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1914Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Former owner's name on title page. Edges a bit tanned; Very rare! "Mit 22 Karten, 33 Plänen und 8 Grundrissen". Map in rear pocket; 16mo; 358 pages
1974xxiv, 315 pp. Complete with all five fold-out maps. VII black and white plates of numismatic coins and their monograms. "I am very glad that yet another Indian scholar has taken up the subject of the Indo-Greeks. Dr. Mohan's analysis brings to bear upon it a fresh approach and new interpretations. I commend his study to all students of the subject." - Foreword. Chapters include: North-West India or the Uttarapatha; The Peoples; Introduction to the Greco-Sunga Period; The Bactrian Greeks; Demetrius; Rise of the Sungas; Eukratides and his Successors; Menander; Menander's Successors. Unmarked with average wear to publisher's brown cloth. New pastedowns appear to have been applied inside each board, extending almost an inch onto free endpapers thus bolstering the hinges. A sound copy of this valuable reference. Book
1815In-4 gr. (mm. 368x255), primi 2 (su 4) volumi, p. marocchino verde coevo (abraso), cornici dorate ai piatti e al dorso con tit. oro. Di questa celebrata e monumentale opera offriamo i primi due volumi della parte dedicata all’"Asia", completi (come da Indice) delle 179 tavole f.t., disegnate ed incise all’acquatinta da valenti artisti (fra cui Biasioli e Sanquirico), con preziosa coloritura editoriale. Il primo volume, con 87 tavole fra cui 2 grandi carte geografiche a colori, più volte ripiegate (una con il mappamondo ed una con la carta generale dell’Asia + una carta, a una pag., con il Mondo conosciuto dagli antichi), è dedicato alla Cina - Corea, Giappone - Isole del Giappone, della terra di Jesso, di Lieu-Kieu. Il secondo, con 92 tavole, a: Indostan - Ceilan, Maldive e Laccadive - Indocina - Impero dei Birmani - Isole Andamane e Nicobar - Tonchino - Cocincina - Cambogia - Siam - Penisola di Malaca. "Prima edizione" in tiratura numerata “ad personam”. Il ns., 43, ha qualche fiorit. ma complessivam. è un buon esemplare con barbe.
1791In 4°. Pagine XII, 326 + 30 carte di tavole. Rilegatura in piena pergamena coeva con titolo su tassello impresso in oro al dorso. Alcune macchie e bruniture. Stato di conservazione complessivamente molto buono. Importante studio, quasi un catalogo, sulle opere di arte indiana contenute nel Museo Borgiano di Velletri, fondato dal cardinale Stefano Borgia. All’interno sono presenti molte belle incisioni, diverse delle quali a piena pagina, raffiguranti divinità, monumenti e personaggi mitologici indiani. Rara e fondamentale opera del carmelitano scalzo Paolino da San Bartolomeo, al secolo Johann Philipp Wesdin (1748-1806), celebre orientalista ed indologo austriaco. Edizione originale.
1671In-4to, cc. 4 nn. (prima bianca), pp. 152 + 6 tavv. f.t. incise in rame. Frontespizio in rosso e nero con vignetta con le armi de'Medici. Legatura coeva in oiena pelle con fregi e dorature al dorso e ai piatti. In-4to, cc.4 nn. (including blank and half-title), 152 pp. and 6 etched plates of botanical specimens, title-page printed in red and black with engraved vignette of the Medici arms. Bound in contemporary leather with gilt at spine.
