China
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![# 15571
TOURNON, Charles-Thomas (Carlo Tommaso) Maillard de (1668-1710)
[MANUSCRIPT] Copy of a report by Cardinal Maillard de Tournon sent from Macao to the Propaganda Fide, 1705; [together with] Copy of a document relating to Tournon’s imprisonment at Macao, [1707]](https://cdn.douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2017/05/15110305/2017_DSFB_1577-300x300.jpg "2017_DSFB_1577")
# 15571
TOURNON, Charles-Thomas (Carlo Tommaso) Maillard de (1668-1710); THOMAS, Antoine (1644-1709)
[MANUSCRIPTS] Copy of a report by Cardinal Maillard de Tournon sent from Macau to the Propaganda Fide, 1705; [together with] Supplicatio facta Imperatori, being a copy of a document relating to Tournon’s imprisonment at Macau, by Antoine Thomas and others [1707]
Small quarto, recent marbled papered boards with gilt lettered and decorated morocco label to upper board; front pastedown with ex libris of H.P. Kraus; manuscript in ink on wove paper with anchor watermark; pp [2 blank], [5 Report of Tournon], [4 Supplicatio facta Imperatori], [1 blank]; both documents are written in the same neat secretarial …
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![# 15565
Nicetto, Juan Bautista; Fortet, Pierre Paulle (translator)
[MANUSCRIPT] Briefue Relacion de ce qu’il y a de plus remarquable dans la grande Chine, envoyée par le R.R.P.P. Jean Baptiste Nicetto Missionaire Apostolique dans ce grand Empire, & traduitte fort fidelement de l’Espagnol en langue française.](https://cdn.douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2017/05/09145235/2017_DSFB_1528-300x300.jpg "2017_DSFB_1528")
# 15565
Nicetto, Juan Bautista; Fortet, Pierre Paulle (translator)
[MANUSCRIPT] Briefue Relacion de ce qu’il y a de plus remarquable dans la grande Chine, envoyée par le R.R.P.P. Jean Baptiste Nicetto Missionaire Apostolique dans ce grand Empire, & traduitte fort fidelement de l’Espagnol en langue française.
[Mexico, 1708]. Small quarto, old marbled papered boards; ex libris of Florencio Gavito to front pastedown; manuscript in ink in a neat contemporary hand, pp 13; colophon at the foot of the last page: ‘In Mexico, this 20th November 1708. Most faithfully translated by Pierre Paulle Fortet, currently in this city, capital of the Kingdom of New …
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![# 15625
CASTORANO, Carolus Horatii a (Carolo Orazi di), 1673-1755
[MANUSCRIPT] Jesus. Maria. Joseph. Grammatica, seu Manuductio ad Linguam Sinicam addiscendam. Absoluto Dictionario Latino-Italo-Sinico quia Deus dignatur mihi concedere adhuc Vitam, et Salutem, necessaria duxi eidem ulterius adjungere seu Grammaticam seu Manuductionem ad Linguam Sinicam facilius addiscondam, ut novi Patus Missionarii in hoc Imperis Sinensi de omnibus sufficienter sint …](https://cdn.douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2017/05/08170343/2017_DSFB_1531-300x300.jpg "2017_DSFB_1531")
# 15625
CASTORANO, Carolus Horatii a (Carolo Orazi di), 1673-1755
[MANUSCRIPT] Jesus. Maria. Joseph. Grammatica, seu Manuductio ad Linguam Sinicam addiscendam. Absoluto Dictionario Latino-Italo-Sinico quia Deus dignatur mihi concedere adhuc Vitam, et Salutem, necessaria duxi eidem ulterius adjungere seu Grammaticam seu Manuductionem ad Linguam Sinicam facilius addiscondam, ut novi Patus Missionarii in hoc Imperis Sinensi de omnibus sufficienter sint …
An extremely rare and important contemporary copy of an unpublished grammar of the Chinese language by the Franciscan missionary Father Carolus Horatii a Castorano, originally made at Peking in 1732; manuscript in Castorano’s own hand, made at Rome in 1736. [Rome, 1736]. Quarto (260 x 205 mm), original vellum covered boards (stained), spine with original manuscript in black …
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![# 15559
Abel-Rémusat, Jean-Pierre (1788-1832)
[MANUSCRIPT] Vocabularium Sinico-Latinum, characteres circiter 1700 explicatos praebens. Kalendis VIIis, CIƆ’IƆCCCX](https://cdn.douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2017/05/09142508/2017_DSFB_1513-300x300.jpg "2017_DSFB_1513")
# 15559
Abel-Rémusat, Jean-Pierre (1788-1832)
[MANUSCRIPT] Vocabularium Sinico-Latinum, characteres circiter 1700 explicatos praebens. Kalendis VIIis, CIƆ’IƆCCCX
An important Chinese-Latin dictionary in manuscript, prepared by the renowned French sinologist Abel-Rémusat (1788-1832) at the outset of his academic career. It pre-dates his first published work, Essai sur la Langue
et la Litterature Chinoise (Paris, 1811), and was possibly preparatory to his Plan d’un dictionnaire chinois (1814). -
# 15613
MORRISON, Robert (1782-1834)
Horæ sinicæ: Translations from the popular literature of the Chinese
London : Printed for Black and Parry … by C. Stower, 1812. First edition. Octavo, later half vellum over marbled papered boards, spine with earlier gilt lettered backstrip laid down; pp vi, [1 contents], 71; first page with contemporary annotation in Chinese characters in red ink; a fine copy. The Anglo-Scottish missionary and East India …
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# 15587
MORRISON, Robert (1782-1834)
Translations from the Original Chinese, with notes.
