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  • The Chater collection

    ORANGE, James.
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    A fine copy of James Orange's catalogue of the Chater collection. Originally formed by Wyndham Law, the collection was acquired by Sir Catchick Ch...

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  • Journal of a Voyage in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China;

    WATHEN, James.
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    With 24 finely coloured aquatints. A very good first edition copy of Wathen's Voyage to Madras, richly illustrated with 24 finely coloured aquatint...

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  • Twentieth Century Impressions of Hong Kong,

    WRIGHT, Arnold; H. A. Cartwright.
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    Wright and Cartwright's monumental work on Hong Kong and the other great trading ports of China.First edition. 4to. (31 x 24 cm), 848 pp., profuse...

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  • Across Chryse;

    COLQUHOUN, Archibald R.
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    Colquhoun's expedition was to survey a projected railway connecting Canton with Burma. During the course of his travels he passed through many reg...

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  • Tractato dele più maravigliose cose e più notabile che si trovino in le parte del mondo

    MANDEVILLE, Sir John.
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    The first travel book best-seller. Rare 16th-century Italian edition of the world's first best-selling travel book. Although largely fictitious, th...

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  • An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China [...]

    STAUNTON, Sir George Leonard.
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    The first British embassy to China. The most celebrated and finely illustrated account of the first British embassy to China, which was to lead to ...

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  • China proper.

    [GEOGRAPHICAL HANDBOOK SERIES].
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    Scarce complete set of the secret reports on China compiled for Naval Intelligence.Comprises sections on physical geography, history, peoples, mod...

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  • Illustrations of China and its People.

    THOMSON, John.
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    Thomson's most significant work. Thomson's most significant work, made as he travelled through China between 1868 and 1872.Richard Ovenden has argu...

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  • Narrative of a journey in the interior of China:

    ABEL, Clarke.
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    Rothschild copy with arms. A finely bound copy of Abel's China with Rothschild provenance, bound by the Royal bookbinder, Simier.Abel was the natur...

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  • Peking:

    BREDON, Juliet.
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    Juliet Bredon (1881-1937) grew up in China and lived through the Boxer Rebellion. Her book on Peking is informative and attractive.Third edition (...

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  • The Yangtze Gorges in pictures and prose.

    LE PALUD, A. M.
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    With the rare dust-wrapper. Le Palud's account of a journey from Chungking to Ichang illustrated with fine photographs4to, [iv], xviii pp., large ...

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  • Report of proceedings on a voyage to the northern ports of China

    Lindsay, Hugh Hamilton.
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    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.
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    Rare special issue of China Journal devoted to Shanghai. Beautifully illustrated and with numerous ads from leading Shanghai businesses. Includes ...

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  • Quotations of Chairman Mao

    MAO TSE-TUNG [CHAIRMAN MAO].
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    Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'. The two highly collectable first issues of the first edition of Chairman Mao's 'Little Red Book'...

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  • Delle Navigationi et Viaggi...

    RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista.
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    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].
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    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.
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    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.
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    Best edition, enlarged and corrected. Contains descriptions of the Ryukyus (then a Chinese protectorate) and Canton (Guangzhou).'This voyage was u...

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  • Three years' wanderings in

    FORTUNE, Robert.
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    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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