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Omnium gentium mores leges et ritus ex multis clarrissimis rerum scriptoribus ... nuper collecti: & in libros tris distinctos Aphricam, Asiam, Europam, optime lector lege. [Half-title:] Repertorium librorum trium Ioannis Boemi de omnium gentium ritibus. Item index rerum scitu digniorum in eosdem. Cum privilegio Papali ac Imperiali M.D.XX.[Colophon: Augsburg, Sigismund Grimm & Marcus Wirsung, July 1520]. Folio. With the letterpress half-title in an elaborate woodcut border with a trophy of arms, putti and mermen. 17th century vellum with 3 raised spine-bands.

BOEMUS (BÖHM), Johannes. · 1510

€5,750.00 ($6,337.55 | £4,797.03 | ¥1,012,024)

[6], LXXXI, [1] ll.First edition of a pioneering and highly influential foundational work of anthropology that went through almost fifty editions in 100 years and was widely read throughout Western Europe. Written by the "father of scientific ethnography" (NDB), who based his ...

Some passages in the life of an adventurer in the Punjab. Originally published in the Delhi Gazette.Delhi, Gazette Press, by Kunniah Lall, 1842. 8vo. With a loosely inserted letterpress printed "Note by the publishers" declaring that in hindsight the publisher would have preferred this edition in larger dimensions and in 2 volumes, but the printer lacked understanding of "the art of book printing". Also included is a manuscript note with bibliographical information relating to Indian printing. Contemporary half red roan with gold-tooled title on spine, marbled sides.

LAWRENCE, Henry Montgomery. · 1799

€5,250.00 ($5,786.46 | £4,379.90 | ¥924,022)

[IV], [III], 275 pp.First edition of one of the first titles published by the Gazette Press in Delhi and printed by Kunniah Hall. The content is a collection of articles that were previously published in the Delhi Gazette, written by Brigadier-General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawr...

Death certificate of a former employee of the French East India Company.Puducherry (Pondichéry), 2 November 1786. Folio.

[MANUSCRIPT - FRENCH EAST INDIA COMPANY]. · 1673

€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)

[2] pp.Manuscript death certificate, including a red wax seal, of a former employee of the French East India Company who is buried in the cemetery of the Église Notre-Dame-des-Anges in Puducherry, which was the capital of the Indian district (and later also the larger union te...

[Warrant to authorize the occupation of a house for His Majesty's forces in Mauritius and Bourbon].Port-Louis, 24 June 1813. 4to. Manuscript warrant written in ink on paper, signed. Loosely inserted in a later orange paper folder.

CAMPBELL, Alexander. · 1759

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

[1] leaf.Warrant by Alexander Campbell (1759-1824), commanding His Majesty's forces in Mauritius and Bourbon, authorizing the occupation of a house and establishing rate for renting it (45 Spanish dollars per month). It also summarizes the benefits of his accommodation and dec...

Letter to a friend on his governmental system.Brompton Grove, 21 September 1814. 4to. Folded.

MACPHERSON, John. · 1745

€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)

[4] pp.Autograph letter by John Macpherson (1745-1821), written in English to an unidentified friend, discussing views on governance that he had presented earlier and the governmental system that his correspondent had outlined. John Macpherson, the former governor-general of I...

[Autograph letter to Louis Langlès, signed].London, 18 March 1823. 4to. Folded.

MOOR, Edward. · 1771

€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)

[4] pp.Autograph letter written in English by the British soldier and Indologist Edward Moor (1771-1848) to Louis Langlès (1763-1824), a leading orientalist (especially for languages of India and the East Indies) and conservator of oriental manuscripts at the Bibliothèque Roya...

Letter to the French orientalist Joseph Toussaint Reinaud.Paris (Rue de la Pépinière), 18 October 1848. Small 4to. Autograph letter, signed, written in ink on paper. Folded.

TROYER, Antony. · 1775

€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)

[1], [2 blank], [1] pp.Signed autograph letter from Antony Troyer (1775-1865), an English translator of oriental literature and Indianist, to Joseph Toussaint Reinaud (1795-1867). It gives some account of the research that Troyer and probably also Reinaud were carrying out on ...

[French manuscript on the negotiation strategy of the French with the British on India.]ca. 1778. Folio. Sewn with two small chords in the left upper and bottom corner.

[AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT - FRANCE, ENGLAND & INDIA]. · 1756

€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)

[7], [1 blank] pp.First draft of an autograph manuscript in French, with erasures and corrections, probably written by a diplomat or strategist, concerning the causes of Britain’s defeat of France in India during the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763) and analysing different ways to...

