Sale 2488 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 16, 2018

237 235 c   (PRESTER JOHN.) Mexía, Pedro. Relatione. Del Grande Imperator dell’Ethiopia, da noi detto volgarmente il Prete Ianni e de’ Costumi delle sue Genti. [4] leaves. 4to, 213x160 mm, modern drab wrappers; contents browned, fore edge of title ragged. Roma: Domenico Antonio Ercole, 1684 [100/200] Brief account of the legendary Christian King of Ethiopia, translated from Mexía’s 1540 Silva de Varia Lección. OCLC and SBN locate only the copy at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Rome. 236 c   (SIAM.) Relacion de lo sucedido en el Reyno de Sian, El Año de [16]88. muerte de el Rey, y su balido, y entrada de los Francezes en aquel Reyno. Printed on Asian paper. [18] leaves. Folio, 297x217 mm, early 20th-century leather, front cover partly faded; paper brittle with some marginal chipping and tears not affecting text. [Philippines, 19th century?] [100/200] Facsimile(?) of an apparently unpublished Spanish manuscript on the 1688 revolution in Siam. 237 c   TURNER, SAMUEL. An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet; containing a Narrative of a Journey through Bootan, and Tibet . . . Second Edition. 13 etched plates, including folding table of Tibetan characters; folding map. xxviii, 473 pages. 4to, 292x237 mm, contemporary calf, quite worn, rebacked; varying toning of text and offsetting from engraved matter, scattered minor stains, ink accession number on title verso. Early 19th-century bookplates of the Library Company of Baltimore on front pastedown; small embossed stamp of the Peabody Institute on title and plates. London:W. Bulmer and Co. for G. andW. Nicol, 1806 [800/1,200] First published in 1800, “Turner’s Account . . . was the first eye-witness report on Tibet and Bhutan to be published in English.The book remained the only account of those countries available to English readers until the publication in 1876 of the journals of George Bogle and Thomas Manning.Through the editions that quickly followed in French (1800), German (1801), and Italian (1817), the book had a considerable impact on the European imagination” (ODNB). 238 c   VINDEL, PEDRO. Biblioteca Oriental. Comprende 2,747 Obras relativas a Filipinas, Japón, China y otras Partes de Asia y Oceanía. 15 folding plates; numerous text illustrations. [2], 436; [2], 251, [1] pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, 194x134 mm, contemporary tree sheep with leather lettering pieces, stain along fore edge of Volume 2 front cover; contents clean. Madrid: P.Vindel, 1911-12 [100/200]