Asia

WILSON, Horace Hayman. The history of British India. From 1805 to 1835.
London, James Madden and co. (back of title-page: printed by S. & J. Bentley, Wilson and Fley), 1845-1848. 3 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary blind-blocked cloth. XV, [1 blank], 608; XVI, 611, [1 blank]; XVI, 592, 70, [2], 24 pp. Full description

WINCKEL, Christiaan Philip Karel. Essai sur les principes régissant l'administration de la justice aux Indes Orientales Hollandaises surtout dans les îles de Java et Madoura et leur application.
Semarang, G.C.T van Dorp; Amsterdam, Scheltema & Holkema, 1880. 8vo. With an original sepia-toned photographic print of a session of the local (indigenous) court on Java and a lithographed folding map of the Dutch East Indies by the widow and sons of E. Spanier in The Hague. Half red sheepskin with blue decorated paper sides, gold-tooled spine, red sprinkled edges. XII, 315, [1] pp. Full description

WIT, Frederick de. Atlas maior.
Amsterdam, Johannes Covens & Cornelis Mortier, [ca. 1725]. Imperial folio (53 x 35.5 cm). With engraved title-page and 76 double page (or in 8 cases larger folding) engraved maps, the title-page and all maps and their decorations coloured by a contemporary hand. Half tanned sheepskin (ca. 1900), gold-tooled spine. Full description

WITSEN, Nicolaas. Noord en Oost Tartaryen: behelzende eene beschryving van verscheidene Tartersche en nabuurige gewesten; in de noorder en oostelykste deelen van Aziën en Europa; zedert naauwkeurig onderzoek van veele jaaren, en eigen ondervinding ontworpen, beschreven, geteekent, en in 't licht gegeven ... Tweede druk, nieuwe uitgaaf, verrykt met eene inleiding tot het werk, en met eene meenigte afbeeldingen versierd.
Amsterdam, M. Schalekamp, 1785. 2 volumes. Folio. With 2 richly engraved allegorical frontispieces, title-page printed in red and black, 8 double-page engraved maps, 93 full-page engraved maps, views, portraits and plates.
Uniform contemporary half calf and paper over boards. Vol. 1: [18], XXV, [1 blank], 503 pp; vol. 2: [503]-968, [18] pp. Full description

[XAVIER, Jerome, and others]. Raguagli d'alcune missioni fatte dalli padri della Compagnia di Giesu nell'Indie Orientali, cioè nelle provincie di Goa, e Coccinno, e nell'Africa in Capo Verde.
Rome, Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1615. Small 8vo (14 x 9 cm).18th-century(?) sheepskin parchment. 165, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[YOKOHAMA NURSERY CO. - YOKOHAMA UEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA]. Lilies of Japan.
Yokohama, Japan, The Yokohama Nursery Company, November 1907. 4to (26 x 18.5 cm). With XXXX numbered magnificent chromolithographed plates of lilies. Chromolithographed wrappers with an arrangement of lilies and the title "Lilies of Japan" on the front, side-stitched in Japanese manner with black yarn through 2 pair of holes. [3], XXXX [=40], [1] pp. Full description

ZHU XI (CHU HSI). [In Korean:] Sohak eonhae [In Chinese:] Xiaoxue jizhu [= Elementary learning].
[Korea], [1744?]. Folio (32.5 x 21.5 cm). With the pages printed in pairs (each page 17 x 10 characters) from 2-page woodblocks, each in a frame of thick rules, with thin rules between the columns, the title and leaf number between the pages on the fore-edge fold, with 2 decorations (4 leaves in white on black above the title and below the leaf number). Printed on Asian (probably paper mulberry bark) paper, with clear chainlines (about 20 mm apart) and laidlines (about 2.1 mm apart), with the text in a mixture of hanja (Chinese characters) and hangul (the Korean alphabet). Contemporary Korean spineless wrappers with an embossed diaper pattern (made from interwoven diagonal triple lines) on the inside (mostly covered by the paste-down), side-stitched and oversewn through 5 holes, with manuscript title on the front wrapper and the spine edge. 66 double ll. Full description