7720 SPRATT'S (Capt. T. A. B.) Travels and Researches in CRETE, 2 vols. 8vo. with maps, several coloured plates of Views, Plans, Coins, etc. and numerous woodcuts, (pub. at £2.) cloth, 30s 1865 7721 SQUIER'S (E. G.) Rare and Original documents, concerning the Discovery of America, chiefly from the Spanish Archieves, No. 1. Carta de Garcia de Palacio, 1576, Spanish and English, sm. 4to. map, hf. morocco, uncut, 15s New York, 1860 an account of the Languages, Customs, and Religion of their aboriginal inhabitants.

The above "Carta" gives a description of the Ancient Provinces of Guazacapan, Izalco, Cuscatlan, in the Audiencia of Guatemala ; with 7722 SQUIER'S Travels in Central America, particularly in Nicaragua, 2 vols. 8vo. fine plates, some coloured and tinted, and woodcuts, cloth, 16s

New York, 1853 7723 STANHOPE (Lady Hester's) Travels, forming the completion of her Memoirs, 3 vols. 8vo. plates and woodcuts, cloth, 78 6d

1846

7724 STEDMAN (Col. John) Narrative of a five years' Expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, South America, 1772-77, elucidating its History, Natural History, etc. 2 vols. roy. 4to. LARGE PAPER, SO fine engravings, including numerous illustrations of Natural History, COLOURED, russia extra; or, hf. russia, uncut, £2.

First and best edition of one of the most Priced, 1839, £4. 48. interesting and amusing books ever written.

1796

7725 STEPHEN'S (J. L.) Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, 2 vols. 8vo. plates of Aboriginal Monuments, cloth, 208 1843 7726 STRABON, GÉOGRAPHIE, traduite de Grec en Français par Coray et Letronne, avec des notes, Vol. V. royal 4to. bds. uncut, 10s Paris, 1819 7727 STRAHL (P.) das gelehrte Russland, 8vo. cloth, a valuable Literary History, 78 6d Leipzig, 1828

7728

Geschichte der Russ. Kirche, Vol. I. (988-1588), Halle, 1830Strahl und Herrmann, Geschichte des Russ. Staates, 5 vols. Hamb. 183253-6 vols. 8vo. hf. bound, 10s

1830-53 7729 STRAHLENBERG, das Nord und Oestliche Theil von Europa und Asia, das Russische Reich, Siberien und die grosse Tartarey, sm. 4to. with the scarce Polyglott Table, numerous maps and plates, vellum, fine copy, 78 6d

Stockholm, 1730 7730 STRITTERI Memoria Populorum, olim ad Danubium, Pontum Euxinum, Paludem Moot. Caucasum, Mare Caspium, et inde magis ad Septemtr. incolentium (Gothorum, Vandalorum, Longobard. Hunn. etc.) 4 vols. 4to. calf gilt, £3. 16s Petropoli, 1771-79

Priced, 1857, Asher, Berlin, 4 vols. in 6, sewed, 65 francs; fetched by auction, 1857, Sotheby's £4. 88.

"Important pour l'histoire de la formation de tous les états du nord."-Techener. All the

7732

| passages of the Byzantine history which relate to the Barbarians, are compiled, methodised and transcribed, in a Latin version by the laborious Stritter, in his 'Memoriae, etc.""-Gibbon.

7731 STURT'S Two Expeditions into Southern Australia, 1828-31, 2 vols. 8vo. maps and plates, the Ornithology coloured, (pub. at 288) cloth, 128 1833 Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia, 1844-46, with Notice of South Australia, 1847, 2 vols. 8vo. plates, those of Natural History COLOURED, (pub. 36s) cloth, 20s

1849

7733 TAVERNIER, Ses Six Voyages, en Turquie, en Perse et aux Indes, édi

tion augmentée, 3 vols. sm. 4to. numerous plates, including COINS current in Turkey, Persia, India, Siam, Japan, etc. old calf gilt, 218 Paris, 1682-79 Copies fetched, 3 vols. 4to. Amst. 1678-9, | with the "Relation du Serail," 1 vol. 1679, mor. 1855, Bernal's, mor. £2. 98; 1857, Berry's copy, | £2. 18. 7734 TENNENT (Sir J. Emerson) Ceylon, an account of the Island, Physical, Historical, and Topographical, 2 vols. 8vo. maps, plates, and cuts, (pub. at £2. 10s) cloth, 30s

