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réf. 11642ou tableau de l’état actuel de cet Empire contenant 1) la description topographique des 15 provinces qui le composent, elle de la Tartarie, des isles & autres pays tributaires qui en dépendent, le nombre et la situation de ses villes, l’état de sa population, les productions variées de son sol, & les principaux détails de son histoire naturelle ; 2) Un précis ces connoissances le plus récemmens parvenues en Europe sur le gouvernement de la religion, des mœurs, & les usages, les arts & les sciences des chinois. In 4 plein cuir fauve raciné à nerfs,pièce de titre chagrin rouge, roulette, caissons dorés. Faux-titre, titre, 798 pages, tranches rouges. A Paris Chez MOUTARD imprimeur-Libraire de la Reine, de Madame, & de Madame Comtesse d’Artois 1785. ( à signaler une découpe page de titre- une pâle mouillure en marge supérieure page 16 puis de la page 392 à 488- puis de la page 775 à la fin)- petits raccommodages. ) bon exemplaire L’abbé GROSIER travailla pendant 40 ans à la composition de l’histoire de la Chine compilée à Pékin par le père MARILLA, sur des documents originaux parue, de 1777 à 1784 en douze volumes ; Il rédigea seul le treizième volume qui complète cette histoire et fut publiée en supplément en 1785. 格鲁贤(Jean-Baptiste Grosier 《中华帝国志》, 巴黎,穆塔(Moutard)出版社,1785年In4,棕色花岗石斑纹小牛皮,书脊有装饰,原版
1885Octavo. Pp. ix, 333, (6) publisher's catalogue. Half-title present. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's full brown cloth, upper cover and spine lettered and decorated in gilt and black, some stray spots on back cover, floral endpapers, trimmed rough, spine ends very lightly bumped, inner hinges about starting. In fine condition. Excellent copy, bright and fresh, beautifully preserved interior. ~ First edition. Sir Henry Knollys (1840-1930) served as a major in the Royal Artillery, later became private secretary to King Edward's daughter Maud, queen of Norway. He was a descendant to a distinguished British family. Sir Francis Knollys (1514-1596) was an English statesman, became a member of parliament in 1542 and was knighted in 1547. His father, Robert Knollys, a courtier in the service of both Henry VII and Henry VIII. Sir Francis's three sons were all courtiers and served Queen Mary in parliament or in the field. Henry Knollys published extensively; on "English Life in China" he said: "The statements contained in this book have, at all events, the advantage of having been recorded on the spot, and at the time when they were originally deduced. Taken down day by day in shorthand, I venture to hope that the opinions may possess the freshness, sometimes so conductive to accuracy, of first impressions; while the authenticity of the facts has been safe-guarded by subsequent careful revision." See further: Peter J. Kitson (General Editor): "Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires: Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910." 8 volumes. (London, Pickering & Chatto, 2003-2004). Also: Albert Smith: "To China and Back: Being a Diary Kept Out and Home." (Hong Kong, 1859).
1945réf. 175494China: 1945. A rare series of photographs taken after Japan's unconditional surrender when the Office of Strategic Services launched eight operational missions to rescue prisoners of war across east and south-east Asia showing smiling internees and their liberators. Two of the images show Lee Beom-Seok a resistance fighter and the first prime minister of South Korea who worked closely with OSS personnel in China. In one photograph taken at night Lee stands alongside soldiers in the uniform of Chiang Kai-Shek's National Revolutionary Army. Other images capture a team of US soldiers disembarking from a C47 cargo plane while two at the end of the album show OSS personnel in discussion. At least one photograph appears to show Clyde Bailey Sargent 1909-1981 a sinologist who joined the OSS as a civilian and undertook intelligence-gathering missions in China and India; his short obituary is pasted on the inner rear cover. Square octavo photo album. Original card covers white plastic spiral binding housing 24 gelatin silver photographs each c. 95 x 105 mm in wallets. Photographs somewhat sunned and toned: very good. unknown
1998réf. 2091502135421932People's University of China Libraries Center 1998. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 145 People's University of China Libraries Center paperback
1998réf. 2091502135421942People's University of China Libraries Center 1998. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 200 People's University of China Libraries Center paperback
1934réf. ABE-1528278985072Peiping: China International Famine Relief Commission 1934. 1934 First edition. Quarto 26.319.2cm 48p plus 27 foldout charts/maps. Illustrated with 41 photos. Plate XXIV torn otherwise a very good copy. More photos available upon request. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. Peiping: China International Famine Relief Commission, 1934. paperback
1953réf. 4731953 Paris, NRF, Gallimard, 1953, petit in 8 broché, 319 pages ; couverture illustrée.
