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Far East: Studies in Culture, Politics, History & Topography
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1 COULEURS DES QUATRE SAISONS. COSTUMES ET POJAGI DE CORÉE À L’ÉPOQUE CHOSON, 20 septembre - 8 décembre 1996. Musée royal de Mariemont, 1996.
Square quarto. Pp. 107. Beautifully illustrated throughout in colour. Bound in the original pictorial stiff wrappers, with flaps. In fine condition, as-new.
- - First edition.
€ 120 --
2 AHMAD, Maqbul. Indo-Arab Relations: An Account of India’s Relations With the Arab World From Ancient Up to Modern Times. New Delhi, Indian Council for Cultural Relations & Bombay, Popular Prakashan, 1969.Octavo. Pp. xvi, 187. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full black cloth, spine gilt. Ex-lib copy in fine condition.
- - First edition.
€ 220 --
3 (BARLOW, Edward). Basil Lubbock. Barlow’s Journal of His Life at Sea in King’s Ships, East & West Indiamen & Other Merchantmen From 1659 to 1703. Transcribed From the Original Manuscript by Basil Lubbock. I. With 13 Coloured Illustrations and 43 Coastline Drawings; II. With 3 Coloured Illustrations and 21 Coastline Drawings. [TWO VOLUMES]. London, Hurst & Blackett, 1934.Two volumes. With a total of 82 plates, 16 of which are coloured. Crown quarto. Pp. 286, plus 13 coloured plates, of which one is foldout, including frontispiece, and 43 halftone plates; 295-575, plus 3 coloured plates including frontispiece, and 21 halftone plates. Plus 2 double-page plates as endpapers, “Gravesend (...)” on first endpapers; “The Ile of Wite Liying (...)” on last endpapers, in both volumes. Half-titles present, old signature to each. Decorative initials, shoulder notes. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s quarter smooth dark-blue calf and matching cloth-covered boards, gilt ruled sides, spine gilt, heads slightly bumped, and with pictorial endpapers as mentioned above, cracked at inner hinges; top edge gilt. Overall fine, attractive set, still untrimmed, preserved in the original state, and with crisp, bright interior.
- - First edition. LIMITED EDITION of 100 signed and numbered copies, this copy is number 89. Signed by Basil Lubbock.
€ 1100 --
4 BAUER, Wolfgang; Erich Haenisch. Tsch’un-Ts’iu. Mit den drei Kommentaren Tso-tschuan, Kung-yang-tschuan und Ku-liang-tschuan in Mandschurischer Übersetzung. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner for Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, 1959.Thick royal octavo. Pp. xvi, 1026. Bound in the original printed wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused, still entirely unopened.
- - First edition. Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes. Im Auftrage der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, XXXIII, 1.
€ 80 --
5 BOULOS, Jawad. Les peuples et les civilisations du Proche Orient. Essai d’une histoire comparée, des origines à nos jours, I-V. [FIVE VOLUMES]. La Haye, Mouton, 1962-68.Five volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. 429; 430; 400; 550; 300. Plus maps. Appendix, bibliography.
Uniformly bound in the original card wrappers with integrated dust-jackets; ownership signature to each volume. In fine condition. Excellent set.
€ 180 --
6 BUCKINGHAM, J. (James) S. (Silk). Tableau pittoresque de l’Inde, ou description géographique, statistique, commerciale, morale et politique de l’Indostan. Traduit sur le manuscrit par Benjamin Laroche. Paris, Poulton-de-l’Épée, 1835.Crown quarto. Pp. 332. Plus finely engraved folding map. Hardcover, bound in contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, vellum French corners, gilt lettered red morocco lettering piece to spine, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges. Minor sporadic foxing else in fine condition.
- - Second edition. From the private library of Jean Herbert with his bookplate. James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855). A dedicated traveller and a prolific writer, he wrote, among others, also “Travels In Palestine Through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead” (1921); “Travels Among the Arab Tribes Inhabiting the Countries East of Syria and Palestine” (1925); “Travels in Mesopotamia” (1827); “Travels in Assyria Media and Persia” (1830). Scarce. KVK locates a single copy only, that in French Union Catalog. COPAC lists only digital copies (Leeds, Manchester). Other digital copies are found in Union Catalogs North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse; European Register of Microform & Digital Masters; eBooks - DFG-Nationallizenzen. In the United States, OCLC locates copies in Princeton, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins University Libraries.
€ 820 --
7 BURT, T. (Thomas) Seymour. Miscellaneous Papers on Scientific Subjects, Written Chiefly in India. [Major Burt’s Papers]. London, Printed for the Author, and Sold by Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1837.Three parts in one volume. Crown octavo. Pp. xii, 188, (2) directions to the binder, errata; 12; 19. Plus 3 folding tables, (the largest printed on both sides), one torn along fold. Text figures, full-page tables. Half-title present. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full green pebbled cloth, title “Major Burt’s Papers” gilt-stamped on spine within ornamental frame, corner-tips and spine bit worn. Good.
- - First edition. A Dedication Copy, with an autograph dedication to the orientalist John Shakespear, “With the Author’s Compliments,” on first free endpaper. The present work is the first volume, complete in itself, of Miscellaneous Papers on Scientific Subjects. Initially published as a single-volume work, it was so well received that the project consequently progressed to a 3-volume series (1837-68). Thomas Seymour Burt (1805-1890), Captain in the Bengal Engineers, Major of Engineers in the Spanish Service, was a dedicated explorer and a prolific writer. Among his books are Narrative of a Late Steam Voyage from England to India (1840); Account of an Excursion in Search of Ancient Inscriptions (1847); A Metrical Epitome of the History of England (1852); Poems Consisting of Tales from the Classics (1853); Account of a Voyage to India, via the Mediterranean (1859); The History of England, from the Earliest Records (1886). He edited Observations on the Curiosities of Nature (1836). Scarce. COPAC locates this volume in British Library only. KVK locates 2 other copies (Union Catalog Southwest Germany and French Union Catalog).
€ 520 --
8 CHAMBERLAIN, Basil Hall. Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan (FIRST EDITION). London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner; Tokyo, The Hakubunsha, Ginza, e.a., Kelly & Walsh, 1890.Crown octavo. Pp. ii, 408, (4). Plus large folding map of Japan, repaired (with clear tape). Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full green cloth, spine gilt. Fair binding (inner hinges cracked, spine-ends worn) but a good copy with a generally fine text block.
- - First edition.
€ 120 --
9 CHI-LU, Chen. Material Culture of the Formosan Aborigines. Taipei, The Taiwan Museum, 1968.Crown quarto. Pp. xiv, 422. With 20 finely-printed colour plates, 135 illustrations to text, 17 tables. Bibliography. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with (very good) pictorial dust-jacket. In fine condition (stamp of the Taiwan Museum, Republic of China).
- - First edition, published in Republic of China.