7735

1860

Natural History of Ceylon, with Narratives and Anecdotes, plates and cuts, 8vo. cloth, 78 6d

1861

7736 TEMMINCK, Coup d'Oeil général sur les possessions Néerlandaises dans l'Inde Archipelagique, 3 vols. 8vo. sd. 78; or, hf. bound neat, 10s

Leide, 1846-49 7737 TEONGE. DIARY of Henry Teonge, chaplain on board H.M.S. Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak, 1675-79, now first published, 8vo. facsimile, vellum gilt, 128 1825 7738 THEVENOT (Melch.) RELATIONS DE DIVERS VOYAGES curieux, qui n'ont point esté publiées, ou qui ont esté traduites de Voyageurs Anglois, Hollandois, Portugais, Allemands, Espagnols, etc. 4 parts in 2 vols. folio, numerous maps, plates, and cuts, old calf, £3. 38 Paris, 1683 This copy is the original issue, and does not therefore correspond entirely with the description given in Brunet, some of the pieces 7739 THEVENOT, Relation de divers Voyages, nouvelle édition augmentée, 4 vols. in 2, folio, with the SUPPLEMENTARY PIECES, except the last three mentioned in Brunet, old calf, £6. 68

mentioned by him not having been published till after this date.

The Supplementary Pieces which were de- | excessive rarity.

signed for a feces voich were def

1696

7740 TOBIN'S (Lady) Land of Inheritance, or Bible Scenes Revisited; a handsome large impl. 8vo. volume, viii and 438 pages, beautifully printed, with the PORTRAITS of Lady Tobin and Sir Thomas Tobin, and 8 original VIEWS in Palestine and Egypt, extra cloth, gilt edges, 30s

1863 7741 TORQUEMADA, the Spanish Mandevile of Myracles, translated from the Spanish, sq. 8vo. russia, RARE, £2.

1618

7742 TOURNEFORT's Voyage into the Levant, (Turkey, Armenia, Persia, etc.) 2 vols. 4to. map and numerous plates, fine copy, calf, gilt backs, 12s 1718 7743 the same, 3 vols. 8vo. plates, fine copy in the original calf gilt, 10s 1741 7744 TURNERELLI'S Kazan, the ancient Capital of the Tartar Khans, 2 vols. sm. 8vo. (pub. 218) cloth, 78

1854

7745 UNIENVILLE, Statistique de l'Ile Maurice et ses dépendances, avec une notice sur MADAGASCAR, 3 vols. cloth, 12s Paris, 1838 7746 VALENTYN, Oud en Nieuw Ooost-Indien, etc. A Collection of Voyages to the East Indies, Japan, Moluccas, many Islands in the Eastern Seas, the Cape, etc. in Dutch, 8 vols. folio, numerous engravings of Natural History, Views, Portraits, beautiful impressions, fine copy in old calf, arms on sides, £3. 12s Dordrecht en Amst. 1724-26 as among the remarkable books in the possession of the Right Hon. T. Grenville and Roger Wilbraham, Esq.; Hope's copy fetched £13. 28, and Pinkerton's £15. 158.

The author was above twenty years in India, and has given a very complete history, both natural and civil, of that country. Copies are extremely scarce in this country, and noticed by the editor of the REPERTORIUM BIBLIOGRAPHICUM 7747 VALADES (D.) Rhetorica Christiana, numerous curious plates, including plate of Sacrifices in Mexico and the phrenological Head with "F. D. Vallades, Inventor," engraved above, vellum, very scarce, 368 Perusia, 1579 Containing much valuable information respecting American ceremonies. 7748 VELDE (Van de) Memoir to accompany the map of the Holy Land, Svo. cloth, 78 Gotha, 1858 7749 VERA (Ger. di) Tre Navigationi nella Norvegia, Muscovia, e Tartaria verso il Catai, e Regno de' Sini; la Nuova Zembla et la Groenlandia, tradotte da Giunio, sq. 8vo. maps and curious engravings, one of which is in red ink, some leaves stained at the end, bds. 12s Venet. 1599

A copy fetched at one of Libri's recent sales, 29 fr.

7750 VIAGGI fatti da Vinetia, alla Tana, in Persia, in India, et in Constantinopoli; con la Descrittione di Città, Costumi, e della ultima Impresa contra Portoghesi, 12mo. old calf gilt, 20s; or hf. morocco, fine copy, 36s

I sold a copy in 1862, for £3. 10s; Dr. Hawtrey's fetched, in 1853, £2.

