Paris: Libraire orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1930. First edition, large 8vo, pp. [4], plus 101 folding leaves reproducing the manuscript; some wrinkling at the spine ends, but overall a near fine, clean, and sound example. Issued as volume II in the publisher's second series of Buddhica: Documents et travaux pour l'étude..... More
Paris: Imprimerie nationale; Hanoi: Ecole française d'extrême orient, 1954. Large 8vo, pp. [4], 275-694, [2]; original printed wrappers a little toned, else near fine. Contains fifteen academic articles focusing on Tibetan studies, Yogācāra Buddhism, and Southeast Asian art, including Jacques Bacot: Titres et colophons d'ouvrages non canoniques tibétains. (An examination..... More
[Paris: Jean-Baptiste Croisey, n.d., 1764]. Engraved map hand-colored in outline, approx. 12¼" x 9" overall (image size 8" x 5½"); very good. Map no. 85 from Tome I, extracted from Bellin's Le petit atlas maritime, 1764. Relief shown pictorially. More
[Paris: Jean-Baptiste Croisey, n.d., 1764]. Engraved map hand-colored in outline, approx. 12¼" x 9¼" overall (image size 8" x 5¾"); very good. Map no. 98 from Tome I, extracted from Bellin's Le petit atlas maritime, 1764. Relief shown pictorially. More
[Paris: Jean-Baptiste Croisey, n.d., 1764]. Engraved map hand-colored in outline, approx. 12¼" x 9" overall (image size 9" x 7½"); very good. Map nos. 101 from Tome I, extracted from Bellin's Le petit atlas maritime, 1764. Relief shown pictorially. More
[Paris: Jean-Baptiste Croisey, n.d., 1764]. Double-page engraved map hand-colored in outline, approx. 12¼" x 17½" overall (image size 8" x 12"); central fold, else very good. Map no. 95 from Tome I, extracted from Bellin's Le petit atlaas maritime, 1764. Relief shown pictorially. More
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[Paris: Jean-Baptiste Croisey, n.d., [1764]. Two engraved maps hand-colored in outline, each approx. 12¾" x 17¾" overall (image size 8¾" x 14"); previous central folds, all else very good. Map nos. 87 and 88 extracted from Bellin's Le petit atlas maritime, 1764. Relief shown by hachures, depths shown by soundings..... More
[Paris]: 1757. Copper-engraved, hand-colored map, decorative cartouche, sheet size 250 x 369 mm., plate size 212 x 302 mm.; 2 small holes, one of which affects plate, edges a bit toned, shallow tears along left-hand edge not affecting plate, previous folds; a very nice copy. "Tom. XIV, in 4to, No..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1888. Edition limited to 800 copies (this, no. 42); large 8vo, pp. xxxvii, [1], 208, [1]; inserted title-p. after a design by Leloir printed in green, engraved frontispiece, vignette title-p. printed in red and black, 11 engraved plates, plus 120 other engravings throughout the text;..... More
Paris: E. Dentu, 1866. First edition in book form, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [4], 432; [4], 344; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, black gilt-lettered spine labels, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; preliminaries foxed, else about fine. First published in the Revue française, 1838-39. More
Paris: de l'imprimerie des frères Mame, 1808. 6 volumes in 4, 24mo (page height 5¼"), vignette title-p.,contemporary quarter polished tan calf over marbled boards, red morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; very good. "This Treatise on World-History is the last noteworthy exercise in that type of universal history which, beginning with..... More
Paris: Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, Imprimeur du Roy, 1681. First edition, 4to, pp. [2], 561, [7]; engraved vignette title-p., engraved head- and tailpiece; recent quarter tan calf, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine. Ebert I, p. 221. More
Paris: chez Desray libraire, quai des Augustins, n°35. Avec approbation, et privilege du Roi, 1790. 3 volumes, 4to, 90 full-page copper engravings; bound with, as issued: Observations sur les nouvelles découvertes aërostatiques, et sur la probabilité de pouvoir diriger les ballons (title and 34 pages), Paris: Boucher, Lamy, 1784. Full..... More
Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1825. First edition in English, 12mo, pp. viii, [9]-265, [1]; 2 folding tables; likely original calf, rubbed, worn, and stained, but made sound by a recent rebacking; mild tidemark throughout, old library bookplate, two light rubberstamps; good copy. Jacques Lisfranc (1790-1847) was a "pioneering..... More
[Lugduni Batavorum], [i.e. Leiden]: ex officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1611. 4to, pp. [16], 695, [17]; printer's woodcut device on title page, woodcut initials; 20th-century full speckled calf, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine; light uneven fading on upper cover, else a very good, sound, and clean copy. Reprint of the edition of..... More
Strasbourg: L'imprimerie de Levrault, 1800. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxvi, [3], 31-239; frontispiece engraving by Géurin, occasional worming and foxing, lacks front free endpaper, joint cracked, extremities worn and scuffed, spine separating at hinges, otherwise good in original three quarter calf over marbled boards. Jacques Delille (1738-1813), French Poet and..... More
Paris: Giguet et Marchaud, 1804. 16 volumes, 8vo, contemporary quarter calf, red and black morocco labels on gilt-paneled spines; together with a uniformly bound 17th volume, DeLille's Les Jardins. Each volume with an engraved frontispiece. Includes his translation of The Aenid (4 volumes) and the Bucolics of Virgil (2 volumes)..... More
Hanoi: Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, 1949. 10½" x 7½", pp. [6], x, 126, [2]; text toned, top and bottom of spine chipped (no loss of lettering), small puncture mark in upper wrapper, else very good and sound in original tan printed wrappers. Issued as no. 31 in the publisher's Ecole française..... More
Saigon: École française d'Extrême-Orient, 1956. First edition, large 8vo, pp. [7], xii-xv, [1], 331, [1]; 10 plates at the back; largely unopened; slight toning, else a very good, sound, and clean copy in original printed wrappers. Issued as no. 39 in the publisher's Publications de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient series. More
Amstelaedami: Henricus & Vidua Theod. Boom [et al.], 1702. First edition, folio, pp. [20], 954, [50]; allegorical woodcut title page vignette, copper engravings and woodcuts in text throughout, title page printed in red and black, text in double column; modern half brown morocco over tan cloth, black gilt-lettered cloth spine..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 143, [1]; burgundy cloth, paper label on spine, contemporary inscription of M. A. Basoco, likely the mathematician Miguel Antonio Basoco, on free end paper, edges starting to tone, dust jacket price clipped and toned at spine, with Basoco's signature..... More
Cologne: Konemann, [1999]. First edition in English, folio, pp. 189, [3]; map, illustrated throughout, much in color; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2010. 8vo, pp. [2], iii, [3], 272, [2]; fine copy in original printed gray wrappers. Issued as no. 93 in the publisher's Senri Ethnological Reports series. Rgyalrong (or Gyalrong) is a branch of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in Sichuan, China. The Epic of King Gesar is..... More
Paris: L'O.P.G., 1944. Small 4to, unpaged; chiefly black and white photographic illustrations; original pictorial wrappers printed in red; pages toned and rather brittle, joints weak, general light wear, else very good. Text in French and English. [41495]. More
Hanoi: Imprimerie d'Extrême-orient, 1930. large 8vo, pp. 398; volume 2 from the Bibliotheque Agricole Indochinoise series (volume 1 was published in 1928); plates, numerous charts (5 of which are folding), some leaves chipped at edges (no loss), light wear to extremities, else very good in later quarter green cloth over..... More
