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Consolatio navigantium.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1657.With:(2) GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Vera ac perfecta descriptio, qua ratione ex vini fecibus bonum plurimumque Tartarum sit extrahendum.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1655.(3) GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Tractatus de medicina universali, sive auro potabili vero, ...Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1658.(4) GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Miraculi mundi continuatio, ...Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1658.(5) GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Tractatus de natura salium.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1659.(6) GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Tractatus de signatura salium, metallorum, et planetarum, ...Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1659. 6 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 4 with 3 engraved folding plates. Contemporary sheepskin parchment, sewn on 4 cords, gold fillets on spine and sides.

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. · 1604

€3,750.00 ($4,133.18 | £3,128.50 | ¥660,016)

96; 28, [4 blank]; 75, [2], [3 blank]; 133, [3 blank]; [16], 96; 44, [4 blank] pp.Collection of six works mainly concerning iatrochemistry, chemistry for healing purposes, by Johann Rudolph Glauber (1604-1670), "the best practical chemist of his day" (DSB). The present Latin e...

Ko nga upoko ewitu o te Pukapuka a te Poropiti a Raniera: me te Pukapuka ano hoki a te Poropiti a Hona: …Paihia (New Zealand), "Perehi o nga Mihanere" (= Missionary Press [operated by William Colenso]), 1840. Large 12mo (20 x 12 cm). contemporary grey paper wrapper.

[PUCKEY, William Gilbert and William COLENSO (translator)]. · 1840

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

32 pp.Untrimmed and partly unopened copy of an early Maori edition printed in New Zealand, containing the beginning of the Book of Daniel (1-7: Nebuchadnezzar's dream and Daniel's dream) and the whole of the Book of Jonah (1-4: Jonah and the whale), translated into Maori and p...

Relation nouvelle et curieuse des royaumes de Tunquin et de Lao. [Part 2:] Histoire nouvelle ...Paris, Gervais Clouzier, 1666. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Later half sheepskin.

MARINI, Giovanni Filippo de. · 1663

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

[8], 327, [5], 329-436 pp.First French translation of part of De Marini's account of Tonkin and Laos, first published in Italian in 1663. Of the original five books of the Italian edition, the present includes book one and part of book five. It is divided into two parts (Relat...

Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI.Antwerp, Martinus Nutius, 1605.With: (2) [MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro]. Ignatii Loiolae vita, postremo recognita.Antwerp, Martinus Nutius, 1605. 2 works in 1 volume (the first in 2 parts). 8vo. Contemporary vellum, remains of ties.

MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro. · 1557

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

[72], 478, [2 blank]; 401, [7]; 152, [12] pp.Early 17th-century edition of a classic work on "the Indies", including both the West and East Indies, considered the best (Sabin) and the most complete (Borba de Moraes) of the many Latin editions. Most of Maffei's work is concerne...

Across Asia from West to East in 1906-1908.Helsinki, Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, 1940. 2 volumes. (30.5 x 22 cm). With numerous illustrations in text, one small map after the preface, and 15 folding maps in the second volume. Half sheepskin, cloth sides.

MANNERHEIM, Carl Gustav. · 1867

€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)

IV, 741; IV, 54, 16, 48, 36, 36, 12, 6, 30, 12 pp.First edition of a travelogue through Asia, written by Carl Gustav Mannerheim (1867-1951), future president of Finland, 1944-1946. In 1906, Mannerheim, then a colonel, was sent on an expedition to Asia. "The object of this expe...

Histoire du Royaume de Ou (1122 - 473 av. J.- C.). Variétés Sinologiques no.10.Shanghai, Librairie de la Mission Catholique, 1896. 8vo. With 17 illustrations in text and 1 folding map. Publisher's printed paper wrappers.

TSCHEPE, P. Albert S.J.

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

XVII, 175 pp.Tenth volume of the periodical Variétés Sinologiques, written by the Jesuit Albert Tschepe. The work gives a chronological history of the ancient Chinese Zhou dynasty, with chapters for the successive kings. For each chapter Tchepe gives a small list of sources us...

On ancient Central-Asian tracks. Brief narrative of three expeditions in innermost Asia and north-western China.London, MacMillan and Co., 1933. With frontispiece, map and 147 illustrations (some folding). Original publisher's brown/red cloth.

STEIN, Marc Aurel. · 1862

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

xxiv, 342, [2] pp.First edition of the account of the three very important explorations by the Hungarian-born archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein’s (1862-1943) and of his researches carried out in Chinese Turkistan and adjacent parts of innermost Asia in 1900-1901, 1906-1908 and 19...

