MATIGNON, JEAN JACQUES:

Superstition, crime et misère en Chine (Souvenirs de biologie sociale). Lyon, Storck et Cie & Paris, Masson et Cie, 1899.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. xxx, (ii), 380, (1) table. With 6 chromolithographic plates and 66 illustrations in the text. Half calf on marbled boards, spine with five raised bands and title label. First edition of a collection of different articles taken from scientific papers in China. Dr. Matignon was a physician at the French legation in China for several years. This work comprises chapters about superstitions, suicide, cremation of Buddhist priests, eunuchs at the Imperial Palace in Pekin, foot binding, abortion, paederasty, beggars, surgical instruments, medicin in Mongolia, etc. ["Bibliothèque de Criminologie, xxi"]. Cf Cordier BS 1495 (second ed. 1900).

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Buchzahl: 25058

Katalog: East Asia

Sonstige Stichworte: East Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, far east, east india, china, kina, chine, crime, medicine

SAKITARÍ MATSUDA:

Way› washi seih› k›shuroku . [ 1 ] (A transcript of lectures for Japanese and Western confectionery). Part 1. (all published?). Tokyo, Taish› 5-9, 1916-20.

. Size: 18,7 x 25 cm. Comprises eighty-four leaves, folded in the Japanese fashion. Including seventeen leaves with more than two hundred colour woodcuts of various kinds of traditional confectionery. The creations are displayed in beautiful, bright colours, some highlighted with silver. The illustrations are followed by sixty-four leaves with recipes in Japanese and an index. Original decorated cloth covered boards, paper label on upper cover, cotton ties, slightly worn. Small crease in upper right corner, occasionally some light staining. A very charming work with many tempting sweets. We have only found one library copy in OCLC (National Diet, Tokyo), listing a volume one only.

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Buchzahl: 100403

Katalog: East Asia

Sonstige Stichworte: East Asia, dessert, sweets, confectionery, cakes, recipes, food, japan, japanese, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

MATSUOKA, SAIKIYO:

Waei Tsugo Phrases in English and Japanese, Elementary for the Children. Tokyo, Komondo, Meiji 5 (1872-73).

. Pp. (9) comprising title, preliminaries and colophon in Japanese, and title in English. Followed by 85 leaves of text in English and Japanese including Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana characters. Leaves folded in the oriental fashion. Original Japanese wrappers, worn. With red Asian stamps on title. Partly with some minor wormholes, mainly in upper margin. First edition of an early comprehensive primer. Comprises a vocabulary accompanied with phrases using the listed words. See: Osaka Joshi Daigaiku Library, Selected Catalogue on Dutch and English Studies (1991), no. C27 (another (smaller) issue with different pagination). 

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MAY, JACQUELINE:

MAY, JACQUELINE: Orange d'Or. Petite fille de l'Empire du Milieu. Illustrations de Ch. et Th. Delattre. Grenoble, Editions Dardelet et Cie, (about 1946).

. Small 4to. Pp. 60. With many lovely coloured illustrations in the text. Publisher's pictorial paper covered boards, cloth spine (small repair). Binding somewhat shaken but still firm. A charming children's book about a Chinese girl celebrating her 10th birthday describing the festivities, meals, tours and shows.

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Buchzahl: 100603

Katalog: East Asia

Sonstige Stichworte: East Asia, china, chine, chinese, kina, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, travel, exploration, children, story, fairy tale

MAYERS, SALOMON F.:

Report on a Journey from Peking to Shanghai overland by way of Honan by Mr. S.F. Mayers of Her Majesty's Consular Service in China. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, June, 1898. London, Harrison and Sons, 1898.

. Pp. 16. Original blue printed wrappers, string tie. A report of a journey from Peking to Shanghai partly by horse and partly by boat. The party travelled along a route which they assumed would in the future have a railway connection between Peking and the cities of the central and southern provinces. The report is mainly devoted to agriculture and trade in the various districts. (Diplomatic and Consular Reports. No. 466 Miscellaneous Series). Scarce. Not in Cordier or Löwendahl.

