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The most beautiful work on Dutch military uniforms

TEUPKEN, Jan Frederik. Beschrijving hoedanig de Koninklijke Nederlandsche troepen en alle in militaire betrekking staande personen gekleed, geëquipeerd en gewapend zijn ...
The Hague, Gebroeders van Cleef (printed by de gebroeders Giunta d'Albanie), 1826.
With: IDEM. Vervolg van de beschrijving hoedanig de koninklijke Nederlandsche troepen en alle in militaire betrekking staande personen gekleed, geëquipeerd en gewapend zijn.
The Hague, Gebroeders van Cleef (printed by de gebroeders Giunta d'Albanie), 1826. 2 parts in 2 volumes. Folio. With 68 full-page numbered plates (65 hand coloured and engraved, 3 lithographed), a full-page hand-coloured unnumbered engraved plate, and an engraved title page in the first volume.
Slightly later black paper, with a black paper title label on the spine, lettered in gold. The work is housed in a modern gold-tooled half black morocco clamshell box with marbled paper sides, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine. [1], [1 blank], 10, 110, 20, [2], [2]; 4, [2], 54, 7, [3] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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Rare textbook for government officials, containing two historically important Persian texts

[TEXTBOOK - PERSIAN]. Ganjína-i-muhárawát. The Wazír-i-Lankurán and a selection from the diary of Násiru-d-dín Sháh containig [!] an account of the journey of the Sháh of Persia from Tehrán to Russia. Being a text book for the lower standard examination in Persian.
Calcutta, "published by authority", 1909. 8vo. With a floral ornament on page 3. The text is set in Persian script. Original quarter purple cloth and blue printed paper over boards, with the title in Persian on the front board and in English on the back board. [1], [1 blank], 80, [1 blank], [1] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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First edition of one of the very few travelogues on Japan from the 18th century

THUNBERG, Carl Peter. Resa uti Europa, Africa, Asia, förrättad åren 1770-1779.
Uppsala, tryckt hos directeur. Joh. Edman, 1788-1793. 4 volumes. 8vo. With 11 engraved plates (1 folding, 9 full page, and 1 in the text). Contemporary or slightly later gold-tooled quarter brown calf, with a beige morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, a volume number lettered in gold underneath, sprinkled paper sides, blue sprinkled edges. [26], 389, [1]; [32], 384; [14], "414" [= 402]; [36], "341" [= 339], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,250
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Thunberg's renowned account of his voyage to the Cape of Good Hope and Japan

THUNBERG, Carl Peter. Travels in Europe, Africa and Asia, made between the years 1770 and 1779.
London, printer for F. and C. Rivington, and sold by W. Richardson, 1795. 4 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, and 10 engraved plates (1 folding, 9 full page). Contemporary gold-tooled tree-marbled brown calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, a volume number lettered in gold underneath, gold-tooled board edges, blue sprinkled edges. [2], xii, 317, [3 blank], [18]; xiv, [2], 316, [15], [1 blank]; xiii, [3], 285, [1 blank], xv, [1 blank], 31, [1 blank]; xix, [1 blank], [4], 293, [1], [17], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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One of the theses defended under the professorship of Thunberg in Uppsala

THUNBERG, Carl Peter (praeses) and Petruus Magnus ACKSELL. Fauna Chinensis. Quam venis. exp. Facult. Med. Upsal. Praeside C.P. Thunberg ... P.P. Petrus Magnus Acksell a Sacris Med. Theolog. Gestricio Helsingus. In Audit. Botanico die XII Junii MDCCCXXIII.
Uppsala, Palmblad et C, [1823]. 4to. Unbound. [4], 8 pp. Full description
€ 1,850
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Russian mission to China, with a plan of Beijing

TIMKOWSKI, Egor Fedorovitch. Voyage à Peking, à travers la Mongolie en 1820 et 1821.
Paris, Dondey-Dupré père et Fils, 1827. 2 text volumes (8vo) and one atlas volume (folio). With lithographed title-page, 3 lithographed maps and plans, 8 lithographed plates with copies after Chinese and other drawings. Text volumes in contemporary half calf and atlas in original brown wrappers. [8], XII, 480; [4], 459; 32 pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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