RIJNHART, SUSIE CARSON:

With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple. Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Border, and of a Journey into the Far Interior. Fifth edition. Foreign Christian Missionary Society, Cincinnati, Ohio, (1905?).

. Pp. (viii), 406. With one folding map and thirteen plates (mainly photographs). Publisher's cloth stamped in black, lightly darkened. Old ownership signature.Susan Carson, a Canadian doctor married a Dutch missionary Petrus Rijnhart who had joined the China Inland Mission in 1890. In 1898 Susie, Petrus and their little baby boy started a journey towards the forbidden city of Lhasa. But they never reached it. During the journey Rijnhart's child had died, Petrus mysterously disappeared and Susan had to make a two-month hazardous journey back to China by herself. First edition was issued in 1901. Robinson p.170. Yakushi (1984) R117a.

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Book number: 121196

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, tibet, tibetan, china, chine, chinese, kina, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, missionary, lady trabeller

RIVAS, FR. MANUEL DE:

Idea del imperio de Annam, o'de los reinos unidos de Tunquin y Cochinchina. Madrid 1859.

. Pp. (viii), 396 + (3) indice. Contemporary or slightly later half calf, spine gilt with five raised bands. Second edition (first Madrid 1858). This account contains chapters about taxes, commerce, laws, religion, superstitions, customs, persecution of christianity etc among the Annamese, and further about customs and municipal authorities, fishing and hunting of of the people living in Tonkin and Cochinchina. Cordier BI 1534. Palau 27001.

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Book number: 13033

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, asia, asie, asiatica, orient, east, asien, indochina, indo-china, indochine, indo-chine, travel, voyages

ROBERTSON-SCOTT, J.W.:

The People of China. Their Country, History, Life, Ideas, and Relations with the Foreigner. London 1900.

. Small 8vo. Pp. xii, 193. With one large folding map. Contemporary half calf, spine with five raised bands, richly gilt. First edition. Cordier BS 106.

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Book number: 99441

Catalogue: East Asia

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

ROCHE, JAMES F. & COWEN, L.L.:

[SINO-FRENCH WAR / COMBAT NAVAL DE FOU-TCHÉOU]. The French at Foochow. Shanghai, printed at the "Celestial Empire" office, 1884.

. Pp. (ii), 49. With eight black illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Rare first edition of this eyewitness account of the Sino-French War (December 1883 - April 1885) at Foochow (Fuzhou). A relatively unknown conflict which was the culmination of increasing French intervention in Indo-China since the 1870s. In May 1884, France and Chinese negotiators concluded the Treaty of Tientsin, an agreement intended to end months of undeclared hostilities between the countries in Tonkin. A month later, the French troops clashed near the small town of B‹c Lê with a detachment of the Chinese Guangxi Army. This incident (Lác Lê ambush), was the proximate cause of the Sino-French War. In the treaty signed in 1885, France won control of Indo-China. The plates illustrate warships, forts, a Chinese cannon and a water battery. Includes two tables listing the French and Chinese naval fleets respectively. With information on the French fleet with details of tonnage, horsepower, number of breech guns and damage incurred. Cordier BS 2500.

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Book number: 121421

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, fuzhou, foochow, pagoda anchorage, china, chine, kina, chinese, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, french, war, battle,

ROCHER, ÉMILE:

La province chinoise du Yün-nan. Two volumes. Paris, E. Leroux, 1879-80.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. (xvi), 286, (1); (iv), 291, (1). With three folding large maps and 8 full page illustrations. As issued, uncut in original printed yellow wrappers, nicely restored and reinforced. First edition. According to the preface this journey was arranged as a follow up to Jean Dupuis' previous explorations of the Red river. The first volume of the work treats the journey from Hankow to Yunnan describing the various provinces along the route. The second part is mainly devoted to the Panthay rebellion in Yunnan but gives also information about local procedures of minerals including a list of the most productive mines in the province, classified by departments. Cordier BS 1362.

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Book number: 100615

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Keywords: East Asia, china, kina, chinese, chine, yunnan, travel, exploration, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, musulman, islam,

RÖTTGER, EBERHARD HERMAN:

Thien, Ti, Hoih. ... Himmel, Erde, Brüderschaft. Geschichte der Brüderschaft des Himmels und der Erden der communistischen Propaganda China's. Der Ertrag ist für den Missions-Verein für China bestimmt. Berlin, In commission bei Wilhelm Hertz, 1852.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. 16. Including one full page illustration. Orignal printed wrappers, small splits at spine ends. Ex libris stamp (Axelio R. Spoof). Röttger was a Dutch missionary serving in the East. Cordier BS 1895.

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Book number: 100602

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, kina, chinese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration,

ROY, J.-J.-E.:

Souvenirs et récits d'un ancien missionnaire a la Cochinchine et au Tong-King. Tours 1881.

. Pp. 192. Including frontispiece. Original decorated boards, front cover partly loose, spine chipped. Internally a nice copy.

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Book number: 18113

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, asia, asie, asiatica, orient, east, asien, far east, indochina, indochine, indo china, vietnam, tonking, cochinchina, tunkin

SCHLEGEL, GUSTAAF:

(Chinese title) Mai yu lang toœ tchen hoa kouei. Le vendeur-d'huile qui seul possède la reine-de-beauté, ou splendeurs et misères des courtisanes chinoises. Roman chinois traduit pour la première fois sur le texte original. Leiden & Paris, 1877.

