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Second editions of Titsingh's "Cérémonies" and "Mémoires et anecdotes"

TITSINGH, Isaac. Cérémonies usitées au Japon, pour les mariages, les funérailles, et les principals fêtes del'année; ... Orné de 24 gravures, faites d'après des peintures japonaises.
Paris, Nepveu (back of half-title: printed by dHautel), 1822. 3 volumes. 18mo. With 23 (of 24?) etched plates (including 3 as frontispiece, and 17 folding), all but one in contemporary hand-colouring. Late 19th-century, gold-tooled brown half morocco, gilt edges. XXX, IV, 127, [1 blank]; [4], 139, [1 blank]; [4], 206 pp. Full description
€ 5,000
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A banned pamphlet on Dutch colonization and trade in America

[USSELINCX, Willem]. Naerder bedenckingen, over de zee-vaerdt, coophandel ende neeringhe, als mede de versekeringhe vanden staet deser vereenichde landen, inde teghenwoordighe vrede-handelinghe met den Coninck van Spangnien ende de aerts-hertoghen.
[Amsterdam], 1608 Small 4to (18.5 x 14 cm). With a woodcut arabesque ornament on the title-page and 1 woodcut decorated initial letter. Modern pink paper wrappers. [36] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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The most comprehensive and authoritative source on the Dutch colonial empire in the East

VALENTIJN, François. Oud en nieuw Oost-Indiën, vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyt in die gewesten ...
Dordrecht and Amsterdam, J. van Braam and G. Onder de Linden, 1724-1726. 5 parts in 8 volumes. Folio. With a richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, a full-page engraved portrait of the author, an engraved dedication, 105 engraved maps, plans and views (full-page and folding), 163 full-page engraved portraits and plates, and 9 folding tables. Contemporary gold-tooled, marbled brown calf, bound by the so-called Van Damme Bindery in Amsterdam, with a brown morocco title label on the ribbed spine, lettered in gold, a lozenge-shaped central ornament on the front and back board, surrounded by two decorative frames, gold-tooled board edges, marbled edges. Each volume ca. 400 pp. Full description
€ 90,000
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Important early work on the history of Siam, with one of the first Western descriptions of Ayutthaya

VLIET, Jeremias van. Beschrijving van het koningrijk Siam. Mitsgaders het verhaal van den oorsprong, onderscheyd, politijke regering, d'ecclesiastique, en costuymelijke huyshoudinge van d'edelen en borgerlijke lieden: als mede den loop der negotie, en andere remarquable saaken des Koninkrijks Siam ...
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(2) [DESFARGES, Marshal]. Aanmerklijk en naaukeurig verhaal der staats-omkeringen, nu laatst in 't jaar 1688 in Siam voorgevallen.
(3) [ORLEANS, Pierre Joseph d']. Het leven en daden van d'heer Constantyn Phaulcon, eerste geheyme raad van het koningrijk Siam.
Leiden, Frederik Haaring, 1692. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved title-page, 6 decorated woodcut initials, 6 woodcut headpieces, and a woodcut vignette on the typographical title-pages of all parts. Contemporary vellum. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [4], 34, [2 blank]; 12, 103, [1] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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The VOC terms of employment, published in response to staff shortages in the 18th century

[VOC - ARTICLES - TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT]. Artikel-brief van de Geoctroyeerde Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, by de hoog mogende heeren Staten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden, den vierden september, 1742, gearresteert. Met de veranderingen daar in gemaakt by resolutie 11 october 1747.
Amsterdam, Wed. J. van Egmont en Zoon, [1747]. Folio. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page and 2 decorated woodcut initials in the text. Contemporary half vellum. [2], [2 blank], 53, [3 blank] pp. Full description
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On the rights to and commitments of inheritances of deceased employees of the Dutch East India Company

[VOC - CHARTER]. Octroy bij haar Mogende verleend aan de Oostindische Compagnie dezer landen op t Regt van de Successien Ab intestato in Oost Indien, en op de reyse gints en herrewaarts in dato 10e Januarij 1661.
[Amsterdam], [Johannes Allart], [1661?]. Folio. Disbound, folded. 5, [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 750
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