DABRY DE THIERSANT, CLAUDE-PHILIPERT:

La pisciculture et la pêche en Chine ... Représentant les principaux instruments de pisciculture et engins de pêche employés par les Chinois et quelques nouvelles espèces de poissons recueillies en Chine. Précédé d'une introduction sur la pisciculture par le Dr. J. L. Soubeiran. Paris, Librairie de G. Masson, 1872.

. Folio. Pp. (vi), x, 195, (1). With 51 lithographed plates (complete). Handsome copy with wide margins. Contemporary brown morocco, ruled in gilt, spine richly gilt with five raised bands, marbled endpapers, corners worn. Provenance: Bibliotheca Tiliana with bookplate and small stamps.First edition of this magnificent work which is the first substantial one on the subject. Dabry de Thiersant was French consul in Shanghai and Canton in the 1860s and an avid collector of zoological specimens during this time. His work covers the fishing culture in China including descriptions of fishing gear and different species of fish. Thirty-six of the plates depict fishing nets and other equipment, and the other plates illustrate different types of fish together with detailed descriptions. Dabry de Thiersant found 850 different species of fish in the Far East, of which many were unknown to European naturalists at the time. Some light staining to the plates but a wonderful copy of a scare title. Not in Löwendahl. Cordier BS 1537. Nissen ZB1, 1018.

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Book number: 120557

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, kina, chinese, fish, peche, poisson, exploration, natural history,

DAWSON, MILES MENANDER:

The Ethics of Confucius. The Sayings of the Master and his Disciples upon the Conduct of "The Superior Man". Arranged according to the Plan of Confucius. With a Foreword by Wu Ting Fang. New York, The Knickerbocker Press, 1915.

. Pp. xxii, 323, adv. (4). Errata slip tipped in. With one front portrait. Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. First edition. Miles Menander Dawson (1863-1942) was an American author of poetry and philosophy.

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Book number: 100568

Catalogue: East Asia

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

DÜBEN, GUSTAF VILHELM JOHAN VON:

Resa till Kap, Ostindien och Kina, åren 1844-1846. Stockholm, L.J. Hjerta, 1847.

. Small 8vo. Pp. viii, 159. Contemporary half calf, spine richly gilt, rubbed, top of spine chipped. Copy of Axel De la Gardie with his filt monogram on spine. This is a narrative of a voyage to South Africa, India and China. The author was a Swedish medical doctor and professor in anatomy and physiology. He was particulary interested in the natural history of the places he visited. The voyage went to the Cape and from there continued to Mocambique, Zanzibar, Aden (Yemen), Muskat, Bombay, Singapore before reaching Macao and (Whampoa) Canton. His interesting description of Canton contains information about crops and vegetation, opium smoking and its trade, foot binding, tea and bamboo, medical practices, pirates, etc. Cordier BS 2505. Not in Mendelssohn.

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Book number: 99965

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asie, asiatica, orient, east, asien, far east, china, kina, chinese, travel, exploration,

DUPUIS, JEAN:

[TRADE - TONKIN AND SOUTHERN CHINA]. L'ouverture du fleuve rouge au commerce et les événements du Tong-kin 1872-1873. Journal de voyage et d'Expédition. Prèface par le Mis de Croisier. Paris, Challamel Ainé, 1879.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), xiii, 324, (2). With one portrait and one large folding map ("routes commerciale du sud-quest de la Chine"). Marbled paper covered boards, calf spine lettered in gilt. Original wrappers bound in. Occasionally some staining. First edition. Jean Dupuis (1828-1912) was a French merchant who was very active seeking a trading route between Yunnan and the delta of Tonkin via the Red River. His account explains the difficulties with customs and the controversies and fights with the Black Flag Army who helped the Vietnamese government to defeat the French. In 1881 Dupuis was awarded the Delalande Guérineau prize by the Academy of Sciences in Paris. ("Mémoires de la Société Académique Indo-Chinoise de Paris. Tome deuxième"). Cordier BI 2518-9.

