[MONTMIGNON, JEAN BAPTISTE ABBÉ]:

Choix des lettres édifiantes, écrites des missions étrangères, précédé de tableaux géographiques, historiques, politiques, religieux et littéraires, des pays de mission. Seconde édition. 8 volumes. Paris, Grimbert, 1824-1826.

. Pp. (iv), cxx, 380; (iv), iv, 543; viii, 575; (iv), xx, 486; (iv), iv, 516; (iv), 475; (iv), 460; (iv), 494. Contemporary marbled calf, flat spines richly decorated in gilt and with red title labels. Marbled edges with matching endpapers. Armorial Bookplates. Binding somewhat rubbed, top of spine to volume four with wear and slightly chipped, otherwise a very attractive set. Comprises: Vols. i-iii. Missions de la Chine; iv. Missions de l'Inde; v-vi. Missions du Levant; vii-viii. Missions de l'Amerique. First edition was published in 1808-09.

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Book number: 35145

Catalogue: Travel general

Keywords: Travel general, china, india, levant, america, tartary, siam, tonkin, cochinchina, cochinchine, travel, travels, exploration, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, kina, chine,

[BANGKOK TIMES PRESS]

A collection of twelve works on Siam. Bangkok October 1926.

. Detailed and interesting works devoted to different aspects of life in Thailand published by the Bangkok Times Press. The collection comprises: Lac Cultivation, Public Health and Philanthropic Institutions, Irrigation, Forests, Education, Rice-Industry, Cooperative Movement, Aquatic Resources and Fisheries, Resources, Natural Features, Guide Book and Mining. With maps and many illustrations. Original front wrappers included. Bound in contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed.

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Book number: 121345

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, siam, thailand, thai, industry, cultivation, administration, guide, tourist, resources, natural resources,

[LILJEVALCH CARL FREDRIK]:

... Tio tusen chinesiska ting. (Ten thousand Chinese items). Beskrifvande förteckning öfver ett chinesiskt målnings-galleri samt en stor samling af chinesiska konst-, industri- och naturalister. Stockholm, Johan Beckman, 1849.

. Pp. iv, 5-42. Text in Swedish. Modern boards. A descriptive list of a collection of authentic Chinese objects shown at an exhibition in Stockholm, the first exhibition to present Chinese objects to the public in Sweden. Comprising paintings, antiquities, books, porcelain, stamps, tiles, foods, papers, cloths, embroidery, scrolls, ceramics, and more. Includes a section with Siamese books. The collection was brought back by Carl Fredrik Liljevalch. He was a successful Swedish merchant who was sent to China on a East India Company ship to negotiate a Treaty of Friendship and Commerce with China, which was concluded in 1847. Cordier BS 2180. Löwendahl 1102.

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Book number: 120974

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asie, asiatica, orient, east, asien, far east, china, chinese, chine, kina, exploration, art, antiques, siam, siamese, thai, thailand, art, exhibition,

DIGUET, EDOUARD:

Étude de la langue Taï précédée d'une notice sur les races des hautes régions du Tonkin comprenant grammaire, méthode d'écriture Taî et vocabulaires. Hanoi, F.-H. Schneider, 1895.

. Tall 4to. Pp. (vi), 88, iv, 192, errata iv. With four tables and seven full page plates depicting different tribes (one with tear). Occasionally some minor staining. Contemporary marbled boards, cloth spine, rubbed. First edition. The first part contains a detailed description of the Tai people living in the north western part of Vietnam. The second part is devoted to the grammar; the third to writing; and the fourth and fifth parts comprise vocabularies, also giving the phonetic of Taï words. Scarce. Cordier BI 1779.

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Book number: 100959

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, vietnam, tai, annam, laos, siam, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, language, langue, linguistic, annamese, vietnamese, tai-lao, tai-shan

EHLERS, OTTO E.:

Im Sattel durch Indo-China. Fourth edition. Two volumes. Berlin 1896.

. Pp. (vi), 332 + 8 adv. (Pp 305-320 repeated) + (iv), 301, 7 adv. With 19 full page illustrations (mainly from photographs) and more illustrations in the text. Publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt. Old signature in ink on titles, one partly erased. A very nice copy in an attractive cloth binding. Deals with the German traveller Ehler's journey in the Far East visiting Burma, Siam, Tonking, Annam, Cochinchina, Singapore and the Sultanate of Johore. Cf Cordier BI 426 (1894 ed.).

