China

  • General-Karte von Asien

    # 45630

    FRIED. F. (Franz)

    General-Karte von Asien

    / gezeichnet von F. Fried. [Also titled in French: Carte de l’Asie / par F. Fried]. Vienna : Artaria & Compagnie, 1839. “Neu berichtiget” (=Newly corrected). Copper-engraved map with hand-coloured outlines, dissected and laid on linen, 780 x 920 mm (sheet), folding to 230 x 195 mm, housed in the original marbled card chemise and slipcase …

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  • Picturesque Hongkong

    # 45914

    HAZELL, Denis H. (1897 - 1930)

    Picturesque Hongkong

    Hongkong : Ye Olde Printerie, [c.1925]. Oblong folio, string bound lettered card wrappers with pasted on photograph of Hong Kong by night, title page with pasted on photograph, previous owner’s name neatly written in ink, pp. [vi – foreword]; 26 sepia photogravures tipped-on to 24 sheets with accompanying descriptive letterpress, a fine example A fine …

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  • 淑琴書畫集 / 作者林陳淑琴 Painting collection of Mrs. S. K. Ling

    # 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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  • The “Sino-Japanese Disturbances” souvenir album. Shanghai. 1932

    # 21848

    TANAKA, Ryozo, ed.

    The “Sino-Japanese Disturbances” souvenir album. Shanghai. 1932

    [Tokyo: Shomi-do, 1932]. Oblong quarto, silk-bound boards with ribbon binding, unpaginated, title page, two maps printed in colour, 48 leaves of photographic plates interlined with tissue, colophon, a fine copy in the original lettered cardboard box. Scarce in this condition.

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  • [FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] By-laws of the Zetland Lodge, No. 525, of Free and Accepted Masons, holding warrant under the United Grand Lodge of England.

    # 45930

    [ZETLAND LODGE]

    [FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] By-laws of the Zetland Lodge, No. 525, of Free and Accepted Masons, holding warrant under the United Grand Lodge of England.

    Revised and passed 1st November, A.L. 5766 [i.e. 5866], A.D. 1866. Cover title: By-laws of the Zetland Lodge, No. 525, Hongkong. Hongkong : Printed at the China Magazine Office, 1870. Octavo (218 x 140 mm), original sewn cream wrappers with lettering and decorative border in blue (upper wrapper with small loss at top corner), pp. 12; contents …

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  • [FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] By-laws of the Zetland Lodge, No. 525, of Free and Accepted Masons, holding warrant under the United Grand Lodge of England.

    # 45929

    [ZETLAND LODGE]

    [FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] By-laws of the Zetland Lodge, No. 525, of Free and Accepted Masons, holding warrant under the United Grand Lodge of England.

    Revised and passed 1st November, A.L. 5866, A.D. 1866. Cover title: By-laws of the Zetland Lodge, No. 525, Hongkong. Hongkong : Printed by A. Shortrede & Co., 1866. Small octavo (172 x 118 mm), original sewn yellow wrappers, pp. [4], 41; a very fine example.

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  • [FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] Provisional Rules of The Hongkong Masonic Club, (Limited.)

    # 45927

    [HONGKONG MASONIC CLUB]

    [FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] Provisional Rules of The Hongkong Masonic Club, (Limited.)

    Hongkong : Kelly & Wash, Limited, [1887]. Duodecimo (163 x 110 mm), original sewn wrappers with ownership inscription of S. J. Gower (one of the Club’s Directors) dated 19 April 1887 to front; pp. [2], 11; a very fine example. ‘The accompanying Provisional Rules have been framed by the Directors on the lines of those …

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  • Paizagens da China e do Japão.

    # 42470

    Moraes, Wenceslau de (1854-1929)

    Paizagens da China e do Japão.

    Lisbon : Livraria Tavares Cardoso, 1906. First edition. Octavo, later red leather with gilt-lettered spine; original colour-illustrated upper wrapper bound in (chipped and with light staining); pp. [vi], 239, [2]; with numerous half-tone photographic illustrations; text in Portuguese; a good copy.

