WELLS WILLIAMS, SAMUEL:

The Middle Kingdom. A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants. Two volumes. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907.

. Pp. xxvi, 836; xii, 775. With large folding map in pocket at rear, two folding frontispieces (one in colour), 15 full page plates and more illustrations in the text.Publisher's blue cloth, printed in gilt, extremities slightly rubbed. Occasionally some insignificant staining. Revised edition with a new map of the empire. A classic work on China first published in 1848. For many years it was the most reliable source on all aspects of China including information about Chinese life, history, law, education, science, literature, industry, etc. Samuel Wells Williams (1812-84), a celebrated Sinologist came first to China in 1833 to take charge of the printing press at the American Board of Commisioners for Foreign Missions at Guangdong. In 1860 he was appointed chargé d'affaires for the US in Beijing. Later on he became the first professor of Chinese in the US at the Yale University. Cf Cordier BS 85.

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Book number: 99447

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WERNER, REINHOLD VON:

Die preussische Expedition nach China, Japan und Siam in den Jahren 1860, 1861 und 1862. Leipzig 1873.

. Pp. xxii, 551. With one folding map and 7 full page woodcut plates. A few leaves with some stain. Contemporary half calf, spine with title printed in gilt, rubbed, upper part of lower hinge chipped. Second edition (first 1863). Reinhold von Werner (1825-1909) was a German Vice Admiral who commanded this expedition to the Far East, visiting Singapore, Hong Kong, Edo, Nagasaki, Shanghai and Siam. His account describes the voyage with much information about the people, customs, architecture, trade, art, music, theatre, laws, concubines etc. along the route. Cordier BS 2521 & BJ 557.

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Book number: 24064

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WESTON, STEPHEN:

A Chinese Poem, Inscribed on Porcelain, in the Thirty-Third Year of the Cycle, A.D. 1776. With a double translation and notes. London, printed by C. Baldwin, 1816.

. Pp. 16 (last leaf black). With three engraved plates with Chinese characters. Engraved vignette on title. Original green wrappers, g.e., rubbed. Stephen Weston was an English antiquarian, clergyman and man of letters. Provenance: Copy of Sir Charles William Rouse Boughton (1747-1821), an administrator in India with the East India Company and later a member of the British House of Commons. Cordier BS 1791. Löwendahl 1700.

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WESTON, STEPHEN:

Fragments of Oriental Literature, with an Outline of a Painting on a curious China Vase. London, printed for the author, by S. Rousseau, 1807.

. Pp. xxviii, one blank, 152, (1). With one double-page engraved plate. Some annotations in pencil. Uncut copy in original boards, rubbed and some stain to upper cover. Presentation inscription from the author to Sir Henry Strachey, British politician. First edition. Comprises various essays on Arabic and Persian literature and languages. The engraved plate illustrate a vase in Weston's collection and is an early example of Chinese ceramic design in Western literature. Cordier BS 1565. Löwendahl 737.

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Book number: 120936

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WIEGER, LÉON (Transl.):

Folk-Lore Chinois Moderne. Sienhsien, Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique, 1909.

. Pp. 422. With parallel text in Chinese and French. With illustrations in the text. Original red silk covered boards, spine lettered in gilt. First published at Paris in 1908. Léon Wieger was a celebrated French Jesuit missionary, medical doctor and sinologist who worked at the Catholic mission in Heijan. Not in Cordier.

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WILLIAMS, CHARLES ALFRED SPEED:

Outlines of Chinese Symbolism, an Alphabetical Compendium of Antique legends and beliefs, as Reflected in the Manners and Customs of the Chinese. Beijing, Customs College Press, 1931.

. 4to. Lvs (iv), xxv, 423 printed on rectos only. With 200 illustrations including woodcuts, lithographs, photogravures, coloured plates and hand-coloured prints. Original blue cloth printed in black, slightly rubbed, spine faded. Scarce first edition, limited to 250 copies, signed by the author.This comprehensive and useful handbook of symbolism in Chinese art and culture has been reprinted many times. It is organised alphabetically and accessible across a variety of fields with thorough explanations of each symbol by the historical origins from which they arose.

