{"title":"India and Sri Lanka","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-halsewell-tragedy-1786-unpublished-poetry-early-19th","title":"The Halsewell Tragedy 1786 - Unpublished Poetry - East Indiaman - 38pp","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"These poems were composed and written by my dear lamented grandfather Captain Pierce who lost his life with two of his daughters and two nieces on board his ship as well as several Passengers and Crew in The Halsewell\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEarly 19th Century Manuscript of unwritten poetry written by Sophia Ricketts, Grand Daughter of Captain Richard Pierce who died during the Halsewell Tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e38pp [6 blanks] of unpublished poetry in Good condition. Staining to edges of pages. First page toned with old sellotape mark (removed) Tears and losses to front an back pages. Nice early 19th Century hand. 32 x 20cm approx. Thick paper watermarked with the image of Britannia and the date 1807(?)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Halsewell was an East Indiaman under the command of Captain Richard Pierce which sunk in January 1786 with loss of his life.  The Tragedy was well documented at the time and the site was visited by King George III. It was remembered in years to come with the wreck being portrayed by JMW Turner in 1818. Charles Dickens would recount the tragedy in his short story \"The Long Voyage\" published in 1853, where he recalls the heroic efforts of the Captain to avert disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe manuscript contains the following 11 unpublished poems:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ‘A Sonnet’, pp. 1-6, 30 verses - Describing a Mariner's longing for home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Parting’, pp. 6-10, 33 verses: - Describing missing family \"And is it so, Maria said, Tomorrow must we part?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Reflections at Sun-rise. Written in the N.E. Trade-winds’, pp. 11-12 , 55 lines - Describes the ship gracefully sailing across the Atlantic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Reflections at Sun-Setting’, pp. 13-15 , 82 lines\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'An Epitaph on a Friend’, pp. 16, 28 lines\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘A Monody’, pp. 17-18 , 43 lines - Describes the loss of a friend\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'An Elegiac Poem written in False Bay (South Africa) 1772', pp. 19-25 , 212 lines - \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ‘Written on board the Asburnham (East Indiaman, Earl of Ashburham, launched 1761) occasioned by an abusive paragraph in the Weekly Chronicle of that Ship in answer to a hint that improper attention was shewn to a Young Lady under the Guardianship of the Author’ pp. 26-28\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Written at the Top of a hill, In the village of Coldhorne near Bath. (from whence is a beautiful prospect over the adjacent country) where the author went to school' pp. 29-33\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘A Copy of Verses sent to Humphrey Primatt. D.D. with two Java Sparrows.' pp. 34-35 7 verse poem\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHumphrey Primatt was a vicar and animal rights pioneer. On p34 is written the note ‘Dr Primatt has just published a treatise on mercy to brutes’. and on p.35. ‘The cruel distinction made by many in disfavour of the blacks was often a subject of his commiseration’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'The following Lines were written on board the Halsewell By a private soldier.' pp. 36-38 ,  67 line poem\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe last page contains a pasted on signature ‘Sophia Ricketts’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn interesting booklet of unpublished poetry describing a well documented late 18th Century Maritime tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42755528196267,"sku":"","price":750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/IMG_6414.jpg?v=1687699876"},{"product_id":"a-ilha-e-cidade-de-goa-metropolitana-da-india-e-partes-orientais-que-esta-en-15-graos-da-banda-da-norte-goa-linschoten-1596-rare-map","title":"A Ilha e Cidade de Goa Metropolitana da India e Partes Orientais que esta en 15 Graos da Banda da Norte - Goa - Linschoten - 1596 - Rare Map","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A Ilha e Cidade de Goa Metropolitana da India E Partes Orientais que esta en 15 Graos da Banda da Norte\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Jan Huygen van Linschoten \u0026amp; Baptista van Deutecum\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-1596\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Large map - 78 x 55cm approx\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Good condition, some minor staining and tears. Old folds. Complete with no facsimile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Uncoloured version\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis large folding map is one of the earliest maps to show Goa, in India. It is the large original version, which was later copied by De Bry, and other map makers, in smaller versions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt was drawn and published in 1596 by Linschoten, a Dutchman who worked for the Portuguese Viceroy of Goa. He was fascinated by what he saw in India and wrote down and described all he saw, including the different peoples of India who lived and worked there, the plants and animals he saw, and the trade opportunities in the area.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis map of Goa was drawn from his experiences. 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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; 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 – 1619\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%;\"\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; 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 and engraved by Johannes 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: 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; 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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; 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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; 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. 