Religiones orientales

New York: The Philosophical Library. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. xvi, 498 pages. Index. Forty-nine black and white photos and illustrations. Map of India. Frontis portrait of author. "The subtle but definite laws by which yogis perform miracles and attain complete self-mastery are explained with a scientific clarity." - Dust jacket. "His unusual life document is certainly one of the most revealing of the depths of the Hindu mind and heart, and of the spiritual wealth of India, ever to be published in the West." - Preface. Selected as one of the "100 Most Important Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century" by a committee led by Philip Zaleski on behalf of HarperSanFrancisco. Included in the book "50 Spiritual Classics" by Tom Butler-Bowdon. Unmarked with moderate wear to beige publisher's cloth. Binding sound. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Steve Jobs thought so… Leer más

Antverpiae, Ioannem Mevrsivm, 1635 Book. Good. Soft cover. Latin text.; Paperback (in green morocco slipcase with gilt lettering).; 11.5 x 17.5 cm; 0.3 kg; 144 pages.; Hand written title on spine.; Used with signs of wear, namely signs of a previous bookplate removed from the rear of the front cover which also shows a pen written number on the top of the page. Slightly soiled throughout. Signs of have been re-cased in the past.; The first edition was published anonymously in Rome in 1635 ("mainly the work of Ferreira and is in fact sometimes quoted under his name, see Sommervogel (Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, Brussels, III, col. 681-2)" excerpt from Hubert Cieslik, The Case of Christovão Ferreira, Monumenta Niponica, vol. 29, no. 1, Spring 1974). After the publication of this latin edition, a French edition was published in Paris, 1635. FIRST LATIN EDITION. SCARCE. Translated from the Italian by Jean Bolland.; Describes the martyrdom of Christians in Japan from… Leer más

1696 Japanese Woodblock Chinese History Tsuzoku kanso gundan Qing Han War CHINA
A 17th century Sino-Japanese woodblock print history of the Chu-Han Contention between the Qing and Han Dynasty bound in the fukurotoji style. The Tsuzoku kanso gundan is the tale of the conflict between the chu and han after the Qing Dynasty before Liu Bang united China in 202 BC as the emperor of the Han Dynasty. It was translated into Japanese and in turn helped shape Japanese literature away from the stylized Chinese verse of scholarly attention and began considering the more mundane, as literature as well. This was done by entertaining and educating the natives of Japan about the world, specifically China, who were banned from leaving the mainland during that time period. Pastreich writes,
"Such Chinese historical novels may have appealed to Japanese readers because they covered the details of Chinese history in a lively and accessible manner, going beyond the digested and sanitized description of history to the… Leer más

1656 1ed Gospel Harmony & Life of Jesus Christ Dutch Protestant Vossius Elzevier

Gerardus Vossius was a 16th-century Dutch classical theologian known for being one of the first to treat theological dogmas and non-Christian religions from a historical point of view, rather than the more accepted theological.

This 1656 Elzevier printing of 'Harmoniae Evangelicae de Jesu Christi' is a fine first edition describing the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Item number: #7402
Price: $499
VOSSIUS, Gerardus Joannes
Gerardi Joannis Vossii Harmoniae evangelicae de passione, morte, resurrectione ac adscensione Jesu Christi servatoris nostri libri tres.
Amstelodami: Apud L. et D. Elzevirios, 1656. First edition.

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Provenance: Armorial Bookplate - Beilby Thompson of Escrick
o Beilby Thompson (1742 – 1799) was a British landowner and politician, who sat in the… Leer más

1678 CRUSADES Tasso MINIATURE Jerusalem Delivered Italian Gerusalemme Liberata

"All he regarded; but in Syria most,
He mark'd the leaders of the Christian host:
That eye, whose penetrating glances dart
To each deep secret of the human heart"
– Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, canto I

Originally written in 1575, Torquato Tasso's famous "Jerusalem Delivered" tells a mythical story of the First Crusade complete with Christian Knights battling Muslim warriors.

This 1678 edition is a very rare, miniature 17th-century printing of Torquato Tasso's 'Jerusalem Delivered' with 10 illustrated plates by Sébastien Le Clerc and an engraved half-title.
Item number: #7459
Price: $499
TASSO, Torquato
Il Goffredo, overo Gierusalemme liberata : poema heroico del sig. Torquato Tasso. Con l'allegoria universale dell istesso, et con gli argomenti del sig. Horatio Ariosti, & di bellissime figure adornato.
In Amsterdam: Nella stamperia del S.D. Elsevier. Et in Parigi si vende appresso Thomaso Jolly..., M. DC.… Leer más

New York: Abrams, 1992. First edition. Cloth bound in fine condition in very good slip-case.. Two volume in slip-case; Text volume: 336 pages; Plates volume: 176 pages with 77 full page color plates; Very heavy set, significant extra shipping will be need to ship internationally.

