HAGIWARA, SAKUTARï / KAWAKAMI, SUMIO (Transl.):

Cat Town. Tokyo, The Jûjiya Press, 1948.

. Small 4to. (19.3 x 15 cm). Pp. 25. With five woodblock-printed illustrations. Original decorated paper-covered boards. First English edition of the prose poem "Nekomachi" by Hagiwara Sakutarô. He is sometimes considered the "Father of modern colloquial poetry" in Japan because of his new, unique style of free-verse poems that differs from the traditional rules. Sakutarô himself once described his poetry as expressions of his "soul's nostalgia" for those moments in life that inspired him to write. The work has been translated into English by George Saitô, also including an introduction by him. The binding and the b/w plates are illustrated by Sumio Kawakami, a great Japanese woodblock-print artist in the 20th century. A few tiny insignificant marks to endpapers and title but a wonderful crisp copy.

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Book number: 120902

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, literature, illustrated,

HAGIWARA, SAKUTARï / KAWAKAMI, SUMIO (Transl.):

Cat Town. Tokyo, The Jûjiya Press, 1948.

. Small 4to. Size: 19.3 x 15 cm. Pp. 25. With five woodblock-printed illustrations. Original decorated paper-covered boards. First English edition of the prose poem "Nekomachi" by Hagiwara Sakutarô. He is sometimes considered the "Father of modern colloquial poetry" in Japan because of his new, unique style of free-verse that differs from the traditional rules. Sakutarô himself once described his poetry as expressions of his "soul's nostalgia" for those moments in life that inspired him to write. The work has been translated into English by George Saitô, also including an introduction by him. The binding and the b/w plates are illustrated by Sumio Kawakami, a great Japanese woodblock-print artist in the 20th century.

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Book number: 120918

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, literature, illustrated,

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

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

HAMMAR, H.:

Fartygstyper i Swenska Ost-Indiska Compagniets flotta. Göteborg, 1931.

. Large 8vo. Pp.101. Original printed wrappers. Large paper copy. A mint copy. With 4 photographical pictures and 15 folding plates depicting different ships, of which 12 are lithographs. This work was published in connection with the 200 years' anniversary of the Swedish East India company.

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Book number: 12182

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asie, asiatica, orient, east, asien, far east, ships, east india company, sweden, inde, Ferne Osten, Extreme-Orient, ferner osten

HAMMER-PURGSTALL, JOSEPH VON:

Geschichte der Goldenen Horde in Kiptschak, das ist: Der Mongolen in Russland. Pesth, C.A. Hartleben's Verlag, 1840.

. Thick 8vo. Pp. (iv), lii, 683, (2). With one folding table (printed on both sides). Traces of old library stamp on title. Contemporary half cloth, flat spine lettered in gilt, slightly shaken. First edition of this comprehensive study of the history of the Golden Horde or Western Kipchaks, a Mongol and later Turkic Khanate established in the 13th century. The territory of the Golden Horde at it's peak included most of Eastern Europe from the Urals to the right banks of the Danube River, extending east deep into Siberia. Cat. Russica 130.

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Book number: 100577

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, russia, mongolen, tatar, tatars, kipchaks, travel, exploration, russe,

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,

HEDIN, SVEN:

[TURPAN] Zum Zentralasien-Atlas. AND: HAACK; H:: Svend Hedins Zentralasien-Atlas. Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1941.

. 4to. Pp. 7 of German text. With one large folding coloured map (in two pieces) of Turpan (Turfan), a city in the east of Xinjiang, important trade centre and historically situated on the Silk Road. Size: 57 x 54.8 cm. Original printed wrappers. Inscription by Sven Hedin on front cover. Included in Petermanns Geographischen Mitteilungen 1941, Heft 1.

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Book number: 121167

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, kina, chinese, map, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, uighur, turpan, turfan, xinjiang,

[CONFUCIUS]. HELMAN, ISIDORE STANISLAS HENRI (Engraver):

Abrégé historique des principaux traits de la vie de Confucius, célèbre philosophe chinois ... d'après des dessins originaux de la Chine envoyés à Paris par M. Amiot, missionnaire à Pékin ... Paris, chez l'auteur, 1788.

. 4to. Lvs. 49. Including engraved title, 24 engraved plates and 24 engraved text leaves. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, flat spine blind and gilt-stamped, rubbed. Bookplate (Piper, Sövdeborg). The beautiful engravings illustrate the life and deeds of Confucius engraved by Helman (1743-1806). They are copied from a set of Chinese miniatures which were sent by the Jesuit missionary Amiot in Peking to Bertin, who was Louis xiv's minister and the one in charge of France's relation with China. This is an example of how the "chinoiseries" was spreading within Europe in the late 18th century. Some light staining throughout but overall a very good copy. Cohen 262. Cordier BS 667. Lipperheide Le16. Lust 729.

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Book number: 17079

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, orient, east, asien, asie, asiatica, asia, confucius, travels, explore, exploration, voyages, china, peking, jesuits, far east

HENRY, BENJAMIN COUCH:

Ling-Nam or Interior Views of Southern China including Explorations in the Hitherto Untraversed Island of Hainan. London 1886.