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Book number: 120657

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WILLIAMS, CLEMENT:

Through Burmah to Western China. Being Notes of a Journey in 1863 to Establish the Practicability of a Trade-Route Between the Irawaddi and the Yang-tse-kiang. Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood, 1868.

. Pp. xvi, adv. 26. With engraved frontispiece, two folding maps (somewhat foxed), five full page engraved plates and nine illustrations in the text. Publisher's cloth, blindstamped and with gilt vignette on upper cover, spine faded with lettering in gilt. Provenance: Colonel Sir John Conway Lloyd (1878-1954) of Dinas, a political reformer and antiquary.First edition. Williams was an assistant surgeon in the 68th Light Infantry and the first British political agent at Mandalay. He was determined to find a practical overland trade-route between Burma and Western China. The first chapter deals with trade and telegraph routes to Western China from Burma. The second chapter contains his diary of the journey up the Irrawaddy from Mandalay to Bhamo, and the return. He describes people and life at Bhamo, particularly of the Chinese, Shans and Kachins and Burmese officials. The illustrations are made after the author's own drawings and photographs. Cordier BI 177. Patricia M. Herbert "Burma" (volume 32 of World Bibliographical Series) item no. 58.

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Book number: 100622

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MO YAN (GUAN MOYE):

Dafeng (The Gale). Beijing 2015.

. Tall 8vo. Size: 33 x 20,5 cm. Lvs (21) including two blanks, title page, 32 pages of text and 6 woodcut illustrations printed in red colour. Stiched, with leaves folded in the oriental manner. Original blue wrappers, title label on front cover. Housed in a special made cloth folder. First edition, published in a traditional Chinese wood-block printed edition, limited to 274 copies. It is an autobiographical short story by Mo Yan, the celebrated Chinese author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012. The Chinese characters are cut in an unique font used in the work "Caochuang Yunyu" dating from the Southern Song period (1127-79), of which there is only one known example. The font is well proportional, done in an elegant calligraphic style and easy to read. The lovely illustrations are from paper cuts done by the famous paper cutter Deng Hui, and have been transferred to woodblocks by the painter Cui Dezheng.

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Book number: 100918

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YULE, SIR HENRY (Translator and editor) / CORDIER, HENRI:

Cathay and the Way Thither. Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China. New edition, Revised Throughout in the Light of Recent Discoveries by Henri Cordier. Volumes i-iii (of 4). Peking 1942-48.

. Pp. xxiv, 318; xiv, 367; xvi, 270. With some plates and one folding map in pocket of volume two. Original printed wrappers, spines slightly chipped, back cover to volume two loosen. Comprises: 1. Preliminary essay on the intercourse between China and the Western Nations previous to the discovery of the Cape route; 2. Odoric of Pordenone; 3. Missionary friars, Rarshiduddin, Pegolotti, Marignolli. A reprint of an edition issued by the Hakluyt Society in 1915, 1913-16 (as second series no. xxviii). Cf Cordier BS 1951 (Vols. i-ii of the Hakluyt Society ed.).

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Book number: 35179

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YVAN, MELCHIOR:

Kina och kineserne. Iakttagelser öfver kinesernes seder och bruk i religion, lefnadsförhållanden, klädedrägt m.m. Antecknade under sista franska missionen till Kina. Stockholm, J.J. Flodin, 1847.

. Pp. (iv), 64. With 4 plates, of which two partly hand coloured. Uncut copy in modern boards, original printed wrappers withbound. With private stamps. Partly with some foxing. A Swedish abridgement of doctor Yvan's journal written during a French expedition to China in 1842-45. It treats manners and customs, religion, costumes etc. Not in Cordier. Holmberg p.186.

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Book number: 22056

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VON ZIMMERMANN, EBERT AUGUST WILHELM:

Hoeg Asien och China. Stockhlom 1821.

. 12mo. Pp. (iv), 443, (1). With 4 engraved plates (of which 2 folding). Contemporary half calf, gilt and with title-label. Anonymously translated from the German. ("Jorden och dess invånare, X").

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Book number: 15112

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