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£35,000\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. 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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). 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This may be explained by the fact that in the introduction to the third edition (also published in Calcutta) buyers are invited to swap their second edition for the new third edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first edition has no records in auctions and only 2 institutional holdings are noted on Worldcat (BL and Mainz).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe third edition is recorded in 14 institutions (no auction records)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Fourth edition - printed in London in 1801 - is relatively common on the market.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Mirror Press is an enigmatic and short lived press, known for publishing Solvyn's collection of engravings \"Description of the Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplete example. Folding table at beginning of volume 1 in two halves bound separately. Water damage to outer part of leaves, some worming, some old repairs and losses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEx-libris stamp \"Glasgow University Library\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume one is an instructional manual on the Persian language\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCollation: vi, 85, 90, 168, 66\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume two contains early literary examples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCollation: xxiv, 198pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCalcutta imprints before 1800 are desirable and increasingly uncommon on the market. 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First few gatherings loose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-TP, ii, 161-224, [Racing Calendar] xvi, [\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBengal General Register] 101-130, 35-45\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis very rare Calcutta imprint is one of the earliest Sporting journals published in India. The work was edited by James Stocqueler - a larger-than-life character who worked in England, India and America producing popular works as an editor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe subject matter of this printing is unusual compared to most of the printing of the era as it contains information about the pastimes of the ruling classes. Many of the accounts are extremely colonial and exploitative - including \"Baiting a Leopard\", \"My First Brush with a tiger\" and \"Bear Shooting in the Northern Circars\". More banal pursuits include Horse racing at Agar, trout fishing and \"My Dog Carlo\". Racists stereotypes are often employed in the descriptions of Indians. 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For the use of the Youths in the Christian Institutions at Cotta.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Printed in Ceylon at the Cotta Church Mission Press, 1834. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e-By the Reverend Samuel Lambrick \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Second edition, 12mo (18 x 10cm)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Complete: [4], 68, xxvii, [1]pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Contemporary red calf with some wear. One quire loosening\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Cotta Church Mission Press was established in Cotta (modern day Kotte) near Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1822. Missionaries were sent to Sri Lanka after the British colonial government took over the Island in 1796. \"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePresses soon sprang up at Colombo, Wesleyan Mission Press, 1815; Cotta, Church Missionary Society, 1822; Kandy, Baptist Mission Press, at least by 1841; Jaffna, Wesleyan Church Missions Press, 1825, and Nellore, Church Missionaries, 1834 (at least two presses existed at the Nellore mission)\" (Rhodes)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Rev. Samuel Lambrick (1768-1854) was a British Missionary who moved to Ceylon in 1817 alongside his wife.  In 1822 he founded Cotta (Kotte) as the centre of the Church Missionary Society near Colombo where he worked among the Sinhalese population to develop Christian schools and teach literacy and religion. 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Under entire new management, This Theatre will open on Monday, the 22nd, and Wednesday, the 24th of January, 1844, with a Comedy in 2 Acts, with new Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations; entitled \"The Youthful queen;\" or, \"Christine of Sweden!\"...\"To conclude with the Laughable Farce, in One Act, entitled \"A Day after the Fair.\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrinted by J Torrick in Secunderabad in 1844.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e23 x 35cm laid down on modern mount. Old centre fold. Otherwise near fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bill announces a two-act comedy entitled \u003ci\u003eThe Youthful Queen; or, Christine of Sweden\u003c\/i\u003e, followed by the farce \u003ci\u003eA Day After the Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, with tickets priced at 2 Rupees 8 Annas and proceeds handled through the Club Butler.