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Book number: 100255

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, tonkin, vietnam, vietnamese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, commerce, trade, china, chine, chinese, kina,

EHLERS, OTTO E.:

Im Sattel durch Indo-China. Fourth edition. Two volumes. Berlin 1896.

. Pp. (vi), 332 + 8 adv. (Pp 305-320 repeated) + (iv), 301, 7 adv. With 19 full page illustrations (mainly from photographs) and more illustrations in the text. Publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt. Old signature in ink on titles, one partly erased. A very nice copy in an attractive cloth binding. Deals with the German traveller Ehler's journey in the Far East visiting Burma, Siam, Tonking, Annam, Cochinchina, Singapore and the Sultanate of Johore. Cf Cordier BI 426 (1894 ed.).

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Book number: 15018

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, siam, tonkin, cochinchina, indo-chine, vietnam, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, travels, voyage, exploration

EITEL, ERNEST JOHN:

Hand-Book for the Student of Chinese Buddhism. Hongkong & Shanghai: Lane, Crawford & Co., 1870.

. Pp. (x), 218, (2), (3) errata. Rebound with decorated boards, calf spine with five raised bands and title label. First edition. Comprises a Sanskrit-Chinese dictionary listing proper names, dogmas and general Buddhist terms, arranged alphabetically in Sanskrit followed by the Chinese equivalent and the English translation. The second part contains several indexes listed in seven different languages; Chinese, Pali, Sinhalese, Tibetan, Mongolian, Burmese and Siamese. Ernst John Eitel, a German-born missionary, resided and worked in Hong Kong and Canton between 1862 and 1896. According to the author this is the first book of its kind. Cordier BS 746. Morrison I, p. 253.

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Book number: 100047

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chinese, kina, chine, language, langue, linguistic, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, buddhism, religion, sanskrit

[SERRANO, FRANCISCO] & etc.:

Relazione del martirio de' Padri F. Pietro Martire Sans Vescovo Mauricastrense, F. Francesco Serrano eletto Vescovo Tipasitano, F. Giovanni Alcober, F. Giovachino Royo, e F. Francesco Diaz. ... Accaduto nella Provincia di Fokien nell' impero della Cina negli anni 1747. e 1748. Roma, Girolamo Mainardi, 1752.

. Pp. 483. Contemporary vellum, worn and stained, partly restored. Marbled edges. First few leaves with light water staining. An account of missionary activities and persecution of five Spanish martyrs and some Chinese Christians in Fujian province of China. Pedro Sanz came to China in 1715 and served as a missionary for 31 years. In 1730 he was appointed vicar apostolic of Fukien and titular bishop of Mauricasto. Together with the other four Spanish Dominicians; Francesco Serrano, Joaquin Royo, Juan Alcober and Francisco Diaz he was imprisoned in 1746. Sanz was executed in 1747 and the others in 1748. This is an enlarged version of a work titled: "La christiandad de Fogan en la provincia de Fo kien en el Imperio de China cruelmente perseguida ... " published in Manila 1748. Cordier BS 1210. Löwendahl 462. Palau 260616 (claims Serrano as author).

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Book number: 41014

Catalogue: East Asia

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

FALKE, OTTO VON:

Kunstgeschichte der Seidenweberei. Berlin 1921.

. 4to. Pp. viii, 50 and 116 heliogravure plates with 484 photographs and 10 coloured plates, and 37 photos and reproductions in the text. Publisher's printed linen cloth, lightly worn, front inner hinge weak. Second edition of this classic history of silk weaving from around the world. It covers medieval silks from the Mediterranean region, Asia (Mesopotamia, Persian, Coptic, Byzantium, etc) and Europe, and it's development up to the 18th century. Yuan 2200.

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Book number: 100702

Catalogue: Textile

Keywords: Textile, china, chinese, coptic, islam, arabic, ottoman, textile, textiles, silk

FOSTER, AMY (Mrs Arnold):

Easy Introduction to the ... Study of Chinese Characters. [? Shanghai 1910].

