BONACOSSI, ALEXANDRE COMTE:

La Chine et les chinois. Paris 1847.

. Pp. xvi, 376. With engraved frontispiece and ond folding map. Uncut copy in original printed wrappers, spine chipped. Binding starting to loosen. Foxing mainly in the beginning and end. First edition. Informative work on China dealing with the history, geography, religions, government, agriculture, commerce, industry, etc. One chapter treats the Jesuit mission in China. Cordier BS 84.

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BOTVED, A.P.:

Köbenhavn - Tokio - Köpenhavn. Copenhagen, Gyldendals Forlagstrykkeri, 1926.

. Large 8vo. 157, (3). With many illustrations from photographs in the text. Contemporary or slightly later half calf, spine lettered in gilt. A travel account by Botved, a Danish military pilot, of his adventurous flight in a Fokker C.V. from Copenhagen to Tokyo and back. The journey took 10 weeks and went via Bagdad, Karachi, Calcutta, Rangoon, Bangkok, Hanoi, Canton, Peking, Osaka to Tokyo and the return via Irkutsk, Ornsk and Moscow.

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Book number: 99450

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BOUCHER, HENRI (Translator):

[Chinese title]. Koan-hoa Tche-nan. Boussole du langage mandarin traduit and annotée par H. Boucher, S.J. missionnaire au Kiang-nan. Two volumes in one. Zi-ka-wei, Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique à l'Orphelinat de T'ou-sè-wè, 1887.

. Pp. viii, 247; iv, 234. Titles printed in red and black. With text in Chinese and French. Contemporary boards, later cloth spine, rubbed. Stamp of "Missions de Scheut-Jambes". Partly with some light staining. First edition. This work was originally published for Japanese people living in Peking wishing to learn Chinese. Comprises a chapter devoted to business conversation between manadarins and merchants. Cordier BS 1696.

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Book number: 23098

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BRAAM HOUCKGEEST, ANDREAS EVERARDUS VAN:

An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, of the Court of the Emperor of China, in the Years 1794 and 1795; (subsequent to that of the Earl of Macartney). ... Two volumes. London, Printed for R. Phillips, 1798.

. Pp. lii, 288; (ii), 324. With one folding engraved map (foxed, two small tears, one restored at rear). Without the advertising lvs. Contemporary tree calf, flat spines ruled in gilt and with red title labels, marbled edges, lightly rubbed. Old ownership signature on titles. Some minor browning in parts and/or spotting but overall a very pleasant copy.Scarce first English edition translated from the second French edition by M.L. Moreau de Saint-Méry. The original manuscript was written in Dutch, translated into French and first published in Philadelphia in 1797-8. Braam Houckgeest was a Dutch-American merchant who had served as a supercargo for the Dutch East India Company in Canton and Macao. He accompanied the embassy to China in 1794-5 together with Isaac Titsingh and Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes. Of the three accounts dealing with the embassy, Braam Houckgeest's work is considered the most extensive and also the most interesting. (Löwendahl). His account contains a detailed and accurate description of several parts of China not previously visited by Europeans. Cordier BS 2351. See Löwendahl 700.

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BRAND, ADAM:

Relation du voyage de Mr. Evert Isbrand envoyé de sa majesté czarienne a l'empereur de la Chine, en 1692,93 & 94. Avec une lettre de Monsieur ..., sur l'etat présent de la Moscovie. Amsterdam, Chez Jean-Louis de Lorme, 1699.

. Small 8vo. Pp. (ii), 249, (1). With engraved frontispiece and one large folding engraved map. Contemporary calf, spine with five raised bands, rubbed and hinges weak, marbled edges, spine expertly restored.First French edition (orig. in German 1698). A journal of the Russian embassy headed by Everard Isbrand Ides which went over land from Moscow to Peking, written by the secretary of the embassy, Adam Brand. The aim of the expedition was to conclude commercial agreements with the Chinese but, in fact, this was not incorporated. Includes a table "des chiffres de la carte" (pp. 183-92) with numbers of cities and other places passed along the route, indicated on the map. The map only to be found in this edition. At end there is an anonymous letter about the present state of Moscow included. Chadenat 5335. Cordier BS 2469. Lust 506. Löwendahl 230. Walravens, China Illustrata 70.