€ 60 --
10 CHO, Hung-youn. Mudang. Der Werdegang koreanischer Schamanen am Beispiel der Lebensgeschichte des Yi Chi-san. Hamburg, Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, 1983.Octavo. Pp. 412. Bound in the original printed stiff wrappers. In fine condition (author’s? dedication in Korean on title-page). Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens e.V., Mitteilungen Band 93.
€ 250 --
11 COUTO, Diogo do.; Marcus de Jong. Decada Quinta da “Ásia”. Texte inédit, publié d’après un manuscrit de là Bibliothèque de l’Université de Leyde par Marcus de Jong. Coimbra, Biblioteca da Universidade, 1937.Crown quarto. Pp. 764. Bound in the original printed wrappers, bit dust-soiled. In a very good condition. Unused copy, still entirely unopened.
- - First edition. Doctoral dissertation. Includes the original 4-page Thesis Introduction, with corrigenda notes, loosely inserted.
€ 35 --
12 ELLIS, Beth [Elizabeth]. An English Girl’s First Impressions of Burmah [Burma]. Wigan, R. Platt & London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1899.Duodecimo. Pp. (vi), 248. Bound in the original publisher’s pictorial stiff wrappers, bit marked, small illustration to spine, this bit chipped and slightly edge frayed, back cover evenly darkened. In all a fine copy, overall very well preserved, and with bright interior.
- - First edition. Very rare. KVK does not locate a single copy in all major European institutional library. COPAC locates copies in National Library of Scotland; Oxford; Trinity College Dublin. British Library has 2 copies. Glasgow has Electronic reproduction only. Not in Library of Congress nor in European Register of Microform Masters. OCLC: 15601128 lists 53 North American locations with microform copy only. OCLC: 57499619 locates 3rd edition only. For further reading see Jane Robinson: “Wayward Women: A Guide to Women Travellers” (Oxford); and idem, ibid: “Parrot Pie for Breakfast: An Anthology of Women Pioneers”. Elizabeth Ellis’ (1874-1913) travelogue, “my first plunge into Literature”, later described as “one of the funniest travel books ever written”, was so extremely successful that it was immediately reprinted twice, and both second and third editions appeared in the same year as the first. Ellis published later her “The Fair Moon of Bath” (New York, 1908). An extremely rare copy of the first edition in the original binding.
€ 1100 --
13 FANG-JUNG, Chuang; Huang Su-chüan, Wu Shu-ying (Editors). Historical Sites of the First Rank in Taiwan and Kinmen. Taipei, Council for Cultural Planning & Development, 1987.Quarto. Pp. 208. Frontispiece. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour. Bound in the original pictorial stiff wrappers, decorative endpapers. In a very good condition. Fine interior.
- - First edition.
€ 80 --
14 FITZGERALD, C. P. A Concise History of East Asia. London, Heinemann, 1966.Octavo. Pp. vii, 310. Plus plates and maps. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full red cloth, with illustrated dust-jacket (near fine). Book is in fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - First edition.
€ 20 --
15 FRAEYE, Mark de. Taiwan: Island of Beauty. Freiburg im Breisgau, Schillinger, 1995.Oblong crown quarto. Pp. 236. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s pictorial boards. In NEW condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. A DEDICATION COPY, SIGNED. Dedicated by the author to Professor Frits Vos (1918-2000), professor of Japanese and Korean studies. De Fraeye and Vos collaborated on several projects, and published together “Korea: Scenic Beauty And Religious Landmarks”. The book bears Vos’ ellegant ex-libris stamp next to De Fraeye’s dedication. De Fraeye’s fine photographs of Taiwan are accompanied by several essays in English, written by Beth McKillop, Philippe Paquet, Nicolas Standaert, and Barend J. ter Haar.
€ 145 --
16 FRANK, Othmar. Grammatica Sanskrita. Nunc primum in Germania edidit Othmarus Frank. Wirceburgi [Würzburg], Typographice et lithographice sumtibus propriis; Lipsiae [Leipzig], Prostat apud Fridericum Fleischer, 1823Crown quarto. Pp. xv, v, 218. Plus 10 plates, of which 4 are folding. Bound in the original publisher’s card wrappers, both sides with a decorative frame, and with a central ornamental illustration embossed in black, wraps bit marked, spine worn, stain on back cover. With neat, contemporary inscription on first flyleaf. A very good, wide-margined copy, well preserved in the original state.
- - First edition. A good copy of the first Sanskrit grammar to appear in Germany, and a unique example of printing art. Lacking an access to any Sanskrit types, Frank could not print the book in letterpress and had to use lithography, a technique usually reserved for the printing of illustrations. Typographically it is unique that the entire text, both the Latin and the Sanskrit, were transferred to stone by hand. Very scarce. Unsophisticated copies in the original binding are practically unavailable.
€ 1800 --
17 [GAKUSHIIN, Teikoku]. Dictionnaire de termes de droit coutumier des aborigènes de Formose. [TAKASAGOZOKU KANSHUHO GOI]. Tokyo, L’Académie Impériale, 1941.Crown quarto. Pp. vi, 100 (i.e. 200 columns). One colour map. Bound in the original printed wrappers (bit age toned). In fine condition.
- - First edition.
€ 320 --
18 GRIERSON, George Abraham (Government of Bengal). Bihar Peasant Life, Being a Discursive Catalogue of the Surroundings of the People of That Province, With Many Illustrations From Photographs Taken by the Author. Prepared Under Orders of the Government of Bengal. Calcutta, The Bengali Secretariat Press, & London, Trübner, 1885.Crown quarto. Pp. 4, 7 (addenda & corrigenda), vi, 431, xvii (appendix), cliii (index). Frontispiece map, hand-coloured, depicting the Province of Bihar. Plus 39 full-page lithographic plates, after photographs by the author. With many photoxylograph illustrations to text (wood engravings from photographs). Includes an appendix and extended index. Text block clean, with some traces of use, bit shabby in binding. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full pebble-grain navy-blue cloth, sides blind stamped, spine gilt, some wear at extremities, bit shaken. In all a good, desirable copy.
- - First edition. A PRESENTATION COPY, presented by the Secretary of State in Council of India, State Office, London, with a bookplate to that effect. And with the contemporary inscriptions, “Presented to Mr. C. Baumgarten, July 19, 1887”, and another one, signed by the recipient, “Received by me Oct. 1, 1887 (...)”, all on first paste-down. George Abraham Grierson (1851-1941). A British civil servant, a Fellow of the British Academy, he spent much of his life in British India. He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1873 and was in charge of the Linguistic Survey of India from 1898. He was responsible for producing the monumental Linguistic Survey of India, an important work in the history of sociolinguistics research in India, which took 30 years to complete and was published in 11 volumes (1903-1928). Scarce.
