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2025Best.-Nr. x-1032690011Routledge 2025. Hardcover. New. 182 pages. 9.18x6.12x9.21 inches. Routledge hardcover
2025Best.-Nr. x-1041015232Routledge 2025. Hardcover. New. 258 pages. 9.18x6.12x9.45 inches. Routledge hardcover
1775Best.-Nr. LBW-579[1775-1781]. 490 x 665 mm.
1900In 8, pp. XXX + 262. Dedica aut. dell'a. Intonso. Br. rifatta. Ceylon venne occupata a partire dal XVI sec. dai portoghesi e ceduta da questi nel 1799 al Regno Unito. Raro testo sul dialetto portoghese sviluppatosi a Ceylon, composto da grammatica, letteratura, vocabolario e discorsi sacri. Raro.
1910Best.-Nr. 026969London 1910 Luzac & Co Hardcover
1869Best.-Nr. 28299Paris Arnauld de Vresse 1869 2 vol. in-12 brochés
1725Best.-Nr. PHO-1469Rouen, J.B. Machuel 1725. 1 vol.(2) in-8,582pp., illustré d’un frontispice et 9 planches , relié plein veau, dos à 5 nerfs ornés, tranche rouge, reliure de l'époque, frottements , coins usés, feuillets déréglés.
1932Features "The Hatfield-McCoy Feud", an 11-page illustrated article [part 1]. 84, [40 ads] pages. Additional Features: Canadian Indian Witchcraft; Smugglers of the Baltic; The Death-Shell; A Chinese Mutiny; Cycling to Eldorado; On a Ceylon Tea Estate; Twenty-Three Days Adrift; A Thousand Miles Through African Bush; Three Men on a Raft; Slippery Wiley's Clients. Heavily worn. Tape repairs to spine. A worthy reference copy of this special issue. Book
1914Best.-Nr. 26808ABLeipzig, Karl Baedeker Verlag, 1914. Kl.-8°. LXXIV, 358 S. Mit einigen Textabb., 22 Karten, 33 Plänen, 8 Grundrissen und 1 Panorama. OLeinen. [2 Warenabbildungen]
1803Best.-Nr. 58217ABLeipzig, Rein, 1803. XVI, 510 S., 1 Bl. Mit gest. Faltkarte. Halblederband der Zeit mit Rückenschild und -vergoldung.
Best.-Nr. 118920A Paris, chez F. Buisson, An IX, 1800, 1 volume in-folio de 330x250 mm environ, (2) ff., 29 planches/30 car la carte dépliante du cours de l'Irraouaddy (Irrawaddy) manque, mais enrichi de 7 planches contrecollées extraites du Voyage de la Chine à la côte Nord-Ouest d'Amérique par le Cap. John MEARES (1795). Demi-basane havane à coins, dos long portant titres dorés sur pièce de cuir rouge et petits fers dorés, gardes de papier marbré. Reliure abimée (coins et coupes frottés, queue du dos manquante, griffures sur les plats), intérieur propre.
1796Best.-Nr. PHO-2059Paris, Dandré ; Garnerey ; Obré, an IV (1796). 1 volumes in-4 (2) (265x200mm); XLIV-510pp., , relié basane raciné de l'époque, dos lisses ornés, pièces de titre rouge et de tomaison verte, frottements, accroc au plat, début de fente, coins usés, mouillure claire, déchirure en marge sur les 4 derniers feuillets et les planches sans atteinte, petit trou de ver.
1914Best.-Nr. 9682ABLeipzig, Baedeker, 1914 (Mai 1939). LXXIV, 358 S. Mit 22 Karten, 33 Plänen u. 8 Grundrissen. OLn., 9682A.jpg (etwas berieben, Rücken unter Verwendung des Orig.-Rückens fachgerecht erneuert).
Best.-Nr. 91429Paris, Nepveu, Libraire, 1823, 1 volume in-16 de 140x85 mm environ, viij-291 pages, demi chagrin vert, dos à nerfs portant titre doré, orné de caissons dorés, gardes marbrées. Complet des 12 gravures hors texte annoncées (dont 1 dépliante), + 1 plan, et 2 planches (alphabet et instruments). Dos insolé, frottements sur les coupes, infimes rousseurs, sinon bon état.
