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Description of the world with 645 plates: a rare complete copy

Alain Manesson Mallet (1630-1706).
Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreises, darinnen I. […] V.
Frankfurt, Anton Heinscheidt for Johann Adam Jung, 1719.
5 volumes in 2. 8°. (IX), (VIII), (IV), 263, (1); 276, (24); 170 (22); 519, (1 blank), (XLV), (1 blank); 418, (LXXXIV) pp. = complete with errata leaves.With 645 plates (618 numbered, 5 frontispieces, 17 portraits, 5 unnumbered or wrongly numbered plates). The main title in vol. 1 erroneously mentions 650 plates. See full index of plates below.
An exceptionally rare complete copy of Alain Manesson Mallet's "Description of the World". This remarkable work, here in the second edition of the German translation, provides the reader with a guide to countless places in the world, divided in four parts: Africa, America, Asia and Europe. This is preceded by an introduction to cosmography and geography. The illustrations show maps, cities, people and particularities of the places that are… Read More

Bombay-printed description of Gujarat and beyond
ombay, printed at the Times' Press, by James Chesson, 1849.
Folio (29x23,5 cm.). [14], 408, VIII, [2], IX-XXIV pp. Illustrated with several plans of palaces.
First edition, printed at Bombay, of a very thorough, lengthy description of "Gujarashtra" (present-day Gujarat, India). One of the very few copies of this Bombay-printed first edition: WorldCat records only 1 copy, digitized by the University of Bradford.
Henry Briggs was born in Bombay, October 20, 1824. He travelled in South Africa in 1843, in China in1845, and settled in Bombay in 1846 to work in the office of his father: Briggs & Co. Meanwhile he started writing about India. First he edited the Sindian (1854) and in 1855 the Sind Kossid. In 1856 he became assistant secretary at Bombay to the G.I.P. Railway. His first published book was the present Cities of Gujdrashtra, "containing curious information gleaned from travellers in India: of whose rare works he made an extensive collection"… Read More

• Extremely rare, important and early work on East Africa and the East Indies • João dos Santos (Évora, after 1560 - Goa, 1622).
Ethiopia Oriental e varia historia de cousas notaveis do Oriente.
[Including:]
Varia historia de cousas notaveis do Oriente. E da christandade que os religiosos da Ordem dos pregadores nelle fizerāo
Évora, (colophon vol. 2: Impresso no Convento de S. Domingos de Evora), Manoel de Lyra, 1609 (colophon vol. 2: printed in 1608).
2 volumes in 1. 8°. [8], 140; [3, 1 blank], 123 ll. (index bound after title in vol. 2). Collates: [pi]6, 2[pi]2, A-R8, S4; A, Q4-Q6 [= index], A2-A8, B-P8, Q3 (complete).
Vol. 1 with an engraved title-page depicting a female figure seated on a crocodile (dragon?), an elephant, a palm tree, a lion and a church in a landscape, surrounded by an architectural border with the image of Saint Dominic in a cartouche at the top. Signed Bras Nunes Fecit; vol. 2 with the title-page in a woodcut architectural border with two caryatids and an inset… Read More

Drawn studies of Indian boats in an English manuscript notebook

Cornelius Sanjev (?).
[Manuscript notebook]
Bengal, 1834.
4°. 26 pp., 20 ll. Paper watermarked RTassell 1831.
Manuscript textin ink, with 31 drawings in various inks and pencil.
Contemporary half dark green morocco with marbled sides.
Finely illustrated manuscript notebook of a trip to Bengal, India. The author had a particular interest in the boats that he or she encountered while sailing the rivers of Bengal: the notebook counts 14 large and 4 smaller drawings of various types of indigenous boats. Most were first sketched in pencil and then traced with ink. One drawing is signed with what seems like "Cornelius Sanjev", though we could not identify this person.The manuscript starts off as a ship's log of a journey from Portsmouth, England on Tuesday, March 11, 1834. They passed the Cape of Good Hope on May 15th. The author mentions names and destination of ships they encountered along the way, such as the Minerva from Liverpool bound… Read More

Wilson's first published Sanskrit translation, the first publication of the Meghadūta in the West
Kālidāsa (c. 4th–5th century CE); Horace Hayman Wilson (1786-1860, trans.).

The Megha Duta, or Cloud Messenger, a poem, in the Sanscrit language.

Calcutta printed: London reprinted, Black, Parry, and Co., 1814.

8°. XXII, 23-175 pp. Later half calf, marbled sides.First English translation of the Meghadūta, the most renowned text by India's greatest ancient poet. This famous Sanskrit love poem became popular in Europe in the early 19th century, chiefly because of the present translation by Horace Wilson. Written in the 4th-5th century by the Classical Sanskrit author Kālidāsa, it tells the story of a lover who sends his message to his beloved by a cloud. The present edition includes Wilson's commentaries on his translation of the ancient poem.
Translator Horace Wilson was the first professor of Sanskrit at Oxford. He made his name through his many translations of ancient Sanskrit texts. For… Read More

Introducing drugs from around the world
João Curvo Semedo (1635-1719).
Polyanthea medicinal. Noticias galenicas, e chymicas, repartidas em tres tratados [...] Quarta vez impressa […].
Lisboa Occidental, Na Officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1727.
Folio in 6s. [60], 312, 317-879, [1 blank], 32, [4], 11, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. = complete with the advertisement leaf at the end and the 3 plates: an engraved frontispiece showing the Portuguese Royal coat-of-arms by J. Gomez, 1727; a full-page engraved portrait of the Archbishop of Lisbon Luís de Sousa by Claude Duflos, 1701; and an engraved portrait of the author João Curvo Semedo also by J. Gomez, 1727.
Contemporary sheep with gold-tooled spine and raised bands.
An important pioneering Portuguese guide to medicine from around the world. This rare fourth edition is of particular interest because it includes the list of drugs from other continents: Memorial de varios simplices que da India Oriental, da America. & de outras partes do mundo vem… Read More

Amongst the greatest histories of the New World
This copy a rare complete second edition


Antonio Herrera de Tordesillas (1549-1626).

Primera parte de la historia general del Mundo, de XVII. años del tiempo del señor Rey don Felipe II. el Prudente, desde el año de M.D.LIII. hasta el de M.D.LXX.

Valladolid, Juan Godinez de Millis, 1606 (colophon: Valladolid, Juan Godinez de Millis, 1605).
4° in 8s. [8], 820, [42] pp. Collates: x4, A-2Z8, 3A-3B6, x-2x8, 3x4.

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Segunda parte de la historia general del Mundo, de XV. años del tiempo del señor Rey don Felipe II. el Prudente, desde el año de M.D.LXXI. hasta el de M.D.LXXXV.

Valladolid, [Juan Godinez de Millis], 1606 (colophon: Valladolid, Juan Godinez de Millis, 1605).
4° in 8s. [6], 630, [2 blank], [38] pp. Collates: π3, A-2Q8, 2R, π-3π3, [1 blank].

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Tercera parte de la historia general del Mundo, de XIIII. años del tiempo del señor Rey don Felipe II. el prudente, desde el año de 1585. hasta el de 1598. que passò… Read More