GAUTIER, JUDITH:

The Imperial Dragon. Translated by M.H. Bourchier. Brentano's Publisher (New York), Printed by Ebenezer Baylis & Son, The Trinity Press, Worcester,1928.

. Pp. 319. Publisher's cloth in original pictorial dust jacket, small tear at upper spine of the jacket but otherwise an excellent copy. A novel that is an artistic imagination of ancient China originally published in French in 1869. Judith Gautier was a famous French poet, translator and historical novelist. Her translations were among the earliest to attract attention of modern European poets to Chinese and Japanese poetry. Cf. Vicaire III, 879.

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Book number: 121291

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, kina, chine, chinese, literature,

GILBERT, FRIEDRICH ROBERT:

Das ABC der Chinaschrift. Berlin 1926 AND: GILBERT, FRIEDRICH ROBERT: Die Bilderschrift von China und Japan als internationale Weltschrift und ihre schnelle Erlerung nach der Mebiwegal-Methode. Berlin 1924.

. Pp. 92 with German text and Chinese characters + pp. 48. Original printer wrappers.

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Book number: 99850

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Keywords: East Asia, china, chinese, kina, chine, language, langue, linguistic, asia, asie, asien, asiatick, japan, japanese

GILL, WILLIAM J.:

Från okända trakter. Resa genom Kina med dess alpländer och östra Tibet till Burma. Stockholm, C. Suneson, 1885.

. Pp. 290. With one folding map. Old ownership signature on title-page. Contemporary marbled boards, morocco spine, decorated and lettered in gilt, slightly rubbed, innner front hinge cracked. A rare, Swedish edition of "The river of golden sand; ..." (London 1880) translated by Dr. C.F. Bagge. "This account of a survey of river and land routes undertaken in 1876-77 by Captain Gill ... ends in Bhamo in Upper Burma, the end-point of Chinese overland trade routes. With detailed route maps and itineraries." Burma, World Bibl. Series, 132. Cordier BI 190-91.

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Book number: 17006

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, china, burma, chinese, burmese, kina, travel, voyage, exploration, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, southeast asia

GILL, WILLIAM J.:

Från okända trakter. Resa genom Kina med dess alpländer och östra Tibet till Burma. Stockholm, C. Suneson, 1885.

. Pp. 290. With one folding map. Uncut and unopened copy in original wrappers, printed in red and black, spine ends slightly chipped. A Swedish edition of "The River of Golden Sand; ...", originally published in London 1880. Translated into Swedish by Dr. C.F. Bagge. Contains a survey of river and land routes undertaken in 1876-77 through China and Tibet ending in Upper Burma. Burma, World Bibl. Series, 132. Cordier BI 190-91.

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Book number: 777086

Catalogue: East Asia

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

GINGELL, WILLIAM RAYMON (Transl. & Ed.):

The Ceremonial Usages of the Chinese, B.C. 1121, as Prescribed in the "Institutes of the Chow dynasty strung as pearls"; or, Chow le kwan choo ..., being an abridgement of the Chow le classic by ... Hoo Peih Seang, (Designated ... Mung Chew). London, Smith Elder & Co., 1852.

. 4to. Pp. (vi), iv, 107, index (8). With Chinese characters and illustrations throughout the text. Errata slip inserted. Publisher's yellow blind stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine, lightly soiled. A translation of a classic Chinese work dealing with the ceremonies of the Chow dynasty accompanied by notes by the editor. William Gingell (1816-63) was a British surgeon of the East India Company who after two years' service in India was transferred to Nanking in China where he stayed until his death. Cordier BS 1408. Löwendahl 1778.

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Book number: 120601

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GON‚ALVES, JOAQUIM AFONSO:

... Arte China constante de alphabeto e grammatica comprehendendo modelos das differentes composicoens. Macao, impressa com licença regia no real Collegio de S. Jose, 1829.

. Small 4to. Pp. (ii), 127, (1), 128-503, 46, (2). With parallell text in Chinese and Portugese. Native contemporary half calf, spine rubbed with some loss of calf, expertly restored. Old ownership stamps on title. Some minor flaws; title page has one small loss at inner margin and about fifty pages affected at outer upper right corner by worming but no loss of text. Last two leaves dusty and chipped at edges of which one strengthened at lower margin (no loss). First edition. Father Gonçalves produced several books for Portugese students. "Arte China" provides a thorough and very practical introduction to many aspects of the Chinese language. The appendix is a comparative phonetic study of the pronunciation of Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese. The work was printed at the Collegio de San Jose at Macao by Portugese priests on a press which had been lent to them in 1827 after the "Gazetta de Macao" had closed down. A charming copy of an important work at the time. Cordier BS 1663 & cf BS 1595-96. Lust 1012. Löwendahl 869. J.M. Braga, "The beginnings of Printing at Macao", Studia, 12 (Lisboa 1963) pp. 29-137.