19331st Edition. 4to. Later Blue Boards with Original Wrappers bound inside for each issue. A full run of the first 3 years of The Jewish Tribune, from the year 1933 to 1936. 36 issues in total running about 1100 pages. Note that though these are consecutive they are marked as Volumes 1, 2, and 6. Includes a 1934 article titled, The Holocaust in Germany, " an EXTREMELY early use of this term to describe the growing attacks on the Jews of Germany by the Nazis. This rare run of the first three years of Bombays first Zionist periodical is inscribed by Joseph Sargon, who worked as managing editor of the Jewish Tribune during the publication of these issues. Born and educated in Bombay, Mr. Sargon came to the United States in 1939 (land lived in Brookline) after serving as managing editor of the Bombay Jewish Tribune for 13 years. During his world travels, he interviewed and wrote articles about Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and other figures. (Boston Globe, 1990) The Bombay Tribune was established by the nephews of Nissim Elias Benjamin Ezra. N. E. B. Ezra, was a Baghdadi Jewish publisher and Zionist based in Shanghai. He founded the Shanghai Zionist Association in 1903 and its official newspaper, Israel's Messenger, one of China's oldest and most sophisticated Jewish periodicals Influenced by Ezra, his nephews started the newspaper Jewish Tribune in Bombay, India. (Wikipeida, 2017) These 36 issues of the Tribune include the 1st appearance of many articles and editorials from some of the leading Jewish thinkers from across the world including: NEB Ezra, Bernard S. Deutsch, Rabbi Julius J. Price, Haham Moses Gaster, Emanuel Neumann, Israel Cohen, Khan Bahadur Jackson B. Israel, Jl Magnes, Samuel Magnus, David Sassoon, Rabbi Leo Jung, Jl Landau, Rabbi Schlesinger, Laszlo Schwartz, Louis Golding, Jh Hertz (Then Chief Rabbi Of British Empire) , Jacob De Haas, Rabbi D. De Sola Pool, Edward Jacobs, Mrs. Israel Davidson, Lily Tobias, H. Pereira Mendez, Rabbi Benjamin Ouziel, and Cyrus Adler. Includes a few early reporting articles about Nazi Anti-Semitism, early reporting on the 1934 Nepal-Bihar Earthquake, and a few articles about Mahatma Gandhi, among other topics of Jewish and Zionist interest. Period Advertisements throughout. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide. Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Bookplate and Usual Markings. Inscribed by Sargon on the Front-End Page. Also includes Sargons Personal Bookplate/Nametag. Damp Stains throughout and pages are wavy. Some edgewear. Overall in good condition. (SEF-55-8B)
Due Voll. in 8 cm. 20,5x15,4; (Vol I) in seconda edizione Felice Cesaretti -Roma-1676 pp. (8: con ritratto dell'autore in rame), 896, 58; (Vol II) in prima edizione Michele Ercole -Roma-1669, pp (20: con frontespizio in cornice xilogr. di arco trionfale con colonne tortili, ritratto dell'autore f.t. inciso in rame , in fine marca tipografica xilogr. a p.p. con leone rampante che regge due colonne e pp. 928 Bella legatura romantica ottocentesca in mz. pelle con dorsi riccamente decorati e scritte in oro tagli azzurrini piatti cartone rigido con carta a colori spruzzati. Sebbene in edizioni diverse i volumi hanno stessi caratteri e testalini, finalini, capilettera xilograf. uguali. Magnifico esemplare ben conservato solo alcune pagg. leggermente brunite .
First edition, royal 8vo (258 x 164 mm), xiv, [2, errata leaf], 136pp., with list of subscribers, 11 lithograph views and plates, all but one hand-coloured, 3 large folding maps (two with minor repairs) and 30 lithographed route maps, one coloured plate with small stain and some light offsetting to maps, other a very nice clean copy, new endpapers, recent half calf, marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt, red morocco lettering piece. A rare Calcutta printing on the Nilgiri Mountains which form part of the Western Ghats mountain range in Southern India. The fine maps are signed by J. B. Tassin, who started one of Calcutta's earliest lithographic presses in 1830, and later moved in San Francisco. In the preface the author gives full costings for the production of the book and states that 500 copies were printed. Also contains "A list of plants gathered on the Neilgherries, particularly in the environs of Ootacamund, by the Rev. Mr. [B.] Schmid.": p. 129-136. Not in Abbey.