. Pp. 511. With 3 maps (two of Canton and one of Hainan) and many full page plates and illustrations in the text made after sketches by native artists. Publisher's pictorial red cloth printed in black and gilt, faded and slightly rubbed. A prize award copy. First edition of this informative work on Southern China or Ling-Nam based on the author's travels in the region. Cordier BS 2147.

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Book number: 99446

Catalogue: East Asia

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

HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS, MARIE JEAN LÉON DE (Translator & editor):

.... Le Li-Sao. Poème du IIIe siècle avant notre ère. Traduit du chinois accompagné d'un commentaire perpétuel et publié avec le texte original. Paris, Maisonneuve et Cie, 1870.

. Pp. liv, (ii), 66, (ii) and 28 pages with the original text. Sewn as issued in original printed wrappers. Copy of G. van Rynberk. Some light staining to first few leaves. A French translation of the famous poem Li Sao by Ch'ü Yüen. Cordier BS 1793.

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Book number: 38014

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chinese, kina, asia, asiatic, asien, asie, language, lingustic, poeme, poem, literature, far east, east, eastern, oriental

HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS, MARIE JEAN LÉON DE (Translator & editor):

Poésies de l'époque des Thang (viie, viiie et ixe siècles de notre ère). Traduits du chinois pour la première fois avec une étude sur l'art poétique en Chine et des notes explicatives. Paris, Amoyot, 1862.

. Pp. cxii, 301. Sewn as issued, uncut in original printed wrappers. With author's inscription on front wrapper. Partly browned. Comprises French translations of Li-Taï-Pé and Thou-Fou, and comments on many other Chinese poems. Includes a long introduction about the art of poetry and prosody in China. Cordier BS 1794.

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Book number: 38013

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chinese, kina, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, language, langue, linguistic, far east, east, eastern, oriental

HIERSEMANN, KARL W. (Publisher):

Katalog 505. Chinesische, tibetanische, japanische Originalmalereien. Leipzig 1922.

. Pp. 48 + 12 plates. Original printed wrappers. Sales catalogue by Buchhändler und Antiquar Karl W. Hiersemann in Leipzig listing 292 different Asian paintings.

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Book number: 99384

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, kina, chinese, japanese, japan, japon, tibet, tibetan, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, paintings, art,

HINOSHITA, MATAHEI:

Yusokufu monyo (Traditional Patterns). Three volumes. Kyoto, Ushida Bijutsu Shoshi, Showa 10 (1935).

. Folio. Size: 22.2 x 31.4 cm. An appealing album with leaves folded in the Japanese fashion. Title leave and 45 double folded leaves with more than 100 coloured woodblock printed illustrations. Original decorated paper-covered boards with printed title labels (volume two with some wear along edges). Original cloth slip case. First edition of this delightful work containing textile patterns inspired by traditional royal court kimono fabrics. The designs are printed in rich and mellow colours, some with elements of gold and silver. This kind of appealing design book, zuan-ch›, was created by the publishers in collaboration with inventive artists intended to be appreciated for its own sake, as much as for any practical role. A few minor tears at fold and occasionally some light stain but overall a fine copy. 

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Book number: 120563

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, kimono, textiles, fashion, fabrics, illustrated, exploration, design

HIRTH, FRIEDRICH:

Syllabary of Chinese sounds. Research in China. Expedition of 1903-04, under the direction of Bailey Willis. [Extracted from Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 54, Research in China, Volume I, Part II, pages 511-528]. Washington 1907.

. 4to. Pp. 511-528. Contemporary cloth. Old ownership signture on title. According to the introduction: "The subjoined Syllabary is mutatis mutandis identical with the 'Tabelle für die Laute des Chinesischen im Mandarin-Dialecte', submitted by me to the Far Eastern Section of the XIII International Congress of Orientalists held at Hamburg in September, 1902. ... In making use of spelling shown in the subjoined Syllabaray, Williams' 'Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language' may serve as a key. By looking up in it the Chinese characters to be transcribed the sound appearing in column I (Williams) may be ascertained, while columns II and III contain my own and Wade's equivalents."

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Book number: 32117

Catalogue: East Asia

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

HOKUSAI, KATSUSHIKA:

Hokusai Manga (Sketchbook). Volume five (of fifteen). Nagoya, Eirakuya Toshiro, Meiji11 (1878).

. Lvs (30), double-folded in the Japanese fashion, as issued, in original black paper covers, title label on upper cover. Comprises fifty-six woodcut plates depicting people, architecture, scenes from daily life and traditional tales, etc. Delicately printed in grey, black and light pink. Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was one of the most acclaimed Japanese artists of his time. Hokusai Manga was a series of books intended to serve as instruction manuals for the use of young artists. It became a sort of pictorial encyclopaedia of Japanese daily life and art of the time. The books became immensely popular. This is a later edition with light print, in very good condition.

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Book number: 121216

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, illustrated, manga, sketches,