CARLES, WILLIAM RICHARD:

Life in Corea. London, MacMillan and Co., 1888.

. Pp. xiv, 317, adv. (2). With one folding map, two full page engraved plates and many textual illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, spine faded, corners lightly rubbed. Bookplate. Occasionally a few small stains. First edition, scarce.The author served as the British Vice-Consul in Korea for 18 months. This is a personal account of the country and people of Korea. Contains information on the Japanese treaty, relations with China, silk production, Korean pottery, tea, ginseng, exports, etc. Cordier BS 2960. Pak, Western Books on Korea, no. 22.

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Book number: 99481

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, korea, corea, corean, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration,

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

HAMILTON, ANGUS:

Korea. London, W. Heinemann, 1904.

. Pp. xli, 315. With one large folding coloured map and many illustrations in the text. Original red cloth, with gilt vignette on upper cover, spine faded, small stain to upper right corner, light wear to extremities, inner front hinge loosening. "Presentation copy" blind-stamped on title. Bookplate and ownership stamp of Staffan Rosén. Second edition, first published in the same year. Angus Hamilton, British journalist who spent some months in Korea as the Far East correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette. This is a comprehensive account of Korea at that time. Contains much information on education, government, judiciary, foreign operations, agriculture, industries, trade and the treaty ports, etc. Cordier BS 2986. Taehôn Pak, "Western Books on Korea", page 456.

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Book number: 121375

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, korea, corea, korean, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration,

KEMP, EMILY GEORGINA:

The Face of Manchuria, Korea & Russian Turkestan. London, Chatto & Windus, 1910.

. Large 8vo. Pp. xvi, 248. With one folding coloured map and 24 coloured plates after illustrations by the author. Publisher's green cloth, gilt, extremities lightly rubbed. A beautifully illustrated work. This journey by the Trans-Siberian Railway went to Manchuria, Korea and through Siberia into Turkestan. Kemp wanted to investigate the state of these countries after the Russo-Japanese war. She also visited Tashkent, Samarkand and Bokhara. Cordier BS 4036. Pak, Western Books on Korea ii, no. 22.

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Book number: 121184

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, manchuria, korea, china, chine, kina, korea, corea, siberia, russia, travel, travels, voyage, exploration, asia, asie, asien, lady traveller, lady,

KUNDÍ, SAWADA (Ed.) / SAWADA, SIICHIRO (Artist):

Ch sen ko t jiki-sh Collection of antique Korean ceramics. Kyoto, Uns›do, Taisho 13 (1924).

. Oblong album with 32 leaves folded in the Japanese fashion. With thirty double-page illustrations of Korean ceramics and/or porcelain. Beautiful woodcuts printed in various gentle colours with captions in Japanese. Some discolouration. Original decorated paper wrappers, lightly rubbed with some minor chipping along edges. Old ex-owner's sticker (partly erased) on front cover. Black ink inscription on the spine. The album contains beautiful designs of old Korean pottery wares such as urns, jars, bowls, plates and tiles. Most of them are from the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392 AD) but some are from the Three Kingdoms period (57BC - 668 AD) and the later Silla period (668-935 AD). Korea, along with China, was the earliest country to produce high-fired stoneware. During the Three Kingdoms wares were produced in a tunnel-shaped wood-fired climbing kiln with a temperature more than 1000 degrees C. The chamber enabled an oxygen control. The characteristic soft gray colour of the stoneware of the Three Kingdoms period is the result of the reduction of oxygen in the chamber. The pottery became hard and non-porous. The finest works of ceramics in Korea, Cheongia (celadon) wares, were produced in the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392). This work based on field studies of Korean ceramics was published at a time when interest of folk art was increasing in Japan. Mingei, developed in 1920s, was a movement with the aim of preserving folk art in Japan. The movement was initiated by Yanagi S›etsu, a Japanese philosopher and aesthete who travelled to Korea in 1916 and there discovered common wares made by local Korean artisans. He established a Korean Folk Craft Museum in Seoul. 

