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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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First scientific study of the St. Pietersberg at Maastricht

FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Barthélemy. Natuurlijke historie van den St. Pieters Berg bij Maastricht. ... Uit het Fransch door J.D. Pasteur.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802. 8vo. With an engraved title-page with a small illustration by D. Vrijdag, a folding engraved map and folding engraved plan of the St. Pietersberg, and numerous illustrations of minerals and fossils on 52 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. VIII, [4], 340, [4] pp. Full description
€ 1,600
Earth Sciences Fossils / Palaeontology Mineralogy & Gems Netherlands
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Illustrated volume of an important work in Macaronic verse, bound by François Bozerian

[FOLENGO, Teofilo]. Opus Merlini Cocaii poetae mantuani macaronicorum.
Amsterdam [or possibly printed in Naples?], Abraham van Someren, 1692. 8vo. With a full-page engraved portrait of the author as a frontispiece, 26 engraved illustrations in the text (ca. 6 x 5 cm), a woodcut floral vignette on the title page, woodcut decorated initials, and woodcut floral and ornamental tailpieces. Early 19th-century elaborately gold-tooled black morocco, with a floral frame on both boards, detailed floral designs in the compartments on the spine and the title, year of publication, and name of the binder lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. [30], 419, [4], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Bindings Italian Literature Italy
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The state of all missionary activity around the world ca. 1820

[GAUSSEN, Francois Samuel Robert Louis?]. Exposé de l'état actuel des missions évangéliques chez les peuples infidèles, cel qu'on le connoissoit au commencement de l'année 1820.
Genève, [back of the title page: printing office of Guillaume Fick], 1821. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a folding leaf (54 x 34.5 cm) containing a small coloured map of the world, engraved by Bovet, surrounded by letterpress tables of the principle mission stations around the world. Contemporary half brown sheepskin, decorated paper sides, gold-tooled spine, marbled edges. XII, LXXXII, IV, 408, [4] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
Australia Canada & Greenland Central Africa Ceylon China Church History & Missions East Africa India & Sri Lanka Japan & Far East Latin America Middle America New Zealand North America Pacific Islands South America Southeast Asia Southern Africa Turkey & Ottoman Empire West Africa West Indies
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One of the final laws of the French administration on Haïti before the island's independence

[HAITI]. Taxe d'absence. Extrait des registres du conseil des notables de la Ville du Cap. Séance du 27 Vendémiaire, an douze (20 Octobre 1803) neuf heures du matin.
Au Cap, chez Pierre Roux, imprimeur du Gouvernement, [1803]. Folio (ca. 31 x 43 cm). The text is printed in 2 columns, which are separated by 9 woodcut ornaments. [1] l. Full description
€ 2,750
Caribbean Islands Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Middle America
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From the library of the Dutch explorer and diplomat Pieter Nuyts, discoverer of the southern coast of Australia in 1627

HOMERUS [and Henri ESTIENNE (editor)]. Opera omnia, cum interpretat[ione]. lat[ina]. ad. verbum ... et breves notae marginales. Editio novissima.
Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1650. Small 8vo (ca. 15.5 x 10 cm). With the engraved title (within collation) and a few woodcut tail-pieces and decorated initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum, manuscript title in black ink on the spine, red painted edges. [16], 895, [1 blank], [14] pp. Full description
€ 6,000
Australia Book History, Printing & Typography Greek & Non-Western Types Greek & Roman Classics
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A Dutch commander's description of Japan, with a large lithographed map

HUYSSEN VAN KATTENDYKE, Willem Johan Cornelis. Uittreksel uit het dagboek van W.J.C. Ridder Huyssen van Kattendyke, Kapitein-Luit. ter zee, gedurende zijn verblijf in Japan in 1857, 1858 en 1859.
The Hague, W.P. van Stockum (printed by Giunta d'Albani), 1860. 8vo. With a large folding lithographed map (67 x 54.5 cm) depicting the west coast of Japan and Kiusiu. Original printed publisher's boards. [2 blank], [10], 236 pp. Full description
€ 4,000
Charts & Maps City Plans, Topography & Views Japan & Far East Naval History Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia
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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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