China and Mongolia
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The Chater collection
ORANGE, James.Original price $3,312.00 - Original price $3,312.00Original price $0.00$3,312.00$3,312.00 - $3,312.00Current price $3,312.00| /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.Original price $3,643.00 - Original price $3,643.00Original price $0.00$3,643.00$3,643.00 - $3,643.00Current price $3,643.00| /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.Original price $4,968.00 - Original price $4,968.00Original price $0.00$4,968.00$4,968.00 - $4,968.00Current price $4,968.00| /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.Original price $1,656.00 - Original price $1,656.00Original price $0.00$1,656.00$1,656.00 - $1,656.00Current price $1,656.00| /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.Original price $24,505.00 - Original price $24,505.00Original price $0.00$24,505.00$24,505.00 - $24,505.00Current price $24,505.00| /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.Original price $16,558.00 - Original price $16,558.00Original price $0.00$16,558.00$16,558.00 - $16,558.00Current price $16,558.00| /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].Original price $994.00 - Original price $994.00Original price $0.00$994.00$994.00 - $994.00Current price $994.00| /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.Original price $46,361.00 - Original price $46,361.00Original price $0.00$46,361.00$46,361.00 - $46,361.00Current price $46,361.00| /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.Original price $6,292.00 - Original price $6,292.00Original price $0.00$6,292.00$6,292.00 - $6,292.00Current price $6,292.00| /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.Original price $464.00 - Original price $464.00Original price $0.00$464.00$464.00 - $464.00Current price $464.00| /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.Original price $994.00 - Original price $994.00Original price $0.00$994.00$994.00 - $994.00Current price $994.00| /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.Original price $861.00 - Original price $861.00Original price $0.00$861.00$861.00 - $861.00Current price $861.00| /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 $1,656.00 - Original price $1,656.00Original price $0.00$1,656.00$1,656.00 - $1,656.00Current price $1,656.00| /Rare special issue of China Journal devoted to Shanghai. Beautifully illustrated and with numerous ads from leading Shanghai businesses. Includes ...
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Quotations of Chairman Mao
MAO TSE-TUNG [CHAIRMAN MAO].Original price $8,610.00 - Original price $8,610.00Original price $0.00$8,610.00$8,610.00 - $8,610.00Current price $8,610.00| /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.Original price $63,581.00 - Original price $63,581.00Original price $0.00$63,581.00$63,581.00 - $63,581.00Current price $63,581.00| /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 $198,689.00 - Original price $198,689.00Original price $0.00$198,689.00$198,689.00 - $198,689.00Current price $198,689.00| /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 $46,361.00 - Original price $46,361.00Original price $0.00$46,361.00$46,361.00 - $46,361.00Current price $46,361.00| /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 $895.00 - Original price $895.00Original price $0.00$895.00$895.00 - $895.00Current price $895.00| /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.Original price $1,458.00 - Original price $1,458.00Original price $0.00$1,458.00$1,458.00 - $1,458.00Current price $1,458.00| /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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