Vient de paraître : LA COLLECTION DUTUIT LIVRES ET MANUSCRITS Superbe volume in folio de 4 ff. préliminaires, 328 pages et 42 planches hors texte en noir et en couleurs Tirage limité à 350 exemplaires numérotés, Prix de l'exemplaire La Bibliothèque formée depuis plus de soixante ans par M. M. Eugène et Auguste Dutuit est une des plus importantes et des plus célèbres qui existent en France. Elle se compose d'admirables manuscrits, de nombreux incunables et raretés typographiques, d'ouvrages ornés de figures, de livres de littérature des XV®, XVI© et XVII© siècle et de volumes dans de magnifiques reliures avec ou sans armoiries. Ce catalogue contient la description raisonnée de 789 ouvrages; il renferme de nombreuses et importantes notices bibliographiques sur beaucoup d'ouvrages d'une grande rareté. Imprimé avec le plus grand luxe par L. 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To which is added a descriptive Catalogue of each Print; together with the names of those for whom, and the places for which, the original Pictures were first painted (taken from the handwriting of Claude at the back of each drawing), and of the present possessors of many of the Original Pictures. 3 vols. folio (pub. at £31. 10s), morocco, £10. 10s Boydell (1819) Early impressions before Bohn worked the coppers. Collations: BRY (de) Voyages, in German; Collation of the first editions, 2 leaves, folio, suitable for binding with the work, 78 6d HULSIUS' Voyages, Collation of, 8 pages, sm. 4to. printed for binding with the work, 78 6d East India Company: The Register of Letters of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies, edited by Sir GEORGE BIRDWOOD (1603-1618), Svo. above 500 pp., cloth, £2. 28 This important contribution to the History of English enterprise in the East is very nearly out of print; only 210 copies were printed for sale. "It is customary to say of a book such as this that it is more interesting than any novel. if this volume of correspondence may not be to that extent enthralling to the majority, to the few who are interested in the extremely picturesque beginnings of our Indian Empire it will be found most fascinating. Nor could it have fallen into better hands for editing than into those of Sir George Birdwood. Briefly, it is The Register of Letters, etc.,' of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies. It is the first Letter-Book and Register of the 'London,' or 'Old' East India Company, and its value lies in the early date and value of the documents which it contains. It reveals the manner in which the Company grew into importance from its very earliest stages, because of the letters which it contains over one-fourth are of the first six years (1600 to 1606) of the existence of The London East India Company,' usually called The Old East India Company.' Covering this period there are, according to Sir George Birdwood, only fifty-four original manuscripts in the India Office, and of this number forty-eight are here included. They carry the history of the Company on in uninterrupted sequence from the formation of the London Company, in 1600, down to its absorption in the English Company trading to the East Indies' in 1709, a period which Sir George Birdwood divides into three well-marked subperiods, which may be quoted as showing what few people understand-viz. the different associations which are vaguely grouped together as the 'East India Company. The first, from 1600 to 1623, the date of the Massacre of Amboyna,' during which the Company pushed its trade in the East Indies under the greatest difficulties, but without exciting much popular attention; the second, from 1623 to 1660, during which, partly in consequence of the national solicitude aroused by the massacre of the Company's agents at Amboyna, a geneal competition was rapidly developed throughout the country for a participation in the commerce of the East Indies; and the third and last, 1890 from 1600 to 1709, during which this disastrous rivalry at length resulted in the amalgamation of the 'London' or ' Old,' and the English' or "New,' Companies, in the United Company of Merchants of England trading into the East Indies,' commonly known as The Honourable East India Company,' whose great commercial empire was sequestrated to the British Crown in 1858. Încidentally, apart from the insight which they give into the commercial transactions of the day, these letters give a most delightful insight into the relations which existed between the Company and its employés, one of whom writes home most pathetically to tell how business suffers through his having fallen under the influence of some dark-eyed Eastern beauty. In fact, throughout the letters show a strong, even devout, sense of the responsibility which Company and servants alike felt in each other's welfare, for at the time of its foundation the feudal traditions of the affiliation of servants to their masters had scarcely become obsolete in England. Sir George Birdwood would like to see a Walter Besant make this period the background for a series of historical stories, and it needs little or no effort of the imagination to see how picturesque a setting might be made; for, apart from the romance which is always supposed to cloud about Oriental countries and doings, there is something which lends itself well to romantic treatment in these typical Englishmen of the period implanted in the midst of such surroundings-rather susceptible, very pious, and laboriously conscientious, keeping open house and table for the entertainment of passing European travellers, who afterwards abused them for their extravagant hospitality. Every credit is due to the editor, and also to the publisher, for the admirable way in which the book has been produced, especially when it is remembered that it could only have been produced from public-spirited motives, and at a financial loss."-The Graphic, April 15th, 1893. 6 This first letter-book of the Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies' presents a life-like picture of the manners, customs, thoughts, feelings, and aspirations of our countrymen in the days of Elizabeth and James I."-The Athenæum, May 27th, 1893. Entomology: DISTANT'S RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA: A Description of the Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula, complete in twelve parts royal 4to., with 44 coloured plates, containing several hundred specimens, £3. 38 the same, royal 4to. hf. bd. morocco, gilt top, £4. 4s 1882-86 1882-86 In this work is given a Monographic Revision and Synonymic Catalogue of the BUTTERFLIES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA, including the Islands of Penang and Singapore. 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DONOVAN'S NATURAL HISTORY of the INSECTS of China, with Indexes according to the Systems of Linnæus and Fabricius, new edition, with additions by Westwood, roy. 4to. 50 coloured plates containing 220 figures (sells £5), half red morocco, scarce, £3. 38 The coppers have been sold for old metal. 1842 Evans (A. J.) Antiquarian Researches in Illyricum, 4 parts in 2, 4to. 272 pp. maps and engravings of Roman Inscriptions, £1. Westminster Society of Antiquaries, 1883-5 Very rare; very few copies were printed separately from the Archæologia. |