"Recueil peu commun; il contient deux ouvrages de Josaphat Barbaro, un d'Ambrogio

Vinegia, Aldus, 1545 Contarini, deux d'Aluigi, et deux sans nom d'auteur. La ré-impression, 1545, est plus belle que l'édition originale, 1543."-Brunet.

7751 VIAGGI di tre vescovi Francesi ai regni della Cina, Cocincina e Tonchino, 16mo. vellum, 5s

Roma, 1669

7752 VOGUE, (le Comte) les Eglises de la Terre Sainte, 4to. maps, plans, and plates, 368

Paris, 1860

7753 Vossius de Nili et aliorum fluminum origine, cum Appendice ad scriptum de naturâ Lucis, sm. 4to. calf, 58 Hagae, 1666 7754 WALCKENAER, Géographie ancienne historique et comparée des Gaules Cisalpine et Transalpine, 2 vols. 8vo. text, and impl. 4to. atlas with 9 maps, hf. russia, 15s Paris, 1839 7755 WALDECK (Fred. de) Voyage Pittoresque et Archéologique dans la Province d'YUCATAN, Amèrique Centrale, en 1834 et 1836, impl. folio, VELLUM PAPER, map and 22 plates, those of Mexican Antiquities and of Costume beautifully coloured, hf. morocco, uncut, £4. 10s Paris, 1838 Only a few copies of this fine book were lished at 8 guineas in parts. A Vocabulary of executed with coloured plates; they were pub- the Maya language concludes the work.

7756 WALLACE (A. R.) Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, 8vo. map and illustrations, cloth, 6s 6d

1853

1828

7757 WARD'S MEXICO in 1827, 2 vols. 8vo. two large maps and twelve fine plates, hf. russia gilt, 158 7758 WARDEN, Chronologie Historique de L'AMÉRIQUE, 10 vols. 8vo. half calf gilt, £3. Paris, 1826-44 This forms Vols. IX-XVIII of the Art de vérifier les Dates. 7759 WARHAFFTER, KLARER, EIGENTLICHER, BERICHT Von der weiten, wunderbarer, und nie bevor gethaner Reiss oder Schiffart, bis in India gegen der Sonnen Auffgang gelegen, aus Niderländischer Spraach bracht durch Conrad Lew, sq. 8vo. map of the two Hemispheres, sd. 30s Cölln, 1598

This extremely rare book appears to be unknown to the bibliographers; it is probably a translation of the Dutch work published in 1598,

and which is mentioned in Brunet under the heading of " Descriptio."

7760 WEST- UNND OST- INDISCHER LUSTGART: Erzehlung wann die Newe Welt erfunden, etc. worden, sq. 8vo. vellum, 78 6d Cöllen, 1618 7761 WILKES (C.) UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION, during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842, 5 vols. and atlas, imp. 8vo. LARGE PAPER, numerous fine plates, woodcuts, and maps, cloth, £4. 14s 6d

Philadelphia, 1845

The first issue of the work, in imperial 8vo. and of which only a limited number were printed. 7762 WILKINSON (Sir Gardner) Dalmatia and Montenegro, with journey to, Mostar in Herzegovina, etc. 2 vols. 8vo. fine copy, maps and cuts, ( pub. at £2. 2s), cloth, 12s

1848

7763 WILSON'S Lands of the BIBLE visited and described, 2 vols. 8vo. maps and illustrations, (pub. 368) cloth, 188 Edinb. 1847

7764 WILSON (R. A.) New History of the Conquest of Mexico, roy. 8vo. many woodcuts, cloth, 98 Philadelphia, 1859

1865

A work full of new and striking views, antagonistic to Prescott. 7765 WOOD'S History of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia, 2 vols. frontispiece, (pub. 28s) cloth, 188 7766 XERES (Fr.) Libro primo de la CONQUISTA DEL PERU et provincia del Cuzco de le Indie Occidentali (on second leaf:) tradotta in lingua Italiana per Dominico del Gaztelu, sq. 8vo. hds. £4. Vinegia, Steph da Sabio, 1535 VERY RARE. COLLATION: Title, with large woodcut of imperial arms.

7767 TRACTS. A bundle of 32 pieces, 4to. and Svo. including miscellaneous works and pamphlets relating to all parts of the world, North West Passage, etc. with a large number of curious old Maps, including one of Virginia, 1776, 20s 1750-1850

ORIENTAL LITERATURE.

