China
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# 17347
CSOMA DE KÖRÖS, Alexander (1784-1842)
A Grammar of the Tibetan language, in English.
Prepared, under the patronage of the Government and the auspices of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, by Alexander Csoma de Kőrös. Calcutta : printed at the Baptist Mission Press, Circular Road, 1834. Quarto, modern quarter morocco over cloth boards, new endpapers, pp [5], vi-xii, [1]-204, [1 blank], + lithographed section in Tibetan script containing Syllabic scheme of the …
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# 17346
WILLIAMS, Samuel Wells (1812-1884)
A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language; arranged according to the Wu-fang yuen yin, with the pronunciation of the characters as heard in Peking, Canton, Amoy, and Shanghai.
Shanghai : American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1874. First edition. Quarto, contemporary brown quarter leather over green cloth (heavily rubbed, corners worn, joints repaired), spine with gilt lettering and rule (somewhat worn and faded), later endpapers, pp [3], vi-lxxxiv, [1]-1250, [4, last 2 blank]; upper and lower edges with some dampstaining, a few marginal pencil annotations, otherwise contents …
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# 17862
"KASEN"
Price list for “Kasen”, a Japanese bar and brothel in Tsingtao, China, 1930s.
Single sheet, 195 x 270 mm, folding to 195 x 135 mm, thin European paper with watermark ‘Auwick… Bond’, printed on 2 sides; the first side gives the address of the establishment, Kasen, 7 Lin Tsing Road, Corner of Kiaochow Road, Tsingtao; the second side contains a price list for beverages and meals, as well …
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# 17344
LOBSCHEID, Wilhelm (1822-1893)
Grammar of the Chinese language … In two parts. Part II.
Hongkong : printed at the office of the “Daily Press”, 1864. Octavo, contemporary limp cloth (sunned and stained), spine with gilt bands (faded, frayed at head and tail), front endpaper and title with ownership inscriptions of A. Neville J. Whymant, Lecturer in Chinese and Japanese, School of Oriental Studies, University of London (dated 1920), pp [2], [3], …
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# 17610
CONDIT, Ira M.
English and Chinese reader.
By Rev. I. M. Condit, Missionary to the Chinese. New York : American Tract Society, [1902]. Octavo, original blind stamped maroon cloth boards (rubbed and with a few light marks), pp 144; parallel text in English and Chinese characters, vignette lithographed illustrations; clean throughout, binding firm, a very good copy. Includes 72 reading lessons plus exercises …
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# 17609
STEDMAN, T.L. & LEE, K.P.
Chinese-English phrase book in the Canton dialect, or, Dialogues on ordinary and familiar subjects.
For the use of Chinese resident in America and of Americans desirous of learning the Chinese language. With the proninciation of each word indicated in Chinese and Roman characters. Washington ; New York ; Paris : Brentano’s, 1920. Small octavo, publisher’s cloth backed printed red papered boards (a little sunned, corners bumped, mild edge wear), …
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# 17447
HOFFMAN, Walter K.
A-O-A Hong Kong guidebook
Official guidebook of the Hongkong Hotels Association. Hong Kong : Walter K. Hoffman, circa 1968. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, pp. xv; 208; folding maps, illustrated.
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# 17342
SCHROETER, Frederic Christian Gotthelf (1786-1820); MARSHMAN, John Clark & CAREY, William (eds.)
A Dictionary of the Bhotanta or Boutan language. Printed from a manuscript copy made by the late Rev. Frederic Christian Gotthelf Schroeter. Edited by John Marshman. To which is prefixed a grammar of the Bhotanta language. Edited by W. Carey.
Serampore: s.n., 1826. Quarto, contemporary full calf (boards a trifle scuffed), spine in gilt-ruled compartments with contrasting leather title label lettered in gilt, front pastedown with bookplate of John Lawson, original endpapers, pp [2], [1]-iii, [1 blank], [1]- 35, [1 blank], [1]-6, [1]-268, 267-475, [1 blank]; endpapers and title with light foxing, first and last …
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# 17920
WOODHEAD, H.G.W.
A visit to Manchukuo.