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BREDON, JULIET:

Hundred Altars. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1934.

. Pp. 318 + adv. pp. 64. Publisher's orange cloth, stamped in black. First edition (simultaneously published in New York) of Breon's first novel called Hundred Altars which is the name of a farming village in Northern China. Juliet Bredon was a British writer who resided in Peking for many years. She wrote several books about China and its people, including a popular guide book of Peking.

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Book number: 100802

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BREDON, JULIET & MOTROPANOW, IGOR:

The Moon Year. A Record of Chinese Customs and Festivals. Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, 1927.

. Pp. xii, 514, xiii-xx. With 20 plates, of which 2 coloured, and one folding chart. Original orange cloth, with some dust staining. Old inscription on front endpaper. A description of Chinese festivals and imperial ceremonies, of which many were discarded or abolished after the Communist take-over. First edition.

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BRELIN, JOHAN:

Beskrifning öfver en äventyrlig resa til och ifrån Ost-Indien, Södra America, och en del af Europa, åren 1755, 56, och 57. Upsala, Tryckt i Kongl. Acad. Tryckeriet, 1758.

. Pp. (xii), 144, (6). Contemporary paper covered boards, later rebacked with calf spine with title lettered in gilt, somewhat rubbed. Old ownership inscription. [M.G. Wallenstråle (1733-1807), Swedish bishop of Gothenburg]. Book label. First edition of an adventurous voyage in the service of the Swedish East India Company to the East Indies and China between the years 1755 and 1757. The expedition sailed via Cadiz and Java arriving in Chinese waters in August 1755. The ship stayed at Canton for a few months before it returned via the Cape, St. Helena, and Ascension Island. Brelin's account vividly describes Canton with its people, housing and customs. Borba de Moraes p. 124. Holmberg pp. 43-44. Löwendahl 492.

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Book number: 99884

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BRETON DE LA MARTINIéRE, JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH:

China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. Edited Principally from the Originals in the Cabinet of the late M. Bertin: With Observations Explanatory, Historical, and Literary. Four volumes in two. London, J.J. Stockdale, 1812.

. Pp. (iv), 128; (ii), 125; (ii), 135; (ii), 160. With 80 coloured engraved plates. (One plate restored in outer margin). Contemporary full calf ruled in gilt, rebacked to style, spine gilt in compartments with red title labels, lightly rubbed. Bookplate. First English edition, translated from the original French (Paris 1811-12). This work "originated in the activities of Bertin, secretary of State, 1762-80, who had responsibility for the Compagnie converts to take science courses in France. On return to China, they produced some 400 drawings of arts and crafts, thus moving outside the usual narrow missionary interests" (Lust). The charming plates mainly depict various artisans and vendors with their tools and products but some are devoted to costumes of emperors, ladies and soldiers. Abbey Travel 535. Colas 435. Cordier BS 65 (2nd ed.). Lust 1243.

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BRETON DE LA MARTINIéRE, JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH:

La Chine en miniature ou choix de costumes, arts et métiers de cet empire. Four volumes. + Coup-d'oeil sur la Chine, ou nouveau choix de costumes, arts et métiers de cet empire. Two volumes. Paris, Nepveu, 1811-12.

