![コンサイス滿洲國地圖. [Konsaisu Manshūkoku chizu]. Concise atlas of Manchoukuo....](/pictures/thumb/157345.jpg?v=1571228197)
Tokyo (東京): 東京地形社. 1940. 18 double page coloured maps, monotone maps in blue 3 double page others at head of page, 42pp, some light even browning, a good copy in dustjacket and original glassine wrapper. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 157345). 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
Stockholm. Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. 1929- 1931. Two bulletins bound together in cloth. Original wrappers retained. Bulletin 1. Black and white photographic plates, 4 coloured plans, 4 coloured maps, 191pp. Bulletin 2. Black and white photographic plates, 3 folding, 237pp. Bound in red cloth, lettered in gilt on the..... 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
![Wang Keaou Lwan Pih Neen Chang Han [In Chinese and Roman characters]. Oder die blutige Rache...](/pictures/thumb/140151.jpg?v=1571228010)
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
![摩登新聞叢編. [Mo deng xin wen cong bian]. Modern newspaper Chinese: Progressive Readings...](/pictures/thumb/162148.jpg?v=1571228382)
Peiping. Henri Vetch. (circa1935). Indices, notes, 321pp, hardback copy in blue cloth. Cloth on lower board torn in one place exposing a section of the lower board, some damp staining covers affecting gutter of text throughout. Bookplate of Hoover Institution upper pastedown and above this "Gift of Mr Gould", endpapers..... More
London. Hutchinson. 1910. Second Edition. Photogravure portrait frontispiece of Sir Robert Hart, 32 interesting black and white photographic plates, viii + 252pp, first and last leaves foxed and browned, some occasional foxing in text. Original blue cloth marked and worn, top edge gilt a little dull, spine darkened, worn with..... 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
Hong Kong. Arts and Literature Press. 1971. 1st Edition. 2 volumes. Full page colour and black and white plates with text on opposite leaf, some occasional light foxing first leaves and cloth, very good set in original cloth titled in English and Chinese on upper cover and spine. Table of..... More
no date [circa1935]. Colour photographic portrait of the artist, 33 large delightful colour plates showing floral scenes often with butterflies from paintings by Mrs S.K. Ling in the period between 1916 and 1926. Inscribed by the Lings to Professor Sir Stephen Henry Roberts and Mrs Roberts. Sir Stephen was Vice-Chancellor..... 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 covers, upper cover of protective card sleeve detached from the lower. Some occasional light foxing on sheets, card covers browned, a few other..... More
No publication details. (circa1920?). 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 leaf..... 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. Richard Bentley. 1857. Tinted lithographic frontispiece illustration with heavily foxed tissue-guard, one further lithograph and some further line illustrations within the text. 340pp. Original blind stamped yellow cloth, with pagoda device stamped in gilt on the front board and gilt decoration and titles to spine, discoloured on the spine..... 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. MA Nattali, 1849. [Reprint]. 2 volumes in 1. Volume I: 18 full page black and white full page wood engravings, 9 in text. iv + 395pp, school prize inscription dated 22nd December, 1857 one blank. Volume II: 10 full page wood engravings and many in text, iii + 459pp..... 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. Didier. 1867. xi + 692pp, front free endpaper and first blank detached, a little light even browning. 19th century quarter morocco binding, marbled endpapers and boards. Binding worn with loss to paper and leather, upper corner lower cover missing. Text sound and clean. Good. Text in French. (When referring..... 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
No publishing details. No date. (Early Twentieth century?). 10 watercolours on silk, accordion style folding binding, gilt border upper and lower edges, wooden boards, Chinese character for happiness carved into upper cover and painted green. Pastedowns have been glued a little carelessly causing paper to "bubble" in a few places..... 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
London. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1887. Second Edition, Revised. Colour folding map, 7 full page black and white plates, decorations and illustrations in text, viii + 433pp, 7 leaves a little creased in one place. Very good in striking pictorial cloth covers, lettered in gilt on the spine. This..... More
![蟠桃八仙會. [Pan tao ba xian hui]. Pang Tao. (Flat Peaches). Eight Fairies Festival. A...](/pictures/thumb/160694.jpg?v=1571228298)
No details of publisher. (circa1950?). Ten delightful delicate hand coloured illustrations of the 八仙 Eight Immortals/Fairies from Chinese mythology with short biographies opposite in traditional Chinese and English. Bound in concertina fashion in wooden boards. Chinese character 福 [Fortune] in green carved into upper cover, paper title label laid down..... More
Paris-Lille: Desclée de Brouwer et Cie, 1900. 2nd Edition. Profusely illustrated with 524 illustrations, French text, 416pp, margins & edges browned, handsomely rebound in red cloth with original pictorial wraps, a little stained, laid down on covers. New endpapers. Chop on lower front free endpaper. A fascinating work on all..... More
No place of publication. No details of publisher. (circa2005). 51 colour plates, black and white portrait, signature of the painter front free endpaper, as new. Text in Chinese and English. 25 x 26cm. "Flower of Heart - Years, a series of Feng Shaoxie's oil paintings, is done by blending the..... More
