INDIA & CENTRAL ASIA
Da Asia de Joáo Barros e de Diogo de Couto, Nova Edição…
Lisbon: Regia Officina Typographica, 1788.
Portuguese discoveries in a crisp uniform edition
24 volumes, duodecimo, with four portraits and five folding maps; contemporary blonde speckled calf. This extensive set is a fundamental travel book, and the basis for any history of Portuguese exploration. This is the first collected edition of.....
Price (AUD):
$14,500.00
Ref: #3111076
Scenes in Asia: For the Amusement & Instruction of Little Tarry-At-Home Travellers.
London: Harris, 1821. Octavo with a folding frontispice map, 84 hand-coloured engravings on 28 plates (three on each); original printed boards. Second edition of this children's study of Asian lands. Each engraving is numbered and complimented by a corresponding description. The pictures and text cover a number of Asian countries.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #3002961
Original landscape study titled 'Banda - The Spice Islands'.
Lisbon: 1841.
Lucrative Spice Island possession
Pencil drawing measuring 204 x 260 mm. (sheet size), well preserved, mounted. Original mid-nineteenth century sketch of Banda, the fabulously lucrative and contested Spice island in present day Indonesia. Once the primary source of nutmeg and mace, the Banda islands were a prized Dutch.....
Price (AUD):
$1,150.00
Ref: #3904137
Narrative of a Voyage to India…
London: Sir Richard Phillips, 1823.
Passage to India & New South Wales aboard a transport
Octavo with an aquatint plate, old cloth. The only edition of this description of a visit to New South Wales in 1818 and one of surprisingly few accounts of a voyage on a convict transport.....
Price (AUD):
$725.00
Ref: #3301675
Tabula Indiæ Orientalis…
Amsterdam: 1662.
Tasman map by Blaeu's apprentice
Engraved map, 460 x 560 mm., with original handcolouring; mounted. Fine early map of the East Indies showing the north-Australian discoveries of Abel Tasman. Frederick de Wit was one of the foremost map-makers in Holland, whose 'maps were distinguished by their excellent craftsmanship.....
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #2810828
The History of Hindostan…
London: T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1770-, 1772. Three volumes, quarto, folding map and eight plates (including frontispieces), a fine set in handsome contemporary gilt decorated calf, spine in raised bands with red and green morocco labels. A beautifully bound set of Dow's history of Bengal, illustrated with.....
Price (AUD):
$2,750.00
Ref: #4102404
Considerations on the danger and impolicy of laying open the trade with India and China;
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812.
The tide changes in the East…
Octavo, original spine, label and diced boards; with errata bound in. Uncommon: reflections on the state of play by an East India Company agent. Published a year prior to the abolition of the Company monopoly on.....
Price (AUD):
$950.00
Ref: #4106424
A Letter to the Earl of Shelburne…
London: John Debrett, 1783. Octavo, 26pp, disbound. A printed letter critical of Thomas Townshend's involvement as Home Secretary in the affairs of the East India Company, published before the contentious resignation of Warren Hastings as Governor of Bengal. The letter was addressed by Lord Bellamont to the Earl of Shelburne.....
Price (AUD):
$585.00
Ref: #4111720
Ost- und West-Indischer wie auch Sinesischer Lust- und Stats-Garten.
Nürnberg: Johann Andreæ Endter, 1668.
The exotic East and West Indies: in monastic pigskin binding
Thick folio, engraved title, followed by title-page in red & black, envoi to German Emperor Leopold I with separate armorial frontispiece, 65 plates, with one textual illustration and the terminal Errata leaf; contemporary full pigskin.....
Price (AUD):
$19,850.00
Ref: #4012339
A Travers L'Empire Britannique.
Paris: Hachette, 1886. Two volumes, octavo, folding map; copy in later quarter calf. Includes accounts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria.
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #2903254
Asiatic Researches; or, Transactions of the Society…
London: printed for J.Sewell; Vernor and Hood, and others, 1799-1812.
'Much more than the Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian world'
Eleven volumes, quarto, with a total of 132 plates (of which 24 are folding), some handcoloured; contemporary polished half calf with gilt spines. A splendid set in a handsome and well-preserved contemporary.....
Price (AUD):
$9,850.00
Ref: #4205930
Choix de voyages dans les Quatre Parties du Monde…
Paris: Dabo and Masson, 1823.
