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OLIPHANT, Laurence [1829-1888].
Narrative Of The Earl Of Elgin's Mission To China And Japan In The Years 1857, '58, '59.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860..
8vo. pp. xvi, [17]-645, [1]blank, [2]ads. colour lithographed frontis. & 60 wood-engraved text illus. (10 full-page). original cloth, rebacked with spine mounted (corners worn, front cover spotty). First American Edition. Oliphant served as Lord Elgin's private secretary on his special mission to China and Japan in 1857-59. His narrative gives an interesting first-hand account of events, including the British bombardment of Canton and the siege of Tientsin. Chapters XXI-XXXII, pp. 301-476, are devoted to Japan. Cordier, Sinica, 2376. Cordier, Japonica, 1735.
$450 USD Book Number: FIPrrOLI19 Order / Enquire
OSBECK, Pehr [1723-1805].
A Voyage To China And The East Indies.Together with A Voyage To Suratte, By Olof Torren.And An Account of the Chinese Husbandry, By Captain Charles Gustavus Eckeberg.
London: Printed for Benjamin White, 1771..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp.xx, 396; 1 p.l., 367, [31]index, [1]errata. 13 engraved plates. modern calf (small library rubberstamps on title & page 1 of each vol., paper lightly embrowned, some foxing to several gatherings in Vol. I, plates offset). First Edition of the English Translation by Johann Reinhold Forster, based on the German translation which was revised and enlarged by Osbeck. Osbeck, a Swedish minister, traveller and botanist, was a member of the Academy of Stockholm, and on the recommendation of Linnaeus, served as chaplain on board a Swedish East India Company's ship bound for Java in 1750. From there he embarked for Canton, where he spent four months collecting specimens. Appended to the narrative of his travels and description of Chinese history, religion, manners and customs, government, trade and commerce, are catalogues of Chinese fauna and flora. Most of the plates depict Chinese plants. Also included are an account of a voyage to Surat by Olof Torren, and an account of Chinese husbandry by Carl Gustav Eckeberg, both of whom Osbeck met up with in Canton. Cordier 2098. Cox I 342. Lust 350. Nissen 3025. Pritzel 6865. Goldsmiths' 10715. Howgego O21.
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PALAFOX [Y MENDOZA, Juan] De [1600-1659].
Histoire De La Conqueste De La Chine Par Les Tartares.Traduite en François par le Sieur Colle.
Amsterdam: Jean Frédéric Bernard, 1723..
12mo. pp. 6 p.l., 477. contemporary calf, gilt back (wear to corners & top edge of rear cover, some leaves embrowned, 1 prelim misbound, short tear in 1 leaf - no loss). Second Edition of the French Translation. "An account of the fall of the Ming and rise of the Manchu dynasty, with descriptions of Manchu customs and hope expressed for progress by Christian missions." (Bell) The author worked from reports sent to him in Mexico via Macao and Manila. Palafox was Bishop of Angelopolis (Puebla de los Angeles) in Mexico from 1640 to 1649. Cordier, Sinica, 627. Lust 448. cfBell P41. cfCox I 326.
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PEREIRA, Galeote, RADA, Friar Martin de [1533-1578], & CRUZ, Friar Gaspar Da [d. 1570].
South China In The Sixteenth Century.Edited By C.R.Boxer.
London: Printed For The Hakluyt Society [Second Series: No. 106], 1953..
8vo. pp. xci, 388. with half-title. 3 folding maps, 7 maps & charts in the text (4 full-page), 3 plates & 7 text illus. (3 double-page, 4 full-page). original blind & gilt-stamped cloth. "De Rada and da Cruz were Spanish and Portuguese missionaries; Pereira was a Portuguese merchant, captured off the Chinese coast in 1549 and imprisoned for four years. The narrative describes events in the period 1550-1575." (NMM) National Maritime Museum I 499.
$179 USD Book Number: FREutPER46 Order / Enquire
PIGGOTT, Juliet.
Japanese Mythology.
London, New York, Sydney, Toronto: Paul Hamlyn, [1975]..
4to. pp. 141. biblio. index. illus. throughout in colour & b/w (some full-page). cloth. dw. (dw. rubbed & edges chipped - head & foot of spine repaired on verso). Third Impression.
$77 USD Book Number: FGGpaPIG35 Order / Enquire
POLO, Marco [1254?-1324?].
