China: Studies in Culture, History & Topography

Static list. All items are subject to availability. Prices are subject to change. Please enquire.

 

1 [ADER, Picard, tajan, Portier, Dillée]. [Anténor Patino, Baron Philippe de Rothschild]. Objets d’art et de très bel ameublement, biscuit émaillé bleu de la Chine, porcelaine de la Compagnie des Indes, tapis - tapisseries. Provenant principalement des collections Anténor Patino et du Baron Philippe de Rothschild. Vente a Paris, Palais Galliera, juin 1976. Paris, Palais Galliera, 1976.

Crown quarto. Exhibition catalogue, profusely illustrated throughout, numerous colour plates. Hardcover, bound in the original full olive-green cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine. In fine condition. Bright, crisp copy, practically unused.
€ 40 --



2 ARLINGTON, L. C. Through the Dragon’s Eyes: Fifty Years’ Experiences of a Foreigner in the Chinese Government Service. London, Constable & Co., 1931.

Crown quarto. Pp. lvii, (ii) errata, 348. Plus 24 plates, of which 13 are coloured, including frontispiece, and 11 are halftone. Plus a large folding map, bound at end. Including foreword, preface, autobiographical note, introductory. With 6 appendices, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full deep-blue cloth, spine gilt, to edge blue, bottom edge untrimmed. With the original pictorial dust-jacket, this worn, chipped, price-clipped, displaying a mounted coloured plate, repeating frontispiece. In fine condition, light foxing to title-page. Excellent copy, perfectly preserved interior and plates.

- - First edition. Arlington’s, a retired Commissioner Chinese Postal Service, autobiographical notes and reminiscence of his time at the Chinese maritime customs and postal services make a fascinating reading. The visual power of the coloured plates, however, almost overshadows this. The horrific display of tortures and methods for “confession extortion”, beautifully printed in fine pastel colours, is remarkable. This copy comes with the extremely rare, albeit poor, original pictorial dust-jacket.
€ 320 --



3 BABER, E. Colborne. Travels and Researches in Western China. (Royal Geographical Society Supplementary Papers). London, John Murray, 1882.

Crown quarto. Pp. 201.
Plus 3 folding lithograph maps, one of which is very large, “Route Map of Explorations in Western China”, with route printed in red, all bound at end. Plus 10 folding plates, and a folding lithograph chart “Section of Country”. With one full-page map in the text; engraved illustrations to text. With 5 appendices. Hardcover, bound in contemporary half calf and marbled boards, binding poor, spine gone, title-page loose. A very good interior with well preserved maps and plates. Excellent binding copy.

- - First edition. Royal Geographical Society Supplementary Papers, Vol. I. Part I. [Provenance:] From the private library of the late R. E. Temple, with his handsome armorial bookplate, bearing the Temple’s family motto “Templa quam dilecta”. Richard Temple-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1823-1889), a British statesman, a close friend and subordinate of Benjamin Disreali. George Nugent-Temple-Grenville was the 1st Duke of Buckingham. He died in 1813, leaving to his son Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1776-1839), 2nd Duke of Buckingham, his titles and estates, chiefly Stowe in Buckinghamshire, one of England’s greatest houses. Scarce and with exceptionally fine provenance.
€ 320 --



4 BAECKSTRÖM [BAECKSTROEM], Anton. Ett besök i Japan och Kina jemte bilder från vägen dit öfver Goda-Hoppsudden, Bourbon, Nya Kaledonien, Manilla och Kokinkina. Anteckningar och minnen från en treårig tjenstgöring i franska flottan. Med 63 illustrationer i stentryck och träsnitt. Stockholm, Albert Bonnier, 1871.

Crown quarto. Pp. (iv), 391. Plus engraved frontispiece, 8 tinted lithographs, and 15 full-page wood-engraved plates. With 39 wood-engraved illustration to text. Half-title present. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full embossed cloth, upper cover with large, attractive gilt illustration within blind-embossed and relief frames, spine richly illustrated in gilt, and with gilt lettering, spine discoloured, some wear to spine-ends. A very good copy in fine internal condition, crisp plates.

- - First edition. The beautifully illustrated travelogue of Anton Baeckström describes the expedition to the Far East (1867-1870) in which he participated in the service of the French Navy. He recalls the expedition’s visits to places as Bourbon, New Caledonia, Manilla, Cochinchina, Japan, China, Singapore; and devotes large part of the book to Japan, including visits to Nagasaki, Yokohama, Edo, Kamakura, Kobe, Osaka. With views of Manila, Saigon, Bangkok, Deshima, Hongkong, and Singapore. Cordier BJ 628.
€ 600 --



5 BALL, James Dyer, The Celestial and his Religions: or the Religious Aspect in China. Being a Series of Lectures on the Religions of the Chinese. Hongkong, Kelly & Walsh, 1906.

Octavo. Pp. (iv), (4), 240, xviii. Appendices, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s quarter crimson cloth and printed boards, endpapers lightly browned. In a very good condition. Overall an excellent copy, well preserved.

- - First edition. A DEDICATION COPY, inscribed by the author on first free endpaper: “With love from the Author”. James Dyer Ball (1847-1919). Very rare. KVK locates copies in Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (2); Union Catalog of Canada; Library of Congress; and National Library of France only. COPAC lists 5 copies only in the U.K. European Register of Microform Masters lists one microfiche.
€ 600 --



6 BARROW, John. Some Account of the Public Life, and a Selection from the Unpublished Writings, of the Earl of Macartney. The Latter Consisting of Extracts from an Account of the Russian Empire, a Sketch of the Political History of Ireland, and a Journal of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China. With an Appendix to Each Volume, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807.

Two volumes. Quarto. Pp. xii, 608; 531. Plus portrait frontispiece, engraved by L. Schiavonetti after H. Edridge, rather foxed due to paper quality, affecting adjoining leaves. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary half blonde calf extra, marbled boards, blind ruled sides, spine with raised bands decoratively tooled in gilt, blind embossed compartments, 2 dark-green gilt lettering-pieces in remaining compartments, “London 1807” gilt-stamped at foot of each spine, bit discoloured, extremities bit rubbed, chafed. A fine, wide-margined set.

- - First edition. Important work for its account of Macartney’s embassy to China. Lust, 501; Cordier BS, 2391. Provenance: from the private library of Stafford H. Northcote, with his attractive, engraved armorial bookplate “Christi crux est mea lux” (“The cross of Christ is my light”) to each volume. Sir Stafford Henry Northcote (1818-1887), 1st Earl of Iddesleigh, was Secretary of State for India (1867), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1874-1880), and British Foreign Secretary (1886). His(?) bookmark, silken red, hand embroidered with the word “Faith”, is loosely inserted in volume II. ADDED TO THIS COPY: Loosely inserted in this copy are 2 engraved prints, apparently collected by Northcote. These are as follows: I. “View of the City of Batavia, with a Distant View of the Mountain Overhanging the Valley of the Upas, or Poison Tree. (From Authenticated Documents.)” Oblong, 200 x 260mm. Engraved by T. Dixon, after W. M. Craig, published by H. Fisher, London, 1826. II. “Sir James Brooke. (Raja of Sarawak.) From a Photograph taken expressly for the Work by Herbert Watkins.” Portrait, 245 x 170mm. Stipple engraved by W. Edwards, published by James S. Virtue, London, undated. Both prints are in fine condition. A wonderful addition to a most attractive set with fine provenance.
€ 1200 --



7 BESSO, Salvatore. Siam and China. London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, N.d. (1914).

Quarto. Pp. xx, 287. Plus frontispiece and 69 plates, all printed on different paper, bound in. Vignette illustration to title-page. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full cloth, blind tooled decorative boards, gilt spine, mounted plate on upper cover, spine ends slightly bumped. In fine condition (signature on first paste-down). Excellent interior, crisp plates.

- - First English edition. Translated from the Italian by C. Mathews. The numerous illustrations include many reproductions of the original postcards sent by Besso.
€ 320 --



8 BOERSCHMANN, Ernst. Baukunst und Landschaft in China. Eine Reise durch zwölf provinzen. Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth, 1926.

Quarto. Contains 15 pages of text, and 288 (helio)gravure plates, printed in tinted ink. With one map. Title-page, map, and text printed in brown. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full red cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine, spine bid faded, one corner-tip rubbed. In fine internal condition. Beautifully preserved plates.