€ 520 --
19 GROUSSET, René. Histoire de l’Extrême-Orient, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES IN ONE]. Paris, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1929.Two volumes bound in one. Thick crown quarto. Pp. xvii, 402, plus colour frontispiece, 26 finely printed (helio)gravure plates, 4 folding maps; 403-770, plus 6 such plates and 3 folding maps. Includes the original additional Errata slip, loosely inserted. In the binding process the maps were cut in two along the horizontal fold, and are presented this way. Hardcover, bound in half cloth, with the original printed wrappers bound-in. In fine condition (decorative stamp, signature to title-page). Excellent copy, crisp interior.
- - First edition.
€ 80 --
20 HAENISCH, Erich. Mandschu-grammatik mit Lesestücken und 23 Texttafeln. (Lehrbücher für das studium der orientalischen sprachen, Band VI). Leipzig, Veb Verlag Enzyklopädie, 1961.Octavo. Pp. 162. Plus a suite of 23 plates bound at end. Appendix, bibliography. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth. In fine condition (ownership signature).
- - First edition. Lehrbücher für das studium der orientalischen sprachen, Band VI.
€ 80 --
21 HAGUENAUER, Charles. Études choisies de Charles Haguenauer. I. Japon. Études de linguistique; II. Japon. Études de religion, d’histoire et de litterature; III. Les Ryukyu et Formose. Études historiques et ethnographiques. [THREE VOLUMES]. Leiden, Brill, 1976-77.Three volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. (iv), 423, plus frontispiece and a folding map; vii, 438, plus map and a large folding chart; 195, plus 3 large folding maps. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s full burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to covers and spine. A most attractive, BRAND NEW set in pristine condition.
- - First edition. ISBN 9004047999 ISBN 9004048006 ISBN 9004049828 ISBN 9004048936
€ 220 --
22 HAYASHI, Nozomu; Peter Kornicki. Early Japanese books in Cambridge University Library: A catalogue of the Aston, Satow and von Siebold Collections. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991.Crown quarto. Pp. xx, 520. Portrait frontispiece and plates. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full olive-green cloth, with dust-jacket. In new condition. Mint copy, practically unused.
- - First edition.
€ 420 --
23 HORVÁTH, Géza. (Grafen Eugen Zichy/Zichy Jenó gróf). Zoologische Ergebnisse der Dritten asiatischen Forschungsreise des Grafen Eugen Zichy. / Zichy Jenó gróf harmadik ázsiai utazásának állattani eredményei. (Dritte asiatische Forschungsreise des Grafen Eugen Zichy, Band II. / Zichy Jenó gróf harmadik ázsiai utazása, II. kötet. Budapest, Victor Hornyánszky; Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1901.Quarto. Pp. xli, 472, Corrigenda included. Plus 28 finely printed lithographic plates, including 8 chromolithographs. Each plate is protected with a facing tissue guard, printed with captions referring to the multiple, detail images. With 22 illustrations to to text. Section title-pages. Set in double columns. Bound in the original publisher’s stiff wrappers, bit dust-soiled, marked, black lettering to upper wrapper and spine. In fine condition. Entirely unopened, untrimmed copy, practically unused, preserved in the original condition. A superb set of plates.
- - First edition. Unused copies of this finely produced report are practically unavailable.
€ 600 --
24 HROZNY, Bedrich. Ancient History of Western Asia, India and Crete. Prague, Artia, n.d.Royal octavo. Pp. xiv, (ii) 260. Frontispiece. Plus 9 plates, some in colour. Plus 2 folding maps, one in colour, bound at end. With 144 illustrations to text. Bookplate. Title vignette. Title printed in red and black. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full cloth, bit discoloured. In fine condition, crisp interior. Excellent copy.
- - First English edition.
€ 20 --
25 HYDE, Francis E. Far Eastern Trade, 1860-1914. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1973.Octavo. Pp. xii, 229. Maps, tables. Appendices. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full blue cloth, with dust-jacket. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - First edition.
€ 20 --
26 HYOGMYON, Kwon. Das koreanische Verbum verglichen mit dem altaischen und japanischen Verbum. (Zur Typologie des Koreanischen). München, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 1962.Octavo. Pp. 144, (2). Bound in the original printed stiff wrappers. In fine condition (dedication on title-page). Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Doctoral dissertation.
€ 40 --
27 IKÉUCHI, Hiroshi; Sueji Umehara. English Résumé by Jiro Harada. T‘ung-kou. I. The Ancient Site of Kao-kou-li in Chi-an District, T‘ung-hua Province, Manchoukuo; II. Kao-kou-lian Tombs With Wall Paintings in Chi-an District, T‘ung-hua Province, Manchoukuo. [Tung-kou]. [TWO VOLUMES]. Tokyo & Hsin-Ching, Nichiman Bunka Kyokai, 1973.Two volumes. Folio (39 x 28cm). Volume I. Pp. xi, 28 (English summary), 116 (Japanese text). Plus over 100 images on 62 plates. With 28 illustrations in the text. Volume II. Pp. xv, 30 (English summary), 87 (Japanese text). Plus over 160 images on 103 plates. With 21 illustrations in the text. The wonderful collection of plates include numerous colour plates, printed separately and mounted on leaves, each protected by tissue-guards; large folding plates; large extending panoramic views; appendix folding map. The text illustrations are mostly full-page. Japanese title-page to each volume printed on special paper and protected with tissue-guard. English title-pages printed in red and black. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s cloth-covered boards, handsome wide buckram spines, gilt lettered, copper endpapers. Each volume placed in the original, printed slipcase (bit browned). In NEW condition. A superb set.
- - Reprint of the 1938-40 edition. A remarkable, lavish production, an exceptionally attractive set. (Weight: 7kg)
€ 2200 --
28 ISHIZAWA, Masao; Ichitaro KOndo; Jo Okada; Yutaka Tazawa. Pageant of Japanese Art: Textiles and Lacquer. Tokyo, Toto Shuppan, 1958.Crown octavo. Pp. xiii, 180. With 50 plates and 115 text figures. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s decorated boards, with very good illustrated dust-jacket. Book is in fine condition. Excellent copy of a lovely book.
- - First popular edition.
€ 15 --
29 JANKOWSKI, Henryk. Détermination participiale dans les langues ouraliennes et altaïques choisies. (Participial Determination in Selected Uralic and Altaic Languages). Poznan, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, 1987.Octavo. Pp. 165. Plus one folding table. Bound in the original stiff wrappers. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Text in French with a summary in Polish. Introduction in English.
€ 120 --
30 (JOÜON DES LONGRAIS, F.; Prof. Sugiyama; Jean Drans). Bibliographie des principales publications periodiques de l’Empire Japonais. (Bulletin de la Maison franco-japonaise, XII). Paris, Geuthner; Tokyo N.S.H.K.K., Maison franco-japonaise, 1941.Crown quarto. Pp. vi, 373. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s quarter cloth, boards bit stained. In a very good condition.
