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London 1858. Double sheet, 3 b.w. woodcut illustrations,very good, with explanatory text, 54.6 x 40.5 cm. R A R E SUBTITLE: [cont]. OF JAPAN. & A STREET IN THE PRINCES' QUATER, JEDDO-FROM A DRAWING BY A NATIVE ARTIST. * This excellent early work shows the British fleet in the background at anchor in the bay, with several long boats full of British sailors making for the shore. Also native Japanese 'junks' close at hand, in a half page view. * Two smaller views show H.M. Steam frigates "Furious" and "Retribution" Caught in a Cyclone on the Coast of Japan. Also "A Street in the Prince's Quarter, Jeddo," from a drawing by a native artist. * Nicely executed engravings, very clean double-sheet format. * .

London 1858. Double sheet, 3 hand colored illustrations,very good, with explanatory text. SUBTITLE: cont. His Landing in State at Jeddo. R A R E SUBTITLE: [cont]. OF JAPAN. & A STREET IN THE PRINCES' QUATER, JEDDO-FROM A DRAWING BY A NATIVE ARTIST. * This excellent early work shows the British fleet in the background at anchor in the bay, with several long boats full of British sailors making for the shore. Also native Japanese 'junks' close at hand, in a half page view. * Two smaller views show H.M. Steam frigates "Furious" and "Retribution" Caught in a Cyclone on the Coast of Japan. Also "A Street in the Prince's Quarter, Jeddo," from a drawing by a native artist. * Nicely executed engravings, very clean double-sheet format. * .

Berkeley 1906, University Press. Green stiff wrappers, clean & obscure example, 47p., U. Cal Publicatins, American Archa- eology and Ethnology, vol.4, no.1, 18 x 27 cm., this is the original 1906 edition. RARE FIRST & ONLY EDITION .* .

[Beijing ? n.d. ca. 1900. Large albumen photograph, sepia tone, photo size 29.523 cm., layed down on a board 2=32.8 x 25 cm., very good, board at upper left corner broken, photo still very good, hand tinted color and clouds. RARE & EARLY This is a stunning and very early view of Wu Men or the Meridian Gate from inside the palace. The walls are in great disrepair, and the gates are closed, not a soul is to be seen, and the court-yard grass is tall. * There are a few tints or red hand coloring above the gates, and a few other highlights on the right side of the roof tiles, and a substantial amount of hand-painted white clouds are tastefully placed just above the roofs. * Early photos are scared. * CONDITION: The photograph is in excellent condition. The card upon which it is mounted has some corner board missing in the top left and lower left area, the photograph is intact, with no loss. The verso is blank. * A lovely early example. * .

[Shanghai n.d. ca. 1865-1890]. A group of 5 albumen photo images, sharp, clear, clean, good contrast, nearly no fading showing the Shanghai Race Track and Grandstand. R A R E . . *** A RARE group of five stunning and earliest photographic images of the Shanghai Racetrack and Grandstand. All images are large size and of the albumen type process. None are dated as was usual, some are mounted on photo album leaves others not. . * THE IMAGES: 1. Earliest view of the Racecourse and Grandstand prior to remodeling. Shows lots of spectators looking at a race. Several are on the roof also watching. The fence is of about chest height, the photo was taken from inside the Racetrack, 27.5 x 21cm., circa. 1865-1875. . * 2. The Racetrack, looking North-east, there are some horse jumping fences on the ground, some people walk on the exterior area, 19 x 14.5 cm., board mounted, circa. 1865-1875. . * 3. A charming and terrific image, shows a large number of men and women on horse carriages, with very tall wheels. The… Read More

New York [1990], Fawcett. Black cloth spine over boards, dj, very good, 325p., top signature has rubber stamp otherwise clean. A year prior to the Tiananmen Square democracy protest, the author participated in a teaching exchange between Radcliffe College & Hangzhou University. This work captures the dreams & grim realities her students faced within the confines of their political system. A rare glimpse at Chinese culture. .

London 1935, Kegan Paul. Blue cloth with faded spine, con- tents very clean, 237p., index. Biographical study, the disciple's career, Nirvana, special doctrines, Buddhology, discourses to laymen, other schools, and the Monastic organization from various sources. A very good reference source for comparative study. .

New York 1923, Stokes. Grey cloth, very good, thick volume, 148p. text + 8 color, 64p. b.w. plates, index, bibliograhy, chronology, glossary, first few pages a bit foxed, else very clean, 22 x 29 cm. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION QUITE SCARCE An important reference source, covering jade quarries, the siginficance of jade, astronomical instruments in jade, the Six Ritual jades, tablets and weapons, jades for the living and the dead, seals, musical instruments, and mountains, vessels of jade, animals, dragon, cicada, toad, human figure in jade. This is an outstanding and classic study, long tre- asuredby students and collectors as the major source for re- liable knowledge. Discussing over eighty individual pieces. .

