Philadelphia. Charles Desilver. 1861. 2nd Edition. Lacks the plates, maps and some of the adverts. xii + 448pp. Blue Victorian binding with gilt device stamped on front board and spine. Covers rubbed and worn at corners and head and tail of spine. A little shaken and discoloured. An important primary..... 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

New York. Putnams. 1900. 1st American edition. 2 volumes. Folding colour sketch map of 'The Yangtze Basin showing Mrs Bishop's Route', two black & white photographic frontispieces and 114 black and white photographic illustrations by the author and numerous illustrations throughout the text. Dark blue decorated cloth, top edge gilt..... More

London. The China Inland Mission/The Religious Tract Society, 1926. A coloured foldout with 2 maps showing the stations of the C.M.S. and B.C.M.S. West China Diocese together with a Sketch map of China showing position of the Province of Szechwan. Frontispiece photographic portrait, and 18 plates, including portraits and a...... More

London. James Nesbit & Co., 1870. 1st Edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard, title-page with engraved vignette, viii + 596pp and 8 pages of publisher's adverts, appendix. Maroon coloured cloth boards, sunned on the spine with a small mark where a label has been removed, stamped in blind on front..... More

Cambridge, Mass. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1913. Edited by Francis Mannix. Black and white frontispiece with tissue-guard, xviii + 298pp, a prior owner's name is stamped in red on the title-page. Yellow cloth covered boards, soiled and sunned on the spine, inner hinges cracked but the text block is firm and..... 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 in..... More

London. Church of England Zenana Missionary Society. No date. (circa1900). 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, a...... More

A collection of three Qing maritime manuscript charts and a map that appears likely to have come into the possession of the commander-in-chief of the British forces in China during the First Opium War, Hugh Gough. 1st Viscount Gough, KP, GCB, GCSI, PC served as commander-in-chief of the British forces..... More

Ho Kien Fou. Imprimerie de la Misson Catholique. 1906. iv + 560pp. Endpapers foxed, occasional light browning in text, chop on title page, worn labels at foot of spine. Contemporary cloth worn at extremities. Good copy. Text in French. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 151369). 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

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