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1970Excellent condition with very very light shelf wear to edges only, sharp corners, text/interior is clean and unmarked in any way, foxing to page ends First edition. Dust jacket shows a little edge/corner wear, no tears, not price-clipped, wrapped in protective mylar cover. A bit musty smelling.
1986A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 906 pages. Brown shiny cover with gilt lettering is a bit worn. Previous owner's stamp on endpaper. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Konkani is an Indo-Aryan language, the official language of the Indian state of Goa.
Sin lugar ni año (Según el ejemplar del Museo Marítimo de Londres, 1703), grabado anónimo original coloreado a mano, 27,5 x 35 cm. (Doble vista muy decorativa del Fuerte inglés de Bombay en la India).
First edition, 4to, xii, 364, [12]pp., half-title, 2 folding engraved maps at end, contemporary diced calf, rebacked, label. "In his sixty-eighth year the perusal of Major James Rennell's 'Memoir on the Map of Hindustan' (1793) set Robertson again to work, and within a year, encouraged by Gibbon, he brought out his 'Historical Disquisition concerning the Knowledge which the Antients had of India....' The book concluded with a wise hope that the account 'of the early and high civilisation of India, and of the wonderful progress of its inhabitants in elegant arts and useful science, may have some influence upon the behaviour of Europeans towards that people.' " - DNB.
20222 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured plates, numerous maps and tables throughout, and printed endpapers; blocked cloth (green and red respectively), backstrips lettered in black, a fine copy in publisher's blocked board slip-case.
1988Complet en 5 tomes, ensemble 3004pp. (pagination continuée), 24cm., brochures originales, Thèse de Doctorat (Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille), cachet au verso des p.d.t., le texte est frais et en bon état, poids: 5.1kg., X111780
18821 24.6x15.2 cm., 95, [2], pi? 44, [4] pp. di catalogo editoriale, due carte ripiegate all'antiporta (Routes of communcation with India ; Archibald & Peck's War Map of Egypt with Suez Canal), una tabella ripiegata a pag. 95, legatura edit. in tela decorata a secco, titoli in oro al dorso e al piatto ant., seconda edizione, piccolo strappo senza mancanze ad una carta ripiegata, qualche fioritura, esemplare in buone condizioni, in inglese
1705Raffigurazione dell'India e della Penisola Malese ed i territori della Cambogia e Vietnam. Curiosa la raffigurazione dell'isola di Haynan
PARIS, chez André Cailieau, 1722 - Tome I seul (sur 2 - In-12 - Reliure plein veau fauve de l'époque - Dos à nerfs cloisonnés et fleuronnés, pièces de titre et de tomaison crise et havane - titre bi-colore en rouge & noir - 438 pp., 3 ff.n.ch. de table et de privilège - 3 cartes dépliantes & 9 planches hors texte, dont 3 dépliantes - Ex-libris manuscrit de l'époque "Pestet de normanville" - envoi rapide et soigné Relation considérée comme apocryphe, bâtie d'après plusieurs mémoires, et principalement consacrée au Brésil et au Pérou, Coreal , supposé voyageur espagnol, né, dit-on, en 1648, mort en 1708 à qui on attribue une relation d'un voyage aux Indes occidentales, publiée à Paris (1722, 2 vol. in-12 avec cartes et grav.); elle eut du succès et il y en a plusieurs éditions). Mais on doute fort de l'existence de ce François Coreal .
