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AMERICAN MISSIONARY SEMINARY. Fifth triennial report of the American Mission Seminary, Jaffna, Ceylon. With an appendix. January, 1839.
Jaffna, Press of the American Mission, 1839. 8vo (20 x 13.5 cm). Original orange-brown wrappers. 48, [1] pp. Full description

BEDDOME, Richard Henry The ferns of southern India. Being descriptions and plates of the ferns of the Madras Presidency.
Madras (now Chennai), printed by Gantz Brothers, 1863. Large 4to (31 x ca. 24.5 cm). With 272 lithographed line illustrations of Indian ferns, numbered I-CCLXXI plus XXVIIIA, all signed "Govindoo del. G. Winchester Lith. Madras". Contemporary half brown leather. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], XV, [1 blank], 88, VII, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[BROADSIDE - MEXICO]. [Drop title:] D. Luis Quintanar, Soto, Bocanegra y Ruiz, Mariscal de Campo de los Ejércitos Imperiales, Capitan General y Gefe SUperior Político inerino de esta Provincia ...
[Mexico, 12 April 1822]. Ca. 43.5 x 31.3 cm. [1] l. Full description

CRUZ, Manuel da. Fala que fes o P. Fr. Manoel da Crus, Mestre em S. Teologia, Deputado do S. Officio, & das Ordens Militares na segunda instancia, Vigairo Geral da Ordem dos Pregadores da India.
(Colophon:) Lisbon, Lourenço de Anveres for Andre Godinho, 1642. Small 4to (20 x 15 cm). With the woodcut crowned Portuguese coat of arms on the title page and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Later gold-tooled vellum. [1], [1 blank], [20], [2 blank] pp. Full description

EL RUSTICO ANFRISO [= Mariano BARAZÁBAL?]. Ramilletito alegorico de flores poeticas que de su simple huertecillo ofrece á nuestro amado Emperador, en el dia fausto de su coronacion, el rústico Anfriso.
[Mexico City], Mexico, Imprenta Imperial del Señor Valdés [= Alejandro Valdés y Téllez Girón], 1822. 22 x 16.2 cm. Marbled paper wrappers. 11, [1 blank] pp. Full description

KITTEL, Ferdinand. Ueber den Ursprung des Lingakultus in Indien.
Mangalore, [printed by Stolz & Hirner, Basel Mission Press, Mangalore, for:] Basel mission book & tract depository, 1876. 8vo. With the title on the front wrapper in a printed decorative frame. Orange printed paper wrappers. [2], 48 pp. Full description

LABORDE, Léon de. Commentaire géographique sur l'exode et les nombres.
Paris and Leipzig, Renouard (Firmin Didot), 1841. Folio With 13 plates (3 folding and 8 full-page) showing a total of 19 maps, 8 of which are lithographs. Including:
(2) Discours du Roi. Royal Séance du 9 janvier 1843.
Large 8vo. 4 pp.
(3) [A richly illustrated advert for two other works by Laborde (Voyage en Orient and Voyage de l'Arabie pétrée)].
Large 4to. 4 pp.
Contemporary half maroon leather, marbled paper sides, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers LXI, [1], 146; 48 (supplement) pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - BRAZILIAN INDEPENDENCE - José Bonifácio de ANDRADA E SILVA]. [Manuscript document relating to a decree specifying the conditions under which Portuguese subjects may be admitted to the newly independent Kingdom of Brazil, signed by José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva].
Rio de Janeiro, 21 January 1823. 25 x 20.2 cm. Portuguese manuscript on watermarked paper "J Green 1820", written in a neat cursive in brown ink by two hands: page one signed by José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva in Rio de Janeiro on 21 January 1823 and page two signed at the Palacio do Governo on 18 February 1823. Possibly disbound. [2], [2 blank] pp. Full description

[MILITARY COSTUMES - CENTRAL EUROPE]. Portraits des Hongrois, des Pandoures ou Croates, des Waradins ou Esclavoniens, et des Ulans, &c. Qui sont au services de SS. MM. l'Empereur & le Roi de Prusse. ... | Afbeelding van de Hongaren, Panduuren of Croaten, Waradynen of Slavoniers, Ulanen, &c. Die in dienst zyn van Zyn Keyzerlyke Majesteit, en van Zyn Majesteit de Koning van Pruyssen. ...
[The Netherlands (The Hague?), after 1780? (1787?)]. 8vo. With 6 full-page numbered engraved plates, vividly coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. Kept in a custom burgundy cloth case with a leather label on the spine lettered in gold. 16 pp. Full description

[TELESFORO DA COSENZA]. Livre merveilleux, contenant en bref la fleur et substance de plusieurs traittez, tant des propheties & revelations, qu'anciennes croniques, faisant mention de tous les faictz de l'Eglise Universelle, co[m]me des scismes, discords & tribulations advenir en l'Eglise de Rome, & d'un temps auquel on ostera & tollira aux ge[n]s d'eglise & clergé, ...
Paris, Thibault Bessault, 1565. 8vo. With Bessault's woodcut device on the title-page. 18th-century French grained red morocco (ca. 1745?), gold-tooled spine with pointillé ornaments, each board framed with thin-thick-thin fillets with a rosette(?) stamped over their intersections at the corners, gold-tooled turn-ins, gold fillets on the board edges, gilt edges. [54] ll. Full description