Canton [but Macau], China : Printed by order of the Select Committee; at the Honourable East India Company’s Press, by P. P. Thoms, 1815. Octavo, recent half calf over cloth boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering; pp [2], 50 [numbered without pages 9-10, as issued]; a fine copy. Only the second work published at …
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# 15610
MILNE, William (1785-1822)
A retrospect of the first ten years of the Protestant Mission to China, (now, in connection with the Malay, Denominated, the Ultra-Ganges Missions.) Accompanied with Miscellaneous Remarks on the Literature, History, and Mythology of China, &c.
Malacca : Printed at the Anglo-Chinese Press, 1820. Octavo, recent quarter calf over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands, gilt ornament and lettering; printed on Chinese paper; pp viii, 376; a fine copy. After Robert Morrison, William Milne was only the second Protestant missionary sent to China by the London Missionary Society. Milne worked in …
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![# 15611
THOMS, Peter Perring
[Hua Jian] Chinese Courtship. In Verse. To which is added, an Appendix, Treating of the Revenue of China, &c. &c.](https://cdn.douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2017/04/08174637/2017_DSFB_1392-300x300.jpg "2017_DSFB_1392")
# 15611
THOMS, Peter Perring
[Hua Jian] Chinese Courtship. In Verse. To which is added, an Appendix, Treating of the Revenue of China, &c. &c.
London : Published by Parbury, Allen, and Kingsbury ; Macao, China : Printed at the Honorable East India Company’s Press, 1824. Octavo, contemporary full calf ruled in gilt, spine with raised bands, gilt rule and contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt; early bookseller’s label of W. White, Piccadilly, to front pastedown; printed on Chinese paper; …
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# 15581
MORRISON, John Robert
Memorial of Robert Morrison, D. D. who died on the 1st day of August, 1834 : to which is annexed his last written sermon, entitled “Heaven the believer’s home” (presentation copy from John Robert Morrison to William Charles Milne)
Canton : printed at the Albion Press, for private circulation, 1834. Octavo, modern marbled paper wrappers, stitchbound, in quarter-morocco over cloth clam shell box, spine in compartments with gilt ornamentation and contrasting morocco title labels, pp 31, presentation inscription to title page ‘Wm. C. Milne with J. R. M.’s fraternal regards’. The Anglo-Scottish missionary and …
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# 15561
DAVIS, John Francis (1795 - 1890)
Poeseos sinensis commentarii. On the poetry of the Chinese, (from the Royal Asiatic Translations) to which are added, translations & detached pieces
Macao : printed at the Honorable East India Company’s Press, by G. J. Steyn and brother, 1834. Octavo, half-crushed morocco over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, bookplate for W. W. Rockhill to front pastedown, pp [viii]; 199; a fine copy. Text in English, Chinese and Latin. First published in London in …
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![# 15548
CALLERY, J[ospeh] M[arie]
Systema phoneticum scripturæ sinicæ](https://cdn.douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2017/05/09104817/2017_DSFB_1499-300x300.jpg "# 15548CALLERY, J[ospeh] M[arie]Systema phoneticum scripturæ sinicæ")
# 15548
CALLERY, J[ospeh] M[arie]
Systema phoneticum scripturæ sinicæ
Macao : s.n., 1841. Two volumes, octavo, quarter crushed morocco over marbled papered boards (edges rubbed), spine with contrasting morocco title labels, marbled endpapers, the original printed wrappers bound in on stubs, inscribed ‘Jules Stier, Canton 1843 – 1844); Vol. I : title page (in Latin); title page (in Chinese); list of subscribers (a couple …
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# 15614
WILLIAMS, Samuel Wells (1812-1884)
Ying Hwá Yun-fú Lih-Kiái. An English and Chinese vocabulary, in the court dialect.