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Book number: 99814

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Keywords: East Asia, china, chines, chinese, kina, language, langue, linguistic, macao, portugese, asia, asie, asiatic, asian, XPU

GRILL ABRAHAMSSON, JOHAN (JEAN) ABRAHAM:

Inträdes-tal, om orsakerna, hvarföre Chinas natural-historia är så litet bekant; hållet för Kongl. Vetenskaps Academien, den 29 september 1773. Stockholm, Lars Salvius, 1773.

. Pp. 14. Uncut and unopened copy with paper spine strip. A talk about the natural history of China (and the reason for its ignorance) given at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1773. Grill (1736-92) was a Swedish merchant and director of the Swedish East India Company. He resided for about seven years in Canton as resident supercargo in the 1760's. In this speech he mentions the natural history collections he brought from China for Carl von Linné. Cordier BS 3258-9. Löwendahl 570.

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Book number: 25037

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, far east, east india, china, kina, chine, grill, natural history,

GRILL ABRAHAMSSON, JEAN ABRAHAM:

Tal, om silfvers årliga förande til China, huruvida det är för Europa nyttigt eller skadeligt. Stockholm, L. Salvius, 1774.

. Pp. 30. Copy without engraved vignette on title. Uncut and unopened copy with paper spine strip. An oration about export of silver to China given at a meeting of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in 1774. Grill (1736-92) was a Swedish merchant and director of the Swedish East India Company. He resided for about seven years in Canton as resident supercargo in the 1760's. Löwendahl 578. 

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Book number: 111115

Catalogue: East Asia

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GROSIER, JEAN BAPTISTE GABRIEL ALEXANDER:

Description générale de la Chine, ou tableau de l'état actuel de cet empire; Contenant, 1. la description topographique des quinze provinces qui le composent, celle de la Tartarie, des Isles, & autres pays tributaires qui en dépendent; le nombre & la situation de ses villes, ... 2. un précis des connoissances le plus récemment parvenues en Europe sur le gouvernement, la religion, les moeurs & les usages, les arts & les sciences des chinois. Paris, chez Moutard, 1785.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), 798. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with five raised bands and red title-label, somewhat rubbed. Marbled endpapers and edges. First edition of this interesting and detailed work on China, based on Jesuit reports. Originally intended as the 13th volume of De Mailla's "Histoire générale de la Chine", translated from the Chinese by De Mailla. The manuscript was kept at Lyon when Grosier got hold of it and decided to publish it. Cordier BS 60. See Walravens, China illustrata, no. 87.

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Book number: 26055

Catalogue: East Asia

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GROTHE, HUGO (Ed.):

Orientalisches Archiv. Illustrierte Zeitschrift für Kunst, Kulturgeschichte und Völkerkunde der Länder des Ostens. Band I: 1910/1911; Band II: 1911/912; Band III: 1912/1913. Three volumes (all publ.). Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1910-13.

. 4to. Three volumes with 110 fullpage plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Original cloth stamped in black. A complete set of this early German journal which contains interesting articles on the Orient. Comprises studies about Islamic art and architecture; oriental carpets; Turkish architecture and Constantinople in the 17th century; Japanese culture including woodcuts; Chinese art including fans, ceramic, glass etc.; Korean works of art; North African architecture; Islamic shadowplays in Egypt; the German Turfan expedition; etc. etc.

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Book number: 99671

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, oriental, levant, near east, middle east, africa, afrika, african, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, exploration, journal, art, turkey, islam, india, china, japan, japon, kina, chinese, persian, persia, korea

GRUBE, WILHELM:

Goldisch-deutsches Wörterverzeichniss mit vergleichender Berücksichtung der übrigen tungusischen Dialekte. St. Petersburg, der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1900.

. Folio. Pp. x, 147. With the author's signature and stamp on title page. Modern half calf on marbled boards. Original printed wrappers with bound. Bookplate (Staffan Rosén, professor of Korean, Stockholm). Rare work devoted to the Nanai language, the southern branch of the Manchu-Tungusic language group. Each entry has reference to different sources, for example works by Klaproth, Castrén, Czekanowski, Maximowicz, Schrenck, etc. Manchu-Tungusic (sometimes Tungus) is an endangered language family comprising about twenty languages spoken in Siberia and northern China. Wilhelm Grube, German sinologist and ethnographer. Zaunmüller p. 276 (Nanajisch). (Included in Leopold von Schrenck's Reisen und Forschungen im Amur-Lande. Anhang II zum III Bande zweite lieferung. Linguistische Ergebnisse. II).