. Pp. xviii, 140 + pp. 82 with Chinese text + (2). One leaf (half title) loose. Modern half calf, original printed wrappers with bound. A famous Chinese novel translated into French by Gustaaf Schlegel, a renowned Dutch sinologist. Cordier BS 1769. Löwendahl Supplement 1837.

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Book number: 120953

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, chinese, kina, language, langue, linguistic, literature,

SEMEDO, çLVARO:

Relatione della grande monarchia della Cina. Rome, sumptibus Hermann Scheus, 1643.

. Small 4to. Pp. (viii), 309, index (14). With one engraved portrait. Title within woodcut frame. Contemporary vellum, stained. New end-papers. First three leaves reinforced at inner margin. Text partly browned.First Italian edition of this informative treatise on China mainly written for the support of the Jesuit mission there. Prepared by Giambattista Giattinio and based on the first Spanish edition (Madrid in 1642). It includes some amendments as well as additional material. This Italian version is the preferred edition according to Lach & Van Kley. çlvaro Semedo (1586-1658), Portuguese Jesuit, lived and worked in China for over twenty years (1617-37). This account deals with various provinces, inhabitants, manners and customs, language, government, military art, etc. Cordier BS 24. Lust 74. Löwendahl, Sino-Western Relations, 95. Walravens (1987) 17. Streit (1929), 2182.

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Book number: 99798

Catalogue: East Asia

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SIRÉN, OSVALD:

Les peintures chinoises dans les collections américaines. Five volumes. Paris & Bruxelles 1927-28.

. Folio. Pp. (iv), 41; 42-56; (iv), 57-70; (ii), 71-86; (ii), 87-112, (4). Title leaves printed in red and black. With 200 plates, captions in French and English. Loose as issued in five original cardboard portfolios, expertly restored and mounted on grey cloth. Housed in a specially made red cloth box with title label on upper cover. (" Annales du Musée Guimet. Bibliotheque d'Art. Nouvelle série II"). First edition.A complete set of this extensive and beautifully produced collection of reproductions of Chinese paintings selected by Sirén from American collections. Includes Sirén's descriptions and comments of the various paintings. Osvald Sirén (1879-1966), a renowned Finnish-Swedish art historian, was one of the early Western scholars and collectors of Chinese Art. He made four major travels to East Asia between 1918 and 1935.

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Book number: 100681

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, chinese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, art, illustrations, exploration,

SMITH, ARTHUR HENDERSON:

Chinese Characteristics. Enlarged and Revised Edition with Marginal and New Illustrations. London & Edinburgh, Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, no date (1905 ?).

. Pp. 342. With frontispiece, 18 fullpage plates and many illustrations throughout the text. Publisher's pictorial cloth, top of spine chipped with small loss. First edition was published at Shanghai in 1890 by Smith, an American missionary who lived for 54 years in China. This work became extremely popular among missionaries and other Westerners. Cf Cordier 1840 (fifth revised edition 1905).

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Book number: 99631

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china. chinese, kina, chine, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration,

SMITHERS, LEONARD C. (Ed.):

The Transmigrations of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam (Chinese Tales). London, H.S. Nichols, 3 Soho Square W, 1894.

. Pp. (viii), 252, adv. (20). Publisher's cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Occasionally some very light spotting but overall a very fine copy. An English edition of "Les avantures merveilleuses du Mandarin Fum-Hoam" by Thomas Guellete (Paris 1723). Limited edition of 680 copies. Comprises fairy tales from various countries in the east, most likely inspired by the Arabian nights.

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Book number: 100736

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, china, chine, chinese, kina, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, oriental, tales, exploration, travels, persia, persian, india, indian,

SPITZEL, GOTTLIEB (SPIZEL, THEOPHIL):

De re literaria sinensium commentarius. Lugd. Bat., Ex officina Petri Hackii, 1660.

. 12mo. Pp. xxiv, 306, (20). With engraved extra title (dated 1661), two engraved plates and one more plate, all included in the pagination. Small tear to title expertly repaired on verso. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, lightly rubbed. Copy of Olov Bertil Andersson, Swedish sinologist. First edition. "Baroque dream of a China involved with the ancient Middle East, Classical antiquity, etc." (Lust). Cordier BS 1412. Lust 77 (no plates). Löwendahl 123. Walravens (1987) 163.

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Book number: 99519

Catalogue: East Asia

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STRINDBERG, AUGUST:

Kinesiska språkets härkomst. Two parts in one volume. (Bilaga till Kina och Japan). Stockholm, Björck & Börjeson, 1912.

. 4to. Lvs 20 (last 2 blank); lvs 15 (last blank). Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, top of spine slightly chipped. Original wrappers bound in. A treatise about the origin of the Chinese signs and their relation with the Phoenician, Syriac and Arabic characters. The original manuscript is here reproduced, in a limited edition of 200 copies only, of which this is no. 198. Appendix to "Kina and Japan" published in 1911. Cordier BS 3268 & 3928.

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Book number: 99590

Catalogue: East Asia

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SUPERCARGO, J. R.:

Diary of a Journey Overland, through the Maritime Provinces of China, from Manchao, on the South Coast of Hainan, to Canton, in the Years 1819 and 1820. London, Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1822.

. Pp. (iv), 116. Modern half calf, spine faded. Some minor staining to parts. An anonymous account by the Supercargo of the English ship "Friendship" which was shipwrecked on the island Hainan on China's southeastern coast. The crew continued by foot along the shores of Canton. Includes interesting articles about the criminal laws in China, government papers on the banning of Opium and Milne's sketch on Chinese printing. (Part of Phillip's New Voyages and Travels, London 1820-3). Cf Cordier BS 308.

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Book number: 120368

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, kina, chinese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration,