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Foundational work for the study of Indian ferns

BEDDOME, Richard Henry The ferns of southern India. Being descriptions and plates of the ferns of the Madras Presidency.
Madras (now Chennai), printed by Gantz Brothers, 1863. Large 4to (31 x ca. 24.5 cm). With 272 lithographed line illustrations of Indian ferns, numbered I-CCLXXI plus XXVIIIA, all signed "Govindoo del. G. Winchester Lith. Madras". Contemporary half brown leather. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], XV, [1 blank], 88, VII, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
Floras & General Botany India & Sri Lanka Lower Plants (incl. Mushrooms)
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Rare and important speech given in Goa in October 1641 on the occasion of the restauration
of Portuguese independence and the end of the Iberian Union

CRUZ, Manuel da. Fala que fes o P. Fr. Manoel da Crus, Mestre em S. Teologia, Deputado do S. Officio, & das Ordens Militares na segunda instancia, Vigairo Geral da Ordem dos Pregadores da India.
(Colophon:) Lisbon, Lourenço de Anveres for Andre Godinho, 1642. Small 4to (20 x 15 cm). With the woodcut crowned Portuguese coat of arms on the title page and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Later gold-tooled vellum. [1], [1 blank], [20], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
Broadsides & Pamphlets India & Sri Lanka Law & Politics Portugal Religion (17th Century)
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"A bouquet of poetic flowers" for the newly crowned Emperor of the First Mexican Empire (1822-1823)

EL RUSTICO ANFRISO [= Mariano BARAZÁBAL?]. Ramilletito alegorico de flores poeticas que de su simple huertecillo ofrece á nuestro amado Emperador, en el dia fausto de su coronacion, el rústico Anfriso.
[Mexico City], Mexico, Imprenta Imperial del Señor Valdés [= Alejandro Valdés y Téllez Girón], 1822. 22 x 16.2 cm. Marbled paper wrappers. 11, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Broadsides & Pamphlets Latin America Law & Politics Literature Mexico Middle America
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Vibrant Indian miniatures of couples and "composite elephants"

[INDIAN MINIATURES - MUGHAL STYLE]. [Hand-painted miniatures inserted in a printed text in Urdu].
[India, late 19th- or early 20th century]. 8vo (ca. 18 x 12.5 cm). With 9 hand-painted miniatures, made with gouache and ink, with inscriptions on the back. Late 19th- or early 20th-century quarter red cloth, red decorative paper sides, red decorative paper endpapers. "45-118, 191-194, 197-204, 195-196, 205-250" [= 132] pp. Full description
€ 8,000
Art & Art History Drawings & Watercolours Greek & Non-Western Types India & Sri Lanka
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Rare work of the Basel Missionary Press in Mangalore

KITTEL, Ferdinand. Ueber den Ursprung des Lingakultus in Indien.
Mangalore, [printed by Stolz & Hirner, Basel Mission Press, Mangalore, for:] Basel mission book & tract depository, 1876. 8vo. With the title on the front wrapper in a printed decorative frame. Orange printed paper wrappers. [2], 48 pp. Full description
€ 650
Anthropology & Ethnography Church History & Missions India & Sri Lanka
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Richly illustrated pioneering work of modern Christian biblical scholarship

LABORDE, Léon de. Commentaire géographique sur l'exode et les nombres.
Paris and Leipzig, Renouard (Firmin Didot), 1841. Folio With 13 plates (3 folding and 8 full-page) showing a total of 19 maps, 8 of which are lithographs. Including:
(2) Discours du Roi. Royal Séance du 9 janvier 1843.
Large 8vo. 4 pp.
(3) [A richly illustrated advert for two other works by Laborde (Voyage en Orient and Voyage de l'Arabie pétrée)].
Large 4to. 4 pp.
Contemporary half maroon leather, marbled paper sides, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers LXI, [1], 146; 48 (supplement) pp. Full description
€ 950
Geography Religion (19th Century) West Asia
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Enforcing a new immigration policy in one of the provinces of the newly independent Kingdom of Brazil

[MANUSCRIPT - BRAZILIAN INDEPENDENCE - José Bonifácio de ANDRADA E SILVA]. [Manuscript document relating to a decree specifying the conditions under which Portuguese subjects may be admitted to the newly independent Kingdom of Brazil, signed by José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva].
Rio de Janeiro, 21 January 1823. 25 x 20.2 cm. Portuguese manuscript on watermarked paper "J Green 1820", written in a neat cursive in brown ink by two hands: page one signed by José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva in Rio de Janeiro on 21 January 1823 and page two signed at the Palacio do Governo on 18 February 1823. Possibly disbound. [2], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Brazil Latin America Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents South America
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Vibrant Mughal-style full-page illustrations in a 19th-century Sindhi manuscript

[MANUSCRIPT - SINDHI]. [Sindhi manuscript with hand-painted Mughal-style miniatures].
[Early 19th century]. 4to (ca. 22 x 16.5 cm). With 10 full-page miniatures on paper, painted with gouache and ink, all full-page illustrations are surrounded by a 3-sided floral border (not present in the gutter margins). Further with and a painted headpiece on the verso of the second leaf. Sindhi manuscript in black ink on paper, rubricated throughout, in a small naskh/ruq'ah hand (13 lines per page). Modern blue floral cloth. [58] ll. Full description
€ 9,500
Drawings & Watercolours India & Sri Lanka Islamic Art, Culture & Science Manuscripts & Documents
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