Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/35
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENERAL WORKS—continued. 50 Payne-Gallwey (Sir R.) ASummary . . . of the Projectile-Throwing Engines of the Ancients, with a Treatise on the Structure, Power and Management of Turkish and other Oriental Bows, 40 dlusts., 4to., cl., 1907 15s 51 Pinto (Ferdinand Mendez) Voyacrs and ApvENnTURES [in the East], lusts. and map, sm. 8vo., cl., 1891 6s 52 Pinto de Balsemao (HE. A. de sa N.) Os PortucurEzss no ORIENTE: Feitos gloriosos praticados pelos portuguezes no Oriente, 1510-82, 3 parts in one vol, thk. cr. 8vo., binders’ cl., Nova-Goa (1881) 9s 53 Polo (Ser Marco) The Book. of, concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East, trans. and edited, with Notes, hy Col. H. Yule, rrrsr EDITION, maps and tliusts., 2 vols, roy. 8vo., new hf. calf gilt, 1871 £2 2s 54 SECOND EDITION, REVISED, maps and allusts., 2 vols, roy. 8vo., cl., 1875 £2 5s 55 Purchas (Samuel) Haxtuyrus Postuumus, or Purchas His Pilgrimes, contayning a History of the World, in Sea Voyages and Lande Trauels, by Englishmen and others . engraved tttle (tn facsimile), 7 large engraved maps and some woodcuts, 5 vols, folio, contemporary calf, 1625-26 £60 56 ———— ANOTHER EDITION, reproductions of the original maps, éc., 20 vols, 8vo., cl., Glasgow, 1905 L9 57 ———— PELGRIMAGIE, GEDEYLT in TWINTICH BOECKEN, Waer van het eerste Boeck Begrijpt de Voyagien en Reysen, het eerste deel [all published], black and roman letter, sm. 4to., polished calf extra, g.e., by Riviere, tL Amsterdam, Jacob Benjamin 1655 47 10s The engraved title is a well-executed reduced copy of that in the English edition. 58 Ramusio (Gio. Battista) DELLE NAviGATIONI et ViAcGI, with view and 10 maps, 3 vols in 2, thk. folio, vellum, In Venetia nella Stamparta de Gtuntt, 1559-65 | 416 Valuable and important collection of voyages and travels, many printed for the first time. Among the contents may be mentioned the following :— Vasco da Gama’s Voyage to India in 1497—The Navigation of Nearchus— A New Description of Japan—The Famous Letter of Maximilian, of Tran- sylvania—Pigafetta’s Voyage—Marco Polo’s Travels in 1250—Barbaro’s Travels to Tana and Persia, 1436-71—Contarini’s Travels to Persia, 1473-77 —Arrian’s Navigations—Varthema’s Travels to Persia, India, &c. 59 Sonnerat (M.) Voyace aux InpEs ORIENTALES et a la CHINE, 1774-81, dans lequel on traite des Mceurs, de la Religion, des Sciences, etc., des Indiens, des Chinois, des Pegouins et des Madegasses, etc., alus. uith numerous fine copper-plate engravings, 2 vols, 4to., hf. cl., Paris, 1782 £3 3s 60 Speilbergen.—The East and Wust Inpian Mirror: Account of J. van Speil- bergen’s Voyage round the World, 1614-17, trans., with Notes and an Intro., by J. A. J. De Villiers, numerous maps and illusts., 8vo., cl., Hakluyt Society, 1906 (pub. 12s 6d) 9s 61 Struys (Jean) Voyraaczs en Moscovin, en TARTARIE, en PERSE, aux INDEs, etc., folding copper-plates, including the one of a woman being flayed alive, sm. 4to., contemporary calf, Amsterdam, 1681 £3 10s
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