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Buchzahl: 120235

Katalog: East Asia

Sonstige Stichworte: East Asia, china, chine, chinese, kina, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, voyage,

MCLEOD, NICHOLAS (or (NORMAN):

Korea and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, with Korean, Japanese and Israelitish Illustrations. Yokohama, Published for the Author partly at C. Levy and the Sei Shi Bunsha Co., 1879.

. Oblong 4to. Pp. (vi), 23 and twenty-three wood-engraved plates, one blank leaf. Seven of the plates are devoted to Korea. Original green silk brocade over card, lettered in gilt on upper cover, some holes to rear cover. Inner hinges strained and endpapers browned. First edition of an unusual work that deals with the controversial theory that Korean and Japanese people descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel. Previously McLeod had published two similar works about Japan titled "Epitome of the history of Japan" and "Illustrations to the Epitome". This work which is also devoted to Korea seems rarer. McLeod was a Scottish-born missionary who resided for many years in Japan and Korea where he "searched for the true Israelites". The plates are made by Japanese artists and include illustrations of Korean costumes and commodities, the Japanese Ambassador's house and a military station at Kokufu (governor's place) followed by different shrines in Japan; the Dragon temple of Miyajima; Ise Jingu, Miyazaki-jingu in Hiuga. Further there are plates depicting pottery found at Emperor Jimmu's grave, chariots, a sumo wrestler, samurai battles (including two of Ainos), etc. Some of the plates are lightly discoloured due to the paper quality. Only a few library copies recorded (Oxford, SOAS, Edinburgh and Munich). Ref: Parfitt, Tudor: "The Lost Tribes of Israel: The History of a Myth" (2003). T. Pak, Western Books on Korea, p. 184-7.BOUND TOGETHER WITH: Album. And Guide Book of Japan from Satsuporo in the North to Kagishima in the South. With Historical and Statistical Notes Compiled by N. Mcleod. Yokohama, Published for the Author at the Seishi Bunsha Co., 1879. Pp. (1), clns 21, (3) on six leaves, and fourteen wood-engraved plates. The guide is illustrated with many famous sights, temples, the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido, portraits of significant Japanese people, etc.

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Buchzahl: 121049

Katalog: East Asia

Sonstige Stichworte: East Asia, korea, corea, corean, korean, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, japan, japon, japanese, travel, exploration, religion, religious, illustrated, guide, aino, ainu,

[CHINESE FINE ART EXHIBITION IN SHANGHAI]. / MEIZHAN TEKAN, JIN:

[A catalogue of contemporary art at the National Fine Art Exhibition - Modern Art]. Shanghai 1929.

. Folio. Size: 38 x 26 cm. Lvs (10) with Chinese text + 168 pages with ca 290 reproductions and photos (48 full page) + 6 lvs with intermittent section-caption. Original decorated silk (over paper) covers with stiched Chinese and English titles on upper cover, visible strings, chipped along edges. This catalogue of contemporary art (which appeared as part of a two volume catalogue, the other volume covering ancient art) was issued in connection with the National Fine Art Exhibition at Shanghai in 1929. It was the first officially organized Chinese national art exhibition which took seven years to prepare. The contemporary paintings at the show were divided into a "Western" section including landscape by Liu Haisu, a female nude by Pan Yuliang, modernist figures by Fengmian and Cai Weilian, etc. The "Chinese" section contained paintings ranging from works by well known classicists Gu Linshi, Feng Chaoran, and Wu Hufan, to those of Western influences reformists such as Gao Jianfu and Chen Shuren.