- - First edition. 11th to 20th Thousand. Boerschmann, a prolific photographer, provided also the travelogue, descriptive text, and photo captions. The exceptionally fine screen gravures were printed by the German firm of Rotophot.
€ 320 --



9 BOULNOIS, Luce. Préface de Paul Demiéville. La route de la soie. Paris, Arthaud, 1963.

Royal octavo. Pp. 318. With 56 héliogravures, beautifully printed in tinted ink, often full-page, and 11 maps. Bound in the original stiff wrappers, with dust-jacket. In a very good condition. Nice copy.

- - First edition, first printing.
€ 30 --



10 BOURNE, [Sir] Frederick Samuel Augustus; H. Neville; H. Bell. Report of the Mission to China of the Blackburn Chamber of Commerce, 1896-7. Blackburn, The North-East Lancashire Press Company, 1898.

Two parts in one volume. Royal octavo. Pp. xii, 152; vii, 386. Plus a group-portrait as frontispiece (expertly strengthened on verso along inner edge); large folding map; fold-out map (loosely inserted); and a fold-out plan “Section of Main Caravan Route (...)”; some slight, minor spotting to maps due to stock quality. Includes a transcript of Bourne’s letter to the Marquess of Salisbury. Appendices, glossary, tables, text figures. Hardcover, handsomely bound in modern full purple cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. In fine condition. Bright interior, very attractive binding, overall excellent.

- - First edition. Extremely rare. Sir Frederick Samuel Augustus Bourne (1854-1940) was Concul in charge of the Blackburn Commercial Mission. Between October 1896 and June 1897, members of the Blackburn Commission travelled some 4,300 miles through the interior of south and central China. They collected detailed information on all factors relating to how the Chinese met “their own wants in the matter of textiles”, including material on marketing, distribution, indigenous handicraft production, taxation and “local customs and usage as they might affect [the United Kingdom’s] textile industry”. The Commission also investigated in detail remote or less known parts of the country, and provided an account of means of communication by land and water. The report was published in two lengthy sections by The North-East Lancashire Press Company in Blackburn, a very rare imprint. The first part was compiled by Bourne; the second by H. Neville and H. Bell. See further: “Commerce and Capitalism in Chinese Societies”, Gary G. Hamilton (London, Routledge, 2006). Bourne published also, among others, “The Lo-Fou mountains: An excursion” (Hongkong, 1895); and “Trade of central and southern China” (Shanghai, 1898).
€ 2250 --



11 BREUER, Hans. [Albert Gervais]. Kolumbus war Chinese. Erfindungen und Entdeckungen des Fernen Ostens. [AND:] Morgenröte über China. Ein Arzt erlebt China zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft. [LOT OF 2 BOOKS]. Frankfurt, Societäts, 1970.

Octavo. Pp. 339. many plates and illustrations. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s illustrated red cloth. In fine condition.

- - First edition. TO THIS WE ADD: Albert Gervais: “Morgenröte über China. Ein Arzt erlebt China zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft”. (München, Goldmann, 1954). Pp. 262. Hardcover, cloth with dust-jacket. Fine.
€ 10 --



12 BUCKENS, Fernand. Les antiquités funéraires du Honan central et la conception de l’âme, dans la Chine primitive, d’après des documents archéologiques et paléographiques. Extrait des Mélanges chinois et Bouddhiques. Bruges, Sainte-Catherine, 1947.

Crown quarto. Pp. 101. Plus 28 plates, printed on different paper. Text illustrations. Bound in the original printed wrappers. In fine condition (decorative stamp, signature).

- - First edition thus. Extrait des Mélanges chinois et Bouddhiques, publiés par l’Institut Belge des hautes études chinoises, III.
€ 120 --



13 CLUGNET, Léon. Géographie de la soie. Étude géographique et statistique sur la production et le commerce de la soie en cocon. Mémoire couronné par la Société de Géographie de Lyon. Lyon, Secrétariat de la Société de Géographie, 1877.

Crown quarto. Pp. x, 201. Bound in the original printed wrappers, slightly soiled, vague dampmark at blank bottom of first few leaves. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused, still entirely unopened.

- - First edition. Mémoire couronné par la Société de Géographie de Lyon. Rare. KVK locates only 3 copies in all European institutional libraries i.e. Union Catalog Northern Germany, National Library of France, and National Library of Spain. Another copy is located in Union Catalog of Canada.
€ 600 --



14 [DIH PING TSZE (TI P’ING-TZU, Di Ping Zi); Kung-chen Koo]. Famous Chinese Paintings Collected by Ping Teng Ko. [Zhongguo ming hua ji: Ping deng ge cang]. [TWO VOLUMES]. Shanghai, Yu Cheng (Chen) Book Company, (1930).

Two volumes. Small folio. 628 leaves. A total of 314 plates. I. Pp. (6) text, and 182 interleaved plates; II. (2) text, and 132 interleaved plates. Publisher’s announcement dated 1934. Some scattered foxing in margins. Uniformly bound in Chinese-style in the original publisher’s laced silk, large silk label to each volume calligraphed in Chinese. The two volumes are placed in the original blue cloth over boards portfolio (spine faded, slight wear at head), large lettering-piece in Chinese to upper board, 2 ivory fasteners. In fine condition. Two excellent volumes of beautifully preserved plates.

- - First edition, very rare. KVK does not locate any copy in all European libraries. OCLC locates a single copy worldwide, that at the University of Michigan. Not much is known about Dih Ping Tsze (Ti P’ing-tzu, also pronounced Di Ping Zi) the founder of “Ping Teng Ko” (“House of Equality” or “Book-room of Equality”) in Shanghai, where he kept his splendid collection of the early Chinese paintings depicted in this lavishly produced work. Champion of the revolutionary cause, a painter himself, he founded the China Independence Association and the Shih Pao (”Eastern Times”) newspaper. Financing his enterprises by selling some of the precious items in his art collection, he went on to found the Yu Cheng (or Yu Chen, also Youzheng) Book Company, “for the preservation of China’s national culture by advancing the cause of Chinese art”. He then embarked on the costly undertaking of bringing out the present first collection of famous early Chinese paintings from his collection. The work comprises the representative works of the Tang Dynasty, the Five Ages, the Six Eras, the Sung, Yuan, Ming, and Tsing Dynasties. The plates are of very high quality and are printed in several different techniques. Noteworthy are the superb aquatint heliogravures (monochromatic), and the mounted colour plates, first chromolithographed on delicate China paper, using five stones, and then beautifully finished by hand. All plates are protected with tissue guards, on which the title of the painting (in English and Chinese), the name of the painter (in English), and the dynasty and date (in English) are printed. The introduction is by Kung-chen Koo, editor of the Eastern Times. A remarkable production.
€ 2200 --



15 FENOLLOSA, Ernest F. Ursprung und Entwicklung der chinesischen und japanischen Kunst, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1913.

Two volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. xxviii, 228, plus 77, partly coloured plates, 2 text illustrations; xi, 240, plus 113, partly coloured plates. Mounted colour frontispiece to each volume. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original quarter smooth calf and boards, spines gilt, binding bit rubbed in places and foxed. In a very good condition (signature).

- - First German edition, translated by Fr. Milcke, adapted by Shinkichi Hara. A very well produced work, complete in 2 volumes. In this first edition the finely printed plates, reproducing master works of Chinese and Japanese art, are of exceptional quality.
€ 120 --



16 FISHER, Lt.-Colonel. [Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur A’Court Fisher, C.B., Royal Engineers]; [George Battye Fisher]. Personal Narrative of Three Years’ Service in China. London, Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1863.

Octavo. Pp. vi, (ii), 420. Plus wood-engraved frontispiece with facing tissue-guard; 2 full page wood-engraved plates; one full-page plan, and 6 wood-engraved vignette illustrations. Plus 3 folding engraved maps, bound at end. Hardcover, beautifully bound in recent three-quarter smooth black calf extra, attractive marbled paper over boards, sides decorated with blind rolls, spine in compartments between gilt-ruled raised bands, large gilt fleuron in five of six compartments, red morocco lettering-piece gilt in remainder, all edges polished smooth and dyed red. In exceptionally fine condition. An immaculate copy.