1694réf. 42217Amsterdam, Gerardi Valk et Petri Schenk, n.d. (around 1694). 46,5 x 52 cm. Engraved map China in orig. handcolouring. Showing all the Chinese provinces, Korea and the island of Formosa in the south. Ships in the sea and cartouche with Chinese costumes. A small rupture in a border due to etching from the colour used (no loss). Left margin with a small tear, no loss. Right, very broad, margin with a tear, not reaching the image.
1694réf. 42217Amsterdam Gerardi Valk et Petri Schenk n.d. around 1694. 465 x 52 cm. Engraved map China in orig. handcolouring. Showing all the Chinese provinces Korea and the island of Formosa in the south. Ships in the sea and cartouche with Chinese costumes. A small rupture in a border due to etching from the colour used no loss. Left margin with a small tear no loss. Right very broad margin with a tear not reaching the image. This fine decorative map was first printed in "Atlas Novus" by J. Janssonius in 1658. This issue bearing the names of Valk and Schenck was published around 1694. unknown
1926réf. 145415Shanghai: California Directory Association and the Shanghai Times 1926. A well-preserved example of this scarce guide for American visitors to China recorded in just four institutions on WorldCat. Produced during a golden age of East Asian travel this convenient compendium lists places of interest and suggested itineraries for major cities alongside dozens of advertisements for hotels curio shops and luxury goods. Foreign tourists in East Asia were not a new sight in the early 20th century but the construction of railway lines from the late 19th century caused a dramatic increase in the ease and possibilities of travel. In Hong Kong Shanghai and other large cities the number of businesses catering to the foreign tourist market ballooned with many listed in this guide. Inside travellers could find information on the Hong Kong Hotel and the famous Grand Hotel des Wagon-Lits in Peking's Legation Quarter as well advertisements for firms as varied as the Hong Kong and Kowloon Taxicab Company the outfitters Aux Chic Parisien U. B. Pilsener Beer of Shanghai Strehlneek's Chinese Art Studio and Clerici Bedoni & Co. importers of fine Italian wines. Two pages of pidgin English phrases are provided to help travellers ask for the "Sing-song house" the theatre or "Smelleum water" Eau de Cologne. The California Directory Association produced a number of tourist guides for travellers to the Far East all of which are now rare. Duodecimo. With 2 folding maps of central Hong Kong and Shanghai halftone illustrations in text advertisements throughout. Original red card wrappers title and Chinese dragon to front cover in black. Wrappers lightly creased with small chip to lower tip of front cover internally clean and bright larger folding map with small closed tear partially tape repaired to verso. A very good copy of this vulnerable publication. unknown
1922réf. 174979Hong Kong Weihaiwei Canton and at sea: 1922-27. An album compiled by an officer likely involved with the maintenance and testing of battleships and submarines interspersing photographs taken while on duty with his tourist snapshots and shots of friends. Nine images show vessels from the China Station's fleet of L-Class submarines being put through their paces. The photographs are arranged roughly chronologically and although many are captioned and some show the officer he is unidentified. It commences in 1922 and seven photographs taken onboard the battlecruiser HMS Repulse in the Mediterranean show Repulse and HMS Hood the largest ship in the Royal Navy undergoing full power trials. Photographs taken in China a few years later continue the theme. During the 1920s L-Class submarines served on the station as the Fourth Submarine Flotilla and the album contains photographs of HMS L3 and L4 during trials at Hong Kong in 1926 as well as diving trials for HMS L5. Two photographs taken atop the main body of HMS L2 show it forging ahead at full power. He also records the process of changing the submarine's propellor. A range of images document life in Weihaiwei the base from which British