China
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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 45806
MILNE, William (1785-1822)
Zhang Yuan liang you xiang lun [Dialogues between Zhang and Yuan, Two Friends]
Singapore : Jian xia shu yuan [American Board Mission Press], Daoguang 16 [1836]. Octavo (240 x 135 mm), xylographically printed in Chinese on rice paper, [42] double leaves, bound with the original yellow upper wrapper into early plain paper wrappers (lightly foxed) with nineteenth-century annotation to front ‘The Two Friends, A Dialogue on the Christian …
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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 44490
LATHAM, J. G.
The Australian Eastern Mission, 1934. Report of the Right Honorable J. G. Latham, Leader of the Mission.
At head of title: 1932-33-34. The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. Canberra : L. F. Johnston, Government Printer, August 1934. Foolscap folio, pp. 27; a very good copy of this Parliamentary paper. The Mission visited the Netherlands East Indies, British Malaya, French Indo-China, Hong Kong, China (this included an Anzac Ball in Shanghai), Japan, …
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# 44505
SCARBOROUGH, William (1841 - 1894)
A collection of Chinese proverbs
Translated and arranged by William Scarborough, Wesleyan Missionary, Hankow. With an introduction, notes, and copious index. Shanghai : American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1875. Octavo, lettered yellow cards, cloth spine (heavily worn, creased, mouse nibbling to lower corner), pp. xxxvi; 478. Text in English and Chinese. Scarce. ‘William Scarborough was a Wesleyan Methodict minister and missionary …
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# 13321
Maffei, Giovanni Pietro, 1533-1603
Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI. : Selectarum item ex India epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV. Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita.
Coloniæ Agippinæ : in Officina Birckmannica, sumptibus Arnoldi Mylii, MDXCIII. [Cologne : Arnold Mylius, 1593]. Second Cologne edition. Small folio, contemporary calf with embossed armorial device to boards, ruled in blind, rebacked, spine with raised bands; edges stained blue, later endpapers, title with woodcut printer’s device, manuscript inscription lower margin; woodcut initials and tail-pieces; pp 541, …