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Book number: 121249

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, korea, corean, korean, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, porcelain, woodblock, illustrated, art, ceramics, stoneware, mingei,

MCLEOD, NICHOLAS (or (NORMAN):

Korea and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, with Korean, Japanese and Israelitish Illustrations. Yokohama, Published for the Author partly at C. Levy and the Sei Shi Bunsha Co., 1879.

. Oblong 4to. Pp. (vi), 23 and twenty-three wood-engraved plates, one blank leaf. Seven of the plates are devoted to Korea. Original green silk brocade over card, lettered in gilt on upper cover, some holes to rear cover. Inner hinges strained and endpapers browned. First edition of an unusual work that deals with the controversial theory that Korean and Japanese people descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel. Previously McLeod had published two similar works about Japan titled "Epitome of the history of Japan" and "Illustrations to the Epitome". This work which is also devoted to Korea seems rarer. McLeod was a Scottish-born missionary who resided for many years in Japan and Korea where he "searched for the true Israelites". The plates are made by Japanese artists and include illustrations of Korean costumes and commodities, the Japanese Ambassador's house and a military station at Kokufu (governor's place) followed by different shrines in Japan; the Dragon temple of Miyajima; Ise Jingu, Miyazaki-jingu in Hiuga. Further there are plates depicting pottery found at Emperor Jimmu's grave, chariots, a sumo wrestler, samurai battles (including two of Ainos), etc. Some of the plates are lightly discoloured due to the paper quality. Only a few library copies recorded (Oxford, SOAS, Edinburgh and Munich). Ref: Parfitt, Tudor: "The Lost Tribes of Israel: The History of a Myth" (2003). T. Pak, Western Books on Korea, p. 184-7.BOUND TOGETHER WITH: Album. And Guide Book of Japan from Satsuporo in the North to Kagishima in the South. With Historical and Statistical Notes Compiled by N. Mcleod. Yokohama, Published for the Author at the Seishi Bunsha Co., 1879. Pp. (1), clns 21, (3) on six leaves, and fourteen wood-engraved plates. The guide is illustrated with many famous sights, temples, the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido, portraits of significant Japanese people, etc.

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Book number: 121049

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, korea, corea, corean, korean, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, japan, japon, japanese, travel, exploration, religion, religious, illustrated, guide, aino, ainu,

[NORTH ASIA]. PALMBLAD, VILHELM FREDRIK: (Editor):

Handbok i physiska och politiska, äldre och nyare geographien. 1:1-2. Inledning till Asien. Hög Asien + Inledning till Hög-Asien (slutet). Korea. Mantschuriet. Mongoliet. Turfan eller Lilla Bukhariet. Tibet. Two volumes. Upsala, Palmblad & Co., 1826-27.

. Pp. xii, (x), 300, (2); (xii), 301-686, (2). With one coloured folding map taken from Stieler's Handatlas. Uncut copy in original wrappers, labels and title in manuscript on spines. With some staining throughout. A Swedish manual of geography. The first part deals with the introduction to Asia and the second covers North Asia including Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Turkestan and Tibet. Palmblad planned to publish at least twenty volumes covering the whole world. However, only five volumes were published. SWIM 27:450 & 27:463. Holmberg p. 98-99.

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Book number: 25077

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, far east, east india, Korea, Manchuria, Turkestan, Tibet, corea, thibet, himalaya, geography

TERRY, T.PHILIP:

Terry's guide to the Japanese Empire including Korea and Formosa with chapters on Manchuria, the Trans-Siberian railway, and the chief ocean routes to Japan. A handbook for travelers. Boston & New York 1920.

. 12mo. Pp. cclxxxiii, 799, adv, 77. With 28 maps and plans (of which 8 folding and 8 double-page). One map and 2 lvs of text loose. Some underlinings and annotations. Orginal red cloth. Bookplate.

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Book number: 17064

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asien, asie, orient, east, far east, japan, nihon, nippon, korea, corea, formosa, taiwan, manchuria, siberia, russia, travels, voyages, explore, exploration, japon, coree, japon, russie, explorations, expéditions, viajes, viaggio, reisen,