Pfyffer zu Neueck, J.J.X. Esquisses de l'Ile de Java et de ses divers habitants, recueillies pendant un sejour de huit annees fait dans cette ile. Traduit de l'Allemand par Girodz du Villard, revu et mis en ordre par G. Guenot Lecointe. Brussels Société Belge du Libraire. 1837
First edition in French, pp.xv, 239. An attractive copy bound in contemporary red quarter morocco, spine a little rubbed.

Pigeaud, Dr.Th. Javaanse Volksvertoningen. Bijdrage tot de Beschrijving van Land en Volk. Batavia Volkslectuur 1938
First edition, 4to, pp.545, 45 plates, 4 mounted and in colour. A very good copy in original boards, spine strengthened.

Price, David, Major Chronological Retrospect, or Memoirs of the Principal Events of Mahommedan History, from the Death of the Arabian legislator, to the accession of the Emperor Akbar, and the establishment of the Moghul Empire in Hindustaun. From original Persian authorities. London Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown; and Black, Kingsbury, Parbury and Allen; sold by J. Booth [1811]-1821
First edition. Three volumes in four, 4to (27.5 x 21 cm.), pp.xvi, 606, [6, notes], large hand-coloured folding map; xvi, 716; xv, 483; (485)-998. A very good set in contemporary embossed cloth, gilt titles on spine. Professionally re-cased, heads and tails of spines repaired. Old wax seals on spines. With ownership inscriptions of Frederick F. Cornell (1804-1875), pastor of the Manhattan Reformed Dutch Church 1836-1856, dated 25 October 1848, New York; recent bookplate of Robert & Maria Travis to first volume.

[Qianlong, Emperor of China, 1711-9]; Amiot, Jean Joseph Marie Éloge de la Ville de Moukden et de ses Environs; Poeme composé par Kien-Long, Empereur de la Chine & de la Tartarie, actuellement régnant. Accompagné de Notes curieuses sur la Géographie, sur l'Histoire naturelle de la Tartarie Orientale, & sur les anciens usages des Chinois; composées par les Editeurs Chinois & Tartares. On y a joint une Piece de Vers sur le Thé, composé par le même Empereur. Paris N.M. Tilliard; M. Deguignes 1770
First edition, pp.xxiv, xxxviii, 381, [3, errata; approbation; privilege du Roi]. Text in French. A very good copy bound in contemporary calf, neatly re-backed, all edges red. Boards slightly rubbed and scuffed, end-papers toned, small label fixed to lower board. Rare early 20th century bookplate of Dr. O. Fischer, designed by Friedrich H. Schiff (1908-1968), one of the great cartoonists of Shanghai between 1929 and 1947.
Lowendahl 552

Raffles, Stamford, Sir Report on Japan to the Secret Committee of the English East India Company. With preface by M. Paske-Smith. Kobe J.L. Thompson & Co 1929
First edition, pp.xv, 252, frontispiece, 9 plates & maps including a large folding map of Nagasaki in colour. A near fine copy in original cloth, some faint rubbing to edges. Preserved in cloth solander case. Some offsetting to last page of text from map. Small ex-libris sticker from the library of R.A. Scoales, and small label of a Tokyo bookseller, both on front paste-down.

[Sabah] Views of British North Borneo with a Brief History of the Colony, compiled from official records and other sources of information of an authentic nature, with trade returns, &c., showing the progress and development of the Chartered Company's Territory. London William Brown & Co. 1899
First edition, oblong 4to (22 x 28 cm approx), pp.60, many illustrations to text, 2 maps. A very good copy bound in somewhat soiled original cloth, rebacked with later cloth spine.

[Saladin]. Yusuf ibn Rafi', Baha al-Din, called Ibn Shaddad; Albert Schultens, editor and translator Sirat al-Sultan al-alik al-Nasr Salih al-Din [Arabic]... Vita et res gestae Sultani, Almalichi Alnasiri, Saladini, Abi Modaffiri Josephi F. Jobi. F. Sjadsi. auctore Bohadino F. Sjeddadi. Nec non excerpta ex Historia Universali Abbdulfedae, easdem res gestas, reliquamque Historiam temporis, compendiose exhibentia. Itemque specimen ex Historia Majore Saladini, Grandiore cothurno conscripta ab Amadoddino Ispahanensi. Ex MSS. Arabicis Academiae Lugduno-Batavae edidit ac Latin vertit Albertus Schultens. Accedit index commentariusque geographicus ex MSS. ejusdem Bibliothecae contextus. Leiden Samuelem Luchtmans 1732
First edition, folio, pp.[xxx], 278; [ii], 64; 26; [88, index]. Parallel Arabic and Latin text. A very good copy in contemporary speckled calf, professionally re-backed to style with original gilt decorated spine laid down, all edges speckled blue. Boards and spine lightly rubbed, corners bumped, slight age-toning to end-papers. Clean internally. Book-plate of Ralph Creyke Marton. Ralph Creyke of Marton in the East Riding (died 1717) was succeeded by a line who all bore the name Ralph.
Not in Smitskamp

Saleh, Raden Sjarief Bustaman Een Boschbrand. A fine chromolithograph by C.W. Mieling, after the original painting by Raden Saleh. The Hague, Koninklijke Steendruckerij. 1867
Original chromolithograph, 31 x 44 cm approx. A very good example. Framed and glazed.
Bastin & Brommer, n.620; Marie-Odette Scalliet, in The Javanese Painter Raden Saleh: A star in the firmament of Indonesian modern visual art, in Low Sze Wee (editor) Charting Thoughts, Singapore, 2017.

