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Travel to India with our selection of rare books this week

[MINISTERE DES COLONIES].

Notices à l'usage des émigrants.

Paris, Service des renseignements commerciaux et de la colonisation, 1895-1896.

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350 €

Complete set of notices published by the Ministry of Colonies of the Third Republic.
They group zone by zone practical advice intended for the future colonists with geographical, climatic (what clothes to bring), administrative (papers to provide) indications.

Plantations in Tonkin and Annam (2 maps).
New Caledonia. (1 card)
The Senegal. (1 card)
Cochinchina. (1 card)
Obock and the Somali Coast Protectorate. (1 card)
French Congo. (1 card)
Establishments on the West Coast of Africa. (1 card)
Productions in Madagascar. (3 cards)
The Coffee Plantation in New Caledonia.
Indo-China: The Mining Regime of Annam and Tonkin.
Cocoa trees in the Congo.
The Trade of Cochinchina and Cambodia.
Import trade in New Caledonia in 1894-1895.

YRWIN, Eyles.

Voyages à la Mer Rouge, sur les cotes de l'Arabie, en Egypte, et dans les déserts de la Thébaide.

Paris, Briand, 1792.

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350 €

Second french edition.
Eyles Yrwin (1751-1817) was an Irish writer who joined the East India Company and then became the Company's superintendent in China.

[JESUITES].

Lettres édifiantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangères.

Paris, J.G. Mérigot le jeune, 1780-1783.

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3500 €

The present edition, enlarged and corrected by l'Abbé de Querbeuf, is preferred to the original, as it is arranged systematically according to geographic region : Volumes I to V relate to the Levant, VI to IX to North and South America, X to XV to India, XVI to XXIV to China, and XXV to XXVI to India and China.
Copy with the 56 plates and maps as called by Howes (L-299).
Volume VIII contains the third French printing of famous Kino map of California.

[MOIR, John] || [HASTINGS, Warren] || [SOULÈS, François].

Affaires de l'Inde depuis le commencement de la Guerre avec la France en 1756 jusqu'à la conclusion de la Paix en 1783.

Londres et Paris, Buisson, 1788.

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350 €

First edition.
Beautiful fold-out map of India, Cochinchina and the Indonesian islands.
The book recounts France's loss of influence in India during and after the Seven Years' War which saw the fall of the first French colonial empire, and India's shift to English influence.

SAURI, Jean.

Cours complet de Mathématiques.

Paris, Ruault, 1774.

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350 €

First edition.
Popularization manual by Abbot Saury, a polymath close to the encyclopedists who went into exile in India after his embattlement.
Complete work in 5 volumes and 32 plates.

[Séminaire des Missions étrangères de Paris].

Extrait des Nouvelles des missions des indes orientales.

Paris, Guillot, 1785-1787.

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150 €

First edition.
The Nouvelles des missions orientales is a Catholic publication which was published from 1785 to 1794 in five volumes.
Here the head of the series with the "Extrait des Nouvelles" published in 1785 covering the years 1783-1784 and the two volumes of the Nouvelles published in 1787 covering 1785 and 1786.

PRICHARD, James Cowles.

Histoire naturelle de l'Homme.

Paris, J-B Baillière, 1843.

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300 €

First french edition.
Translated from English by Roulin from the work The natural history of man (1843), popularization work by Prichard based on his Researches into the physical history of man.
Prichard concluded that all human races were part of the same species and originally shared the same black skin.

Complete with the 40 engravings announced (on 39 plates), most of them in color representing the different peoples of the world.

VERNE, Jules.

Les Indes noires (Le Chancellor / Martin Paz).

Paris, Hetzel, [1877-1878].

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150 €

Adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1877. It tells the story of a group of men who find themselves stranded in a coal mine in Scotland.

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Eric Zink antiquarian bookseller. Old and Rare Books

Our specialties : Science, Medicine and Occult

[MINISTERE DES COLONIES].

Notices à l'usage des émigrants.

YRWIN, Eyles.

Voyages à la Mer Rouge, sur les cotes de l'Arabie, en Egypte, et dans les déserts de la Thébaide.

Second french edition.Eyles Yrwin (1751-1817) was an Irish writer who joined the East India Company and then became the Company's superintendent in China.

[JESUITES].

Lettres édifiantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangères.

[MOIR, John] || [HASTINGS, Warren] || [SOULÈS, François].

Affaires de l'Inde depuis le commencement de la Guerre avec la France en 1756 jusqu'à la conclusion de la Paix en 1783.

First edition.Beautiful fold-out map of India, Cochinchina and the Indonesian islands. The book recounts France's loss of influence in India during and after the Seven Years' War which saw the fall of the first French colonial empire, and India's shift to English influence.

SAURI, Jean.

Cours complet de Mathématiques.

First edition. Popularization manual by Abbot Saury, a polymath close to the encyclopedists who went into exile in India after his embattlement. Complete work in 5 volumes and 32 plates.

[Séminaire des Missions étrangères de Paris].

Extrait des Nouvelles des missions des indes orientales.

PRICHARD, James Cowles.

Histoire naturelle de l'Homme.

VERNE, Jules.

Les Indes noires (Le Chancellor / Martin Paz).

Adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1877. It tells the story of a group of men who find themselves stranded in a coal mine in Scotland.

Second french edition.
Eyles Yrwin (1751-1817) was an Irish writer who joined the East India Company and then became the Company's superintendent in China.

First edition.
Beautiful fold-out map of India, Cochinchina and the Indonesian islands.
The book recounts France's loss of influence in India during and after the Seven Years' War which saw the fall of the first French colonial empire, and India's shift to English influence.

First edition.
Popularization manual by Abbot Saury, a polymath close to the encyclopedists who went into exile in India after his embattlement.
Complete work in 5 volumes and 32 plates.