China and Mongolia
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L'estat present de la chine.
BOUVET, Joachim; GIFFART, Pierre (engraver).Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00| /With the arms of Louis XIV. Rare first edition of Bouvet's China, finely bound in contemporary morocco with the arms of Louis XIV, the engravings b...
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Toonneel van China, Door veel, Zo Geestelijke als Werreltijke, Geheugteekenen, Verscheide Vertoningen van de Natuur en Kunst.
KIRCHER, Athanasius.Original price £50,000.00 - Original price £50,000.00Original price £0.00£50,000.00£50,000.00 - £50,000.00Current price £50,000.00| /Rare coloured copy. Rare copy coloured in a contemporary hand and heightened with gilt, of one of the most important books shaping the European con...
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Kitab Tahqiq al-Shuhur al-Maqlub...,
MA LIANGJUN [AL-HIJRANI, Muhammad Yusuf].Original price £22,500.00 - Original price £22,500.00Original price £0.00£22,500.00£22,500.00 - £22,500.00Current price £22,500.00| /Arabic woodblock printing in Xingjian. Rare example of arabic woodblock printing in china by a prominent hui islamic scholar in xingjiang. Ma Liang...
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Report of proceedings on a voyage to the northern ports of China
Lindsay, Hugh Hamilton.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /Author's wife's copy. Hugh Lindsay's Report of Proceedings contains reports by Lindsay, an East India Company man, and Charles Gutzlaff on trade wi...
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Greater Shanghai.
SOWERBY, Arthur de C., editor.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Rare special issue of China Journal devoted to Shanghai. Beautifully illustrated and with numerous ads from leading Shanghai businesses. Includes ...
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Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Asia,
MURRAY, Hugh.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /Hugh Murray was a well known geographer and major contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Geography. These volumes cover India, China, Persia and Cent...
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Quotations of Chairman Mao
MAO TSE-TUNG [CHAIRMAN MAO].Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00| /The two highly collectable first issues of the first edition of Chairman Mao's 'Little Red Book', preceded only by a special issue presented to se...
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Delle Navigationi et Viaggi...
RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista.Original price £48,000.00 - Original price £48,000.00Original price £0.00£48,000.00£48,000.00 - £48,000.00Current price £48,000.00| /The foremost authority on the early history of America. A handsome set in a contemporary Italian binding. 'One of the earliest and most important c...
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Album of watercolours of flowers, fruit and silkworms.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £150,000.00 - Original price £150,000.00Original price £0.00£150,000.00£150,000.00 - £150,000.00Current price £150,000.00| /From the collection of the 5th Duke of Marlborough. A sumptuous collection of mounted watercolours depicting Chinese silkworm cultivation, birds (i...
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Description Géographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoisie.
DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste.Original price £35,000.00 - Original price £35,000.00Original price £0.00£35,000.00£35,000.00 - £35,000.00Current price £35,000.00| /The first edition of Du Halde's "encyclopaedic account of China" (Lust) -- and one of the earliest European sources on Chinese ceramics. Du Halde,...
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Voyage of His Majesty's ship Alceste,
M'LEOD, John.Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £0.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00| /Best edition, enlarged and corrected. Contains descriptions of the Ryukyus (then a Chinese protectorate) and Canton (Guangzhou).'This voyage was ...
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Three years' wanderings in
FORTUNE, Robert.Original price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £0.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00| /Travels between 1843 and 1845 in Kuangtung, Fukien, the Chekiang coast, and Shanghai. Fortune (1812-1880) was a Scottish botanist, plant hunter an...
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Elements of Chinese grammar,
MARSHMAN, Joshua.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /A pioneering work. Scarce. Two issues of this work were made in 1814. This second issue has Chinese characters on title and a 2-page errata, it als...
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De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas Susepta ab Societate Iesu,
RICCI, Matteo; TRIGAULT, Nicholas.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /The most important work on China since Marco Polo. The earliest authoritative source of information on China available in Europe at that time. At h...
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Present day impressions of the Far East
MORTON-CAMERON, W.H.; FELDWICK, Walter.Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00| /Includes sections on Hong Kong, Macao, Peking, Shanghai and Singapore.First edition, 4to, 1211 pp., four maps, 17 colour plates, numerous photogra...
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Sketches of China, Partly During an Inland Journey of Four Months, Between Peking, Nanking, and Canton;
DAVIS, John Francis.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /Davis was appointed Writer in the factory at Canton in 1813 at the age of eighteen. He showed marked linguistic and diplomatic abilities, and in c...
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Narrative of the voyages and services of the Nemesis,
HALL, William Hutcheson; BERNARD, W[illiam] D[allas].Original price £1,350.00 - Original price £1,350.00Original price £0.00£1,350.00£1,350.00 - £1,350.00Current price £1,350.00| /Important account of the First Opium War. Includes a fine map of Hong Kong. The Nemesis was designed to draw only six feet of water, enabling her ...
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The new atlas of China.
DINGLE, John Edwin; FRUIN, Harold John (editors).Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £3,750.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /Attractive early twentieth century atlas showing the provinces of China. The index has some 10,000 entries. Both the maps and index are bi-lingual...
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A narrative of an exploratory visit
SMITH, Rev. George.Original price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £1,100.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00| /Includes two views of Hong Kong.Second edition. 8vo., xviii, 532pp., double page map of China, hand-coloured in outline, 12 lithographed plates, o...
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Russian travellers in Mongolia and China.
PIASSETSKY, P.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £1,250.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /The author was the artist on Colonel Sosnovsky's scientific expedition across Siberia to Lake Baikal and Mongolia in 1874-75. This was one of the ...
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[Life and Medical Treatment in China].
[PIASETSKIY, Pavel Yakovlevich].Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /Pavel Piasetskiy (1843 - 1919) was only a respected doctor but also talented artist and writer. These versatile abilities ensured his participatio...
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China:
ALLOM, Thomas.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /Thomas Allom (1804-1872) the noted topographical artist, at a time of increased interest in China, presented the Western world with the most compl...
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China. Report on the revenue and expenditure of the Chinese Empire.
FOREIGN OFFICE.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £350.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Report 415 in the series Reports on subjects of general and commercial interest. A valuable document compiled by Consul Jamieson to be presented t...
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Correspondence respecting insults in China.
[CHINA]; [PARLIAMENTARY PAPER].Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /The second opium war. Scarce parliamentary paper dealing with the Second Opium War. Includes papers by Sir Henry Pottinger, Sir John Davis, the Ear...
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