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the date of printing (January 1844), Secunderabad served as the principal cantonment of the Hyderabad Subsidiary Force under the Madras Presidency Army. The East India [Company] Register and Army Lists for 1843–44 confirm the presence of the 9th 26th and 38th Madras Infantry in Secunderabad at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe officers named in the playbill correspond closely with those stationed in these regiments at Secunderabad at the time. From examining the lists, the most probable identifications include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLieutenant Charles Winn Huet\u003c\/b\u003e, 38th Madras Native Infantry — listed as Manager of the Theatre and performer in multiple roles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaptain John Thomas Ashton\u003c\/b\u003e, 26th Madras Native Infantry — cast prominently in the farce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLieutenant M. Brady Ward\u003c\/b\u003e, 26th Madras Native Infantry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLieutenant John Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e, 26th Madras Native Infantry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLieutenant G. F. Shakespear\u003c\/b\u003e (26th) OR \u003cb\u003eLieutenant C. M. Shakespear\u003c\/b\u003e (9th), both stationed in Secunderabad in 1844.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Youthful Queen; or, Christine of Sweden\u003c\/i\u003e dramatised the life of Queen Christina of Sweden. The play dealt with themes including female sovereignty, abdication, and intellectual independence. The concluding farce, \u003ci\u003eA Day After the Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, provided comic relief, with Captain Ashton reportedly undertaking multiple exaggerated character roles. Play performances formed an important element of British cantonment culture in India. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e As there were no women in military bases, men often played multiple women’s parts - as can be seen by Lieutenant Huet’s multiple roles in this playbill for the Day After the Fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e Silk theatre programmes were produced for commemorative or prestige occasions and were often lost through time. Printed locally in Secunderabad by J. Torrick, the survival of a local Indian printed silk playbill is uncommon. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot on OCLC - apparently unrecorded. 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Overall very good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"publisher muted\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHenry Martyn (1781-1812) was a linguist and missionary who worked for the British East India Company in India and Persia.  Born in Truro, he studied at St John's College Cambridge where he had a talent for languages. Initially planning to become a barrister, he was influenced by the missionaries William Carey and David Brainerd, and trained as a priest. After a period as a deacon he Ely, he volunteered for missionary work and arrived in India in 1806. Once in India his linguistic talents were put to full use and he was able to  translate the New Testament into Urdu, Persian and Judaeo-Persic. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"publisher muted\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlthough earlier editions of the Persian New Testament had been written, Martyn's edition is regarded as the first translation true to the language. 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The work contains a locally produced folding map of Goa, and interestingly the list of subscribers includes eight local Indian subscribers from Bombay.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif;\"\u003eThe work was written by the French Catholic missionary Denis Louis Cottineau de Kloguen who lived an itinerant life, working in Baltimore (Maryland), Goa and Bombay, where he died in 1830.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif;\"\u003eThe work contains an autobiography of the author (pp1-6); a historical sketch of Goa (pp7-24); a description of the Portuguese Viceroys (pp25-50); a description of the Bishops of Goa(pp51-79); a topographical and financial description of Goa (pp80-100); a description of the religions and churches of Goa (pp101-152); and a description of the peoples of Goa (pp153-177). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif;\"\u003eThe work is uncommon in commerce and OCLC states only 11 copies in institutions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56973074727290,"sku":null,"price":2250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/IMG_9916.jpg?v=1781330926"},{"product_id":"early-18th-century-calcutta-printing-joseph-cooper-the-indian-observer-by-hugh-boyd-calcutta-1795","title":"18th Century Calcutta printing Joseph Cooper - \"The Indian Observer\" by Hugh Boyd - Calcutta 1795","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e18th Century Calcutta printing by Joseph Cooper - \"The Indian Observer\" - Hugh Boyd\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Printed in Calcutta by Joseph Cooper, 1795\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e– First collected edition, written by Hugh Macaulay Boyd and compiled by Andrew Burchet Bone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e– Octavo format: Contemporary calf binding neatly rebacked, with ownership inscription of Lt Colonel Henry Conran\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e– Complete: [12], xxxv, [5], 273, ii, [1 blank], with engraved portrait frontispiece\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe text for this work contains the collected columns 1-53 of the Hircarrah which had originally been established by Boyd and published in newspaper\/journal format in Madras (Chennai) from 1793 to 1794. The Hircarrah meant messanger in Persian, the local language of power and administration at the time. The journal discussed all which was fashionable to the elite europeans of the time including philosophy, the French, poetry, the theatre, ancient Greece and Rome, music, marriage, and British Indian Society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHugh Boyd (1746–1794) was an Irish writer, journalist and colonial official. After graduating from Trinity College Dublin, he worked as a lawyer in London, where his eloquence and wit allowed him to move in the London political circles of Goldsmith, Garrick, Burke and Reynolds. After spending his wife's inheritance and becoming short of money, he travelled to India to enter into the service of Lord Macartney. He undertook a diplomatic mission to the King of Kandy in Ceylon, but was captured by the French on his return and was imprisoned on Mauritius. He later became a pioneer of Indian journalism, founding the Indian Observer and Hircarrah at Madras in 1793, before his untimely death in Madras from fever in 1794.