China
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# 44369
MARSHALL, John (1748-1819) (attributed)
[FIRST FLEET] Manuscript map showing the track of the ship “Scarborough” on its return voyage from Port Jackson in 1788.
Manuscript chart showing the track of a ship [the Scarborough] on a voyage from Port Jackson to Canton [in 1788], on verso of printed map A New Chart of the Southern Coast of Africa, From The Cape of Good Hope To Dalagoa Bay; with the Bank of Cape Agulhas … (1781); 627 x 848 mm …
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# 43015
FEMBO, Christoph (editor and publisher)
[INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS]. 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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# 21999
LAUNAY, Adrien (1853-1927)
Atlas des Missions de la Société des Missions-Étrangères
: 27 cartes en 5 couleurs accompagnées de 27 notices géographiques et historiques. Lille : Société de Saint Augustin, 1890. Large folio (530 x 380 mm), original cloth backed printed papered boards (lightly marked), [3] prelimary leaves, followed by 27 full page colour maps, each accompanied by descriptive text on facing page; thumb index; all maps …
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# 30843
COLONY OF VICTORIA. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.
Victoria. Chinese immigration. Return to an Order of the House, dated 18th July, 1888,
for – A copy of all papers, including correspondence, legal opinions, reports of deputations, interviews, and minutes relating to the Chinese Immigration Question, and the action of the Government in connection therewith … Ordered by the Legislative Council to be printed, 26th September, 1888. Melbourne : Robt. S. Bain, Government Printer, 1888. Disbound folio (320 …
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# 30098
GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.
Australasia. Correspondence relating to Chinese immigration into the Australian colonies, with a Return of Acts passed by the Legislatures of those Colonies and of Canada and British Columbia on the subject.
London : Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office, by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1888. Folio (330 mm), printed blue wrappers (a little chipped at edges, paper loss along spine), pp x, 87; a few pencilled annotations, but a very clean copy in the original wrappers.
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# 39977
RIEMER, Gustav Adolf (1842-1899)
Reise S.M.S. Stosch nach China und Japan 1881-1883.
Photographirt und herausgegeben v. G. Riemer, Marine Zahlmeister. Band II [of 2] See- und Schiffsbilder. Leipzig : F. A. Brockhaus, 1883. Oblong folio (300 x 400 mm), original red cloth over boards decorated and lettered in gilt, upper board with titles in German, Chinese and Japanese (some light flecking and minor stains, lower board with damp …
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# 21818
MEGGITT, J. C.
Japan across Siberia, Russia and Germany. Impressions of a tour.
Cardiff : Western Mail and Echo Ltd, 1935. Octavo, lettered boards, pp. 80, illustrated. A series of articles reprinted from the Western Mail & South Wales News, including the Chinese of Penang and Singapore, fashion in the Straits, Hong Kong and Shanghai, farming in Japan etc. Folding map tipped-in at rear.
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# 42916
[Società Geografica Italiana]
Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana. [Serie prima:] Anno VII. Volume X. Fascicolo 1, iuglio 1873 – Fascicolo 6, dicembre 1873].
Roma : Stabilimento Giuseppe Civelli, June-December 1873. Six parts in five volumes (as issued), octavo, original printed blue wrappers (some light staining and foxing, early ownership inscription to two of the upper wrappers); pp. 1-120 (with folding colour map showing telegraph communication linking Europe and Asia); 1-92; 1-94; 1-117; 1-74 (with folding lithographed plate of …
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# 43072
STREHLNEEK, E. A.
Chinese Pictorial Art (presentation copy)
Shanghai : Commercial Press, 1914. First edition. Quarto, silk-covered boards, lettered in gilt (edges rubbed and frayed, the upper board detached and held in place only by the delicate silk), pp. 324, [iv], [ii], 74, [ii], illustrated with 32 colour plates, with a signed presentation inscription from the author. Illustrated catalogue of a collection of …
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# 42450
BROUGHTON, William Robert (1762-1821)
A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean … Performed in His Majesty’s Sloop Providence and her Tender, in the years 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798.
London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. Quarto, full contemporary calf, spine renewed in period style; pp. xx, 393, [1], [2 publisher’s advertisements]; with three charts and six plates and views (most folding); a fine wide-margined copy, with fresh plates and maps. Broughton’s A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean is an acknowledged …
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# 42270
PRATTEN, H. E.
Asiatic impressions
A collection of articles by H. E. Pratten. Sydney : Fergusson, 1908. First edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers by Harry Weston, small chips to head and foot of spine, previous owner’s name to title page, pp. 95, occasional underlining in blue pencil, photographically illustrated plates. The author’s descriptions of The Philippines, Japan, Hong Kong, China, India, …
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# 41386
GARNET H. CARROLL and J. C. WILLIAMSON THEATRES LTD.
The Classical Theatre of China : New Zealand. Australia. 1956.
Melbourne : Australian Pacific Agencies for The Classical Theatre of China, 1956. Large octavo (245 x 175 mm), pictorial wrappers, stapled; [32] pp., b/w photographic illustrations, advertisements for Melbourne businesses; a good copy. The Classical Theatre of China’s visit to Australia and New Zealand in 1956-57 was part of a world tour by the company, …
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# 21338
ALLEN, Glover M.
The mammals of China and Mongolia
New York : The American Museum of Natural History, 1938 – 1940. Two volumes, quarto, black lettered yellow cloth, dustjackets (a couple of small chips), the first volume pp. xxv; 629; 9 plates, 22 distribution maps; the second volume pp. xxvi; 621- 1350; 11 plates, 11 text illustrations, 41 distribution maps, a very good set. …
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# 38353
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 (220 mm), recent half calf over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; pp viii, 54, [48 texts in Manchu (Mongolian) script, block printed in the Chinese style]; facing title page, a title page in Chinese and Manchu printed on yellow paper (chipped at corners); leaves with browning and …
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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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# 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 …