naval power radiated in north China. He has the chance to visit HMS Titania a submarine depot ship and he relaxes at the United Services Club recording the appearance of the grounds and the view from the club out to sea. There is time to play some golf on nearby Liugong Island and visit the Temple of the Four Winds and the Beehive Tombs. He captures for posterity the naval boat race including the "veteran officers' skiff" pulled by Captain later Admiral Robert Henry Taunton Raikes 1885-1953 commander of the Fourth Submarine Flotilla. The sights and sounds of south China similarly beckon. In Canton he visits the waterfront and temples and photographs goods being taken to market and images show him holidaying with friends at Repulse Bay in Hong Kong. Interspersed are other glimpses onto life at sea: Hood's quarterdeck rigged for dancing; a group of pirates captured after they seized and torched the steamship SS Sunning near Hong Kong in late 1926; and cricket on the deck of a cruise ship. Landscape quarto album buff card covers tied with light brown cord through punch holes front cover with black embossed letters within blind-stamped panel 18 stiff card leaves full with 181 tipped-in gelatin silver photographs most c. 85 x 60 mm to 115 x 160 mm short pencil and ink captions. Covers worn couple of old adhesive tape repairs some photographs rather yellowed and aged but still with distinct tones: a very good album. unknown
1919réf. 176501Shanghai: Privately printed by Kelly & Walsh Ltd for G.S.J. 1919. A Shanghai expat's otherwise unrecorded tribute to his goddaughter inscribed by the author on the first blank "To Irene from Stewart with all good wishes. 22nd October 1919 Shanghai". G. Stewart Jones "G.S.J." in the imprint ran the Shanghai office of the chemicals giant Brunner Mond & Co. Jones composed his poems in Shanghai Tianjin on the Yangtze River and in England. His collection is a rare surviving example of the bespoke luxury printing and bookbinding service provided by Kelly & Walsh Asia's largest publisher-printer. Octavo pp. 16. Contents printed in blue. Original decorative black and blue brocade front cover lettered in gilt edges untrimmed binder's ticket on rear pastedown. Boards lightly rubbed and bowed foxing to endpapers and edges: a very good copy. hardcover
1933réf. 144201Moscow: Parti noe izd-vo 1933. First edition first printing uncommon institutionally of this widely cited Russian research publication on the soviets controlled by the Chinese Communist Party in the early 1930s. It reflects the Kremlin's keen paternalistic interest in the development of China's communist movement and stamping Comintern authority on Mao and other party leaders. Worldcat records just ten copies. After the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party's CCP First United Front with the Kuomintang in 1927 the remnants of the CCP retreated to rural areas and formed a number of soviets as experiments in cultivating a socialist revolution in the countryside. These base areas including Jingangshan and Jiangxi-Fujian became the birthplaces of the rurally-focused ideology that would eventually deliver the whole of China for the CCP. Historical research continues to reveal the Soviet Union's extensive involvement in the CCP's early growth. In 1930 Stalin and other Comintern figures had been instrumental in convincing a wing of the CCP leadership to abandon hopes of forming urban soviets and instead focus on cultivating support among the peasantry. By 1933 having grown to distrust Mao's leadership Moscow again altered the shape of the party by sending Bo Gu one of the "28 Bolsheviks" and Otto Braun to take charge of the Jiangxi soviet and manage military operations against Kuomintang encirclement campaigns. Moscow needed access to the most up-to-date information on the base areas. The present work contains a 100-page introduction to the Chinese soviets co-authored by the Russian Sinologist Evgenii Sigismundovich Iolk 1900-1937 who was ideally qualified on account of having been in China in 1926-27 as a member of Borodin's staff specialising in agrarian issues. During this period Iolk had had a front row seat to Mao's early attempts to organise the peasantry. In 1932 he began working in the intelligence section of the General Staff of the Red Army in which role he undoubtedly enjoyed access to the latest information on developments in China. Octavo. With 5 folding maps 1 with colour. Original red cloth title to spine and front board reverse outlined in silver block silver hammer and sickle device to spine. With the errata slip tipped in. A few marks and faint stains to cloth extremities a little rubbed textblock and upper margin of maps lightly browned. A very good copy. hardcover