Pharmacia, rationibus et experimetis auctoribus instructa, methodon Galenico-chymica adornata.Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1688. With: (2) MORT, Jacobus le. Chymia, rationibus et experimetis auctoribus, iisque demonstrativis superstructa, in qua malevolorum calumniate modestè simul diluuntur.Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1688. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with a frontispiece engraved by Adriaan Schoonebeek (with an allegorical scene above and an apothecary and others at work below), originally dated 1684, changed to 1688, and Van der Aa’s herald angel device on the title page. Ad 2: with a beautiful allegorical frontispiece (also by Adriaan Schoonebeek?), dated 1688, 2 folding engraved plates of furnaces and distilling equipment and utensils, Van der Aa’s woodcut herald angel device, initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum over boards, title in ink on spine: “Le Mort opera omnia”.

MORT, Jacobus le. · 1684

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

[14], 256, [34]; [36], 366, [62] pp.Two of the most important pharmacological and chemical publications of the Leiden lecturer and future professor Jacobus Le Mort, both in their second, revised editions, both first published in 1684.Jacob Le Mort (1650-1718), a Dutch chemist ...

The Edinburgh new dispensatory. Containing, I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica ... III. The pharmaceutical preparations and medicinal compositions of the latest editions of the London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias. … Edinburgh, for William Ceech, 1791. Large 8vo. With 3 double-page engraved plates of furnaces and distilling equipment, each in two parts. Pp. 113-665 (Part 2-3) printed in two columns. Mottled calf, red morocco spine label.

[EDINBURGH - PHARMACOPOEIA] LEWIS, William. · 1753

€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)

665 [= 656] pp.The third revised edition of William Lewis's authoritative The new dispensatory, first published in 1753. Lewis (1708-1781) was a British chemist and physician who first published his Dispensary in London in 1753. In all later editions, including the revisions h...

Materia medica contracta, exhibens simplicia & composita medicamenta officinalia ex magno numero selecta, praestantia atque utilia, munita viribus & dosibus methodoque simplicial deligedi, praeparandi & componendi:destinate pharmacopoeorum praecipue …Leiden, Aernout Doude, 1674. 4to. With a woodcut view of Leiden University’s academy building on the title page (Doude used it as a publisher’s device 1674-1679, replacing an earlier version used 1668-1671) and many printed tables and schemes. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine.

MARGGRAF, Christian. · 1626

€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)

[8], 252 pp.First edition of a textbook on the making and preparation of medicines, by the German Christian Marggraf (Liepstadt 1626-1687). The second, enlarged edition followed in 1681; the third in 1682.After studying at Leiden University (registered in 1652), Marggraf was a...

Officina chymica Londinensis, sive exacta notitia medicamentorum spagyticorum, quae apud aulam Societatis Pharmaceuticae Londin. Praeparantur, & venalia prostant … Editio tertia juxta exemplar Londini.Jena, Christoph Cröckerus, 1701. 12mo. Contemporary blue paper wrappers over thin boards.

STAPHORST, Nicolaus. · 1685

€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)

[4], 68 pp.Third edition of a catalogue of medicines for sale at the Societas Pharmaceutica at London by Nicolaus Staphorst, director of the chemical laboratory of the Royal College of Physicians in London. Staphorst was an immigrant from Hamburg who belonged to an important f...

[A choice collection of 6 original plays written by Johannes Nomsz and 10 plays of French playwrights - Racine, Corneille, Voltaire and others - together with other texts highly interesting for the history of the Amsterdam stage, and Nomsz’s historical work on the life of Mohammed in 2 volumes].Amsterdam, Izaak Duim, Johannes Smit, David Klippink, widow of David Klippink, Hendrik Gartman, Johannes Smit, heirs of David Klippink, 1764-1780. 16 plays, 3 essays and 1 biography bound in 11 volumes. 8vo. With two portraits of Nomsz by Reinier Vinkeles (vol. I) and J. Houbraken (vol. IX), a portrait of Mohammed by J. Houbraken (vol. I) and 14 frontispieces by the best engravers of the time: Jan Punt, Reinier Vinkeles, Simon Fokke, P. Tanjé and Th. Koning. Uniform contemporary vellum with a blind-tooled centrepiece and cornerpieces on each board, manuscript titles on spines.

NOMSZ, Johannes. · 1738

€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)

[8], 76; [8], 64; [8], 56; 14; 62; [8], 54; 12, [74]; [4], 54; [12], 74; [6], 71; [8], 71; [6], 58; [12], 78; [6], 112; [8], 82, [2]; 35; [4], 88, [2]; 43; [10], 113; [10], 67; [12], 73, [2]; XXVI, 182; [4], 190 pp.Johannes Nomsz (1738-1803) was a very productive Amsterdam aut...

Die Aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen.Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1886. 8vo. Later cloth with original publisher's printed paper wrappers bound in.

