Melbourne. Melville, Mullen & Slade. 1895. Map, black and white photographic portrait frontispiece and 8 full-page illustrations with tissue guards, xii + 320pp,original dark green decorative cloth lettered in gilt on spine, inscription front free endpaper, head & tail of spine tender cloth rubbed at extremities, corners bumped, occasional light..... More
London. London Missionary Society. 1930. Black & white picture map on the front pastedown, and pictorial illustration on the rear pastedown, black & white photographic frontispiece illustration and illustrations from photographs throughout by Evan Bryant. Pictorial orange cloth covered boards, 140pp. 18.5 x 12cm. A presentation stamp from the LMS..... More
London. The Sunday School Union. (nd. c1904.). 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
New York. Harper & Brothers. 1927. 181pp, few occasional spots, spine little faded, very good in original cloth. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 166316). 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
London. Seeley, Service & Co. Limited. 1924. Second Edition. Black & white photographic frontispiece and 23 photographic plates throughout the text. Bright yellow cloth covered boards, stamped with a Chinese Snake Catcher device on front board, slight sunning to the spine, some spotting to fore-edge, and endpapers, but a very..... More
Paris. Les Belles Lettres. 1980. 44pp (pp 185-229), a clean copy in little marked and damp-damaged wrappers. La Chine au Temps des Lumières IV actes du IIe Colloque international de sinologie, 16-18 septembre 1977. Text in French, with one paragraph on the first page in English. Contains one article entitled..... More
New York. Friendship Press. 1948. Colour folding maps, vii + 180pp, lacks front free endpaper, paperback covers a little worn and marked, good paperback copy. 17 x 11.5cm. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 166356). More
London. The Principal and Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford. 1962. Black and white photographic frontispiece, xiv + 139pp, lightly browned spine, extremities, and endpapers, otherwise good hardback copy in browned and price clipped dustjacket. Contents include The Vision of Eternal Things, The Christian Source of Love and Power, The Jewish..... More
Chicago. SMCL Presbyterian Board. (circa1880). 395pp, upper corner stained, some very light browning, tan cloth very lightly worn and marked. A good copy. Student Missionary Campaign Library. "Tbe object of the story is to give a fair view of woman's life among the lower and middle classes in Southern China."..... More
Boston. Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society, 1896. 1st Edition. Black and white frontispiece with tissue guard and 2 further illustrations by H. Winthrop Peirce. Attractive grey cloth covered boards illustrated in blue and green. 396pp. Some light soiling mainly to the rear board and spine. Head and tail of..... More
Tours. Mame. 1876. Frontispiece "martyre de Joachim Ho", 213pp, original wrappers, first gathering loosening but stitching still holding. Text in French. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 136591). More
London. Religious Tract Society. 1897. Black & white frontispiece and four full-page photographic plates,158pp + 2 pages of publisher's adverts, first and last leaves foxed, prize book label on front paste-down dated Feb.1902. Tan coloured cloth lettered in gilt on the upper spine and upper board and a black stamped..... More
Toronto. MA Endicott. 1953. First Canadian Edition. Black and white map, black and white photographic illustrations, xvi + 464pp, appendices, prior owner's signature title page, text sound and clean, paperback covers very worn particularly on spine. "For 22 years Mary Austin Endicott lived and worked in China during one of..... More
New York. Anson D.F. Randolph & Co., 1894. 1st Edition. Black and white photographic portrait frontispiece, and a further 9 plates, 1plate lacking. 301pp, appendix, yellow cloth covered boards, darkened spine and edges, soiling to covers, inner gutters cracked but holding firm, endpapers trifle browned but generally a clean and..... More
London. Religious Tract Society. 1889. Full page black and white map, 255pp, original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, endpapers a little browned, slight mark under the title on the spine otherwise an extremely good copy. 18 x 12cm. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 166364)... More
London. London Missionary Society. 1899. 1st Edition. Sixty-four black and white illustrations, vii + 216pp, original shiny black endpapers have a few marks, a small label has been removed and the black ink mark has leaked through to the rear of the front free endpaper. Spine very faintly sunned and..... More
Sydney. Pettigrew. 1949. Maps, including front free endpaper map, black and white illustrations, 251pp, ownership details first blank, a little light even browning and minor wear cloth. Overall very good. Australian missionary's account of service in China. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 167154). More
Sydney. Donald F. Pettigrew. 1949. Maps, black and white photographic plates, 251pp, hardback, light occasional foxing edges, a prior owner's inscription half title, very good in original cloth. Subtitle: China Life and Experiences. Tales of the People. Life Stories of Men and Women. Information Regarding Confucianism. Historical Data. Pottery Manufacture..... More
London. London Missionary Society. 1906. Black and white photographic images, 191pp, first and last pages foxed, lower corner upper cover and first leaves damp stained not affecting text, light insect damage covers. A Sunday school prize section neatly filled out on front free endpaper. A sound copy. This book discusses..... More
London. Hamish Hamilton. 1936. Reprint. Translated. Frontis, 303pp, foxing particularly on spine and covers but also a little at edges and first and last leaves, neat late 1930s inscription front free endpaper. Sound secondhand copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 166006). More
London. The Religious Tract Society. c1880s. London Missionary Society Edition. Black and white frontispiece with a total of 50 engraved illustrations throughout. Green cloth covered boards stamped in black - 'A Presentation Copy London Missionary Society' with gilt background and raised lettering on the upper right hand corner, gilt lettered..... More
London. Religious Tract Society. 1893. 320pp and 2 pages of publisher's adverts. Lacks front free endpaper, signs of careless opening margin one leaf, neat signature of a prior owner half title, some occasional foxing and soiling first and last leaves. Upper and lower covers heavily damp affected. Text very sound..... More
Provo. Repressed Publishing. (c.2012). Reprint. Portrait frontispiece, 151pp. Facsimile copy. Each leaf has a darkened background suggesting a scan made on low quality equipment, however the text is still very legible. Bound in brown cloth and lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover. A sound clean copy. First published..... More
New York. American Tract Society. c1848. 8 title-page vignettes and 8 full-page engravings. Small book containing 8 stories from the American Tract Society's issued previously and issued here as a bound collection. One issue has 12pp and the remaining seven issues contain 16pp each. Blind stamped publisher's brown cloth worn..... More