- - First edition. Authorship attributed by some to Arthur A’Court Fisher; by others to George Battye Fisher (for that matter, see British Union Catalog; OCLC 9004104). Rare. KVK locates only 4 copies among all major European institutional libraries (Union Catalog Norway; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; French Union Catalog; Union Catalog Northern Germany). COPAC lists only 5 copies in the UK (British Library, Oxford, Cambridge, National Library of Scotland, School of Oriental & African Studies). Register of Preservation Surrogates lists microform copies only. Worldcat 51370462 lists microform copies only. A superb copy of an outstanding work.
€ 4950 --



17 FLEMING, George. Travels on Horseback in Mantchu Tartary: Being a Summer’s Ride Beyond the Great Wall of China. London, Hurst and Blackett, Successors to Henry Colburn, 1863.

Crown quarto. Pp. xvi, 579. Chromolithograph frontispiece. Fold-out map with additional colour added in lithography (small tears at fold). With 54 wood-engraved illustrations. Hardcover, bound in contemporary half polished calf and forest-green ribbed cloth, sides and corners ornamentally roll-tooled in blind, spine gilt; bit worn and chafed in places, inner-hinges split; foxed. Overall a handsome copy in good condition, and with the contemporary armorial bookplate, “Auspicium Melioris Aevi” (an omen of a better age, motto of the Order of St. Michael and St. George).

- - First edition. Cordier BS, 2747.
€ 680 --



18 FORKE, Alfred. Alfred Bertholet & Eduard [Edvard] Lehmann. Wilhelm Grube. Chinesische Mystik. [AND:] Lehrbuch der Religionsgeschichte. Begründet von Chantepie de la Saussaye. Separatabdruck. [AND:] Die Religion der Alten Chinesen. [AND:] Der Ursprung der Chinesen auf Grund ihrer alten Bilderschrift. [AND:] Die Religionen Chinas. [FIVE BOOKS].

The sets includes: 1. Alfred Forke: Chinesische Mystik. (Berlin, Karl Curtius, 1922). Octavo. Pp. 32. Original wrappers. [AND:] 2. Alfred Bertholet, Eduard Lehmann: Lehrbuch der Religionsgeschichte. Begründet von Chantepie de la Saussaye. Separatabdruck, im Buchhandel nicht zu haben. (Tübingen, Mohr, Paul Siebeck, n.d.) Crown quarto. Pp. 193-261. Original wrappers. [AND:] 3. Wilhelm Grube: Die Religion der Alten Chinesen. Crown quarto. Pp. 74. (Tübingen, Mohr, Paul Siebeck, 1911). Original wrappers. [AND:] 4. Alfred Forke: Der Ursprung der Chinesen auf Grund ihrer alten Bilderschrift. (Hamburg, Friederichsen, 1925). Quarto. Pp. 31. Original decorative wrappers. All 4 volumes privately bound together in hardcover binding of half cloth, spine gilt. In good condition (some annotations, signatures, newspaper clips, etc.). An excellent working set.

- - TO THIS IS ADDED A COMPLIMENTARY BOOK: M. G. Pernitzsch: Die Religionen Chinas. (Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1940). Octavo. Pp. 111. Hardcover, original cloth. Together 5 books on the subject of ancient Chinese religion.
€ 80 --



19 GARRETT, Valery M. Traditional Chinese Clothing in Hong Kong and South China, 1840-1980. (Images of Asia). Hong Kong, Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 1994.

Crown octavo. Pp. 87. Plus colour plates, with text illustrations. Glossary, bibliography, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s pictorial boards. A BRAND NEW copy.

€ 50 --



20 GORER, (E.). Collection d’anciennes porcelaines de Chine et Pierres Dures. Paris, Exposée à l’Hôtel Astoria, 1912.

Quarto. Pp. 73. Plus 14 colour plates, including frontispiece, some heightened with gold, each protected with a tissue guard. half-title present. Hardcover, bound in the original full navy-blue cloth, blind panelled upper board, gilt lettering, endpapers bit browned. In overall very good condition and in fine, crisp internal condition.

- - First and only edition. Beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue.
€ 90 --



21 GUTZLAFF, Charles. [Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff (Guetzlaff)]; Rev. W. Ellis. Journal of Three Voyages Along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832, & 1833, With Notices of Siam, Corea, and the Loo-Choo Islands. To Which is Prefixed, an Introductory Essay on the Policy, Religion, etc. of China, by the Rev. W. Ellis. London, Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis, 1834.

Crown quarto. Pp. iv, 347. With engraved frontispiece and a folding engraved map, rather foxed, slightly affecting adjoining leaves in an otherwise bright interior. Hardcover, bound in contemporary half calf and matching pebble-grained cloth, blind ruled sides, spine with gilt tooled raised bands, gilt lettering, red sprinkled edges. Bound by Squires Binder, Woolwich, for the Royal Military Academy, with its emblem stamped in gilt on spine, leather bit rubbed, chafed in places, inner hinges cracked. Overall a very good, desirable copy.

- - Second edition. Provenance: From the library of Denis Leigh, Consultant Psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital. Archibald Denis Leigh (1915-1998) was a consultant psychiatrist at the Maudsley and Bethlem Hospitals and one of the leading psychiatrists and teachers of post-graduate students of his generation. He was a consultant psychiatrist to the British Army and the first psychiatrist to serve on the parole board, an expert witness for the Crown in the “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” obscenity case. In 1966 he was appointed secretary-general of the World Psychiatric Association. He wrote a great deal and published extensively. Apart from his professional life he was an intensely private person who valued the seclusion of his home in the country. In his last years he was able to devote more time to his many hobbies, including fly fishing, shooting, gardening - and collecting old books. He died at home after a long illness. Later, at the Royal Military Academy Library, with a bookplate to first paste-down. Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff, anglicized as Charles Gutzlaff (1803-1851). Cordier BS, 2111; Lust, 371 (1st ed.).

€ 900 --



22 GUTZLAFF, The Rev. Charles [Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff (Guetzlaff)]. Revised by Rev. Andrew Reed. China Opened; Or, a Display of the Topography, History, Customs, Manners, Arts, Manufactures, Commerce, Literature, Religion, Jurisprudence, etc., of the Chinese Empire, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1838.

Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. xvi, 510; 570. Plus folding map of the Chinese Empire and Japan as frontispiece to Volume I, hand-coloured in outlines to mark territorial borders (foxed). Plus folding plate “Specimen of the various modes in which the Chinese characters are written”. Full-page table. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s full brown cloth, boards and spine blind embossed with ornament, lettering-piece to each spine, spines bit faded, extremities bit rubbed, crack to a single inner hinge. In a very good condition, stamp to verso of title and last page, bookseller’s ticket. Overall fine interiors, untrimmed, well preserved and neatly bound.

- - First edition. Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff, anglicized as Charles Gutzlaff (1803-1851). In 1834 he published “A Sketch of Chinese History, Ancient and Modern” (German version, 1847), professing to be “an outline of Chinese history”. The present work, Reed claims, “does not materially interfere (with it), and is much superior to it, both in interest and execution”. Provenance: From the collection of King’s Inns Library, Dublin. Cordier BS, 74-75; Lust, 32.

€ 800 --



23 HACKMANN, H. Die dreihundert Mönchsgebote des chinesischen Taoismus. Amsterdam, Koninklijke Akademie Van Wetenschappen, 1931.

Quarto. Pp. 60. Plus 24 pp. of Chinese text, including plates in red and black. Original wrappers, worn. Fair copy, good interior.

- - First edition. Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie Van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam, Afdeeling Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks Deel XXXII Nr. 1.
€ 20 --



24 HENRY, B. C. Ling-Nam, or Interior Views of Southern China, Including Explorations in the Hitherto Untraversed Island of Hainan. London, S. W. Partridge, 1886.

Octavo. Pp. 511. Frontispiece. Double-page maps, full-page plates, illustrations to text, illustrated initials. Illustrated title-page. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s pictorial cloth, dark forest-green heightened in gilt, and with decorative lettering in gilt, spine illustrated, gilt, decorative endpapers; occasionally some foxing. A lovely copy in about fine condition.

- - First edition. Cordier BS, 2147. A school prize copy, with the handsome contemporary plate, dated 1898.
€ 450 --



25 HENTZE, C. Les figurines de la ceramique funeraire. Matériaux pour l’étude des croyances et du folklore de la Chine ancienne. I. Texte; II. Planches. {TWO VOLUMES]. Hellerau bei Dresden, Avalun, & Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, N.d. (ca. 1925).