Macao : Printed at the Office of the Chinese Repository, 1844. Octavo, recent half-crushed morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt ruled in compartments with contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt; pp [viii], lxxxviii, 434, 435-440 (errata); additional title page in Chinese characters set within decorative border (chipped at bottom corner), facing main title page in …
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# 15321
MUMEYA, M.
A game of draw poker on the beach. Photo taken at Hong Kong, China, Sept. 17 1898.
[Title from inscription verso]. Silver albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 108 x 165 mm (mount), recto with gilt lettered imprint of ‘M. Mumeya, No. 8a Queen’s Road C. Hongkong’; verso with the studio’s elaborate illustrated back mark, incorporating the phrase ‘Japanese photographer’, a contemporary inscription in ink identifying the four American sailors in the …
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# 14967
MEDHURST, W.H. (Walter Henry), 1796-1857
Chinese dialogues; questions, and familiar sentences, literally rendered into English, with a view to promote commercial intercourse, and to assist beginners in the language.
Shanghae (Shangai) : Printed at the Mission Press, 1844. First edition. Octavo, contemporary cloth backed marbled papered boards (heavily rubbed, corners worn, backstrip lifting, front hinge cracked), front free-endpaper inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand ‘Curious China Expositor’ and with early owners’ names in ink and faint pencil (tear at fore-edge), pp viii, 782 …
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# 15589
BOONE, William Jones (1811-1864)
An essay on the proper rendering of the words Elohim and Theos into the Chinese language.
Canton, Printed at the Office of the Chinese Repository, 1848. Octavo, half green calf over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; pp vi, 69; title page and last leaf lightly foxed; numerous contemporary annotations and underlinings in brown ink, presumably made by an early missionary as they show a familiarity with the Chinese language; …
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# 15595
MEDHURST, W.H. (Walter Henry), 1796-1857
Reply to the essay of Dr. Boone on the proper rendering of the words Elohim and Theos into the Chinese language.
Canton : Press of S. Wells Williams, 1848. Octavo, recent half green calf over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; pp 107, 23 [Correspondence on the version of the Chinese New Testament, now carrying forward at Shanghai]; a very good copy. A response by the English Congregationalist missionary and sinologist Walter Henry Medhurst to William Jones Boone’s important …
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# 15605
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, recent half calf over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; pp viii, 54, [48 texts in Manchu (Mongolian) script, block printed in the Chinese style]; facing title page, a title page in Chinese and Manchu printed on yellow paper (chipped at corners); leaves with browning and scattered foxing; …
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# 15722
Maker unknown.
Painted mother of pearl shell depicting a view of Shamian Island, Canton, showing the trading factories on the Pearl River prior to destruction by fire in 1856
[Canton : s.n., c.1850]. Pigments on nacre, 170 x 180 mm (irregular); scattered loss of pigment, but essentially a well preserved example; accompanied by a carved rosewood base. This finely detailed original work, made for the Chinese export market by a Cantonese artisan, is of significant historical interest as it depicts, at upper left, a section of …
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# 15594
BOONE, William Jones (1811-1864)
Defense of an essay on the proper rendering of the words Elohim and Theos into the Chinese language.