1890Best.-Nr. 236871890. British Ceylon and Japan photo archive circa 1890 to 1910 documenting public ceremony craft production daily life during the expansion of imperial travel in Asia. The Japanese images record religious processions rickshaw travel workshops and leisure scenes associated with the late Meiji period while the Ceylon photographs depict Colombo streets architecture ceremonial dress and colonial urban space. Verso inscriptions identify Nagoya and Colombo without establishing a single photographer or original sequence. Photo archive of 24 photographs comprising eight hand colored photographs mounted to cardstock approximately 5 x 3½ inches and sixteen glossy and matte silver gelatin prints ranging from approximately 2½ x 2½ to 3 x 4½ inches Japan and British Ceylon circa 1890 to 1910. The hand colored Japanese views show women in rickshaws beneath flowering trees artisans making paper umbrellas workers shaping timber a cooper surrounded by tubs and hoops and a lantern shop filled with suspended paper lanterns. Other photographs depict monks attendants musicians and costumed participants moving through public squares with parasols banners and ceremonial objects. The Ceylon views include a Colombo street leading toward a clock tower palm lined compounds civic and religious buildings harbor craft and men in formal ceremonial dress. Inscriptions include "Nagoya" "Colombo" and "Vue de Colombo." The Japanese photographs belong to the commercial visual culture of the Meiji era when photographers produced hand colored views of occupations transport festivals costume and craft work for foreign travelers. These images often arranged workers and tools for clarity while the smaller prints record crowds streets and religious movement with less formal staging. The Colombo photographs reflect the parallel growth of photography under British colonial rule in Ceylon where ports municipal buildings and ethnographic subjects circulated through travel albums and commercial view markets. Light to moderate surface wear fading abrasions edge wear and occasional creasing; several mounts show staining or loss. Overall good condition. A compact visual record of Asian urban life religious practice artisanal labor and colonial travel at the turn of the twentieth century. unknown
1890Best.-Nr. 236871890. British Ceylon and Japan photo archive circa 1890 to 1910 documenting public ceremony craft production daily life during the expansion of imperial travel in Asia. The Japanese images record religious processions rickshaw travel workshops and leisure scenes associated with the late Meiji period while the Ceylon photographs depict Colombo streets architecture ceremonial dress and colonial urban space. Verso inscriptions identify Nagoya and Colombo without establishing a single photographer or original sequence. Photo archive of 24 photographs comprising eight hand colored photographs mounted to cardstock approximately 5 x 3½ inches and sixteen glossy and matte silver gelatin prints ranging from approximately 2½ x 2½ to 3 x 4½ inches Japan and British Ceylon circa 1890 to 1910. The hand colored Japanese views show women in rickshaws beneath flowering trees artisans making paper umbrellas workers shaping timber a cooper surrounded by tubs and hoops and a lantern shop filled with suspended paper lanterns. Other photographs depict monks attendants musicians and costumed participants moving through public squares with parasols banners and ceremonial objects. The Ceylon views include a Colombo street leading toward a clock tower palm lined compounds civic and religious buildings harbor craft and men in formal ceremonial dress. Inscriptions include "Nagoya" "Colombo" and "Vue de Colombo." The Japanese photographs belong to the commercial visual culture of the Meiji era when photographers produced hand colored views of occupations transport festivals costume and craft work for foreign travelers. These images often arranged workers and tools for clarity while the smaller prints record crowds streets and religious movement with less formal staging. The Colombo photographs reflect the parallel growth of photography under British colonial rule in Ceylon where ports municipal buildings and ethnographic subjects circulated through travel albums and commercial view markets. Light to moderate surface wear fading abrasions edge wear and occasional creasing; several mounts show staining or loss. Overall good condition. A compact visual record of Asian urban life religious practice artisanal labor and colonial travel at the turn of the twentieth century. unknown books
195283 plus 448 pages. Twenty-four maps. Many dozens of tables, charts and graphs. Prepared by request of the Government of Ceylon to survey the development potentialities of the country with special consideration given to: Agriculture (particularly rice cultivation, mixed farming, dairying, colonization and resettlement), Irrigation, Fisheries, Forestry, Minerals, Power, Industrial development, Inland transport and shipping, vocational training, Health (including housing and water schemes), General Economics (including public finance, money and banking, savings and investment, balance of payment). Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. Bindings intact. A sound copy of this comprehensive snapshot of Ceylon's state of economic development in 1952. Book
1744Best.-Nr. PHO-2518Paris, Ph. N. Lottin, Jean Desaint et Charles Saillant, 1744. 3 volumes in-12 (17x10cm), 11ff-396 pp. ; 1f.-353 pp. ; 1f.-475 pp., basane marbrée époque, dos à nerfs orné avec pièces de titre et tomaison, tranches rouges. Quelques frottements, charnière fendillée tome 3, 1 coin enfoncé, déchirure au pli de la seconde carte. Illustré de 2 cartes (complet) représentant les Indes à l’époque d’Alexandre le Grand et les Indes orientales, cette dernière comprenant un plan de Pondichéry en 1741.