- - First edition. Bulletin de la Maison franco-japonaise, Ancienne Série, XII/2-4.
€ 120 --
31 JUDSON, Ann H. (Hasseltine). An Account of the American Baptist Mission to the Burman Empire. In a Series of Letters Addressed to a Gentleman in London. London, Joseph Butterworth, 1827.12mo. viii, 316. Plus folding engraved map of the Burman Empire as frontispiece, foxed. Some annotations pencilled on last free endpaper. Hardcover, bound in contemporary half calf and marbled boards, rubbed, very slightly abraded in places; spine, sides and corners ornately blind tooled, gilt-ruled raised bands, gilt morocco lettering piece, marbled edges. Overall a lovely copy in a very good condition.
- - Second edition, uncommon. Ann Hasseltine Judson (1789-1826) was the first American woman missionary to go overseas. Besides her history of the Burman mission, Mrs. Judson translated the Burman catechism and the Gospel of Matthew into Siamese. Her life was written by Emily C. Judson, and published in New York in 1850. See also Sharon James: My Heart in His Hands: Ann Judson of Burma (1998), and E. R. Pitman: Ann H. Judson of Burma (1988).
€ 500 --
32 KAYE, John William. Lives of Indian Officers, Illustrative of the History of the Civil and Military Services of India, I-II. London, A. Strahan; Bell & Daldy, 1867.Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. xiv, 489; 502. Appendices. Foot- and shoulder notes. Both half-titles present. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s full red cloth, sunburst centrepiece with the motto “Heaven’s Light Our Guide” stamped in gilt on each cover, spines richly decorated in gilt, spine-ends worn, chalked endpapers with cracked inner hinges, wear to joints in places. Withal a very desirable set with clean, bright interior, still trimmed rough as issued.
- - First edition. Provenance: from the private library of noted collector Joseph M. Gleason, with his handsome bookplate to each volume.
€ 320 --
33 KELLERMANN, Bernhard. Vertaald door Alice van Nahuys. Een zwerftocht door Japan. Amsterdam, Em. Querido, 1925.Crown quarto. Pp. 286. Plus mounted frontispiece and mounted plates. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s decorative cloth, small split at spine head, inner hinges cracked. In a very good condition.
- - First Dutch edition.
€ 20 --
34 KLUGE, I. L. Ostasiatische Studien. Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1959.Quarto. Pp. 248. Frontispiece portrait. Plus a total of 48 plates, printed on fine paper, bound-in. In the original printed wrappers. In a very good condition.
- - First edition.
€ 35 --
35 KODAMA KOTA; KITAMURA HAJIME. EDO, Japan, in the World With Special Focus on the Collection of the Toyo Bunko. Tokyo, Toyo Bunko & Edo-Tokyo Museum, 1994.Quarto. Pp. 239. With about 240 colour illustrations. Bound in the original pictorial stiff wrappers. In fine condition (inscription on title-page).
- - First edition. Aims to provide an image of “the world that Japan saw and the Japan that the world saw” through images from the rich collection of books at the Toyo Bunko. Captions both in English and Japanese. A beautifully produced exhibition catalogue, published to coincide with the exhibition “Edo, Japan, in the World With Special Focus on the Collection of the Toyo Bunko”, held at the Metropolitan Edo Tokyo Museum to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of The Toyo Bunko Foundation. Cosponsored by the Edo Tokyo Historical Foundation. With forewords by Kodama Kota, Director Edo-Tokyo Museum, and Kitamura Hajime, Director The Toyo Bunko. Includes the original invitation to the exhibition.
€ 160 --
36 KOREAN NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR UNESCO. THE KOREAN LANGUAGE. [AND:] MAIN CURRENTS OF KOREAN THOUGHT. [TWO BOOKS]. CHONGNO-KU, Si-sa-yong-o-sa; Arch Cape, Pace International Research, 1983.Two books. Royal octavo. Pp. viii, 277; x, 294. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth, spines gilt, with dust-jackets. In fine condition (ownership signature and complimentary stamp on first free endpaper). Excellent copies, practically unused.
- - First edition. Published simultaneously in Korea and the U.S.A. ISBN 0892090197 0892090200
€ 30 --
37 LAMARTINE, Alphonse de; J. (John) L. (Lloyd) Stephens; George Stephens; Howard Malcom. Travels in the East, Including a Journey in the Holy Land. With a Memoir of the Author, and Notes. From The French: A New Translation for the Present Edition. [BOUND WITH:] Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland. [BOUND WITH:] Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land. [BOUND WITH:] [Travels in South-Eastern Asia, Embracing...] I. Travels in the Burman Empire. [BOUND WITH:] II. Travels in Hindustan, (Malaya, Siam,) and China. [FIVE VOLUMES BOUND IN ONE]. Edinburgh, William and Robert Chambers, 1839-40.Five volumes bound in one. Crown quarto. Pp. 230; 114; 120; 82 plus engraved frontispiece map of South-Eastern Asia; 94. Wood-engraved illustrations to the last 2 works. Set in double columns. Some light dust-soiling and foxing in places to few leaves. Hardcover, bound in recent full mahogany cloth, spine gilt-ruled, gilt lettering-piece, marbled edges. In a very good condition. Generally a fine copy.
- - Various editions. First 3 works published 1839; Fourth and Fifth works published 1840. Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine (1790-1869) was a French writer, poet, and politician, member of the Académie française. His “Voyage en Orient” was first published in 1835. John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852), “the American Traveler”, was an attorney, explorer, and writer. He was a pivotal figure in the rediscovery of Maya civilization throughout Middle America and in the planning of the Panama railroad. Howard Malcom (1799-1879), clergyman and missionary, is still regarded today as an important leader of the Baptist Church. He began his career as a Baptist missionary to foreign countries in 1835, and travelled to missions in Hindustan, Burma, Siam, China, and Africa. He wrote some of his most noteworthy literature about his missionary travels. In 1839 he published “Travels in South-Eastern Asia, Embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China”. The present fourth volume forms the first section of this work, and is published here for the first time separately. “Travels in Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China” forms the second section of “Travels in South-Eastern Asia”, is equally published here for the first time separately, and consequently completes the work.
€ 380 --
38 LANCASTER, Lewis R. In Collaboration with Sung-bae Park. The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1979.Crown quarto. Pp. xxiii, 724. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s blue cloth, spine gilt, with (very good) dust-jacket. In fine condition (ownership signature). Excellent copy.
- - First edition.
€ 320 --
39 LANGLÈS, L. (Louis Mathieu). Notice des travaux littéraires des missionnaires anglais dans l’Inde. Paris, Imprimerie de le Normant, 1817.Octavo. Pp. 63. Plus handsome large folding map, lithographed on thick paper. Half-title present. Hardcover, bound in contemporary paper-covered boards, bit soiled, worn, gilt lettering to spine, spine-ends strengthened with contemporary paper, dampmark to blank margin of first two leaves. Overall good, untrimmed copy.