1800 Arabic Quran Koran Middle East ARAB Muslim Islam Persia Journal FOLIO

A rare, journal-style Arabic Quran. This curious volume features decorative borders, vignettes, and chapter headings throughout. This Quran is bound in a gold embossed Moroccan red decorative leather.

Item number: #10230
Price: $950
Quran
Quran
ca.1800
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Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh - The Sun Behind the Sun Behind the Sun; a Darshan Diary - India, Rajneesh Foundation, 1980 - 1st Edition - Hardcover with dust jacket - 615pp - 22x15 cmCondition Very Good: Dust jacket some minor damage at corners and edges, pages a bit yellowed. Otherwise almost as new, no names or writing, tight, probably unread. Only 5000 printed for this first edition.If you have any questions or want to see more pictures, feel free to ask.Your book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking number, signed & insured.

New York: E. P. Dutton, Inc., 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. E. H. Shepard. 158 pp. First edition stated, first printing. Clean, bright, square book with light rubbing to spine and just one board corner bumped, some offsetting and light toning to endpapers. Bright dust jacket is free of tears, with slight edgewear and a few minute crinkles near the edges, light rubbing where cloth meets the boards. Some slight softening at top and bottom of spine and one ~1-2mm whitened spot of wear at top of spine. Presents nicely in fresh mylar dust jacket protector. The Tao of Pooh has itself become a cultural icon and the first printing is scarce.

Kyoto: Kyoto University Scientific Mission, 1969. First edition. Cloth bound in fine condition; Box in very good condition.. 14.5" x 10.5" green cloth in double box; pp. xiv, 96, viii (List of Plates), 70 (Plates), 19 (Plans - 5 of which fold-out); Text in Japanese and English.

(4), CXLIV, 474, (2) pages with numerous woodcut head- and tail-pieces, 4 engraved plates (redrawn from those presented in the Chinese editions of the 'Book of Documents' as De Guignes found them in the Royal Library). Contemporary half calf over brown and yellow tree root marbled paper boards, flat spine richly gilt. Green gilt morocco label. Marbled edges. 4to (265 x 200 mm). Cordier BS 1376-77. Lust 727. Walravens, China illustrata 136. Löwendahl 551. First published translation of the 'Book of Documents' (Shu-ching), and also the first of the 'Five Classics' on Confucianism to be translated into an European language. The basis for the translation was a manuscript which had been sent from Peking by Antoine Gaubil (1689-1759). However de Guignes corrected the translation based on the Chinese original which was found in the Royal Library. He also filled in missing pages and extended it with his own notes. Contains a "Discours préliminaire" including a treatise on the early history of the Chinese… Leer más

Mee-seen Loong Fine Art LLC, 2014. As New. Still in publisher's shrink wrap. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.

Stated First Edition - first printing of 3,000 copies.
Red leatherette book cover like new, very slight edge wear, gilt lettering - pages clean, bright and unmarked, slight wrinkle on title and copyright pages – spine like new. Red ribbon marker.
Contained in illustrated folding box with gilt lettering, tied with red ribbons. Box shows light edge wear, small tear at one corner.
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4° (mm 250x190); pp. XII, 326. Al frontespizio, vignetta incisa raffigurante Ganesha e 32 tavole fuori testo (di cui una a doppia pagina). Nel testo, caratteri in sanscrito. Legatura coeva in piena pelle marezzata. Bell'esemplare.
First edition.
As the title well explains, the Systema Brahmanicum by the Indologist Paulinus of St. Bartholomew - valuable compendium of Brahmanism - is closely based on the collection of Indica reperta from the famous Borgia Museum in Velletri, profusely illustrated by the engravings. The volume, therefore, can be browsed as a kind of 'exegetical catalog' of the Hindu collection.The ancient Borgia Museum in Velletri, formed between the 17th and 18th centuries by the Roman branch of the Borgia family, was greatly enriched and enlarged in the second half of the 18th century by Cardinal Stefano Borgia (1731 – 1804), a man of vast culture who was a scholar of history and ethnology. The Museum, famous throughout Europe for the variety and the rarity of the reperta as well as… Leer más

First edition in French detailing superstition and the cult of witchcraft in India. Translated into French by Thomas La Grue from the Dutch.
Description: Contemprary calf, gilt titles to spine and decoration in compartments between five raised bands. Octavo: 24 × 18 cm; pp. [7] ll., 375. With an engraved frontispiece plate and seven engravings, (five of which are full-page), and one fold-out plate.
Ref.: Graesse: xi, 147
Provenance: Handwritten bookplate of Stanislaj de Guaita and a small bookseller's label of the Librairie Sainte-Marie, Moissac, on the front pastedown.
Condition: Binding scuffed and bumped, front joint starting but firm, capitals with losses. The rear flyleaf removed. Textblock a little shaken, somewhat toned, stained and waterstained throughout. Quire H (pp. 57–66) is missing. Chip to pp. 67 not affecting text, paper repair due to loss of paper in outer margin on pages 357–373, not affecting text. A burned hole with minor text loss in quire Vu. Annotations in a early hand on… Leer más