China
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# 49442
MORRISON, Robert
Dictionary of the Chinese Language, in three parts. Part II, Vol. I.
[Shanghai : Chung Hwa Book Co., Ltd., 1913]. Thick octavo (235 x 155 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered blue cloth (somewhat mildew-stained, cloth splitting along outer front hinge and frayed at spine ends); title-leaf of Part II. Vol. 1 (1819), title-leaf of Part II. Vol. II (1820), pp. xx, 1090, 72 (Index of the Characters); printed on …
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# 48922
BIKER, Julio Firmino Judice
Memoria o estabelecimento de Macau,
Memoria o estabelecimento de Macau, escripta pelo Visconde de Santarem. Abreviada relação da embaixada que el-rei D. João V mandou ao imperador da China e Tartaria. Relatorio de Francisco de Assis Pacheco de Sampaio a el-rei D. José I dando conta dos sucessos da embaixada a que fora mandado à ĉorte de Pekim no anno …
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# 48952
LAFFITTE, Pierre; HALL, John Carey (translator)
A general view of Chinese civilization and of the relations of the West with China.
From the French of M. Pierre Laffitte, (Director of Positivism). Translated by John Carey Hall, M.A., Assistant Japanese Secretary to H.B.M.’s Legation, Tokyo. London : Trübner & Co. ; Yokohama, Shanghai & Hongkong : Kelly & Walsh (Limited) ; Tokyo & Yokohama : Z. P. Mary & Co. (Limited), 1887. Octavo (230 x 150 mm), …
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# 50004
Imperial Japanese Government Railways
An official guide to Eastern Asia. Trans-continental connections between Europe and Asia. Vol. IV CHINA
Tokyo : Department of Railways, 1915. Duodecimo, gilt-lettered cloth (label removed from spine), top edges gilt, maps to endpapers (lacking the folding map in rear endpocket), pp. cxxiv; 414; extensively illustrated with numerous maps (many folding and in colour, including Tientsin, Peking, Hong Kong, Foochow, Nanking, Soochow, Canton, Shanghai, Amoy, etc.).. The China volume from …
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# 49744
SEMEDO, Alvaro
The History of that Great and Renowned Monarchy of China.
Wherein all the particular Provinces are accurately described : as also the Dispositions, Manners, Learning, Lawes, Militia, Government, and Religion of the People. Together with the Traffick and Commodities of that Countrey. Lately written in Italian by F. Alvarez Semedo, a Portughess, after he had resided twenty two yeares at the Court, and other Famous …
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# 39617
de WIT, Frederick (1630-1706)
Accuratissima totius Asiae tabula : in omnes partes divisa, de nova correcta, ac in lucem edita
per Fredericum de Witt Amstelodami cum privilegio D.D. ordinum Hollandiae Westristacqs ; F. de Wit excudit. [Amsterdam : Frederik de Wit, circa 1688]. Copperplate engraving on paper, 58.0 cm in diameter, on sheet 51.0 x 61.0 cm, original hand colouring, a couple of paper reinforcements verso, a very good copy. A fine large format seventeenth century …
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# 49754
OSORIO, Jerome (Jerónimo); GIBBS, James (translator)
History of the Portuguese, During the Reign of Emmanuel: containing all their discoveries, from the coast of Africk to the farthest parts of China;
their battles by sea and land, their sieges, and other memorable exploits: with a description of those countries, and a particular account of the religion, government, and customs of the natives; including also, their discovery of the Brazils, and their wars with the Moors. London : A. Millar, 1752. First English-language edition. Two volumes, octavo, …
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# 48965
MORRISON, Robert (1732-1834)
A grammar of the Chinese language. (John Francis Davis’ copy)
Serampore : Printed at the Mission Press, 1815. Quarto (275 x 215 mm), half calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt; marbled edges; title with ownership signature of ‘J. F. Davis’; pp vi, [2], 280; text in English and Chinese characters; occasional marginal damp staining with …
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# 50047
CAMPBELL, Archibald
A voyage round the world, from 1806 to 1812;
in which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Sandwich Islands, were visited. Including a narrative of the author’s shipwreck on the Island of Sannack, and his subsequent wreck in the ship’s long-boat; with an account of the present state of the Sandwich Islands, and a vocabulary of their language. Edinburgh : printed for Archibald …
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# 43015
FEMBO, Christoph (editor and publisher)
Abbildungen der Bewohner der Erde,
aus den besten Schriften zusammengestellt … … Nürnberg : Christoph Fembo, 1816. Broadsheet, 610 x 500 mm, copper engraving with original hand colouring; light creasing, some short edge tears and a few expert repairs. A spectacular early nineteenth-century coloured engraving illustrating the traditional costume of peoples of the world. The sixty-six full-length portraits are arranged …
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# 49046
THOM, Robert (1807-1846) (translator)
Wang Keaou Lwan pih neen chang han, or The lasting resentment of Miss Keaou Lwan Wang, a Chinese tale; founded on fact. Translated from the original by Sloth. (Inscribed by Rev. David Thom)
Canton : printed at the Canton Press Office, 1839. Small quarto, recent half calf over marbled papered boards, spine with contrasting red leather title label lettered in gilt; bound with the original printed green upper wrapper (stained and re-margined) retaining the two original pasted-on printed slips worded ‘Translated from the original by Robert Thom, Esq., resident …
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# 49285
TAYLOR, W. Cooke
A popular history of British India, commercial intercourse with China, and the insular possessions of England in the Eastern Seas.
London : James Madden & Co., 1842. Octavo, publisher’s green cloth (rebacked, preserving original spine with is rubbed), remnants of gilt lettering to spine, pp. viii; 508, internally clean, many leaves remaining unopened (a few have been roughly opened), a very good copy. With a detailed contemporary account of the war with China which saw …
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# 49327
FINN, James (1806 - 1872)
The Jews in China :
their synagogue, their scriptures, their history, &c. London : B. Wertheim, 1843. Octavo, green cloth lettered in gilt with Chinese characters, hinges expertly repaired, pp. viii; 86, a very good copy. A rare study of the Kaifeng Jewish community in China by the British diplomat Finn, who published a number of books on Jewish history …
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# 49132
WHITE, Mary
“Shanghae Flowers” (painted 1845 – 1847)
Album, 295 x 240 x 75 mm, thick embossed morocco bound boards, brass clasp, small bookseller’s label from Kensington, London to pastedown, later family inscriptions to endpaper, calligraphic title leaf in red and blue, heightened in gold ‘Shanghae Flowers. Presented to James White by his wife on his Birthday April X 1868’, two page manuscript …
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# 48956
MORRISON, John Robert (1814-1843) [WILLIAMS, Samuel Wells]
A Chinese commercial guide, consisting of a collection of details and regulations respecting foreign trade with China.
By the late Hon. J. R. Morrison. Third edition, revised throughout, and made applicable to the trade as at present conducted. Canton : Printed at the Office of the Chinese Repository, 1848. Third edition. Octavo, recent half morocco over marbled papered boards, spine ruled in gilt with contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt; pp. …
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# 48676
MEDHURST, W.H. (Walter Henry) (1796-1857)
A glance at the interior of China obtained during a journey through the silk and green tea districts. Taken in 1845.
[Shanghae : Printed at the Mission Press, 1849]. [Series: The Chinese miscellany, I]. Octavo, modern half Morocco over marbled papered boards, spine with gilt-lettered title label, text and illustrations printed in Shanghai on Chinese paper, pp [ii – title leaf, with small chip at margin, repaired with Japanese tissue], 192, [9] folding woodcut plates, maps …