China & the Philippines
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# 41812
FABER, Ernst
Introduction to the science of Chinese religion.
A critique of Max Müller and other authors. Hong Kong : Lane, Crawford & Co. and Shanghai : Kelly & Walsh, [1879]. Printed at the “China Mail” office in Hong Kong. Octavo, lettered card wrappers (expert repairs to spine, some chips and marks), pp. [iv]; xii; 151. A rare tract by the German missionary Ernst …
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# 45932
[BAKER, Henry George]
[FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] Small archive of Masonic documents associated with Lodges in Hong Kong, 1890s-1930s.
A group of five original documents that chart the history of Henry George Baker as a Freemason in Hong Kong. Baker arrived in Hong Kong from Bristol in 1882 and worked in the Hong Kong Police Force until 1913, when he retired at the age of 52 with the rank of Chief Inspector. I. Grand …
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# 45926
[CHATER, C. P.; GOWER, S. J.; COX, G. C.; GRANT, C.; YOUNG, W.]
[FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] Memorandum and Articles of Association of The Hongkong Masonic Club, Limited.
Board of Directors: C. P. Chater, Esq., S. J. Gower, Esq., G. C. Cox, Esq., C. J. Grant, Esq., Dr. Wm. Young. Bankers: The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. Solicitors: Messrs. Wotton & Deacon. Hongkong : Kelly & Wash, Limited, 1886. Small octavo (180 x 125 mm), original sewn green wrappers (some faint foxing), pp. …
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# 17345
MEADOWS, Thomas Taylor (1815-1868)
Translations from the Manchu, with the original texts, prefaced by an Essay on the Language.
Canton : S. Wells Williams, 1849. Octavo, contemporary wrappers pasted over the original printed wrappers, spine with early manuscript title ‘Manchu Language’, sewn as issued, the Sir Thomas Phillipps copy inscribed “MHC” and with shelf-mark in ink on inside of upper cover, 1 leaf with the title in Manchu and Chinese, printed on yellow paper, facing the English title, …
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# 46110
CHINA INLAND MISSION. YOUNG PEOPLE'S BRANCH.
China Inland Mission collection box, circa 1920.
[London : CIM, c.1920]. Wooden box, 115 x 77 x 55 mm, with chromolithographic labels to three sides, the two larger illustrated labels both headed ‘COMRADESHIP FOR CHINA’ and with subheadings ‘YOUNG PEOPLE’S BRANCH OF THE CHINA INLAND MISSION’ and ‘TO HELP WIN THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF CHINA FOR CHRIST’; a much later label …
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# 38364
[THOMAS, Antoine, 1644-1709]
A short account of the declaration given by the Chinese Emperour Kam Hi, in the year 1700.
London : [s.n.], Printed in the year MDCCIII [1703]. Octavo (155 mm), contemporary calf, expertly rebacked; pp [28], [4 blank], 71, [1]; a few leaves with pale staining; early manuscript ex libris of the Holy Cross Abbey Library; housed in a custom morocco clamshell box. English translation of Brevis relatio eorū quæ spectant ad declarationem …
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# 29401
BOUGAINVILLE, Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien, Baron de (1781-1846)
Hyacinthe de Bougainville : autograph letter, signed, written from the harbour of Macao in 1825 during his circumnavigation in the “Thétis”.
Manuscript in brown ink, folio, 1 page; headed ‘Rade de Macao, ce 1er Janvier 1825’, the letter is to an unnamed recipient and concerns the Lazarist missionary, Lamiot; old vertical and horizontal folds (minor tears at the ends), roughened at top and bottom edges, else clean and complete, with red wax seals preserved. Rare, unpublished …
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# 42307
Valignano, Alessandro (1539-1606) et al.
Avvisi della Cina, et Giapone del fine dell’anno 1587.
Con l’arrivo de’ Signori Giapponesi nell’India. Cavati dalle lettere della Compagnia di Giesù. Ricevute il mese d’ Ottobre 1588. Con licentia de’ superiori. In Venetia, appresso i Gioliti. 1588. Small octavo (160 x 105 mm), modern quarter red morocco over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands and lettered in gilt ‘AVVISI DELLA CINA’; new …
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# 39899
GRAY, John Henry (1828-1890)
Walks in the city of Canton.
… With an itinerary. Victoria, Hongkong : De Souza & Co., 1875. Octavo, contemporary half calf over dark brown linen boards (rubbed and lightly marked, corners worn), spine with raised bands lettered and ruled in gilt (some wear to the bands, head and tail), front pastedown with full signature of the original owner, American diplomat …
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# 38392
PALMER, Aaron Haight (1779-1863)
Letter to the Hon. John M. Clayton, Secretary of State, enclosing a paper, geographical, political, and commercial, on the independent oriental nations;
and submitting a plan for opening, extending, and protecting American commerce in the East, &c. Respectfully submitted to the President and Cabinet, by Aaron Haight Palmer, Counsellor of the Supreme Court of the U.S. Published by direction of the Department of State in the National Intelligence of the 6th September, 1849. Revised, and now published with …
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# 42470
Moraes, Wenceslau de (1854-1929)
Paizagens da China e do Japão.
Lisbon : Livraria Tavares Cardoso, 1906. First edition. Octavo, later red leather with gilt-lettered spine; original colour-illustrated upper wrapper bound in (chipped and with light staining); pp. [vi], 239, [2]; with numerous half-tone photographic illustrations; text in Portuguese; a good copy.
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# 42444
HEINE, Wilhelm
Die Expedition in die Seen von China, Japan und Ochotsk unter Commando von Commodore Colin Ringgold und Commodore John Rodgers, im Auftrage der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten, unternommen in den Jahren 1853 bis 1856,
unter Zuziehung der officiellen Autoritäten und Quellen. Deutsche Original-Ausgabe von Wilhelm Heine. Leipzig : Hermann Costenoble (Band 1) / Otto Purfürst (Bände 2-3), 1858-59. Three volumes, large octavo (245 x 175 mm), uniform publisher’s bindings of blind-blocked pebbled cloth with gilt-decorated and -lettered spines (rubbed and lightly marked, spines sunned); Band 1. XX, 330 pp., …
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# 13321
Maffei, Giovanni Pietro, 1533-1603
Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI. : Selectarum item ex India epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV. Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita.
Coloniæ Agippinæ : in Officina Birckmannica, sumptibus Arnoldi Mylii, MDXCIII. [Cologne : Arnold Mylius, 1593]. Second Cologne edition. Small folio, contemporary calf with embossed armorial device to boards, ruled in blind, rebacked, spine with raised bands; edges stained blue, later endpapers, title with woodcut printer’s device, manuscript inscription lower margin; woodcut initials and tail-pieces; pp 541, …
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# 38351
de los Santos, Domingo
Vocabulario de la lengua Tagala : primera, y segunda parte.
En la primera, se pone primero el Castellano, y despues el Tagalo. Y en la segunda al contrario, que son las raices simples con sus acentos. Compuesto por nuestro hermano, Fray Domingo de los Santos ex-Definidor de la Santa Provincia de San Gregorio de Religiosos Menores Descalzos de la regular observancia de nuestro Serafico Padre …