Two volumes in one. Quarto. I. Text Volume. Pp. viii, 105. II. Plate Volume., consists of title leaf and 114 single-sheet collotype plates. Both volumes placed in the original quarter cloth portfolio, printed upper board and spine (minor wear at extremities, small repairs to inside of flaps). In fine condition. A superb set of plates, exceptionally well preserved.

- - First edition. Collotype is one of the most accurate and attractive methods of photomechanical tonal printing processes. Highly skilled and expensive process, it cannot produce more than a limited number of impressions. It has been used for single-sheet prints and luxury portfolios, and since the 1950s has been abandoned by all except a few small specialist firms.
€ 180 --



26 HOFFMEISTER, Adolf. Guo-Hua oder die chinesische Malerei. Reiseeindrücke. Prag, Artia, 1957.

Royal octavo. Pp. 204. Plus 16 collotype plates, mounted on card leaves, bound in. Plus 48 other plates, text illustrations. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full cloth, decorated in red, with very good pictorial dust-jacket. In fine condition. Excellent copy, beautifully well preserved.

- - First edition.
€ 30 --



27 HUC, M. The Chinese Empire: Forming a Sequel to the Work Entitled “Recollections of a Journey Through Tartary and Thibet”, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855.

Two volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. xxviii, 421, (2) publisher’s catalogue; viii, 440, 24 publisher’s catalogue. Folding colour lithograph map as frontispiece to volume I, short split at fold. Half-title present in each volume, contemporary signature to title-page of one. Hardcover, uniformly bound in three-quarter fine red morocco extra, matching marbled boards, black ruled sides, spines with gilt role-tooled raised bands, 4 gilt tooled ornaments, gilt lettering direct in remaining compartments, publishing year gilt stamped at foot, untrimmed as issued. In fine condition. A most attractive set.

- - Second edition, published the same year as the first English edition. First published in French, 1954.
€ 260 --



28 JACQUES, Norbert. Auf dem chinesischen Fluss. Reisbuch, mit Bildern nach Aufnahmen des Verfassers. Berlin, S. Fischer, 1921.

First edition. Crown octavo. Pp. 266. Plus plates, beautifully printed in tinted ink. Hardcover, bound in the original illustrated cloth. Nice copy in a very good condition, excellent interior.

- - First edition.
€ 25 --



29 JOHNSTON, Rev. Jas. China and Formosa: The Story of a Successful Mission. With many Illustrations Prepared for This Work and Four Maps. London, Hazell, Watson, & Viney, 1898.

Octavo. Pp. xvi, 400. Frontispiece. Full-page plates, 4 maps, many text illustrations, head- and tail-pieces. Illustrated initial to the preface. Appendix, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full pebble-grained cloth, large gilt illustration to upper cover, and with gilt lettering, spine gilt, forest-green chalked endpapers; spine-ends bumped. A very good copy indeed.

- - Third thousand. Uncommon.
€ 480 --



30 KAULEN, Franciscus. Linguae Mandshuricae institutiones quas conscripsit, indicibus ornavit Chrestomathia et vocabulario auxit Franciscus Kaulen. Ratisbona [Regensburg], Josephus Manz, 1856.

Octavo. Pp. viii, 152. Hardcover, bound in quarter cloth and boards. Lightly dampmarked throughout, 2 leaves expertly restored into binding. Overall a very good copy albeit not particularly handsome.

- - First edition.
€ 220 --



31 [KELLY & WALSH]. HAND-BOOK TO HONGKONG. [KELLY & WALSH’S HANDBOOK TO HONG KONG]. HONGKONG, Kelly & Walsh, (1893).

Small octavo. Pp. 136, x publisher’s catalogue, (20) commercial advertisements. Decorative initials. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full duo-colour cloth, dark brown on boards, lighter brown for spine, upper cover lettered and ruled in black, publisher’s emblem on lower cover, endpapers printed with illustrated commercial ads, a corner-tip chafed. In fine condition (scribble pencilling to last page). Overall an excellent copy.

- - First edition, first printing. “The design of this little work is to give a succinct description of Hongkong, its history, interesting objects and excursions, with notes of the Climate, sanitation, Flora and Fauna of the Colony, sufficient to afford the visitor some additional information and pleasure from his visit, and it is hoped that the older residents of the Colony may also derive some pleasant reminiscences from the chapters on the excursions to the different places on the island and mainland adjacent.” The attractive commercial advertisement provide a fascinating insight into the social and commercial life in Hong Kong towards the end of the 19th century. Rare.
€ 600 --



32 KLEIWEG DE ZWAAN, J. P. Völkerkundliches und geschichtliches über die Heilkunde der Chinesen und Japaner mit besonderer Berücksichtigung holländischer Einflüssen. (Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen). Haarlem, De Erven Loosjes, 1917.

Quarto. Pp. xi, 656. Frontispiece. Numerous illustrations throughout. Serial title-page and 2 half-titles present.
Hardcover, handsomely bound in full buckram, morocco lettering-piece, gilt, on spine. In fine condition. Excellent, copy, exceptionally well preserved, practically unused.

- - First edition. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem, Derde Verzameling, Deel VII.
€ 380 --



33 KNOLLYS, Major Henry. English Life in China. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1885.

Octavo. Pp. ix, 333, (6) publisher’s catalogue. Half-title present. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full brown cloth, upper cover and spine lettered and decorated in gilt and black, some stray spots on back cover, floral endpapers, trimmed rough, spine-ends very lightly bumped, inner hinges about starting. In fine condition. Excellent copy, bright and fresh, beautifully preserved interior.

- - First edition. Sir Henry Knollys (1840-1930) served as a major in the Royal Artillery, later became private secretary to King Edward’s daughter Maud, queen of Norway. He was a descendant to a distinguished British family. Sir Francis Knollys (1514-1596) was an English statesman, became a member of parliament in 1542 and was knighted in 1547. His father, Robert Knollys, a courtier in the service of both Henry VII and Henry VIII. Sir Francis’s three sons were all courtiers and served Queen Mary in parliament or in the field. Henry Knollys published extensively; on “English Life in China” he said: “The statements contained in this book have, at all events, the advantage of having been recorded on the spot, and at the time when they were originally deduced. Taken down day by day in shorthand, I venture to hope that the opinions may possess the freshness, sometimes so conductive to accuracy, of first impressions; while the authenticity of the facts has been safe-guarded by subsequent careful revision.” See further: Peter J. Kitson (General Editor): “Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires: Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835–1910.” 8 volumes. (London, Pickering & Chatto, 2003-2004). Also: Albert Smith: “To China and Back: Being a Diary Kept Out and Home.” (Hong Kong, 1859). Very rare. KVK locates only 3 copies in all major European institutional libraries: in French Union Catalog, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, and Union Catalog Bavaria; and a 4th copy, in Catalog of Canada. COPAC locates 4 copies only in the U.K. (National Library of Scotland, Oxford, Cambridge, Leeds). One copy is in British Library (with a second in microform). European Register of Microform Masters lists 5 microfiche copies. Not in Library of Congress.
€ 1200 --



34 KUEPERS, Jacobus Joannes Antonius Mathias. China und die katholische Mission in Süd-Shantung 1882-1900. Die Geschichte einer Konfrontation. Steyl, Drukkerij van het Missiehuis, 1974.

Royal octavo. Pp. 232. Bound in the original stiff wrappers, slightly discoloured. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.

- - First edition. Doctoral dissertation. Explores the causes behind what is now known as the Boxer war. See also: Hartmut Walravens: Die Ost- und zentralasienwissenschaftlichen Beiträge in der Orientalistischen Literaturzeitung 1976-1992. Bibliographie und Register (Berlin, 1994). Scarce.
€ 150 --



35 KÜMMEL, Otto. [Jörg Trübner]. Jörg Trübner zum Gedächtnis. Ergebnisse seiner letzten chinesischen Reisen. Berlin, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1930.

Quarto. Pp. 148. Plus 84 finely printed collotype plates, including a large fold-out. Plus several smaller, halftone plates, mounted on the text leaves. Portrait frontispiece. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full navy-blue cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine (minute abrasion mark on spine). In a very good condition. Beautifully preserved plates.

