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mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Published by Giunta in Firenze\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Quarto\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-30x20cm approx.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e19th century Half calf binding with marbled paper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eVery good condition overall. Paper mainly clean and white throughout. Some mild browning to some pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eComplete (Dedication leaf present \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003emisbound\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e between pages 10 and 11) TP, dedication, 1-570, 28 including colophon on final leaf\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThis is the first edition of this \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ecornerstone \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ework on Asia \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ebased on Jesuit sources. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eIt was assembled by Giovanni Pietro \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eMaffei, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ea Jesuit priest \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ewho \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ewas commissioned to write this work on the history of Portuguese voyages of discovery\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e. Born in Bergamo in 1533, Maffei joined the Jesuit Church in 1565 and was brought to Lisbon to teach and write. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eHe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ecomposed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ethis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eaccount\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003efrom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eletters\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eaccounts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; 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font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eHondius\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \/ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eGeradus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eMercator - Atlas - 1606\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e430 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ex \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e590mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eImportant and highly decorative map of China and Japan by Mercator\/\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eHondius\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e. Clear and dark impression in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003egood \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003econdition with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003erepair to old \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003efold. The map is uncommonly found with a clear printing impression and without artificial modern colour\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThis map is both beautiful and cartographically important as an early map of China and Japan.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003edecorations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eshow\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eEuropean sailing ship \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003esailing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ethe seas while a wind powered land craft is shown on the Chinese mainland (a Chinese vehicle which \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ewas first \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003epopularised in the West by Marco Polo). A Japanese Junk is shown sailing through the seas while a cartouche shows the Japanese persecution and crucifixion of Christian missionaries (likely referring to the Martyrdom of 26 Christians in Nagasaki in 1597). Many \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ecoastline \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003esimilarities with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eLinschoten’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e early map of the area, which had used Portuguese sources, can be seen. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eKorea \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eis suggested as an Island and inland lakes are shown in South East Asia and China\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: .45pt; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eMercator died before the completion of his famous Atlas, but his sons were able to complete the atlas which was first published in 1595. 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mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eIndes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eOrientales\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eContenant\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ediverses\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e Descriptions des \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003elieux\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ejusques\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eà\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e present \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003edescouverts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e par les \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ePortugais\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eJan \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eHuygen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e van \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eLinschoten\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eAmsterdam - Evert \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eCloppenburgh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; 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mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e(2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; vertical-align: super; mso-text-raise: 30%; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003end\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e French edition)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eFolio, (30 x 20cm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eapprox\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e ). 