New York 1923, Stokes. Grey cloth, very good, thick volume, 148p. text + 8 color, 64p. b.w. plates, index, bibliograhy, chronology, glossary, clean copy, 22 x 29 cm. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION Q U I T E S C A R C E An important reference source, covering jade quarries, the siginficance of jade, astronomical instruments in jade, the Six Ritual jades, tablets and weapons, jades for the living and the dead, seals, musical instruments, and mountains, vessels of jade, animals, dragon, cicada, toad, human figure in jade. This is an outstanding and classic study, long tre- asuredby students and collectors as the major source for re- liable knowledge. Discussing over eighty individual pieces. .

London 1923, Benn. Grey cloth, very good, thick volume,148p. text + 8 color, 64p. b. w. plates, index, bibliograhy, glossary, chronology, bit of foxing to first few pages, else clean, 22 x 29 cm. FIRST BRITISH EDITION QUITE SCARCE An important reference source, covering jade quarries, the siginficance of jade, astronomical instruments in jade, the Six Ritual jades, tablets and weapons, jades for the living and the dead, seals, musical instruments, and mountains, vessels of jade, animals, dragon, cicada, toad, human figure in jade. This is an outstanding and classic study, long tre- asuredby students and collectors as the major source for re- liable knowledge. Discussing over eighty individual pieces. .

London 1924, Benn. Brown cloth, very good, 3 color, 179 collotype plates, 84p. text + 110p. plates, index, appendix, bibliography, small folio, clean solid copy. FIRST EDITION [LIMITED EDITION CA 2000 COPIES] A grand classic study, covering the use of bronze in China from ancient tims. Compositon and patination of early bronze and the detection of forgeries. Methods of casting. Ornamen- tal styles of succeeding periods. Foreign influences. Types and uses of early ritual vessels & other implements. Criti- cal descriptions of the illustrations. Appendices cover a list of Chinese characters for names & words quoted in the text. A superb effort, and valuable pioneering study. .

London 1938, Chiswick Press. Black cloth, top gilt, 116p., index, 18 color, 18 b.w. tipped in plates, 28 x 41.5 cm. minor corner, head/tail spine wear, else a very nice solid copy. FIRST & ONLY LIMITED EDITION OF 750 NUMBERED COPIES This an important and scholarly Bahr collection catalogue. It is an essential and scarce reference source. This work covers 25 fine examples of the greatest Chinese paintings found in the world-famous Bahr Collection. * Each item is carefully described and annotated by the celebrated art-historian and Sinologist, Osvald Siren. * ISSUED IN A LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION OF ONLY 750 COPIES. This work was issued in a FIRST and ONLY single LIMITED EDITION OF 750 NUMBERED COPIES, each of which were hand numbered in pen. * The publisher printed a few "over-runs" or extra copies to insure at least 750 pristine & flawless complete copies. There few extra and flawless copies were then bound up in the identical cloth, without hand numbering, they are called "out… Read More

London 1928, Longmans. Blue cloth, very clean, 276p., index, bibliography, 8 appendices. S C A R C E This comprehensive source addresses the earliest English co- ntact with Burma, T.Samuel episode, foundation of the Syriam factory 1647-52, and its later failure. British-Burmese tra- de of the 17th century. Negotiations with Burma 1680-86, the Negrais episode 1686-87. Private trade and the B. Rodrigues affair. Mission of Fleetwood and Lesly to Ave 1695-96. Ship- building and the last years of the Syriam Factory 1722-44. With valuable appendices of East India Co. trade, Hamilton's observations on "Rounday" in the Burmese provincial capital, his Royal reception of Ambassadors at Ava, King Sane, Mergui Massacre 1687. Note on alleged settlement in Negrais in 1687 &c. This is a very important history, well documented.SCARCE .

Shanghai [1874?] Loureiro & Co. Wrappers, lacks front cover, slightly toned, small black spot top above title, else clean 13.3 x 21 cm., 21p., with back cover, bit dusty. VERY RARE ! Father De Mailla, S.J. [1699-1748] Jesuit missionary; born 16 Dec., 1669, at Château Maillac on the Isère; died 28 June, 1748, at Peking, China. After finishing his studies he joined the Society of Jesus in 1686, and in 1701 was sent on the mission to China as a member of the order. In June, 1703, he arrived in Morocco and thence set out for Canton, where he acquired a thorough knowledge of the Chinese language and style of writing, and devoted himself particularly to the study of Chinese historical works. * When the Emperor Khang-hi entrusted the Jesuit missionaries with the cartographical survey of his empire, the provinces of Ho-nan, Tshekiang, and Fo-kien, and Island of Formosa fell to the lot of Father Mailla along with Fathers Regis and Hinderer. As a mark of his satisfaction, the emperor, when the… Read More

Newton [1945], Univ. Prints. Green buckram, clean ex-library copy, 84 b. w. photos, map. Series O, Section 1, complete. An excellent guide to the stone sculptures, Buddhist art, collossial stone temples, reliefs, stele, from India, Afgha- nistan, Central Asia & that area. A highly useful reference. .