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoyd unfortunately died before the publication of this compilation, and the text includes a description of the life of Hugh Boyd by Lawrence Dundas Campbell (i-xxxv) and a monody on his death. An engraving of Boyd is present opposite the title page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe owner of this volume, Lt Colonel Henry Conran (c1767-1829), served in India and Ceylon in the 52nd Foot (and later the 96th Foot) from 1793. He subsequently left India and fought in the War of 1812 and is listed as the Commander of forces on Jamaica in 1817.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe printer of this work, Joseph Cooper, was a well established printer of journals in Calcutta. He was initially involved in publishing the Calcutta gazette in 1785, but soon went on to publish the weekly Calcutta Chronicle as well as the Calcutta Telegraph. Printing had only started in Calcutta in 1777 so was in its infancy in 1795 when this work was published. In his preface, the editor apologises for delays and typographical errors, referring to the “yet infant state of the press in India”.\u0026amp;nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis work is uncommon with OCLC and ESTC stating 8 copies only in institutions: NYPL, Oklahoma, California State Library, Library of Congress, Case Western Reserve, Bibliotheque de Quebec, NLScotland, BL.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReference: Shaw Printing in Calcutta 284\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56992884359546,"sku":null,"price":5000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/PHOTO-2026-05-24-08-18-3717.jpg?v=1782013831"},{"product_id":"1818-calcutta-printed-almanac-with-contemporary-ownership-signature-of-george-richardson-commercial-resident-at-haripal-hurripaul-and-golagore","title":"1818 Calcutta Printed Almanac with contemporary ownership signature of George Richardson - Assistant to the Commercial Resident for the East India Company at Haripal (Hurripaul) and Golagore","description":"\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; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: #c00000; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #C00000; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e1818 Calcutta Printed almanac with contemporary ownership signature of George Richardson - Assistant to the Commercial Resident for the East India Company at Haripal (Hurripaul) and Golagore\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e\"The Calcutta Annual Register and Directory, for the Year of our Lord 1818; or, Civil, Military, Medical, and Marine Lists of the Presidency of Bengal; with an Almanack, and an Appendix: Containing Regulations of the Custom House, Treasury, Post Office, Bank, Pension and Life Insurance Funds, Union, Laudable and Provident Societies, Calcutta Tontine Lists of the Law Department, College, Asiatic Society, and Public Charities; Complete Calcutta Lists; List of Former Governors; List of Shipping, etc.\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e Calcutta, 1818.”\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Large 8vo (230 × 140 mm).\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Complete. [2], vi, [18], 174, 204, 10, xv, [1], iii, [1]pp\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Original blue boards with half leather binding (worn with bumps to boards)\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Contemporary fore-edge inscription \"\" XX DUTIES XX \"\" \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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Printed in Calcutta by \"Scott \u0026amp; Co at the India Gazette Press\" on Chinese paper (paper fragile with a few chips and tears here and there)\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-1818\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThis uncommon early Calcutta-printed almanac contains a wealth of information on the civil, military and commercial life of the Bengal Presidency. It includes detailed lists of European residents, East India Company officials, shipping, public institutions and administrative regulations.\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ePrinted in Calcutta on Chinese paper, the book retains its contemporary binding. This copy is particularly notable for its fore-edge inscription \"Duties\" and contemporary annotations, showing that it served as a working reference volume.\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThe contemporary ownership inscription inside the front board reads “Geo. Richardson, Calcutta, May 10, 1818.” Richardson served as Assistant to the Commercial Resident at Haripal (Hurripaul) and Golagore under \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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eRobert Richardson, and\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e is listed in the directory itself as “assistant to the commercial resident at Gulagore and Hurripaul.” As noted in the contemporary history of the Bengal Commercial Residency system:\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e“From 1807 to 1820 Robert Richardson was Commercial Resident at Haripal, with George Richardson, from their respective standing in the service, probably his son or nephew, as assistant…”\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eRare. OCLC records only a single institutional copy, held by the British Library.\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","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57084637446522,"sku":null,"price":2250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/IMG_0165.jpg?v=1784364432"},{"product_id":"first-english-edition-the-voyages-and-adventures-of-ferdinand-mendez-pinto-london-1653-china-india-ethiopia","title":"First English edition \"The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto\" London 1653 - China, India, Ethiopia","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"main-heading\"\u003eThe voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, a Portugal, during his travels for the space of one and twenty years in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East-Indies. