Paris: Nicolas Le Clerc, 1731. First edition, 12mo, pp. xlviii, 449, [17]; contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, red stained edges; spine label perished, boards rubbed and lower board starting, ex-St. Stanislaus Novitiate House Library, Guelph, Ont. (closed in 1971) with labels and a bookplate on upper pastedown..... More

Paris: Nicolas Le Clerc, 1749. First edition, 12mo, pp. xliii, [5], 480; folding plate of chayaver plant; contemporary full calf, gilt-ruled spine in 6 compartments, red stained edges; spine worn, upper joint starting, lower flyleaf loose, large tear to plate neatly mended on verso; ex-St. Stanislaus Novitiate House Library, Guelph..... More

Jilin: Jilin People's Publishing House, [1987]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 3, [1], 4, [2], 743, [1]; text double-column in Chinese; 38 color maps, some folding; full green cloth, gilt title on cover and spine; boards bowed, some wear and chipping to fore-edge, with short closed tears on a couple..... More

London: George Allen & Unwin, [1968]. Edition limited to 600 copies for sale, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 187, [1]; photographic frontis portrait of Waley, 1 full-page facsimile in text; very good in original green cloth lettered in silver on spine. A detailed, often annotated bibliography of the works of the..... More

[New York]: Thames and Hudson; Rhodos International Science and Art Publishers, [1996]. First American edition, 4to, pp. 463; plain and color text illustrations; gilt pictorial dust jacket; about fine. Forms part of the Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project series. More

Paris: Benjamin Duprat, 1842. 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 269, [1]; folding facsimile of a letter by Julien; recent orange cloth, gilt title on spine, original printed wrappers bound in; slightly later owner's signature on title and half-title, very faint underlining on a few pages, a couple pages foxed, else clean..... More

Tokyo: Bunkyudo, 1938. Third edition, 12mo, pp. 4, 2,2, 6, 26, 143, [1], 31, [3]; Shanghainese texts with Japanese furigana and translations, and a 20-page section on Shanghainese slang; full green cloth; boards rubbed at extremities, a couple pages with marginal scribbling, two pages heavily stained with ink resulting in..... More

Bloomington: Indiana University, 1989. 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 461, [5]; full yellow cloth, title in black on cover and spine, fine. The Jurchen script was a relatively short-lived script employed by the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) with few remaining examples. This book is the western work on the Jurchen materials held..... More

Beijing: [n.p.], 1941 (民國30). Large 8vo, pp. [4], 471, [1]; red paper wrappers; wrappers chipped and sunned, joints starting, upper pastedown separated but still bound in, text clean and sound, good. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Number 12. Berhard Karlgren was a pioneer..... More

New York: Alred A. Knopf, [1997]. First Americanedition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [3], 444, [2]; double-page map; remainder dot on top edge else a fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. More

Lanham, New York, Dallas, et al. Taylor Trade Publishing, 2004. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 219, [3]; illustrated throughout. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "Tells the little-known World War II story of the 1875th Engineer Naval Battalion in the China-Burma-India Theatre, based on the personal experiences of Lieutenant..... More

Osaka: Izumi Shoin, 2005. Reprint edition, 2 vols, pp. 13, [1], 490, [4]; 17, [1], 510, [1], 31, [1], 45, [6]; six pages of plates and 20 text illustrations; text in Japanese with 45-page synopsis in English; full navy cloth, gilt titles on spine; fine in glassine dust jackets and..... More

Boulder, Colorado and Oxford: Westview Press, [1996]. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 326; frontispiece portrait; fine copy in a fine dust jacket except for one hole at the gutter edge of the front panel. Li Da (1890-1966) was one of China's most important Marxist intellectuals and a founding member of..... More