Exploration and Travel: Asia
Catalog Information: 299 lots | 187 with images
Lot 1: MANUEL ACOSTA (1540-1604)
Rerum a Societate Iesu in oriente gestarum ad annum usque... MDLXVIII, translated and augmented by Giovanni Pietro Maffei. Dillingen: Sebaldus Mayer, 1571. 2 parts in one volume, 8° (153 x 91mm). (Title slightly ink-stained and with Jesuit stamp, a f [...more]
Lot 2: KHOJEH ABDULKURREEM
The Memoirs of Khojeh Abdulkurreem, a Cashmerian of Distinction, translated from the original Persian by Francis Gladwin. Calcutta: William Mackay, 1788. 8° (220 x 134mm). Half-title. (Old stab marks, final two leaves rehinged, last leaf laid down.) [...more]
Lot 3: AL SHARAF AL-DIN
Histoire de Timur-Bec connu sous le nom du Grand Tamerlane, translated from Persian by François Petis de la Croix the younger. Paris: Robert-Marc d'Espilly, 1722. 4 volumes, 12° (158 x 95mm). 5 folding engraved maps. (Vol. I lacks final 4 pages of te [...more]
Lot 4: PHILIPPUS BALDAEUS (1632-1672)
Wahrhaftige ausfürliche Beschreibung der berühmten Ost-Indischen Kusten Malabar und Coromandel, als auch der Inzel Zeylon. Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius Waesberge and Johannes von Someren, 1672. 3 parts in one volume. 2° (308 x 198mm). Engraved fron [...more]
Lot 5: GASPARO BALBI (1579-1588)
Viaggio dell'Indie Orientali. Venice: Camillo Borgominieri, 1590. 8° (139 x 91mm). Woodcut title device, woodcut foliated initials. (Early quires dampstained.) Modern vellum, red edges. Provenance: Convent of St. Bonaventura, Venice (inscription and [...more]
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