The Most Noble And Famous Travels Of Marco Polo together with the Travels of Nicolò De' Conti Edited from the Elizabethan Translation of John Frampton with Introduction, Notes and Appendixes By N.M.Penzer, M.A.
London: The Argonaut Press, 1929..
4to. pp. lx, 381, [1 leaf]. with half-title. colour frontis., 1 illus., 11 maps (1 folding), & title vignette (original woodcut by William Monk). decorative initials. Uncut & unopened in original quarter vellum (cloth sides somewhat soiled). Limited to 1050 numbered copies. Cox I 321. Howgego P126.
$577 USD Book Number: FLOePOLO36 Order / Enquire
POLO, Marco.
The Book Of Ser Marco Polo The Venetian Concerning The Kingdoms And Marvels Of The East Translated And Edited, With Notes, By Colonel Sir Henry Yule.
London: John Murray, 1903..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. cii, [2], 144, 462; xxii, [2], 662, [1]. 2 frontis. portraits (incl. 1 photogravure), 54 maps & plates (some folding, many colour), & numerous text illus. original cloth (Vol I recased preserving endleaves, leather spine labels chipped & 1 replaced). Third Edition, Revised Throughout In The Light Of Recent Discoveries By Henry Cordier. Cordier, Sinica, 1984-85.
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PONTING, Herbert G[eorge].
In Lotus-Land Japan.
London: Macmillan And Co., Limited, 1910..
large 8vo. pp. xvi, 395. 8 tipped-in colour plates & numerous monochrome plates. original gilt-stamped cloth, recased preserving endpapers (extremities bit frayed). First Edition.
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PUMPELLY, Raphael [1837-1923].
Across America And Asia Notes Of A Five Years' Journey Around The World And Of Residence In Arizona, Japan and China.
New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1870..
8vo. pp. xvi, 454. 4 maps (3 folding - 1 colour), 12 plates (incl. frontis. & 4 colour facsimiles after Hokusai) & 12 text illus. original gilt-stamped cloth (extremities chipped & frayed, plates offset). Third Revised Edition. Account of the American geologist and mining engineer's extensive travels in the interior of Japan and China under commission from the native governments, and his long journey from China through Mongolia and Siberia to St. Petersburgh. There is an interesting chapter on Japanese art written by artist John La Farge. The first four chapters are primarily devoted to southern Arizona, where Pumpelly was engaged in the development of the silver mines. Cordier, Japonica, 604-05. Howes P-650. cfCordier, Sinica, 2134. cfSmith P101.
$167 USD Book Number: FMProPUM49 Order / Enquire
RHODES, Alexandre De [1591-1660].
Relazione De' felici successi della Santa Fede Predicata Da' Padri Della Compagnia di Giesu Nel Regno Di Tunchino, Alla Santita Di N.S. PP. Innocenzio Decimo.
Rome: Giuseppe Luna, 1650.
small 4to. pp. 8 p.l., 326, [1 leaf]errata. double-page engraved map. woodcut printer's device on title. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary vellum (slight worming to lower spine, lacking front flyleaf, front hinge cracked). First Edition of the first separately published description of the whole of Vietnam, containing what appears to be the earliest detailed map of North Vietnam. It is preceded by Cristóforo Borri's Relatione della nuova missione.della Cocincina (1631), which dealt only with South Vietnam. In addition to presenting a first-hand account of missionary activity in the country from 1627 to 1646, Rhodes gives details respecting the manners and customs of the native inhabitants, politics and government, natural resources and commerce, &c. French and Latin translations were published in 1652. Rhodes, a French Jesuit, was assigned to the missions of the East Indies and spent several years in Goa, Malacca, Batavia, and Macao, before proceeding to Cochin China (South Vietnam) in 1624, where fellow Jesuits had been working since 1615. He arrived with five colleagues under the leadership of Gabriel De Matos. Within six months he had learnt Cochinchinois, invented the quoc-ngu, by which Vietnamese could be represented by Roman characters, and evangelized much of the region between the coast and the Annamese highlands. (Howgego) In 1627 he proceeded to Tongking (North Vietnam), where he met with equal success, reputedly personally converting over 6000 souls, until he was expelled in 1630. He spent the next ten years in Macao making occasional excursions into Canton. Allowed to return to South Vietnam in 1640, he was later arrested and imprisoned and again expelled, returning to Rome via Persia in 1646. He later obtained permission to establish a new mission in Persia, and there died at Ispahan in 1660. Bell R264. Brunet IV 1269. Cordier, Indosinica, 1619. cfCordier, Sinica, 2080. Graesse VI 104. De Backer & Sommervogel VI, 1718. Howgego R33-R34.
