Atlases, Books, Charts, Manuscripts & Maps on exhibition at the 2008 ILAB/ABAJ Tokyo International Antiquarian Bookfair
Tokyo International Forum
March 12 (Wed.) 17:00-20:00
March 13 (Thu.) 10:00-20:00
March 14 (Fri.) 10:00-15:00
Booth 29
 | PORTUGUESE GOVERNOSHIP IN GOA BARROS, João de.Vervolg der Tien-jaarige Scheeps-togten en Manhafte Krygs-bedryven door Nuno da Cunha, als Gouverneur Generaal gedaan in Oost-Indien, zederd het Jaar 1536 tot aan zyn dood ... Uit d'eyge Berigten en Order des Konings van Portugaal in't Portugys beschreven ... Nu eerst uit d'Oorspronkelyke Taal in 't Nederduyts vertaald ...Leyden, Pieter van der Aa, 1706. 8vo. With 5 folding engraved maps of India, the East Indies, the northern part of the Indian Ocean, and 2 maps of the Bengal kingdom, and 6 engraved folding plates. Contemporary leather, a little rubbed. Full description »
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 | 1ST ED. EMSER NEW TESTAMENT IN A CONTEMPORARY BLIND-TOOLED BINDING [BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - GERMAN]. EMSER, Hieronymus.Das Naw Testament nach lawt der Christliche(n) kirchen bewerte(n) text, corrigirt, un(d) widerumb zu recht gebracht.(Colophon: Dresden, printed by Wolfgang Stöckel), 1527. Folio. With 19 full-page apocalypse woodcuts by Lucas CRANACH; 1 full-page woodcut on the title-page (with the letterpress text printed in red in windows), 1 other full-page woodcut (plus 1 repeat) and 7 half-page woodcuts by Georg Lemberger; 1 woodcut half-title; 6 large woodcut pictorial initials (plus 8 repeats), 5 large interlaced (and 1 other decorated) initials (plus 5 repeats) and numerous smaller (mostly Lombardic) initials. With some rubrications and with red manuscript shoulder headings. This copy has 22 small extra woodcuts pasted in the margins, these and some of the initials and half-page woodcuts coloured. Contemporary blind-tooled parchment(?) over wooden boards, in a panel design with a floral roll forming an outer frame and a design with lilies filling the centre, 2 ornamented brass clasps on leather straps with 2 catch-plates, spine with 3 double and 2 single raised bands, pastedowns made from 2 bifolia from a manuscript Vulgate Bible (in red and black) on parchment. Full description »
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 | CLASSIC USER’S MANUAL FOR GLOBES, SPHERES & SUNDIALS BLAEU, Willem Jansz.Institutio Astronomica de usu Globorum & Sphærarum Cælestium ac Terrestrium.Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1652. 8vo. With a woodcut globe, armillary sphere and earth orbiting the sun as devices on the title-page and 2 part-titles, 29 woodcut illustrations in the text, including quadrants, sundials, astronomical diagrams, etc., woodcut decorative initial letters and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum. Full description »
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| ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTION OF THE TROPICAL FISH CHAETODON ARGO BODDAERT, Pieter.Brief ... aan ... Johannes Burmannus ... Behelzende eene Naauwkeurige Beschrijving, en naar het leven vervaardigde Afbeelding, van den Gevlakten Klipvisch, uit de Verzameling van ... Johannes Albertus Schlosser.Epidtola ad ... Johannem Burmannum, ... De Chaetodonte Argo Descripto atque accuratissima Icone Illustrata ex Museo ... Johannis Alberti Schlosseri. Amsterdam, Kornelus van Tongerlo, 1770. 4to. With 1 engraved plate, coloured by a contemporary hand. No. II in Boddaert's series of letters on zoology. Modern stiff wrappers. Full description »
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 | RARE FUNGI FLORA OF TRENTE BRESADOLA, Jacopo.Fungi Tridentini Novi, vel Nondum Delineati, Descripti, et Iconibus Illustrati.Trente, J.B. Monauni (vol. I), J. Zippel (vol. II), 1881-1892[-1900]. 14 parts in 2 volumes. 8vo. With 217 lithographed, hand-coloured plates of fungi. Black half morocco. Full description »
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 | CLASSIC MANUAL OF DISTILLATION WITH HUNDREDS OF BOTANICAL WOODCUTS BRUNSCHWIG, Hieronymus.New Vollkommen Distillierbüch wolgegründter künstlicher Distillation, sampt Underweisung und Bericht, künstlich Abzuziehen oder Separieren, die fürnembste distillierte Wasser, ...Frankfurt on the Main, heirs of Christian Egenolff, 1597. Small folio. With title-page in red and black, woodcut publisher's device above colophon at end, well over 300 woodcuts in the text, fraktur type, and 10 woodcut decorated fraktur initial letters. Seventeenth-century vellum. Full description »