réf. 2081502111906525Shanghai Ancient Book Publishing House N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: Hardcover Shanghai Ancient Book Publishing House paperback
réf. SONG0824816765Used: Good unknown
1912réf. 46593Hanoi-Haiphong Vietnam: Imprimerie d’Extreme-Orient 1912. Four vols. Folio. xiii 1 370 pp. 20 plates some maps photos each with facing explanatory leaf numerous tables several large folding; Atlas unpaginated w/ 178 diagrams maps geological sections relief maps 2 very large folding colour maps some geological formation plates in colour; 4 146 2 pp. plus 25 plates each with facing explanatory leaf numerous text illustrations diagrams; 8 76 4 pp. plus 9 plates each with facing explanatory leaf numerous text illustrations diagrams. Uniformly bound in original printed wrappers some scuffing soiling edgewear occasional light foxing still a VG- uncut & unopened presentation set inscribed and presented by Honore Lantenois & Henri Mansuy to Prof. Marcellin Boule 1861-1942 French geologist palaeontologist and physical anthropologist who reconstructed the first complete Neanderthal skeleton in France. First edition presentation set of this massive first installment in the Geological Survey of Southeast Asia begun in 1908 documenting the biostratigraphy of the Yunnan Region which was awarded the Tchihatchef Prize of the French Academy of Sciences. Much of this survey work was done during the building of the Hanoi to Yunnan-fou Kunming railroad which was built by the French to exploit the tremendous mineral wealth of Yunnan. The Director of the Department of Natural Resources for France in Vietnam was Honore Lantenois 1863-1940 who worked for years with Henri Mansuy 1857-1937 and sent him back to France several times to study palaeontology at the School of Natural Resources Ecole des Mines. Lantenois recruited Jacques Deprat 1880-1935 in 1908 -- at the time a brilliant palaeontologist -- to conduct an ambitious program mapping the geology of Indochina and neighboring areas. All three men became involved in the notorious Deprat Affair which resulted in Mansuy accusing Deprat to Lantenois in 1917 that Deprat had used a few European-sources trilobites among his fossil specimens from Indochina and Yunnan. This accusation rested on the distinction that the suspect trilobites were not just similar in nature to others found in Europe but the matrix they were embedded may have originated from Europe. Although nearly 90 years later it would be determined that the trilobite fauna discovered by Deprat indicated that the Yunnan had occupied a location adjacent to Bohemia originally in the early Palaeozoic period; the French scientific community condemned Deprat at the time stripped him of his degrees and posts and forced him to leave the field. A complete set including the Atlas is quite scarce. See: Genovese Madeleine Colani and the Deprat Scandal at the Geological Survey of Indochina Journal of the Siam Society Vol. 99 pp. 269-290 2011; Osborne The Deprat Affair: Ambition revenge and deceit in French Indo-China 1999; Stokes Deprat’s trilobites and the position of the Indochina Terrane in the Early Palaeozoic Proceedings of the International Symposia on Geoscience Resources and Environments of Asian Terranes 2008 pp. 201-207. Imprimerie d’Extreme-Orient, unknown
