Londres [but Paris]: [publisher not identified], 1783. Small 12mo, pp. [4], 197, [1]; portrait frontispiece signed "D'Eleane"; contemporary marbled paper wrappers on wastepaper, blank paper label on spine; wrappers rubbed and faded, textblock untrimmed; worn, but sound. At foot of frontispiece: "Edition de Cazin." The first edition of this translation..... More
Worcester, MA: Z. Baker, [et al.], [1866]. First American edition, 8vo, 2 vols in 1; pp. 163, [1]; 219, [1]; original half black roan over marbled boards, red stained edges, edges rubbed, spine chipped, text clean and sound. Not the first appearance of Confucius in America, with fragments of translations..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [ca. 1976]. Large 8vo, pp. [8], xxv, [5], 130; frontispiece portrait and 6 double-page color plates; full brown leather gilt, a.e.g. silk endpapers; fine. More
Shanghai: printed for members of the Limited Editions Club by the Commercial Press, 1933. Edition limited to 1500 copies (this, no. 435); large 8vo, pp. [8], 114, [2]; printed on double leaves on handmade Chinese paper; portrait of Confucius and 3 full-page illustrations; original stab-sewn brocade cloth; fine but lacking..... More
Shanghai: printed for members of the Limited Editions Club by the Commercial Press, 1933. Edition limited to 1500 copies (this, no. 379); 11 x 7 in., pp. [8], 114, [2]; portrait of Confucius and 3 full-page illustrations; original stab-sewn brocade cloth; edges foxed, front free endpaper with a one inch..... More
