CALLERY (CALLERI), GIUSEPPE GAETANO MASSIMO PIETRO MARIA (Transl. & Ed.):

... Li-ki ou Mémorial des rites traduit pour la prémière fois du chinois, et accompagné de notes, de commentaires et du texte original. Turin, Imprimerie Royal, & (Chinese text) Paris, Benjamin Duprat, 1853.

. 4to. Pp. (ii), xxxii, 199 + pp. 98 with Chinese lithographed text. Contemporary roan with elaborated decoration in gilt on covers and spine, g.e., marbled endpapers. A custom-made binding with gilt inscription "New Year's gift. A.S.". Partly with some minor staining but otherwise a very good copy.First edition. It's a translation of parts of the Li Ki (Book of Rites), which is one of the Five Chinese Classics and consists of texts on Chinese religious practices from the 8th to the 5th century B.C. The text contains a wealth of information of the Chinese culture from ancient time. Including descriptions of clothing, astronomy, economics, geography, history, music, crime, burials, etc. Calleri (1810-76) moved to Macau in 1836 where he studied Chinese under the renowned sinologist Joachim Alfonso Gonçalves. The first complete translation of the Li Ki was made by James Legge and appeared in 1885. Cordier BS 1383. Löwendahl 1137.

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CARLES, WILLIAM RICHARD:

Life in Corea. London, MacMillan and Co., 1888.

. Pp. xiv, 317, adv. (2). With one folding map, two full page engraved plates and many textual illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, spine faded, corners lightly rubbed. Bookplate to front paste down. Occasionally a few small stains. First edition. The author served as the British vice-consul in Korea for 18 months. This is a personal account of the country and people of Korea. Includes information about the Japanese treaty, the relationship with China, silk production, Korean pottery, tea, gingseng, exports, etc. Cordier BS 2960. Pak, Western Books on Korea, nr. 22.

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CARROTHERS, JULIA DODGE:

Japan's Year. Illustrated by Japanese Artists. Tokyo, T. Hasegawa, Meiji 38 (1905).

. Large 8vo. (18.3 x 24.6 cm) Pp. 76, double folded in the Japanese fashion. With sixteen full page colour woodcuts and three single sheet crêpe paper woodcut prints tipped in. Further illustrations throughout the text. With English text. Original decorated stiff paper wrappers, string bound, very light wear to extremities. Housed in the original cardboard box. First edition, reprinted in 1911. Julia Carrothers came to Japan as a Presbyterian missionary in 1869 together with her husband. She had a long-standing connection with Japan and Hasegawa after her return to San Diego in 1877. When she came back to Japan in 1903 she provided Hasegawa with the manuscript for this book. A lovely copy of a charming and informative work about Japan and its culture based on the months of the calendar year. The beautiful illustrations are very delicate.

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CAWTHRONE, G. (Editor):

A Complete View of the Chinese Empire. Exhibited in a Geographical Description on its Antiquity, and a Genuine and Copius Account of the Earl Macartney's Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China. London, printed and published by G. Cawthorn, 1798.

. Pp. (8), lxxii, 224, 275- 456. Pagination irregular. With one engraved frontispiece. Without last leaf with advertisement. First few leaves with some spotting. Contemporary mottled calf, flat spine richly decorated in gilt and with red title label, rubbed. First edition. An anonymous, accurate account of the British embassy headed by Earl Macartney to China during the years 1792-94. Cordier BS 2392. Löwendahl 701. Provenance: Copy of Jacob Lothsack, enobled Kjerrmanskiöld (1745-1818), Swedish captain who headed the Swedish East India Company ship Gustaf III to China in 1796-98.

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Book number: 99963

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CHALMERS, JOHN:

An Account of the Structure of Chinese Characters under 300 Primary Forms; After the Shwoh-Wan, 100, A.D., and the Phonetic Shwoh-Wan, 1833. London, Trübner & Co., 1882.

. Pp. (iv), x, 199. With two index tables, of which one large printed in red and black, the other loose. Original printed wrappers. Binding shaken, wrappers somewhat faded and rubbed, some staining to rear cover. First edition. A valuable work that shows the original forms of the characters followed by pronunciation in Cantonese, Pekingese (Mandarin) and the English translation. John Chalmers, Scottish born who came to Hong Kong in 1852 as a missionary. In 1859 he moved to the Canton Mission where he stayed for twenty years before returning to Hong Kong. He compiled a number of dictionaries, wrote several essays and made translations. Cordier BS 1743.

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CHANCE, LULU MAUD:

Bradley's Straight Line Picture Cut-Outs. Japanese Village. Springfield, Mass., Milton Bradley Co., ca 1920.

. Folio. Complete, unused set of eight printed leaves on heavy paper with cut-out figures, one colour plate and one printed instruction leaf. Some with small tears or chipped at corners, but overall it's well-kept. Housed in the original colour decorated envelope, chipped along edges. (Size: 38 x 29.5 cm). Bradley produced a series of village models for children which showed the people of a particular country and the houses they lived in.

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NIAN CHANG [NIEN TCH'ANG]:

Fo tsou li tai t'ong tsai. [In Japanese: Busso rekidai tsusai]. 18 volumes. Kyoto 1649.

. Complete in 18 volumes. With text in Japanese printed on double leaves folded in the oriental manner. As issued in original paper wrappers with title labels. Some wear and stain to covers. One volume has damage to front cover (slight loss of title label) and first 12 leaves torn with only marginal loss. A Japanese edition of a Chinese historical biography of Buddhist patriarchs.

