£1,197
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 725
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
with Various Remarks on the Manners, Customs, Laws, Language, and Literature of the Persians. To which is added a History of Persia. London: for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807. First UK edition, 4to, modern half leather, 2 engraved plates including frontispiece, browning, tide-marks to plates, frontispiece slightly frayed along fore edge, old ink-stamp and manuscript call number to title-page, closed tear in R2;
Bouhours, Dominique. The Life of St. Francis Xavier of the Society of Jesus, Apostle of the Indies, and of Japan. Written in French. Translated into English. London: for Jacob Tonson, 1688. First edition in English, 8vo, recent half leather, engraved portrait frontispiece (apparently including in register), folding map of Asia, browning, variable marginal worming occasionally touching text, damp-staining to gutter of first few leaves, title-page with effaced ownership inscription (paper consequently worn through), spill-burn in 2Q3 [ESTC R15455];
Hyde, Thomas. Veterum Persarum et Parthorum et Medorum religionis historia. Oxford: e Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1760. Second edition, 4to, modern half leather, 20 engraved plates on 19 sheets of which 6 folding (plates 16 and 18 on one sheet), folding letterpress table, browning, worming, title-page strengthened in gutter and with manuscript call-number,
[Persia]. The Compleat History of Thamas Kouli Kan, (Afterwards Schah Nadir) Late Sovereign of Persia, London: for J. Brindsley [and others], c.1750. 12mo, modern quarter calf by Atkinson, marbled sides, pp. [2] 163 140 [15], engraved folding map, occasional finger-soiling;
Andrada, Jacino Friere de. Vida de D. Joao de Castro, quarto viso-rey da India. Nova ediçao emendada, e accrescentada com a vida do autor. Madrid: officina regia, 1802. 8vo, 19th-century cloth, rebacked, 497 pp., 4 engraved plates including frontispiece (one folding)