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Buchzahl: 100628

Katalog: East Asia

Sonstige Stichworte: East Asia, china, chine, chinese, kina, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, art, ilustrations, exhibition, exploration,

MIKI, TEICKI (TEIICHI) & TAKAHASHI, GORÍ (Transl.):

Nihon kokon meika zukai. Short Biographies of Emineni [sic] Japanese in Ancient and Modern Times, each with a Characteristic Illustration. Two volumes (all publ.). Tokyo, Kyushun-d›, Meiji 20 & 23 (1887 & 1890).TOGETHER WITH: Pictorial Descriptions of Famous Places of Japan in Japanese and Chinese. Volume one (all publ.) Tokyo, Kyushun-d›, (1888).

. A rare collection of the three volumes containing twenty biographies of celebrated Japanese people and ten famous places of Japan. According to the preface the editors originally planned to print ten volumes in this series but us we understand only these three volumes were published. The first two volumes devoted to renowned Japanese people consist of forty-four leaves with twenty double-page colour woodcut illustrations. Text in English and the illustrations have captions in English and Japanese (Kanji). Leaves are folded in the Japanese manner (fukuro-toji). Original wrappers, printed paper labels on upper covers. First edition. Another version with bilingual text was published simultaneously. Includes the following short life stories of significant persons throughout Japanese history:Iwakura Tomomi, an important 19th century statesman; Murasaki Shikibu or "Lady Musakas", born in the 10th century was the famous authoress of "The story of Genji"; Sugawara no Michizane also known as Kan Sh›j› was a learned scholar, novelist and politician in the Heian period (9th century); Prince Sh›tuko who died A.D. 620 was a great statesman and created the first laws of Japan; Saig› Takamori was an influential samurai of the Satsuma daimo in the 19th century; Minamoto no Yoshiie, an 11th century renowned samurai and governor-general of the Mutsu province; Takenouchi no Sukune, an acclaimed hero-statesman of the first century; Empress Jingu, a legendary Japanese empress who ruled in the third century; Yamato Takeru or Prince Ousu (ca 72-114), a renowned Japanese prince of the Yamato dynasty; Wage no Kiyomaro (Minamoto), 8th century learned man from Bizen; Taira no Shigemori (1138-79), a samurai; H›j› Tokimune, a minister and military of the Kamakura shogunate in the 13th century; Kusunoki Masashige (1294-1336), a samurai of the Kamakura period; Kato Kiyomasa (1562-1611) a Japanese daimyo of the Azuchi-Monoyama and Edo periods; Emperor Nintoku, the 16th legendary emperor of Japan, believed to have lived ca 313-99; Taira no Masakudo, Heian period samurai (he died 940); Minamoto no Yoritamo, the first samurai of the Kamakura Shogunate (12th century); Madenokoji Fujifusa (1296-1380) nobleman in the Kamakura period; Aoto Fujitsuma (1192-1333) minister of the Kamakura Shogunate; Yui Shosetsu (1605-51, military strategist "Three Great Ronin", not a samurai.The third volume about famous places consists of sixty-three pages of text and ten double-page colour woodcut illustrations. Text in English, Japanese and Chinese. Large 8vo. Leaves folded in the Japanese manner (fukuro-toji). Original Japanese style binding, green wrappers, printed labels on covers. With red Asian stamps on titles (Sohgo). The famous places are: The Asakusa Temple; Mount Yoshino in Nara; Yokohama; the Cataract-Kegon Falls; the Kinkaku-ji or Golden Temple in Hyoto; the Kamo River; Mount Tsukuba; the Island of E[noshima]; the Island o Itsuku; and Tokyo. Most of them are signed in the plate by Ogata Gekk› or Kobayashi Eitaku. 100645

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Buchzahl: 100071

Katalog: East Asia

Sonstige Stichworte: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, history, historical, shoguns, biography, biographical,

MOKUBEI, AOKI (ROBEI) / SUKEJIRO, KIMURA (Ed.):

Robei koji fu (Blue and White China Ware). Kyoto, Unsodo Taisho 10, 1921.