1849réf. 56871Edo Tokyo: n.p. Kaei 2 1849. Five vols. Tall 8vo. 40; 44; 48; 42; 34 pp. With 1 double-page colour woodblock map 18 double-page woodblocks 7 w/ colour 1 single-page woodblock plate. Uniformly bound in textured embossed pattern limp softcovers manuscript titles punch-sewn at gutter margins wear soiling some worming through fore-edges text in portions thumbing to fore-edges soiling lower 2/3 of front title leaf stating “Forbidden from Sale” torn away still a G- reference set of this noted rarity. First edition of the author’s “second series” recounting further events in the First Opium War fought between Great Britain and China in 1839-1842. The text and illustrations vividly stressed the terrible effects of opium on Qing Dynasty China and the brave Chinese resisting the British military. Buttressed with striking illustrations by Utagawa Sadahide 1807-1879/79 which depict such incidents as Chinese fire-boats approaching a British warship; a captured spy; Chenshi the Monk putting up a valiant fight; a Chinese Woman warrior fighting the British; a Taiwanese fort sinking a British Warship; the fall of Zhenhai; French diplomatic ships arriving on the Yangtze and even an omen appearing in the heavens. In addition there are a number of woodblock prints depicting British cannons mortars and firearms employed during the Opium Wars. The Kaigai Shinwa printed on Mino paper was written in a sensationalistic and simple style with Japanese syllabaries attached to all Chinese characters and intended as a cautionary tale advising Japan and other Asian countries of the pitfalls of foreign invaders and intervention just four years before the appearance of Perry’s squadron in Tokyo Bay. Mineta Fuko 1817-1883 was thrown into prison for having published the work without official consent and later after he was released was deprived of the right to live in Edo Kyoto or Osaka -- the santo kamae tri-urban banishment and many of the volumes were seized and others were censored or removed. See: Timothy Brook & Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi Opium Regimes: China Britain and Japan 1839-1952 2000 pp. 60-65; Masuda Wataru Seigaku tozen to Chukoku jijo: zassho sakki The Eastern Spread of Western Learning and Conditions in China: Notes on Various Books 14. Kaigai Shinwa. . . Tokyo 1979 Translated by Joshua A. Fogel UCSB pp. 27-39. n.p., paperback
1921réf. 53107Shanghai: A.S. Watson & Co. Ltd. Printed & Bound by Kelly & Walsh Ltd. 1921. Folio. 6 40 pp. Title in red & black rubricated decorated initial with 66 tipped-in sepia- and aqua-tinted photogravures each w/ printed border explanatory text on facing page. Publisher’s decorated blue silk over beveled boards gilt lettering stamped on front cover rebacked in blue silk gilt lettering on spine in equivalent font wear to fore-edges of boards w/ minor loss at fore-edges on front & back covers minor bumping & wear to corners still VG- copy w/ interior in excellent condition from the library of Dr. Leonard William Buck 1891-1953 scion of the famed Buck family in Vacaville CA whose holdings included Bucktown and the ranch where the California Medical Facility is located. Dr. Buck traveled to Asia on behalf of the California Grower’s and Shipper’s protective League at the behest of his brother Frank in 1921. Second edition of this large and beautiful photographic souvenir portraying the ancient Chinese capital and surrounding countryside. The striking images by Mennie portray Chinese temples palaces peddlers laborers ancient walled cities Chinese shops and Chinese eating at outdoor tables at the beginning of the 20th century. Mennie 1875/6-1941 trained as a chemist and worked as an amateur photographer in Scotland. He initially began working in China as an assistant in the firm of Mactavish & Lehman & Co. in Beijing later working for the Mactavish Photo Shop in Shanghai as one of the first producers in China of picture postcards. He later joined the A.S. Watson & Co. -- chemists druggists wine spirits & cigar Merchants who also dealt in all kinds of photographic chemicals and equipment later becoming their managing director the firm still flourishes to this day as one of the largest health and beauty retailers in the world. Mennie contributed photographic images for numerous works and published several of his own images. He died in the Japanese Lungwha internment camp near Shanghai in 1941. See: Worswick & Spence Imperial China: Photographs 1850-1912 1979. A.S. Watson & Co., Ltd., Printed & Bound by Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., hardcover