1851Very light foxing to first few pages vol. 1; This is Burtons' first book written while on active duty in modern-day India and Pakistan. Rebound in attractive blue full leather boards with gilt spine lettering and three raised bands. Marbled endpapers. ; 12mo; 297, 309 pages
1896282 pages. Handsome bright gilt decoration upon front board. Gilt lettering upon backstrip clearly legible excepting a chip affecting three characters. Loss from top of backstrip. Prior owner's signature inside front board else unmarked. Narrow opening along back hinge. Average external wear. Additional photos available upon request. Book
1677[16] + 200pp., illustrated with an additional engraved title and with 4 (of 5, lacking the pl. of the Vesuvius) folding plates and 4 plates out-of-text and with 19 illustrations in text (of which 7 full-page), woodcut ornament on title page, some ornamented initials, text in Italian, text clean and bright with only some occasional small stains and soiling, recent binding in fine condition (quarter-leather, spine with gilt title, marbled boards), 23cm., text in Italian, small inscription on title and in margin of p.[6], good condition, rare, [This is the first book about the famous Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher (Ghysen 1602 – Rome 1680), in which Petrucci, a follower of Kircher, defends his views of the “mirabilia”, the marvels of nature and culture. The plates are taken from various of Kircher’s works. The plates and illustrations show a.o. a map of South-Africa (folding), Speculum ustorium (folding, with 3 very small perforations), a funeral chamber (folding), obelisks (folding), 4 plates of Chinese flowers, some extraordinary creatures, etc. // Ref.: De Backer-Sommervogel IV col.1076-1077, Graesse V 241], G96668
2 Vols., small folio (305 x 190 mm), xxxiii, [3], 49-458; [4], 582, [2]pp., text in English and Persian, occasional marginal pencil notes, title page and terminal leaf to both volumes browned, staining to inner upper corner of leaves to start and end of volume two, later vellum-backed marbled boards, title in manuscript to spines. One of the most extensive Persian grammars written in English. "Matthew Lumsden (1777?1835), orientalist, was fifth son of John Lumsden of Cushnie, Aberdeenshire, and a cousin of Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden (1821?1896), army general. After education at King's College, Aberdeen, he went to India as assistant professor of Persian and Arabic in the College of Fort William, and in 1808 succeeded to the professorship. In 1812 he was appointed secretary to the Calcutta Madrasa, and superintended various translations of English works into Persian then in progress. From 1814 until 1817 he had charge of the East India Company's press at Calcutta, and in 1818 he became secretary to the stationery committee."?(Oxford DNB). Provenance: John L. Platts? signature in pencil to title page.
1742In folio (mm. 372x235), mz. pergamena antica con ang., titolo oro su tassello al dorso, tagli gialli, 20 cc.nn., 247 pp.num., con pregevole antiporta allegorica e ritratto di Zanoni, entrambi inc. in rame da Giuseppe de Benedictis su disegno di Domenico Maria Fratta; frontespizio in rosso e nero con incisa marca tipografica, ornato da una bella e grande iniziale e una testata, pure incisi in rame. Importante opera, introdotta da una dedica al Pontefice Benedetto XIV, da notizie biografiche dell’Autore, seguite da autorevoli testimonianze e notizie biografiche che riguardano il Padre Matteo da S. Giuseppe carmelitano scalzo, il cui Viridario orientale contribuì ad accrescere il merito di questa storia botanica. E’ un’opera magnificamente illustrata da 185 tavole, relative per lo più a rare specie del Malabar (India). Le descrizioni delle piante orientali provengono da un manoscritto intitolato: “Plantarum imaginesquae frater Matthaeus a S. Joseph extraxit ex libro Saladini Artafa in urbe Balsora Indiarum Orientalium..”. "Prima edizione latina", considerata la migliore. Fu in parte data in luce nel 1675 dallo Zanoni stesso con sole 80 tavole. Questa del 1742 fu curata, riordinata e ampliata dai nipoti dell’A. sui manoscritti originali di Giacomo e messa in latino da Gaetano Monti che l’arricchì di osservazioni e di illustrazioni. Cfr. Nissen, 2194, p. 203 - Pritzel, 10459 - Caldesi “Biblioteca Botanica”, 148. "Giacomo Zanoni nasce a Montecchio (Reggio Emilia), nel 1615. Rimasto presto orfano del padre, viene affidato alle cure di uno zio, il quale lo indirizza a seguire la professione paterna di speziale. Già da giovanissimo mostra un grande interesse per la botanica, e a vent’anni si trasferisce a Bologna per approfondirne lo studio. A Bologna esisteva dal 1568, fondato da Ulisse Aldrovandi, uno dei primi Orti botanici. Questa istituzione nasce per l’osservazione e studio delle piante officinali nel XVI secolo, con i primi esempi in Italia, a Padova e Pisa, e trova impulso dalla scoperta di nuove specie dal Nuovo Mondo. Nel 1642 Giacomo Zanoni, che a Bologna ha evidentemente dato prova delle sue doti, viene nominato Sovrintendente dell’Orto botanico, incarico che ricoprirà per 40 anni. Qui coltiva piante provenienti dai viaggi di esplorazione, crea un erbario.. pubblica nel 1675 un’opera che diviene una pietra miliare: l’Historia botanica, magnificamente illustrata. La fama derivatagli da quest’opera induce il Senato bolognese a concedere a lui e ai suoi discendenti la cittadinanza bolognese.. Muore a Bologna nel 1682" (v. Musei Civici di Reggio Emilia). Solo qualche lieve traccia d’uso altrimenti esemplare molto ben conservato.
