Baguio: Baguio Printing & Publishing Co., Inc., 1953. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 184, [2]; 72 pages of plates, text illustrations; original pictorial paper wrappers; call number on upper wrapper and accession notes on copyright page, but without other library markings; upper wrapper and half title dogeared, very good. A...... More
Lipsiae: sumptibus et typis Caroli Tauchnitii. Londini: prostat apud David Nutt, 1850. 4to, pp. v, [3], vii, [1], 1460; engraved frontispiece portrait, text in double column; contemporary full parchment, triple gilt rules on covers enclosing a gilt monogram of Owens College, Manchester, edges stained red; some soiling and light wear..... More
Helsinki: Soderstrom & Co., [1948]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 563, [1]; text in double column; original marbled boards backed in blue cloth; paper starting to tone, else fine in chipped dust jacket. More
Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag, [1918]. Stereotype edition, 8vo, pp. [4], vi, 880; original marbled boards backed in tan leather, edges stained red; edgewear, text clean and sound, very good. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, [1976]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 507, [1]; text illustrations; original full blue cloth; fine in near fine dust jacket. More
Venezia: presso Francesco Hertzhauser, 1733. Folio (leaf 43.6 cm), pp. [10], xxvii, [1], 592; [4], 560, [32]; half-title in volume I only, engraved frontispiece in each volume by Zucchi after Gio. Batta Mariotti, engraved vignette title pages by Gattini, engraved portrait also by Zucchi after Mariotti, engraved genealogical family tree..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1946. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 232; maps in text, 54 plates from photographs; original full green cloth; spine sunned, text clean and sound, very good. A mountaineering account in two parts. The first covers peacetime mountaineering in the Himalayas. The second covers wartime events around..... More
[Honan]: Board of Foreign Missions of the Augustana Synod, [1925]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 218, [6]; text illustrations from photographs; original full pictorial green cloth; later generic bookplates on upper endpapers, a couple pencil on title page and first page of text, otherwise clean and sound, very good. The Augustana..... More
Lovanii: typis ac sumptibus Hieronymi Nempaei, 1656. Folio (leaf 31.0 cm), pp. [12], 1000, [32]; text printed in double column, title page printed in red and black, printer's woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and ornaments; contemporary full parchment, manuscript title on spine, blindstamped rules and a central lozenge on..... More
London: printed by J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1721-25. First edition in English, folio, (leaf 40.0 cm), 5 volumes in 3, plus the Supplement, 5 volumes in 1; engraved initials and headpieces, woodcut ornaments; 449 engraved plates (many double-page and/or folding); contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spines in 6 compartments, morocco..... More
Edinburgh: printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., London, 1821. First edition, 8vo, 3 volumes, pp. [4], 320; [4], 339, [1]; [4], 348, [2] ads; original blue paper-covered boards rebacked in cream-colored cloth, endpapers rtenewed, labels also renewed but without much sympathy..... More
Parisiis: apud Ludovicum Roulland, viâ Jacobæâ, sub signo sancti Ludovici, 1693-1706. Folio (leaf 41.0 cm), 5 volumes, engraved frontispiece after Hallé; title page printed in red and black with engraved printer's vignette; headpieces (including a portrait of Innocent XII) and decorated initials wood-engraved by S. Thomassin; text in double column;..... More
Lipsiae: sumptibus Haeredum M.G. Weidmanni & Ioh. Lvdovici Gleditschii, 1696. Folio, (leaf 36.7 cm), 3 parts in 1; pp. [70], 455, [1]; [2], 362; 126, [26]; 312, [18]; Greek and Latin text in parallel columns; engraved title page, engraved vignette title page printed in red and black, engraved headpiece, woodcut..... More