196448 pages. Features: What's the Mainstream? - Who is in It?; Why the French Mistrust Us?; Not Enough Food for Too Many People in India; The Farmer - Key Man of India - photos; Two-Year-Olds are Very Smart; Fantastic color-photo ad for Collins & Aikman features model in field with pipers in background; Chesterfield cigarette ad features photos of William C. Bettendorf, Jr, Ann Foreman and M. Fillmore Harty, Jr.; Shaggy Englishman Story - British long-hairs are proud of setting a new tonsorial style - but the barbers are crying - with photos of Brian Jones, John Lennon, and others; Photos of Eight Riddles of Mankind; Of Youth and Health; Photos of fashions by Norman Norell and James Galanos; Sexy Marilynesque ad for the Downingtown Inn of Downington, PA; and more. Average wear. Faint library stamp on front cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
1951Préface de Lucien Devies, photographies de Marcel Ichac, Gaston Rebuffat, Maurice Herzog, Louis Lachenal, Jacques Oudot, Marcel Schatz, seconde édition 1 vol. in-8 br. sous jaquette illustré, Arthaud, Paris, Grenoble, 1951, XV-85 pp. avec la carte esquisse des massifs de l'Annapurna et du Dhaulagiri jointe Exemplaire dédicacé par Maurice Herzog à Danielle Walker. Bon état. Français
1939Two volumes, complete. 3, 1016, 25 pp.; 612 pp. The massive bibliography of books published in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) from 1870 until 1937. The first volume is devoted to books printed in European languages, the second volume to books printed in indigenous languages. Printed on very good paper. Thick squarish 8vo. Publisher's cloth. FINE AND BRIGHT, WITH NO DEFECTS. Scarce.
1877Deuxième édition contenant 317 gravures sur bois dessinées par nos plus célèbres artistes en six cartes, 1 vol. fort in-folio cartonnage éditeur illustré pleine percaline rouge, toutes tranches dorées, mention dorée poussée au second plat : "Prix d'Honneur offert par l'Association Amicale des Elèves de l'Union Nationale", Librairie Hachette et Cie, Paris, 1877, 808 pp. Exemplaire de la seconde édition, dans le beau cartonnage à la tête d'éléphant, en état très satisfaisant (cartonnage un peu frotté et un peu faible, comme souvent, qq. traces d'usage, bon état par ailleurs) Français
Torino, presso G. Pomba, 1834, voll. 3, in-8, ottima legatura coeva in mezza pelle color tabacco, titolo e numero di volume in oro su doppi tasselli in pelle verde, fregi a secco sul resto del dorso, piatti in carta marmorizzata, tagli spruzzati, pp. LII, 315, [1] - 501, [1] - 489, [1]. Con ritratto in litografia del Vidua all'antiporta del primo volume e alcune illustrazioni n.t. Dall'indice: "Lettere giovanili e prime gite in Italia, Francia e Gran Bretagna (1806-1818)", "Primo viaggio: in Francia, Inghilterra, Danimarca, Svezia, Russia, Turchia d'Europa e d'Asia ed Egitto (1818-1824)", "Ritorno e ultima dimora in patria", "Secondo viaggio: nell'America Settentrionale (1825-1827)", "Terzo ed ultimo viaggio: nelle Indie, Orientali, China ed Oceanica [sic] (1827-1830)", ecc. L'anno successivo, 1835, fu edito un atlante con 4 carte geografiche da annettersi ai volumi di testo ma che quasi mai si trova con questi. Bell'esemplare.
20094 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with 4 coloured frontispieces and 24 coloured plates; cloth (blue/red/green/grey respectively) blocked in gilt and colours, gilt backs, coloured endpapers, a near fine set set in publisher's slip-case blocked in gilt. Bright, clean set of the FS edition of a cornerstone of twentieth century literature.
1903Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Bound with a primitive hand-stitched thick paper. Demy 8vo. (22 x 12,5 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 34, [2] p. Some notes and marking in pencil, foxing and fading on somewhat stained paper, slight chipping on extremities and made a cover inside by an original period diploma. Overall a fair/good copy. Scarce first Turkish edition of this first hand travel account of Mumbai, by a French journalist Edmond Cotteau during his travel to India in 1878-1879 describing the city, its inhabitants, flora and fauna, and architectural buildings. "Küçük Seyahâtler" [i.e. Small Travels] is a book series including travel accounts at the beginning of the 20th century in the Ottoman/Turkish literature, which consisted of four separately published titles: China, Afghanistan, Chicago and Mumbai. Cotteau was a French journalist and photographer. He became a collaborator for "Le Temps" and "Le Tour du monde" taking photographs of a rare quality for his time. He traveled to the Americas in 1876-1877, India in 1878-1879, Central Europe, Japan and returned to China and Indochina in 1881-1882. He sailed around the world in 1883-1884, in 364 days, widely covered by the French press. Özege 2513.; TBTK 6678.; OCLC 223157027, 1122689017.