. Leporello folded album with delicate blue and white illustrations of Chinese wares, woodblock-printed. Pp. (2), 82. Size: 26.4 x 18.1 cm. Comprising a title in Japanese and 41 double pages of illustrations. Occasionally some minor staining but overall a very good copy. Original brown cloth, title label on upper cover, some light wear at corners. Housed in the original folding case, faded along spine. Aoki Mokubei (1767-1833) was a famous potter and painter of Kyoto. He, along with Okuda Eisen and Nin'ami Dohachi, is credited with reviving Kyoto pottery traditions. He also excelled in painting and Han studies. His pottery work is varied, including porcelain, celadon and Akae ware. He produced a lot of modern green-tea utensils, referred today as "Mokubei style" tea sets. As a result of his commitment to Chinese ceramics, he created a world of his own in making copies of Chinese ware. His representative work "Bokutansai Sansui-zu" and other works have been classified as Important Cultural Properties of Japan. Mokubei used numerous other names but Robei was the one he used most. 'Ro' means deaf and 'bei' is from Mokubei. He became deaf from the noise and heat of working near his kiln. Scarce.

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Buchzahl: 121147

Katalog: East Asia

Sonstige Stichworte: East Asia, china, chine, chinese, kina, japanese, japan, japon, porcelain, pottery, design, ming, ceramic, asia, asian, asie, art, design,

MONTANDON, GEORGE:

La civilisation Ainou et les cultures arctiques. Paris, Payot, 1937.

. Pp. 272. With 48 plates with photographic illustrations and numerous text illustrations including 10 maps. Original printed wrappers, spine restored. A thorough study on the Ainu by a Swiss physician and ethnologist.

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Buchzahl: 100044

Katalog: East Asia

Sonstige Stichworte: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, ainu, aino, travel, exploration

MONTANUS, ARNOLD:

Denckwürdige Gesandtschafften der Ost-Indischen Geselschaft in den Vereinigten Niederländern an unterschiedliche Keyser von Japan: Darinnen zu finden nicht allein die wunderlichen Begäbnüsse auf der Reyse der Niederländischen Gesanten; sondern auch eine Beschreibung der Dörffer, Festungen, Städte, Landschafften, .... Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1669.

. Folio. Pp. (6), 443, (9). With title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, one large engraved map (divided into two sections pp. 61 & 69), twenty-four engraved plates and sixty-nine half-page engravings in the text. Contemporary full vellum (stain to front cover). Bookplate to front paste-down. Occasionally some light browning, a few pages with small marginal stain.First German edition of this monumental work on Japan. First issue with title page printed 1669 (another issue 1670). Published in the same year as the original Dutch edition. Arnold Montanus, a Dutch theologian and historian, based this work on journals from the Dutch East India Company as well as reports from Jesuit missionaries. A narrative of Japanese history, the people and their customs, religion, trade etc. seen through the eyes of European visitors who were very restricted at the time. For more than 200 years Japan was almost completely isolated form the rest of the world. The Dutch, who had established themselves on the island of Deshima outside Nagasaki, were the only foreigners (except for some Chinese) who were allowed to trade with Japan during this period (1641-1854). They had to renew the permission each year, for which they had to send a delegation from Deshima to the Shogun in Yedo. The reports of the visits between 1649 and 1661 provided Montanus with important material. His book has been criticized for not being sufficiently scientific and about the authenticity of the plates. (See article by Isabella H. van Eeghen). However, the plate of Deshima is acknowledged as the earliest known illustration of the renowned island. A beautiful copy of an impressive work. Alt-Japan-Katalog 1050. Cordier BJ 384. Cf Landwehr VOC 522. Isabella H. van Eeghen: "Arnoldus Montanus's book on Japan, "Quaerendo", vol. ii/4, 1972, pp. 250-272.

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Buchzahl: 121300

Katalog: East Asia

Sonstige Stichworte: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, travel, exploration, history, illustrated,

MONTELL, GÖSTA / HEDIN, SVEN:

The Chinese Lama Temple Potala of Jehol. Exhibition of Ethnographical Collections. Made by Dr. Gösta Montell, member of Dr. Sven Hedin's Expeditions and donated by Vincent Bendix. Chicago 1932.

