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MENDES PINTO, Fernão.
The Voyages and Adventures of Fernand Mendez Pinto, a Portugal: during his travels for the space of one...
London, Printed by J. Macock, for Henry Cripps, and Lodowick Lloyd … 1653.
First edition in English, translated by Henry Cogan, of a travel best-seller, first published posthumously in 1614; there were nineteen editions in six languages by the end of the century, ‘rivalling the popularity of Cervantes’ Don Quixote. It is, in fact, an exotic and imaginative...
£6500
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MESNY, William.
Mesny’s Chinese miscellany. A text book of notes on China and the Chinese, in two volumes … Vol. I.
Shanghai, printed at the “China Gazette Office”, 1896.
The first of an eventual four volumes of a remarkable miscellany of all things Chinese compiled by the Jersey born adventurer William Mesny (1842–1919). This volume collects twenty-six weekly parts issued between 26 September 1895 and 19 March 1896; the series would eventually run until June 1905.
£1500
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[MONTANUS, Arnoldus.]
Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales des Provinces Unies, vers les empereurs du Japon....
Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1680.
First edition in French of an important and influential study of Japan by the Dutch theologian and historian Arnoldus Montanus, based on eyewitness accounts from two Dutch East India Company (VOC) missions to Japan in 1649 and 1661.
£3500
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NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.
Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos, y religiosos de la monarchia de China. Descripcion...
Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian Anisson, 1676.
Scarce first edition, one of the most important early studies of Chinese history, religion, philosophy, and culture, by the Spanish Dominican Domingo Navarrete (d. 1689).
£3750
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PALAFOX Y MENDOZA, Juan de.
The History of the Conquest of China by the Tartars. Together with an Account of several remarkable...
London, W. Godbid for M. Pitt, 1671.
First edition in English of Palafox's Historia de la conquista de la China (1670), an account of the Manchu conquest of Ming China based on reports sent to him from Macao and the Philippines.
£1750
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PERRY, Matthew Calbraith.
Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the years...
Washington, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer, 1856.
First edition of the official account of the naval expedition that established diplomatic and commercial relations between the United States and Japan and forced the end of Japan’s self-imposed policy of seclusion from the outside world.
£3500
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ROUGEMONT, François de.
Relacam do estado politico e espiritual do imperio da China, pellos annos de 1659 atè o de 1666. Escrita...
Lisbon, Joao da Costa, 1672.
Portuguese translation, the first appearance of the text, of the Dutch Jesuit François de Rougemont’s history of mid seventeenth-century China, published a year before the Latin original. Inspired to join the Chinese missions after meeting the famed Jesuit sinologist Martino Martini in Louvain, Rougemont...
£2500
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SICARDO, José.
Christiandad del Japon, y dilatada persecucion que padecio. Memorias sacras, de los martyres de las ilustres religiones...
Madrid, Francisco Sanz, 1698.
Rare first edition of this important and comprehensive account of Christian missions to Japan by the Spanish Augustinian José Sicardo (1643–1715).
£12000
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SMITH, George.
Lewchew and the Lewchewans; being a narrative of a visit to Lewchew, or Loo Choo, in October, 1850 ...
London, T. Hatchard, 1853.
Three scarce works on the Ryukyu Islands, a chain of Japanese islands between Kyushu and Taiwan.
£950
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ST JOHN, Spenser Buckingham.
Life in the forests of the far east … With numerous illustrations …
London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1862.
First edition, a nice copy in the publisher’s binding and with their advertisements, of this richly illustrated account of pioneering expeditions on the island of Borneo by St John (1825-1910), who had been introduced to Sir James Brooke (the ‘White Raja’) in 1847, when Brooke was visiting England.
£1600
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TIMKOVSKII, Egor Fedorovich.
Travels of the Russian mission through Mongolia to China, and residence in Peking, in the years 1820-1821...
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827.
First edition in English (first Russian 1824) of this important description of Mongolia and China by the Russian traveller and diplomat Egor Timkovskii (1790–1875), translated by Hannibal Evans Lloyd (1771–1847).
£1100
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WINES, Enoch Cobb.
A peep at China, in Mr. Dunn’s Chinese collection; with miscellaneous notices relating to the institutions...
Philadelphia, for Nathan Dunn, 1839.
Scarce first edition of a guide to the remarkable collection of Chinese artefacts accumulated by the American businessman Nathan Dunn (1782–1844).
£1250
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WYLD, James.
Map of the islands of Japan, Kurile &c. and part of the Chinese dominions and a sketch of the river Amoor and the...
London, James Wyld, 1859–1860.
Rare four-sheet map of Japan, the Russian Far East, Mongolia and Southern Siberia, Korea, and China’s central coast, by James Wyld the younger (1812–1887), published just a few years after the end of Japan’s long isolationist period.
£2750
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TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.
Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli ‘ad instantia et requisitione, & a proprie spese de Nicolo Tartalea Brisciano Autire’, July 1546.]
First edition, annotated throughout by a contemporary reader, of Tartaglia’s highly influential work on ballistics and algebra, containing his polemical rule for solving cubic equations.
£6750
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TERENTIUS Afer, Publius.
Comoediae sex. Ex recensione Heinsiana, cum annotationibus Thomae Farnabii in quatuor priores et M.C.Is.F....
Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1658.
An intensely annotated copy of this rare pocket Jansson edition of Terence’s comedies. The edition itself was a successful production, uniting the text edited by Heinsius with the commentary of Thomas Farnaby to the first four comedies, and that of Méric Casaubon to the last two. Jansson had...
£2250
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VALERIUS MAXIMUS.
Dictorum et factorum memorabilium libri novem.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, October 1502] [April 1503].
First Aldine edition, variant ‘B’ with four additional leaves in quire A, with numerous early annotations.
£2750
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PEROTTO, Niccolò, and Benedetto BRUGNOLO, editor.
Cornucopi[a]e nuper emendatum a domino Benedicto Brugnolo: ac...
[Milan], Giovanni Giacomo and brothers da Legnano [for Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler, 28 October 1510 (colophon)].
Scarce Milanese edition of Perotto’s Cornucopiae, an encyclopaedic commentary to the first book of Martial’s epigrams, here with a curious combination of woodcut initials and capital spaces with guide letters.
£1750
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SAUSSURE, Ferdinand de.
Cours de linguistique générale.
Lausanne & Paris, Payot, 1916.
First edition of this seminal textbook on linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure, fundamental to the development of structuralism and semiotics, introducing distinctions between signified and signifier as well as language systems and speech.
£575
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GROUCHY, Nicolas de.
Praeceptiones dialecticae, Nicolao Gruchio Rotomagensi authore. Disputatio eiusdem, quid de nomine dialectices...
Paris, Gabriel Buon, 1563.
An apparently unrecorded edition of Grouchy’s abstract of his lectures on logic and Aristotelian dialectic. The philologist Nicolas de Grouchy (1510–1572) spent twelve years in Bordeaux (1535-47) as professor of rhetoric at the Collège de Guyenne (the top class was called ‘Classe de Rhétorique’),...
£750
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RUSH, John; Jacob F. SHEEK, editor.
The Hand-Book to veterinary Homoeopathy, or the homoeopathic Treatment of the Horse,...
New York & San Francisco, Boericke & Tafel, 1876.
Later American edition of a rare hand-book to veterinary homoeopathy. The text, first published in 1853, offers homoeopathic remedies for a variety of ailments, prefaced by a defence of the principles of the practice.
£275