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWith a relation and description of most of the places thereof ; their religion, laws, riches, customs, and government in time of peace and war : where he five times suffered shipwrack, was sixteen times sold, and thirteen times made a slave : written originally by himself in the Portugal tongue and dedicated to the Majesty of Philip King of Spain ; done into English by H.C. 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Closed tear (without losses) on page 281.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in Portuguese in 1614, this is the first English edition of Fernão Mendes Pinto’s celebrated account of his travels across Ethiopia, China, Japan, Siam, Pegu, and the East Indies. Blending adventure with sharp observation, the work became one of the most influential early European travel narratives on Asia. 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font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Assorted sizes from 18 × 16 cm to 31 × 24 cm\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Old folds, wear, stains and losses at corners.\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eTaken in the 1850s, the amateur photographs depict buildings and street scenes in and around Pondicherry, in what was then French India. The images include depictions of the Grand Bizarre clock tower, built in 1851, with a busy market scene below. Outdoor photography was still in its infancy, and required long exposures, so the market traders appear blurred and dynamic.\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterestingly, one of the photos gives a clue as to the photographer. A man stands outside the “Pharmacie du Marin” and has annotated the building “ma chambre” (my bedroom).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Chief Navy pharmacist at the time was Jules Lépine (1817–1884) who worked in Pondicherry from 1849-1854 and 1857-1868. It is likely that he learnt the salt print photographic process during his return to France in 1854-1857 (when salt prints were at the height of their popularity\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e), and\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e returned in 1857 to take these photos.\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e Lépine was a trained pharmacist and accomplished naturalist. Before arriving in \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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eIndia\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e he collected natural-history specimens in Tahiti and the Marquesas, and at Pondicherry he researched \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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eHydrocotyle asiatica\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; 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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eCasuarina\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e, and the extraction of magnesium sulphate from dolomite.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSalt prints were an early form of photography, most popular in the 1850s. Salt prints superseded the earliest popular form of photography, daguerreotypes, as multiple copies could be made from a negative. Salt prints would be replaced by sharper albumen prints from the late 1850s. \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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eSalted paper photographs made in India during the 1850s are notably early, before the widespread establishment of commercial photographic studios in the subcontinent.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57164086935930,"sku":null,"price":4000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/c75e23c8-00e6-4e0c-9ee6-9ebd72f28e9c.jpg?v=1789205445"},{"product_id":"travels-in-india-during-the-years-1780-1781-1782-1783-william-hodges-1793","title":"Travels in India, during the years 1780, 1781, 1782 \u0026 1783 -William Hodges - 1793 1st edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Hodges’ early engraved views of India\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTravels in India, during the years 1780, 1781, 1782 \u0026amp; 1783\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-William Hodges, R.A.\u003cbr\u003e-1st Edition - London: Printed for the author, 1793\u003cbr\u003e-Quarto: Original calf boards, re-backed in late 20th Century calf\u003cbr\u003e-Complete: vi,156, table of plates. \u003cbr\u003e-With 14 engraved plates and folding map of the Bengal and the Ganges \u003cbr\u003e-Generally very good condition. Bumps to corners and some scattered foxing internally. Small 2cm closed tear to map without loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Hodges is best known for being the artist on James Cook’s second voyage (1772-1775). However, he was also commissioned by Warren Hastings to be the East India Company artist in India from 1779 to 1783, where he produced this work. The book includes a map of Bengal and the Lower Ganges River and 14 images of India, which include Calcutta, Agra, Lucknow; engravings of the people of India; and a Banyan tree. \u003cbr\u003eOn his return, Hodges exhibited twenty-two views of India at the Royal Academy from 1785-1788, and also produced a lavish folio of Indian views which are desirable and scarce on the market today\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57167194325370,"sku":null,"price":1250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/PHOTO-2026-05-01-08-39-53.jpg?v=1786765728"},{"product_id":"serampore-printing-of-a-foundational-work-on-indian-botany-flora-indica-by-william-roxburgh-1832","title":"Serampore printing - Foundational work on Indian Botany: Flora Indica by William Roxburgh and edited by William Carey, 1832","description":"\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; 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Thacker \u0026amp; Co Calcutta. and Parbury, Allen \u0026amp; Co. London, 1832.\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-First complete edition, Three volumes.\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Each volume 20.5 x 13cm 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: 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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Green Morocco, rebacked. 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Internally near fine.