Spencer, Edmund Travels in Circassia, Krim Tartary, &c. including a steam voyage down the Danube, from Vienna to Constantinople and round the Black Sea in 1836. London Henry Colburn 1837
First edition. Two volumes, 8vo, pp. xxxvii, [1, list of illustrations], 355, [1, printer's device], [8, publisher's adverts]; xiii, [1, list of illustrations], 425, [1, blank], [2, publisher's adverts]; with 4 lithographed plates, 2 of which are hand-coloured frontispieces, 2 folding maps, 5 pages of engraved music, and 17 engraved illustrations in the text. A very good copy in original cloth, blind frame and panelling to boards, gilt lettering and illustration to spine. Corners and spine bumped, cloth slightly faded, upper inner hinge of volume one fragile, lower joint of volume two has a small split but firm. Light foxing, 4cm tear (neatly repaired) to hinge of larger folding map not affecting map surface.
Abbey 354; Atabey 1164 (third edition); Blackmer 1580 (third edition)

Starr, Lilian A. Tales of Tirah and Lesser Tibet. With Forewords by Lord Rawlinson & Sir John Maffey. Edited, with an Appreciation, by Basil Mathews. London Hodder and Stoughton 1924
Fourth impression, pp.253, portrait, 6 illustrations, 2 maps. A very good copy in original cloth. Spine and corners lightly bumped. The copy of Colonel C.E. Bruce, with a warm presentation inscription from the author dated 1924 thanking him for his assistance in freeing the hostage, and with numerous annotations by Bruce correcting facts or refuting exaggerations. Armorial bookplate of Colonel Bruce to pastedown.
Yakushi S698

Stein, Marc Aurel In Memoriam Theodore Duka (1825-1908). (A Lecture read before the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, October 27, 1913) Oxford Privately printed. 1914
First edition, pp.35, frontis portrait. A very good copy in original boards. Paper spine professionally repaired. With ownership stamp Bibliotheca Franc. Babinger on free endpaper. Franz Babinger (1891-1967), German orientalist and historian of the Ottoman Empire, is best known for his Mehmed the Conqueror.
Erdelyi 1.079.

Stein, Marc Aurel Innermost Asia. Detailed report of explorations in Central Asia, Kan-su and eastern Iran. Carried out and described under the orders of H.M. Indian Government. Volumes I and II, Text. Vol.III, Plates and Plans. Vol.IV, Maps. With descriptive lists of antiques by F.H. Andrews and F.M.G. Lorimer; and appendices by J. Allan, E. Benveniste, A.H. Francke, L. Giles, R.L. Hobson, T.A. Joyce, S. Konow, A. von Le Coq, W. Lentz, S. Lévi, H. Maspero, F.E. Pargiter, R. Smith, W.J. Sollas, R.C. Spieler, F.W. Thomas, V. Thomsen. Oxford At the Clarendon Press 1928
First edition, four volumes, folio, pp.xxxix, 547; xii, (549)-1159, 505 photographic illustrations; 138 plates (numbered to 137, with one A plate), 13 in colour, 59 plans; 52 folding maps. A very good set in original cloth. Rather torn and soiled dust wrappers. From the library of Stein's friend and colleague, Filippo de Filippi, with his bookplate.
Erdelyi 1.112.

Stein, Marc Aurel The Thousand Buddhas. Ancient Buddhist Paintings from the Cave-Temples of Tun-Huang on the western frontier of China. Recovered and described by Aurel Stein, K.C.I.E. With an introductory essay by Laurence Binyon. Published under the Orders of H.M. Secretary of State for India and with the co-operation of the Trustees of the British Museum. London Bernard Quaritch; plates by Henry Stone & Son of Banbury. 1921
First edition, two volumes, text in folio, 40 x 31 cm., pp.xii, 65; title-page and 48 plates, thirty-three in large folio, 64 x 51 cm., twelve in three colour, twenty-one in halftone, and fifteen smaller plates, 40 x 31 cm, of which ten in three colour, 5 in halftone. Plates have discretely stamped on reverse, "Printed in England". Overall a very good copy, but showing minor use and wear. Title page lightly spotted. Large plates slightly dog-eared at corners, a few with a small area of lower margin lightly water stained, but images unaffected. The text volume is in original wrappers, with small tears to cover, otherwise pristine. The smaller plates are in fine condition, preserved in their original envelope. The whole is contained in the original half-cloth portfolio. Rear cover of portfolio somewhat spotted, and minor tears to cloth spine.
Erdelyi 1.095.

