China
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# 18893
[JAMAR, Jacques]; [COMET, Rita]
Photograph album containing portraits of a Belgian Lazarist missionary to China, and including a group of late Qing traditional paper and silk Chinese dolls. Circa 1903-1964
Photograph album, circa 1900. Small oblong quarto (165 x 235 mm), half morocco with ornamental gilt rule over faux crocodile papered boards, original floral-patterned lining papers, front pastedown with binder’s ticket of bookseller and stationer Gilon, Verviers (Belgium); [20] leaves of thick card, containing 4 cabinet card format portrait photographs of Lazarist missionary Father Jacques …
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# 18802
MUMEYA, M.
Photographic portrait of a Western family in a Hong Kong studio, circa 1910
Silver albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 182 x 130 mm (mount), recto with silver lettered imprint of ‘M. Mumeya, No. 8a Queen’s Road Central, Hongkong’; verso blank; the albumen print and mount are in very good condition; accompanied by the original paper wallet with arched window, issued by the studio (tears and light foxing). …
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# 18712
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, top edge gilt, pp. 528, numerous colour and black and white plates, tissue guards; a fine copy. Limited to 750 numbered copies. “The book was compiled by James Orange in 1924 and is one of the most significant historical sources for China, …
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# 18742
AYSCOUGH, Florence
Friendly books on far Cathay
(being a bibliography for the student) and a synopsis of Chinese history. Shanghai : Commercial Press, 1921. Octavo, printed wrappers (soiled), pp. pp. [iv]; 58. Scarce Shanghai imprint.
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# 18679
IMBERT, Henri
Le tapir à tache blanche sur le dos de la Chine et de l’Indochine
Hanoi-Haiphong : Imp. d’Extrême-Orient, 1921. Octavo, original printed yellow wrappers, pp 9, illustrated with 1 b/w photographic plate; text in French; a fine copy. A study of the Asiatic tapir.
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# 18688
SAINSON, Camille
[KOREA] Les origines de la Corée : extrait du Tong-kouo-thong-kienn [=Dong guo tong jian].
Peking : Typographie du Petang, 1895. Octavo, original printed wrappers (detached), pp 29; text in French and Korean; scattered foxing, else internally clean. A French translation of an extract from the fifteenth century Korean chronicle, Dongguo tongjian, on the origins of Korea.
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# 18681
IMBERT, Henri
[BOTANY] Deux plantes insectivores de la province du Kouang-Toung (Chine).
Hanoi-Haiphong : Imp. d’Extrême-Orient, 1922. Octavo, original printed grey wrappers, pp 9, illustrated with 1 b/w photographic plate; text in French; a fine copy. A study of two insectivorous plants native to China.
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# 18825
SOOTHILL, W. E.
The student’s four thousand 字 and general pocket dictionary
Shanghai : Presbyterian Mission Press, 1928. Fourteenth edition. Square octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, pp. xxxv; 428, text in English and Chinese. The character 字 (zi) translates as character. Dictionary and phrase book.
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# 18709
PARKER, Geo. S.
The mysterious Yangtze (presentation copy)
Jamesville, Wisconsin : privately printed, 1937. Octavo, letered cloth, pp. [xii]; 94; photographic plates. Presentation inscription from the author to the front free endpaper.
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# 18749
WOO, Z. T. and T. M.
Commercial Press English and Chinese pronouncing pocket dictionary with an appendix.
Shanghai : Commercial Press, 1908. Duodecimo, gilt-lettered cloth (worn), pp. [viii]; 936, text in English and Chinese, small illustrations. Scarce Shanghai imprint.
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# 18829
TJIANG, Lim Yauw
A Mandarin dictionary (Chinese = Malay = English) and Peking syllabary
Shanghai : Commercial Press, 1922. Octavo, papered boards with cloth label (worn), pp. v; iv; 370, 56, a few stains, one leaf with tape repair, generally worn. Text in English, Malay and Chinese. Rare, we can only locate two copies (National Library of Singapore; Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden)
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# 18705
Chinese Civilization. An introduction to sinology.
Shanghai : Chung Hwa Book Co., Ltd., 1935. Octavo, lettered cloth, pp. xxx; 676, adverts., blind stamp of private collection to title page. A very good copy.
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# 18704
POTT, F. L. Hawks
A sketch of Chinese history
Shanghai : Kelly and Walsh, 1923. Fourth edition, revised. Octavo, lettered cloth (spine a little sunned), front endpapers ruled in a grid with notes in Chinese, pp. [viii]; 227; index; five folding maps with amateur hand colouring.
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# 18851
Preparatory Committee for the Ninghsia Hui Autonomous Region.
The Ninghsia Hui Autonomous Region
[Peking] : Nationalities Publishing House, circa 1958. Quarto, red cloth, remnants of paper dustjacket, decorated endpapers, pp. 144, numerous illustrations, internally fine Text in English, Chinese and Arabic. Ningxia is an autonomous region in north-west China populated by the the Hui people. Scarce
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# 18834
POTT, Rev. F. L. Hawks
A sketch of Chinese history
Shanghai : Kelly & Walsh,m 1903. Octavo, lettered cloth (a little marked), patterned endpapers, pp. xii; 206; xix, 5 folding maps (some printed in colour). First edition.
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# 18827
LEGGE, James
The four books. Confucian analects, the great learning, the doctrine of the mean, and the works of Mencius.
[Shanghai] : The Commercial Press, s. n. [c. 1930]. Octavo, printed paperd boards (stained), cloth spine, pp. 1014, text in English and Chinese. Considered to be one of the great linguists of his time, Legge would become the first Chair of Chinese Language at Oxford University.