China
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# 50802
EUROPAEUS, David Emanuel Daniel (Taneli)
Die Stammenverwandtschaft der meisten Sprachen der Alten und Australisches Welt.
[=The genealogical relationship of most languages of the Old World and the Australian world]. St. Petersburg : Typografiya Tovarishchestva “Obshchestvennaya Pol’za”, Bol’shaya Pod’yacheskaya no. 39, 1877. Large folio, 49 x 43 cm, pp. [10] (the last blank), comprising four double-page tables, preceded by the author’s explanatory essay illustrated with two wood-engravings; text in German; contemporary …
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# 50391
RAND McNALLY & COMPANY
China and Japan pocket map showing political divisions, cities and towns, railroads, waterways, etc.
[Cover title]. New York ; Chicago ; San Francisco : Rand McNally & Company, [c.1938]. Tall octavo folding card (235 x 110 mm), front annotated by the original owner ‘Purchased 1952 March’; containing the large folding colour map ‘Rand McNally Standard Map of China and Japan’, 500 x 680 mm, scale 1:8,744,000; verso with printed …
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# 50800
HUDSON TAYLOR, Rev. J. (General Director)
China’s Millions (January – December 1901)
Melbourne : China Inland Mission, 1901. Australasian edition. Quarto, contemporary gilt-lettered plum cloth (spine sunned), bookplate residue to front pastedown, pagination various, a complete set of issues for they year 1901, with Supplements, numerous maps and black and white photographic illustrations, a few spots of foxing and small marks, a very good set. Australian version …
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# 51036
BREDON, Juliet (1881 - 1937)
Peking. A historical and intimate description of its chief places of interest
With maps, plans and illustrations. Shanghai : Kelly & Walsh, 1920. First edition. Octavo, modern quarter crushed maroon goatskin over cloth, spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt, ruled in blind, pp. xvi; 478, numerous photographic illustrations and folding maps and plans of the city, a very good copy in modern binding. A popular guide …
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# 50586
AH YUEN
Picturesque Hong Kong
Hong Kong : printed by Goodyear Printing Press, distributed by Ah Yuen Photo Service, circa. 1975. Booklet of colour postcards, with smaller versions of each image as a stub, seven (of eight) photographic postcards included, the first one neatly detached and lacking, the remaining images of Kowloon, Kai Tak Airport, Victoria City, Ocean Theatre, Banking …
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# 48825
THÉVENOT, Melchisédec (1620-1692)
Relations de divers voyages curieux,
qui n’ont point esté publiees, ou qui ont esté traduites d’Hacluyt, de Purchas, & d’autres Voyageurs Anglois, Hollandois, Portugais, Allemands, Espagnols; et de quelques Persans, Arabes & autres Orientaux. Enrichies de Figures de Plantes non décrites, d’Animaux inconnus à l’Europe, et de Cartes Geographiques de Pays dont on n’a point encore donné de Cartes. Paris : Jacques Langlois, …
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# 50382
HEYLYN, Peter
Cosmographie, in four books. Containing the Chorographie & Historie of the whole World, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles thereof.
by Peter Heylyn. With an accurate and an approved Index of all the Kingdoms, Provinces, Countries, Inhabitants, People, Cities, Mountains, Rivers, Seas, Islands, Forts, Bays, Capes, Forests, &c. of any Remarque in the whole World; Much wanted and desired in the former, and now annexed to this last Impression, Revised and Corrected by the Author himself …
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# 50511
ARLINGTON, L. C.
The Chinese Drama from the earliest times until today
A panoramic study of the art in China, tracing its origin and describing its actors (in both male and female roles); their costumes and make-ups, superstitions and stage slang: the accompanying music and musical instruments: concluding with synopses of thirty Chinese plays. Shanghai : Kelly and Walsh, 1930. Quarto, quarter cloth, lettered in gilt, over …
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# 50532
ORANGE, James
The Chater collection. Pictures relating to China, Hongkong, Macao, 1655 – 1860
With historical and descriptive letterpress. London : Thornton Butterworth, 1924. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (lightly marked), top edge gilt, pp. 528, numerous colour and black and white plates, tissue guards; a very good copy. Limited to 750 numbered copies. “The book was compiled by James Orange in 1924 and is one of the most significant historical …
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# 50492
RICHARD, L., S.J.
