Sales catalogue 528: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/83
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 528: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Voyages in Asia, Africa, etc.: Barrington (Hon. Daines)—continued. This comprises Maurelle’s diary, which he claimed ‘‘ served as the only record for later Navigators.”’ Other curious Essays comprise:—Whether the Turkey was known before the Dis- covery of America; Account of Mozart, a very remarkable young musician ; Accounts of Mr. Charles Wesley and Master Samuel Wesley; On the Torpidity of the swallow tribe when they disappear (the belief that swallows hibernated under the ice during winter); etc. 2i1 BLAIR & ROBERTSON. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803. Explora- tions of early navigators, descriptions of the Islands and their peoples, their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as related in con- temporaneous Books & Manuscripts, shewing the Political, Economic, Commercial & Religious Conditions of those Islands from their earliest relations with European Nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century. With maps, portraits, and other illustrations. 55 vols., 8vo, original cloth, uncut. Cleveland, Ohio, 1903-1909. £175 Very scarce. 212 BOCK (Carl). The Head Hunters of Borneo; A Narrative of Travel up the Mahakkam and down the Barito; also, Journeyings in Sumatra. With 30 coloured plates, map, and other illustrations. 8vo, halt morocco, gilt, uncut, t.e. g. London, 1882. £3 3s 213 CLARKE (James Stainer) and M’ARTHUR (John). The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B., from his Lordship’s Manuscripts. With 16 finely engraved plates or vignettes, 4 battle plans, etc. 2 vols., contemporary russia, gilt, g. é. London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1809. £4 4s 214 COLLECCAO de Monumentos ineditos para a historia das Conquistas dos Portuguezes en Africa, Asia e America, publicados pela Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, sob a direcgao de Rodrigo José de Lima Felner, Raymundo Antonio de Bulhao Pato e Henrique Lopes de Mondonga. A complete set of 21 vols., bound in 11 vols., half calf gilt. Lisbon, 1858-1915. £16 16s This important publication of the Lisbon Royal Academy of Sciences contains the folowing :— Lendas da India por'Gaspar Correia, 8 vols. Subsidios para a Historia da India Portugueza, 1 vol. Decada 13 da Historia da India, por Antonio Bocarro, 2 vols. Documentos remetidos da India, ou livro das Moncoes, 4 vals. Cartas de Affonso de Albuquerque, 6 vols.
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