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The first English voyage to Hawaii after Captain James Cook's

PORTLOCK, Nathaniel. Reis naar de noord-west kust van Amerika. Gedaan in de jaren 1785, 1786, 1787 en 1788.
Amsterdam, Matthijs Schalekamp, 1795. 4to. With folding engraved map (34.5 x 46 cm) showing the routes of the ships King George and Queen Charlotte, 1 plate with engraved music and 8 folding engraved plates (last plate partly hand-coloured). Modern red half leather. XII, [4], 265, [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,750
Alaska Canada & Greenland China Hawaii North America Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific
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A Chinese Qur'an Juz'

[QUR'AN JUZ']. [An illuminated Qur'an, Juz' XXVIII].
[Qing China, perhaps Yunnan or Gansu, ca. 18th century]. 4to (212 x 285 mm). Arabic manuscript on paper, written in a black Sini script in 5 lines, with some diacritics picked out in red, and the leaves outlined in red. The Arabic text on the opening page is calligraphed within a golden circle, surrounded by a gold border, the opening and closing bifolia have wide gold borders with multicoloured designs, and Chinese knots in the margins, the verse markers and Surah titles are calligraphed on fields of gold, with the Surah titles calligraphed with jade green ink. 19th-century gold tooled leather, blue cloth end papers. 60 ll. Full description
€ 18,000
Arabic Printing & Calligraphy China Islam & Qurans Manuscripts & Documents
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A French voyage to the Far East, presentation copy

RENOUARD DE SAINTE-CROIX, Felix. Voyage commercial et politique aux Indes Orientales, aux Iles Philippines, a la Chine, avec des notions sur la Cochinchine et le Tonquin, pendant les années 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806 et 1807.
Paris, Clament frères (printed by Crapelet), 1810. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 2 folding engraved maps (India and Southeast Asia, coloured in outline), and 4 folding letterpress tables. Contemporary gold-tooled tree calf. X, 301, [1]; [4], 390; [4], 291, [1] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
Anthropology & Ethnography China India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Philippines Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia
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First French edition of the most important work on China of the 17th century

RICCI, Matteo and Nicolas TRIGAULT. Histoire de l'expedition Chrestienne au royaume de la Chine, entreprinse par les PP. de la compagnie de Iesus.
Lyons, for Horace Cardon, 1616. 8vo. With an engraved title page and a full-page engraved portrait of prince Philippe Guillaume of Orange, and a large folding plan (42.5 x 15 cm). Contemporary overlapping vellum. [40], 1096 pp. Full description
€ 25,000
China Church History & Missions Jesuits Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia
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Complete set of articles from the first ten years of the Royal Asiatic Society

[ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY]. Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
London, 1824-1834. 3 volumes in 8 parts. 4to. With 80 lithographed plates, including several folding plates and 2 chromolithographed plates, and some smaller illustrations in text. Contemporary blue and grey paper wrappers, kept in two modern half morocco boxes. Full description
€ 18,000
Archaeology China India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southeast Asia UK - United Kingdom
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Very rare pamphlet devoted to Saint Francis Xavier and Christian missions in Asia

SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER (subject). Prodigioso milagre de S. Francisco Xavier. Saude restituida a Alexandre Philipuccio da Companhia de Jesu: em doze de Março de 1658.
Lisbon, Henrique Valente de Oliveira, 1659. Small 4to. With a decorated woodcut initial and a woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary limp vellum, with a later shelfmark label mounted on the front. 20 pp. Full description
€ 6,850
Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets China Church History & Missions Italy Japan & Far East Jesuits Religion (17th Century)
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Enlarged Dutch edition of a description of Southeast Asia

SALMON, Thomas and Matthias van GOCH. Hedendaegsche historie, of tegenwoordige staet van alle volkeren; ... I. deel. Behelzende de tegenwoordige staet der keizerryken China en Japan, als mede van de Ladrones, Filippynsche en Molukkische eilanden, en van Makassar.
Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, 1729. 6 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece by Jan Caspar Philips, 3 engraved folding maps and 7 engraved plates (2 full-page and 5 folding, including 4 signed by Philips and dated 1728-1729). The maps show: (1) China, (2) Japan and (3) the Philippines, including the greater part of Indonesia. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [20], 88, [2], 91-200, [4], 203-318, [2], 319-442, [4], 443-554, [8], 555-645, [19], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Anthropology & Ethnography Charts & Maps China City Plans, Topography & Views Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Japan & Far East Philippines Southeast Asia
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Deluxe album containing 19th-century hand-coloured photographs of China and its people by the leading photographer in Shanghai during the late Qing dynasty

SAUNDERS, William Thomas (photographer). [Portfolio of sketches of Chinese life and character].
[Shanghai, China, 1871]. Oblong album (ca. 41 x 56 cm). With 51 hand-coloured photographs mounted on the recto of 50 leaves. Contemporary gold- and black-tooled red sheepskin, with a hand-carved wooden panel mounted into the front board, showing a Asian house with 4 people around a round table, a cat or similar pet in the foreground next to a person smoking a pipe (an opium pipe?) being approached by a servant with two plates food, gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges, white watered silk endpapers. [50] ll. Full description
€ 125,000
China Photography
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Chinese archaeology in the early 20th century, with 144 collotype plates

SEGALEN, Victor, Gilbert de VOISINS and Jean LARTIGUE. Mission archéologique en Chine (1914). L'art funéraire a l'époque des Han.
Paris, Paul Geuthner, 1923-1935. 3 volumes (1 text and 2 atlases). 4to (text) and 38.5 x 28 cm (atlases). With 121 illustrations in text and 144 collotype plates in the atlas. Text volume in original printed paper wrappers. Atlas in original half cloth, printed paper sides. [3] ll., 304 pp.; XI, [1 blank], [3], [1 blank] pp.; 4 ll. Full description
€ 6,500
Archaeology Art & Art History China
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274 photographic reproductions showing art and architecture from early 20th-century Beijing

SIRÉN, Osvald. Les palais impériaux de Pékin. Deux cent soixante-quartorze planches hors texte en héliotypie d'apres les photographies de l'auteur, douze dessins architectureaux et deux plans, avec une notice historique ...
Paris & Brussels, G. Vanoest, 1926. 3 volumes. With 12 plans and 2 maps (mostly folding), and a total of 274 collotype plates. Publisher's original, printed, blue paper wrappers. VI, 73, [3 blank]; [3], [1 blank]; [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 15,000
Art & Art History China Photography
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