Rutland [1996], Tuttle. Black cloth, 152p., 166 photos of 40 hand-colored, 100 sepia toned images, appendix, biblio- graphy, of photographic terms, index of 1200 numbered early photos, dust jacket, A NEW COPY. * FIRST & ONLY EDITION * . *** **** *** . . AN EXCELLRNT REFERENCE SOURCE FOR . . . EARLY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHS . . * Covering the early days of photography in Japan, from 1853, when Commodore Perry's ships landed, to the end of the Meiji era in 1912. An introductory essay gives historical background about this turbulent period, and captions give detailed information about the book's 166 photos. . The photos, many published here for the first time, provide a rare look at a Japan few people know. Subjects include Geisha and Samurai, beggars, Ainu and Westerners, Japanese soldiers at Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese war, Dejima [Deshima] in the 1860's, a bathhouse & nude women in the 1890's, Kobe's Bund, &c. . The images were taken by the most famous and… Read More

[Japan n.d. c.1875-80].Old brocade covered accordion folding album, 37 x 29 cm., cover corners worn, balance clean, 22 large color photos of Japan 27 x 21 cm., 5 b. w., with 3 of Batavia, 2 of Port Said, and 1 Turkish photos, clean, solid. . *** **** *** . . . A SUPERB AND STUNNING EARLY ALBUM HAND-TINTED ALBUM . . . FROM ONE OF THE MOST EMINENT FOREIGN PHOTOGRAPHERS . . IN EARLY JAPAN . * By and large an excellent, early Japanese photographic album. Photographed by the most famous and outstanding foreign photographer of the period, Raimund Von Stillfried. . * With 15 large color photo examples of portraits, posed photos of ten Japanese women including one of a young woman with breast exposed, 3 of Japanese men, of the 8 smaller black and white photos, 6 of women, and a pair of Samurai-warriors, rickshaw coolies & women, palanquin & a woman. . Other large color photos show shrines or temples in Nagasaki, Asakusa, gardens in Kyoto and Uyeno, Ainu, Mt. Fuji, Hakone and rural scenes. . *** All… Read More

Stanford 1982, Stanford Univ. Brown cloth, very good, dj. 315p., index, maps, notes, bibliography, character list. Covers early Ming period in Chinese history, the rise of the Ming empire 1252-1386, Hung-wu: the period of consolidation, 1368-1380. Hung-wu: the period of direct rule 1380-1398. Chien-wen: civil war 1398-1402. Yung-lo: Emperor on Horse- back 1402-1424. Hung-hsi & Hsuan-te: normal Confucian gov- ernment 1424-1435. Ming history: the roads not taken. A very scholarly and detailed study. Lucid work. .

[Amoy n.d. early ca 1900-1910 n.p]. A large panoramic photo view 13 x 91 cm., printed on "Agfa Troopex" paper, rolled, with some fold/cracks, otherwise a very good, clear image in glossy black & white, an actual photograph. R A R E ! *** *** *** . . . AN EARLY PANORAMIC VIEW OF AMOY [XIAMEN] . . A lovely and early black and white panoramic photograph of Amoy [Xiamen] island, at the mouth of the Jiulong River. It has an excellent natural harbor. Fishing, shipbuilding, food processing, and tanning were the major industries of the period. . * Because of its key position across the Taiwan Straits from Taiwan this has always been a strategic island and area. Opposite Xiamen proper, across the inner harbor, is the island of Gulangxu, the former foreign settlement and a fine residential section. Amoy was one of the earliest seats of European commerce in China, with Portuguese arriving in the 16th century, and the Dutch in the 17th century. Amoy was captured in 1841 by the British in the Opium… Read More

[Macao n.d. ca 1860]. A singe photograph, 9.5 x 6 cm., lower corner stained, balance clean, stiff card mounted, with old pen handwriting on verso: "Macao," this seems to be an albu- men type photo, minor fading, sharp image. S C A R C E This is clearly an early image of Macao. It shows the back- ground mountains before the bay as barren except for what may be one large house or water tank ? The bay has just a few very small ships. The area to the left of the bay has many houses & buildings, and there is a large building with tile roof in the foreground. While we are not experts on the dating of Macao photos, this one is early and shows Macao as a very primitive et un-spoiled village. * .