Parisiis: sumtibus Ludovici Guerin, sub signo S. Thomae Aquinatis, Caroli Robustel, sub signo Palmae, Joannis & Josephi Barbou, sub signo Ciconiarum, Guillelmi Desprez, typog. Regii, & Joannis Desessartz, sub signis S. Prosperi, & Trium Virtutum, viâ Jacobaeâ, 1718-1738. Folio (leaf 41.5 cm), 13 volumes, Greek and Latin in parallel columns..... More
Parisiis: apud Audoenum Paruum sub Lilio aureo in via ad diuum Iacobum, 1543-42. Folio (leaf 32.4 cm), ff. [12], 348; [16]; 64, 26 (chronological tables), [42] index; collating Aa⁶ a-n⁸ o¹⁰ p-z⁸ A-T⁸ V¹⁰ a-é⁸ A-L⁸ M⁶ aa-gg⁶; historiated woodcut initials, some quite large; woodcut diagram on e6 of the..... More
Lugduni: impressum per Jacobii Mareschal [&] per Iohannē Moylin al's de Chambray, 1513. Folio (leaf 42.2 cm), 3 parts in 1 volume: 216; 56, 132 leaves (404 leaves complete although another volume was published in September the following year); collating: a-z⁸, 38, Aa⁸; a-g⁸; A-P⁸, A-P⁸ (including final blank R6);..... More
New York: A. L. Burt Company, [no date, ca. 1900]. Later edition, 8vo, pp. [2], xvi, 277, [1], 24; original publisher's green cloth, t.e.g.; very good. This edition was part of A. L. Burt's Cornell series. The title is already on their series list for 1904, though unstated later printings..... More
Long Beach: Christian Press, 1966. First edition, 8vo, pp. 56; text illustrations; comb bound in stiff pictorial covers; about fine. Inscribed by Phillip Ho on title page, with owner's signature "Juanita Prentice." Ho was born in Batang Tibet to a poor family. He met Marguerite Fairbrother as a child when..... More
Hohhot: Chinese Society for the Study of Mongolian History, 1979. Large 8vo, pp. [16], 630, [2]; text illustrations; text in Chinese; original printed paper wrappers; a few square inches of loss to lower wrapper, text clean and sound, good. Includes the text of speeches given, and selected papers presented at..... More
London: The Royal Geographical Society, 1910. 8vo, pp. xiv, 104, xv-xvi; two folding color maps, 15 pages of plates; original blue printed paper wrappers; light foxing to edges, wear and chipping to spine, text clean and sound, old crease at corner, very good. Includes articles on Mesopotamia by Sir William..... More
Paris: chez Claude Chappelet, rue S. Iacques a la Licorne, 1615. Folio (leaf 37.5 cmn), 2 volumes, pp. [24], 1184; [16], 1148, [118]; printer's woodcut device on title pages, title pages printed in red and black, woodcut initials and ornaments; contemporary full calf neatly rebacked in brown calf, and preserving..... More
Stockholm: Svenska Kyrkans Diakonistyrelses, [1933]. Swedish edition, published the same year as the Norwegian. 8vo, pp. 204; text in Swedish; text illustrations; original pictorial paper wrappers; some edgewear and chipping to wrappers, spine creased, text clean and sound. Reichelt was a Norwegian Lutheran missionary to China. This is "an account..... More
Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1961. First edition, 8vo, pp. 98, [2]; text illustrations; original red printed paper wrappers; a touch of foxing to edges, near fine. 6 lectures on various topics about Asia given by Edelberg in 1960. Edelberg was a botonast and ethnologist who specialized in Nuristan, with one chapter dedicated..... More
Lugdini: apud Anissonios, Joan, Posuel, & Claud. Rigaud [i.e.Vratislaviae (Wroclaw, Poland): apud Guilelmum Koebner, 1890-91]. Facsimile of the first edition of 1688. Folio, 10 fascicles 1 but with pagination as in the original: pp. [6], xl, [2], 1278 columns; pp. [2], 1279-1794 columns, 214 columns,102 columns, pp. [4], 312 columns;..... More
Lutetiae: Regis Typis [Compagnie de la Grand Navire], 1638. Folio (leaf 34.0 cm), 3 (of 7 - in 6) volumes; volume I: pp. [28], 433, [1]; 631, [1], 933-963, [1], [46]; volume II: pp. [8], 920, [20]; volume III: pp. [4], 870, [20]; text in Greek and Latin in parallel..... More