- - First edition thus. Extrait des Annales Encyclopédiques, année 1817. Rare. KVK locates only 3 copies (Library Network of Western Switzerland; Union Catalog Southwest Germany; French Union Catalog). COPAC adds British Library, School of Oriental & African Studies, and Oxford. In the United States, OCLC 46776403 locates a single copy, that in Yale. Louis-Mathieu Langlès (1763-1824) was a French academic, philologist, linguist, and orientalist. He was a prolific writer and published extensively.
€ 420 --
40 LESOUËF, Alexandre-Auguste. Catalogue des kaké-monos et des maki-monos chinois et japonais, collectionnés par A. [Auguste] Lesouëf. Leide, E. J. Brill, 1900.Crown quarto. Pp. 16. Decorative tail-piece. Decorative title-page. Half-title present. Bound in the original wrappers, repeating title-page motif, bit edge frayed and tender. Untrimmed copy in the original state. In fine internal condition.
- - First edition. Unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 100 copies, printed for private circulation only. Alexandre-Auguste Lesouëf (1829-1906). In 1913, his heirs donated his personal collection to the Bibliothèque nationale de France. This included, among other oriental documents, more than 900 works in Japanese, manuscripts, xylographs, engravings, maps and scrolls, dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries. - - NOTE: Beside this title, also available Lesouëf’s “Catalogue des livres et manuscrits chinois” (1886), and “Catalogue des livres et manuscrits japonais” (1887).
€ 200 --
41 LESOUËF, Alexandre-Auguste. Catalogue des livres et manuscrits chinois, collectionnés par A. [Auguste] Lesouëf. Leide, E. J. Brill, 1886.Crown quarto. Pp. 40. Plus a most beautiful chromolithograph plate, “Peinture Chinoise, sur feuille d’arbre” (item no. 24 in the collection), printed by the Paris lithographers firm of A. Lemercier, finely heightened with gold. Illustrations, some full-page. Title-page printed in red and black. Half-title present. Bound in the original illustrated wrappers, upper wrapper loose, edge frayed, tender. Some marking in pencil. In a very good condition. Untrimmed copy in the original state.
- - First edition. Copy No. 16 from a limited edition of 100 copies, printed for private circulation only. Alexandre-Auguste Lesouëf (1829-1906). In 1913, his heirs donated his personal collection to the Bibliothèque nationale de France. This included, among other oriental documents, more than 900 works in Japanese, manuscripts, xylographs, engravings, maps and scrolls, dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries. - - NOTE: Beside this title, also available Lesouëf’s “Catalogue des livres et manuscrits japonais” (1887), and “Catalogue des kaké-monos et des maki-monos chinois et japonais” (1900).
€ 380 --
42 LESOUËF, Alexandre-Auguste. Catalogue des livres et manuscrits japonais, collectionnés par A. [Auguste] Lesouëf. Leide, E. J. Brill, 1897.Crown quarto. Pp. 128. Plus fine aquatint heliogravure portrait frontispiece (loose). Illustrations, some full page. Title-page printed in purple and black. Half-title present. Hardcover, bound in full crimson silken cloth, spine gilt, bit faded and slightly marked, with the original illustrated wrappers bound in (small stamp). Untrimmed copy in the original state. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 100 copies, printed for private circulation only. Alexandre-Auguste Lesouëf (1829-1906). In 1913, his heirs donated his personal collection to the Bibliothèque nationale de France. This included, among other oriental documents, more than 900 works in Japanese, manuscripts, xylographs, engravings, maps and scrolls, dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries. - - NOTE: Beside this title, also available Lesouëf’s “Catalogue des livres et manuscrits chinois” (1886), and “Catalogue des kaké-monos et des maki-monos chinois et japonais” (1900).
€ 580 --
43 LIE, Hiu. Die Mandschu-Sprachkunde in Korea. Bloomington, Indiana University Press; The Hague, Mouton, 1972.Royal octavo. Two parts in one volume. Pp. (viii), 128; 129-274. Plus maps and facsimiles bound at end. Bound in the original stiff wrappers. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Volume 114 in the Uralic and Altaic Series, edited by John R. Krueger. With a foreword in English.
€ 80 --
44 LIGETI, Louis. Traduction de Sonom Gara. Trésor des sentences. Subhasitaratnanidhi de Sa-skya Pandita. I. Monumenta linguae Mongolicae collecta IV; II. Indices verborum linguae Mongolicae monumentis traditorum IV. [TWO VOLUMES]. Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1973.Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. 146; 332, (2). Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth, with dust-jackets. In fine condition (ownership signature on first free endpaper). Excellent set, practically unused.
- - First edition.
€ 320 --
45 (MACHIN, Roger e.a.; Kyoto University of Foreign Studies Library). Nipponalia: Books on Japan in European Languages in the Library of Kyoto University of Foreign Studies. Supplement, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. Kyoto, University of Foreign Studies (Kyoto gaikokugo Daigaku), 1980-84.Two volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. xxi, 493; xx, 444. Each volume includes a section of illustrations with commentary. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial endpapers. A brand new set in pristine condition.
- - First edition. The 1st volume of this Supplement lists all books and periodicals relating to the study of Japan and kindred subjects received in the University Library after August 1972 up to the end of 1979. The 2nd volumes lists these items received after August 1980 up to the end of 1983. The original volume of “Nipponalia: Books on Japan in European Languages in the Library of Kyoto University of Foreign Studies” was published in 1972.
€ 1100 --
46 MALCOM, Howard. Travels in the Burman Empire. [Travels in South-Eastern Asia]. Edinburgh, William and Robert Chambers, 1840.Crown quarto. Pp. 82. Plus engraved frontispiece map of South-Eastern Asia. Wood-engraved vignette illustrations. Set in double columns. Hardcover, bound in handsome quarter polished red calf and matching cloth, with a section of blank leaves for notations etc. bound-in, large spine lettered in gilt, old faint oval stamps to title and verso of map. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - First edition thus. Howard Malcom (1799-1879), clergyman and missionary, is still regarded today as an important leader of the Baptist Church. He began his career as a Baptist missionary to foreign countries in 1835, and travelled to missions in Hindustan, Burma, Siam, China, and Africa. He wrote some of his most noteworthy literature about his missionary travels. In 1839 he published “Travels in South-Eastern Asia, Embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China”. The present volume forms the first section of this work, and is published here for the first time separately.
€ 100 --
47 MAY, Reginald le. The Culture of South-East Asia: The Heritage of India. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1954.Royal octavo. Pp. 218. Frontispiece. Plus 2 folding maps, and a suite of plates, printed on fine paper, with a total of 215 illustrations, bound at end. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s navy blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with (good) dust-jacket. Book is in fine condition. Excellent, crisp interior.
