China
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# 13442
[EMPEROR ZHU YUANZHANG (MING TAIZU), 1328-1398]
A 14th century Ming Dynasty 1 kuan note : an example of the oldest extant paper currency
[China : c.1375]. Printed during the reign (1368-1398) of the first Ming emperor, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang (Ming Taizu), a paper note with the original cash value of a string of 1,000 copper coins, or 1 kuan. Woodblock printed in black ink on a sheet of grey mulberry paper, 340 x 220 mm; recto with the Chinese characters …
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# 29804
HARRIS, John (1667?-1719)
Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca, or, A complete collection of voyages and travels : consisting of above six hundred of the most authentic writers …
Containing whatever has been observed worthy of notice in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America … the climate, soil and produce … of each country: likewise the religion, manners, and customs … To which is prefixed a copious introduction, comprehending the rise and progress of the art of navigation … together with the invention and use …
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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 …
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# 30091
MEARES, John (c.1756 - 1809)
[HAWAII; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; CHINA] Tvänne resor från Ostindien till Americas nordvästra kust, åren 1786, 1788 och 1789, af Johan Meares. Sammandrag utur engelska originalet.
Stockholm : Hos kamereraren J.S. Ekmanson, på Bokhandl. Mag. I. Utters Förlag, 1797. Small octavo, contemporary half mottled calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), spine in compartments with gilt ornament and contrasting title labels lettered in gilt; pp [12], 404; text in Swedish; heavily scored early ownership signature to bottom margin of title page, with resultant …
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# 29991
CAHILL, Peter
[NEW GUINEA] Needed – but not wanted : Chinese in colonial Rabaul 1884-1960. (Signed copy)
Brisbane : CopyRight Publishing, 2012. First edition. Octavo (245 mm), pictorial papered boards, signed by the author on the title page; pp xvi, 336, with numerous b/w photographic illustrations; a fine copy. A scholarly and well-illustrated history of the Chinese diaspora of Rabaul, New Britain (formerly Neupommern), under the successive German, British and Australian administrations.
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# 30098
GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.
Australasia. Correspondence relating to Chinese immigration into the Australian colonies, with a Return of Acts passed by the Legislatures of those Colonies and of Canada and British Columbia on the subject.
London : Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office, by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1888. Folio (330 mm), printed blue wrappers (a little chipped at edges, paper loss along spine), pp x, 87; a few pencilled annotations, but a very clean copy in the original wrappers.
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# 28578
MORRISON, Gabriel James (1840-1905); HOLUB, Emil (1847-1902)
[CHINA] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography. Vol. II, no. 3, New Monthly Series. March, 1880.
London : Printed by William Clowes & Sons, [1880]. Tall octavo (245 mm), original printed blue wrappers (lightly marked, small paper loss at spine ends), pp 1-8 (advertisements), 145-208; folding colour plate at the rear with two Maps to Accompany Papers on Journeys in Eastern China by G. J. Morrison, M. I. C. E., 1878, which …
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# 28838
LING, Mrs. S. K.
淑琴書畫集 / 作者林陳淑琴 Painting collection of Mrs. S. K. Ling
Hong Kong : the artist, 1935. Folio, gilt-lettered green cloth, portrait frontispiece, pp. 32, colour plates, interleaved with glassine. Text in English and Chinese. A very good copy.
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# 29588
ALLEY, Rewi
Yo Banfa! (We have a way!)
Edited by Shirley Barton. Foreword by Joseph Needham, F. R. S. Shanghai : China Monthly Review, 1952. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (toned), pp. [xiv]; 196, illustrated. The author, a New Zealander, had lived in China for 25 years and witnessed great poverty and hardship among the Chinese people. This is his account of why the 1949 …
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# 28902
STANFORD, Edward
A Map of South Eastern Asia, from Peking to Singapore,
including Tongking, Cochin China, Siam, and the British possessions of Burma, the Straits Settlements, Hong-Kong, Labuan and British North Borneo, with an enlarged plan of the environs of Hanoi, on the Red River. London : Edward Stanford, 1883. Lithographed map, printed in colour, 685 x 560 mm, dissected and laid on linen, pale water stain, …
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# 29231
DAMPIER, William (1651-1715) et al.
A Collection of Voyages.
In four volumes. Containing I. Captain William Dampier’s voyages round the world : describing particularly, the coasts and Islands in the East and West-Indies. The South-Sea coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico. The countries of Tonquin, Achin and Malacca. The Cape of Good Hope, New-Holland, &c. II. The voyages of Lionel Wafer; giving an account of his …
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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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# 29393
HUDDART, Joseph (1741-1816) (attrib.)
The Oriental navigator; or, new directions for sailing to and from the East Indies.
Also for the use of the country ships, trading in the Indian and China seas, to New Holland, &c. &c. Collected from the manuscripts, journals, memoirs, and observations, of the most experienced officers in the Hon. East India Company’s Service; and from the last edition of the French Neptune Oriental, by Mons. D’Après de Mannevillette. Being …
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# 29332
[CONFUCIUS]; POUND, Ezra (translator)
Confucius: the unwobbling pivot & the Great digest / Pharos Number Four, Winter, 1947
With notes and commentary on the text and the ideograms, together with Ciu Hsi’s “Preface” to the Chung Yung and Tseng’s commentary on the Testament. Norfolk, CT : New Directions, 1947. Series: Pharos no. 4, Winter 1947. Octavo (235 mm), printed magenta wrappers with yapp edges (lower wrapper lightly marked), pp 53, [11] publisher’s advertisements …
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# 28675
Chinese-English dictionary
Comprising over 3800 characters with translations, explanations, pronunciations, etc., etc. Shanghai : The Commercial Press, Ltd., 1942. Octavo (195 mm), publisher’s black-lettered red cloth over boards (lightly marked), spine lettered in Chinese characters in gilt (sunned), pp. [iv]; 354; 10; title page in Chinese to rear pastedown; the English title page has a short tear …
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# 28793
DAVIS, S. G. and TREGEAR, Mary
Man Kok Tsui, Archaeological Site 30, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press. 1961. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. 183 – 212, text diagrams, illustrated with 15 photographic plates. Offprint from Asian Perspectives, vol. 4, 1960. Limited to 300 copies, scarce.