For the Transactions of all Oriental Societies, see ante, Class Periodicals, pp. 61-125.

ORIENTAL HISTORY AND TRAVELS.

Works on Assyria, China, Egypt, India, Japan, and Turkey are grouped separately at the end of this division.

7768 ABU-MOHAMMED ASSALEH, Historia dos Soberanos Mohametanos da Mauritania, (Sec. XIII-XIV.) traduzida de Arabe por J. de Santo Antonio Moura, sq. 8vo. cloth, scarce, 22s

Lisboa, 1828 This is considered the greatest and most authoritative Arabic work on Moorish History. 7769 ABULGASI, Histoire Généalogique des Tatars, traduite du MS. Tartare par (Bentinck), stout 12mo. 824 pp. and 2 folding maps, 78 6d Leyde, 1726 7770 Alphabets: BALLHORN's Alphabete Orientalischer und Occidentalischer Sprachen, roy. 4to. 70 Alphabets, a Manual of Reference to the Alphabets of Ancient and Modern Languages, with ample and valuable information on the nature and mechanism of each, sd. 6s Leipzig, 1866 7771 ALPHABETA varia, ex typis Congregationis de Propagandâ Fide, 2 stout vols. 12mo. sd. 12s Roma, 1771-97 (1820)

Containing the following pieces :-Alpha- | opicum (Gheez et Amharicum); Arabicum; betum Græcum ; Grandonico-Malabaricum; Armenum; Barmanum; Barmanum, editio Hebraicum; Alphabeta Indica (Granthamicum, emendatior; Brammhanicum seu Indostanum; Indostanum, Nagaricum et Talinganicum); Cophtum sive Ægyptiacum. Persicum; Syro-Chaldæum; Tibetanum; Æthi

7772 ANDERSON (J.) Political and Commercial Considerations relative to the Malayan Peninsula and the British Settlements in the Straits of Malacca, 2 parts in 1 vol. sm. 4to. bds. 20s Prince of Wales Island, 1824 7773 Asiatic Society of Bengal: JOURNAL of the ASIATIC SOCIETY of BENGAL, complete from the beginning in 1832 to 1864, Nos. 1-296, being Vols. IXXXIII, 8vo. with all the numerous plates and Tables of Contents, QUITE UNCUT, excessively rare both in India and Europe, £40. Calcutta, 1832-64 All the early volumes are out of print in sent to India in vain to procure the absent parts, Calcutta, and sell there at exorbitant prices. while in my establishment-next door, almost Yet the great library of the Royal Society has Vols. I, and II., only in an imperfect state; and the administration is so penny-wise, that it has 7774 ASSEMANI (S. E.) Bibliotheca Medicea Laurentianæ et Palatinæ CoDICUM MSS. ORIENTALIUM Catalogus, folio, with 26 folding leaves of facsimiles, beautifully bound in calf extra, by Clarke, £2. Florentiæ, 1742 7775 BABER. Memoirs of Zehir-ed-din Muhammed Baber, Emperor of Hindustan, written by himself in the Jaghatai Turki, translated by Leyden and Erskine, 4to. map, a little stained, hf. bd. 36s; or, fine copy in calf gilt, from the Hon. Hugh Lindsay's library, £2. 5s 1826

they might be obtained for an adequate and reasonably moderate outlay, considering the extraordinary rarity of these volumes.

"One of the most instructive, and, to well | lications of the present age."-Sir Jas. Macprepared minds, one of the most interesting pub- kintosh.

7776 BADGER's Nestorians and their Rituals; Researches into the condition of the Syrian Jacobites, Papal Syrians, and Chaldeans, and the Religious Tenets of the Yezeedees (Devil Worshippers), 2 vols. 8vo. ports. map, and 36 engravings, (pub. at 368) cloth, 10s

1852

7777 BASTIAN'S Volker des Oestlichen Asien: Geschichte der Indo-Chinesen ; Reisen in Birma, 1861-62, 2 vols. 8vo. sd. 9s

A most complete work upon Burmah and Siam.

