China
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# 46001
BEDDOME, Captain R. H. (1830 - 1911)
The ferns of southern India. Being descriptions and plates of the ferns of the Madras Presidency
Madras : printed by Gantz Brothers, 1863. First edition. Quarto, half crushed morocco over cloth, edges scuffed, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt, rebacked, marbled endpapers, title page, notice to subscribers, pp. [I – creased]; xv; [blank]; 88; vii (index), extensively illustrated with 271 lithographed line illustrations of ferns, a few contemporary …
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![[FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] Small archive of Masonic documents associated with Lodges in Hong Kong, 1890s-1930s.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/01/2025_DSFB_0081-300x300.jpg)
# 45932
[BAKER, Henry George]
[FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] Small archive of Masonic documents associated with Lodges in Hong Kong, 1890s-1930s.
A group of five original documents that chart the history of Henry George Baker as a Freemason in Hong Kong. Baker arrived in Hong Kong from Bristol in 1882 and worked in the Hong Kong Police Force until 1913, when he retired at the age of 52 with the rank of Chief Inspector. I. Grand …
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![[FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] Memorandum and Articles of Association of The Hongkong Masonic Club, Limited.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/12/2024_DSFB_6923-300x300.jpg)
# 45926
[CHATER, C. P.; GOWER, S. J.; COX, G. C.; GRANT, C.; YOUNG, W.]
[FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] Memorandum and Articles of Association of The Hongkong Masonic Club, Limited.
Board of Directors: C. P. Chater, Esq., S. J. Gower, Esq., G. C. Cox, Esq., C. J. Grant, Esq., Dr. Wm. Young. Bankers: The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. Solicitors: Messrs. Wotton & Deacon. Hongkong : Kelly & Wash, Limited, 1886. Small octavo (180 x 125 mm), original sewn green wrappers (some faint foxing), pp. …
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# 17345
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, contemporary wrappers pasted over the original printed wrappers, spine with early manuscript title ‘Manchu Language’, sewn as issued, the Sir Thomas Phillipps copy inscribed “MHC” and with shelf-mark in ink on inside of upper cover, 1 leaf with the title in Manchu and Chinese, printed on yellow paper, facing the English title, …
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# 46086
Business card of the Long Beach Bar, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, c.1965.
[Kaohsiung, Taiwan : s.n., c.1965]. White card, 60 x 98 mm, printed recto in red, green and blue: ‘Welcome to Long Beach Air Conditioned Bar. No. 68 Chi Shian 3rd Road Kaohsiung Taiwan’ with illustration of a hostess, and verso in black: ‘In Bounds No. 78. 1. Welcome to our bar have a wonderfeul [sic] …
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# 45946
[THE COMMERCIAL PRESS]
English and Chinese Primer
Shanghai : The Commercial Press, 1937. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 48, text in English and Chinese, some small text illustrations.
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# 45823
APIANUS, Petrus (1495-1552); FRISIUS, Reiner Gemma (1508-1555)
Cosmographia
Petri Apiani, per Gemmam Frisium apud Lovanienses Medicum & Mathematicu[m] insignem, … … Antwerp: Aegidius Coppenius Diesthensis for Gregorius Bontius, 1545. Small quarto (230 x 160 mm), contemporary limp vellum envelope binding with (possibly later) calf ties; front and rear endpapers with extensive relevant early notes in Dutch on the astrolabe and calculations of the sun’s …
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# 38364
[THOMAS, Antoine, 1644-1709]
A short account of the declaration given by the Chinese Emperour Kam Hi, in the year 1700.
London : [s.n.], Printed in the year MDCCIII [1703]. Octavo (155 mm), contemporary calf, expertly rebacked; pp [28], [4 blank], 71, [1]; a few leaves with pale staining; early manuscript ex libris of the Holy Cross Abbey Library; housed in a custom morocco clamshell box. English translation of Brevis relatio eorū quæ spectant ad declarationem …
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# 45925
CHAMBERS, Sir William (1726 - 1796)
Desseins des édifices, meubles, habits, machines et ustenciles des Chinois
Gravés sur les originaux dessinés à la Chine. Auxquels est ajoutée une description de leurs temples, de leurs maisons, de leurs jardins, etc. Londres, l’auteur, A. Millar & J. Nourse, 1757. First edition, published simultaneously in French and English editions the same year. Folio (535 mm tall), papered boards with title label to spine, pp. …
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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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# 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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# 42307
Valignano, Alessandro (1539-1606) et al.
Avvisi della Cina, et Giapone del fine dell’anno 1587.
Con l’arrivo de’ Signori Giapponesi nell’India. Cavati dalle lettere della Compagnia di Giesù. Ricevute il mese d’ Ottobre 1588. Con licentia de’ superiori. In Venetia, appresso i Gioliti. 1588. Small octavo (160 x 105 mm), modern quarter red morocco over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands and lettered in gilt ‘AVVISI DELLA CINA’; new …
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# 39899
GRAY, John Henry (1828-1890)
Walks in the city of Canton.
… With an itinerary. Victoria, Hongkong : De Souza & Co., 1875. Octavo, contemporary half calf over dark brown linen boards (rubbed and lightly marked, corners worn), spine with raised bands lettered and ruled in gilt (some wear to the bands, head and tail), front pastedown with full signature of the original owner, American diplomat …
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# 39126
CAIRNS, John; STRACHAN, Robert
Sammelband of Hong Kong newspapers, 1845-54
A Sammelband of fifty-four individual issues of newspapers published in Hong Kong between 1845 and 1854, comprising twenty issues of the Overland Register, and Price Current and thirty-four issues of The Hongkong Register; together with two issues of newspapers published in India in 1852 and 1853. Large folio (510 x 340 mm), custom modern binding of …
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# 42344
Van Gulik, Robert (1910-1967)
New Year’s Eve in Lan-Fang : a Judge Dee story.
Beirut : [Imprimerie Catholique], 1958. First edition. Limited to 200 copies. Inscribed by the author, in Dutch, on the half-title: ‘Met beste wenschen voor 1959! R. H. en F. van Gulik, Beyrouth, Dec. ’58.’ Small octavo (175 x 115 mm), original printed wrappers (upper wrapper sunned at top edge); 32 pp., with a frontispiece illustration, …
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# 38392
PALMER, Aaron Haight (1779-1863)
Letter to the Hon. John M. Clayton, Secretary of State, enclosing a paper, geographical, political, and commercial, on the independent oriental nations;
and submitting a plan for opening, extending, and protecting American commerce in the East, &c. Respectfully submitted to the President and Cabinet, by Aaron Haight Palmer, Counsellor of the Supreme Court of the U.S. Published by direction of the Department of State in the National Intelligence of the 6th September, 1849. Revised, and now published with …