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FIRST SCHOLARLY ACCOUNT OF THE ORANGUTAN CAMPER, Pieter.Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van Petrus Camper over den Orang Outang; en eenige andere aap-soorten. Over den Rhinoceros met den dubbelen horen; en over het Rendier.Amsterdam, P. Meijer and G. Warnars, 1782. 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. With 2 half-titles, 9 folding plates. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt. Full description »
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 | RARE MEDIEVAL COMMENTARY ON ARISTOTLE'S PHYSICSCANONICUS, Joannes.Q(uaesti)ones super. VIII. lib(ros). phy(sicorum). Aristo(telis). perutiles: ...[colophon:] Venice, Octavianus Scotus, 8 May 1520. Folio (31 x 21 cm). With 38 decorative woodcut initials and a woodcut publisher's device. Set in 4 sizes of rotunda (round gothic) types. Modern vellum, marbled endpapers. Full description »
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 | EARLY CHART OF NORTHEAST ASIA [CHART - ASIA]. KEULEN, Johannes van.Pascaarte vande Noord Oost Cust van Asia verthoonende in sich alle de Zee-custen van Tartarien, van Iapan tot Nova Zemla alles op wassende graaden geleght.Amsterdam, Johannes van Keulen, ca. 1700. Large engraved chart (plate size 52.5 x 60). With title below a seated sultan, surrounded by garlands of fruit and mounted tartars in battle scenes, with severed heads lying at the base; scales of longitude in the head and foot borders and latitude down the centre of the chart; 2 compasses (north above); rhumb lines; and 2 ships in the sea. Coloured by an early hand, the map in outline. Full description »
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 | EARLY TREATISE ON ACUPUNCTURE CHURCHILL, James Morss.Traité de l’Acupuncture, ou Zin-King des Chinois et des Japonais; ouvrage destiné a faire connaître la valeur médicale de cette opération, et a donner les documens nécessaires pour la pratiquer.Paris, Crevot, 1825. 8vo. Modern paper-covered boards. Full description »
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 | CLASSIC WORK ON ORCHIDS COGNIAUX, Célestin Alfred and A. GOOSSENS.Dictionnaire Iconographique des Orchidées.Brussels, B. Vandievoet, 1896-1907. 64 parts bound in 7 volumes. Oblong 8vo (14 x 17.5 cm) and 8vo. With 772 (of 825) chromolithographed plates. WITH: Tables des Planches and Chronique Orchidéenne, volume 1 (1-53) and volume 2 (1-9). Contemporary half black morocco, gilt titles on spines. Full description »
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 | CONDILLAC'S CRITIQUE OF DESCARTES, MALEBRANCHE AND LEIBNITZ CONDILLAC, Étienne de.Traité des systèmes, où l'on en démêle les inconvéniens & les avantages.The Hague, Neaulme, 1749. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo (16 x 95 cm). Contemporary marbled calf with richly gilt spine. Full description »
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SEA SALTS NOT WHALE SPERM CORDUS, Valerius and Conrad GESNER.De Halosantho seu Spermate Ceti Vulgo Dicto, Liber.Zürich, [Jacob Gesner], 1566. 8vo. With a large woodcut publisher’s device on the title-page and 1 woodcut initial letter. Modern half vellum. Full description »
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 | BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED COMPOSITE ATLAS[DANCKERTS, ALLARD, VISSCHER, DE WIT, MORTIER and others].Atlas.[Amsterdam], [Theodorus and Cornelis III Danckerts?], ca. 1706 (dated maps 1694-1706). Imperial folio (53.5 x 33.5 cm). Composite atlas, with an engraved title-page, 43 double-page engraved maps and 4 double-page engraved tables, all beautifully coloured in a consistent and balanced manner by a contemporary hand, probably in the workshop of the publisher. With maps by Johannes, Justus, Theodorus and Cornelis III Danckerts, Carel and Abraham Allard, Nicolaas Visscher I & II, Frederik de Wit, Pieter Mortier, Caspar Specht and even Alexis-Hubert Jaillot in Paris. Modern maroon sheepskin, printed "marbled"-paper sides. Full description »
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 | FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, OF DARWIN’S VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE DARWIN, Charles, Phillip Parker KING, Robert FITZROY and others.Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America and the Beagle’s Circumnavigation of the Globe.London, Henry Colburn, 1839. 3 volumes plus the separately bound appendix to volume 2. 8vo. With 9 folding engraved charts and maps, 47 full-page engraved plates with views, 2 charts and 1 diagram, and 6 wood-engravings in the text. Mid-nineteenth-century red morocco, marbled sides. Full description »
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