ORLÉANS, PIERRE JOSEPH D':

Histoire des deux conquérans tartares qui ont subjugué la Chine. Paris, Claude Barbin, 1688.

. Pp. xxx, 320 + 37. (Half title not present). Contemporary calf, spine with five raised bands, richly gilt and red title label, rubbed. Bookplate. First edition, first issue. A second issue appeared in 1689. An historical account of the Manchu conquest based on the works of Martini and Schall, including the Flemish Jesuit Verbiest's two journeys together with the emperor K'ang-hsi'; one to Manchuria in 1682 and one to Mongolia in 1683. Cordier BS 629. Löwendahl 190. Streit (1929) 2596.

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OSBECK, PEHR:

Dagbok öfwer en ostindisk resa åren 1750, 1751, 1752. Med anmärkningar uti naturkunnigheten, främmande folkslags språk, seder, hushållning, m.m. AND: TORÉN, OLOF: En ostindisk resa til Suratte, China &c. Från 1750 April 1. til 1752 Jun. 26. Stockholm, Lor. Ludv. Grefing, 1757.

. Pp. (viii), 376, (16). With twelve engraved botanical plates (one of a fish). Contemporary half calf, worn. Hinges weak and partly split, spine ends worn. Partly with some browning. First edition. Comprises reports by two Swedish naturalists and disciples of Carl von Linné about their voyages to China between 1750 and 1752.Pehr Osbeck served as a chaplain on a Swedish East India voyage to Canton where he spent about four months in 1751. The expedition sailed by way of Spain, the Canary Islands, the Cape of Good Hope and Java. Osbeck's account includes detailed and accurate information about plants, fish, insects, birds and other animals along the route. A large collection of newly discovered plants in China and Java was brought back and given to Linné. Osbeck's diary also includes accurate and interesting details about the people in China and their manners, language, food, religion, agriculture, commerce, etc.The second work comprises TorénÕs narrative of an East India voyage via Surat to China which was published posthumously by Linné. Torén writes about his visit to Madagascar with descriptions of the people and different kinds of fruits, trees, plants, lemurs, etc. Many pages are devoted to the stay in Surat, the important Indian seaport at this time. Including valuable descriptions of the inhabitants, housing, customs, religion, language, clothing and also much about trade and merchandise. The voyage continues to Malacca before reaching Macao and Canton. Torén vividly describes life and trade at the factories at Guangzhou (Canton) which then was the centre of Chinese trade for the outside world. Ekeberg's separately printed account of an East India voyage to China, sometimes with bound, is not present here.Cordier BS 2097. Löwendahl 491. Pritzel 6865. Schildt, Linnés lärjungar, pp. 99-144. Soulsby 3599.

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OSBECK, PEHR / TORÉEN, OLOF / EKEBERG, CARL GUSTAV:

A Voyage to China and the East Indies by Pehr Osbeck. Together with a voyage to Suratte by Olof Toreen. And an Account of the Chinese husbandry by Captain Charles Gustavus Eckeberg, translated from the German, by John Reinhold Forster. To which are added, a faunula and flora sinenses. Two volumes. London, printed for B. White, 1771.

. Pp. xx, 396; (ii), 367, (1) + index (32). With 13 engraved plates of which 11 of plants. Contemporary full calf, spines gilt with red title labels (one with loss), rubbed and hinges cracked, hinges restored. Old ownership signature, traces of bookplates on front pastedown. Partly with some minor staining. First English edition of Osbeck's and Torén's travels, originally published in Swedish in 1757. Additionally included an account by Carl Gustav Ekeberg who made several voyages in the service of the Swedish East India Company between the years 1742 and 1778. Ekeberg's account covers a voyage to China in 1770-71 on the ship Finland and includes interesting descriptions of Canton, Whampoa, Hainan and Sumatra. Cordier BS 2098. Lust 350. Löwendahl 491 & 569. Soulsby 3601.

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Book number: 120633

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PAQUIER, JEAN BAPTISTE:

PAQUIER, JEAN BAPTISTE: Le Pamir. Étude de géographie physique et historique sur l'Asie Centrale. Paris 1876.

. Pp. viii, 218, (1) errata. With five folding maps. As issued in original printed wrappers, faded, frayed along edges. Some minor staining throughout. First edition of this historical account of Central Asia from the explorations of the first Buddhist pilgrims and Marco Polo until the time of the conquest. The maps depict: 1. the ancient Pamir; 2. the travels of Hiuen-Tsang and Marco Polo from the 8th to 13th century; 3. the travels of Benedict de Goes 1603, John Wood 1838 and the Mirza 1868-69; 4. the British and Russian discoveries between 1860-75 and; 5. and again up to 1878.

