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Augsburg: Christoph Mang, 1615. First edition. Small 4to (20.5 x 16 cm), pp.[xii], 111, (110)-646 [but 648 as p.111-2 numbered twice], [8, index], [2, errata, colophon], with the engraved title by Wolfgang Kilian, incorporating Ricci's map of China flanked by portraits of the author and St Francis Xavier. A very good copy bound in modern quarter calf, marbled boards. All edges blue. But lacking the folding plan and the final blank leaf; faint blue stain to fore-edge of initial leaves. Contents otherwise clean and fresh. This eyewitness narrative of the Jesuit mission to Peking became the 'most influential description of China to appear during the first half of the seventeenth century.... It includes a wealth of information about China in the chapters describing geography, people, laws, government, religion, learning, commerce and... provided European readers with more, better organized, and more accurate information about China than was ever before available' (Lach & Van Kley I…
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De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta... Libri V.
by [Jesuit] Ricci, Matteo; Nicolas Trigault, editor
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Description of a Mystic Play, as performed in Ladak, Zaskar, &c.
by Godwin-Austen, Henry Haversham, Captain
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Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1865. First edition, published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Volume XXXIV, Part I, No.II; pp.(71)-79, ten mounted photographs, each approximately 7 x 6.5 cm. Whole issue present. A very good copy in later card wrappers, original front wrapper bound in. Photographs a little faded. Haversham Godwin-Austen (1834-1923) joined the Kashmir Survey in 1857 and made several expeditions into Ladakh until 1863 when he was seconded to Bhutan. He probably observed this performance on his second season in 1858, though he passed again through Hemis on a climbing expedition in 1862. "G-A was a great explorer and probably the greatest mountaineer of his day... he was also an artist of considerable talent" - Mason, Abode of Snow. These photographs were taken at the monastery of Hemis (3800 metres) by Captain Alexander Brodie Melville, a keen amateur photographer, who also served with the Survey of Kashmir. They are amongst the earliest to be taken in…
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A Dictionary of Malayan Medicine. Edited and completed by H.W. Thomson. With a Foreword by Sir Malcolm Watson.
by Gimlette, J.D.
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London: Oxford University Press, 1939. First edition, 8vo, pp.xvi, 259, 2 plates. A very good copy in lightly soiled original cloth. Corners and spine slightly bumped. John Desmond Gimlette (1867-1934) was encouraged to produce this work by his good friend Walter Skeat, author of Malay Magic and inspiration to Rudyard Kipling, as a more comprehensive and user-friendly English-Malaysian medical dictionary than the first attempt published by Dr. P.N. Gerrard in 1905. Gimlette died an untimely death in 1934 having completed only two-thirds of this dictionary and it was completed, according to his wishes, by H.W. Thomson. Gimlette was an active doctor who lived for years in the Malaysian Peninsula and was co-discoverer of Derris elliptica as an insecticide. He was described as "one of God's own" because of his kindness and friendliness alongside his expertise. He also had a deep personal interest in indigenous medical practices and authored Malay Poisons and Charm Cures. The plates show…
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A Dictionary, Telugu and English, explaining the colloquial style used in business and the poetical dialect, with explanations in English and in Telugu. [with] A Dictionary of the Mixed Dialects and Foreign Words used in Telugu. With an explanation of the Telugu alphabet.
by Brown, Charles Philip
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Madras: printed at the Christian Knowledge Society's Press, 1852, 1854. First editions, two works bound in one. Small 4to, 25 x 17 cm; pp.[iv, half-title and advertisements], xvi, 1303, [1, blank]; [iv, half-title and advertisements], xxviii, 131, [1, blank]. With contemporary advertisements. A very good set bound in modern half speckled calf over marbled boards. Spine label and compartments in gilt. Appendix of the first volume has 'APPENDIX' faintly printed on fore-edge. Discreet binders ticket to rear end-paper. Half-title of first volume spotted with 1cm tear to upper inner margin. Single wormhole to outer margin pp.75-131 of second volume, not affecting text. The first Telugu-English dictionary by Charles Philip Brown (1798-1884), still considered the standard English study of the classical language. Brown, also known as Andhrabhashoddhaaraka or " saviour of Telugu", was the also the first to translate works of Telugu literature, such as The Verses of Vemana (1829), into…
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Die Buddhistische Spatantike in Mittelasien. I-III, IV-V. I. Die Plastik; II. Die Manichaischen Miniaturen; III. Die Wandmalereien; V. Neue Bildwerke; VI. Neue Bildwerke II. Mit einem Beitrag uber die Darstellungen und den Stil der Wandgemalde aus Qyzil bei Kutscha. Volume VI was written in conjunction with E. Waldschmidt.
by Coq, Albert von Le
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Berlin , 1922-28. Five volumes folio, in total 293 pages, 167 plates, 51 in colour, 259 illustrations, 61 maps and plans. Ergebnisse der Kgl. Preussischen Turfan Expeditionen. A very good set in original boards, neatly rebacked in calf to original style. Volume I with minor library marks. This set lacks Volume IV, Atlas zu den Wandmalereien, published in 1924 and Volume VII, Neue Bildwerke, 1933. There were four German expeditions to Turkestan between 1902 and 1914. The first, led by Grunwedel, worked at several sites in the Turfan Oasis in 1902-03, notably Karakhoja (or Khocho), Sengim and Murtuk. Forty-four crates of the finds, clay and wood figures, woodcuts, manuscripts and wall-paintings, were despatched to Berlin. The second expedition, 1904-05, was led by von Le Coq. He spent three months methodically investigating Karakhoja before moving his attention to the temple complexes of Sengim, Bezeklik and Toyok. In August he moved to Komul (Hami). Grunwedel returned for the third expedition,…
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A Dissertation on the ancient Chinese vases of the Shang Dynasty, from 1743 to 1496, B.C. Illustrated with forty-two Chinese wood engravings.
by Thoms, Peter Perring
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London: published and printed by the author at 12 Warwick Square and sold by James Gilbert, bookseller., 1851. First edition. 8vo (24.5 x 16 cm), pp.63, [1, blank], [2, imprint], with 42 wood engravings in text, title with printed frame in red. Folio broadsheet (40 x 44 cm), folded and tipped-in at rear. A very good copy in original cloth by Josiah Westley. Slight wear to head and tail of spine. Broadsheet lightly age-toned, and torn on folds. A selection of excerpts from the 11th-century Bogu tulu, a Chinese catalogue of imperial bronzes in sixteen volumes, translated by the printer Peter Perring Thoms (1790-1855). Thoms believed that the majority of the vases were made of gold, and the mirrors of polished steel; his dissertation makes no mention of bronze at all. The wood engraved illustrations were done from blocks carved by A-Lae, a Chinese artist from Canton, and were shown at the 1851 Exhibition. This copy has a remarkable broadsheet, The Original Address presented to His Excellency Hwang, on…
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Dunhuang Art Relics collected in the State Hermitage Museum of Russia. I: Dunhuang Textiles, by Lubo Lesnichenko. II: Dunhuang Art Relics collected in the State Hermitage Museum of Russia. III-IV: Photos of the Mogao Grottoes. V: The Survey Drawings and the copies of Murals of the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes. VI: Archaeological Materials of Mogao Grottoes.
by Menshikov L.N., Fu Xianzhan, & others
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Shanghai: Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House, 1997-2005. First edition Six volumes folio, pp.83, 111 colour plates; 229, 137 colour plates, many illustrations; 6, 359 pages of illustration; 6, 384 pages of illustration; 327, 295 pages of illustration; 544, many illustrations. A very good set, original cloth, slip-cases.
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