- - First edition. Copy number 73 from a limited edition of 300 copies. Printed by the Graphischen Anstalt Ganymed, Berlin. Beautifully illustrated: collotype is one of the most accurate and attractive methods of photomechanical tonal printing processes. Highly skilled and expensive process, it cannot produce more than a limited number of impressions. It has been used for single-sheet prints and luxury portfolios, and since the 1950s has been abandoned by all except a few small specialist firms.
€ 220 --



36 LANGDON, William B.; [Nathan Dunn]. “Ten Thousand Chinese Thing.” A Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Collection, Now Exhibiting at St. George’s Place, Hyde Park Corner, London, With Condensed Accounts of the Genius, Government, History, Literature, Agriculture, Arts, Trade, Manners, Customs and Social Life of the People of the Celestial Empire. London, Printed for the Proprietor, and to be obtained only at the Chinese Collection, 1842.

Royal octavo. Pp. x, 11-163 (verso blank), (ii) publisher’s announcement (verso blank). Plus a total of 16 engraved plates, including frontispiece and 15 other engraved plates. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s ribbed brown cloth, upper cover with gilt lettering within blind embossed ornamental cartouche, cloth bit faded, some wear to spine ends, lower inner hinge cracked. A very good copy with fine, bright interior.

- - Twelfth English edition. Considerably enlarged: “The present volume, of which 11,000 have already been sold at the Collection, is nearly double the size of the original; in consequence, not only of the increased number of specimens, but also of the additional information it contains.” The collection was made by the American businessman Nathan Dunn (1782-1844), and curated by Langdon (1842-1900). In 1842 the exhibition was moved from Philadelphia to London. The last leaf in this volume is a Publisher’s announcement: “This day is published, in one volume, Royal 8vo 274 pages, illustrated with twenty-four wood cuts, handsomely bound in cloth, gilt and lettered: Ten Thousand Things Relating to China and the Chinese: An Epitome (...); together with A Catalogue of the Chinese Collection.” This rare volume (second edition, 1943) is also offered by Librarium of The Hague.
€ 220 --



37 LANGDON, William B.; [Nathan Dunn]. Ten Thousand Things Relating to China and the Chinese: An Epitome of the Genius, Government, History, Literature, Agriculture, Arts, Trade, Manners, Customs, and Social Life of the People of the Celestial Empire; Together With a Synopsis of the Chinese Collection. London, To Be Held Only at the Collection, Hyde Park Corner; Vizetelly Brothers & Co., Printers and Engravers, (1843).

Crown quarto. Pp. xxiii, 265. Plus 27 full-page engraved plates, some woodcut or photoxylographs, including a large, folding panoramic view, all printed on thick paper bound-in, each protected with a facing tissue guard, often lightly foxed. With one illustration to the text. A lithograph Chinese title-page, incorporating Chinese characters superimposed on a massive dark blue panel, this within ornamental gilt frame, this within decorative border in red, protected with a facing tissue guard. Engraved frontispiece, depicting a full-length portrait of the Emperor of China. Advertisement by William B. Langdon (1843). half-title present. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full green cloth extra, elaborate pagoda illustration embossed in gilt on each cover within ornamental tooling in blind, spine, bit faded, richly decorated in gilt, incorporating a large dragon within ornamental frame, some wear to spine ends and corner-tips, all edges gilt; very vague trace of removed bookplate to first paste-down. An attractive copy with fine interior in excellent state of preservation.

- - Second edition. Enlarged in scope, “...the author has been induced to increase the size of the present volume by the addition of much original matter, together with information obtained by an abridgement of the latest and best authorities.” Rare. KVK locates only 3 copies of this edition, in French Union Catalog, Union Catalog Italy, and Union Catalog Northern Germany. COPAC adds 2 copies only, in School of Oriental & African Studies, and in V&A Libraries. See also: Address to the Ethnological Society of London, Delivered at the Anniversary, 25th May 1844. Richard King, Journal of the Ethnological Society of London (1848-1856), Vol. 2, 1850. The collection was made by the American businessman Nathan Dunn (1782-1844), and curated by Langdon (1842-1900). In 1842 the exhibition was moved from Philadelphia to London.
€ 1200 --



38 LAUFER, Berthold; A. W. Bahr. Archaic Chinese Jades, Collected in China by A. W. Bahr, Now in Field Museum of National History, Chicago. New York, Privately Printed for A. W. Bahr, 1927.

Crown quarto. Pp. 51. Plus 36 plates, including frontispiece, 3 plates in colour. Including a preface by A. W. Bahr. Hardcover, bound in the original quarter cloth and green boards (corner-tips rubbed), gilt illustration and lettering to upper cover, spine gilt. Bahr’s dedication to first free endpaper. In fine condition. A handsome copy.

- - First edition. A dedication copy, signed by A. W. Bahr.
€ 220 --



39 LAUNAY, Adrien. Les cinquante-deux [52] [vénérables] serviteurs de Dieu, français, annamites, chinois. Mis à mort pour la foi en Extrême-Orient de 1815 à 1856. Dont la cause de Béatification a été introduite en 1840, 1843, 1857. Biographies, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. Paris, Téqui, 1893.

Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. xii, 354, 12; 350, 16. Plus several plates, outside the pagination. Text illustrations. Publisher’s catalogues. Hardcover, uniformly bound in handsome contemporary half crimson calf and marbled boards, cloth inner hinges, gilt spines, a touch of rubbing to two corner-tips. In fine condition (inscription to half-title of one volume). Excellent, attractive set.

- - First edition. Adrien Launay (1853-1927).
€ 200 --



40 LAUNAY, Adrien. Les Trente-cinq [35] vénérables serviteurs de Dieu, français, annamites, chinois, mis à mort pour la foi en Extrême-Orient de 1815 à 1862. Biographies, avec une étude sur les législations persécutrices en annam et en Chine. Paris, P. Lethielleux, 1907.

Crown quarto. Pp. xii, 504. Frontispiece, plates. Appendix. Hardcover, bound in contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, gilt spine (very small patch of abrasion on upper board), old missionary stamps on title-page. In fine condition. Excellent copy.

- - First edition. Adrien Launay (1853-1927). Scarce. See Michael Poon:
Christian Literature on Southeast Asia in Yale Libraries (Yale, 2005). See also Vietnam, bibliographies des missionaaires, 1900-1999, in Archives des Missions Etrangères de Paris.
€ 480 --



41 LAUTERER, Joseph. Sven Hedin. China. Das Reich der Mitte einst und jetzt. Nach seinen Reisen und Studien geschildert. [AND:] Die Flucht des Großen Pferdes. Leipzig, Otto Spamer, 1910.

Royal octavo. Pp. vi, 412, (12) illustrated publisher’s catalogue. profusely illustrated throughout. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full ochre cloth, decoration to cover and spine, bevelled edges, decorative endpapers and text-block edges, one corner-tip rubbed. In a very good condition.

- - First edition. TO THIS WE ADD A COMPLIMENTARY COPY: Sven Hedin: Die Flucht des Großen Pferdes. Mit 117 Abbildungen und 1 Karte. (Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, 1939). Royal octavo. Pp. 262. Plus folding coloured map, frontispiece, and numerous plates. Text illustrations. In a very good condition.
€ 60 --



42 LE PALUD, A. M. The Yangtze Gorges in Pictures and Prose. A [Pictorial] Souvenir of the Yangtze Gorges, Illustrated With Fifty-Seven Photographic Studies. Shanghai, Hong Kong, & Singapore, Kelly & Walsh, (1934 ?).

Crown quarto. Pp. (ii) list of plates, xviii text, and 56 collotype plates, often printed in tinted ink. Plus folding pictorial map, “The Itinerary”, displaying 14 thumbnail photographic views with references to their location along the river, the river printed in blue. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full blue cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine, light wear to spine-ends, with the original pictorial dust-jacket, chipped and worn in places, protected with mylar book-jacket. A very good copy in fine internal condition. Beautifully preserved map and plates.

- - First edition, undated. According to British Library, published 1935; according to Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, published 1934. OCLC 2687319 does not specify date. No copy in Library of Congress. A superb set of photographic studies, taken mostly from the river, but also in villages and towns alongside it. Collotype is one of the most accurate and attractive methods of photomechanical tonal printing processes. Highly skilled and expensive process, it cannot produce more than a limited number of impressions. It has been used for single-sheet prints and luxury portfolios, and since the 1950s has been abandoned by all except a few small specialist firms. Each plate in this book is captioned both in English and in French. The total “fifty-seven” in the title includes the map but not the extra 14 small collotype pictures on it.
€ 320 --



43 LINDSAY, Hugh Hamilton; Rev. Charles Gutzlaff [Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff (Guetzlaff)]. Report of Proceedings on a Voyage to the Northern Ports of China, in the Ship Lord Amherst. Extracted from papers, Printed by Order of the House of Commons, Relating to the Trade With China. London, B. Fellowes, 1833.