A series of articles contributed to the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, Oct.-Nov. 1932. Shanghai : The Mercury Press, 1932. Octavo, original printed papered boards (mild insect damage to upper board), early ownership stamp to front pastedown, pp 112, illustrated with b/w photographic plates, large folding colour Railway Map of Manchuria at rear, in excellent condition; …
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# 15884
BOEMUS, Johannes, 1485-1534
Omnium gentium mores leges et ritus ex multis clarissimis rerum scriptoribus … collectos: & in libros tris distinctos Aphricam, Asiam, Europam, optime lector lege
Augsburg : Augustae Vindelicorum excusa in officina Sigismundi Grimm medici, ac Marci Wirsung, 1520. [Imprint from colophon]. First edition. Folio, later vellum, three raised bands to spine; added title page: Repertorium librorum trium Ioannis Boemi de omnium gentium ritibus. Item index rerum scitu digniorum in eosdem, set within a decorative woodcut border, an old paper repair to centre; …
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# 13331
Acosta, Emanuel, 1541-1604, et al.
Iesus. Cartas que los padres y hermanos de la Compañia de Iesus, que andan en los reynos de Iapon escriuieron a los de la misma Compañia,
desde el año de mil y quinientos y quare[n]ta y nueue, hasta el de mil y quinientos y setenta y uno : en las quales se da noticia de las varias costumbres y idolatrias de aquella gentilidad : y se cuenta el principio y successo y bondad de los Christianos de aquellas partes. En Alcala …
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# 16532
[MARCO POLO] ; GLAZEMAKER, Jan Hendrik
Markus Paulus Venetus Reisen en Beschryving der Oostersche Lantschappen ; … beneffens de Historie der Oostersche Lantschappen door Haithon van Armenien te zamen gestelt beide nieuwelijks door J.H. Glazemaker vertaalt. Hier is noch by gevoegt de Reizen van Nicolaas Venetus en Jeronymus van St. Steven naar d’Oostersche Landen en naar d’Indien door P.P. vertaalt. Als ook een Verhaal van de verovering van’t Eilant Formosa, door de Sinezen, door J.V.K.B. vertaalt.
t’Amsterdam : voor Abraham Wolfgang, boekverkoper, aan d’Opgang van de Beurs, by de Beurstooren, in ‘t Geloof, 1664. Small quarto, contemporary yellow papered boards (rubbed), spine with early manuscript abbreviated title and printed paper label; title with old collection stamp of the Holstein-Holsteinborg library; the second and third parts each have separate title and pagination: …
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# 17469
VERBIEST, Ferdinand (1623-1688)
Epistola P. Ferdinandi Verbiest vice Provincialis Missionis Sinensis, anno 1678, die 15. Augusti, ex Curia Pekinensi in Europam ad Socios missi.
[Peking, 15 August, 1678]. Folio (320 x 210 mm), ff 10, xylographically printed on rice paper, in fine condition; housed in modern silk boards within a custom-made quarter morocco case. Xylographically printed letter from the Flemish Jesuit missionary Father Ferdinand Verbiest as Vice-Provincial in China to the fathers of the Society of Jesus in Europe. …
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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.
[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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# 13350
Tavares de Velles Guerreiro, João, active 1718
Jornada que o senhor Antonio de Albuquerque Coelho governador, e capitam geral da cidade do Nome de
Deos de Macao na China, fes de Goa athe chegar a ditta cide. : divida em duas partes. [Macau] : [s.n.], [1718]. Folio, near contemporary calf, rebacked; Chinese patterned paper wrappers; title page with contemporary inscription to bottom margin, a name roughly erased and paper restored; pp 185, [blank]; printed xylographically on one side of …
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# 13352
Du Halde, Jean Baptiste, 1674-1743
A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea and Tibet: containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries …
London : T. Gardner for Edward Cave, 1738-41. First complete English edition. Two volumes, folio, contemporary full calf ruled in gilt, expertly rebacked preserving the original labels; spines with raised bands and gilt rule; vol. 1 frontispiece portrait of Confucius, pp [4], xii, [1], xii, 678; vol. 2 pp [4], 388, [8]; with 51 engraved …