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ENGLISH-CHINESE DICTIONARY. [At Head of Title: Lilliput Series].
Shanghai, China: Commercial Press, Ltd., 1927..
7 x 4 cm. pp. 3 p.l., 992, [1 leaf]. limp cloth (rubbed, small hole in upper cover).
$100 USD Book Number: elala3536 Order / Enquire
[MASTERPIECES Of The Japanese Woodblock Print] [Cover Title in Japanese].
np: np, [c1900].
folio. 36 tipped-in colour woodblock prints after Isoda Koryusai, Hiroshige Ando, Shotei Watanabe, Tosa Mitsuoki, & others. tissue guards with legends in Japanese & English. original patterned silk, paper title label on cover (corners bit frayed).
| $2000 USD | Book Number: elala4834 | Order / Enquire |
[ALEXANDRE, Noël] [1639-1742].
Apologie Des Dominicains Missionnaires De La Chine, Ou Réponse Au Livre du Père Le Tellier Jésuite.
Cologne: Heirs of Corneille d'Egmond, 1700..
2 Volumes. 12mo. pp. 378, [4]; 3 p.l., 366, [7]. contemporary sprinkled sheep, gilt backs (spinal extremities worn). armorial bookplate of Bernard de Noblet, Comte de Chenelette. Dominican critique of the Jesuit position on Confucian rites and ceremonies, written specifically in response to Michel Le Tellier's Défense des Nouveaux Chrétiens and the Éclaircissement of Charles Le Gobien. First published the previous year. Lust also notes a so-called 'second' edition of 1700, apparently a re-issue of the first with cancel title. cfBarbier I 245. cfCioranescu 6806. cfCordier 877. cfLust 854-55.
$1538 USD Book Number: FLEol[AL31 Order / Enquire
ANON.
Indo-China (A French Point Of View).
Paris: Nouvelles Éditions Latines, [1950]..
12mo. pp. 122, [ff. 2]. 2 double-page text maps. Uncut & unopened in pictorial wrs. (short split in lower front joint). First Edition. A remarkable rarity in flawless condition of an extremely fragile book due to acidic paper. A virulent anti-Communist manifesto against the Vietnamese Communist Party and its armed wing, anticipating the bloody civil war that ensued and the defeat of French imperialism, which led to the US militarist intervention into the internal affairs of Vietnam. A significant piece of French imperialist militarist propaganda. Sixteen institutional holdings are cited in Worldcat, which records no French language edition.
$500 USD Book Number: dola1009 Order / Enquire
BALFOUR, Frederic Henry.
Leaves From My Chinese Scrapbook.
London: Trübner & Co., 1887..
8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 215 + [58]publisher's catalogue. with half-title. Uncut in original cloth (stained & frayed, labels on spine, some light foxing). First Edition. Cordier 611.
$154 USD Book Number: FLFavBAL57 Order / Enquire
BATCHELOR, John.
The Ainu And Their Folk-Lore.
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1901..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., ix-xxvi, [604]. title in red & black. 137 text illus. (some full-page) from photos & sketches by the author. original white & gilt-stamped pictorial cloth (slight puckering to spine). First Edition. The author spent sixty-four years from 1877 to 1941 as an Anglican missionary to the Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan settled on the northern island of Hokkaido.
$800 USD Book Number: elala4802 Order / Enquire
BEN SHE YI MING.
Seventy Years of the Communist Party of China Atlas.
Shanghai: People's Publishing House, 1991..
folio. text in Mandarin Chinese. profusely illus. gilt-stamped cloth. dw. Very good in worn bd. slipcase (some edges taped). ISBN 9787208010963
$300 USD Book Number: dola939 Order / Enquire
BERNATZIK, Hugo Adolf.
Akha Und Meau Probleme Der Angewandten Völkerkunde In Hinterindien.
Innsbruck: Kommissionsverlag Wagner'Sche Univ.-Buchdruckerei, [1947]..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 258, iv; 4 p.l., 259-568, v-x. folding table, coloured map, 2 coloured plates & 40 double-sided b/w plates. numerous text illus. & diagrams. biblio. index. quarter cloth (rubbed). tattered dws. laid in. First Edition of this anthropological study of the Akha and Miao tribes, based on the author's travels in Burma, Thailand and French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia) in 1936-37.
$100 USD Book Number: dola334 Order / Enquire
BIRD, Isabella L[ucy] [1831-1904].
The Golden Chersonese And The Way Thither.
London: John Murray, 1883..