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SAINT JOHN, Sir Spenser [Buckingham] [1825-1910].
Life In The Forests.
London: Smith, Elder And Co., 1862..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., vii]-xix, [1]list of illus., [1 leaf]errata, 400; 1 p.l., [v]-xviii, [1 leaf]plate list, 420. lacking half-titles. 2 folding lithographed maps, 4 hand-coloured lithographs of plants, & 12 tinted lithographs. contemporary half calf (spine & corners worn but solid, neat gilt library stamp at foot of spines, some foxing to plates & neighbouring leaves). First Edition. St. John, who as a young man was fascinated with Borneo and the adventures of Sir James Brooke, rajah of Sarawak, and took up the study of the Malay language, was introduced to Brooke on his visit to England in 1847 and accompanied him as private secretary when Brooke was appointed British commissioner and governor of Labuan. Thenceforth St. John and Brooke were closely associated. St. John was with Brooke during his final operations in 1849 against Malay pirates, and he accompanied Brooke to Brunei, the Sulu archipelago, and to Siam in 1850. Although St. John deemed some of his chief's dealings with the natives high-handed and ill-advised, he in a letter to Gladstone, defended Brooke against attack in the House of Commons. While the official inquiry into Brooke's conduct, which the home government appointed, was in progress at Singapore, St. John acted temporarily as commissioner for Brooke (1851-5), and visited the north-western coast of Borneo and the north-eastern shore, ascending the principal rivers. Appointed in 1856 British consul-general at Brunei, St. John explored the country round the capital, and penetrated farther into the interior than any previous traveller. He published his full and accurate journals, supplemented by other visitors' testimonies, in these well-written and beautifully illustrated volumes entitled Life in the Forests of the Far East (1862). (DNB) Included are chapters on the Sea and Land Dayaks and their social life, the Samarahan River and the Caves of Sirih, St. John's ascents of the Mountain of Kina Balu, explorations in the interior to the south and south-east of the capital, expedition up the Limbang River, visits to the Sulu Islands, Borneo proper, Sarawak, the Chinese in Borneo, the Chinese insurrection, and Roman catholic and protestant missions. The plates include tinted lithographs showing scenery and natives, and four hand-coloured lithographs of notable flora. cfCasey Wood p. 548 (2nd Edn.).
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SAUNBY, John.
Japan: The Land Of The Morning.
Toronto: William Briggs., 1895..
8vo. pp. 302. 27 text illus. (22 full-page). original gilt-stamped pictorial cloth (slightly discoloured, extremies frayed). First Edition.
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SETON, Grace (Gallatin) Thompson [1872-1959].
Chinese Lanterns.
New York: Dodd, Mead And Company, 1924..
8vo. pp. xv, [1]blank, 373. with half-title. 36 plates (incl. frontis.; some double-sided) & 1 full-page text illus. original pictorial cloth (extremities slightly frayed, ad & news clipping mounted on verso of last page, rear blank, & p. 277, cellotape repair to gutter margin of frontis. & half-title, occasional underlines & ms. notes). Second Printing.
$154 USD Book Number: FominTho38 Order / Enquire
SHELDON, W[alter] L[orenzo] [1858-1907].
Summer Greetings from Japan.
[St. Louis?: 1908?]..
8vo. pp. 128. 17 plates (incl. frontis. portrait). Fine copy in original gilt-stamped cloth, top edge gilt. calling card of the author's wife laid in. Privately Printed for Limited Distribution.
$231 USD Book Number: FELmmSHE68 Order / Enquire
SHOBERL, Frederic [1775-1853] (Editor).
The World In Miniature...Japan, Containing Illustrations Of The Character, Manners, Customs, Religion, Dress, Amusements, Commerce, Agriculture, &c. Of The People Of That Empire.
London: Printed For R.Ackermann, [1923]..
12mo. pp. xiii, [1]plate list, 286. 20 hand-coloured engraved plates (incl. frontis.). modern quarter morocco (corners worn, large ownership entry in red on title). First Edition. Abbey, Travel, 6 (pp. 12-13).
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