4 ff., 205 pp., 2 ff., 181 pp., 1 ff., 86 pp., \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eComplete with three illustrated title pages, a portrait of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eLinschoten\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e, 6 (of 6) maps and 36 (of 36) beautiful illustrations drawn by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; 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text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eDoetecum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e. The maps include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ePlancius’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e famous world map and five maps engraved by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eLangren\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e of South America, East Africa, West Africa, The Middle East and India, and a map of South East Asia which shows Japan in its “Shrimp” outline. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe plates include large folding plates of Goa and Terceira on the Azores.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eChapter 26 gives an extensive description of Japan including its climate, customs and trade. The skill of Japanese swordsmiths and artists is highlighted and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ethe swords\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ehigh price in the west.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eLater vellum binding with gold tooling. Text and plates Washed with good condition overall. Maps in good condition – area of repair to world map at upper centrefold with some facsimile repair\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e. Stain to upper border of Middle East map.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThis hugely important work was published after \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eLinschoten's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e extended stay in Portuguese Goa where he worked for the Viceroy. Here \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eLinschoten\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e learnt much about the inhabitants and culture in the East which he used to\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003edescribe trade opportunities, with China, Japan and the Spice Islands. This information was hugely important and allowed the Dutch, and later the English, to break the Portuguese trade monopoly in the East.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eChurch states that \"Fine copies of this work with all the Maps and Plates are extremely rare, for the reason that, the book was so popular for a century after its publication, that it was given to each ship sailing from Holland to India\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; 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language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eEgypto\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e ne la Syria ne la Arabia \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; 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mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003efelice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e ne la Persia ne la India: \u0026amp; ne la Ethiopia. La \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003efede\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e vivere \u0026amp; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ecostumi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e de \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003etutte\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e le \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eprefate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eprovincie\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eNovamente\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eimpresso\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e“The Journey of Ludovico de \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eVarthema\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e to Egypt, Syria, Arabia, Persia, India, and Ethiopia describing their Religion and Customs”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Published in Venice on 20th December 1518 by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eZorzi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e di Rusconi.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-92 pages including index (complete): A-L8,M4. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Octavo format in 18th Century vellum \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eremboitage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; 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Modern Case.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e Condition: Title page with loss and around 3\/4 has been replaced in facsimile. Textually complete with some marks, stains and paper losses. Binding \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eremboitage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eVarthema\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e was an Italian from Bologna who travelled to Asia visiting the Middle East, India and the Spice Islands from 1502-1507. His journey was one of the most significant travel accounts of the renaissance period and was well received by contemporary audiences. It was one of the first “accurate” accounts to reach a wide audience, replacing earlier Mediaeval narratives by John Mandeville,\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eMarco Polo and others, which had mixed fact and fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eDuring his journey, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eVarthema\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003edescribed in detail the precious stones, spices, trade and landscapes of the East. He was the first European traveller to visit Mecca, describing its beauty and religious significance. In India, he described the grand processions and the differences between European and Indian customs in religion and day to day life. His description of the caste system is one of the earliest accounts of this \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eby a European. In Ethiopia, h\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ee was struck by the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003edistinctive form of Christianity and their subterranean Rock Churches. In Persia he was impressed by the grandeur and sophistication of the Shah’s court.