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DU BEC-CRESPIN, Jean. The historie of the great emperour Tamerlan wherein are expressed, encounters, skirmishes, battels, sieges, assaults, skalings, taking of cities and strong places, defended, and assaulted, with diverse stratagems of warre, the which this great and renowned warriour hath conducted and accomplished, during his raigne of fortie or fiftie yeares: with other instructions for the warre, which should not be unknowen of them that would attaine unto the knowledge of armes. Drawen from the auncient monuments of the Arabians, by messire Jean du Bec, abbot of Mortimer. Newly translated out of French into English, for their benefite which are ignorant in that language. by H.M.
London, R. Field for Willam Ponsonby, 1597. 4to. With a woodcut device on the title page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces.17th-century calf, 19th century gold-tooled spine. [4], 265, [1] pp. Full description

DU BOIS, Johann Peter Isaak. Vies des gouverneurs généraux, avec l'abrégé de l'histoire des etablissements hollandois aux Indes Orientales; ...
Including: IMHOFF, G.W. van. Considerations sur l'etat present de la compagnie hollandoise des Indes Orientales.
The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1763. Royal 4to (27.5 x 22.5 cm). With 34 engraved plates, 1 engraved allegorical headpiece and 28 numbered headpieces with portraits of the Gouvernors-General of the Dutch East Indies. All plates were drawn and presumably engraved by the artist and engraver Jacob van Schley (1715-1729). 19th-century half cloth. VI, 351, [1], 48 pp. Full description

DU HALDE, Jean-Baptiste du. Description géographique historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoise, enrichie des cartes générales et particulieres de ces pays, de la carte générale & des cartes particulieres du Thibet, & de la Corée.
Paris, P.G. le Mercier, 1735. 4 volumes. Folio (ca. 43 x 28 cm). With 43 engraved maps (folding, double-page and full-page), 21 engraved plates (folding, double-page and full-page), numerous decorated woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled mottled calf. [4], VIII, LII, IV, 592; [4], IV, 725, [1]; [4], IV, 564, IX-[XII]; [4], II, 520 pp. Full description

[DUTCH EAST INDIES - VOC]. [Collection of 17 sets of manuscript documents and 1 printed memorandum on various subjects relating to the VOC].
Ca. 1653-1833. Mostly in folio (ca. 33 x 21 mm). Kept in a modern red portfolio with black cloth ties. Ca. 120 ll. Full description

[DUTCH VOYAGES - Joost HARTGERS (publisher)]. Oost-Indische voyagien door dien begin en voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlandtsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie. Vervatende de voornaemste reysen, by de inwoonderen der selver provintien derwaerts ghedaen ... Eerste deel. daer in begrepen zijn 16 voyagien.
Amsterdam, [printed by Adriaen Hermansz. Roest for] Joost Hartgers, 1648.
Comprising:
(1) [VEER, Gerrit]. Verhael van de eerste schip-vaert der Hollandische ende Zeeusche schepen, door 't Way-gat ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(2) [HOUTMAN, Cornelis]. Eerste schip-vaert der Hollanders naer Oost-Indien ... anno 1595.
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(3) [NECK, Jacob van en Wybrand van WARWIJCK]. Waerachtigh verhael van de schip-vaert op Oost-Indien ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(4) [NOORT, Olivier van and Jacob van NECK]. Wonderlijcke voyagie by de Hollanders gedaen, door de Strate Magalanes ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(5) [SPILBERGEN, Joris van and Steven vander HAGEN]. Historis journael van de voyage gedaen met 3 schepen ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(6) [MATELIEF, Cornelis]. Journael, ende historische verhael, van de treffelijcke reyse ghedaen naer Oost-Indien ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(7) [BROECKE, Pieter van den]. Wonderlijcke historische ende journaelsche aenteyckeningh ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(8) [SPILBERGEN, Joris van]. Oost- en West-Indische voyagie, door de Strate Magallanes naer de Moluques ...
Including: [SCHOUTEN, Willem Cornelisz. and Jacob le MAIRE]. Journael, ofte beschrijvinge van de wonderlijcke reyse ghedaen door Willem Cornelisz. Schouten van Hoorn. In de jaren 1615, 1616, 1617 ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(9) HEREMITE, Jacques l' and Gheen Huygen SCHAPENHAM]. Journael vande Nassausche vloot ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(10) [BONTEKOE, Willem Ysbrantsz.]. Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinge van de Oost-Indische reyse van Willem Ysbrantsz. Bontekoe van Hoorn ...
Including: [RAVEN, Dirck Albertsz.]. Journael ofte beschrijvinge van de reyse ghedaen by den Commandeur Dirck Albertsz. Raven, na Spitsberghen ...
"Sardam, Willem Willemsz., 1648." [= Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648?].
(11) [PELSAERT, François and Jeremias van VLIET]. Ongeluckige voyagie, van 't schip Batavia, nae Oost-Indien ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(12) TWIST, Johan van. Generale beschrijvinge van Indien ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(13) CARON, François. Beschrijvinge van het machtigh coninckrijcke Japan ...
Including:
- GYSBERTSZ., Reyer. Historie der martelaren ...
- KRAMMER, Coenraad. Verhael van de groote pracht ... op den feest ghehouden in de stadt van Meaco ...
- CAMPEN, Leonart. Kort verhael van 't profijt, dienst, ende nuttigheydt dat de Oost-Indische vereenighde Nederlandtsche Compagni in Japan soude genieten, by so verre sy den Chineesen handel bequaemen.
- SCHOUTEN, Joost. Beschrijvinghe van de regeeringe, macht, religie, costuymen, traffijcquen, en[de] andere remercquable saken, des Coninghrijcx Siam. Gestelt inden jare 1636 ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648. 13 works in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved general title page for the whole collection, a typographical general title page with a woodcut illustration of ships at sea, each part of the collection has its own title page (in some cases two) with a woodcut illustration (the majority the same as on the general title page). Further with 11 folding woodcut illustrations, several woodcut tailpieces, and woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties. A detailed list of contents is available upon request. Full description

