Natural History, Travel, Atlases & Maps - L08407

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Natural History, Travel, Atlases & Maps

13 November 2008 • London

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Sale Number: L08407

242. Chinese school, an album of watercolour drawings of plants and fruit. Mid-nineteenth-century

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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243. An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China. London: John Macock, 1669, 3 parts in one volume, folio, title printed in red and black, engraved additional pictorial title, portrait, double-page map and 19 plates, one double-page, contemporary calf gilt, one plate (part 3, opposite p.36) torn with loss, following page torn with loss of catchword, some browning and spotting, binding worn

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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244. A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet. London: T. Gardner for Edward Cave, 1738-1741

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

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245. The new monthly magazine of various designs by the famous artists of to-day. [c.1900], 37 monthly parts, 8vo (240 x 160mm.), titles in English, other text in Japanese, numerous woodblock prints of designs throughout, most coloured, some heightened with gold or silver, a few folding, original sewn wrappers, minor spotting or light soiling to wrappers, one title missing

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,500 GBP

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246. T'Eyland Ceylon. Utrecht: Wilhem Broedelet, 1692, 4to (200 x 143mm.), engraved frontispiece, folding map and 8 plates, directions to the binder leaf at end, contemporary vellum, occasional slight soiling, short tear to map and to plate at p.155 without loss, spine with repair, new endleaves

Estimate: 2,500 – 3,000 GBP

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247. Monuments anciens et modernes de l'Hindoustan. Paris: P. Didot, 1821

Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 GBP

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248. Historia do liuro segundo do descobrimento et conquista da India pelos Portugueses. Coimbra: Joao de Barreyra and Joao Alvarez, 1552

Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP

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249. Substance of a Minute recorded by the Honourable Thomas Stamford Raffles... on the introduction of an improved system of internal management and the establishment of a land rental on the island of Java. London: Printed (but not published) for Black, Parry, and Co., 1814

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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250. Antiquarian, Architectural, and Landscape Illustrations of the History of Java. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1844, second edition, atlas volume, 4to (325 x 253mm.), large folding engraved map and 92 numbered plates, including 10 hand-coloured aquatints, one plate double-page, one folding, original cloth, somewhat spotted, tear in folding plate (without loss), binding slightly rubbed, rebacked, joints splitting

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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251. India ancient and modern. A series of illustrations of the country and people of India and adjacent territories. London: Day and Son Ltd., 1867

Estimate: 20,000 – 30,000 GBP

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252. An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China. London: W. Bulmer and Co. for G. Nicol, 1797

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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253. Keurlyke Beschryving van Choromandel, Pegu, Arrakan, Bengale, Mocha... een nette Beschryving van Malakka... mitsgaders een wydluftige Landbeschryving van 't Eyland Ceylon... Dordrecht and Amsterdam: Joannes van Braam and Gerard onder de Linden, 1726

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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