Asia / Southeast Asia

HUDDART, Joseph. The oriental navigator; or, new directions for sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, &c. &c. &c. Also for the use of the country ships, trading in the Indian and China seas, Pacific Ocean, &c. &c. &c...
London, printed and published by Robert Laurie and James Whittle, map, chart, and printsellers, 1801. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Huddart by James Stow after John Hoppner and small woodcut coastal views in the text. Contemporary tree calf. [2], XII, 656 pp. Full description

JAGOR, Fedor. Singapore - Malacca - Java. Reiseskizzen.
Berlin, Julius Springer, 1866. Ca. 23.5 x 17.5 cm. With 24 full-page illustrations. Original half (faded) burgundy sheepskin and decorated paper sides. [6], 252 pp. Full description

[KEULEN, Gerard and Johannes van, and others]. [Composite sea atlas containing 56 detailed charts including 3 manuscript charts].
Amsterdam, [Johannes van Keulen and others, 1700-1753, engraved title page dated 1734]. Large folio (61.5 x40.5 cm). With an engraved allegorical title page by Aernout Nagtegael after Jan Luyken, and 56 detailed sea charts, the whole expertly coloured by a contemporary hand. The atlas includes 22 large folding charts, including 3 highly interesting manuscript charts, 27 double-page charts, 1 full-page chart, and 6 half-page charts, most of them with beautiful cartouches, depicting views, local people, and merchandise. The maps are engraved and originally edited by the most famous Dutch cartographers and map-publishers of the late 17th- and early 18th centuries. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, with green cloth closing ties. Title page and 56 charts. Full description

KLEINGROTHE, Charles J. Malay peninsula (straits settlements & federated Malay states).
Medan, 1907. Oblong folio (36.3 x 45.5 cm) With 172 photogravures, 1 illustrated map of the Malay Peninsula in colour, and 1 illustrated diagram of the fruit of the rubber tree on 72 leaves, together with a title leaf. 73 loose leaves kept in a decorated black cloth portfolio, with "Malay Peninsula" stamped in white and gold along with some gold-stamped decorations and a ca. 27 x 11 cm. photogravure of a trapped tiger on the front board. The pastedowns and tabs are covered with gold floral paper. [73] ll. Full description

LAPLACE, Cyrille Pierre Théodore. Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de Chine ... exécuté sur la corvette de l'état La Favorite pendant les années 1830, 1831 et 1832.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale (views volume: Arthus Bertrand; map volume: Dépôt-Générale de la Marine), 1833-1835. 4 text volumes (8vo), 1 views volume (folio) and 1 atlas volume (1mo, 66 x 51 cm). With 1 folding engraved map in the first text volume, 2 full-page maps and 10 maps on 9 double-page plates in the "atlas hydrographique", and 72 extraordinary aquatint plates (ca. 27 x 36 cm) in the "album historique", most of them with the blind-stamped image of the ship La Favorite (15 x 28 mm). Contemporary half dark green calf, gold-tooled spines. [4], XLI, 558, [2]; [4], 481, [1]; [4], 510, [2]; [4], 480; [4] pp. Full description

LAUTS, Ulrich Gerard. Het eiland Balie en de Balienezen.
Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1848. 8vo. With lithographed title-page and a folding lithographed map of the island Bali. Contemporary dark green half cloth. [2], VIII, 285, [1 blank] pp. Full description

LEEUWENSON, Joannes (Pieter Arend LEUPE, ed. & intro.). Eene overlandreis uit Indië naar Nederland, in 1674-1675.
[Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 1863]. 8vo. Offprint, retaining the original pagination and collation, of an article in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië, 6 (1863). 20th-century stiff paper wrappers, with a printed label on the front. pp. [89], 90-142. Full description

LESSEPS, Jean-Baptiste-Barthelemy, Baron de. Voyage de Lapérouse, rédigé d'après ses manuscrits originaux, suivi d'un appendice renfermant tout ce que l'on a découvert depuis le naufrage jusqu'a nos jours, et enrichi de notes par M. de Lesseps, consul général de France à Lisbonne, et seul débris vivant de l'expédition dont il était interprète; accompagné d'une carte générale du voyage, orné du portrait et d'un fac-simile de Lapérouse.
Paris, Arthus Bertrand and Delaunay (colophon: printed by Casmir), 1831. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece with a portrait of Lapérouse, a facsimile of one of his letters, and a large engraved folding map. Modern half calf. [3], [1 blank], [2], XVIII, 436 pp. Full description

[L'HERMITE, Jacques]. Breeder verhael ende klare beschrijvinge van tghene den admirael Cornelis Matelief de Jonge inde Oost-Indien voor de stadt Malacca, ende int belegh der zelver wederbaren is: als ooc den vreesselijcken strijdt ter zee / tusschen den admirael voorschreven ende de portugijsen ende andere geschiedenissen meer. overgeschreven by eenen der commisen inde vlote.
Rotterdam, Jan Janssz., 1608. 4to. With a woodcut illustration on the title page representing a fleet arriving at the port of Malacca, one woodcut initial and a woodcut tailpiece. 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco. [9] ll. Full description

LOPEZ, Gregorio. Lettera annua della Provincia delle Filippine dell' anno M.DC.VIII.
Rome, Bartolomeo Zanetti, 1611. Small 8vo (16 x 11.5 cm). 18th-century limp sheepskin parchment. 124, [2 blank] pp. Full description