Canton, Printed at the Office of the Chinese Repository, 1850. Octavo, half green calf over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; pp 168, [1 errata]; the last few leaves with expert paper repairs (no loss of text); else a good copy. William Jones Boone was Missionary Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the …
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# 15497
SMITH, Bishop George
The Jews at K’ae-Fung-Foo :
being a narrative of a mission of inquiry, to the Jewish synagogue at K’ae-Fung-Foo, on behalf of the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews : with an introduction, by the Right Revd. George Smith, D.D. Lord Bishop of Victoria. Shanghae : printed at the London Missionary Society’s Press, 1851. Octavo, modern half-calf over …
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# 15590
LEGGE, James (1815-1897)
The notions of the Chinese concerning God and Spirits: with an examination of the defense of an essay on the proper rendering of the words Elohim and Theos, into the Chinese language, by W.J. Boone …
Hongkong : Printed at the “Hongkong Register” Office, 1852. Octavo, contemporary cloth backed marbled papered boards (rubbed, corners worn), spine with its original printed paper title label; hinges cracked; front pastedown with early ownership inscription; pp iv, iii, 166; endpapers and preliminaries lightly foxed, occasional spotting, else a clean copy. A response to William Jones Boone’s Defense …
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![# 15599
DOTY, Elihu (1809-1864); [POHLMAN, William J.]
Anglo-Chinese manual with romanized colloquial in the Amoy dialect.](https://cdn.douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2017/05/09123308/2017_DSFB_1452-300x300.jpg "2017_DSFB_1452")
# 15599
DOTY, Elihu (1809-1864); [POHLMAN, William J.]
Anglo-Chinese manual with romanized colloquial in the Amoy dialect.
Canton : S. Wells Williams, 1853. Octavo, recent half morocco over marbled papered boards ruled in gilt, spine with raised bands, gilt ornament and lettering; pp [1 blank], xii, iii, [1], 214, [1 blank]; first blank with original owner’s stamp in Chinese characters and ownership signature in ink in romanized script ‘Mo-ah’ (small marginal repair); …
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# 15592
BONNEY, Samuel William
Phrases in the Canton colloquial dialect : arranged according to the number of Chinese characters in a phrase ; with an English translation
Canton : [s.n.], 1853. Octavo, recent papered boards, spine with gilt lettered morocco title label, head of the title page with publisher’s slip cancel printed ‘Phrases’ laid down over what was possibly a printing error or earlier version of the first word in the title; pp 98; a few early marginalia; a fine copy. The …
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# 15588
WILLIAMS, Samuel Wells (1812-1884)
A Chinese commercial guide, consisting of a collection of details and regulations respecting foreign trade with China, sailing directions, tables &c.
Canton : printed at the office of the Chinese Repository, 1856. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo, half crushed morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt ruled in compartments with contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt; speckled edges; pp viii; 376; text in English and Chinese, large folding map with hand colouring, Map of the Chinese …
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# 15544
NYE, Gideon (1812 - 1888)
The gage of the two civilizations : shall Christendom waver?
Being an inquiry into the causes of the rupture of the English and French treaties of Tien-Tsin: and comprising a general review of our relations with China : with notices of Japan, Siam and Cochin-China. Supplemental of the “Rationale of the China Question” and the “Memorable Year”. Printed, not published, at Macao, 1860. Quarto, original …
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# 15624
UNITED STATES LEGATION TO CHINA
Treaties between the United States of America and China, Japan, Lewchew and Siam, Acts of Congress and the Attorney-General’s opinion : with the decrees and regulations issued for the guidance of U.S. Consular Courts in China.
Hongkong : [United States Legation to China], 1862. Octavo, contemporary half calf over pebbled cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt (repaired), front pastedown with early ownership inscription in pencil of ‘P.B. Bradford, Shanghai’; pp 190; text in English and Chinese; endpapers with light offsetting and foxing, a few pencilled marginalia; a good copy.
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![# 15577
DENNYS, N[icholas] B[elfield] (? - 1900)
Notes for tourists in the north of China](https://cdn.douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2017/05/09120602/2017_DSFB_1438-300x300.jpg "2017_DSFB_1438")
# 15577
DENNYS, N[icholas] B[elfield] (? - 1900)
Notes for tourists in the north of China
Hong Kong : printed by A. Shortrede & Co., 1866. Octavo, marbled papered boards (rubbed), gilt lettered morocco label to spine, pp [vi]; 61; [blank]; v, folding lithographed plans of Peking and the ‘Prohibited City’ (Forbidden City) with original colour, large folding map on rice paper of the road from Tungchow to Peking; lithographed map …
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# 15557
SCHLEGEL, Gustave (1840 - 1903)
Thian Ti Hwui. The Hung-League, or, Heaven-Earth-League. A secret society with the Chinese in China and India.
Batavia [Jakarta] : Lange & Co., 1866. Quarto, half crushed morocco over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, bookplate to front pastedown for John A. Cockburn and bookseller’s label of Arthur Probsthain, pp xl; 253; 16 folding lithographed plates, pale foxing to preliminaries; a very good copy. Text in English and Chinese. The rare …
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# 15563
The Chronicle & Directory for China, Japan, & The Philippines for the year 1868.
