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British India's foreign trade during the years 1874-1884

O'CONOR, James Edward. Review of the accounts of the trade and navigation of India for 1874-75, as compared with previous years.
Calcutta, Office of the superintendent of government printing, 1876.
With:
(2) Memorandum reviewing the accounts of the trade and navigation of British India for 1875-76. Dated the 24th February 1877.
[Calcutta?], Government central press, 1877.
(3) Review of the trade of British India for the official year 1876-77.Calcutta, 25 October1877.
(4) Review of the trade of British India with other countries, for the official year 1878-1879.
[Calcutta?], Government central press, 1879.
(5) Review of the maritime trade of British India with other countries for the official year 1879-80.Calcutta, office of the superintendent of government printing, 1880.
(6) Review of the maritime trade of British India with other countries for the official year 1880-81.Calcutta, office of the superintendent of government printing, 1881.
(7) Review of the maritime trade of British India with other countries for the official year 1881-82.Calcutta, office of the superintendent of government printing, 1882.
(8) Review of the accounts of the sea-borne foreign trade of British India for the official year ending 31st March 1883.Simla, Government central branch press, 1883.
(9) Review of the accounts of the sea-borne foreign trade of British India for the official year ending 31st March 1884.Simla, Government central branch press, 1884.
9 parts in 1 volume. Folio. Near contemporary red cloth. Full description
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1598 ordinance for clearing trees around windmills, signed by Johan van Oldenbarnevelt

OLDENBARNEVELT, Johan van. [Ordinance forbidding the planting of trees around windmills in the Land van Arkel (in the southwestern corner of the province of Holland) and requiring the removal of existing trees].
The Hague, 14 December 1598. Manuscript document in Dutch in brown ink on the skin side of a single piece of sheepskin parchment (36 x 48 cm, folded to 14 x 19 cm). Full description
€ 2,950
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Gunboat diplomacy in China and Japan

OLIPHANT, Laurence. Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, '58, '59.
Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1859. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 20 chromolithographed plates, 50 wood-engravings in text and 5 engraved folding maps. Contemporary gold-tooled green morocco, richly gold-tooled spine. XIV, 492; XI, [1 blank], 496 pp. Full description
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Dutch translation of Elgin's mission to China and Japan

OLIPHANT, Laurence. De zending van graaf van Elgin naar China en Japan in 1857, 1858, 1859.
Utrecht, Nolet and son, [1860]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 5 full-page chromolithographed plates, 3 lithographed maps (2 folding), some letterpress tables in text. Contemporary blue calf, purple textured cloth sides. XII, 382, [6]; [4], 361, [1] pp. Full description
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Two Greek classics on hunting and fishing printed by Raphelengius in Leiden

OPPIAN of Anazarbus and OPPIAN of Syria (C. RITTERSHUSIUS, translator). Oppiani poetae Cilicis de venatione libri IV. De piscatu libri V.
Leiden, Franciscus Raphelengius, 1597. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With Raphelengius' (Plantin's) printer's device on the title-page, decorated woodcut initials, and the text is partially set in Greek script. Late 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco. [1], [1 blank], [86], 376, [32]; [8], 344, 164, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description
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Important Orangist pamphlet of the "Doelenlopersbeweging" against the Amsterdam Patriciate
and nepotism in September 1672

[ORANGIST MOVEMENT]. Dam-praetje tusschen vier Amsterdamsche Burgers: Waermondt, Geerlof, Stouthart en Heb-recht. Handelende van de oude privilegien, vryheden, en gerechtigheden van de burgery en schuttery.
[Amsterdam], voor de Doele-schutters, 1672. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page, and a woodcut initial. Modern light yellow marbled wrappers, with a printed label on the front. 16 pp. Full description
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Zeeland Orangist suggests Johan and Cornelis de Witt, murdered by a mob incited by the Dutch head of state (stadtholder Willem III, the future King William III of England), brought it on themselves

[ORANGISTS]. Kort verhael van den oorspronck en onderganck der Loevesteynsche factie. Mitsgaders een vertoogh van t recht dat de gemeente in Zeelandt gehad heeft, om in den jare 1672. Sijn Hoogheyt Prins Willem Hendrik, ... te herstellen ... ende hoe de bedienaers des goddelijcken woorts in Zeelandt haer daar omtrent gedragen hebben ...
[The Hague or Amsterdam?], voor de liefhebbers van Sijn Hoogheyd, 1673. 4to. Modern brown wrappers. [6] ll. Full description
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