Faits memorables des empereurs de la Chine, tirés des annales chinoises… gravées … d'après les dessins originaux de la Chine … tirés du cabinet de mr. Bertin.Paris, Helman and Nicholas Ponce, 1788.With: (2) HELMAN, Isidore-Stanislas. Abrégé historique des principaux traits de la vie de Confucius célebre philosophe chinois, … gravées … d'après des dessins originaux de la Chine envoyés à Paris par M. Amiot missionaire à Pékin …Paris, Helman and Nicholas Ponce, [1788]. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: wholly engraved series, consisting of a title-page, dedication, 24 illustrations and 24 text pages, each printed on one side of a leaf. Ad 2: wholly engraved series, consisting of a title-page, 24 illustrations and 28 text pages, 8 of the text pages printed on both sides of 4 leaves, and each of the others on one side of a leaf. Contemporary gold-tooled, mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, sides, board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges.

HELMAN, Isidore-Stanislas. · 1782

€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)

Deluxe issue, printed on wove paper, of two handsomely engraved print series, with each print accompanied by an engraved text leaf. The first series is a radically revised version of Dijian tushuo (The emperor's mirror), designed to appeal to educated Parisians. Besides refram...

Memoirs of a captivity in Japan, during the years 1811, 1812, and 1813; with observations on the country and the people … second edition. Including:-RIKORD, Petr Ivanovich. Account of voyages to the coasts of Japan; and of negotiations with the Japanese, for the release of Captain Golownin and his companions.-Account of the voyages of Messrs. Chwostoff & Dawidoff.London, Henry Colburn & Co., 1824. 3 volumes. 8vo. With an additional facsimile map, copied from the French edition of 1818, inserted in volume 2. Modern red cloth.

GOLOVNIN, Vasilii Mikhailovich. · 1803

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

IV, 315, [1 blank]; [2], 356, [2]; VIII, LXXXIX, [1 blank], 302 pp.Second edition of the English translation of a primary source for the history of Russian-Japanese relations in the aftermath of disputes that began during Ivan Krusenstern's voyage around the world (1803-1806) ...

Nuova illustrazione istorico-monumentale del basso e dell'alto Egitto.Including: Atlante monumentale del basso e dell'alto Egitto.Florence, Paolo Fumagalli, 1836-1837 (text) & 1837-1841 (plates). 2 text volumes (8vo) and 2 plates volumes (large folio). With an engraved portrait of Segato as frontispiece in the first text volume and the plate volumes with 160 engraved and aquatint plates (7 double-page), including 51 tinted and/or coloured by a contemporary hand; many plates contain multiple illustrations, making 309 illustrations in total. Contemporary green (text vols.) and brown (plates vols.) half morocco.

VALERIANI, Domenico and Girolamo SEGATO. · 1792

€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)

[2], 491, [1 blank], [4]; 788, [6] pp. text.First edition of a beautiful series of illustrations of Egypt and classical Egyptian monuments, with the accompanying text volumes giving detailed information on each illustration. The illustrations show maps, costumes and views of b...

l'Histoire des Indes Orientales et Occidentales …Paris, Robert de Ninville, 1665. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. Contemporary vellum.

MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro. · 1588

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

[32], “353” [= 351], [1 blank]; [2], "292" [= 296], [24] pp.A French translation of Maffei's celebrated Historiarum Indicarum, first published, in Latin in 1588. Divided into 16 books, it describes the Portuguese discoveries and missionary work in India, the East Indies, Persi...

Voyages par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance dans l'archipel des Molucques, de 1768 a 1771 et de 1774 a 1778 …Paris, Maradan, 1805. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 4 engraved plates (3 folding) and 5 folding engraved maps. 19th-century gold-tooled half sheepskin.

STAVORINUS, Johan Splinter. · 1768

€1,450.00 ($1,598.16 | £1,209.69 | ¥255,206)

VII, [1 blank], 5-386; 361, [7]; VIII, “434” [= 430], [2] pp.Second French edition of Stavornius's accounts of his two voyages, made in 1768-1771 and 1774-1778, to the Cape of Good Hope and the Dutch East Indies. Stavorinus was a rear admiral who temporarily transferred to the...

De Medusa in de wateren van Japan, in 1863 en 1864.The Hague, Van Cleef brothers, 1865. 8vo. With a wood-engraved device on the title page and 5 tinted lithographed folding maps. Modern half sheepskin, with the original publisher's wrappers (with Dutch flag on front and back, coloured by hand) bound in.

CASEMBROOT, François de. · 1817

€3,750.00 ($4,133.18 | £3,128.50 | ¥660,016)

XII, [2], 150 pp.First edition of an account of the battle that nearly ended the voyage of the Dutch corvette Medusa on its way to Yokohama, written by the commander of the ship François de Casembroot (1817-1895), captain-lieutenant in the Royal Dutch Navy. On 11 July 1863, th...

Reize van Maarten Gerritsz. Vries in 1643 naar het noorden en oosten van Japan.Including: SIEBOLD, Philipp Franz Balthasar von. Aardrijks- en volkenkundige toelichtingen tot de ontdekkingen van Maerten Gerritsz. Vries, met het fluitschip Castricum a[nn]o. 1643.Amsterdam, Frederik Muller; [The Hague], Koninklijk instituut voor taal-, land en volkenkunde van Nederlandsch Indië, 1858. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With lithographed folding plate with reproductions of six signatures and a folded lithographed reproduction of Maarten Gerritsz. de Vries's original map, coloured in outline. Contemporary half cloth.

