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Die Erdkunde im Verhältniss zur Natur und zur Geschichte des Menschen, oder, Allgemeine, vergleichende Geographie : als sichere Grundlage des Studiums und Unterrichts in physikalischen und historischen Wissenschaften (v.1)
Ritter, Carl (1779-1859)
1817-1818
Consists of the 1.-3. Buch of the 12 planned.--v. 1, p. [v]. No more published of this edition. Errata: v. 2, p. 934-939. Includes bibliographical footnotes.
Die Erdkunde im Verhältniss zur Natur und zur Geschichte des Menschen, oder, Allgemeine, vergleichende Geographie : als sichere Grundlage des Studiums und Unterrichts in physikalischen und historischen Wissenschaften (v.2)
Ritter, Carl (1779-1859)
1817-1818
Consists of the 1.-3. Buch of the 12 planned.--v. 1, p. [v]. No more published of this edition. Errata: v. 2, p. 934-939. Includes bibliographical footnotes.
Travellers P & O pocket book
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
[1888]
Cover-title: P & O pocket book. Title from engraved pictorial title-leaf. Section-title, p. [9-10]: Pocket Book. 1888, with company's emblematic logo; full company title and address on verso. Firs...
The voyages & travels of the ambassadors sent by Frederick duke of Holstein, to the great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia : Began in the year M.DC.XXXIII. and finish'd in M.DC.XXXIX. Containing a compleat history of Muscovy, Tartary, Persia, and other adjacent countries. With several publick transactions reaching neer the present times; in VII. books. Whereto are added the Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo, (a gentleman belonging to the embassy) from Persia, into the East-Indies... in III. books
Olearius, Adam (1603-1671); Mandelslo, Johann Albrecht von (1616-1644); Davies, John (1625-1693)
1662
Each volume has special t.-p. Vol. 2: The voyages & travels of J. Albert de Mandelslo... into the East-Indies ... London, Printed for Tho. Dring, and J. Starkey, 1662. "He [Frederick] employ'd in th...
Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East-Indies : giving an account of the state of those countries : as also, a full relation of the five years wars between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life-time, about the succession : and a voyage made by the Great Mogul, Aureng-Zebe, with his army from Delhi to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols call'd the paradise of the Indies : together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manner and trade : to which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's seraglio, and also, of all the kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas (v.1-2)
Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste (1605-1689); Phillips, John (1631-1706); Everard, Edmund
1684-88
Each section of the work has seperate pagination. Part titles and title of volume 2, dated 1684.
Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East-Indies : giving an account of the state of those countries : as also, a full relation of the five years wars between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life-time, about the succession : and a voyage made by the Great Mogul, Aureng-Zebe, with his army from Delhi to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols call'd the paradise of the Indies : together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manner and trade : to which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's seraglio, and also, of all the kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas (v.2)
Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste (1605-1689); Phillips, John (1631-1706); Everard, Edmund
1684-88
Each section of the work has seperate pagination. Part titles and title of volume 2, dated 1684.
Historia degli imperatori Greci
Choniates, Nicetas (1140-1213); Orologi, Giuseppe (1576); Hayton Frère (1235-1314)
1562
Italian translation of his Chronike diegesis. Signatures *[sup]4 a-f[sup]4 A-Z[sup]4 Aa-Zz[sup]4 AA-ZZ[sup]4 AAa[sup]4 (C2 signed B2) Printer's device on t.p. and verso of last leaf. "Tavola di ...
shawl fragment
mid - late 18th Century
A fragment consisting of part of the border of a red shawl. The fabric is twill woven. The design consists of a repeating series of large buta motifs. The predominant colours are reds but there are...
Thangka Collection
A collection of thangka from Tibet. Part of the Georgina and Raymond Mills Collection.
shawl
1830-1850
The phala (large patterned border at each end of the shawl) has a total of eight densely patterned right-hand facing botehs, separated into compartments by a series of vertical lines between symmetric...
canting
late 19th-mid 20th Century
This copper bowl is called a tjanting or canting. It is made of a bamboo handle with a small metal cup and a thin spout, out of which the wax seeps. It is used to apply wax freehand to fabric as a re...
shawl
c. 1825
The deep phala patterned border at each end has seven buta shapes each with a symmetrical floral design with the phalia infilled around the buta shapes with stylised flowers. This is called the jhal. ...