Corrected at the different banks, offices, and institutions. Hong Kong : printed and published at the “Daily Press” Office, 1868. Octavo, full pressed calf with gilt decorated border (corners rubbed), spine lettered in gilt, advertisements to endpapers, pp [vi]; 272; [2]; 415; text in English and Chinese, occasional foxing; a very good copy. An extensive …
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![# 15576
STENT, G[eorge C[arter] (1833 - 1884)
Fanning the grave and The wife tested.](https://cdn.douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2017/05/09120251/2017_DSFB_1436-300x300.jpg "2017_DSFB_1436")
# 15576
STENT, G[eorge C[arter] (1833 - 1884)
Fanning the grave and The wife tested.
Shanghai : printed and published by Da Costa & Co., at the “Ching-Foong” Printing Office, 1873. Octavo, old diced morocco, lettered in gilt along the spine (edges rubbed), original yellow wrappers bound in, pp 12, printed in blue ink with red decorative border; light foxing but a very good copy. Two poems by Stent featuring …
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# 15501
AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION
The China Mission Hand-Book. First issue.
Shanghai : American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1896. Octavo, gilt-lettered half morocco over cloth (rubbed), marbled edges, pp [vi], 335; folding map in colour (split along one fold); 12 further maps printed in red and black; folding tables; a very good copy. A scarce book on the various missions in China in the nineteenth century, including those …
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# 15505
HURLEY, R. C.
Handbook to Canton, Macao and the West River
Hong Kong : Hong Kong, Canton & Macao Steam-Boat Company Limited, and China Navigation Company, Limited, printed at the “Hongkong Telegraph” Office, 1900. Narrow folio, printed decorative wrappers, pp v; 28; xxv (advertisements). A fine copy of a rare guide book.
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![# 15566
BRAGA, J[ose] M[aria] (Jack)
With the flowery banner. Some comments on the Americans in Macao and South China.](https://cdn.douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2017/05/09124709/2017_DSFB_1457-300x300.jpg "2017_DSFB_1457")
# 15566
BRAGA, J[ose] M[aria] (Jack)
With the flowery banner. Some comments on the Americans in Macao and South China.
Macao : printed by N. T. Fernandes & Filhos, 1940. Octavo, modern marbled boards with gilt-lettered title label, original printed front wrapper bound in, pp [iv]; 56; age toning to the paper, but a very good copy. One of the rarest publications by Jack Braga, the noted historian of Portuguese colonial history in Asia. In …
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# 15302
RICHARD, Mrs. Timothy
Paper on Chinese music
Read before the China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Shanghai, November, 1898. (Illustrated, vocally and instrumentally, by natives and foreigners). Repeated (by request) before the Shanghai Literary and Debating Society January 4th, 1899. Shanghai : Presbyterian Mission Press, 1923. Fourth edition. Octavo, printed wrappers (tape marks to head and foot of spine), portrait frontispiece, …
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# 15647
Hong Kong
Hong Kong : Hong Kong Government Relations Office, [1953]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, folding with maps verso, pp. 48, illustrated. Scarce.
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# 15307
Welcome to Hong Kong
Hong Kong : Servicemen’s Guides, 1954. Octavo, folding map printed in red and black, a couple of pen annotations.
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# 15398
China. Imperial Maritime Customs. IV. – Service Series : No. 1. Service List.
Thirty-sixth issue. (Corrected to 31st May 1910). Published for the use of the Customs Service by order of the Inspector General of Customs. Shanghai : Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs, 1910. Quarto, printed yellow wrappers (corners a little worn), pp. v; 444. An extensive list of the staff of the Imperial Maritime …
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# 15007
HACK, Peter J.
The Art Deco department stores of Shanghai : the Chinese-Australian connection
Sydney : Impact Press, 2016. Octavo, pictorial laminated card covers, 65 pp, illustrated with colour and b/w plates. This recent publication tells the story of the four great department stores established in the first few decades of the twentieth century on Nanjing Road in Shanghai. In particular, it explores their connection to Chinese Australian merchants and …
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# 15251
WHITEWRIGHT, J. S.
An introduction to Mandarin
Vol. II. Weihsien : Shanghai University Press, c. 1915. Octavo, cloth wrappers (marked), unpaginated, text in Chinese characters.