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Book number: 100526

Catalogue: Central Asia

Keywords: Central Asia, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, afghanistan, kirgistan, pakistan, china, chine, pakistane, tagikistan, tajikistan, persian, russia, travel, exploration, pamir,

PAUL, WILLIAM CHRISTIAN:

Old Chinese Embroideries. A brief explanation of their symbolism. New York, Kwong Yuen & Co., (1929).

. Small 8vo. Pp. 15. With illustrations in the text. Original red and yellow decorated wrappers. A charming leaflet about various symbols in Chinese embroidery.

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PAUTHIER, G. & BAZIN:

Chine Moderne ou Description Historique, Geographique et Littéraire de ce vaste empire, d'après des documents Chinois. 2 parts in 1 vol. Paris 1853.

. Pp. 675. With 16 engraved plates (a few slightly stained) and one folding engraved plan of Peking (strengthened). Original decorated boards. ( L'Univers x). Cordier BS 87.

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Book number: 13031

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PAUTHIER, JEAN-PIERRE-GUILLAUME:

L'Inscription syro-chinoise de Si-ngan-fou, monument nestorien élevé en Chine l'an 781 de notre ére, et découvert en 1625. Texte chinois accompagné de la prononciation figurée, d'une version latine verbale, d'une traduction française de l'Inscription et de commentaires chinois auxquels elle a donné lieu, ainsi que de notes philologiques et historiques. Paris, librairie de Firmin Didot frères, fils et Ce, 1858.

. Pp. iii-xvi, (ii), 3-96 (series title missing). With one large folding engraved plate "l'inscription syro-chinoise de Si-ngan-fou". Contemporary quarter green morocco on marbled boards, worn, upper hinge cracked. Copy of Li Shaobai (Ly Chao-pée), one of the first Chinese to teach Chinese in France, with his signature on title. The Nestorian stele was erected in A.D. 781 in Xi'anfu and buried in 845 probably during religious suppression. It was rediscovered in 1625 by the Jesuits proving that the Christian religion had already made its entry into China several centuries earlier. The stele with text in both Chinese and Syriac describes the existence of Christian communities in several places in northern China. Cordier BS 776-7. Löwendahl 1796.

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Book number: 120603

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[PRÉMARE, JOSEPH HENRY MARIE DE] / PAUTHIER, JEAN-PIERRE-GUILLAUME:

Lettre inédite du P. Prémare sur le monothéisme des Chinois. Publiée avec la plupart des textes originaux, accompagnés de la transcription d'un mot-à-mot et de notes explicatives. Paris, Benjamin Duprat, 1861.

. Pp. (ii), 55. Unopened copy in original printed wrappers. Title page restored at inner margin with tape. The letter had not previously been published. Colophon: "Versailles, imp. de Beau; extrait des cahiers de février et mai, du tome III (5e série), des Annales de philosophie chrétienne". Cordier BS 919. Löwendahl 1808.

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PIRY, A. THÉOPHILE:

Paraphrase du Saint Edit dans le dialecte de Péking par Théophile Piry. No place 1882.

. Small folio. Lvs (60). Contemporary quarter calf, red title label lettered in gilt on upper cover, worn. Front end papers loose. A paraphrase of the "Sacred Edict" (Sheng-yü kuang-hsün), a set of moral and governmental instructions executed in the 17th century. It comprises 16 moral maxims which can be regarded as the basic laws of China during the Ch'ing dynasty. Originally written by the Kang-hsi emperor (1662-1722) and later on extended by his son and successor the Yung-cheng emperor (1723-1735). Théophile Piry (1880-1915) arrived in China in 1870 and is mainly known for having introduced the modern postal service in China in 1911. Not in Cordier.

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Book number: 100327

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PIRY, A. THÉOPHILE:

Le Saint Edit. étude de littérature chinoise préparée par A. Théophile Piry, du Service des Douanes Maritimes de Chine. Shanghai, Bureau des Statistiques, Inspectorat Général des Douanes, 1879.

