Far East
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The Mammals of China and Mongolia.
ALLEN, Glover M.Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £3,000.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00The Central Asiatic Expedition went into Mongolia to seek and discover the ancestry of man, and explore the natural history of the region. Andrews...
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China:
ALLOM, Thomas.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00Including views of Hong Kong, Canton, Macao, Nanjing, and Shanghai. At a time of increased interest in China, Thomas Allom (1804-1872) the noted to...
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Wild life in China;
LANNING, George.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £150.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00'There are two interesting chapters on Chinese field sports, with sections on tiger, leopard and a few other species of big game. The appendix con...
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Voyage a travers la Mongolie et la Chine.
PIASSETSKY, P.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £650.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00The 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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Puteshestvie po Kitayu v 1874-1875 gg.
[PIASSETSKY, Pavel].Original price £1,850.00 - Original price £1,850.00Original price £1,850.00£1,850.00£1,850.00 - £1,850.00Current price £1,850.00The rare Russian first edition.Pavel Piasetskiy (1843 - 1919) was not only a respected doctor but also talented artist and writer. These versatile...
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Watercolour Album.
[CHINA.Original price £45,000.00 - Original price £45,000.00Original price £0.00£45,000.00£45,000.00 - £45,000.00Current price £45,000.00China under the Qing dynasty. A remarkable collection of sixty-four fine large-format Chinese watercolours with subjects depicting tradesmen, flowe...
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Carte la plus generale et qui comprend La Chine,
D'ANVILLE, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00The Qing Emperor Kangxi commissioned Jesuit surveyors to chart his kingdom from 1708 to 1716. The resulting maps were published as the Kangxi Atla...
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Divers voiages du P. Alexandre de Rhodes
RHODES, Alexandre de.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00Scarce. Alexandre de Rhodes (1591-1660), 'the father of the romanization of Vietnamese' (Lust), wrote several books relating to his own experience...
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The Jews at K'ae-Fung-Foo:
SMITH, George.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £5,000.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00With map. A very scarce work, with an Introduction by the Right Revd. George Smith, D.D. Lord Bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong), which sketches out We...
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Ancient accounts of India and China, by two Mohammedan travellers.
SULAIMAN EL TAJIR; RENAUDOT, Eusébe (translator).Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £4,500.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00Scarce. 'Sulaiman's works had a profound effect on many Arabic and Persian geographers and are of exceptional importance for the study of early Is...
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[Japan] XI. Imperio del Giappone Governo Monarchico.
[RABATTA, Augusto da & BAILLOU, Jean-Baptist de].Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00Rare playing card map. Designed to play the Florentine version of the tarot game, the 'Minchiate'.The card features a miniature map to its upper p...
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[China] XIII. Regno Dispotico Imperio della China anticamente Sinae
[RABATTA, Augusto da & BAILLOU, Jean-Baptist de].Original price £400.00 - Original price £400.00Original price £0.00£400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.00Rare playing card map. Designed to play the Florentine version of the tarot game, the 'Minchiate'.The card features a miniature map to its upper p...
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[A Group of 10 Watercolours of Flowers & Butterflies.
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing flowers and butterflies.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for s...
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[Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...
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[Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...
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Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...
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[Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...
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