Crown quarto. Pp. 296. Being 2 parts in one volume, comprising of Lindsay’s report pp. 1-267; and of Gutzlaff’s report, pp. 269-296. Some light sporadic foxing. Hardcover, bound in most handsome, modern quarter polished mottled calf extra, with matching pebble-grained cloth, richly decorated spine, gilt-ruled raised bands, gilt ornaments to 3 compartment, crimson morocco lettering-piece lettered in gilt to each of the 2 remaining compartments, decorative endpapers, top edge red. In fine condition. Untrimmed copy, well preserved, in a very attractive binding; overall excellent.

- - First edition. See further: A catalogue of the Library of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Shanghai, 1881 (listing the 2nd edition, 1834); Collection of Caravan Maritime Books Abstracts, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology Library (listing the 2nd edition, 1834); China on Our Shelves: An Exhibition of Books about China acquired by the Library Company of Philadelphia mostly before and during the Heyday of the American China Trade, 1784-1840, Philadelphia, 1984. Hugh Hamilton Lindsay (1802-1881). Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff, anglicized as Charles Gutzlaff (1803-1851). - - Provenance: From the library of Denis Leigh, Consultant Psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital. Archibald Denis Leigh (1915-1998) was a consultant psychiatrist at the Maudsley and Bethlem Hospitals and one of the leading psychiatrists and teachers of post-graduate students of his generation. He was a consultant psychiatrist to the British Army and the first psychiatrist to serve on the parole board, an expert witness for the Crown in the “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” obscenity case. In 1966 he was appointed secretary-general of the World Psychiatric Association. He wrote a great deal and published extensively. Apart from his professional life he was an intensely private person who valued the seclusion of his home in the country. In his last years he was able to devote more time to his many hobbies, including fly fishing, shooting, gardening - and collecting old books. He died at home after a long illness.
€ 2600 --



44 LION-GOLDSCHMIDT, Daisy. Céramique chinoise. Paris, Charles Massin, N.d.

Crown quarto. Pp. 16. Plus 38 plates, in colour and b&w, bound at end. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s boards, gilt lettering, with (good) dust-jacket. In a very good condition. Fine, crisp plates.

- - First edition.
€ 20 --



45 MAYERS, William Frederick (Editor). Treaties Between the Empire of China and Foreign Powers, Together With the Conduct of Foreign Trade, &c., &c., &c. [FIRST EDITION]. Shanghai, J. Broadhurst Tootal, “North-China Herald”, 1877.

Crown quarto. Pp. viii, 225, xi Index of Subjects. Including Errata leaf, printed in red. Addendum; shoulder notes. Hardcover, bound in handsome modern full brown cloth, crimson morocco lettering-piece lettered in gilt to spine. In fine condition (old stamp to title-page). Finely bound, well preserved copy, overall excellent.

- - First edition. Very rare. William Frederick Mayers (1831-1878). In 1858 he was one of the founders and the first treasurer of the American Numismatic Society (Adelson 25-30, 314; Orosz). Shortly thereafter he left for China at the invitation of the British Foreign Office, where he rose quickly in the British diplomatic service, and eventually became Secretary to Her Britannic Majesty’s Legation in Peking. He was one of the most distinguished British sinologists of his time. In 1878, at the age of 47, Mayers died of typhoid fever in Shanghai (Pollard, Smith).
€ 820 --



46 MAYERS, William Frederick (Editor). Treaties Between the Empire of China and Foreign Powers, Together With Regulations for the Conduct of Foreign Trade, Conventions, Agreements, Regulations, etc., etc., etc., The Peace Protocol of 1901, and the Commercial Treaty of 1902. Fourth and Further Enlarged Edition. Shanghai, “North-China Herald”, 1902.

Crown quarto. Pp. xiv (including Index of Subjects), 332. Hardcover, beautifully bound in modern, fine quarter morocco extra, matching cloth-covered boards, spine with raised bands, 4 gilt-stamped ornaments, gilt lettering direct in remaining 2 compartments, year of publication gilt stamped at foot. In a very fine condition (old stamps to title-page). Excellent copy, beautifully well preserved, in a most attractive binding.

- - Fourth and Further Enlarged Edition. First published in 1877 (a fine copy of the first edition is also available). William Frederick Mayers (1831-1878). In 1858 he was one of the founders and the first treasurer of the American Numismatic Society (Adelson 25-30, 314; Orosz). Shortly thereafter he left for China at the invitation of the British Foreign Office, where he rose quickly in the British diplomatic service, and eventually became Secretary to Her Britannic Majesty’s Legation in Peking. He was one of the most distinguished British sinologists of his time. In 1878, at the age of 47, Mayers died of typhoid fever in Shanghai (Pollard, Smith).
€ 320 --



47 MICHELS, Abel des. Dialogues Cochinchinois. Expliqués littéralement en français, en anglais et en latin. Suivis d’une étude philologique du texte et d’un exposé des monnaies, poids, mesures et divisions du temps en usage dans la Cochinchine. Paris, Chez Maisonneuve, 1871.

Two parts in one volume. Crown quarto. Pp. 212; 26. In the original grey wrappers, printed in red and black, worn and detached, lower wrap gone. A very good, bright interior. An excellent working or binding copy.

- - First edition. A DEDICATION COPY, dedicated and signed by the author.
€ 65 --



48 MONTALTO DE JESUS, Carlos Augusto. Historic Shanghai. Shanghai, The Shanghai Mercury, 1909.

Octavo. Pp. xxviii, 257, (5) index. Plus a folding map tipped-in at end. Plus 27 plates, including folding “Historical Map of Shanghai”, each protected with a facing tissue guard. Plus 6 full-page maps. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full forest-green cloth, upper cover and spine gilt lettered and ruled, lower cover blind ruled, very slight wear to spine ends. Chalked purple endpapers. In a very fine internal condition, beautifully preserved interior, plates, and maps.

- - First edition.
€ 280 --



49 MORSE, Hosea Ballou. The International Relations of the Chinese Empire. I. The Period of Conflict, 1834-1860; II. The Period of Submission, 1861-1893; III. The Period of Subjection, 1894-1911. [THREE VOLUMES]. Shanghai, Hongkong, Singapore & Yokohama, Kelly and Walsh, 1910-18.

Three volumes. Octavo. Pp. xxxix, 727; xiv, 479; xvii, 530. Plus large, coloured lithograph maps bound at rear of volumes I & III. Plus numerous folding (coloured) maps, plans, charts, diagrams, and plates, bound-in, occasionally with a semitransparent overlay, printed with explanatory drawings. Different frontispiece to each volume. Title-page printed in red and black. Half-titles present. Extended appendices, indices, chronology, corrigenda. Hardcover, uniformly bound in a most attractive, contemporary three-quarter reptile skin, marbled boards, sides gilt ruled, spine with raised bands between gilt rules, 5 compartments, gilt lettering direct in 3 compartments, cloth inner hinges, matching marbled endpapers, top edges red. An exceptionally fine set, overall superb.

- - First edition. The set was bound in this exceptionally fine binding of snake or lizard skin at the Bookbinders Department of the St. Louis School, Hong Kong. Their contemporary, illustrated, binder’s ticket is at each volume. - - Provenance: from the private library of [Sir] William Edward Leonard Shenton, a prominent lawyer, the EIC’s Governor of Shanghai, with his attractive armorial bookplate, “Respice Finem”, to each volume. Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934). Very scarce.
€ 1200 --



50 MÜNKE, Wolfgang. Die klassische chinesische Mythologie. Stuttgart, Ernst Klett, 1976.

Crown quarto. Pp. 389, (3) publisher’s ads. Corrigenda. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with (near fine) dust-jacket. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.

- - First edition. Provenance: From the private library of the late scholar Frits Vos (1918-2000), professor of Japanese and Korean studies, with his signature. Later ownership signature on first free endpaper.
€ 200 --



51 MÜNSTERBERG, Oskar. Chinesische Kunstgeschichte. I. Vorbuddhistische Zeit, Die hohe Kunst; II. Die Baukunst, Das Kunstgewerbe. [TWO VOLUMES]. Esslingen a. N., Paul Nfff (Max Schreiber), 1924.