. 16mo. Size: 13.8 x 10.8 cm. Pp. iv, 16. Printed in Roman and Chinese characters. Original stapled grey wrappers, upper cover printed in black, somewhat stained, chipped along edges, and some corrosion around the staples. A little beginner's guide containing about 400 different Chinese characters. Amy Foster was an English missionary serving in Hankow. Rare, not in Cordier.

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Book number: 120307

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chinese, kina, chine, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, language, langue, linguistic, exploration, missionary,

FOUCAUX, PHILPPE-ÉDOUARD:

Grammaire de la langue tibétaine. Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1858.

. Pp. xxxii, 231. Modern half calf, original wrappers with bound. Wrappers glued together with first and last leaves at inner margin. (Half title and last text leaf). One small hole in margin of last leaf. Some light staining throughout. Provenance: Staffan Rosén, professor of Korean at Upsala (Bookplate). Previously owned by Olov Bertil Andersson, Swedish sinologist, with his signature.First edition of the first Tibetan grammar in French. Foucaux (1811-1894) was a leading authority on Tibetan language and culture in Paris. He published a large number of Tibetan and Sanskrit works. Cordier BS 2933. Not in Vater or Zaunmüller.

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Book number: 121367

Catalogue: Central Asia & India

Keywords: Central Asia & India, tibet, tibetan, language, langue, lingustic, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, east asia, china

FRANKE, OTTO:

Kêng Tschi T'u ... Ackerbau und Seidengewinnung in China. Ein Kaiserliches Lehr- und Mahn - Buch. Aus dem chinesischen übersetzt und mit Erklärungen versehen. Hamburg, L. Friederichsen & Co., 1913.

. Folio. Pp. viii, 194, (ii). With 102 plates and many illustrations in the text. Comprises three plates with Chinese porcelain, eight plates with facsimile text in Chinese and 91 plates representing rice and silk cultivation, pasted in and with captions in German. Original cloth, rubbed and rebacked with old spine preserved. Red Asian stamps. First edition. A scarce, comprehensive work on the Gengzhitu (Drawings of tilling and weaving). It was originally compiled by Lou Shou in the Song period (1090-1162). Agriculture and silk production held a special place in China and both occupations were regarded as paramount for the well-being of the state. During the Qing period the Kangxi emperor sponsored a revised version of the Gengzhitu edited by Jiao Bingzhen (1696). In this work Franke provides a complete German translation of the Kangxi edition along with his comments. Contains a long introduction that deals with rice and silk production illustrated in Chinese art and literature. ("Abhandlungen des Hamburgischen Kolonialinstitut (XI:8)". Not in Cordier.

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Book number: 37018

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, chine, chinese, kina, chine, silk, silk production, agriculture, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration

FREY, HELEN D.:

Annamites et extrême-occidentaux. Recherches sur l'origine des langues. Paris, Librairie Hachette et cie., 1894.

. Pp. (iv), 272. With double page hand coloured frontispiece and 7 plates, of which one double page, 2 coloured lithographs and many illustrations in the text, of which 5 double page and 29 full page. Our copy has one illustration "Ménagères Tonkinoises a la rivière" that is not mentioned in the list of ills. Blue paper covered boards, red calf spine with title label, somewhat worn. Some browning to the text due to the paper quality. First edition of an interesting work about the Ammanese, their language and culture. The nice illustrations are by "deux Tonkinois". Cordier BI 284.

