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[London]: Awnsham and John Churchill, [1704]. First edition in English, and first edition of second English translation, extracted from Churchill's Voyages, folio, 31 x 20 cm., pp. [545]-556; (787)-838. A very good copy in modern half calf, marbled boards. A few wormholes to first third of text, affecting some letters but not legibility. The first English translation of Backhoff's Anhang zwoer Reisen (1674) and Wagener's A Short Account of the Voyages including his time in China in 1653, with the second English translation of Borri's Relatione. Feodor Iskowitz Backhoff was the Russian Ambassador who journeyed into Kattay (i.e. China) in 1654, and Zacharias Wagener spent 35 years journeying across the world and unsuccessfully attempted to open trade out of China, during which he gained considerable fame in Holland. Christopher, or Christoforo, Borri (1583-1632), joined the Society of Jesus in 1601, and was sent with his fellow Jesuit Marquez to Vietnam in 1616. He spent five years in…
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An Account of two Voyages: The first of Feodor Iskowitz Backhoff, the Muscovite Envoy into China: the second of Mr. Zachary Wagener, a native of Dresden in Misnia, thro' a great part of the World, as also into China. Translated from the High-Dutch Original printed at Berlin.; [Bound with] An Account of Cochin-China. In two parts. The first treats of the temporal state of that kingdom. The second, of what concerns the spiritual.
by Iskowitz Backhoff, Feodor; Wagener, Zachary; Borri, R.F. Christopher
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Archaeological Research in Indo-China. Vol. I: The District of Chiu-Chen during the Han Dynasty. General Considerations and Plates.
by Janse, Olov R.T.
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Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1947. First edition, 4to, pp.xl, 73, 169 plates. An internally very good copy in original cloth. Upper board creased and slightly finger stained, corners bumped. The scarce first volume recording the results of Janse's three archaeological excavations in Indo-China from 1934 to 1939. Robert Ture Olov Janse (1892-1985), a Swedish archaeologist, is widely lauded as the man who brought organisation and respectability to Southeast Asian archaeology. His excavations were largely focused on brick tombs of the Han period in Tonkin and North and Central Annam, particularly Dong-so'n. Of the dozens of tombs uncovered one was one of the largest subterranean brick buildings in Indo-China (tomb no.2 of Nghi-ve) and several were completely undisturbed, leading to rich funerary deposits. Some later tombs and locations were contemporary with the Sung and T'ang dynasty. The second and third volumes published several years later are not present.
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Bulletin de l'Ecole Française d'Extrème-Orient. A run from volume 1, 1901 to volume 63, 1976, lacking only volume 11.
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Hanoi: F.-H. Schneider, Imprimeur-Éditeur; Imprimerie d'Extreme-Orient, 1901-1976. Sixty-two volumes bound in sixty-four (Volume 11 lacking; volumes 44 & 52 each in two parts), in total 42,979 pages with 2,323 plates and 37 maps. Text largely in French. This set is handsomely bound in half calf, marbled boards, and is in very good condition. Volumes 32 and 46 have small tears to top of spine. A remarkable run of the foremost journal of studies on French Indochina and the surrounding regions. L'Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient was founded by Paul Doumer, Governor-General of Indochina from 1897 to 1902, encouraged by the distinguished Indologist Sylvain Lévi. The foundation decree stated its objectives: to carry out research on the archaeological and philological exploration of the Indochinese peninsula, and to contribute, by every means possible, to the understanding of its history, its monuments and its languages; to contribute toward the study of neighbouring regions…
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A Voyage to Cochin China.
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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. This account of an American voyage to Saigon in 1819-20 was called "a minor treasure of early nineteenth century travel literature on South East Asia" by Milton Osborne in his introduction to the Oxford in Asia Historical Reprint. This work captivating because it was written by a self-described "unlettered seaman", the author being a Lieutenant in the US Navy, who intended for his writing to be "deposited in the archives of the "East India Marine Society of Salem"" and was only published once his friends convinced him it would be of interest to the general reader. Alongside intriguing insights into Saigon and the surrounding regions including Batavia…
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