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eOn his return he published his account in 1510 in Rome. The well written narrative was popular and fascinated early readers with its descriptions of far away lands. Further editions were soon published in German, Latin and Spanish.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eAll early editions are rare, and this Italian edition was published in Venice by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eZorzi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e di Rusconi in 1518. This is the 2nd Italian edition, 2nd Impression, and the 5th overall edition. Only 4 other copies are recorded in institutions on USTC of this edition (NYPL, Bodleian, Italy (Siena \u0026amp; Messina)). Other post-incunable editions including the 1511 Latin and the 1515\/16 German editions sometimes appear on the market, but this is the earliest edition in the original language of Italian that has been on the market for a significant period.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eExtremely early Italian edition of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eVarthema's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e Itinerario from 1518  - One the earliest travel narratives - No other Italian editions of this work published before 1520 has been recorded in auction records for the past 50 years \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eUSTC 862067\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e£65,000\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSummary of Early editions:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1510 1\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e overall (1\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e Italian) Ed. - (10 copies USTC – NYPL\/UK\/Spain\/Italy)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1511 - 1\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e Latin ed. (2\u003csup\u003end\u003c\/sup\u003e overall )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1515 – 1\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e German (5 copies on USTC)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1516\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e- 1\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e German (2nd impression) - (7 copies on USTC)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1517 – 1st Italian ed (2\u003csup\u003end\u003c\/sup\u003e Impression) – (2 known USTC – UK and Italy)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1517 – 2\u003csup\u003end\u003c\/sup\u003e Italian (1st impression) - (4 copies USTC – UK and Italy)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e1518 – 2\u003csup\u003end\u003c\/sup\u003e Italian (2\u003csup\u003end\u003c\/sup\u003e Impression) -This copy plus 4 copies on USTC UK\/Italy\/NYPL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55198818468218,"sku":"","price":65000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/IMG_43122.heic?v=1743234448"},{"product_id":"de-bry-petits-voyages-complete-set-in-latin-of-the-small-voyages-parts-1-to-12-and-the-appendix-congo-13-of-13-parts-bound-in-5-volumes-1","title":"De Bry Petits Voyages - Complete set in Latin of the \"Small Voyages\" parts 1 to 12 and the Appendix Congo - 13 (of 13) parts bound in 5 volumes.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRare Complete set of De Bry's Petits Voyages with Parts 1 to 12 plus the Appendix Congo.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e13 parts (of 13) all in first editions. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis monumental multi-part account describes Voyages of the Europeans to Asia and Africa and was published by the De Bry family across several generations between 1598 and 1628. This is the most important account of early European voyages and is abundantly illustrated. Of note, the later parts (11,12 and the appendix Congo) are particularly rare and are lacking in most sets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this set, parts 1-8 are in a contemporary vellum binding, parts 9 and 10 in a contemporary 14th Century Antiphonal leaf binding with Provenance from the Jesuit college in Ingolstadt, and parts 11, 12 and the Appendix Congo are bound individually in later 19th Century bindings. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe accounts include many early reports of the Dutch VOCs East Asian expansion, including the voyages of Linschoten, Houtman, Van Neck, Spilbergen, Verhoeff, De Weert and van der Hagen. African voyages are described in Parts 1, 6 and the Appendix Congo with the voyages of Lopez, De Marees and Samuel Braun. Important voyages to the Arctic include those of De Veer, Hudson and Linschoten, all of which are accompanied by important maps. An early publication of Quiros' account of the Pacific and Vespucci's \"discovery\" of America are also included. The Petits Voyages were published separately over several years and this set is comprised of five separately bound books. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNearly all sets have some faults but this set is remarkably complete with 272 (of 272) plates and 16 (of 17) maps. Of note, the Supplementum to part 9 is supplied separately in German and the Map of China in part 12 is replaced with a restored English edition (from Purchas) with some facsimile. The set is missing the following: the map of nova Zemblya in part 3 and the last text page of part 12. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePlease contact for full collation and description. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRegnum Congo (Complete 1st edition): TP, [3], 1-60, [index 3], letterpress title to plates,14 (of 14 plates), 3 (of 3) folding maps (2 of which are joined). (Complete)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart 2 - Linschoten's account of his voyage to the East (1st published in Dutch in 1596 as the Itinerario). 1599 (1st Latin Edition by De Bry)-Complete with 39 (of 39) plates and 3 (of 3) maps - depicting Mozambique and Goa and including the important folding map of Java. Collation: -TP, Portrait of Linschoten, (4), text pp 1-114, index (2), TP to plates, 38 plates (plate 37 is double page). (Complete)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Tertia Pars Indiae Orientalis Voyages of Linschoten, Houtman and De Veer. Frankfurt, 1601. First edition. Fifty-eight (of fifty-eight) plates and Five (of six) maps. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Pars Quarta Indiae Orientalis\" 1st Latin Edition - Theodore De Bry 1601. Complete text section (TP, [3], 1-121, Letterpress Title Page to Plates, 21 (of 21) Illustrations. (Complete)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Quinta pars Indiae orientalis -1601 - 1st Latin Edition of Part 5 of the Petits Voyages. Complete: 20 (of 20) fine engraved plates. Collation [8], 60, [2], Letterpress title to plates, 20 plates. (Complete)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Veram et historicam descriptionem auriferi regni Guineae.