. 16mo. Pp. xxxvi, 144; (iv),5-172; 188, (iv), 220 + pp. (iv), xxxiv, 236; (iv), 234. With 108 engraved plates, of which 101 are beautifully hand-coloured and 8 folding. Contemporary red quarter calf on red paper-covered boards, ruled in gilt, spines decorated and lettered in gilt. Partly with some minor browning but overall a very fine set. The first four volumes were originally issued in 1811 and the last two volumes here titled "Coup-d'oeil" were added as a supplement in 1812. A complete set (in six volumes) of Breton's charming work devoted to China and its people, crafts and arts. The illustrations come from two young Chinese students who for a few years studied in France with the support of the French statesman Henri Léonard Bertin. He was then responsible for the East India Company (1762-80) and supported the French Jesuits in China. Upon their return to China, the students produced more than 400 arts and crafts drawings, many of which have been used in this work. The beautiful plates mainly depict various craftsmen and vendors with their tools and products, but several are devoted to the costumes of emperors, ladies, lamas and soldiers. Some of the plates first appeared in Mason's "The costume of China" and "The Punishments of China" (1800-01). Cordier BS 64. Lipperheide 1524. Löwendahl 757.

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BRING, EBBE:

Dissertatio academica de idololatria chinensium ex occasione simulacrorum in museo Stobaeano-Carolino. Londini Gothorum (Lund), C.G. Berling, 1765.

. 4to. Pp. 3-26. Without the engraved plate. Disbound. In Bring's opinion, idolatry is a late development in China. He describes two idols, one in clay, and the other in alabaster, in the Museum Stobaeanum in Lund, Sweden. Löwendahl 535. Cordier 695-6.

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Book number: 120975

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BULLOCK, THOMAS LOWNDES:

Progressive exercises in the Chinese written language. Second edition, revised and enlarged. London, Crosby Lockwood & Son, & Leiden, Brill, 1912.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. 305. Publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt, spine faded, slightly rubbed and with a few stains. First edition was published in 1902. This edition is considerable rewritten. Bullock was professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford. Cf Cordier BS 1708.

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Book number: 28029

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CALLERI (CALLERY), GIUSEPPE GAETANO MASSIMO PIETRO MARIA:

[...] Systema phoneticum scripturae sinicae. "Ordines phonetico-alphabetici quibus sinensium litterae circumscribuntur" Volume II (of 2). Macao 1841.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. (ii), 500, (1) errata. Includes several slip cancels. With one double page table: "Tabula synoptica phoneticarum omnium". Uncut copy, as issued, in original yellow printed wrappers. Title page restored at inner margin (no loss). Volume two only, but comprising the complete dictionary: "Ordines phonetico-alphabetici quibus sinensium litterae circumscribuntur" with 12 753 characters arranged under phonetics instead of under their radicals. Text in Chinese, Latin and French. First edition, rare.Calleri (1810 - 76) arrived at Macao in 1836 where he resided for some years and studied natural sciences and Chinese under the renowned sinologist Joachim Alfonso Gonçalves. Calleri set up his own printing press, bought a small set of types, and with the help of six natives he was able to produce this important work. The first volume (not present here) comprises a guide to writing Chinese characters. Cordier BS 1597-98. Löwendahl 960. Lust 1009. Zenker ii, 6655.

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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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CARTWRIGHT, CHARLES:

An Abstract of the Orders and Regulations of the Honourable Court of Directors of the East-India Company, and of other documents relating to the Pains and Penalties the Commanders and Officers of Ships in the Company's service are liable to, for breach of orders, illicit trade, &c. + An Appendix, ... and a list of the duties payable to the King on all goods imported from the East-Indies and China. No place (London 1788).

. Pp. (viii), lxxx, appendix 56. Occasional minor spotting, one small marginal wormhole repaired. Modern green morocco, ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt. First edition.A manual for East India Company officers, mainly focused on their private trade compiled by Cartwright, the Deputy Accountant-General. The extent of the Abstract suggests a remarkable range of illicit commerce. The attached list of duties to be paid on imported goods from the East Indies and China includes arrack, coffee, elephants' teeth, various fabrics, dragon's blood, tea, rum, etc. Officers are reminded not to land goods on Sark, Jersey, or Ireland. An order prohibiting dockers from entering ships' holds suggests a recognised route for smuggled cargo. The numerous notes regulating bullion and bills of exchange indicate yet another area of illegitimate activity. Commanders are reminded that passengers, unless authorised by appropriate Company officials, or members of the ships' company, are prohibited, with details of charges depending on nationality. Scarce.

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Book number: 120662

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