born in Ceuta (north Africa) in 1099. As young he travelled extensively in Africa, Spain and Asia Minor before he settled down in Sicily and collaborated with king Roger II.

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Book number: 43024

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, arabia, arabic, arabien, geography, geographical, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, cartography,

BRASSEY, LADY ANNA (ANNIE):

En sjöresa i tropikerna. Stockholm 1885.

. Pp. 451, (1), iv. With one folding map and numerous illustrations in the text. Publisher's pictorial cloth, printed in silver and gilt, some minor wear to covers. A Swedish version of Lady Brassey's narrative about a voyage to the West Indies in 1883 (First London 1885). Translated by Dr. Anton Blomberg. This voyage went to Trinidad, Venezuela, Jamaica, the Bahamas and the Bermudas. Robinson p. 202.

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Book number: 44003

Catalogue: Americas

Keywords: Americas, west indies, trinidad, venezuela, jamaica, bermuda, travel, exploration, voyage, south america,, lady traveller,