8vo. pp. xvi, [1 leaf], 384. with half-title. 2 coloured maps on 1 folding sheet (of Perak & the Malay Peninsula), 10 wood-engraved plates, & 6 text illus. contemporary half chagrin (extremities bit rubbed, neat gilt institutional crest on upper cover & lower spine, some foxing to map & outer leaves). First Edition. An epistolary account by the famous woman traveller of the last part of her 1879 trip to the Far East, presenting her observations on Hong Kong, Canton, Saigon, and the Malay Peninsula (Singapore, Malacca, Sungei Ujong, Selangor, Perak, Larut, and Kuala Kangsar). Included are observations on the criminal classes of Hong Kong, night life in Canton, Naam-hoi prison, punishment and torture, Portuguese missionaries, Chinese anaesthetics, Anamite life, European life in Saigon, Malay manners and customs, the growth of Singapore, the lieutenant-governor of Malacca, the Malacca jungle, lawlessness in Selangor, yachting in the Malacca Straits, opium farming, mining in Perak, slavery, the Malay interior, local flora and fauna, &c. Cordier, Indosinica, 1471. Robinson, Wayward Women, pp. 81-83.
$769 USD Book Number: FRDeBIRD76 Order / Enquire
[BIRD, Isabella Lucy], Mrs. J.F.Bishop [1831-1904].
The Yangtze Valley And Beyond An Account Of Journeys In China, Chiefly In The Province Of Sze Chuan And Among The Man-Tze Of The Somo Territory.
London: John Murray, 1899..
8vo. pp. xv, 557, [1]. with half-title & tipped-in errata slip. folding colour map & numerous text illus. (many full-page, incl. frontis.). original pictorial cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, rebacked with spine mounted (light wear to joints & extremities, errata slip browned). First Edition. The last published work of one of the most famous of all women travellers. Isabella visited Hangchow, Shanghai, Kankow, Ichang, Kuei Fu, Wan Hsien, San Tsan-Pu, Lian-Shan Hsien, Hsia-Shan-Po, Siao-Kiao, Hsieh-Tien-Tze, Paoning Fu, Sin-Tien-Tze, Tze-Tung Hsien, Kuan Hsien, Chengtu, Sin-Wen-Ping, Li-Fan Ting, Tsa-Ku-Lao, Chengtu Fu, Luchow, and Chung-King Fu. Included are chapters on the Hangchow medical mission hospitals, Chinese charities, opium, and the Protestant missions in China. Cordier, Sinica, 355. Robinson, Wayward Women, pp. 81-83.
$949 USD Book Number: FIRe[BIR95 Order / Enquire
BLUNDEN, Caroline & ELVIN, Mark.
Cultural Atlas of China.
New York: Facts on File, Inc., [1983]..
4to. pp. 237. biblio. gazeteer. index. profusely illus. in colour & b/w (some full-page) incl. maps. cloth. dw. First American Edition.
$77 USD Book Number: FUNltBLU56 Order / Enquire
BLYTH, R[eginald] H[orace] [1898-1964].
Haiku.
[Tokyo:] Hokuseido, [1949-52]..
4 Volumes: Vol. I. Eastern Culture; Vol. II. Spring; Vol. III. Summer-Autumn; Vol. IV: Autumn-Winter. 12mo. pp. 3 p.l., xviii; 2 p.l., [v], 382; 2 p.l., xv, 443; 2 p.l., [xliii], [1 leaf], 396. folding chart. 65 plates. illus. on endleaves. tissue guards with legends. cloth. dws. A very good set. First Editions.
$900 USD Book Number: dola1046 Order / Enquire
BOND, George J.
Our Share in China and What We are Doing with It.
Toronto: The Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, 1909..
12mo. pp. 253, [1]ads. 21 plates. mounted illus. on upper cover. cloth (extremities rubbed, institutional bookplate & 2 rubberstamps). First Edition.
$100 USD Book Number: elala3520 Order / Enquire
BOSTWICK, F.M.
Kohana San. Written By Lieutenant F.M.Bostwick, U.S.Navy, And Sung To The Air Of "Ballyhooly." [Drop Title].
Tokyo: T.Hasegawa & Yokohama: Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., 1892..
8vo. [pp. 22 on 11 double-leaves]. crepe-paper. numerous colour woodblock illus. musical notation on 5pp. self wrs. with silk ties (few short tears at extremities). First Edition. Hasegawa Takejirõ was a leading publisher during the Meiji period of colour woodblock illustrated books in European languages on Japanese subjects, and often used foreign residents as translators. His publications were intended for export, the tourist trade, and the foreign residents in Japan. The present song relates the story of a young geisha named Kohana San (Little Flower).
$450 USD Book Number: elala4922 Order / Enquire
BRINKLEY, F. Et Al.
Oriental Series.
Boston & Tokyo: J.B.Millet Company, [1901-10]..
12 Volumes, comprising: BRINKLEY, F. Japan Its History, Arts, And Literature. 6 (of 8) Volumes; DAUNCEY, Mrs. Campbell. The Philippines An Acount of Their People, Progress, And Condition; BRINKLEY, F. China Its History, Arts, And Literature. 3 (of 4) Volumes; KELLY, R.Talbot. Burma The Land And Its People; and HAMILTON, Angus. Afghanistan. 8vo. 72 monochrome plates (12 colour). titles with decorative colour border. original leather, t.e.g. (bit rubbed, extremities worn, library numbers on lower spines). Ambassador's Edition, Limited to 750 numbered copies.
$799 USD Book Number: elala3684 Order / Enquire
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