1912Boards with light rubbing to extremities. First and last few pages browned. One page with light foxing; 75 tissue guarded color from watercolors by the famous artist Mortimer Menpes; 8vo; 216 pages
1683L'INDIA DI QUA' E DI LA' DAL GANGE OVE SONO GLI STATI DEL G. MOGOL.DATA IN LUCE DA G. GIACOMO DE ROSSI IN ROMA 1683.[Veduta] (cm. 59,5 x 46) Rara carta incisa in rame con cartiglio in alto a destra. Alcuni confini leggermente colorati d'epoca. Bell'esemplare con ottimo restauro per rinforzo alla piega centrale e piccola integrazione agli angolini bianchi.[f18] Libro
1860in-8, pp. IX, 187, leg. carta color. coeva. Con una tav. rip. Legg. slegato il piatto ant. [047]
19148vo., Third and Best Edition, with a frontispiece, 11 plates (including 2 of coins), a map coloured in outline, 4 folding maps, a full-page in the text and a folding chart, short closed tear on title neatly repaired; handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Lovely copy of the considerably enlarged version of the original edition of 1904. Scarce, especially in this condition.
1768Amsterdam, Arkstee & Merkus, 1768; in-8, XXVIII pp. + 208 pp. + 4 planches dépliantes, relié plein-veau d'époque, dos lisse orné. (Reliure état moyen, plats frottes, mors fragile). John Zephaniah Holwell (1711-1798) chirurgien anglais contacté par la Compagnie orientale des Indes, puis gouverneur temporaire du Bengale (1760) édita à Londres, de 1765 à 1771, trois volumes de Interesting Historical Events Relative to the Provinces of Bengal and the Empire of Indostan, with a seasonable hint and perswasive to the honourable the court of directors of the East India Company. As also the mythology and cosmogony, fasts and festivals of the Gentoo's, followers of the Shastah. And a dissertation on the metempsychosis, commonly, though erroneously, called the Pythagorean doctrine, dont nous proposons une traduction ici. L’ouvrage fournit des témoignages intéressants concernant l'hindouisme. Bon état.
2 voll. in 8°, broch. muta coeva, stanca, pp 395, 454, 1 ritratto all'antiporta ed altre cinque tavv. rip. f.t. (carte geogr. incise in rame, un'acquatinta e una veduta). Prima edizione di significativa opera dell'A. che ebbe celebrità per la storia delle crociate. Contiene la tragica storia dei sovrani di Mysore nella guerra contro gli inglesi ed altri stati dell'india; un rapporto sulla conquista napoleonica in Egitto in relazione all'India; le lettere di Bonaparte a Tippoo Saib. Parla inoltre delle religioni, dei costumi e della legislazione indiana e delle relazioni commerciali e politiche con l'Europa. Esemplare genuino, in barbe.
2008Photographs showing the homes of people who live in poverty in Nairobi, Kenya; Mumbai, India; Jakarta, Indonesia; and Crarcas, Venzuela by Norwegian photojournalist Jonas Bediksen. Pictorial cover. 8 1/8"w x 6 1/8"h. The pages fold-out to be 32 1/2" long, when open. Photographs alternate with autobiographical text by the people depicted. One gate folded page shows a slight crease where it folds into the center of the book.
1908Extremely light rubbing to outer spine hinges and to top and bottom spine. Else NF; An outstandingly beautiful set. Decorative sandy boards with gilt lettering and pictorial design in color. Marbled edges. Handsome endpapers with green design. Numerous plates from photographs. Index. Both volumes with rear fold-out map in color; 8vo; 456, 403 pages
19528vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 4 full-page maps coloured in outline and 2 large folding coloured maps; handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.