\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Complete with errata slip: Vol 1: TP, [2], 741; Vol 2: TP, [1], 691; Vol 3: TP, iii-viii, 875\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThe \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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ethree volume\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e work was printed at Serampore, an important early centre for Western printing near Calcutta in \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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eIndia, and\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e edited by William Carey. Carey was one of the most important early Christian Missionaries in \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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eIndia, and\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e was instrumental in early Indian printing at the Serampore Mission Press. Volumes 1 and 2 were initially published separately in 1820 and 1824, but the complete 3 volume set, as here, would not appear until 1832.\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThe work was written by William Roxburgh (1751-1815\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e), and\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e was the earliest systematic attempt to describe and categorise the plants of India. William Roxburgh is often regarded as the father of Indian botany. He was appointed superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden in 1793 and spent two decades systematically collecting and cataloguing the plants he saw. Roxburgh sadly died before its publication, but his family commissioned William Carey to edit and publish the work.\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThe set is quite uncommon in the market, especially in complete and attractive condition.\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; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eReferences: Pritzel 7837; Stafleu \u0026amp; Cowan 9725.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57259072094586,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/4797436c-1650-4aeb-9ff7-de5d2733b9db.jpg?v=1789209825"},{"product_id":"the-first-printed-colletion-of-hindu-verse-selections-from-the-popular-poetry-of-the-hindoos-thomas-duer-broughton-1814","title":"The first printed colletion of Hindi Poetry -  \"Selections from the popular poetry of the Hindoos\" - Thomas Duer Broughton 1814","description":"\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; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: #c00000; text-transform: none; language: en-US; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #C00000; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThe first printed collection of Hindi Poetry\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; text-transform: none; language: en-US; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e      \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e      \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e      \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e      \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\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; text-transform: none; language: en-US; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e\"Selections from the popular poetry of the Hindoos”\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; text-transform: none; language: en-US; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Thomas Duer Broughton (1778-1835)\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; text-transform: none; language: en-US; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Printed in London by John Martin in 1814\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; text-transform: none; language: en-US; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Octavo, Complete: ii, 156pp\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; text-transform: none; language: en-US; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Library stamps to cover, presentation inscription to title page, recent cloth binding, closed tears to several pages. Good condition overall, but some wear.\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; text-transform: none; language: en-US; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThis work is regarded as the \"First Published Anthology of Hindu Poets\" (Imre Bangha - 2000). \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; text-transform: none; language: en-US; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThomas Duer Broughton (1778–1835) served in the East India Company from 1795. Early on in his commission he fought at the Siege of Seringapatam in 1799. In 1802 he was appointed military resident to the Marathas where he became a teacher of Hindi to new military cadets.\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; text-transform: none; language: en-US; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eDuring his time in \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; text-transform: none; language: en-US; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eIndia\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; text-transform: none; language: en-US; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e he became fascinated by the poetry recited by Indian \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; text-transform: none; language: en-US; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003esoldiers, and\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; text-transform: none; language: en-US; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e began recording and translating it. Much of this poetry was Braj court poetry of the rītikāl, alongside more traditional devotional and popular poetry. He published these poems in this work \"Selections from the Popular Poetry of the Hindoos\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57260768625018,"sku":null,"price":950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/Screenshot2026-09-19at03.48.48.png?v=1789786228"}],"url":"https:\/\/debryrarebooks.com\/collections\/india.oembed?page=2","provider":"De Bry Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}