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIndiae Orientalis part 6. Johann Theodor de Bry; Johann Israel de Bry; Pieter de Marees. Published in Frankfurt by Wolfgang Richteri in 1604. Complete: TP, [8], 1-127, TP to plates, 26 (of 26) half-page engraved illustrations. (Complete)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Indiae Orientalis pars septima . Printed in Frankfurt by Theodor de Bry and Wolfgang Richter, 1606. TP, Dedication [1]. pp1-126, Plates 1-22 (of 22). (Complete)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart 8. 1609. TP, 1-100, 18 (of 18) plates including the rare map of Singapore and view of Macao. (Complete)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart 9. 1612. TP, 1-50, 12 plates. Supplementum provided in German with text and 5 plates. (Complete)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart 10. 1613. 1-32 pages (inc Title page), Letterpress title page to plates and 3 plates. 3 important maps of the Arctic by Hudson and Linschoten. (Complete)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart 11. 1619. 1-61, 11 plates (Complete). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart 12. 1628. 1 1-206 (missing last leaf 207\/8), 14 plates in text and 1 (of 2) maps. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAppendix Congo. 1625. 1-86 (12 plates in text). (Complete)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55198826529146,"sku":"","price":125000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/Screenshot2025-03-29at07.47.36.png?v=1743234500"},{"product_id":"19th-century-missionary-networks-fiji-and-china-commonplace-book-with-autograph-of-james-calvert-in-fijian-and-a-chinese-christian-manuscript","title":"19th-Century Missionary Networks: Fiji and China - Commonplace Book with Autograph of James Calvert in Fijian and a Chinese Christian Manuscript","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e19th-Century Missionary Networks: Commonplace Book with Autograph of James Calvert in Fijian and a Chinese Christian Manuscript\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eCommonplace book in Quarto (c. 24 × 19 cm) in original blind-stamped cloth. Covers detached and spine with small loss. c. 1840–1880 containing c50 pages of original manuscripts, drawings, watercolours, and ephemera.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIncluding of particular interest:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e1) An autograph inscription in Fijian by James Calvert (1813–1892), one of the most significant early Wesleyan missionaries to Fiji. Calvert arrived in Fiji in 1838 and played a central role in the translation of the Bible into Fijian and the establishment of the first Wesleyan mission presses at Lakemba and Viwa.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe autograph reads:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e“Me udolu na yamada, me vakavinavinaka vua na Kalou loloma, kei na noda i vakabula”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eJames Calvert, Manchester, August 8, 1859\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e(Translation: “O that we had a thousand tongues, to give thanks to the loving God and our Saviour.”)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e2) A fascinating 19th Century Chinese missionary calligraphic text, signed “Tyeng Howqua”, a name suggestive of a Cantonese merchant linked to Christian missionary circles.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe Chinese text is a meditation on the Gospel of John, chapter iii, verse 16, rather than a direct translation of the Gospel text. 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Translated from the Works of Tseu-Kwang-K'He, Called also Paul Siu, a Colao, or Minister of State in China.","description":"\u003ch3 data-test-id=\"book-title\" class=\"affix-top\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"main-heading\"\u003eThe Chinese Miscellany Designed to Illustrate the Government, Philosophy, Religion, Arts, Manufactures, Trade, Manners, Customs, history and Statistics of China. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-test-id=\"book-title\" class=\"affix-top\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"main-heading\"\u003eNo III. On The Silk Manufacture and the Cultivation of the Mulberry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"main-heading\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-test-id=\"book-title\" id=\"book-title\" class=\"affix-top\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"main-heading\"\u003eDissertation on the Silk-Manufacture, and the Cultivation of the Mulberry. 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Some fading\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publisher muted\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publisher muted\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Housed in high quality half leather Solander box with gold lettering to spine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publisher muted\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publisher muted\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis work is the first English translation of material drawn from the Ming dynasty agricultural encyclopaedia \u003ci\u003eNongzheng quanshu\u003c\/i\u003e (“The Complete Book on Agriculture”) by Xu Guangqi (1562–1633), also known as Tseu-Kwang-K’He or Paul Siu. Published at a time when Protestant missionaries were actively engaging with Chinese intellectual and technical traditions, it offered European readers a rare and detailed account of Chinese silk manufacture and mulberry cultivation. As silk remained one of the most desirable and economically significant commodities in East–West trade — long contributing to Europe’s trade imbalance with China — such knowledge held both commercial and scholarly interest. The inclusion of sixteen woodblock illustrations, adapted from original Chinese sources, provided Western audiences with visual insight into traditional methods of silk production and agricultural practice.