1738réf. 16232London: Edward Cave at St. John's Gate 1738. Very good condition. A map of the entrance to Canton with Macau Ma-kau and the islands on the approach pictured with depth soundings and an inset "Plan of Quang-Chew Fu commonly called Kanton". Copper engraved map 9 3/8 x 14 1/2" with sml margins a little ruffled with slt. margin loss. The map is from the Edward Cave folio edition of Du Halde's important encyclopedic work on Chinese culture history and society "A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary Together with the Kingdoms of Korea and Tibet" by a French Jesuit who specialized in China. Du Halde's work inspired great interest in China among Europeans and was a ground breaking work in geography. The Du Halde book is referred to in Cordier BS 50; Löwendahl 409; Lust 15. Edward Cave, at St. John's Gate unknown
1738réf. 16233London: Edward Cave at St. John's Gate 1738. Very good condition. A map of the China coast from Behai to Shantou centering on the Pearl River Canton Macau & the islands of Hong Kong. Copper engraved map 20 3/4 x 16 1/2" with sml margins. The map is from the Edward Cave folio edition of this important encyclopedic work on Chinese culture history and society "A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary Together with the Kingdoms of Korea and Tibet" by a French Jesuit who specialized in China. Du Halde's work inspired great interest in China among Europeans and was a ground breaking work in geography. The Du Halde book is referred to in Cordier BS 50; Löwendahl 409; Lust 15. Edward Cave, at St. John's Gate unknown
réf. PE29Oblong Quarto album ca. 268x364 cm. 30 card stock leaves. With ca. 215 mounted original gelatin silver photographs from ca. 87x144 cm 3 ½ x 5 ¾ in to ca. 69x67 cm 2 ¾ x 2 ½ in five real photo postcards ca. 108x139 cm 4 ¼ x 5 ½ in and six printed postcards ca. 137x87 cm 5 ½ x 3 ½ in. Most photos with period white pencil captions in French on the mounts at least seven photos including one real photo postcard with captions in negatives. Full ornamented cloth album fastened with a string. Several photos with mild silvering but otherwise a very good album with strong interesting photographs. Historically interesting album of lively vernacular photographs apparently taken by a French resident of Canada during his trans-Pacific voyage from Vancouver to the Orient in the late 1934 and early 1935. The compiler and his travel companions left Vancouver aboard the “RMS Empress of Canada” and sailed to Hong Kong with a stopover in Saigon Vietnam. From there they traveled overland to Beijing and Seoul and then continued to Japan visiting Kyoto and Nikko. On the return journey they stopped in Honolulu and New York. The album contains 215 well executed photographs from the voyage and opens with over sixty images of Saigon showing rare views of the first tea factory in the East-South Asia the Bank of Vietnam and candid street scenes of native huts boutiques and restaurants. Especially interesting is a striking image of half-naked ethnic locals sitting on the ground beside a bicycle and posing for the camera. The other photos from the region capture topographical views riverside fishing gear on the Huong River and snapshots of the compiler and his companions throughout their journey by cars in canoes along the Mekong River etc. Among twenty-five photographs of Hong Kong a standout image illustrates a bustling street scene filled with residents in traditional attire shopfronts with Chinese signs and flags of the Wang Jingwei regime flying alongside the British Union Jack. The rest of the images show the city’s port waterfront glowing night views and moments of the travel group golfing. In Beijing the focus shifts to historical landmarks documenting the Summer Palace Nine Dragon Screen Ming Tombs Temple and Altar of Heaven and the iconic Chinese guardian lions. A dozen photographs