Catalogue 36
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Asia
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The Second Japanese Embassy to Europe
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AMATI, Scipione. Historia del regno di Voxu del Giapone, dell, antichita, nobilta, e valore del suo re Idate Masamune... Rome, Giacomo Mascardi, 1615.
Very rare FIRST EDITION of this critical source for THE SECOND JAPANESE MISSION TO EUROPE of 1614, a Franciscan public relations event that sought to repeat the success of the first mission of 1585, which had been brilliantly engineered by their rivals the Jesuits and to inspire financial and political support.
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“ la plus ample et la meilleure description de l’empire de la Chine
qu’on a dans le monde.” – Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XIV, p. 1160 (Pléiade).
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DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste. Description graphique, historique, chronologique, politique et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoise. Enrichie des Cartes grales et particulis de ces Pays, ... Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, 1735.
First edition of the most influential and interesting work on China published in the 18th century, an encyclopedic compendium of its history, geography and culture, no less important to the Enlightenment philosophes who mined its ethnography for their speculations on cultural mores than to the porcelain makers of England, France and Germany, who found here virtually the only published information on its manufacture.
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Global Ramifications of the Spice Trade
An Interesting Source on Drake
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LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA, Bartolomé. Conquista de las islas Malucas. Madrid, 1609.
First edition and uncommonly fine copy of this history of the Spaniards in the East Indies, focusing on the Philippines and the Spice islands, but also including an account of Drake's voyage and much else relating to the region; an essential work for the history of the Spanish and Portuguese exploration of the East Indies (Hill II.475).
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In Contemporary Calf
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RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista. Delle Navigationi et Viaggi... in Tre Volume divise: Nelle quali con relatione fedelissima si desrivono tutti quei paesi, che da già 300 anni sin’hora sono stati scoperti, così di verso Levante, & Ponente, come di verso Mezzo dì, & Tramontana. Venice, Giunti, 1588,1583,1606.
Fine set of the first scholarly voyage collection assembled in the 16th century, one of the first in a modern language, with more maps and illustrations than any prior anthology, and containing many accounts not previously published.
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The French Take Notice of Indochina
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RHODES, Alexandre de. Relation des progrez de la foy au royaume de la cochinchine vers les derniers quartiers du levant. Paris, Sebastien et Gabriel Cramoisy, 1652.
First French edition of this first-hand account of 17th-century Vietnam (first Italian ed. 1650), which played an important role in fostering French interest in the region.
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