FRAENKEL (FRÄNKEL), Siegmund. · 1855

€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)

[2], XXII, 327, [1] pp.Very rare first edition of an important study of the Aramaic language, the vernacular language of much of the Middle East in biblical times, describing in particular the cultural and historical sources of Aramaic loanwords in Arabic. Written by Siegmund ...

[Manuscript spine title:] Indian antiquities.[Various places, various publishers, 1877-1903]. About 40 publications in 1 volume. Large and occasionally small 8vo. About 40 archaeological works, most written by John Harry Rivett-Carnac, on prehistoric remains in India and on Indian culture, along with loosely inserted prints, with 41 (lithographed?) plates (some folding) showing monoliths, gorges, tumuli, cup-marks, ancient rock carvings, stone implements, spindle whorls and flint tools, all found in India, but also Buddha and Hindu sculptured figures and ancient coins of important Indian dynasties. Also included are 2 lithographs (one of a sculpted Hindu group near Kanouj) and 3 photographic collotypes reproductions of ancient coins. Half black morocco, green cloth sides, title and author's name in gold on spine.

RIVETT-CARNAC, John Henry; Archibald Campbell CARLLEYLE; Raja Rajendralal MITRA; and others. · 1838

€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)

ca. 230 leaves, including the plates.Offprints of articles and other publications on Indian antiquities and archaeological research, mainly written by John Henry Rivett-Carnac (1838-1923), a British employee of the Indian Colonial Service and scholar of Indian prehistory. Most...

Sull' avvelenamento pe' funghi.Padova, Prem. Stab. di P. Prosperini, 1863. 8vo. Green paper wrappers.

COLETTI, Ferdinando. · 1819

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

62 pp.Extremely rare first edition of an Italian work on mushroom poisoning by Ferdinando Coletti (1819-1881), an Italian physician who studied in Padua and made important contributions to medical knowledge, including toxicology. In the present monograph he goes beyond the edi...

Fauna Chinensis. Quam venis. exp. Facult. Med. Upsal. Praeside C.P. Thunberg … P.P. Petrus Magnus Acksell a Sacris Med. Theolog. Gestricio Helsingus. In Audit. Botanico die XII Junii MDCCCXXIII.Uppsala, Palmblad et C, [1823]. 4to. Unbound.

THUNBERG, Carl Peter (praeses) and Petruus Magnus ACKSELL. · 1823

€1,850.00 ($2,039.04 | £1,543.39 | ¥325,608)

[4], 8 pp.Rare first and only edition of this thesis defended by Petrus Magnus Acksell on 13 June 1823 in the Auditorium Botanicum of the University of Uppsala, presided over by the famous Uppsala professor Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828), who undoubtedly deserves much of the ...

Fábulas literarias.Madrid, Imprenta Real, 1782. 4to. With rococo decorated capitals. Mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine with red morocco label lettered in gold, double blind fillets on boards.

IRIARTE (YRIARTE) y Oropesa, Tomas de. · 1750

€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)

[4], 157, [16] pp.First edition of the best-known work of the famous Spanish neo-classical poet Tomás de Iriarte (or Yriarte) y Oropesa (1750-1791). His name is most intimately associated with the present Fábulas literarias (1782), composed in a great variety of metres, and kn...

Hus- och Rese-Apoteque, pä Hennes Kongl. Maj. Nädigste Befallning upsatt af Archiatern och Riddaren --.Stockholm, Carl Gottlieb Ulfs, 1772. 8vo. Engraved title-page with calligraphic lettering and vignette: a coach driving through a Swedish landscape. Wrappers covered with marbled paper.

ROSEN von ROSENSTEIN, Nils. · 1765

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

(2), 104, (8) pp.Later edition of a popular Swedish Domestic medicine chest or first-aid kit for travelers of which more than 10 editions appeared between 1765 (first edition) till 1800. The author Nils Rosen von Rosenstein (1706-1773) was a well-known Swedish physician, consi...

Defensio medica ofte den doctor van de nieuwe mode Schoon, naakt vertoont, nevens syne kueren, tot des selfs verdedigingh, tegens de frivole snapperyen der plamoters: wegen syn E. weergalooze tractaat, geintituleert, Den apotheker in ’t hembd. Door een beminnaar der waarheyt en rechtzinnige geneeskunde.The Hague, Gillis van Limburg, 1696. With: (2) SCHOON, Theodorus. De apotheker in ‘t hembd, of de wederspannige knegt tegen syn meester.The Hague, Engelbregt Boucquet, 1696. 8vo. Modern black marbled stiff paper wrappers, red sprinkled edges.

SCHOON, Theodorus. · 1696

€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)

38, [2]; [18], 52, [2] pp.Ad 2: Very rare first and only edition of a fierce diatribe by Theodorus Schoon against the evil practices of the ignorant, obscure and lazy pharmacists and their helpers (the so-called ”plamoters”: filthy louts or ragamuffins), especially in The Hagu...