EADY, Thomas William George. [RAF aircraft, pilots, etc. during the Afridi Redshirt Rebellion on Indias North-West Frontier].
[India and Pakistan, especially their border region], 1929-1930. A collection of photographic silver-gelatin prints of aircraft, the squadron, aerial reconnaissance etc., made and compiled by Thomas William George Eady, flying officer of the no. 28 Squadron of the RAF. It comprises 3 photo albums (contemporary with the photos), 53 loose photos (20 x 15 cm, some with manuscript comments on the back), 5 related documents (dated 1928-1932) and a separate photographic portrait of Eady, in total nearly 2000 prints. The first and largest album, covers 1929, oblong folio (30 x 39.5 cm) in blue cloth with brown cord ties, contains 183 prints in various sizes, mounted on 16 brown paper leaves with India ink captions by Eady in English. The second album, oblong 4to (33.5 x 24 cm) in green cloth with brown cord ties, contains 72 prints made during the Afridi Redshirt Rebellion, in various sizes and mounted on 20 brown paper leaves with neat India ink captions in English by Eady. The small third album, oblong small 4to (19 x 27 cm), consisting of 4 brown paper leaves tied together with black cord ties, contains 33 prints in various sizes mounted on the leaves, some duplicating prints in the largest album, with larger captions in black ink, probably not by Eady. Full description

[EAST INDIA COMPANY]. [TIPU SULTAN, Zaman Shah DURRANI, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE and others]. Official documents, relative to the negotiations carried on by Tippoo Sultaun, with the French Nation, and other foreign states, for purposes hostile to the British nation; to which is added, proceedings of a Jacobin club, formed at Seringapatam, by the French soldiers in the corps commanded by M. Dompart, with a translation ... Printed by order of the ... Governor General ...
Calcutta, Honorable Companys Press, 1799. Super Royal 4to (33.5 x 25 cm). Never bound, but side stitched through 3 holes. XX, [2], 195, [1] pp. Full description

[EAST INDIA TRADING COMPANY - THE SWIFT]. East India Company "Swift" - account of a voyage to India and Malaysia 1794-5.
[Various places, including Saudi Arabia and Yemen, ca. 1796]. Small folio (ca. 19 x 30.5 cm. English manuscript on watermarked paper. With a loosely inserted manuscript map titled "A Chart shewing the Track of HMS Ship Myrtle" of the Bay of Biscay and Portugal, and a hand-coloured manuscript signal chart. Contemporary or slightly later half black morocco, marbled boards. 48 ll. Full description

EDKINS, Joseph. A grammar of the Chinese colloquial language commonly called the Mandarin dialect. ... Second edition.
Shanghai, Presbyterian Mission Press, 1864. 4to. Contemporary red half roan (sheepskin). [2 blank], [2], VIII, 297, [1] blank pp. Full description

EGE, Otto F (compiler & author of the annotations). [Drop-title:] Fifteen original oriental manuscript leaves of six centuries. [Binding title:] Fifteen original oriental manuscripts.
[Cleveland, Ohio?], [Cleveland Institute of Art or Western Reserve University?], [ca. 1952]. 15 manuscript leaves (in one case a fragment of a scroll) of various formats and sizes, some glazed (see the detailed list of contents for specific dimensions), 7 written on straight-forward laid paper (European and non-European), 6 more problematic (probably all non-European), 1 on straight-forward wove paper (no. 14, supposedly made in Russia) and one on vellum (no. 7), most rubricated and/or decorated in various colours, some decorated or highlighted in gold. Each manuscript leaf is mounted (hinged on one edge to allow access to both sides of the leaf) in a passe-partout (46.5 x 33 cm) and each has a letterpress slip (10 x 18 cm) with explanatory text tipped onto the foot of the passe-partout. The publication has no title-page but includes a letterpress folio leaf that serves as a table of contents and has the drop-title given above (the present copy contains two copies of that contents leaf). The display typeface used in the letterpress leaves (and on the portfolio) is the 1938 Libra by the Dutch designer Sjoerd de Roos, inspired by uncial manuscripts. Publishers original portfolio (48.5 x 34 x 4.5 cm) covered with black cloth with on-lays in black and red on the front and the authors name in white and title in red on the spine, with three pairs of black ties (one on the inside) and a label on the inside of the right black flap giving information about the limited edition: "Edition limited to forty numbered sets of which this is No 33". [1] leaf (plus a duplicate) plus 15 original manuscript leaves mounted in white passe-partouts. Full description