. 4to. Pp. xx, 317, (3) + one folding table "Caracteres du Saint Edit" (loose). Publisher's blue full calico on boards, blindstamped decorated frames, gilt-stamped title in Chinese characters on upper cover. A French edition of the revised version of the "Sacred Edict" (Sheng-yü kuang-hsün), a popular text book for the improvement of manners in China. It contains 16 moral maxims which can be regarded as the basic laws of China during the Ch'ing dynasty. Originally written by the Kang-hsi emperor and later on extended by his successor the Yung-cheng emperor. Cordier BS 1427.

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Book number: 25063

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DU PONCEAU, PETER STEPHEN & MORRONE, JOSEPH & DE LA PALUN:

A Dissertation on the Nature and Character of the Chinese System of Writing, in a Letter to John Vaughan, esq ... To which are Subjoined, a Vocabulary of the Cochinchinese Language by Father Joseph Morrone, R.C. Missionary at Saigon, ... And a Cochinchinese and Latin Dictionary, in Use Among the R.C. Missions in Cochinchina. Philadelphia, for the American Philosophical Society, 1838.

. Pp. (ii), xxxii, 375, (1). With 10 lithographed plates of Chinese characters. Original cloth backed boards, printed paper label on spine, small notch to upper cover. First edition. ("Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Phil. Society. Vol. ii. "). Cordier BS 1739-40 & BI 2281-82. Löwendahl 926. Lust 982. Vater p.18.

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Book number: 23024

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PRÉMARE, JOSEPH HENRY MARIE DE:

Notitia linguae sinicae. Hongkong, La Société des Missions Étrangères, 1894.

. Pp. 255. Original printed wrappers with some minor staining and chipped along edges. Paper crease in the beginning of the book. De Prémare was a Jesuit missionary who served in Guangxi in the beginning of the 18th century. In 1724 when the Emperor virtually banned Christianity over the Chinese Rites controversy, Prémare had to leave for Guangzhou and later went to Macau where he died in 1739. He became one of the most significant sinologists of his time and his principal work "Notitia linguae sinicae" is considered the most important Chinese grammar in a European language of the time. It explains the rules and usage of the vulgar Chinese language (siao shue) and the style of the written, literary language (wen tschang). The renowned English sinologist James Legge calls it "an invaluable work, which it could hardly be possible to speak in too high terms". (See Catholic Encyclopedia). It was not published until 100 years later in Malacca in 1831. The Ms was sent to Stephanus Fourmont who himself published a grammar, apparently deliberately delaying the publication of Prémare's work. This is a later, also rare edition. Cordier BS 1669. Cf Vater p. 68.

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Book number: 120474

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RETZIUS, GUSTAF (Transl.) & WELCKER, HERMAN:

Om den konstgorda missbildningen af de kinesiska qvinnornas fötter. (About the artificial deformity of Chinese women's feet). Stockholm 1872.

. Pp. 4. With two illustrations. Uncut, unbound. Retzius' translation of Welcker's work on the deformity of Chinese women's feet published in Archiv für Anthropologie., Band IV, 1870). Offprint from Hygiea, a Swedish medical journal.

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RICCI, MATTEO / TRIGAULT, NICOLAS (Ed.):

Histoire de l'expedition chrestienne au royaume de la Chine entreprinse par les peres de la Compagnie de Iesus, comprinse en cinq livres, esquels est traicté fort exactement et fidelement des moeurs, loix, & coustumes du pays, & des commencemens tres-difficiles de l'Eglise naissante en ce Royaume. Lille, de l'imprimerie de Pierre de Rache, 1617.

. Small 4to. Pp. (xxiv), 423, 428-559, (5) table. Text complete. With title printed in red and black. Narrow margins. Rebound with old paper boards, new calf spine with five raised bands, decorated and lettered in gilt. Text partly browned due to the paper quality. Second French edition, translated by David Florice de Riquebourg-Trigault, nephew of Nicolas and physician to the count of Nassau. First published in Latin titled "De Christiana expeditione apud sinas suspecta ab Societate Jesu", Augsburg 1615. This important work on China is based on the journal kept by the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci during the time he served in the country (1582-1610). When Ricci arrived in 1582 in Macau, China was still closed to outsiders, but he learned the language, acquired knowledge about the country, and was able to go beyond cultural barriers which gave him entrance to the interior of country. He discovered that Chinese culture was strongly intertwined with Confucian values and therefore used existing Chinese concepts to explain Christianity. Ricci's manuscript was brought back to Europe by his successor Trigault, who translated it into Latin and also changed many passages of the journal and augmented it with information based on several Portuguese missionary reports. Cordier BS 810. Löwendahl Supplement, 1558.

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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

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