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Book number: 15018

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

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KIÖPING, NILS MATSON / WILLMAN, OLOF ERIKSSON / [CARON, FRANCOIS]:

ÉÊEen kort beskrffning uppå trenne reesor och peregrinationer, sampt konungarijket Japan: I. Beskrifwes een reesa som genom Asia Africa och många andra hedniska konungarijken ... förrättat aff Nils Matson Kiöping. II. Beskriwes een reesa till OstIndien China och Japan: III. Med förestlliande om förbenembde stoora och mächta konungarijketz Japan tillstånd... förrättat och beskrefwen aff Oloff Erickson Willman. IV. Uthföres een reesa ifrån Muszcow till China, genom Mongul och Cataja... Wiisindzborg, Johann Kankel, 1674.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), 176, 178-304. Modern half calf, spine ruled in gilt and with a red title label. Occasionally some minor browning. Second edition, first published in 1667 in only 500 copies. A scarce Swedish collection of travels printed at the private press of Count Brahe in Wisingsborg by the German bookprinter Johan Kankel. They are the first proper travel accounts published in Sweden.Comprises:I. Kiöping's narrative of his voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, Arabia, Persia, continuing to the Far East. His story was partly imaginative but became enormously popular at the time. Kiöping was employed as a bosun on a Dutch ship which in 1648 took him to Guinea and later to the Cape of Good Hope. He writes about his stay in Persia where he was in the service of the Shah and then about his journey on horseback to Bagdad. In 1652 he continued by ship to Ceylon and then to Java and Formosa (where Fredrik Coyet was governor). See Lasse Berg, När Sverige upptäckte Afrika, Stockholm 1997, pp. 11-15.II. Olof Eriksson WillmanÕs account of a voyage on a Dutch East Indiaman to the East Indies and and Japan between 1648-53. He visited Java which at the time was a Dutch colony.III. WillmanÕs interesting and accurate account of Japan (with separate title page dated 1673) which he visited in August 1651 for some months. He was able to participate in a Dutch embassy to Edo (Tokyo) which was reached in January 1652. His account of Tokaido, the ÒEast Sea RouteÓ, is one of the earliest known in European literature. Also contains a translation of François CaronÕs account of Japan. See Hjärne, Två svenska Japanfarare, pp. 17-83.IV. An account of a journey from Moscow to China.

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Book number: 100269

Catalogue: Travel general

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LEONOWENS, ANNA:

"The English Governess at the Siamese". / The Atlantic Monthly. Four volumes. Boston, Fields Osgood, & Co., April-June & August 1870.

. Comprises four original articles titled "The English Governess at the Siamese Court" issued in serialised form in the Atlantic Monthly by Anna Leonowens. (Volume XXV, nos. 150-152 and volume XXVI no 154). They were published before the enlarged text in book form (Boston 1870). As issued in original paper wrappers, two spines lightly chipped. This well-known account by an English governess is about her life with the Royal family of Siam (Thailand). King Mongkut (or Rama IV), a well-educated and fashionable man, wanted to give his children an European education. Anna Leonowens spent six years (1862-67) at the court where she taught the King's children and wives. Her "exotic" articles and memoirs received a lot of attention but the accuracy of her work has been questioned. Otherwise it is a charming story which Margaret Landon used for her novel "Anna and the King of Siam" (1944) and it was followed by a musical and a film "The King and I". Cordier BI 738. See Robinson p.139.

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Book number: 120919

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LEONOWENS, ANNA:

"Favourite of Harem" and "L'ore, the slave of a Siamese Queen". Atlantic Monthly (Volume XXX nos. 179 + 180). Two volumes. Boston, James. R. Osgood and Co., September and October 1872.

. Two original articles later incorporated into Leonowens' book "Romance of the Harem" published in 1873. As issued in original printed wrappers. Uncut, in perfect condition. Anna Leonowens, an English governess who for six years was employed by the Siamese King Mongkut (Rama IV) for the instruction of his children including his son and successor Prince Chulalongkorn. Later she resided in New York where she contributed articles to the Atlantic Monthly, a literary and cultural commentary magazine founded in Boston in 1857. Leonowens' memoirs of the Siamese court life have been considered exaggerated and unfair but nevertheless it is a captivating story which was used for Landon's novel "Anna and the King of Siam" and later in a musical and film. Cf. Cordier BI 738.

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Book number: 120920

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LILJEVALCH, CARL FREDRIK:

Chinas handel, industri och statsförfattning, jemte underrättelser om chinesernes folkbildning, seder och bruk, samt notiser om Japan, Siam m.fl. orter. Stockholm, J.Beckman, 1848.

. Pp. viii, 407. With 6 plates, of which 4 are coloured lithographs. Staining to the plates. Contemporary half calf, spine decorated in gilt, rubbed. Old ownership stamp on title and front paste down. Contains interesting material on Chinese economy and culture, a 15 page essay on Japan and a small section on Siam. Liljevalch represented Sweden in 1844 when a Treaty of Friendship and Commerce between Sweden/Norway and China was established. First edition. Cordier BJ 505 and BS 86.

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Book number: 777040

Catalogue: East Asia

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LILJEVALCH, CARL FREDRIK:

Chinas handel, industri och statsförfattning, jemte underrättelser om chinesernes folkbildning, seder och bruk, samt notiser om Japan, Siam m.fl. orter. Stockholm, J.Beckman, 1848.

