China
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# 42472
Van Gulik, Robert (1910-1967)
The given day : an Amsterdam mystery.
Kuala Lumpur : Art Printing Works, 1964. First edition. Octavo, pictorial wrappers (canted, lightly marked, glue marks to gutters of endpapers); pp. 132, with illustrations by the author; a very good copy (without the production fault found in other copies on pp.21-30). Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) was a Dutch orientalist, diplomat, musician, and writer. He …
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# 45937
T'ONG, Ting-kü (1832-1892)
全 集 語 英 (Ying u Tsap Ts’un) or The Chinese and English Instructor
Canton : 1862. Six volumes (complete), tall octavo (279 x 153mm), original stitched wrappers (the first volume lacking the lower wrapper), printed title labels (with remnants on a few volumes), some rubbing and light stains; text in English and Chinese; text blocks folded in fukurotoji style, housed in original wooden boards (one crack repaired) titled …
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# 46762
FAR EASTERN REVIEW
Political railway map of China
[Shanghai] : Far Eastern Review, circa 1914. Map, printed in colour, 520 x 425 mm (sheet), a couple of small chips and edges and small stains lower left, showing the railways of China which are operational, under construction, contracted for, and projected, under French, Belgian, Russian, British, German, Japanese, American and Chinese control. The train …
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# 46474
MORRISON, Robert (1782–1834)
五車韻府 A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, by the Rev. R. Morrison, D. D.
Shanghae : London Mission Press; London : Trübner & Co., 1865. Second edition. Two volumes, octavo, contemporary half-russet roan over marbled papered boards, spines in compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt, shelf labels to foot of spines, light edge wear, shelf marks to front pastedowns and title pages, pp. ix; [blank]; 224, 224-239, 239 …
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# 45888
HUC, Évariste Régis, Abbé (1813-1860)
Manuscript letter written by Abbé Huc, sent from Macau in November 1846, addressed to his parents in Toulouse and reporting on his just-completed epic journey through Tartary and Tibet.
Macao, 1er. Novembre 1846. Entire letter, manuscript in ink on a single folio sheet of Chinese paper, folded to form 4 pages, written on 3½ pages; the panel on the outer side addressed to ‘Monsieur Huc, Rue Pargaminières 73, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne’, circular postal markings in black ‘Paris 8 Janv. 47’ and ‘Toulouse 11 Janv. 47’; …
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# 38432
LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van (1563-1611)
Histoire de la Navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois, aux Indes Orientales.
Contenant diverses descriptions des lieux jusques à présent descouverts par les Portugais: observations des Coustumes & singularitez de delà, & autres declarations … … Troisieme édition, augmentée. Amsterdam: Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638. Three parts in one volume, folio (310 x 200 mm), contemporary mottled calf (rubbed), spine in compartments with ornate gilt decoration and lettering; edges speckled …
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# 46811
WESLEYAN METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY
The Orient Missionary Exhibition, in the Central Hall, Academy Street, Cork, March 25th to 29th, 1912.
Cork [Ireland] : Eagle Printing Works, 1912. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), original pictorial wrappers (chipped at corner and spine ends, mild edge wear) pp. 28; with b/w photographic illustrations, advertisements; internally clean, a very good copy. The title is somewhat misleading, since as well as exhibits from China, India and Ceylon, the exhibition included …
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# 46355
M. STERNGERG & TURCO-EGYPTIAN TOBACCO STORE (publishers)
Group of five chromolithographic postcards with views of Hong Kong, early 1900s.
I. M. Sternberg, publisher. Hongkong Star Ferry Wharf. II. M. Sternberg, publisher. View of Peak Buildings and Roads, Hongkong. III. M. Sternberg, publisher. Queen’s Road Central and Chinese New Year Decorations, Hongkong. IV. Turco-Egyptian Tobacco Store, publisher. Hongkong. Resting Place of the highest spot of the Peak. V. Turco-Egyptian Tobacco Store, publisher. The Peak of …
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# 46646
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Minute of the Committee of the Church Missionary Society on the present state and future prospects of China
[London] : Church Missionary Society, 1853. T. C. Johns, Printer. Octavo, pamphlet, self-wrappers (lightly foxed), pp. 15; [blank]. An appeal for additional resources (funds and missionaries) to extend the work of the Church Missionary Society into the interior of China, with greater access now granted to the missionaries. It notes ‘We have never had more …
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# 46347
MEINERS, C. (Christoph) (1747-1810)
[BIOLOGICAL RACISM] Betrachtungen über die Fruchtbarkeit, oder Unfruchtbarkeit, über den vormahligen und gegenwärtigen Zustand der vornehmsten Länder in Asien,
von C. Meiners…. [=Observations on fertility and sterility in the ancient and present states of the main regions of Asia]. Lübeck und Leipzig : im Verlage bey Bohn und Compagnie, 1795-96. Two volumes, octavo (195 x 125 mm), matching contemporary bindings of marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed, first volume with small paper loss, otherwise very …
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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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# 46371
SPENDER, Stephen; HOCKNEY, David
China diary
New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1982. First edition. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 200, illustrated. A fine copy of the first edition of Spender and Hockney’s illustrated tour of China.
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# 46400
LOVIOT, Fanny Mme.
[MARITIME; CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH] De chinesiske sjöröfvarne: Reseminnen.
Öfvers. från franskan af M.Wester. Gefle [Gavle], Sweden : Hjalmar Ewerlöf, [1865]. Octavo, contemporary half morocco over pebbled red cloth (lightly rubbed, corners bumped), spine with gilt ornament and lettering (head with small amount of loss), original owner’s inscription to free-endpaper dated 1865, [4], 126 pp, a good copy. Text in Swedish. Swedish translation of …
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# 46397
GILES, Herbert A.
Chinese without a teacher.
Being a collection of easy and useful sentences in the Mandarin dialect with a vocabulary. Fifth and revised edition. Shanghai : Kelly & Walsh, 1901. Octavo, lettered papered boards, cloth spine, pp. [viii]; 67, text in Chinese and English, a few pencil annotations, but a good copy. Scarce.
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# 46001
BEDDOME, Captain R. H. (1830 - 1911)
The ferns of southern India. Being descriptions and plates of the ferns of the Madras Presidency
Madras : printed by Gantz Brothers, 1863. First edition. Quarto, half crushed morocco over cloth, edges scuffed, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt, rebacked, marbled endpapers, title page, notice to subscribers, pp. [I – creased]; xv; [blank]; 88; vii (index), extensively illustrated with 271 lithographed line illustrations of ferns, a few contemporary …
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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 …