Géographie de l’Empire de Chine (Cours Inférieur) = Fa wen Chung-kuo kʻun yü lüeh chih
Chang-hai [Shanghai] : Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique a l’Orphelinat de T’ou-Sè-Wè, 1905. First edition. Small octavo (187 x 127 mm), publisher’s tan cloth with pictorial device and lettering in English and Chinese in black, spine lettered in English and Chinese in gilt (flecking to both boards and spine); front pastedown bearing the original owner’s …
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# 49733
SCHMIDT, I. J. (Isaac Jacob)
Grammatik der Tibetischen Sprache,
verfasst von I. J. Schmidt. St. Petersburg : Gräff ; Leipzig, Voss, 1839. Quarto (280 x 210 mm), contemporary red calf, richly gilt, spine with gilt lettering and decoration, gilt dentelles; all edges gilt; blue endpapers; pp. xv, [1 blank], 318, [2 Errata]; text in German (roman) and Tibetan script; scattered light foxing, a fine …
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# 48431
BEATO, Felix; FLOYD, William Pryor; BOURNE, Samuel
Views in Japan, India, & China
[1867-1870]. Photograph album, large oblong folio (320 x 480 mm), original red morocco richly gilt (worn at corners and spine ends), upper board lettered in gilt ‘Views in Japan, India, & China’; all edges gilt; moire pastedowns and endpapers; verso of front free-endpaper with the inscription of the original owner Frederick Woods, dated July 1871; …
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# 46947
CONFUCIUS (551-479 BCE)
Sinarum philosophus, sive scientia sinensis latine exposita.
Paris : Daniel Horthemels, 1687. First edition. Folio, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, preserving the original spine, in compartments with raised bands, gilt ornamentation and lettering, book labels for Levenside and H.P. Kraus to front pastedown, front free endpaper detached, pp. cxxiv; 108; 21; [iii – blanks]; 159; [blank]; xx; 108; 8; [I – privilege], [blank], …
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# 15197
Aduarte, Diego; González, Domingo
Historia de la Provincia del Sancto Rosario de la orden de Predicadores en Philippinas, Iapon, y China. [Libro Primero / Libro Segundo]
En Manila : en el Colegio de Santo Thomas, por Luis Beltran impressor de libros, 1640. First edition. Two volumes in one, folio, contemporary limp vellum (a little stained, lacking ties), spine with manuscript title in ink; front pastedown with old ex libris of the Bibliotheca Magni Mexicani Conventus S. P.N. S. Francisco (early Convent …
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# 49752
FROÍS [FROES], Luís; [SAILLY, Thomas, translator]
Annales Indiques, contenantes la vraye narration et avis de ce qu’est advenu & succedé en Iapon, & autres lieux voisins des Indes,
envoyez par les Peres de la Socieré de IESUS au R.P. Claude Aquaviva GVeneral de la dicte Compagnie, en l’an 1588. Nouvellement traduictes en François. A Anvers : En l’Imprimerie Plantinienns, Chez la Vefue, & Jean Mourentorf, 1590. First Antwerp edition. Dudecimo, later quarter calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with gilt rule …
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# 49683
Sande, Duarte de; d'Almeyda, Antonio; Coelho, Gaspar; Fróis, Luís, et al.
Lettere del Giapone, et della Cina de gl’anni M. D. LXXXIX & M. D. XC.
Scritte al R. P. Generale della Compagnia di GIESV. Milan : Pacifico Pontio, 1592. Duodecimo, later papered card covers; early manuscript title to bottom edge ‘Lettere del Giapone’; pp. 214 (last three pages misnumbered 112-113-114); title with woodcut Jesuit device and early ownership inscription; decorated initials; contents crisp and clean, a very good example.. A …