\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publisher muted\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWalter Henry Medhurst was a British Protestant Missionary who spent much of his life in China. Having attended St Pauls school and the Hackney Theological College, he moved to Asia in 1819 - and would stay there for over 35 years until 1856. A talented linguist, Medhurst compiled dictionaries of Chinese, Japanese and Hokkien which were published in Macao and Batavia in the 1830s and 1840s. After the opening of Chinese treaty ports following the 1842 treaty of Nanking which concluded the Opium wars, he moved to Shanghai. In Shanghai he was instrumental in the output of the Shanghai Mission Press, publishing and translating linguistic material, theological tracts, and Chinese culturural material - including this Chinese tract on silk manufacture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publisher muted\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publisher muted\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eCordier 1513. 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Containing all the words in the Chinese imperial dictionary, arranged according to the radicals\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Walter Henry Medhurst (1796-1857)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Published at Parapattan (Batavia) in 1842\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Vol. 1 (of 2) only\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Complete: xxiv, 648, 29 pages of lithographed characters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Internally near fine- some toning and marks. 19th Century quarter calf binding with cracking to spine and boards which are loose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-With Dutch private ownership stamp and note to inner flyleaf stating that it was purchased at Quaritch in 1876 for £4\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMedhurst complied this Chinese dictionary as a more accessible alternative to Morrison's earlier monumental Chinese-English dictionary (which was published in 6 large volumes between 1815-1823). The work was published at Medhurst's own expense at Parapattan in Batavia (modern day Jakarta), in a edition of 600 copies. The volumes were published separately - the first volume was completed in October 1842 and the second in May 1843.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dictionary was arranged according to the radical-and-stroke system based on the 214 Kangxi radicals which Morrison had also used.  Volume I contains 648 pages of entries, covering characters from Radical 1 一 (“one”) through to Radical 111 矢 (“arrow”), followed by 50 pages of supplementary material. The preliminary matter includes an eleven-page preface, a three-page table of radicals, and five pages of guidance entitled “Directions for discovering under what Radical any given character may be found.” The volume concludes with a twenty-nine-page appendix which shows lithographs of obsolete and vulgar characters not included in the main body of the dictionary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWalter Henry Medhurst was a British Protestant Missionary who spent much of his life in China. Having attended St Pauls school and the Hackney Theological College, he moved to Asia in 1819 - where he would stay for over 35 years until 1856. He was initially based in Batavia and Malacca. A talented linguist, Medhurst compiled dictionaries of Chinese, Japanese and Hokkien which were published in Macao and Batavia in the 1830s and 1840s. After the opening of Chinese treaty ports following the 1842 treaty of Nanking which concluded the Opium wars, he moved to Shanghai. In Shanghai he was instrumental in the output of the Shanghai Mission Press, publishing and translating linguistic material, theological tracts, and Chinese culturural material.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56614304907642,"sku":null,"price":2750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/PHOTO-2026-02-08-10-23-502.jpg?v=1771756176"},{"product_id":"quan-ti-xin-lun-a-new-treatise-on-human-anatomy-1853-issue-canton-guangzhou-benjamin-hobson-and-chen-xiutang","title":"\"Quan Ti Xin Lun\" - A New treatise on Human Anatomy - 1853 issue - Canton (Guangzhou) - Benjamin Hobson and Chen Xiutang","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Quan Ti Xin Lun” - A new treatise on Human Anatomy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Canton - 1853 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Benjamin Hobson, Chen Xiutang, Gong Soucheng.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Collation: 1,2,1,1,1,1,71 (Complete). Folded anatomical plates not called for in this issue\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eQuan Ti Xin Lun is regarded as a landmark publication in Chinese medical history. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCompiled by Dr Benjamin Hobson and Chen Xiutang, the anatomical work reconciled Chinese views of “Qi” with modern Western Science. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBenjamin Hobson (1816–1873) was a London Missionary Society physician whose medical writings played a central role in introducing Western anatomy and medicine to Qing China.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe work included Illustrations which were commissioned to demonstrate anatomy and challenge traditional Chinese views of the body. The book was first Printed in 1851 at the “Kum-le-fau” hospital in the Xiguan district of Canton (Guangzhou), and sponsored by the London Missionary Society. 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With old folds and postage marks. Folded as a letter addressed to Dr Freeman in New York. Very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAmerican Presbyterian Mission Press - Ningbo - \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e1st January 1846\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe letter was likely designed to be sent to American sponsors of the American Missionaries sent to China. This letter is signed by the Ningbo Missionary Michael S Culbertson to an American homeopathic Doctor, Dr Freeman who was based in New York. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe letter starts with a Chinese translation, in the local Ningbo dialect, of Isaiah 49:12.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe letter goes on to describe the history of Christian Missionary work in China, and the current status of Missionaries in China. Much had changed following the opening of the Treaty ports \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e- Shanghai, Ningbo, Guangzhou (Canton), Fuzhou, and Xiamen (Amoy) - after the 1842 Treaty of Nanking and the conclusion of the opium wars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe letter concludes with details of the challenges of missionary work, including the sad loss of two young children from Missionary families. Nevertheless, at the end of the letter the Missionaries letter stating their on going commitment to their cause. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe letter is signed by Michael Simpson Culbertson (1819-1862), one of the earliest American missionaries in Ningbo. Culbertson was a Princeton and West Point Graduate who travelled to Ningbo as a missionary in 1844. He was stationed at Ningbo from 1844-1851 and In Shanghai from 1852 to 1862. He was involved in the translation of the Old Testament with the Committee of Delegates, from which he later withdrew due to disagreements. He died of cholera in Shanghai in 1862.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDr Freeman was an New York based Homeopathic Physician who was likely a sponsor of the missionary work in China.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot on OCLC under Ningbo 1846 - Apparently unrecorded.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56767747654010,"sku":null,"price":3500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/Screenshot2026-04-03at07.34.26.png?v=1775198246"},{"product_id":"a","title":"Early Chinese Printing - Hien wun shoo - Chinese Moral Maxims - John Francis Davis - P. P. Thoms Macao 1823","description":"\u003cp data-test-id=\"book-title\" id=\"book-title\"\u003e\"Hien wun shoo - Chinese moral maxims\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-test-id=\"book-title\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"With a free and verbal translation; affording examples of the grammatical structure of the language.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-test-id=\"book-title\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Compiled by John Francis Davis, F.R.S., Member of the Asiatic Society.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-test-id=\"book-title\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLondon : John Murray, Albemarle Street.  Macao, China.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrinted at the Honorable Company's Press, by P. P. Thoms, 1823. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-test-id=\"book-title\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Printed in Macao by P.P.Thoms (and sold in London by John Murray). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-test-id=\"book-title\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-First edition. Octavo (220 x 140 mm), 20th Century quarter leather over red buckram, spine lettered in gilt.losses to head and foot of spine, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-test-id=\"book-title\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Complete: pp. viii; [1]-199, [1 blank]. Lacking the front free end paper.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-test-id=\"book-title\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Clean throughout, small 2mm closed tear to title page. Near Fine. Printed on Chinese paper.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-test-id=\"book-title\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book contains 200 Chinese moral maxims which are printed in Chinese characters and translated into English. Although first written in 1818 and initial sent to London for printing, the lack of Chinese characters meant that it was sent to Macao where it was printed on P.P.Thoms East India Company Press.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-test-id=\"book-title\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the early 19th century maxims and proverbs were thought to be an excellent way to understand other cultures and their characters. The introductory advertisment notes that many of these maxims are of ancient origin and draw on Confucian teaching.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-test-id=\"book-title\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohn Francis Davis (1795-1890) was a British sinophile and the second Governor of Hong Kong (1844-48). He lived to the grand age of 95 and later became a Doctor of Civil Law at Oxford University\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-test-id=\"book-title\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeter Perring Thoms (1791-1855) ran the first English Press in China - established by the East India Company in Macao in 1814. The press was able to print in both European and Chinese characters and would produce Morrisons famous six volume Chinese Dictionary from 1815-1823.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-test-id=\"book-title\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReferences: Cordier, BS, 1429. Lust, 725.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56770327544186,"sku":null,"price":2500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/IMG_8847.heic?v=1775424360"},{"product_id":"rare-early-thai-astronomical-printing-and-description-of-the-1850-solar-eclipse-j-h-chandler-union-press-bangkok-1850-almanac","title":"Rare early Thai astronomical printing and description of the 1850 solar eclipse. - J.H. Chandler Union Press Bangkok -1850 Almanac","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSiamese almanac for the year commencing with the 1st month in the year 1211 \u003cem\u003e[1850 in the western calendar],\u003c\/em\u003e and ending with the 12th month in the year 1212 of the Siamese era\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e-Bangkok: Union Press by John Hassett Chandler\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e-1850\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e-Small format (12.5 x 10 cm). Original light tan printed wrappers. PUncut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e-Complete: 52 \u0026amp; [1] pages. Very good condition – light toning to wrappers, faint vertical crease to rear cover; final leaf with short closed tear (~2 cm), without loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis 1850 imprint is amongst the first generation of Thai language printing with Western technology. The first known text in Thai script is the Gospel of Matthew, which was printed in Singapore in 1835. The earliest book printed in Thailand itself was a Christian text printed in 1837 which survives in a unique copy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThis Almanac was printed in Bangkok in 1850 by John Hassett Chandler. John Hassett Chandler was an American Baptist missionary who arrived in Siam in 1843, after first spending a few years in Burma from 1841. He was sent to Siam (Thailand) as a printer and worked at the union press in Bangkok, under the funding of the American Baptist Mission. He was instrumental in the development of Thai typefaces for printing. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThe text for this 1850 almanac is particularly interesting as it includes a very early description of Western astronomy aimed at a Thai reading audience. The description of the mechanism of an eclipse, and the map of route of the upcoming solar eclipse demonstrated Western understanding of the universe. This would have been powerful new information for the local population. We know that King Mongkut (1804-1868) had a deep interest in Western science, and famously accurately predicted the 1868 solar eclipse in Thailand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe almanac includes a calendar which follows the traditional Siamese (Thai) calendar representing the year 1211–1212 (corresponding to 1850 in Western tradition). Following the calendrical section, the text includes an explanatory description of western, heliocentric astronomy. Images included in the book are a map of the 1850 annular eclipse, a woodcut diagram of the earth orbiting the sun, and woodcut depictions of a total and partial solar eclipse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eAll early Thai imprints are rare. OCLC records 3 copies: Yale University Library, American antiquarian society, National Library of Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56786287362426,"sku":null,"price":6500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/IMG_8903_0083a81f-79c8-403f-b278-e5a2b296d0cf.jpg?v=1776567305"},{"product_id":"chinese-dialogues-first-english-book-printed-in-shanghai-w-h-medhurst-1844","title":"\"Chinese Dialogues\" - First English book printed in Shanghai - W. H. Medhurst - 1844","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center; mso-outline-level: 1;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eChinese Dialogues, Questions, and Familiar Sentences,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center; mso-outline-level: 1;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eLiterally Rendered into English, With a View to Promote Commercial Intercourse, and to Assist Beginners in the Language.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e-Printed at the Shanghai Mission Press – 1844\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e-W.H. Medhurst\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e-Octavo --22 x 14cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e-Complete: Very good condition - some marks and tears to pages. Original boards (made of reused printing waste) with title to front cover. Title page to text intact with no losses. Marks and bumps here and there but generally very good. Housed in modern quarter leather box.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThis “phrase book” was aimed at English traders who were moving to the newly opened treaty port of Shanghai. After the defeat of the Qing in the first Opium war, the 1842 treaty of Nanjing opened up the five ports of Shanghai, Guangzhou (Canton), Ningpo, Fuzhou and Xiamen (Amoy) to traders. Eager to take part in the profitable trade in Silks, Tea and Opium, many British, American and European traders made bases in the Chinese treaty ports.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAlongside the merchants, missionaries also moved to the newly opened ports. Well established in the ports of Canton and Macao since the early 1800s, Missionaries had an excellent grasp of the language and customs, and Medhurst used this knowledge to produce this work. The London Missionary Society quickly established a press in Shanghai, with this work “Chinese Dialogues” being the first English (or European) work printed in Shanghai.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eWalter Henry Medhurst (1797-1857) was an important early Protestant Missionary in China. Following on from the trailblazing Morrison, Medhurst arrived in Malacca in 1816. He studied the local languages and was ordained by Milne in 1819. As well as being a missionary, Medhurst was a talented scholar and linguist, printing in Batavia and Macao a Chinese Dictionary, a Hokkien Dictionary, and a Japanese Dictionary (despite having never visited Japan). He quickly moved to Shanghai to set up a press following the opening of the treaty ports. Medhurst’s 1838 London printed “China: it’s state and prospects” would fuel Hudson Taylor and hundreds of other Missionaries to come to China in the second half of the 19\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e Century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA landmark in Western Printing in China – the first European book printed in Shanghai.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCordier 1642; Löwendahl 1009; Lust 1021.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e£5950\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56853342388602,"sku":null,"price":5950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/IMG_7201.jpg?v=1779342588"},{"product_id":"early-singapore-scientific-printing-by-jacob-baptist-j-logans-journal-of-the-indian-archipelago-and-eastern-asia-1854","title":"Early Singapore Scientific Printing by Jacob Baptist - Logan's \"Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia\" 1856","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Edited by J. R. Logan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Published Quarterly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Singapore: printed for the editor by Jacob Baptist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Issue II of Volume I New Series\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-1856\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Complete Text of this issue [TP], 141-316, [End wrapper]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Without the Map of Malacca sometimes found in this edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Stains to covers with creases and losses. Uncut copy and unbound. Back wrapper loose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a complete issue, retaining original wrappers, of this foundational Singapore printed journal of early East Asian Science. This issue was printed by Jacob Baptist, an important early printer in Singapore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia was founded by James Richardson Logan. It brought together ethnology, geography and commerce in the diverse port of Singapore which had British, Chinese, Malay, Indian and indigenous populations. This volume contains a broad range of articles including Dutch colonial activity, the Naning war, Raffles and Malacca.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRare in original wrappers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContains the following articles:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes of Dutch History in the Archipelago, Notes on Naning, with a brief notice of the Naning War by T. 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