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. 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

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

[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

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

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

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

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. 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

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

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