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Price: US$128.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback, cloth spine, Batik covered boards. 32 x 20cm. 209pp, [1]. Maps on end-papers, illustrations. Number 50 of 300 copies. Rubbed to extremities, with some peeling of frabric to front board. Inside some spotting to first and last few pages, and occasionally to margins. Good only.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Price: US$193.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Golden Cockerel Press, London,1st thus 1937. 1 volume, small in-folio, 210 pp., illustrated with 6 double-page engravings, bound in publisher's cloth, original batik boards, This is the first publication, from the Bordeaux Manuscript of 1681, with an English translation from the old French by Stephanie & Denis Clark, Edited with an introduction and notes by Ashley Gibson. Jean de Lacombe traveled through Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, Ternat, Nambonne, Gounongapy, Siam, Moluccas, China in the seventeenth century. The plates are from contemporary engravings of some of the principal places visited reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indische Reyse, Amsterdam, 1676. The Maps used as end-papers are from a contemporary Mercator Atlas. The copy 62 of a limited edition of 300 copies in Perpetua Type on Arnold's hand-made paper (No 183).; with bookplate of Sir Michael Oppenheimer the noted historian
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, Bucknell, SHROP, United Kingdom
Price: US$289.86 + shipping
Description: First Thus. Limited: # 86 of 300 copies. Black cloth spine, batik covered boards. Printed in Perpetua type on Arnold's hand-made paper. Contemporary Engravings of the principal places visited reproduced from Schouten's Oost-Indische Reyse [Amsterdam, 1676]. Maps used as end papers are from a contemporary Mercator Atlas. Double page plates, double page facsimile from original manuscript. 209, [1] pp. Bookplate of Herbert Eberhard Hering, a noted German-Brazilian bibliophile and book collector, appears on the inside front paste down. The black spine has a little nicking to the top and tail of the spine. Overall in good, clean condition though. Internally clean with a few foxing spots only. Text in English. 320 x 200 mm (12½ x 7¾ inches).
Seller: Harrison-Hiett Rare Books, Richelieu, France
Price: US$310.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 41 of 300 copies. Some chipping and wear to the spine but batik cloth boards bright and fine. Interior bright and fine. Lovely map endpapers from a contemporary Mercator Atlas. Printed by Christopher and Anthony Sanford and Owen Rutter in Perpetua type on handmade paper ; Text published for the first time from the Bordeaux manuscript of 1681, translated by Stephanie and Denis Clark. Introduction and notes by Ashley Gibson. Contemporary engravings reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indische Reyse, Amsterdam 1676. Includes a facsimile of Lancombe's manuscript. Lancombe details his travels to Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, Ternat, Nambonne, Gounong Apy, Siam, Moluccas, and China, providing interesting observations and insights to modern day readers; Small Folio
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$335.90 + shipping
Description: London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. Folio . Orig. dec. cloth. (210pp.). With a facsimile, 5 contemp. double-page engrvs., and end-paper maps. Lim. ed. No.160/300. Light foxing on end-papers, otherwise a fine uncut copy.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$369.49 + shipping
Description: c. 208pp. 4to. Original cloth backed decorative cloth covered boards, slight wear to extremities. Map endpapers, black and white plates. Some scattered foxing. A very good copy. Lmited edition 300 copies.
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Lacombe, Jean de. A COMPENDIUM OF THE EAST. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1937.
Price: US$403.08 + shipping
Description: Being an account of voyages to the Grand Indies made by the Sieur Jean De Lacombe, of Quercy, formerly Captain at Arms in the service of the Company of the Indies of Holland. Now published for the first time [from the Bordeaux Manuscript of 1681] in an English translation by Stephanie & Denis Clark. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Ashley Gibson. Contemporary engravings of the principal places visited reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indishe Reyse [Amsterdam, 1676]. Pp. 210(last colophon), 5 double page plates, 1 double page facsimile, endpaper maps, notes, glossary of place names, bibliography, index; tall impl. 8v; qr. black cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, batik patterned cloth boards, the spine cloth slightly faded; fore and bottom edges uncut; bottom fore-corner of upper free endpaper slightly creased, book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper, a little faint foxing; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1937. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies. Pertelote 130.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Number 86 of 300 copies printed in Perpetua type on Arnold's hand-made paper. Contemporary Engravings of the principal places visited reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indische Reyse [Amsterdam, 1676]. Maps used as endsheets are from a contemporary Mercator Atlas. Double page plates, double page facsimile from original manuscript. 209, [1] pp. 1 vols. Small folio. Pertelote 130 Brown coth spine and batik cloth. Fine Contemporary Engravings of the principal places visited reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indische Reyse [Amsterdam, 1676]. Maps used as endsheets are from a contemporary Mercator Atlas. Double page plates, double page facsimile from original manuscript. 209, [1] pp. 1 vols. Small folio Number 86 of 300 copies printed in Perpetua type on Arnold's hand-made paper.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.