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CHANGUION, FRAN‚OIS NICOLAS / KNÖS, GUSTAF:

Hypomnemata de imperio ... Tchong-Koué graecis atque romanis serico vocato. Praeside Dr. Gustavo Knös. Upsala, exc. Regiae Academiae Typographi, 1823.2015.06.05

. 4to. Pp. (iv), 26. Sewn as issued, uncut. Includes a letter by Carl Peter Thunberg to Changuion "Nobilissimo respondenti". Cordier BS 1917. Löwendahl 1520. Marklin p. 67.

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CHARPENTIER DE COSSIGNY, JOSEPH FRANCOIS:

Charpentier Cossignys resa till China. Stockholm, R. Carl Schiöström, 1803.

. Pp. (vi), 180, (1). Slightly later half cloth on marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, small hole to front joint. Old ownership signature. Occasionally some minor staining. Scarce Swedish translation of "Voyage à Canton" 1799. Cf Cordier BS 2105.

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YANAGI CHIKAMATSU:

Sh›zoku Zushiki. (Clothes of the Japanese Imperial Court). Two volumes. [Kyoto] Tomikura Tahe Kanko, 1692.

. Lvs 32 + 31. With numerous illustrations throughout accompanied with descriptions in Japanese, woodblock-printed. As issued with double leaves folded in the Japanese manner. Original blue blind pressed paper wrappers, title labels, worn. An important study of the history of the Japanese court costumes including illustrations of robes, caps, hats, belts, swords, fans, shoes, etc. First edition.Provenance: Belonged to Tanak Chiyo (1906-99), a famous fashion designer. In addition a stamp of Nihon Daigaku Kenkyujo (Nihon University).

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CHIKANOBU, YïSHó (HASHIMOTO):

"Jidai-Kagami". (Mirror of the Ages). Tokyo, Matsuki Heikichi, Meiji 29-30 (1896-7).

. Folio. Size: 24.8 x 17.8 cm. Leporello-folded album containing 53 pages. With fifty woodcut printed plates, decorated title, index and one additional woodcut page. Text in Japanese. Original silk covered boards, rubbed. Housed in modern cloth folder. Exceptionally beautiful work illustrating women's hairstyles and fashion from the 14th to the late 19th century. Each image depicts a woman with an impeccable hairstyle, make-up and elaborate clothes that are typical of the chosen period. At the top of each page is a picture showing fragments of well-known manuscripts, prints or paintings that are recognizable from each era. All signed Yôshû Chikanobu. The quality of the printing is outstanding. A detailed list of each image is available upon request.Chikanobu (1838-1912) was trained in the Kano school but later changed direction to printmaking. He became one of the leading ukiyo-e artists of his time. Chikanobu used the flat planes and decorative pattern of the ukiyo-e tradition for striking effect, adding luminous colours, especially red, purple, and blue to his compositions. He designed across all genres, from kabuki actors and beauties to military exploits of past and present. In the 1880s, with a new wave of nationalism evoking the past, new designs were created to explore traditional Japanese culture, ethics and heroes. Chikanobu is often called a retrograde modernist, someone whose art works are positioned between old and new. In these prints you can find the longing for the past but still they are unmistakably modern and of their time. Chikanobu creates an outstanding work of absolutely the highest print quality. Rare to find complete.

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B®CKSTRÖM, ANTON:

Ett besök i Japan och Kina jemte bilder från vägen dit öfver Goda-Hoppsudden, Bourbon, Nya Kaledonien, Manilla och Kokinkina. Stockholm 1871.

. Pp. viii, 391. With frontispiece, 8 tinted lithographs, 15 full page woodcut plates and many more illustrations in the text. Original pictorial red cloth, gilt, extremities rubbed, spine ends chipped. Publisher's stamp. First edition. Baeckström spent three years in the service of the French Navy and participated in this expedition to the Far East from April 1867 to February 1870. The voyage went via the Cape, Bourbon, New Caledonia, to Manilla, Cochinchina, Japan, China, and stopped in Singapore before it returned to Europe. References Japan on pages 177-340 (Nagasaki, Yokohama, Edo, Kamakura, Kobe, Osaka). Cordier BS 2132 & BJ 628. Löwendahl 1398.

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YOKOHAMA AMATEUR ROWING CLUB.

Aquatic Sports, Saturday 25th Aug., 1900. At 3 p.m. Yokohama, Japan Gazette Office, 1900.

. One folded leaf. Text printed in blue on pink paper. A programme with various tournaments and races.

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YOKOHAMA YACHT CLUB.

Programme of Sailing Races, on the American National Holiday. Wednesday, July 4th, 1900. Yokohama, Japan Gazette Office, 1900.

. One folded leaf. Text printed in red and blue on light blue paper. Some staining.

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COBBOLD, REV. ROBERT HENRY:

Pictures of the Chinese. Drawn by Themselves. London, John Murray, 1860.

. Pp. vi, 219. With frontispiece, 34 full page drawing illustrations and many textual illustrations. Near contemporary half calf on marbled boards, somewhat rubbed. Old ownership signature on title page. Some minor staining. First edition of a charming work about various Chinese professions each accompanied by a pen-and-ink etching by a native artist. Some examples: the lantern-seller, the blind fortune-teller, the opium smoker, the physiognomy, the scavenger, street beggars, etc. The author served as Archdeacon at the treaty port of Ningpo for a period of eight years. Cordier BS 90.

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Book number: 17092

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