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Introducing drugs from around the world João Curvo Semedo (1635-1719). Polyanthea medicinal. Noticias galenicas, e chymicas, repartidas em tres tratados [...] Quarta vez impressa […]. Lisboa Occidental, Na Officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1727. Folio in 6s. [60], 312, 317-879, [1 blank], 32, [4], 11, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. = complete with the advertisement leaf at the end and the 3 plates:… Read more about this item

Description of the world with 645 plates: a rare complete copy Alain Manesson Mallet (1630-1706). Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreises, darinnen I. […] V. Frankfurt, Anton Heinscheidt for Johann Adam Jung, 1719. 5 volumes in 2. 8°. (IX), (VIII), (IV), 263, (1); 276, (24); 170 (22); 519, (1 blank), (XLV), (1 blank); 418, (LXXXIV) pp. = complete with errata leaves. With 645 plates (618 numbered, 5… Read more about this item

Amongst the greatest histories of the New World This copy a rare complete second edition Antonio Herrera de Tordesillas (1549-1626). Primera parte de la historia general del Mundo, de XVII. años del tiempo del señor Rey don Felipe II. el Prudente, desde el año de M.D.LIII. hasta el de M.D.LXX. Valladolid, Juan Godinez de Millis, 1606 (colophon: Valladolid, Juan Godinez de Millis, 1605). 4°… Read more about this item

• Extremely rare, important and early work on East Africa and the East Indies • João dos Santos (Évora, after 1560 - Goa, 1622). Ethiopia Oriental e varia historia de cousas notaveis do Oriente. [Including:] Varia historia de cousas notaveis do Oriente. E da christandade que os religiosos da Ordem dos pregadores nelle fizerāo Évora, (colophon vol. 2: Impresso no Convento de S. Domingos… Read more about this item

Wilson's first published Sanskrit translation, the first publication of the Meghadūta in the West Kālidāsa (c. 4th–5th century CE); Horace Hayman Wilson (1786-1860, trans.). The Megha Duta, or Cloud Messenger, a poem, in the Sanscrit language. Calcutta printed: London reprinted, Black, Parry, and Co., 1814. 8°. XXII, 23-175 pp. Later half calf, marbled sides.First English translation of the Meghadūta, the… Read more about this item

Bombay-printed description of Gujarat and beyond ombay, printed at the Times' Press, by James Chesson, 1849. Folio (29x23,5 cm.). [14], 408, VIII, [2], IX-XXIV pp. Illustrated with several plans of palaces. First edition, printed at Bombay, of a very thorough, lengthy description of "Gujarashtra" (present-day Gujarat, India). One of the very few copies of this Bombay-printed first edition: WorldCat records only 1 copy,… Read more about this item