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Buddhism. Boston: Roberts Bros., 1881 RULON~ January 29, 2019 eList MILLER Asia BOOKS To Order Call toll-free 1-800-441-0076 Outside the United States call 1-651-290-0700 400 Summit Avenue E-mail: [email protected] St. Paul, Minnesota Other catalogues available at our website:Rulon.com 55102-2662 USA Member ABAA/ILAB ~ R a r e & VISA, MASTERCARD, DISCOVER, and AMERICAN EXPRESS accepted. f i n e b o o k s If you have any questions regarding billing, methods of payment, in many fields shipping, or foreign currencies, please do not hesitate to ask. Manuscripts Item 332 Item 85 2 Rulon-Miller Books 1. Abraham, J. Johnston. The sur- Cristóvão da Costa or Cristóbal Acosta (Latinized geon’s log, being impressions of the Far as Christophorus Acosta Africanus, 1525 - 1594) East. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., was a Portuguese doctor and natural historian and is considered a pioneer in the study of plants 1912. $50 from the Orient, especially their use in pharma- First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 338; 24 plates; some cology. Acosta’s treatise on the elephant, likely foxing, else very good in original blue cloth, gilt the first published in Europe, occupies pp. lettering on spine and upper cover. Abraham’s 320-342, and the woodcuts of the elephant are account of his voyage to the East Indies, south- the first to appear in Europe. These were widely east Asia and Japan as physician on a coastal copied and reproduced over the next two cen- freighter. Told more in the style of fictional turies. It was also among the first works to record narrative as opposed to a journal. words from the Basque language. The text also Elephants, pineapples, and opium includes bibliographical references to American products (Brazilian rubber, pages 93; pineapples, 2. Acosta, Cristoval de. Trattato di p. 266-267 with an illustration on p. 268). Christoforo Acosta africano medico, & Chapter 68 is devoted to opium. In most cases, chirurgo della historia, natura, et virtu this is the first time these Asian species were delle droghe medicinali, & altri semplici introduced in Europe, where they were otherwise rarissimi, che vengono portati dalle Indie completely unknown. Orientali in Europa ... Nuouamente recato Adams, A121; BM STC Italian, p. 5; dalla spagnuola nella nostra lingua. Graesse I, p. 15; Palau 1964; Sabin 114; European Americana 585/17; Pritzel 43. Venetia: presso a Francesco Ziletti, 1585. $5,000 3. Aesop. Murat,hee First and only Italian edition (first published in Burgos, translation of Esop’s 1578, under the title Fables [parallel title in Tractado de las drogas y Marathi]. Bombay: medicinas de las Indias lithographed for the Orientales); 4to, pp. [52], Bombay Native Educa- 342 (i.e. 340); printer’s tion Society, 1837. woodcut device on title $8,500 page; 45 full-page botanical Lithographed throughout. woodcuts of medicinal Approx. 7¾” x 6” (197 x plants and 2 others of Indian 150 mm), title leaf plus 186 elephants; woodcut initials leaves, paginated in Marathi: and ornaments; later full [2], 14, 357, [1]; 184 litho- parchment, title in manu- graph illustrations (each script on spine; very good approx. 54 x 72 mm) after and sound. Item 2 January 29, 2019 eList 3 woodcuts illustrating 184 fables; contemporary Encyclopedia of Indian Literature (1988) iden- and likely original native maroon goat, 5 sets of tifies the first Marathi edition as that of 1859. double fillets on spine; minor cracks at spine ends, rear hinge with a 2” crack at the top; light 4. [Alexander the Great.] Rufus, Q. overall wear; 2 gatherings extended; very good Curtius. De rebus Alexandri Magni, cum copy. commentario perpetuo & indice absolut- A very rare book. OCLC locates 9 titles published by the Bombay Educational Society issimo Samuelis Pitisci... Ultrajecti: 1828-1837. The first, Anwari Sohili : a Para- Franciscum Halma, 1685. $450 phrase, in Persian, of the Fables of Pilpay, shows Thick 8vo, pp. [36], 1-847, [256]; engraved title 8 locations in OCLC. All the others are found page, folding engraved map and 10 engraved in 2 or fewer locations, and this one in only one: plates (6 folding); a nice copy in old paste-paper Albion College in Michigan. Not in COPAC. boards, neatly rebacked in brown calf gilt, red Not in the Carlson Collection at Creighton morocco label. University. Not in the Heffelfinger Collection at Alexander (356-323 B.C.) devoted himself Minneapolis Public. early to invading the Persian Empire and other This appears to be the last production of parts of Asia which had been a part of his inher- the press. The text is based on Croxall’s English itance, liberated the Greek cities there, occupied translation. A note at the bottom of the first page Phoenicia, Palestine and Egypt, and in his of the table of contents notes that it was the 20th greatest military achievement, captured the city edition which was used, i.e. the London, 1810 of Tyre, from which time Persia ceased to be a edition. The numerous illustrations seem to military power. This edition contains a chrono- follow the format of the small neat illustrations logical synopsis, Alexander’s genealogy, and attributed to Elisha Kirkall in the 1810 edition; interesting illustrations of ancient monuments. at least one cut in that edition is signed ‘E. Dyas scul.’ These Indian lithographs are far enough removed from those in the 1810 edition that they warrant their own inspection and appreciation. Not the first translation of Aesop into Marathi, as that distinction belongs to the 1809 Tanjore edition, which is the first edition of Aesop into an Indian language. This Tanjore edition was also likely taken from the English of Croxall, though from which edition remains unknown, and it is also illustrated with woodcuts at the head of each fable. In Tanjore edition, however, only 110 fables were printed. (See Graham Shaw’s “The Tanjore ‘Aesop’ in the Context of Early Marathi Printing,” in The Library, September 1978, pp. 207-14.) The Item 4 4 Rulon-Miller Books 5. [Anatomical Art.] Huard, P[ierre], 6. Andrade, José Ignacio de, and D. & Do-Xuan-Hop. Morphologie humaine Maria Gertrudes de Andrade. Cartas et anatomie artistique. [Hanoi]: [Imprimé escriptas da India e da China nos annos par G. Taupin et Cie], [1942]. $650 de 1815 a 1835 ... Segunda edição. Lisboa: First edition, 8vo, 2 volumes in 1; pp. [iii]-xvi, Imprensa Nacional, 1847. $650 [1]-294, [3] (errata); volume two contains plates Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [24], 283, only (I-LXXVII); original printed front wrappers [3]; [10], 269, [23]; 12 lithograph portraits, 1 bound in; volume I has some minor worming, woodcut; contemporary black calf-backed pages toning, else very good in ca. 1968-74 marbled boards, gilt-lettered direct on gilt native Vietnamese blue calf with gilt-lettered paneled spines; edges stained blue; very good spine. Contains chapters on European, Greek, and sound. Lust, 109 (citing the first edition of Hindu, and Asian anatomical art, with volume 1843 which only had 10 plates): “Intellectual two illustrating human proportions, muscles of correspondence with his wife, much of it on the face, and various types of male and female Chinese matters. Illustrations include portraits anatomy. Issued in the publisher’s “Collection of Saoqua and Cha-Amui, presumably compra- de la Direction de l’Instruction Publique en dores.” Cordier, Sinica, 2114. Indochine” series. 9 comple copies in OCLC, only 3 (Yale, LC and the National Library of 7. [Angkor.] Lê Hu’o’ng. Tim hieu Medicine) in the U.S. Angkor (Ðe thiên, Ðe thích). [Saigon]: Quình Lâm, 1969. $75 8vo, pp. 332, [3]; 18 photographic plates, illus- trations in text throughout; original pictorial wrappers, text printed in red; edges a bit soiled, minor shelf wear, pages uniformly toned, else a very good, unopened copy. Cover imprint date 1970. History of the extinct city of Angkor. 8. [Ankor.] Coedès, George. Pour mieux comprendre Angkor. Cultes person- nels et culte royal, monuments funéraires, symbolisme architectural, les grands souverains d’Angkor. Paris: A. Maison- neuve, 1947. $75 First Paris edition, 12mo, pp. x, 210, [3]; folding plan, 4 plates; previous owner’s upper corner of front wrap, pages toned, else very good in later native full red calf, gilt-lettered direct on spine, original front wrapper bound in. Originally Item 5 January 29, 2019 eList 5 published in Hanoi in 1943. 12. [Annam.] Pouvourville, Albert de. L’Annamite. Paris : Editions Larose, 9. [Annam.] Marquet, Jean. De la 1932. $100 rizière à la montagne: moeurs annamites. First edition, 12mo, pp. 106, [1]; toned through- Paris: Librairie Delalain, 1920. $175 out, p. 32 has old tape repair at lower edge (no Second edition, 12mo, pp. 192; very good in loss to text), extremities a bit worn and chipped, original brown printed wrappers. Long presen- old tape on upper cover, otherwise very good in tation inscription from the author on the title original printed wrappers. page dated June 18, 1921. Customs and manners in Annam. 13. [Annam.] Varet, Pierre. Au pays d’Annam. Les dieux qui meurent. Paris: 10. [Annam.] Maybon, Charles B. Éditions Eugène Figuière , [1932]. $125 Lectures sur l’histoire moderne et contem- 12mo, iv, [11]-286; Cambodian bookbinder’s poraine du pays d’Annam de 1428 à 1926 ticket on front paste-down, marbled endpapers, ... Ed. nouvelle, revue et corrigée. Hanoi: owner’s name on half-title, rear paste-down and Imprimerie d’Extrême-Orient, 1927. $75 rear free endpaper lightly wormed, extremities First edition, 8vo, pp. 250; folding tables (1 with a bit rubbed at edges, small worm holes on spine, tear), tables in the text; pages toning, else very else very good in later marbled boards backed good in later native full blue calf, gilt lettering in black calf with gilt lettering on spine.
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