![Stock ID #177818 [Chinese seated figure]. 19TH CENTURY CHINESE WATERCOLOUR](https://asiabookroom.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/177818.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1679074334)
Original watercolour and ink portrait, gilt highlighting, on fine paper, 27.2 cm x 21.3 cm, the numeral 10 in a neat hand at the upper corner, mounted on glazed cream card, central fold. Appealing original portrait of a seated figure in costume, head in three quater profile. When referring to..... 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
Colburn, 1844. 2 volumes. Volume I: 2 folding maps, 3 full page engravings, 2 full page woodcuts, some illustrations in text. xvi + 449 + [1]pp. Long largely closed tear with a little loss in one small place in rear map, damp damage lower right corner engravings. Original blind stamped..... More
![Stock ID #140151 Wang Keaou Lwan Pih Neen Chang Han [In Chinese and Roman characters]. Oder die...](https://asiabookroom.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140151.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1655438423)
Dritte wohlfeile Ausgabe. 3rd inexpensive edition. Lithographed frontispiece, 111pp. Quarter leather binding with marbled paper covered boards, raised bands, spine gilt. Beautiful endpapers featuring a raised floral pattern. Corners of first and last leaves lightly stained. Binding rubbed at extremities with a little minor loss to leather and marbled paper..... More
London. Gibbings & Co., 1900. New Edition. Ochre cloth covered boards with red dragon device stamped on upper board, spine lettered in gilt, covers slightly soiled, endpapers foxed, but a very good firm binding. 436pp, a chronological table and appendix. 22.5 x 15cm. Rewritten and rearranged by the author with..... 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
London. The Sunday School Union. (Circa 1904). Fourth Edition. Black and white photographic portrait frontispiece and 9 full-page engravings. Attractive red cloth covered pictorial boards, lettered in gilt on the spine, endpapers browned and with a presentation inscription on the front free endpaper dated 1904. A handsome copy. 144pp. 18.2..... More
![Stock ID #169805 初中生理衛生學.[Chu zhong sheng li wei sheng xue]. [Physiology and...](https://asiabookroom.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/169805.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1647498650)
[Taipei]. 正中書局.[Zheng zhong shu ju]. 民國 38 ( 1949). 9th edition. Chinese Minguo period textbook on physiology and general health, bound in plain light card covers with original wrappers bound in, four-hole stab binding, a prior owner's chop upper cover, orignal wrappers stained and browned, browned throughout, overall good. Text..... More
![Stock ID #179425 [Diaries of Chen Yufang]. YUFANG CHEN, 陈玉芳](https://asiabookroom.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/179425.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1682905601)
[Beijing]. 1974. Very worn cloth covered notebook featuring a dancer apparently from one of the model operas on the upper cover. Pages with ruled lines are interpersed with photographic images of athletes, attractive scenes etc. One image has childish scribble on it. Occasional small closed tears and other signs of..... More
![Stock ID #169762 檔案記錄卡.[Dang an ji lu ka]. [1953 Personal File Cards of Two Chinese...](https://asiabookroom.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/169762.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1679074270)
[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. No date. (circa 1910). Original hard cardboard box with chromolithographed illustration of a pagoda with cut-out windows, possibly a stylised view of the facade of the former Théâtre Bataclan des Boulevards, expertly repaired. 36 x 18cm Game of skill: it is about throwing small balls towards the windows of..... 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
No publication details. (circa 1920?). Album of twelve full page hand coloured illustrations on silk laid down on card leaves. Images measure 25.4 x 19.4cm. Silk along upper border of two images a trifle frayed, occasional light marks, some light browning card leaves, minor insect damage silk border of one..... More
![Stock ID #177262 Investigating the Composition of the Great Wall of China. [Caption title]. C. W....](https://asiabookroom.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/177262.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1662781656)
London. The Graphic. September 15, 1894. Nine engraved illustrations with captions, on a single newspaper leaf (pp 315-6), unrelated text on the verso, 40 x 28.7 cm, in very good condition. Engravings by Charles Joseph Staniland, social realist and genre painter, one of the stalwarts of the British 19th Century..... More
Yokohama. Thos. Cook & Son. 1913. 3 folding black and white maps, 5 full page black and white maps, black and white photographic plates, 122pp. 12 full page advertisements and advertisements on both endpapers. A near fine copy in bright original cloth boards. 18 x 12.4cm. A very scarce guide..... More
Shanghai. Thos. Cook. (circa 1914). 81pp + xix pages of adverts, folding map with outline colour, original wrappers with string ties, title in embossed black lettering on the upper and lower covers. Red paper wrappers soiled and a little worn with some small chips and tears to the yap edges..... More
London. Charles H. Kelly. 1895. Coloured frontispiece with tissue-guard, lacks the second coloured plate. Numerous black and white facsimiles of Chinese art and penmanship throughout. Name of prior owner dated 1925 Chefoo and a tipped in letter to her - handwritten by J.L. Smith of the H.B.M Consulate Chefoo on..... More
[London]. Foreign Office. March, 1905. Full page colour sketch map, 15pp, tables, original wrappers with string ties. 24.5 x 15.5cm. Neat stamp of the University Library of Hull upper wrapper. Very good copy. Discusses the history, gives a picture of the industry in China at the time and comments on..... More
London. S. W. Partridge & Co., 1901. 1st edition. Folding coloured map of China: "Shewing All Protestant Mission stations up to June 1866 when the C.I.M. was founded, and the Stations of the China Inland Mission opened since June 1866." Complete with black and white photographic frontispiece and numerous photographs..... 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
Paris. S.E.V.P.E.N., 1964. 3 volumes of text without the album, in original wrappers. 1625pp. Tiny tears to margin of a few leaves at fore edge volume I, neat stamp upper edge of upper cover and front free endpaper volume I only, occasional inoffensive marks wrappers. A good set. Text in..... More
![Stock ID #172665 內經通論/難經通論. [Nei jing tong lun/Nan jing tong lun]. [General...](https://asiabookroom.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/172665.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1655451939)
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
(Tientsin). Tientsin Press. 1931. Five coloured plates and a colour illustrated frontispiece with tissue-guards, nine full-page sketch maps throughout the text. 27 x 21cm. Original blue cloth boards stamped in gilt with a Chinese device on the front board and lettered in gilt. 71pp. Some light age toning to text..... More
Shanghai. Presbyterian Mission Press. 1868. 2nd Edition, Corrected. [4] + 225pp, appendices and addenda; tables within the text. 21.8 x 14.3cm. Some light browning and offsetting to the text block throughout. Original half calf and marbled boards, edges and corners rubbed and 3cm loss to head of spine, upper joint..... More
Tokyo/Yokohama: Nippon Seikokwai Shuppan Kwaisha/ Kelly & Walsh Limited. 1897. 2nd revised edition. xvi + 316pp and 2 page index. Green cloth covered boards slightly discoloured with faded spine, lettered in gilt. A very good copy, firm and clean. 21.5 x 14cm. Translated from the German and revised by the..... More