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  • Die Expedition in die Seen von China, Japan und Ochotsk unter Commando von Commodore Colin Ringgold und Commodore John Rodgers, im Auftrage der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten, unternommen in den Jahren 1853 bis 1856,

    # 42444

    HEINE, Wilhelm

    Die Expedition in die Seen von China, Japan und Ochotsk unter Commando von Commodore Colin Ringgold und Commodore John Rodgers, im Auftrage der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten, unternommen in den Jahren 1853 bis 1856,

    unter Zuziehung der officiellen Autoritäten und Quellen. Deutsche Original-Ausgabe von Wilhelm Heine. Leipzig : Hermann Costenoble (Band 1) / Otto Purfürst (Bände 2-3), 1858-59. Three volumes, large octavo (245 x 175 mm), uniform publisher’s bindings of blind-blocked pebbled cloth with gilt-decorated and -lettered spines (rubbed and lightly marked, spines sunned); Band 1. XX, 330 pp., …

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  • The first lines of the practice of surgery in the West [Seii ryakuron] [Xi yi lue lun] [西醫略論]

    # 43300

    HOBSON, Benjamin [author]; GUAN, Maocai [translator]; MIYAKE, Gonsai [editor]

    The first lines of the practice of surgery in the West [Seii ryakuron] [Xi yi lue lun] [西醫略論]

    Edo [Tōkyō] : Yorozuya Heishirō, Ansei 5 [1858]. Four volumes (complete), original decorated Japanese Fukuro-toji binding with title labels, 25.6 x 17.5cm. 62, 48, 62, 22 leaves, woodcut illustrations of (sometimes graphic) surgical practices, previous owner’s stamps (in Japanese) on the wrapper of the first volume, and first & last pages on each volume, pale …

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  • Peking the goal, the sole hope of peace : a lecture delivered before the Canton community on the evening of April 14th 1873.

    # 39882

    NYE, Gideon (1812-1888)

    Peking the goal, the sole hope of peace : a lecture delivered before the Canton community on the evening of April 14th 1873.

    Also titled: Peking the goal, the sole hope of peace. Comprising an inquiry into the origin of the pretension of universal supremacy by China and into the causes of the first war: with incidents of the imprisonment of the foreign community and of the first campaign of Canton. 1841. Canton : s.n., 1873. Small quarto, original …

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  • Reception of the foreign ministers by the Chinese Emperor, June 29 1873.

    # 35336

    RONJAT, Étienne Antoine Eugène, 1822-1912 (artist)

    Reception of the foreign ministers by the Chinese Emperor, June 29 1873.

    This Emperor, Toong Chir, died last winter of smallpox at the age of twenty. [Title from the inscription verso]. [U.S.A.? France? : s.n., probably 1875]. Albumen print photograph of a drawing by French artist Etienne Ronjat (after a Chinese painting), carte de visite format, 61 x 102 mm; verso with contemporary inscription in ink; both the print …

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  • The Lacquer Screen. A Chinese detective story.

    # 44898

    VAN GULIK, Robert

    The Lacquer Screen. A Chinese detective story.

    Kuala Lumpur : Art Printing Works, 1962. First Edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (spine a little sunned, toning to edges of lower wrapper), pp. [viii]; 185, illustrated, a very good copy.

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  • Under the banyan. (Signed presentation copy)

    # 45575

    JACKSON, Gladys (1881 - ?)

    Under the banyan. (Signed presentation copy)

    Hong Kong : privately printed, 1925. Octavo, lettered flushcut cloth wrappers (lightly stained and edge worn), presentation inscription to the front free endpaper ‘With love and best wishes, Gladys Jackson. Hong Kong, Feb. 1929’. pp. [iv]; iv; [ii]; 114, light foxing to preliminaries else very good. Includes a number of poems relating to the Great …

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  • Panorama of the old world and the new.

    # 44895

    PINNOCK, William

    Panorama of the old world and the new.

    Comprising a view of the present state of the nations of the world, their manners, customs, and peculiarities, and their political, moral, social, and industrial condition. Interspersed with historical sketches and anecdotes by William Pinnock. Enlarged, revised, and embellished with several hundred engravings, from designs of Croome, Devereux, and other distinguished artists. Boston : L. …

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  • Bruno Leti. Photographs : the lotus cycle.

    # 44790

    LETI, Bruno

    Bruno Leti. Photographs : the lotus cycle.

    Melbourne : the artist, 2009. Folding clamshell box, lettered in silver with pictorial only, containing a sheet of text, 13 lambda photographic prints, and colophon sheet. ‘These 13 lambda printed photographs were taken by Bruno Leti at West Lake, Huanghzou, China, during the late autumn of 2008. An edition of six boxed sets were printed …

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