Far East
Embark on a captivating journey through the pages of rare travel and photobooks that transport you to China, Mongolia, Japan, and Korea.
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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 £5,000.00A 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 £7,500.00The 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 £3,000.00Includes 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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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 £1,350.00Important 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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Manchuria
[FOREIGN OFFICE].Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £450.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00First edition, 8vo, viii, 87pp., original printed wrappers, a fine copy.
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The currencies of China.
KANN, Eduard.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £450.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00Detailed account of the gold bar market; silver; copper coinage. Much improved from the first edition.Second edition revised, xxxiv, [ii], 562pp.,...
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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 £3,750.00Attractive 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 £1,100.00Includes 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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The 100 years Anglo-Chinese calendar,
LOUREIRO, P.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £2,000.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00Rare. COPAC lists BL and Cambridge only.The first Anglo-Chinese centennial calendar, covering the period 1776-1876. 'Calendars in somewhat similar...
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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 £1,250.00The 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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Zapiski o Mongolii
[FAR EAST]. BICHURIN (Monakh Iakinf).Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £0.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00An important, early description of Mongolia; first edition. A lovely example of this rare book, with hand-coloured plates and interesting provenan...
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Histoire Naturelle, Civile, et Ecclésiastique de l'Empire du Japon:
KAEMPFER, Engelbert.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £5,000.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00A history of Japan. A tall copy of the first edition in French of Kaempfer's history of Japan which was a best-seller from the moment it was publis...
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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 £375.00Pavel Piasetskiy (1843 - 1919) was only a respected doctor but also talented artist and writer. These versatile abilities ensured his participatio...
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