Two volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. xiii, 360, plus 15 colour plates, with 321 illustrations to text;
xiv, 508, plus 23 colour plates, with 675 illustrations to text. Different colour frontispiece to each volume. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original handsome quarter vellum, spines gilt, black lettering-piece (bit rubbed) to each spine, gilt decoration to cover, cloth inner hinges. In a very good condition (label removed from first free endpaper). Attractive set.

- - Second, unchanged edition.
€ 80 --



52 MURIEL, [Mrs. Ernest] M.; R. C. J. Swinhoe. Pictures from Lotus Land. Rangoon & London, Rowe, N.d. (ca. 1900).

Oblong crown quarto. Pp. 50. With 24 mounted plates, of which 8 are in colour. The monochromatic plates are tinted (helio)gravures. A poem faces each plate. All 25 leaves bound in the original publisher’s limp cloth boards, tied with string, cloth marked, discoloured. In a very good condition. A very well preserved interior.

- - First edition. A charming poetry and photography album. Mrs. Muriel’s role in this production remains somewhat unclear: was she the photographer who took the hauntingly beautiful landscape studies? The colour plates reproduce original painting - was she the painter? The lovely poems by Swinhoe are written especially for this volume or taken from other published works of this.
€ 200 --



53 MURRAY, Hugh; John Crawfurd, Peter Gordon, Captain Thomas Lynn, William Wallace, Gilbert Burnet. An Historical and Descriptive Account of China; Its Ancient and Modern History, Language, Literature, Religion, Government, Industry, Manners, and Social State; Intercourse With Europe From the Earliest Ages; Missions and Embassies to the Imperial Court; British and Foreign Commerce; Directions to Navigators; State of Mathematics and Astronomy; Survey of its Geography, Geology, Botany, and Zoology, I-III. [THREE VOLUMES]. Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, 1843.

Three volumes. Octavo. Pp. 368; 498; 462. With over 30 engraved plates and text illustrations. Additional title-page to each volume with different vignette illustration. Steel engraved folding map to the first volume, contemporary ownership signature. Hardcover, uniformly bound in handsome modern full red cloth, gilt leather lettering-piece to each spine. In fine condition. A most attractive set.

- - Third edition, revised and enlarged. “The account previously given in these volumes (...) has been carefully revised, adapted to the present time, and its statements brought down to the very latest period.”
€ 420 --



54 NEUMANN, Karl Friedrich. [Charles Gutzlaff] [Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff (Guetzlaff)]. [China Opened, Or, a Display of the Topography, History, Customs, Manners, Arts, Manufactures, Commerce, Literature, Religion, Jurisprudence etc., of the Chinese Empire:] A Review, Jahrbücher der Literatur, 1840. Wien, Carl Gerold, 1840.

Octavo. Pp. 189-240. Privately stapled into card folder. Fine, partly still unopened.

- - Offprint from Jahrbücher der Literatur, 1840. A review article in German, by Karl Friedrich Neumann (1793-1870), of Gützlaff’s “China Opened” (London, 1838).
€ 40 --



55 OKAMOTO, Masabumi. A Chinese Pronunciation Dictionary in Peking Dialect. Tokyo, Bunkyudo-shoten, 1916.

Three parts in one volume. Small octavo. Pp. (ii), 244, (viii) blanks, (ii) verso blank. Tissue guard between English and Chinese title-pages. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full brown morocco on limp boards, leather rubbed off a single corner on back cover, upper cover gilt embossed in Chinese large characters, spine with blind tolled ornaments and with gilt lettering in English, marbled edges, round corners, lovely decorative floral endpapers. A fine copy, beautifully preserved, crisp interior. Excellent.

- - Tenth edition, revised and enlarged. Rare. Not in KVK, which locates only French Union Catalog (6th edition, 1910) and Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Denmark (12th edition, 1917). Not in OCLC worldwide, which locates (29632673) 2 copies of 25th edition (1928) only (Field Museum, Chicago; University of California Berkeley). See also: Japanese National Bibliography, National Diet Library, Tokyo. Provenance: from the private library of the late scholar Frits Vos (1918-2000), professor of Japanese and Korean studies, with his neat signature.
€ 600 --



56 OKAMOTO, Masabumi. A Chinese Pronunciation Dictionary in Peking Dialect. Tokyo, Bunkyudo-shoten, 1916.

Three parts in one volume. Small octavo. Pp. (ii), 244, (viii) blanks, (ii) verso blank. Tissue guard between English and Chinese title-pages. Hardcover, bound in modern full burgundy cloth, placed in matching, custom-made full cloth slipcase, with the original morocco gilt lettering-piece laid-down, gilt lettering to spine panel, marbled edges, round corners. Some pencil underlining to index, light wear to outer bottom edge of a section of leaves, neatly repaired in places. A very good, handsome copy, beautifully bound and presented.

- - Eleventh edition, revised and enlarged. Rare. Not in KVK, which locates only French Union Catalog (6th edition, 1910) and Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Denmark (12th edition, 1917). Not in OCLC worldwide, which locates (29632673) 2 copies of 25th edition (1928) only (Field Museum, Chicago; University of California Berkeley). See also: Japanese National Bibliography, National Diet Library, Tokyo. Provenance: from the private library of the late scholar Frits Vos (1918-2000), professor of Japanese and Korean studies, with his neat signature.
€ 400 --



57 PERCIVAL, William Spencer. The Land of the Dragon: My Boating and Shooting Excursions to the Gorges of the Upper Yangtze. London, Hurst and Blackett, 1189.

Royal octavo. Pp. vii, 338. Engraved frontispiece protected with a tissue guard. Plus a folding map, printed in blue and black, bound at end. Handsome vignette illustration to title-page. Title-page printed in red and black within red frame. Half-title present. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full blue cloth, elaborate dragon illustration embossed in gilt on upper cover, and ornamental lettering hand-painted in red and heightened in gilt, spine gilt, spine-ends bumped, short tear expertly mended, beautiful silken endpapers, light rubbing to first paste-down. Overall an excellent copy with fine, crisp interior.

- - First edition.
€ 350 --



58 REICHWEIN, Adolf. China und Europa. Geistige und künstlerische Beziehungen im 18. Jahrhundert. Berlin, Oesterheld, 1923.

Crown quarto. Pp. 179. Plus 26 illustrations on 16 plates, printed on different paper, bound at end. In the original illustrated wrappers. In a very good condition.

- - First edition. It was later translated into English as “China and Europe: Intellectual and Artistic Contacts in the Eighteenth Century” (London, 1968).
€ 60 --



59 RICHTHOFEN, Ferdinand von. Herausgegeben von Klaus-Dietrich Petersen. Entdeckungsreisen in China 1868-1872. Die Ersterforschung des Reiches der Mitte. Tübingen, Erdmann, 1982.

Octavo. Pp. 399. Plus portrait frontispiece. With 36 illustrations and 5 maps, some full- or double-page. Pictorial endpapers. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s handsome full cloth, decorated and illustrated, with pictorial dust-jacket. In fine, as-new condition. Beautiful copy.

- - First edition.
€ 60 --



60 (ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY). TRANSACTIONS OF THE KOREA BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. VOLUME IV, Part I (1912). Seoul, Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1912.

Royal octavo. Pp. 61. Diagrams, tables. Original wrappers, worn and detached, privately stapled into plain paper folder. Text block in a very good condition (stamp, label).

- - Volume IV, Part I.
€ 80 --



61 RÜCKER-EMBDEN, Oscar; J. P. Palmer. Chinesische Frühkeramik. Eine Einführung. [AND:] Jade. Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1923.

Quarto. Pp. xii, 174. Plus colour frontispiece, one map, and 46 plates, full-colour and monochromatic plates. Each plate is protected with a facing tissue guard, printed with captions. Title-page printed in red and black, and with large publisher’s device. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full cloth, decorative boards, lettering to spine. In fine condition, minor sporadic foxing. Handsome copy, well preserved.

