Melbourne. John Ferres, Government Printer. 1863. Two Victorian Parliamentary Reports, 18 + 2pp, 31.5 x 20cm bound into modern thin grained card wrappers in very good condition. The first Report tables detailed statistical summaries for the lucrative Victorian gold fields and the gold-boom towns of Ballarat, Beechworth, Sandhurst [Bendigo], Maryborough..... More

London. HMSO. 1890. Colour folding map, 13pp, original wrappers, quarto, very good copy. P.D. Coates, author of The China Consuls...(Hong Kong, OUP, 1988) states (p. 171) that for a considerable time, consular promotion of British trade seems to have been largely confined to recommendations and hints in the annual trade..... More

Dritte wohlfeile Ausgabe. 3rd inexpensive edition. Lithographed frontispiece, 111pp. Quarter leather binding with marbled paper covered boards, raised bands, spine gilt. Decorative endpapers. Corners of first and last leaves lightly stained. Binding rubbed at extremities with a little minor loss to leather and marbled paper, paper covered boards a little..... More

New York and Philadelphia. Revell and the China Inland Mission. 1908. Maps, 2 folding, illustrations, vii + 54pp, few marks and light wear cloth particularly on lower cover, lettering on spine a little worn in places good copy in pictorial cloth. When referring to this item please quote stockid 165299..... More

2 volumes of this classic work translated by M. Bencraft Joly. The first is a modern paperback edition published by Wildside Press in Holicong, PA. This has been bound into a modern maroon cloth binding and is in excellent condition. The second volume is a copy of the edition published..... More

Shanghai. The Commercial Press, Ltd., 1929. Black & white map of Tsinan Area, a photographic portrait frontispiece of the General and 3 photographic illustrations throughout the text. viii + 107pp. Black cloth covered boards, lettered on the spine and upper front board in gilt. An extremely good copy except for..... More

[Nanjing]. 汽车三十二团政治处.[Qi che san shi er tuan zheng zhi chu]. March 1953. Two 1950s Chinese personal file cards of two Chinese PLA officers, original black and white ID photos in military uniforms laid down upper right corner with official seal on the photo, the card has been neatly handwritten in..... More

London. Church of England Zenana Missionary Society. No date. (circa 1900). Nine printed sheets each printed with people or items and showing the cut lines. Original chromolithograph card box repaired with acid free archival tape along folds. Some occasional light foxing on sheets, card covers browned and worn in places..... More

(circa 1976). Large and carefully prepared album of Chinese Cultural Revolution newspaper clippings dedicated to commemorate China's leader Chairman Mao Zedong shortly after his death in 1976. Most of the clippings show a black and white photograph and accompanying short text or caption, some show featured news articles of mourning..... More

London. Printed by Harrison and Sons. 1877. 33pp, original blue light card wrappers, sewn, opening between gatherings in one place, a little foxing first and last leaves, generally very good. China. No. 2 (1877). Arthur Davenport and his party left from Hankow and travelled for 19 days on the Yangtze..... More

London. Murray. 1865. 191pp + 32 page publisher's catalogue bound in at rear, upper section of title page reads "Library of University College/Presented by the author" neatly written in ink, the middle section of the title shows a University College London small oval stamp with "withdrawn" stamped across it. 19th..... More

1885. 4th edition. 2 volumes. Volume I: Foldng colour map, 404pp, 5 black and white engravings. List of contents leaf loose, opening between gatherings in a few places. Volume II: Lacks frontispiece, black and white engravings, 394 + [2]pp, traced drawing on one tissue guard. Both volumes uniformly bound in..... More

上海.[Shanghai]. 醫學書局.[Yi xue shu ju]. 民國15 ( 1926). 34 + 16 + [8]pp, two medical texts bounded in one volume, written by a Chinese doctor and scholar Ding Baofu, browning, tiny hole title page not affecting text, very good in original wrappers. Text in traditional Chinese. 20.4 x 15.1cm. When..... More