Bubonic plague in nineteenth-century China
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, [1996]. 8vo, pp. xx, [2], 256, [2]; maps and graphs in text; full blue cloth; bookplate on free endpaper; else fine in fine dust jacket. More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, [1996]. 8vo, pp. xx, [2], 256, [2]; maps and graphs in text; full blue cloth; bookplate on free endpaper; else fine in fine dust jacket. More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxii, 491, [1]; frontispiece portrait, 2 color folding maps, one folding chart, one portrait plate; full yellow decorated cloth; boards toned; frontispiece loose, endpaper clipped, owner's signature on pastedown and flyleaf, very good. According to his memoirs..... More
Salem: Peabody Essex Museum, [1995]. 4to, pp. 133, [1]; illustrated throughout, including color full-page illustrations of 46 objects; full red cloth, gilt title on cover and spine, fine in fine pictorial dust jacket. More
New Haven and London: Peabody Essex Museum, [2010]. 4to, pp. 254, [2]; full color illustrations; full black cloth, fine in fine dust jacket. More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, [1994]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 340, [2]; 25 tab les in the text; previous owner's chop mark on front free endpaper, else a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, [2014]. First edition, folio, pp. 223, [1]; full and double-page photos throughout; publisher's blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket; fine throughout. A collection of 19th-century photography on China. More
Accokeek, MD: Washington International Associates, 1979. Reprint, slim 4to, pp. 96; color and plain photographic text illustrations, map endpapers; original boards in green pictorial dust jacket; about fine. Translated from the original German by Grace Marjory Allen. More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1963. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 159; map, 16 plates of color photographic illustrations; very good in dust jacket. More
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. First edition, sm 4to, pp. vii, 137, [2]; with illustrations by Mortimer Menpes, 16 plates including frontispiece, numerous illustrations within text, some toning, rear hinge cracked, extremities lightly rubbed at edges, else very good in original blue cloth with gilt decorated upper cover and..... More
Paris: Louis-Michaud, [1910]. Trade edition, following a limited edition of 90 numbered copies; small 8vo, pp. [9], 10-315, [3]; original pictorial wrappers bound in half Vietnamese calf, gilt-lettered spine; the front wrapper has a 2 x 3 cm. adhesion mark, and an old ownership signature at the top; pages toned..... More
T'Amstelredam: Joost Hartgers, 1648. Small 4to, pp. [4], 56 (i.e. 76); collating [A1]-E8; engraved woodcut vignette of 2 ships on both primary and secondary title pages; historiated initial on A3; includes the Journal of Dirck Albertsz Raven on p. 59-76; old blue paper-covered boards; small oil stain in the top..... More
Paris: Hachette, 1892. First edition, large 8vo, pp. [4], 510, [1]; over 500 wood-engraved illustrations throughout, after photographs by Prince Henri d'Orleans; folding map printed in color; recent red maroon cloth, gilt-lettered direct on spine; clean and tight; fine copy in a new binding. More
London: Hakluyt Society, 1953. First edition, 8vo, pp. 12 plates, 8 sketch maps including a folding map at the back; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; very good, sound copy. A Portuguese soldier of fortune, a Portuguese Dominican friar, and a Spanish missionary visit China..... More
London: Alec Tiranti, 1962. First edition, square 8vo, pp. vi, 166; 158 illustrations on plates at the back, plus other illustrations in the text; near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with 3 small scrape marks on the rear panel. More
Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, Limited, 1931. Third edition, revised and enlarged, 8vo, pp. xvi, 571, [3]; 29 photographic plates and 7 folding maps; original yellow cloth, owner's signature on endpaper, hinges split, near fine in a lightly toned pictorial dust jacket. The maps particularly are in excellent condition. More
Corning, N.Y. Corning Museum of Glass, [1991]. First edition, 4to, pp. xi, [3], 212; illustrated throughout; original green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; slight bend to the top cornes of the first 20 leaves, otherwise near fine throughout. Without the dust jacket. More
Berkeley, LA, London: University of California Press, [2005]. Second printing, 8vo, pp. xvi, 539, [5]; text illustrations; full red cloth gilt, fine in fine pictorial dust jacket. More
Xiamen: Xiamen University Press, 2005. 8vo, pp. 2, 2, 7, [1], 335, [1]; parallel text in Chinese and English; text illustrations throughout; illustrated stiff paper wrappers; one corner slightly bumped, near fine. Inscribed by Brown with a pen illustration on upper flyleaf. Laid in is a CD with audio of..... More
[London]: Zed, [2019]. 8vo, pp. xxiii, [1], 246; full red cloth, title in silver on spine; fine in slightly rubbed dust jacket. More
Shanghai: Christian Literature Society, 1936. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 161; illustrations by Chang Hui Yuen; original maroon moire cloth, spine stamped in gilt; near fine in pictorial dust-jacket with small chips at spine at edges and internal tape repairs. More
Kuala Lumpur: printed by the authority of the Government Federation of Malaya by Charles Grenier & Son Ltd., 1954. First edition, 8vo, pp. [5], 1-164, [1], 165-240, [2]; original gray paper-covered boards printed in red on the upper cover; light wear and some dampstaining along the spine, but generally a...... More
Taipei: Book World Co., [ca. 1963]. Reprint edition, 8vo, pp. [8], iv, [2], 572, lxxxi, [1], full maroon cloth, fine in a toned and edge-worn dust jacket. A detailed account of the governmental organization of the Ch'ing Dynasty, from Imperial Court administration down to local administration. More
New York: Council on Economic and Cultural Affairs, 1956. 8vo, pp. xxxii, 494; 21 maps, 62 illustrations from photographs, tables throughout; original gray paper wrappers lettered in black on the spine; near fine, and sound. "Photo-offset printing of an edition published in 1937 by the University of Nanking." The author..... More
Taichung, Taiwan: FSI Chinese Language and Area Training Center, [1968]. 4to, pp. [4], 199, [1]; printed from typescript; original printed green cloth wrappers bound into black cloth, gilt-lettered spine; generally fine. Chengyu are a type of traditional Chinese idiomatic expression, most of which consist of four characters. Chengyu were widely..... More
Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc., 1996-97. First edition, 2 volumes, folio, pp. cxvi, 604; xvii, [2], 604-1325, [1]; color frontispieces, numerous illustrations throughout; fine copies of both volumes, in dust jackets which are slightly sunned along the spines. Focusing on the ancient culture and civilization of China, early Southeast Asia, and..... More