1914Best.-Nr. 57476ABLeipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1914. kl8° (16x11), LXXIV, 358 S., mit 22 Karten, 33 Plänen und 8 Grundrissen, die große Übersichtskarte in Deckeltasche des hinteren Deckels (so komplett), roter Oln (Kaliko) mit goldTitel, marmorSchnitt, 2 Lesebändchen, nahezu ungenutzt, schönes gepflegtes Exemplar,
Best.-Nr. 62771c.1875. . Albumen print. Very good tonal range and in good condition pasted on original mount. Dimensions: 214 x 269mm. 8.5 x 10.6 inches. [c.1875]. unknown
Best.-Nr. Bloomsbury-9781848854253I.B.Tauris. Hardback. New. 320 pages I.B.Tauris hardcover
Best.-Nr. Bloomsbury-9781848854253I.B.Tauris. Hardback. New. 320 pages I.B.Tauris hardcover
Best.-Nr. 260101964 to 1972. Cymru Plantation Dimbula Ceylon Sri Lanka. The Cymru Estate in Dimbula was established in 1870. The invaluable ‘History of Ceylon Tea’ website only has data regarding the estate up to the year 1929. The present item provides a mass of statistical information for the years 1964 to 1972. It is entirely in manuscript in several hands and comprises 73pp 16mo written with portrait orientation in a 12.5 x 8 cm ruled notebook with 69pp in blue and red ink at the front and the other four pages in pencil at the back. In rough black cloth with brown patterned endpapers and cloth pencil-holder. Internally in good condition lightly aged in heavily-worn covers. The plantation was clearly a substantial concern: at 1 May 1964 the number of ‘Workers on Cymru’ is given as 737 with breakdown for ‘U. D.’ meaning unclear and ‘LD’ i.e. ‘Labour Day - Fridays’ and with a similar breakdown for ‘Non-Workers’ total 527 and details of ‘Labour per acre’ and ‘Workers live room’. A further breakdown of men and women workers UD and LD is given on 29 February 1968 with a total of 352 men and 322 women. The final page gives a useful list under the heading ‘OUTPUT’ ‘Optimum Crop 12000 lbs.’ of the aspects involved in the running of such a concern. These include spreading tatting rolling roll breaking fermenting sifting packing stencilling also ‘On overtime’. The notebook is entirely statistical in nature apart from a four-page list of instructions for the cultivation of ‘Coffee Arabica’ a page of ‘Bees Instructions’ and a page headed ‘Formula for pre-mix for light traffic’ as well as lists of native names of native ‘Field Staff’ both on ‘Labour. Day.’ and ‘U. D.’ Also several lists of names of employees with job descriptions planting mistblowing compost pruning storekeeper field officer ‘Creeper’ ‘Sen. Asst Clk - Rice store’ ‘Driver Cymru’ ‘boys weeding’ with some marked as ‘Ret’ retired or ‘Dis.’ dismissed. Although the information relates to the Cymru Estate mention is made of Kangales and Tangakelle. Details are given of employment wages ‘Bonuses - Excess Rates’ manuring including breakdowns for various ‘Manure Mixtures’ pruning weeding plucking nursery planting sifting estimates. Numerous tables including two full double-page ones: ‘Cymru - Manuring / Pruning Programme 64 1964’ and ‘Manuring & Pruning Programme 1965’. Also a two-page table of ‘Clonal Clearings’; four pages of statistics on ‘Sifting Gookookoya’; and full-page tables for ‘Rolling Programme’ and on adjoining pages ‘Lower Division’ and ‘Upper Division’ with nine columns headed: Fld Acs Weed Contr Jat. date of Prune Total Nitro AM Due in pencil: ‘Urea / April’ Last Yield Weed. Another table of ‘Plucking Cost Per M. T. / Yield Ra.’ Loosely inserted are two leaves one on a page torn from a calendar dated 31 March 1973. 1964 to 1972. Cymru Plantation, Dimbula, Ceylon [Sri Lanka]. hardcover
1796Best.-Nr. PHO-1991Paris, Benoît Dandré, Garnery, Obré, An IV [1796]. — 4 volumes in-8, (130x200), portrait, lxiv, 417 pp., 1 planche, viij pp., (1 f.), 430 pp., 4 planches ; viij, 445 pp., 4 planches ; xij, 462 pp., 19 planches, basane marbrée, pièces fauve et verte au dos, tranches rouges (Reliure de l’époque), reliure usée, manque un feuillet T4 (p33-34), mouillures, quelques brunissures Cordier, Japonica, p. 447. - Chadenat, 1763.
1798Best.-Nr. PHO-1309Paris, F. Buisson, An 6 de la République (1798). 4 volumes in-8 (21x13,5cm) , relié plein cuir tacheté époque , dos lisse orné avec pièces de titre et de tomaison , tranches marbrées, coins et coiffes usés avec manque, charnière faible au tome 4, (4) viij, 515pp. et (4) 412pp. et (4) 399pp. et (4) 326pp. et (4) ij, 402pp. ; (2) , illustré de 4 frontispices et 3 grandes cartes dépliantes (déchirures sans manques) gravés par Tardieu l’Ainé , mouillure sur quelques pages au tome 1.