Leipzig, 1866

7778 BIRD (James) Historical Researches on the Origin and Principles of the Bauddha and Jaina Religions; embracing the leading Tenets of their System, with Accounts of the Sculptures in the Caves of Western India, folio, 54 plates of Buddhistic Monuments, Inscriptions, and Coins, of which 17 are COLOURED, hf. morocco, gilt edges, £2. 10s Bombay, 1847

7779 BOCHARTI OPERA OMNIA: Phaleg, Chanaan et Hierozoicon, ed. Leusden et Villemandy, 3 vols. in 2, folio, portrait and maps, fine copy in vellum,

28s

Lugd. Bat. 1692

7780 BOHLEN de Buddhismi origine et ætate, 12mo. sd. 28 6d; or, hf. bd. 5s

Regim. ca. 1830 7781 BRETON'S Vocabulary of Medical and Technical terms in English, Arabic, Persian, Hindee and Sanscrit, 4to. 3 parts in 1 vol. each of the five languages figured in Roman, in Nagari, and in Persian characters, water stained, bd. 98; or, a good copy in hf. calf, uncut, 12s 6d Calcutta, 1825 7782 BROWN (C. P.) An Ephemeris, showing the corresponding dates according to the English, Hindu and Musulman Calendars, from A.D. 1751 until 1850, thick roy. 8vo. hf. bd. 25s Madras, 1850 7783 BRYDGES (Sir H. J.) Dynasty of the Kajars, the reigning Royal Family of Persia, translated from the Persian MS., with a succinct account of Persian History, 8vo. maps and plate, (pub. 24s) cloth, 58; or, calf gilt, 78 6d 1833 7784 BURNOUF, Introduction à l'Histoire du Bouddhisme Indien, Vol. I, roy. 4to. (all published) sd. 36s Paris, 1844 7785 CASTELLI (E.) LEXICON HEPTAGLOTTON: Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Samaritanum, Ethiopicum, Arabicum et Persicum, 2 vols. royal folio, portrait, slightly stained, a good serviceable copy, bound, £2. 108 London, 1699

The adjunct to Walton's Polyglott Bible.

7786 CATALOGUE des MANUSCRITS et Xylographes Orientaux de la Bibliotheque Impériale publique de ST. PETERSBOURG (par DORN), stout roy. 8vo. an excellent catalogue of Oriental Literature, with Indexes of Books and Authors, xliv. and 719 pp. presentation copy, hf. morocco, 30s St. Pétersb. 1852 7787 CELSII Hierobotanicon, sive de Plantis Sacræ Scripturæ, 2 vols. 8vo. vellum, RARE, £2. 10s * Amst. 1748 A very learned work, rich in Arabic, Hebrew, and Greek citations. 7788 CHAMICH, History of Armenia, translated from the Armenian, with continuation by Avdall, 2 vols. 8vo. map and 79 plates, (pub. at 21s) 12s

Calcutta, 1827 7789 CHARDIN (Jean) Voyages en PERSE et autres lieux de l'Orient, nouvelle edition augmentée du Couronnement de Soliman II, etc. 4 vols. 4to. BEST EDITION, portrait and plates, beautiful copy in olive MOROCCO extra, gilt edges, from Baron Dimsdale's library, £4. 158 Amst. 1735

7790

Marked by James Bohn, £4. 4s. Fetched, 1855, Sotheby's, morocco, £4. 88. le même, nouvelle édition, avec des notes par L. LANGLÈS, 10 vols. 8vo. and imperial folio Atlas, containing portrait, map and 83 plates, £3. 38 Paris, 1811 1811

7791 the same, 10 vols. 8vo. without Atlas, hf. russia, 7s 6d "Among the many travellers who have as it were, to a knowledge of Persia. He made thrown light on the Persian empire, Chardin long and repeated visits thither; he traversed has always been considered as the one to whom it in length and breadth, from the Caspian to the Europe is most indebted. He devoted his life, ocean."-. Murray's Asia. 7792 CHÉNIER, Recherches sur les Maures, et histoire de Maroc, 3 vols. 8vo. maps, an interesting work, hf. calf, 58 Paris, 1787 7793 CHURCHILL'S MOUNT LEBANON: a Ten Years Residence, from 1842 to 1852, describing the Manners, Customs, etc. of its Inhabitants, with an Account of the Druze Religion, and Historical Records of the Mountain Tribes, by COLONEL CHURCHILL, Staff Officer of the British Expedition to Syria; third edition, 3 vols. 8vo. large folding MAP of the Mountain Range of the Lebanon, as surveyed by the British expedition, 1840; Portraits of Emir Beshir Shehaab, late Prince of the Lebanon; of Sheikh Ameenadeen; of the Patriarch of the Maronites; Views of Howarra, seat of Colonel Churchill; of Muchtara, seat of Said Jumblatt; and of Ebte