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Book number: 121378

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, tungusic, tungus, goldisch, nanajisch, nanai, amur, manchu-tungus, chinese, china, kina, chine, siberia, russia, language, linguistic, langue, sprachwissenschaft,

GRUBE, WILHELM:

Die Sprachgeschichtliche Stellung des Chinesischen. Leipzig, T.O. Weigel, 1881. TOGETHER WITH: Die Chinesische Philosophie. Leipzig 1909. AND: Die religion der alten Chinesen. (Tübingen 1911)

. Pp. 20. Cordier BS 1680. Included at end: "Beiträge zur Chinesischen Grammatik: Die Sprache des Liet-tsï. Von W. Grube. Sonderabdruck aus den Berichten der Köngl. Sächs. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften. 1889". Pp. 153-184. TOGETHER WITH: Die Chinesische Philosophie. Leipzig 1909. ("Die Kultur der Gegenwart. I."). Pp. 78-98, (1). AND: Die religion der alten Chinesen. (Tübingen 1911) Pp. 69. Bound uniformely in yellow cloth lettered in black.

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Book number: 32140

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, chinese, , asia, east, orient, oriente, asiatica, asie, asien, far east, east asia, china, chine, kina, language, langue, sprachen, linguistics, languages, langue, sprache, linguistique, linguistica, sprachwissenschaft, ferne osten, extreme ori

GUGGENHEIM, MEYER ROBERT (Compiler):

Communication China. Course at the Army War College, 1924-25. (G-2. Supplementary document # 3E to Report of Committee No. 12). Two volumes. Date of Conference, September 29, 1924.

. 4to. Typescript on paper. Pp. (v), 1-294. With 55 maps, plans and diagrams. Contemporary cloth, lettered in gilt, lower spine ends chipped. One of 5 copies (no. 2). Guggenheim's personal copy, with his bookplate. A confidential report on communications in China compiled from information gathered from military intelligence. Divided into thirteen sections mainly devoted to railroads within the country but deals also with roads, waterways, various other ways of transportation, telegraphs, telephones, cables and radio facilities. Meyer Robert Guggenheim (1885-1959) was a Major in the Infantry during WW1. Between 1923 and 1925 he served as Lieutenant Colonel and Assistant Chief of Staff and in 1953 he was appointed US ambassador to Portugal.

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Book number: 120964

Catalogue: East Asia

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HAGER, GIUSEPPE (JOSEPH):

Description des médailles chinoises du Cabinet Impérial de France, précédée d'un essai de numismatique chinoise, avec des éclaircissemens sur le commerce des Grecs avec la Chine, et sur les vases précieux qu'on y trouve encore. Paris, chez Treuttel et Würtz (printed by "par les soins de J.J. Marcel" by de l'Imprimerie Impériale), 1805.

. 4to. Pp. (viii), xiv, (ii), 188. With one folding engraved map and one engraved plate. Two engravings and woodcuts including many Chinese characters, in text. Printed on thick paper. Contemporary marbled paper boards, flat calf spine, richly decorated in gilt, marbled end papers. With some staining in the text. First edition. Scarce. Hager (1757-1819) was professor of oriental languages at Pavia in today's northern Italy. Hager's Chinese works have been heavily critized by the sinologists A. Montucci and H.J. Klaproth. Cordier BS 688. Lust 1130. Löwendahl 728.

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Book number: 100564

Catalogue: East Asia

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HEDIN, SVEN:

En färd genom Asien 1893-97. Two volumes. Stockholm 1898.

. Pp. xii, (2), 565, (4); (vi), 537, (5). With 4 maps (of which 2 large folding and one double page in colour) and 258 illustrations, of which many full page plates. Publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt, somewhat rubbed at extremities, slightly shaken. Old ownership signatures on pastedowns and front endpapers, also erased signatures on front endpapers. First edition of Hedin's narrative of his first expedition to Asia during the years 1893-97. It covers his explorations in the Pamirs, the deserts of the Takla Makan, and the Lop Nor regions, Tsaidam and Southern Tibet. He travelled 6250 miles, 2020 of them through regions never before visited by Europeans. Cordier BS 2853. Hess p. 19. Yakushi H97.

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Book number: 99203

Catalogue: East Asia

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