. Pp. 64. Illustrated with many photographs of temples, ritual objects, statues etc. Original printed wrappers, front cover decorated in gold, red, blue and black, rubbed, small stain to back cover. Preface by Sven Hedin. This Lama temple commonly known as Potala was found in Jehol, Tibet in 1930 by Gösta Montell and Sven Hedin. It was built by Emperor Ch'ien-lung in the years 1767-71. A replica was made in China and shipped in parts to Chicago where it was included as "the Golden Pavilion" in "the Century of Progress Exhibition" in 1933. Includes various articles about Lamaism by Gösta Montell.

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Buchzahl: 99807

Katalog: East Asia

Sonstige Stichworte: East Asia, china, chinese, chine, kina, hedin, lamaism, tibet, asia, asian, asie, asien, asiatique, exploration, travel, art,

MONTELL, GÖSTA:

T'ou Hu - The Ancient Chinese Pitch-pot Game. Stockholm 1940.

. Pp. 70-83. With illustrations. Original wrappers. Offprint from Ethons, published by the Ethnographical Museum in Stockholm. T'ou Hu was an ancient ceremonial game. "It is quite evident that Picth-pot was an exclusive pastime in the nobel circles and that it was prefected as early as the Chou period" (p. 74). Montell, Swedish ethnographer, participated in Hedin's expedition to Central Asia 1929-33.

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Buchzahl: 100813

Katalog: East Asia

Sonstige Stichworte: East Asia, china, chinese, kina, chine, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, game, games, play, exploration, travel,

MORGAN, JOHN PIERPONT / LAFFAN, WILLIAM M.:

Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelain. Volume one (of two). New York, Privately printed by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Devinne Press, 1904.

. Pp. (xvii), 196. With 77 chromolithographs, protected by tissue guards. Some minor staining. Contemporary morocco, upper edges gilt, covers ruled in gilt, spine with five raised bands and titled in gilt, lightly rubbed, front hinge strengthened, silk pastedowns. With old dedication dated 1905 on front endpaper. First edition, limited to 250 copies for private circulation. The catalogue comprises 1115 wares including vases, bowls, plates, cups, teapots, bottles, figures, statues, garnitures, incense burners, etc. They are all well described including measurements and dates. At end an index of cases with key numbers and schematic drawings. The preface is an introduction to the history of Chinese porcelain, its exports to Europe and the difficulties of dating Chinese porcelain. It's written by William M. Laffan. "The collection is the most comprehensive that is known, and it has been described as succinctly and lucidly as appeared possible, and without any technicalities that could be avoided" (preface of second edition). A second edition was published in 1907 (by Stephen Bushell and William Laffan) in connection with an exhibition of the collection at the Metropolitan Museum. That edition only has b/w plates. John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) was an American banker and one of the greatest art and book collectors of his time. His son J.P. Morgan Jr. created the Pierpont Morgan Library a public institution in 1924 as a memorial to his father. In 1911 a second volume was published.

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VON MOSHEIM, JOHANN LORENZ:

Historia Tartarorum ecclesiastica. Adiecta est Tartariae Asiaticae secundum recentiores geographos in mappa delineatio. Helmstadi, apud Fridericum Christianum Weygand, 1741.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), 148, 216. Pagination irregular. With engraved printer's device on title and one folding engraved map by Sebastian Dorn of Nuremberg. Contemporary half calf on boards, worn, blue title label on spine partly gone. Old ownership signature on title. Stamp on front paste down. First edition. "History and sourcebook of Christianity among the Tartars (Central Asia and China)" by the renowned German Lutheran theologian von Mosheim. Compiled under the guidance of Mosheim by his student Hermann Christian Paulsen who defended it as a thesis at the Helmstadt University. Cordier BS 765. Lust 934.

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Buchzahl: 99979

Katalog: East Asia

Sonstige Stichworte: East Asia, tartary, mongolia, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, history, historian