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Book number: 20087

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, asia, asiatica, asien, asie, orient, east, indochina, indochine, indo-china, indo-chine, annam, vietnam, tonkin, language, culture, cambodia

VON DER GABELENTZ, GEORG:

Chinesische Grammatik mit Ausschluss des niederen Stiles und der heutigen Umgangssprache. Leipzig, T.O. Weigel, 1881.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. xxx, 552 including titles in Chinese and German. With 3 plates. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Contains: 1. Einleitung u. Allgemeiner Theil; 2. Analytisches System and ; 3. Synthetisches System. First edition of the best and most complete grammar of Classical Chinese. Besides the analysis of the parts of speech it also gives explanations on their syntactic function (subject, predicate, object, etc) and the structural principles of the language (inversions, modalities). Cordier BS 1679.Added to this copy: "Zur Grammatischen Beurteilung des Chinesischen" by G. von der Gabelentz. (erschienen in Techmers Internationalen Zetschrift für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Band I, Leipzig, 1884, Johann Ambrosius Barth). Comprises 9 pages of typed text.

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Book number: 32084

Catalogue: East Asia

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

GAUBIL, ANTOINE / DE GUIGNES, JOSEPH (Translators):

Le Chou-King, un des livres sacrés des chinois. Qui renferme les fondements de leur ancienne histoire, les principes de leur gouvernement & de leur morale; ouvrage recueilli par Confucius. Traduit & enrichi de notes, par Feu le P. Gaubil, missionaire à la Chine. Revu & corrigé sur le texte chinois, accompagné de nouvelles notes, de planches gravées en taille-douce & additions tirées des historiens originaux, dans lesquelles on donne l'histoire des princes omis dans le Chou-king. Paris, N.M. Tilliard, 1770.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), cxliv, 474, (2). With 4 engraved plates (redrawn from those presented in the Chinese editions of the Book of Documents as de Guignes found them in the Royal Library). A fine uncut, unopened and crisp copy in contemporary boards, spine worn. This is the first published translation of the Book of Documents (Shu-ching), and also the first of the Five Classics on Confucianism to be translated into an European language. The basis for the translation was a manuscript which had been sent from Peking by Antoine Gaubil. However de Guignes corrected the translation based on the Chinese original which was found in the Royal Library. He also filled in missing pages and added notes. Contains a "Discours préliminaire" including a treatise on the early history of the Chinese written by J.H. Prémare and here amended and commented by de Guignes. Includes also: "Notice du livre chinois nommé Y-king, ou livre canonique des changemens, avec des notes" by Claude Visdelou (pp. 399 - 436). Cordier, BS 1376-1377. Lust 727. Walravens, China illustrata 136.

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Book number: 20023

Catalogue: East Asia

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GAUBIL, ANTOINE / DE GUIGNES, JOSEPH (Translators):

Le Chou-King, un des livres sacrés des chinois. Qui renferme les fondements de leur ancienne histoire, les principes de leur gouvernement & de leur morale; ouvrage recueilli par Confucius. Traduit & enrichi de notes, par Feu le P. Gaubil, missionaire à la Chine. Revu & corrigé sur le texte chinois, accompagné de nouvelles notes, de planches gravées en taille-douce & additions tirées des historiens originaux, dans lesquelles on donne l'histoire des princes omis dans le Chou-king. Paris, N.M. Tilliard, 1770.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), cxliv, 474, (2). With 4 engraved plates (redrawn from those presented in the Chinese editions of the Book of Documents as De Guignes found them in the Royal Library). Small piece of paper pasted to half title, to cover library stamp. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine preserved, spine with five raised bands decorated in gilt and with title label, hinges cracked, marbled end papers, r.e. This is the first published translation of the Book of Documents (Shu-ching), and also the first of the Five Classics on Confucianism to be translated into an European language. The basis for the translation was a manuscript which had been sent from Peking by Antoine Gaubil. However De Guignes corrected the translation based on the Chinese original which was found in the Royal Library. He also filled in missing pages and extended it with his own notes. Contains a "Discours préliminaire" including a treatise on the early history of the Chinese written by J.H. Prémare and here amended and commented by De Guignes. Includes also: "Notice du livre chinois nommé Y-king, ou livre canonique des changemens, avec des notes" by Claude Visdelou (pp. 399 - 436). Cordier BS 1376-77. Lust 727. Walravens, China illustrata, 136.

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Book number: 777059

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, kina, chinese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, history, confucius, confucianism,