Historical Essay Endeavoring a Probability That the language...
London: Printed for Nath. Brook, 1669. First edition. Possibly the first work in China in English, this rare... Read More
Price: $7,000
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Journal of a Residence in China and the Neighboring Countries: With a Preliminary Essay on the Commencement and Progress of...
New York: J. Abeel Williamson, 1836. Second edition. A substantial report on conditions in China by this widely travelled missionary, with separate chapters and detailed observations on Java, Siam, Sumatra, Malacca, Singapore, Borneo, the Philippines, and Japan. Read More
Price: $300
RARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF NORTH CHINA
48 original photographs of mining activities in northern China, and transport there on the Trans-Siberian Railroad and through Manchuria.
c.1908. RARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF NORTH CHINA. An excellent group of images documenting a tour though the little known, and rarely photographed, mining districts of northern China. The photographer was likely attached to the Anglo-French Quicksilver and Mining Concession which had claims in the Guizhou province. Among the photographs is an... Read More
Price: $6,000
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RARE SIGNATURE OF PERRY'S PRECURSOR
Signature clipped from a document [with] an engraving of Biddle.
np: nd. RARE SIGNATURE OF PERRY'S PRECURSOR. Commodore James Biddle (1783-1848) made the first attempt to establish formal relations between the United States and Japan in 1846. Biddle, a distinguished naval officer from Philadelphia, and graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, set out from New York with two warships, the... Read More
Price: $750
Peking: A Historical and Intimate Description of its Chief Places of Interest.
Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, Ltd, 1922. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Read More
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Yu Lan: Flying Boy of China.
New York: John Day, [1945]. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to her secretary’s daughter, Jackie Shaddlinger, "For Jackie [Shaddlinger] Pearl S. Buck." Read More
Price: $250
The Estivation of Two Mao Tzu. Being an informal and occasionally frivolous account of our vacation in China during the...
New York: The Press of the Woolly Whale, 1935. No. 93 of 250 copies. Read More
Price: $150
ALS. To Mrs. Sargent. Wishing to visit in order to examine a book of records of her honored husband.
Brookline: High St, Sat. Nov. 10, 1877. Channing was a transcendendalist, social reformer, etc. Son of William Ellery Channing. Read More
Price: $150
Channing quoting Lao-Tse
Autograph Letter, signed. Responding for a request for an autograph.
Boston: April 20, 1870. Channing quoting Lao-Tse. With on a seperate sheet "some sayings from a ---old patriot, which may open to you the way of faithful service..." The Chinese Sage/ Lau-Tse/ in the Tau Teh Ching says This..." Channing was a transcendendalist, social reformer, etc. Son of William Ellery Channing. Read More
Price: $500
La Cina. Le arti e la vita quotidiana viste da Padre Matteo Ricci e altri missionari gesuiti. introduzione di Josef...
[Milano]: Franco Maria Ricci, [1980]. First edition, # 523 of 3000 copies, signed by the Publisher. Read More
Price: $250
Voyage dans l'intérieur de la Chine et en Tartarie, fait dans les années 1792, 1793 et 1794 par Lord Macartney...
Paris: Chez F. Buisson, Imprimeur-Librair, rue Hautefeuille, no. 20, An 7 (1799). Seconde édition, augmentée d'un Précis de l'Histoire de la Chine, par le traducteur, et du Voyage en Chine et en tartare de J. C. Huttner, traduit de l'allemand par le même Traducteur. Read More
Price: $1,500
FROM THE CANTON READING ROOMS
The Government of India.
London: John Murray, 1833. First edition. FROM THE CANTON READING ROOMS. A copy from the Canton Reading Rooms, the library of the 13 factories at Canton, China which existed until the factories were destroyed during the Second Opium War. With bookplate of the Newburyport Public Library stating that the book... Read More
Price: $850
On the Study of Words. From the Second London Edition, Revised and Enlarged.
London: Kegan Paul, 1910. Read More
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Diary of a Journey Overland, through the Maritime Provinces of China, on the Coast of Hainan, to Canton in the...
London: Sir R. Phillips, 1822. First Separate edition of this maritime voyage to South China, being an extract of Sir Richard Phillip's edition of " New Voyages and Travels" (London), 1820-1823). This copy contains the additional material contained on pp. 87-116 (apparently not present in the Bancroft copy) of "Observations... Read More
Price: $750
Wa Lum Temple, Canton.
c. 1880. An image of the Wa Lum Temple and city wall of Canton. The image is similar to ones taken by Lai Afong (c.1890), the foremost Chinese photographer of the 19th century. Read More
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Log of the ships “Earl of Balcarras” and “Helen” during the First Opium War.
At sea: 1840-41. An excellent journal documenting life at sea during the First Opium War, 1839-42. Alexander Bayne initially served as the chief officer on the Earl of Balcarras , where he sailed from London to Canton, via Bombay, Singapore, Hong Kong and Manila. In July 1842, he was given... Read More
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Gwoyeu Romatzyh Pinin Farshyh
Gwoyeu Romatzyh Pin in Farshyh [National Language (i.e., Mandarin) Romanization System]. Gwoin-tzyhmuu dih ell shyh. Gwoyeu Toongi Chourbey Huey jyh...
[N.p: 15th year, 11th Month of the Chinese Republic, (i.e., 1927)]. Gwoyeu Romatzyh Pinin Farshyh. The introduction mentions T. E. Wade and his system of representing Chinese characters, as well as the Postal (Telegraph) coding system, which employed supplemental characters to represent the different tones. The pamphlet is an explanation... Read More
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Le Chou-King, un des Livres Sacrés des Chinois. Qui renferme les fondements de leur ancienne histoire, les principes de leur...
Paris: Tilliard, 1770. First edition. This is the first European translation of the Book of Documents or the Book of History, the first tract of the Five Classics on Confucianism to be published anywhere in the West. Also includes at the end: "Notice du livre chinois nommé Y-king, ou livre... Read More
Price: $2,750
Confucius The Man and the Myth.
London: The Collector's Book Club 259 Park Lane, [1951]. Number 15 of 250 copies. Read More
Price: $100
Inscribed
The Fire Ox and Other Years.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. First edition. Inscribed. Read More
Price: $75
A Picturesque Voyage to India, by the Way of China.
London: Longman, Hurst [&c.], 1810. First edition. Thomas Daniell, accompanied by his nephew William, left England on the China-bound Indiaman in 1785, returning to England by way of India in 1794. The journey, financed in part by the sale of oil paintings of their travels, was documented in William’s journal... Read More
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Views of India and Canton with Historical and Descriptive Illustrations. [Preface dated Januaery 1, 1838].
London: H. Fisher Son, & Co., Newgate Street, 1838. First edition thus. Read More
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Signed by Robert Thom
WANG KEAOU LWAN PIH NEEN CHANG HAN or The Lasting Resentment of Miss Keaou Lwan Wang, A Chinese Tale: Founded...
Canton: Canton Press Office, 1839. First edition. Signed by Robert Thom. Signed twice by Thom, once as Consul at Ningpo. Appearing under the pseudonym “Sloth”, this work precedes Thom's famous translation of Aesop's Fables into Chinese. He also produced two readers for students of Chinese. Robert Thom, 1807-1846, worked for some... Read More
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Danses et Légendes de la Chine ancienne.
Paris: Librairie Félix Alcan, 1926. First edition. Read More
Price: $200