Tattavi, 'Abd al-Rashid' ibn Abd al-Ghafur; Ludwig Splieth, translator Ferhengi Reschidi. Grammatica linguae Persicae textum ad fidem codicum manuscriptorum edidi et Latine reddidit. Ludovicus Splieth. [Halle] [c.1846]
Persian and Latin manuscript in ink on wove paper, 8vo (22.5 x 18 cm), ff.24, with 21 lines of text per page in single ruled frames, headings in red, Latin text in cursive, Persian in fastidious nasta'liq, f.1r with a calligraphic title in Persian, transliterated Persian, and Latin, written in red and black, in a double-ruled frame. Bound in later calf-backed red cloth, spine worn but joints firm. Paper slightly browned, with a small marginal tear on f.1, text unaffected and contents otherwise in excellent condition. Occasional later pencil annotations. Blind and withdrawn stamps of Nottingham Public Libraries ; printed label of the Waterhouse Collection, 1902, on front pastedown.
No other copies on Copac, not in BL

Tattavi, 'Abd al-Rashid' ibn Abd al-Ghafur; Splieth, Ludwig, editor Grammaticae persicae praecepta ac regulae quas lexico persico Ferhengi Reschidi praefixas e duobus codicibus uno Roedigeri, altero bibliothecae Reg. Berolinensis. Scripsit et editit... Halle Lippert & Schmidt 1846
First edition, pp.51, lithographed Persian text. An very good copy in modern half calf, cloth boards, interleaved and heavily annotated in both Latin and Persian in a contemporary hand, probably Spleith's. Title page foxed, and occasional spotting elsewhere.
COPAC shows 4 copies only in Oxford, Cambridge, Queen's University Belfast, and BL.

Thoms, Peter Perring A Dissertation on the ancient Chinese vases of the Shang Dynasty, from 1743 to 1496, B.C. Illustrated with forty-two Chinese wood engravings. London published and printed by the author at 12 Warwick Square and sold by James Gilbert, bookseller. 1851
First edition. 8vo (24.5 x 16 cm), pp.63, [1, blank], [2, imprint], with 42 wood engravings in text, title with printed frame in red. Folio broadsheet (40 x 44 cm), folded and tipped-in at rear. A very good copy in original cloth by Josiah Westley. Slight wear to head and tail of spine. Broadsheet lightly age-toned, and torn on folds. Henry Bohn's copy, with his signed note of Thoms' presentation of the broadsheet at the Crystal Palace exhibition. Armorial bookplate of Edward Jackson Barron.
Cordier BS 695; Löwendahl 1122. We locate a single copy of the broadside at Kent State University.

Tully, Richard Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa: from the original correspondence in the possession of the family of the late Richard Tully, Esq., the British Consul. Comprising Authentic Memoirs and Anecdotes of the reigning Bashaw, his Family, and other Persons of Distinction; also, an account of the Domestic Manners of the Moors, Arabs, and Turks. London 1816
First edition 4to, pp.xiii, 370, 5 hand coloured plates, folding map. A very good copy bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Spine rubbed, one corner bumped.
Abbey Travel 299; see Blackmer 1682

[Wellesley, Richard Colley, Marquess Wellesley] Notes relative to the late transactions in the Marhatta Empire. [with] Appendix to the notes relative to the late transactions in the Marhatta Empire. Calcutta Fort William 1803
First edition. 4to (32 x 19 cm), pp.[ii], [ii, contemporary manuscript contents], 102, [ii], 28, [2], 12*, 126, [1], [1, blank], [1, errata], [1, blank], with 5 large folding plans, all with contemporary hand colour, 4 signed "F. Dormieux Sculp. Calcutta 1803". A very good copy in contemporary speckled calf, gilt. The leather somewhat worn, particularly at the spine, with small areas of loss, but still handsome. A handful of contemporary manuscript corrections and annotations to text.
We locate copies of this work and the two supplementary volumes at four institutions: British Library, Oxford, Royal Library (UK), and UCLA. Cambridge holds a copy of this work and the second supplementary volumes.

White, John A Voyage to Cochin China. London Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green 1824
First English edition, 8vo, pp.xi, [1, blank], 368 - (371)-2. A very good copy bound in dyed contemporary half leather, buckram boards, all edges speckled blue and red. Light rubbing to extremities of boards, light foxing to first and last few leaves. Previous ownership inscription and discreet rubber stamp of Chalmers Library on title.
Cordier BS, 2108-9; Sabin 103411 (first edition)

Wood, John, Captain A Journey to the Source of the River Oxus. With an essay on the geography of the valley of the Oxus. By Colonel Henry Yule. London John Murray 1872
New (i.e. second) edition, edited by his son. pp.cvii, [2, half-title], 280, 32 (adverts), frontispiece, 2 folding maps. A very good copy in the original blind decorated cloth. Spine sun-faded, slight spotting to a few leaves.
Yakushi W116b