1853In-8°, 135 pp, antiporta calcografica illustrata da L. Banzo, ai piatti legatura in pelle alle armi di papa Pio IX con stemma centrale entro doppia cornice riccamente decorata, titolo in oro al dorso, tagli in oro. Buona copia. Prima edizione. La vita di questo avventuroso missionario portoghese (João de Brito) viene descritta da padre Boero, gesuita che dedicò molta parte della sua vita alla compilazione delle biografie di martiri missionari con uno stile che travalica definitivamente l’agiografia barocca e trionfalista. I suoi lavori sono importanti anche per la descrizione dei luoghi in cui si svolge l’operato del padre missionario. João de Brito svolse il suo ministero in India, nella provincia del Marava, dove ritornò dopo esserne stato cacciato. Venuto in insanabile contrasto con il principe locale, subì il martirio a Oriyur il 4 febbraio 1693. Fu beatificato da Pio IX nel 1859 e canonizzato da Pio XII nel 1947. In-8 °, 135 pp, chalcographic frontispiece engraved by L. Banzo, calf covers with the coat of arms of Pope Pius IX with central coat of arms within a richly decorated double frame, gilt title on the back, gilt edges. Good copy. First edition. The life of this adventurous Portuguese missionary (João de Brito) is described by Father Boero, a Jesuit who devoted much of his life to compiling the biographies of missionary martyrs with a style that definitively goes beyond Baroque and triumphalist hagiography. His works are also important for the description of the places where the missionary father's work takes place. João de Brito carried out his ministry in India, in the province of Marava, where he returned after being expelled. Coming into irremediable conflict with the local prince, he suffered martyrdom in Oriyur on February 4, 1693. He was beatified by Pius IX in 1859 and canonized by Pius XII in 1947.
First and only edition, small folio (305 x 190 mm), [12], xix, [1], 705, [1]pp., woodcut title page vignette in Arabic, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, several leaves folding, a couple of minor repairs to inner margin of title, recent half calf to style, marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, a handsome copy with text clean and fresh. This volume 'forms a complete treatise in itself, since the it exhausts the Science of Arabic Inflexion'?Preface. All published, the intended second volume of Arabic "syntax" never made it to print.
1769Contemporary morocco. 12mo. XXIV, 213 pages. IV, 136; 17 cm. In French. De la religion des Brahmines, first French edition. Apologie Du Spinosa, second printing. A travelogue on the mores, customs, language, religion, and philosophy of Hinduism, contains two folded engraved tables; French translation from On the Origin and Nature of Despotism in Hindostan by Alexander Dow. The translator, Claude Francois Bergier (1721-1784) , was a French Jurist, writer, and English translator (including Fergusons Essay on Civil Society) . An Apology for Spinoza and Spinozism, contains Lettre à M. Helvetius dated 15 juillet 1766: pages [125]-136 (Letter to Helvetius in the 1810 edition, absent from the 122 page Altona 1805 edition) . Bound in contemporary morocco, with gilt tooled edges and spine, decorative endpages. Subjects: Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677. India - History. Mogul Empire. OCLC lists 17 copies of Apologie Du Spinosa; 8 copies of De la religion des Brahmines, which sold for ove USD 6700 alone at auction in 2011. Light rubbing to extremities of morocco, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good + condition. (KH-1-6)
1791In 4°. Pagine XII, 326 + 30 carte di tavole. Rilegatura rigida in piena pergamena coeva. Alcune macchie e bruniture. Stato di conservazione complessivamente buono. Molte incisioni all'interno, anche a piena pagina. Rara opera, che potremmo definire un catalogo, dell'indologo ed orientalista austriaco Johann Philipp Wesdin, dell'ordine dei carmelitani scalzi, sulle opere d'arte indiana presenti nel Museo borgiano di Velletri, fondato dal cardinale Stefano Borgia. Bellissime le incisioni raffiguranti divinità e monumenti dell'India. Edizione originale.
1982161p. plates bibliography index fold-out maps