- - Second edition. TO THIS WE ADD A COMPLIMENTARY COPY: J. P. Palmer: Jade. (Feltham, Spring Books, 1967). Crown quarto. Pp. 44. Plus 54 full-colour (helio)gravure plates, bound at end. With 7 monochromatic (helio)gravure illustrations to text. Colour frontispiece. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full cloth, gilt decoration to cover, gilt lettering to spine, with dust-jacket. In fine condition.
€ 80 --



62 SMITH, Arthur H. Proverbs and Common Sayings from the Chinese, Together With Much Related and Unrelated Matter, Interspersed With Observations on Chinese Things-in-General. New and Revised Edition. Shanghai, Printed at the American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1902.

Crown quarto. Pp. vii, 374, xxix, (i). Extended indices, errata. Hardcover, bound in contemporary handsome half dark-brown morocco, matching pebbled cloth, gilt ruled sides, spine with gilt tooled raised bands, gilt fleuron in 3 compartments, gilt lettering in remaining two, marbled edges, head of spine worn, upper joint weak, corners rubbed. Overall a very good copy with fine interior.

- - New and revised edition. Contains almost two-thousands phrases, proverbs, couplets, odes, etc., which are given in Chinese and explained in English. The present edition has been thoroughly revised. - - Provenance: From the private library of the late The Right Reverend Lord David Sheppard (1925-2005), Bishop of Liverpool, Baron Sheppard of Liverpool, with his signature on a bookplate on first free endpaper. - - ADDED: “Proverbs in Daily Use Among the Hakkas of the Canton Province”, Collected by M. Schaub, Lilong. An extract from “The Chinese Review” (later “Hong Kong Journals) (Pp. 8, continued from Vol. XX, p. 164), complete in itself.
€ 220 --



63 SMITH, Rev. George. A Narrative of an Exploratory Visit to Each of the Consular Cities of China, and to the Islands of Hong Kong and Chusan, in Behalf of the Church Missionary Society, in the Years 1844, 1845, 1846, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL INSTALMENTS]. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1847.

Two volumes. Crown quarto. Paginated consecutively. Pp. xvi, 3-240; 241-467. Plus a folding map, engraved on steel. Engraved frontispiece and 11 other plates. Title-page printed in red and black. Uniformly in the original illustrated wrappers, these edge worn and chipped, back wrapper of one volume loose, some dog-eared corners. Both volumes placed in a handsome custom made box, full green cloth over boards, facsimile title-page laid-down on cover. An unsophisticated set, untrimmed, preserved in the original state, bright interiors.

- - First American edition in the extremely rare, original 2 paperbound instalments. Sold separately, each volume bears at top of cover the header: “50 Cents. Complete in Two Parts”; and with “Part 1.” and “Part 2.”, respectively. A pioneering work by the Anglican missionary George Smith (1815-1871) who, after the Treaty of Nanking, explored the newly-opened cities of China, recording his findings and observations. The work is particularly appealing for its description and portrayal of everyday life in nineteenth-century China and the impact of the new British Rule. It includes an account of Hong Kong. Cordier BS, 2115; Lust, 385. Extremely rare edition.
€ 1300 --



64 STONE, Albert H., J. Hammond Reed (Editors), at the direction of the Kuling Council. Historic Lushan: The Kuling Mountains. Hankow, Arthington Press, Religious Tract Society, 1921.

Crown quarto. Pp. 106.
Frontispiece, with facing tissue guard. Plus one folding map, short tear at margin, bound at end. Plus numerous b&w plates, each with a facing tissue guard. Chronological table.
Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full black cloth, gilt lettering, spine bid faded. In a very good condition, with beautifully preserved plates.

- - First edition. With the inscription: “Kuling, 8. Juli 1928” to first free endpaper.
€ 180 --



65 STREHLNEEK, E. A. Chinese Pictorial Art, Illustrated by Coloured and Collotyped Reproductions from the Author’s Collection with Descriptions and Notes on the History of Drawing, Writing, etc., Translated from Standard Chinese Authors. [AND:] Supplement Illustrating a Few Interesting Pieces of Bronze, Ceramics, and Jade. Shanghai, Printed by the Commercial Press, 1914.

Two parts in one volume. Quarto. Pp. 324, iv; 74. Coloured frontispiece. Numerous collotype and coloured plates interleaved with text leaves. Each plate protected with a facing tissue-guard. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s lovely silk-covered boards, sewn with threads in traditional Chinese style, upper board richly illustrated in gilt, and with gilt lettering, bit discoloured, cloth over spine rubbed off, spine heads bit worn. In a very fine internal condition. Excellent interior, exceptionally well preserved, crisp plates.

- - First, limited deluxe edition. Copy number 65 from a LIMITED DELUXE EDITION of 66, limitation approved by the Östasiatiska Museet, Stockholm. Includes list of dynasties; notes on the history and technique of Chinese drawing and painting; supplement of plates illustrating Chinese bronzes, ceramic art, and jade. Collotype is one of the most accurate and attractive methods of photomechanical tonal printing processes. Highly skilled and expensive process, it cannot produce more than a limited number of impressions. It has been used for single-sheet prints and luxury portfolios, and since the 1950s has been abandoned by all except a few small specialist firms. Uncommon in such fine internal condition.
€ 380 --



66 THE EARL OF RONALDSHAY. [LAWRENCE JOHN LUMLEY DUNDAS, Marquess of Zetland]. A Wandering Student in the Far East, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood, 1908.

Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. xviii, 317, plus a folding map, coloured along route, bound at end, cut into two parts along fold; viii, 360. Plus different frontispiece to each volume, with tissue-guard, and numerous photographic plates. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s full green cloth, embossed lettering on cover, spine gilt, contemporary inscription to one volume. A very good, untrimmed set, in overall fine condition, a bit foxed in places.

- - First edition. Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, Marquess of Zetland (1876-1971), a British politician, Secretary of State for India in the late 1930s. Beside with China, his travelogue deals also with Japan, Korea, Manchuria.
€ 220 --



67 TRAUTZ, F. M.; Aufgenommen von A. von Graefe, G. von Estorff, Gertrud Fellner, Herbert Ponting e.a.; W. H. Solf. Japan, Korea und Formosa. Landschaft, Baukunst, Volksleben. Berlin, Atlantis, 1930.

Quarto. Pp. liv, (ii), 256. Plus one map. A photographic album, comprising of 54 pages of text, extended descriptions of the plates, and index, and of 256 full-page splendid (helio)gravure plates, each captioned in German, English, French, Italian, Japanese. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full orange cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to cover and spine, with very good dust-jacket with a mounted plate. Book in a very fine, AS NEW condition. Splendid copy, superbly well preserved.

- - First edition, 1st to 10th Thousand. The excellent photographs of A. von Graefe, G. von Estorff, Gertrud Fellner, Herbert Ponting, E. Arnhold and several others are reproduced here in fine screen gravures, printed by the Berlin firm of Albert Frisch.
€ 150 --



68 TSCHAI FI, Hsü Tschen-peng, Tscheng Schang-jen, Wu Schu-scheng. Chinesische Blaumusterstoffe. Peking, Verlag für Fremdsprachige Literatur, 1956.

Crown quarto. Unpaginated. A collection of 48 plates, printed in tinted ink directly from blocks. Title-page and the few text leaves are printed in orange-brown and black. handsome vignette illustration on title-page, decorative initial. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full cloth, embossed decoration and lettering, with (very good) dust-jacket, signature on title-page. In fine condition. Excellent copy.

- - First edition. Handsome production.
€ 40 --

 

Librarium Fine Books offers fine antiquarian, rare, and out-of-print books and prints on Military History, Militaria, War & Revolution, Tactics, Military Dress & Accouterments. Librarium Fine Books offers fine studies of the Holy Land and Palestine, with emphasis on illustrated works and travelogues of early travellers to the Holy Land, pilgrims, and researchers. Librarium Fine Books stocks a select list of books on History of Economic Thought, the Theory & History of Economics. Librarium Fine Books offers also books on Politics, International Relations, European History. Librarium Fine Books is a Registered Antiquarian Booksellers Business, entered in the Register of Companies at the Chamber of Commerce, The Hague. Librarium Fine Books has business terms which conform to the Trade Conditions of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of the Netherlands. Librarium Fine Books endorses the Code of Ethics of The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Librarium Fine Books issues periodically printed subject-catalogues and book-lists which can be obtained, free of charge, upon request. You may contact us at: info@librarium.nl. Our spacious Book Room at the newly renovated 19th- Century Concordia Gebouw, situated at the old centre of The Hague, is opened for visitors by appointment. We sell and buy internationally.