Miniature voyage collection, with a Freycinet section
15 volumes, duodecimo, with numerous folding maps & plates; contemporary half calf. A delightful French miniature collection of voyages. There are three volumes each to the sections on Africa, Asia, America, Europe and the South Seas. This last.....
Price (AUD):
$6,000.00
Ref: #2903176
Di Marco Polo e Degli Altri Viaggiatori Veneziani piu Illustri Dissertazioni.
Venice: Gio. Giacomo Fuchs, 1818-1819.
The earliest scholarly edition of Marco Polo
Two volumes, quarto, with four folding maps; quarter vellum in antique style, original plain blue-grey wrappers bound in. The first "modern" edition of Marco Polo, the inspiration for all explorers towards the east. His reports of his travels.....
Price (AUD):
$4,850.00
Ref: #4307510
India Orientalis Christiana continens fundationes ecclesiarum…
Rome: Typis Salomonianis, 1794.
Eighteenth-century India by a noted orientalist
Three works bound together, quarto, the first main work with folding map, 2 plates and an engraved portrait vignette, with two shorter pamphlets (24 & 26 pp.); an attractive copy in contemporary patterned vellum boards, spine banded, red morocco spine.....
Price (AUD):
$4,250.00
Ref: #3703905
The Travels of Marco Polo: A Venetian, in the Thirteenth Century…
London: printed for the author by Cox and Bayliss, 1818.
The first separately published English translation of Marco Polo since 1579
Quarto, with a large folding map; an excellent copy in full calf, gilt. Important English edition of the work of Marco Polo, the most famous travel book every written.....
Price (AUD):
$12,500.00
Ref: #4505152
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Illustrations to Prinsep's Journal of a Voyage…
London: Smith & Elder, 1833.
With the suite of views in original wrappers, and including the marvellous panorama of Hobart
Complete set in fine original condition, comprising: Text, duodecimo, folding map, very good in the original cloth with paper label to front, the label rather worn; and Views, two parts.....
Price (AUD):
$9,500.00
Ref: #3712432
An Historical Disquisition concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India; and the Progress…
London: A. Strathan and T. Cadell, 1791.
Ancient seafaring contact between India and the West?
Quarto, with two large folding maps; expertly rebacked in polished calf with gilt lettered label, original marbled boards retained, an attractive copy. Carefully researched history of contact between Europe and India, by Scottish parson and.....
Price (AUD):
$1,000.00
Ref: #4106407
Seize mille lieues a travers l'Asie et l'Océanie.
Paris: Hachette, 1864.
The man who married a mountain.
Two volumes, octavo, with a world map and splendid folding engraved view of the Himalayas; contemporary green quarter roan, flat spines with gilt lettering. Endearing account of a world voyage, including a sojourn in Victoria, by eccentric traveller and mountaineer Henry.....
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #4206988
Ost-Indische Reyse…
Amsterdam: Jacob von Meurs u. Johannes von Sommern, 1676.
Dutch and Portuguese settlements in the East Indies
Folio, title page printed in red and black; extra engraved title, engraved portrait, and 19 double-page engraved plates, with one full page engraving and many more engravings in the text; the second part.....
Price (AUD):
$6,500.00
Ref: #3812972
À travers les déserts de la Tartarie et les neiges du Thibet.
Lille & Grammont: Maison du Bon Livre & Oeuvre de St. Charles, circa 1900.
Early French visitor to Lhasa
Folio, illustrated throughout including photographic plates and full-page steel-engravings, original deep blue decorated wrappers. A particularly good copy of this important account of China and Tibet by the French missionary Évariste.....
Price (AUD):
$400.00
Ref: #3708334
Journal Portsmouth to Madras 1835-36…
At sea: 1835-1836.
Meeting "the Mary from New South Wales to Calcutta"
Journal kept by Captain J.T. Baldwin Madras Artillery during a voyage to India in the year 1835 [&] Original verses written on visiting home after a few years absence; Original verses on visiting Newgate after seven years Transportation;.....
Price (AUD):
$12,000.00
Ref: #4504650
Telliamed ou Entretiens d'un philosophe indien…
Amsterdam: Chez L'honore & Fils. 1748.
Pre-Darwinian utopia dedicated to Cyrano de Bergerac
Two volumes in one, octavo, owner's name on title; contemporary French mottled calf. First edition of this important, controversial, and strangely prescient work, dedicated to Cyrano de Bergerac. By using the device of an imaginary voyage to.....
Price (AUD):
$3,600.00
Ref: #3005430