LOWENDAHL (Bjorn)MareMagnum
28.921 Ergebnisse
4to, xxiv, 207pp., numerous coloured and black and white plates, orig. cloth, d.w, in a cloth box. Supplement to the important reference work on Western books on China published between 1477 and 1877: An extensively annotated catalogue in English of books on China in Western languages (1550 entries, each with a minute collation), arranged chronologically. With an introduction, references, indices, and a preface by Professor Han Qi of the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The L?wendahl - von der Burg collection is a most important assembly of Western books on China, written by sinologues, missionaries, travellers, merchants and other authors. The collection also includes works by Chinese authors translated and edited by Western scholars. The contents cover Chinese history, language, philosophy, religion, society, science, medicine, missionary work and the "Chinese Rites" controversy, trade (incl. treaties with foreign powers), Hong Kong, foreign aggression, and travel accounts.
Folio (325 x 250 mm), [8]pp., followed 30 numbered chromolithographed plates and one further "extra sheet" with 10 mounted albumen photographs, a couple of sheets with slight fraying to blank fore-edge, loose in publisher's printed boards, worn, re-backed with tape. Minton's Ltd, was a major ceramics manufacturing company, originated with Thomas Minton (1765-1836) the founder of "Thomas Minton and Sons", who established his pottery factory in Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England, in 1793, producing earthenware. Herbert Minton began experimenting making encaustic tiles in 1828 in addition to the established Mintons pottery and china business, and produced their first catalogue of 62 designs in 1835. "The Tiles in this book are, with the exception of those shown on Sheet 16, which are printed patterns, and on the extra Sheet of Photographs, all Enamelled by a Patent process, know as "Reynold's process," which was adapted in 1848 by the late Mr. Herbert Minton, and has ever since been carried on at Mintons (Limited) China Works... The process for the decoration of Tiles was early favoured by the late Mr. A. Welby Pugin, "the great restorer of Gothic Arts," in the Houses of Parliament and in many other places, and the patterns in that style of ornament in this book are all from his hand. Since the days of Pugin the use of these enamelled Tiles for decorative purposes has greatly increased, and there are now few houses without some examples...".
8 vols., 4to, orig. green cloth, lettered in gilt, a very nice set.
Slim 4to (280 x 220 mm), 18ff. 24 sepia photogravures of working class people ( mostly tradesmen), all tipped onto rectos with letterpress beneath, images 150 x 100 mm and where two images to the page (110 x 80 mm), original decorative wrappers with spine tie. The trades people depicted include: Cottager weaving bamboo; Native sportsman; Woman shelling pea nuts; Harvesting rice; Blind fortune teller; Street Juggler; Open-air shave; Shoe mender; Taoist mendicant; Beggar; Wood engraver, etc. JISC locating a single copy at the SOAS Library.
First edition, 4to (275 x 215 mm), vii, [1], 526, [2]pp., with the final errata leaf, portrait frontispiece of Lord Amherst, 7 hand-coloured plates, 3 engraved maps (one folding, two lightly spotted), nineteenth-century full blue calf, the covers with wide gilt borders of fillets and floral rolls with corner tools, heavy gilt panel spine with a interlaced pattern in five panels and lettered in gilt on other, marbled endpapers with matching marbled page edges, some minor rubbing, a most attractive copy. "The Amherst embassy in 1816 was the third in a series of unsuccessful British attempts to establish trade relations with the Chinese government... The embassy, which was sent out by George III 'to protest at the ill-treatment of British subjects' was a failure, since Lord Amherst refused to kow-tow to the emperor. Ellis, who published this authorised narrative of the journey and transactions of the embassy, had accompanied Earl Amherst in the capacity of third commissioner."?L?wendahl. Provenance: With the green oval gilt morocco label of Granville Hastings Wheler with his faint signature in ink to head of title. Abbey Travel 536; Cordier Sinica III, 2393; L?wendahl 791; Lust 509.
8vo (17 x 105 mm), 24pp., a little very minor worming in the text with loss of a few letters only, margins cut close and outer margin of 2 leaves just shaved, disbound. A translation from the French R?flexions sur les affaires presentes de la Chine, itself a translation of the Italian Alcune riflessioni intorno alle cose presenti della Cina. Not in Lust or Lowendahl.
In-8, 543p. Exemplaire du SP. Maquette de couverture de P. Faucheux.
In-8, 39p. Catalogue d'exposition. Avec quelques illustrations h-texte.
In-8, 333p. A l'état de neuf.
In-8, VIII-214p. Deuxième édition. Fortes rousseurs, sinon très bon exemplaire.
In-8, 393p. Edition originale de ce journal de voyage dans la Chine de 1957.
In-8, VIII-607p. Reprint de l'édition parue à Paris, chez André en 1799. En parfaite condition.
In-8, 345p. Edition numérotée 1/6000 exemplaires. Illustré de 34 documents hors texte et de 2 cartes.
Gr. In-8, 204p. Avec de nombreuses illustrations en noir et en couleurs. A l'état de neuf.
In-4, 211p. Illustré d'innombrables photographies en noir et blancs et en couleurs de Fred Mayer. Préface de Claude Roy. A l'état de neuf.
Gr. In-8 carré, non paginé. Catalogue de l'exposition qui s'est tenue au Musée du Petit-Palais entre mai et septembre 1973. 362 objets décrits. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et en couleurs. A l'état de neuf.
In-4, 212p. Illustré d'une centaine de reproductions en couleurs contrecollées. Bibliographie, index et table en fin de volume. De remarquable facture. Très bel exemplaire.
Gr. In-8, 252p. Avec de nombreuses illustrations dans le texte en noir. Index des noms cités en fin de volume. Bel exemplaire.
In-4, 163p. Edition originale numérotée surpapier blanc sans pate. Préface de Claude Roy. Bel exemplaire.
Gr. In-8, 411p. Nouvelle édition corrigée et complétée de la relation d'un voyage par le transsibérien de Paris à Pékin par le Père Lelong. Jaquette et cahier photographiques en fin de volume d'Edouard Boubat.
In-8, 338p. L'histoire de Yang Kwé-fe• et de Ming Rwang-ti, sixième empereur Tang, d'après les textes anciens, avec leurs propres poèmes, ceux de Li Po, Tou Fou, et autres, illustrée d'un paysage et de quatre peintures sur soie. Exemplaire à l'état de neuf.
Gr. In-4, 278p. Bel ouvrage rassemblant une importante iconographie en couleurs. Version française d'Henri et Mercedes Daussy. Glossaire, bibliographie et index des noms cités en fin de volume. Petite déchirure sans manque à la jaquette, sinon à l'état de neuf.
Gr. In-8, 38p. Edition limitée à 600 exemplaires. Illustré de 16 planches hors texte, dont 4 en couleurs. En parfaite condition.
In-4, 156p. Illustré de photographies n/b de Cartier-Bresson, Bischof, E. de Montmollin.
In-4, non-paginé. Illustré de 88 photographies en noir et blanc reproduites en hélio d'Hélène H. avec un texte d'Henri. Une collection qui ressemble à plus d'un point aux albums photo de la Guilde. Bel exemplaire.