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# 15130
WILSON, Ming
Chinese jades
London : V & A Publications, 2004. Quarto, black boards with dustjacket (minor wear on edges), pp 127. A survey of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Jade collection, spanning the neolithic era to the nineteenth century. This monograph explores the cultural and ritualistic importance of jade in Chinese cultural, and is accompanied by 116 colour …
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# 15129
KERR, Rose
Song Dynasty ceramics
London : V & A Publications, 2004. Quarto, black boards with pictorial dustjacket, pp 128. Monograph of the Victoria & ALbert Museum’s collection of Chinese ceramics from 960-1279 AD. Showing 118 objects with 164 full colour plates, this monograph provides an authoritative exploration the shown ceramics, with newly published research. A useful and attractive monograph …
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# 15126
HONEY, W.B.
Chinese Porcelain : Periods of K’Ang Hsi, Yung Cheng, and Ch’ien Lung
London : The Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, published under the authority of the Board of Education, 1927. Quarto, attractively rebound with green cloth boards, internals clean with very minor discoloration or damage, pp. xxi; 123; with an additional 120 black and white plates on 60 leaves.
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# 15124
RAWSON, Jessica
Chinese jade : from the Neolithic to the Qing
Chicago : Art Media Resources, 2002. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, pp 463. US edition of the authoritative monograph on the development and creation of Chinese jade artworks. This significant survey explores the ritualistic and ceremonial importance in Chinese culture and religion through the collection of Sir Joseph Hotung’s collection, with over 300 pieces described and photographed.
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# 15120
[SOTHEBY'S]
The Chunzaizhai Collection : a Xuande ‘fish’ stem cup
Hong Kong : Sotheby’s, 2014. Quarto, cream boards, pp 48; a fine copy..
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# 15119
[Sotheby's]
A Magnificent Falangcai Bowl from the collection of Dr. Alice Cheng
Hong Komng : Sotheby’s, 2013. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp 44. Fully illustrated catalogue for the sale of a magnificent ruby-ground Falangcai ‘Double Lotus’ bowl. Text in Chinese and English
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# 15117
The Oriental Ceramic Society
The ceramic art of China
An exhibition organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Oriental Ceramic Society to commemorate the founding of the Society in 1921. London : The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1971. Quarto, red cloth covered boards with gilt text on spine, illustrated dustjacket, pp 153 with additional 266 plates, with 14 in colour. An extensive survey …
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# 15116
LI, He
Chinese ceramics
London : Thames and Hudson, 2006. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, fine condition, pp 352. A comprehensive monograph on the history and development of Chinese ceramic arts, from the Neolithic period to the twentieth century and drawing on extensive scientific and archaeological evidence. Centred on the Avery Brundage collection in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, …
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![# 15114
[A & J Speelman]
Chinese Works of Art 2008](https://cdn.douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2017/03/27125937/2017_DSFB_0549-300x300.jpg "# 15114[A & J Speelman]Chinese Works of Art 2008")
# 15114
[A & J Speelman]
Chinese Works of Art 2008
London : A & J Speelman, 2008. Quarto, orange cloth covered boards with pictorial dustjacket, pp 155. Diverse monograph catalogue showing Chinese bronzes, cloisonné, furniture, jade and quartz, lacquer, porcelain, and artworks.
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![# 15112
[Special Exhibition Galleries, Suzhou Museum]
A Special Exhibit of Collections from Mr. Robert Chang’s Studio of Lotus Fragrance](https://cdn.douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2017/03/27125804/2017_DSFB_0548-300x300.jpg "2017_DSFB_0548")
# 15112
[Special Exhibition Galleries, Suzhou Museum]
A Special Exhibit of Collections from Mr. Robert Chang’s Studio of Lotus Fragrance
Suzhou, China : Special Exhibition Galleries, Suzhou Museum, 2009. Quarto, pictorial boards with gold text. Exhibition monograph showing works from the private collection of Robert Chang, including calligraphy, sculpture, ceramics, jade, and furniture.
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# 15064
HONEY, William Bowyer
The ceramic art of China and other countries of the Far East.
London : Faber and Faber / Hyperion Press, 1945. First Edition. Quarto, publisher’s green cloth boards (a little rubbed and sunned) with gilt design to upper board, spine lettered in gilt; top edge gilt, 238 pp, 192 plates, some in colour; light flecking to fore-edge, firm binding, internally very clean; a very good copy, lacking the …