LEUPE, Pieter Arend. · 1796

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

[4], 440 pp.First edition of a transcription of the original 17th-century manuscript ship's log of the ship Castricum under the command of Maarten Gerritsz. de Vries, on its journey to the north of Japan to discover the coast of Tartary. Included is a geographical and anthropo...

Vom Hirn und Rückenmark.Mainz, P.A. Winkopp & Komp., 1788. Small 8vo (15.5 x 9.5 cm). With a decorated rule on the title-page and a few decorations built up from cast fleurons. Set in fraktur types with Latin words in italic and non-German book titles in roman. The present copy has a pomegranate stamped on the title-page after printing and folding but before binding. Near contemporary boards covered with orange paste-paper, gold-tooled spine label, orange and brown sprinkled edges.

SOEMMERRING, Samuel Thomas von, the younger. · 1798

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

“XIV” [= XVI], 115, [1] pp.First edition of one of the rare early anatomical works of one of the most important German anatomists, later also known for his introduction of vaccinations against smallpox soon after Jenner’s 1798 publications on the subject, his work on fossils a...

Voorne caart-boeck van alle de dorpen, en polders gelegen inden lande van Oost, ende West Voorne, mitsgaders over Flacquée.[Netherlands, ca. 1701]. Imperial folio (ca. 55 x 38 cm). Etched double-page title-page by Romeyn de Hooghe, dated "1701", and 32 engraved double-page maps (numbered I- VI, A-F and 1-9) engraved by Jan Stemmers and etched by Jan and Caspar Luyken after drawings by A. Steyaart, all in beautiful contemporary colouring. Contemporary red half sheepskin.

DIJCK (DYCK), Heyman van. · 1695

€25,000.00 ($27,554.55 | £20,856.65 | ¥4,400,106)

First and only edition of a splendid atlas in full contemporary colour. In 1695, the "Land van Voorne" commissioned the surveyor Heyman van Dijck to map the territory of Voorne (South Holland). Romeyn de Hooghe was requested to decorate the maps, but would eventually only exec...

Constitution of the Republic of Hawaii. Promulgated July 4th, A.D. 1894.[Honolulu, 1894]. 22 x 14.5 cm. Stapled leaves in publisher's original turquoise wrappers, with letterpress title on front. Kept in modern half morocco clamshell box.

[HAWAII]. · 1893

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

VI, [2 blank], 56 pp.The 56-page issue, plus index, of the first edition of Hawaii's last constitution as a sovereign country, containing 103 numbered articles. When in 1893 Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii was overthrown, she was replaced by a provisional government consisting of...

De wonderlyke reizen van Fernando Mendez Pinto; die hij in de tijt van eenëntwintig jaren in Europa, Asia en Afrika... gedaan heeft.Amsterdam, printed for Jan Rieuwertsz I and Jan Hendricksz Boom, 1653. 4to. With an engraved title-page and 7 engraved plates. Modern vellum.

PINTO, Fernão Mendes and Jan Hendrik GLAZEMAKER (translator). · 1652

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

[8], 280 pp.Second edition of a translation into Dutch of the travels of the Portuguese explorer Pinto through Asia. Over a period of 21 years Pinto travelled to Africa, India and China and even claimed to have been in Tibet. By his own account he was the first westerner to e...

Beschryving van het Oosten, en van eenige andere landen, …Utrecht, Gijsbert Tieme and Abraham van Paddenburg; Rotterdam, Jacobus Bosch and Reinier Arrenberg; Amsterdam, Martinus de Bruyn, 1776-1786. 3 volumes (in 6 parts) bound as 6. 4to. With 205 engraved folding plates (irregularly numbered I-CIII), including maps, plans, views and other illustrations, depicting temples, antiquities, plants, animals, etc. Contemporary half calf.

POCOCKE, Richard. · 1733

€15,000.00 ($16,532.73 | £12,513.99 | ¥2,640,063)

XXXVI, 219, [1 blank], [11], 224-491, [1 blank]; [12], 262, [2 blank], VIII, [3], 268-376, 397-519, [1 blank]; VIII, 262, [2 blank], VIII, [3], 268-403, [1 blank]; [4], 115, [1], 124 pp.First edition of the Dutch translation of Pococke's celebrated monograph on the Near and Mi...

Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, '58, '59.Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1859. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 20 chromolithographed plates, 50 wood-engravings in text and 5 engraved folding maps. Contemporary gold-tooled green morocco, richly gold-tooled spine.

OLIPHANT, Laurence. · 1857

€1,200.00 ($1,322.62 | £1,001.12 | ¥211,205)

XIV, 492; XI, [1 blank], 496 pp.First edition of a highly entertaining combination of travel writing and diplomatic history. It describes the diplomatic missions of the Earl of Elgin to China and Japan in 1857-1859, which ended in various treaties opening the countries to the ...