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Item #JLR0791 Oriental field sports; being a complete, detailed and accurate description of the...

Williamson, Thomas, Captain; illust. Samuel Howitt

Oriental field sports; being a complete, detailed and accurate description of the wild sports of the East; and exhibiting, in a novel and interesting manner, the natural history of the elephant, the rhinoceros, the tiger, the leopard, the bear, the deer, the buffalo, the wolf, the wild hog, the jackall, the wild dog, the civet, and other undomesticated animals: as likewise the different species of feathered game, fishes, and serpents. . . The whole taken from the manuscript and designs of Captain Thomas Williamson, Who served upwards of Twenty Years in Bengal; the drawings by Samuel Howett, made uniform in size and engraved by the first artists under the direction of Edward Orme

Oriental field sports; being a complete, detailed and accurate description of the wild sports of the East; and exhibiting, in a novel and interesting manner, the natural history of the elephant, the rhinoceros, the tiger, the leopard, the bear, the deer, the buffalo, the wolf, the wild hog, the jackall.....

Price: $25,000

Item #JLR0311 An album of mounted photographs of Lhasa and Tibet taken during the Younghusband...

Bennett, William Pyt

An album of mounted photographs of Lhasa and Tibet taken during the Younghusband expedition

Ca. 1903–1904. Oblong folio (9 7/16” x 13 5/16”, 239mm x 337mm). With 152 gelatin-silver photographs of Lhasa and Tibet, tipped-in with corner mounts to a modern photograph album, mostly 4 to a page (each approximately 3 x 4 in.), numbered in the negative, and captioned in a modern hand.....

Price: $75,000

Item #JLR0602 The first Booke of the historie of the Discouerie and Conquest of the East Indias,...

Castanheda, Fernão Lopes de; trans. Nicholas Lichefield

The first Booke of the historie of the Discouerie and Conquest of the East Indias, enterprised by the Portingales, in their daungerous Nauigations, in the time of King Don Iohn, the second of that name. Which Historie conteineth much varietie of matter, very profitable for all Nauigators, and not vnpleasaunt to the Readers. Set foorth in the Portingale language, by Hernan Lopes de Castaneda. And now translated into English, by N.L. Gentleman

London: Thomas East, 1582. First edition in English. Octavo in 4s (7 7/16” x 5 3/8”, 188mm x 137mm): πA2 A-Ss4 Tt4(–Tt4) [$3 signed; – πA1]. 169 leaves, pp. [12] (title, blank, 2pp. dedication to Sir Francis Drake, 7pp. dedication to João III of Portugal, blank); foll. 1-163. Bound in.....

Price: $34,000

Daniell, Thomas and William Daniell

A Picturesque Voyage to India; by the way of China

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; and William Daniell, 1810. First edition. Small folio (10 3/16” x 13 13/16”, 260mm x 350mm): pp. [2] (title, blank) i ii (2 pp. introduction). With 50 hand-colored aquatint plates, each followed by one page of letterpress description. Bound in contemporary half diced calf.....

Price: $13,000

Item #6JLR0099 The Poisonous Snakes of India. For the use of the officials and others residing in...

Ewart, Joseph

The Poisonous Snakes of India. For the use of the officials and others residing in the Indian Empire

AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION COPY London: J. & A. Churchill, 1878. First edition. Quarto (9 ¾” x 7 ¼”, 247mm x 185mm): A4 B-I4 [$1 signed]. 36 leaves, pp. [8] (title, imprint, 2pp. preface, contents, blank, subscribers, blank), 1 2-64. With 21 plates, of which 19 are chromolithographed (one, pl. 2.....

Price: $4,400

Item #6JLR0006 Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, during the years 1843-46; employed...

Belcher, Edward, Captain Sir; and Arthur Adams

Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, during the years 1843-46; employed surveying the islands of the eastern archipelago; accompanied by a brief vocabulary of the principal languages. Published under the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. With Notes on the natural history of the islands.

Two volumes. London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve; 1848. With two lithographed frontispiece and 30 lithographed plates, and three loose folding maps. First edition. Octavo (8 ¾” x 5 9/16”, 222mm x 142mm).Vol. I: binder’s blank, π4 2-3π8 B-Z8 2A4 (2A4 blank) [$2 signed; 2A1 mis-signed as “A2”]. 200 leaves, pp.....

Price: $6,500

Maffei, Giovanni; after Abraham Ortelius

Indiarum orientalium occidentaliumque descriptio

Cologne: Arnold Birckmann, 1589 or 1593. A double-page engraved map of the world from Maffei's Historiarum Indicarum printed by Mylius in Cologne (10 ½" x 20" sheet, 20" x 29" frame). Oval projection, rectangular strapwork title cartouche and mannerist corners. Fine, with small chips to the frame."Giovanni Maffei's account of.....

Price: $9,000