- - First edition.
€ 30 --
48 MINNICH, Helen Benton; Shojiro Nomura. Japanese Costume and the Makers of its Elegant Tradition. Rutland & Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle, 1963.Crown quarto. Pp. 374. Plus folding colour frontispiece. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous fine (helio)gravure and colour plates. Glossary, bibliography, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s decorative cloth, decorative endpapers, with pictorial dust-jacket. Placed in the original decorative slipcase. In fine condition. Excellent copy, beautifully preserved.
- - First edition, first printing. Deluxe production.
€ 80 --
49 MITCHELL, Charles H.; Osamu Ueda. The Illustrated Books of the Nanga, Maruyama, Shijo and Other Related Schools of Japan: A Bibliography. Los Angeles, Dawson’s Book Shop, 1972.Crown quarto. Pp. 623. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s navy blue cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Mitchell first published in 1968 a short treatise, entitled “Guide to the Illustrated Books of the Nanga, Maruyama, and Shijo Schools of Japan”. In 1971, with the assistance of Osamu Ueda, he privately published the present, expanded version, with considerably more bibliographical details, including a list of artists, authors, publishers, etc. Charles H. Mitchell (1910-1986) first went to Japan after the war, eventually residing there for 35 years. He was prominently involved in the collection of woodblock prints, and became especially notable for collection and classifying Japanese picture books (ehon). He retired to Glendale, California, in 1983.
€ 800 --
50 [MONTMIGNON, Abbé Jean-Baptiste]. (M. * * *, Ancien archidiacre et vicaire-générale de Soissons). Missions de l’Inde. Choix des lettres édifiantes, écrites des missions étrangères; Avec des additions, des notes critiques, et des observations pour la plus grande intelligence de ces lettres. Précédées du Tableau historique de la découverte et de la conquête de l’Indostan, et des premiers établissemens portugais et français, dans cette contrée de l’Asie. Paris, Maradan & H. Nicolle, 1809.Octavo. Pp. lxxxiv, 568. Hardcover, bound in contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt morocco labels to spine, sprinkled edges, attractive contemporary bookplate. In about fine condition.
- - First edition. Choix des lettres édifiantes, tome IV.
€ 150 --
51 MORRIS, John. Advance Japan: A Nation Thoroughly in Earnest. London, W. H. Allen, 1895.Crown quarto. Pp. xix, 443. Portrait frontispiece, with tissue guard. Plates, text illustrations, maps. Illustrated initials and tail-pieces. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s pictorial cloth, gilt (spine-ends bumped). In a very good condition.
- - First edition.
€ 45 --
52 MUDIE, Robert. The Picture of India, Geographical, Historical and Descriptive, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. London, Whittaker, Treacher, & Co., 1832.Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. xx, 415, with folding engraved map as frontispiece, engraved title-page with charming vignette, drawn and engraved by C. Marr, and 10 wood-engraved vignettes, each at the head of a chapter; (ii), 445, with engraved frontispiece “Pass in the Ghauts” by C. Marr, engraved title-page with vignette illustration, and 9 wood-engraved vignettes, each at the head of a chapter, some foxing to engraved titles due to paper quality. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s full cloth, attractively embossed with floral motif, decorative lettering-piece to each spine, cloth bit discoloured, minute bump to a lower corner. Overall an attractive set in a very good condition.
- - Second edition, first published in 1830. Robert Mudie (1777–1842). In 1829 he published “The Picture of Australia” (London, Whittaker, Treacher, & Co.). The present survey of India is “intended to furnish a general sketch of the country, as well to those who are to visit it, who are in it, or have returned, as to those who merely wish for information”. Beautifully illustrated.
€ 400 --
53 PACHE, Alois. Die religiösen Vorstellungen in den Mythen der formosanischen Bergstämme. (Studia Instituti Anthropos). Wien-Mödling, Missionsdruckerei St. Gabriel, 1964.Quarto. Pp. xv, 262, (10). Map, tables. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s quarter cloth and printed boards, with (good) dust-jacket. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Studia Instituti Anthropos, 19.
€ 45 --
54 PALMER, Spencer J. Confucian Rituals in Korea. Berkeley, Asian Humanities Press; Seoul, Po Chin Chai, N.d.Royal octavo. Pp. 270. With a suite of 113 plates printed on thick, fine paper, many in colour; and 9 full-page illustrations. Glossaries, extended bibliography. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth gilt, cloth ribbon marker, with dust-jacket. In fine condition (ownership signature and complimentary stamp on first free endpaper). Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Volume 3 in the Religions of Asia Series, edited by Lewis R. Lancaster and J. L. Shastri.
€ 60 --
55 PALMER, Spencer J. Korea and Christianity: The Problem of Identification with Tradition. Seoul, Hollym, 1967.Octavo. Pp. x, 174. Plates. Appendices, extended notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth, with dust-jacket (this good, bit discoloured). Book is in fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Volume 2 in the Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch, Monograph Series.
€ 20 --
56 PARK, Chang-Hai. An Intensive Course in Korean, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. Seoul, Yonsei University Press, 1967-68.Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. xxxi, 736; 753, 7. Bound in the original publisher’s cloth, with (one) dust-jacket. In fine condition.
- - First published 1960.
€ 50 --
57 PIERIS, P. E.; M. A. H. Fitzler. Ceylon and Portugal. Part I: Kings and Christians, 1539-1552. From the Original Documents at Lisbon. Leipzig, Asia Major, 1927.Crown quarto. Pp. 408. Plus 2 plates: a facsimile signature of the King of Ceylon, and a reproduction of a 17th century map of Ceylon, by Cypriano Sanches. Appendices, glossary, index, errata. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full brick-red cloth, black lettering to spine. A BRAND NEW copy in superb condition.
- - First edition, all published. Scarce.
€ 220 --
58 POWELL, E. Alexander. Asia at the Crossroads: Japan, Korea, China, Philippine Islands. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1922.Royal octavo. Pp. xv, 369. Portrait frontispiece and several plates. Appendices. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s red cloth, bit faded, gilt lettering to spine, slightly bumped spine-ends. In a very good condition. A fine interior.
- - First edition.
€ 20 --
59 RAMSTEDT, G. J. Collected and edited by Songmoo Kho. Paralipomena of Korean Etymologies. Helsinki, Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, 1982.Royal octavo. Pp. 295. With a facsimile example of one of Ramstedt’s etymologies in his own handwriting. Bound in the original green stiff wrappers. Small ownership signature and neat inscription in Korean to title-page. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seuran Toimituskia; Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 182.
€ 250 --
60 ROSÉN, Staffan. A Study on Tones and Tonemarks in Middle Korean. Stockholm, Stockholm University, Institute of Oriental Languages, 1974.Octavo. Pp. Bound in the original printed stiff wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Doctoral dissertation. With a dedication by the Author to the scholar Professor Frits Vos (1918-2000).
