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[WILLIAM CAREY (1761-1834) AND SIR CHARLES D'OYLY, 7TH BT. (1781-1845), printers]
Remarks on the Philippine Islands and on their Capital Manila. 1819-1822. By an Englishman. Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, Circular Road; and sold by Messrs. W. Thacker and Co. St. Andrew's Library, 1828. 8° ( 216 x 133mm), 2 folding maps and 1 folding view. (Circular library stamp neatly excised from title and closed, frontispiece map neatly cut, without loss, at bottom margin, short tear at fold of second map, small loss in inner margin of last leaf not affecting text, light browning on first and last few leaves.) 20th-century quarter calf, spine ruled in gilt, ruled and tooled in brown, with green morocco label. Provenance: pencilled pressmark on pastedowns.
FIRST EDITION. William Carey established a Mission Press in Serampore in 1800. W.H. Pearce, who had trained at the Clarendon Press, came to Serampore in 1817, and associated with William Ward, the Serampore printer and colleague of Carey and Joshua Marshman. Pearce sought to emulate Ward's work and opened the Baptist Mission Press at Calcutta in 1818. The press remained active until the early 1970s. The view and frontispiece map were printed at the Asiatic Lithographic press, perhaps under the supervision of Charles D'Oyly before he set up his Behar Amateur Lithographic Press.
J. DE MAN
Souvenirs d'un Voyage aux Iles Philippines. Antwerp: Stockmans & Moerincx, 1875. 8° (214 x 145mm). 8 TIPPED-IN PHOTOGRAPHS, 5 of these portraits (c.75 x c.55mm), and 3 of ?lithographed scenes. (Occasional light spotting.) Publisher's red pebble-grain cloth, sides panelled in gilt and blind (joints cracked, light soiling, spotting to endpapers), modern buckram slipcase. Provenance: pressmarks on pastedowns.
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'A Monsieur N. de Keyser. L'auteur J. de Man Anvers Juin 1875'. De Man travelled to Manila from Port Said, via Ceylon.
Remarks on the Philippine Islands and on their Capital Manila. 1819-1822. By an Englishman. Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, Circular Road; and sold by Messrs. W. Thacker and Co. St. Andrew's Library, 1828. 8° ( 216 x 133mm), 2 folding maps and 1 folding view. (Circular library stamp neatly excised from title and closed, frontispiece map neatly cut, without loss, at bottom margin, short tear at fold of second map, small loss in inner margin of last leaf not affecting text, light browning on first and last few leaves.) 20th-century quarter calf, spine ruled in gilt, ruled and tooled in brown, with green morocco label. Provenance: pencilled pressmark on pastedowns.
FIRST EDITION. William Carey established a Mission Press in Serampore in 1800. W.H. Pearce, who had trained at the Clarendon Press, came to Serampore in 1817, and associated with William Ward, the Serampore printer and colleague of Carey and Joshua Marshman. Pearce sought to emulate Ward's work and opened the Baptist Mission Press at Calcutta in 1818. The press remained active until the early 1970s. The view and frontispiece map were printed at the Asiatic Lithographic press, perhaps under the supervision of Charles D'Oyly before he set up his Behar Amateur Lithographic Press.
J. DE MAN
Souvenirs d'un Voyage aux Iles Philippines. Antwerp: Stockmans & Moerincx, 1875. 8° (214 x 145mm). 8 TIPPED-IN PHOTOGRAPHS, 5 of these portraits (c.75 x c.55mm), and 3 of ?lithographed scenes. (Occasional light spotting.) Publisher's red pebble-grain cloth, sides panelled in gilt and blind (joints cracked, light soiling, spotting to endpapers), modern buckram slipcase. Provenance: pressmarks on pastedowns.
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'A Monsieur N. de Keyser. L'auteur J. de Man Anvers Juin 1875'. De Man travelled to Manila from Port Said, via Ceylon.
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