of the Great Wall offer a rare glimpse of life along its slopes with locals carrying goods in baskets and leading donkeys through the rugged terrain. The Japanese portion of the journey includes evocative views of Kyoto’s Chion-in Temple the historic Yaami Hotel and a Buddhist temple with a monk standing solemnly at the gate. The group also visited Nikko capturing sites such as the Toshogu Shrine the ornate Yomeimon Gate a stone basin and tranquil views of Lake Chuzenji. The album closes with about forty photos of Seoul Temple of Heaven Honolulu views of the waterfront photos on deck and Arizona Grand Canyon. Overall historically interesting album of lively vernacular photographs apparently taken by a French resident of Canada during his trans-Pacific voyage from Vancouver to the Orient in the late 1934 and early 1935. hardcover
IL NUOVO RAMUSIO. RACCOLTA DI VIAGGI, TESTI E DOCUMENTI RELATIVI AI RAPPORTI FRA L'EUROPA E L'ORIENTE. 4to, 13 voll., bross. prima edizione, tutto il pubblicato. piccola mancanza da sfregamento da scaffale al margine inferiore della sovracoperta del volume VII, piega alla sovracoperta del volume V, macchia appena percettibile alla sovracoperta del peimo tomo del volume II, altrimenti tutti i volumi in perfetto stato, con rispettive spvracoperte in pergamino (ad eccezione del volume I che ha la sovracoperta ma non il pergamino). L'opera, che comprende le relazioni ed i diari dei piu' noti viaggiatori italiani in Oriente, presentati in un testo definitivo e corredati di un commentario storico e geografico, e' cosi' composta: Vol. I - 'Liber Peregrinationis di Jacopo da Verona (1335), a cura di U. Monneret de Villard, pp. XXXII,240; Vol. II - 'I Missionari italiani nel Tibet e nel Nepal (XVIII secolo)' suddiviso in 7 parti: Parti I-II-III-IV: 'I Capuccini Marchigiani', a cura di L. Petech, pp. CXX,224; VIII,274; VIII,366; X,284; con tavv. Parti V-VI-VII: 'Ippolito Desideri S.I.', a cura di L. Petech, pp. XXXVI,252; X,354; VIII,318. Vol. III - 'Il libro dei conti di Giacomo Badoer (Costantinopoli 1436-40)', testo a cura di U. Dorini e T. Bertele', pp. XVI,858, con 5 tavv. di facsimili. Vol. IV - 'Viaggi di C. Federici e G. Balbi alle Indie Orientali (XVI secolo)', a cura di O. Pinto, pp. XLIV,438, con 5 tavv. Vol. V - 'Le navigazioni atlantiche del veneziano Alvise da Mosto (1455-56) - La navigazione del portoghese Pedro de Cintra (1462)', a cura di R. Gasparrini Leporace, pp. XXIV,356, con 4 tavv. Vol. VI - 'I viaggi di Pietro della Valle. Lettere dalla Persia.' Vol. VII - 'I viaggi in Persia degli ambasciatori veneti Barbaro e Contarini.' Bella ediz. su carta a mano di Pescia in tirat. di 900 esempl. num. Il ns., intonso, e' in ottimo stato, come nuovo. Come nell'opera del grande Ramusio, trovano posto nell'attuale collezione scritti di alcuni fra i maggiori viaggiatori europei. Ogni volume e' preceduto da un'introduzione critica sulla vita e le opere dell'autore; l'edizione critica del testo e' seguita da ampi commenti, nella quale sono utilizzate le fonti occidentali e specialmente orientali che completano le notizie fornite dalle relazioni-La Libreria dello Stato. Roma. 1950-1956 . 1st edition. 13 volumes in 4to, all ever published. A very crisp as new set. international customers please inquire on shipping.
An Illustrated life of Confucius Late Qing woodblock Edition Kong zi sheng ji Tu
1805réf. PHO-1674Paris, F. Buisson, an XIII (1805). TEXTE, 3 volumes in-8, 464, 400 et 392 pp., relié plein basane époque, dos lisse orné avec pièces de titre et tomaison, frises aux plats, tranches jaunes mouchetées, supra libris et étiquette au contre plat, coiffes arasées, frottements et défauts d’usage. ATLAS, in-4 (300x240mm) relié cartonnage éditeur époque, dos manquant, étiquette de titre sur le plat (grattée). Titre, liste des planches et 22 planches hors-texte dont 2 en couleurs. Planches en bon état, mouillures, défauts d’usage
1812réf. PHO-1544London, Stockdale, 1812, 4 volumes in-8, cartonnage d’attente, étiquette aux dos, non rogné, 5ff.-128pp.,3ff.-125pp.,3ff.-135pp.,3ff.-160pp.,8pp.(catalogue), illustré de 80 gravures, petits défauts d’usage.