€ 180 --
61 ROSNY, Léon de. Études asiatiques de géographie et d’histoire. Paris, Challamel Ainé, 1864.Royal octavo. Pp. xii, 411. Original printed wrappers, untrimmed. In fine condition (sporadic foxing to few leaves). A practically unused copy, still entirely unopened.
- - First edition. Scarce.
€ 320 --
62 RUSSELL, William Howard. My Diary in India in the Year 1858-9, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. London, Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860.Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. xv, 408 plus tinted lithograph frontispiece, 4 other such plates, and a lithograph folding map; xi, 443 plus tinted lithograph frontispiece, and 6 other such plates. Appendix. Both half-titles present; a flyleaf bit soiled, inner hinges somewhat weak. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s full cloth, bit marked, sides decoratively blind stamped, spines gilt, bit discoloured. Foxing to plates, else a clean interior in a very good set.
- - Fourth edition, published the same year as the first. Provenance: from the private library of noted collector Joseph M. Gleason, with his handsome bookplate to each first paste-down. Exceedingly scarce in the original state and in the original publisher’s binding.
€ 420 --
63 SAITO, Hisho. Geschichte Japans. Berlin, Ferd. Dümmlers, 1912.Crown quarto. Pp. x, 262. Illustrations. Hardcover, bound in half cloth, with the original illustrated wrappers bound-in. Marginal annotations in Japanese in a very neat hand throughout. In a very good condition.
- - First edition.
€ 30 --
64 SASSE, Werner. Das Glossar Koryo-pangon im Kyerim-yusa. Studien zur Entschlüsselung eines chinesischen Glossars mittelkoreanischer Wörter. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1976.Royal octavo. Pp. vii, 155. Bound in the original stiff wrappers. In fine condition (small ownership signature).
- - First edition. Doctoral dissertation. Veröffentlichungen des Ostasien-Instituts der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Band 18.
€ 170 --
65 SCHLINGLOFF, Dieter. Die Buddhastotras des Matrceta. Faksimilewiedergabe der Handschriften. Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1968.Tall quarto. Pp. 19, plus 516 facsimiles on 76 plates, bound at end. Original stiff wrappers. In a very good condition.
- - First edition. Abhandlungen der deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Klasse für Sprachen, Literatur und Kunst, Jahrgang 1968, Nr. 2. Vorgelegt in der Sitzung de Klasse am 23. Juni 1966.
€ 25 --
66 SCHMIDT, I. J. Grammatik der Tibetischen Sprache. Leipzig, Zentralantiquariat, (1968).Crown quarto. Pp. xv, 318, (2). Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s pale grey cloth, gilt embossed lettering on cover and spine. In a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - Facsimile reprint of the 1839 edition, St. Petersburg, W. Gräff & Leipzig, Leopold Voss.
€ 90 --
67 SCHMITHAUSEN, Lambert. Der Nirvana-Abschnitt in der Viniscayasamgrahani der Yogacarabhumih. Wien, Hermann Böhlaus Nachf. for Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1969.Royal octavo. Pp. 216, (2). Bound in the original stiff wrappers. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historisch Klasse. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für sprachen und kulturen Süd- und Ostasiens, Heeft 8.
€ 220 --
68 SCHMITT, Gerhard; Thomas Thilo, Taijun Inokuchi, Akira Fujieda. Katalog chinesischer buddhistischer Textfragmente, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1975-85.Two volumes. Tall quarto. Pp. 209, plus 34 plates with 50 facsimiles; 94, plus 52 plates with 77 facsimiles. Uniformly bound in the original stiff wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent set.
- - First edition. Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, Zentralinstitut für Alte Geschichte und Archäologie. Schriften zur Geschichte und Kultur des Alten Orients. Berliner Turfantexte VI, XIV.
€ 260 --
69 SCHUBERT, Johannes (Editor). Asiatica. Festschrift Friedrich Weller zum 65. Geburtstag. Leipzig, Otto Harrassowitz, 1954.Thick quarto. Pp. xix, 902. Frontispiece portrait. Plus plates, colour maps, some folding. Hardcover, bound in the original full navy blue cloth, gilt decorated. In fine condition (decorative stamp, signature to title-page).
- - First edition. Provenance: Loosely inserted is a card, signed by Friedrich Weller, dated March 1978, addressed to Professor Dettmer. Also loosely inserted is the original a 4-page thank-you note by Weller, which was printed on the occasion of publishing this book.
€ 110 --
70 (SHIGEKI TOHYAMA, Director Yokohama Archives of History). The Paul C. Blum Collection [in the Yokohama Archives of History]: A Catalogue of Books, I-IV. [FOUR VOLUMES]. Yokohama, Yokohama Archives of History, 1982.Four volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. vi, 92, xxxiv; iii, 93-226; iii, 227-304; iii, 305-415, iii (errata). Each volume includes a suite of plates. Set in double columns. Uniformly bound in the original publisher’s decorative stiff wrappers. In new condition.
- - First edition. The Paul C. Blum (1898-1981) Collection at the Yokohama Archives of History Library contains some 7,000 items, including foreign books and magazines about Japan dating back to the 16th century, old European maps of Japan and Asia, and Japanese woodblock prints. The Yokohama Archives of History contain over 250,000 Yokohama-related materials from the Edo period to the Taisho-early Showa era. Initially planned to comprise 3 volumes only, the catalogue eventually was published in 4 volumes and is including a Supplement and an Index.
€ 800 --
71 SHIN-YONG, Chun (Editor). Buddhist Culture in Korea. [AND:] Folk Culture in Korea. [TWO BOOKS]. Seoul, International Cultural Foundation, 1974.Two volumes of the series. Royal octavo. Pp. 289; 304. Each with a suite of full-page photographic plates printed on thick, fine paper, some in colour. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth, with dust-jackets. In fine condition (ownership signatures). Excellent copies, practically unused.
- - First edition. Korean Culture Series, Volumes 3 and 4.
€ 30 --
72 SION, Jules; P. Vidal de la Blanche; L. Gallois. Asie des Moussons. I. Généralités - China - Japon; II. Inde - Indochine - Insulinde. Géographie Universelle, Tome IX/1-2. [TWO VOLUMES]. Paris, Armand Colin, 1928-29.Two volumes. Quarto. Pp. 272; 273-548.
Plus numerous plates on different paper, maps, some in colour, text illustrations, figures, diagrams. The first volume is hardcover, bound in full red cloth, handsome sprinkled edges; with institutional stamps and bookplate. An exceptionally fine copy, beautifully preserved, practically unused copy in as-new condition. The second volume is bound in the original stiff wrappers, with integrated dust-jacket, worn along spine. In fine internal condition.- - First edition. Géographie Universelle, Tome IX/1-2.