. Pp. viii, 407. With 6 plates, of which 4 are coloured lithographs. Copy with wide margins, front edge untrimmed. Contemporary half calf, flat spine with blind stamped decoration and title lettered in gilt. Bookplate (Carl Jedvard Bonde). Copy of Ericsberg. A lovely copy of the first edition.Carl Fredrik Liljevalch (1796-1840) was a successful merchant who was sent to China to find out about trading possibilities and to negotiate a treaty of commerce. In 1845 he left London with an East India Company ship and arrived in Singapore in July the same year. From there he made short trips to Java and Batavia. In October 1845 he arrived in Canton and also visited Macao, Shanghai and other important Chinese harbours. His account contains an accurate description of the Chinese culture, economy, the monetary system and trading (opium, metals, forest products, tea, silk, cotton, oils and whale fishing). The Treaty of Friendship and Commerce between Sweden/Norway and China was concluded in 1847, and is included. Contains short sections on Japan and Siam. Cordier BS 86 & BJ 505.

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Book number: 100226

Catalogue: East Asia

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MASSIEU, ISABELLE BAUCHE:

Comment j'ai parcouru l'Indo-Chine. Birmanie, États Shans, Siam, Tonkin, Laos. Paris 1946.

. Pp. vi, xii, 404. With one folding map of the author's route, front portrait and numerous illustrations made from photographs. Contemporary half red cloth, lightly rubbed. Bookplate. A comprehensive travel account of Indochina at the turn of the 20th century. The author is particulary interested in the life of the local people and the political situation of the countries. Isabelle Massieu (1844-1932) was a French explorer and photographer who travelled extensively in Asia. First published in 1901.

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Book number: 100775

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, burma, burmese, birma, siam, siamese, thailand, thai, shan states, tonkin, laos, laotian, vietnam, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, travels, explore, indochina, indochine, lady traveller

NEALE, FREDERICK ARTHUR:

Narrative of a Residence at the Capital of the Kingdom of Siam; with a Description of the Manners, Customs, and Laws of the Modern Siamese. London, Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852.

. Pp. xiv, 280, (i.e. 260), adv. (4). Pagination incorrect but text complete. With engraved frontispiece, engraved extra title, one map, two engraved plates and many textual illustrations. Original embossed cloth, upper part of spine restored, somewhat rubbed, new endpapers. First edition of this comprehensive work on Siam by Neale, a British who served the Siamese king for many years. Cordier BI 735. Satow 126.

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Book number: 99439

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PALLEGOIX, JEAN BAPTISTE:

Description du royaume Thai ou Siam comprenant la topographie, histoire naturelle, moeurs et coutumes, législation, commerce, industrie, langue, littérature, religion, annales des Thai et précis historique de la mission. Two volumes. Paris, se vend au profit de la mission de Siam, 1854.

. 12mo. Pp. (iv), 488; (iv), 425. With one folding large map and 16 full page plates. Foxed. Contemporary blindstamped cloth ruled in gilt, calf spines richly decorated in gilt, marbled edges, extremities rubbed. Presentation copy. First edition. Jean Baptiste Pallegoix, French missionary, who spent more than 30 years in Siam. Cordier BI 735.

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Book number: 100411

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

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TURPIN, FRANCOIS HENRI :

Histoire civile et naturelle du Royaume de Siam, et des révolutions qui ont bouleversé cet empire jusqu'en en 1770. Two volumes. Paris, Costard, 1771.

. 12mo. pp. (iv), xii, 450, (2); (iv), 444, (6). Contemporary calf, spines decorated in gilt and with title labels, worn, spines chipped. Some browning and occasionally some minor staining. Partly with some worming in volume two (some minor loss of text). First edition of this important work on Siam based on some manuscripts received from the bishop of Tabraca (Vicar Apostolic de Siam) as well as from other missionaries in Siam. The work was suppressed at the request of the Vicar Apostolic of Siam, who claimed the author had taken too many liberties with his interpretation of the manuscript notes and journals. Francois Henri Turpin is a pseudonym for Henriques Pangrapho who also wrote "Histoire de la vie de Mahomet" (1773). Cordier BI 732. Chadenat 1001. Cox i, p. 347. Satow 102.

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Book number: 29007

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VARENIUS, BERNARDUS:

Descriptio regni iaponiae cum quibusdam affinis materiae, ex variis auctoribus collecta et in ordinem redacta. Two parts in one volume. Amsterdam, Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1649.

. 16mo. Pp. (xlvi), 287, (1); (viii), 320. With engraved decorated title page and one folding table. Contemporary vellum, stained, title in manuscript on spine, old title label pasted on top. First edition of the first western monograph on Japan. It also includes a translation of part of Schouten's work on Siam. Varenius (1622-1650), a German scholar of medicine and mathematics, became fascinated with Japan and compiled this work from a variety of Dutch, Portuguese and Jesuit sources. The first part of the work contains a detailed description of Japan, including information on customs, geography, natural history, politics, costume, science, art, trade etc. The second part titled is a description of Japanese religious practices together with an account of the introduction and eventual persecution of Christianity. Varenius' work is accurate and well structured, with references to the sources he used. Cordier BJ 368. Landwehr 571. Nipponalia, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, 1976. Streit v, 1568. Willems 1095.

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Book number: 121397

Catalogue: East Asia

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