€ 80 --
73 SKILLEND, W. E. Early Readings in Korean. London, Centre for Korean Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1987.Quarto. Pp. (iv), 291. Illustrations. Original green stiff wrappers. As new (small ownership signature). Excellent copy, practically unused.
€ 250 --
74 SOMA, Junichi; Sumio Mizusawa (Editors). (Japan Textile Industry Research Institute, under Supervision of the Textile Bureau, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Tokyo). Textile Japan, 1955. Tokyo, Japan Textile Industry Research Institute, 1955.Crown quarto. Pp. 78, (12) illustrated advertisements. With over 80 mounted samples of cloth, silk, wool, and other textiles, old and modern materials. Illustrated throughout. In the original publisher’s pictorial spiral binding. In fine condition.
€ 160 --
75 STEAD, Alfred. H. Kern. Japan door Japanners. Een overzicht door zijn hoogste autoriteiten. Leiden, Sijthoff, (1904).Crown quarto. Pp. xxxiv, 772. Portrait frontispiece. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full cloth, gilt decoration, spine bit worn at head. In good condition, fine interior.
- - First edition.
€ 20 --
76 SUZUKI, Koshin. Index to the Sanskrit Fragments and Tibetan Translation of Candrakirti’s Bodhisattvayogacaracatuhsatakatika. Tibetan-Sanskrit. Tokyo, The Sankibo Press, 1995.Crown quarto. Pp. 364, (8). Bound in the original publisher’s decorative wrappers. A brand new copy in a very fine condition. Excellent.
- - First edition. Exceedingly scarce. KVK lists Union Catalogs Northern Germany, Austria, and Hesse, Kongelige Bibliotek Denmark, and Library Network of Western Switzerland only. British Union Catalog COPAC adds copies in Oxford and in School of Oriental & African Studies.
€ 480 --
77 TEKIN, Sinasi. Maitrisimit nom bitig. Die uigurische Übersetzung eines Werkes der buddhistischen Vaibhasika-Schule. I. Transliteration, Übersetzung, Anmerkungen. (Schriften zur Geschichte und Kultur des Alten Orients. Berliner Turfantexte IX). Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1980.Tall quarto. Pp. 264. Bound in the original stiff wrappers. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, Zentralinstitut für Alte Geschichte und Archäologie. Schriften zur Geschichte und Kultur des Alten Orients. Berliner Turfantexte IX.
€ 110 --
78 WALLACE, R. (Robert) G. (Grenville). Denkwürdigkeiten Indiens, enthaltend eine kurze geographische Beschreibung von Ost-Indien; nebst einer gedrängten Geschichte Hindostans von den frühesten Zeitaltern bis zu Ende der Marquis Hastingischen Verwaltung im Jahre 1823. Aus dem Englischen von F. L. Rhode. Frankfurt am Main, Heinrich Wilmans, 1826.Octavo. pp. vi, (ii), 438. Hardcover, bound in handsome contemporary marbled boards, gilt decoration to spine, orange lettering-piece lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges dyed green, corner-tips bit rubbed. In fine condition. A lovely copy.
- - First and only German edition. Translated from the English “Memoirs of India” (1824) by F. Ludwig Rhode. See Block: “The English Novel 1740-1850”; Garside, Raven and Schowerling: “The English Novel 1770-1829”. Robert Grenville Wallace (1786-1851). Uncommon. KVK locates only 2 copies in Germany (Union Catalogs Northern- and Southwest Germany). Only three other copies are located in European libraries (French Union Catalog; Austrian National Library; Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Denmark).
€ 420 --
79 WETH, Cynthia Yun Ping. Die taiwanesische Unabhängigkeitsbewegung (Taidu) 1945-78. Würzburg, Julius-Maximilians-Universität, 1981.Octavo. Pp. x, 383. Plus 5 maps bound at end. Original stiff wrappers. A brand new copy.
- - First edition. Doctoral dissertation.
€ 220 --
80 WINGFIELD, Hon. Lewis [Strange]. Wanderings of a Globe-Trotter in the Far East, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. London, Richard Bentley, 1889.Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. (ii), 289; (ii), 310. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary quarter crimson morocco and matching boards, bit darkened, spines bit chipped at ends, lettered and numbered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, few foxing spots to title-pages. In about fine condition. Overall an excellent set.
- - First edition. Hon. Lewis Strange Wingfield (1842-1891). Among the many areas of the world visited by nineteenth century Englishmen, none was more intriguing or alluring than the Far East. Between 1800 and 1900 a series of male and female travellers journeyed by land through India and on by ship to China and Japan. Wingfield’s travelogue covers, beside China, also Japan and the Philippines. Very rare. KVK does not locate any copy outside of the UK in all major European institutional libraries. COPAC locates National Library of Scotland; School of Oriental & African Studies; Cambridge; Trinity College Dublin; and Oxford only. Two copies in British Library. European Register of Microform Masters lists a copy in microform. See also: “G. W. Cooke and Laurence Oliphant: Victorian Travellers to the Orient.” Ira Bruce Nadel, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 94, No. 1 (1974).
€ 1400 --
81 WISSINGER, Uwe. Geschichte und Religion Koreas im Spannungsfeld der grossen [großen] Religionen und Reiche Ostasiens. Schamanistische, buddhistische, taoistische und konfuzianistische Grundlagen für die soziale und kulturelle Entwicklung des Landes. Teil I. Von der Steinzeit bis zum Ende der Koryó-Dynastie. Berlin, Freien Universität, 1984.Thick octavo. Pp. 845. Bound in the original printed wrappers. In a very fine, AS NEW condition. Excellent copy.
- - First edition. Doctoral dissertation. All published.
€ 600 --
82 YAMAGUCHI, Susumu. Index to the Prasannapada Madhyamaka-Vrtti. I. Sanskrit-Tibetan; II. Tibetan-Sanskrit. [TWO VOLUMES]. Kyoto, Heirakuji-Shoten, 1974.Two volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. 250; x, 249. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s black cloth, spines with (very good) dust-jackets. In fine condition (signature and stamp on first free endpaper). Excellent set.
- - First edition. Preface in English and Japanese. An index to the original Sanskrit text and the Tibetan translation of the commentary made by Candrakcirti in the 7th century A.D. Part 1: Sanskrit-Tibetan; Part 2: Tibetan-Sanskrit. Exceedingly scarce.
€ 1100 --
83 YOON, Hong-key. Geomantic Relationships Between Culture and Nature in Korea. Taipei, The Chinese Association for Folklore, The Orient Cultural Service, 1976.Octavo. Pp. lxx, 279. With 30 plates. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s red cloth, gilt, front cover English, back cover Chinese. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Published in Taipei, Republic of China. Asian Folklore and Social Life Monographs, edited by Lou Tsu-k’uang in collaboration with Wolfram Eberhard, Volume 89. Provenance: From the private library of Professor Frits Vos (1918-2000), with his signature.
€ 600 --
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