Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. First edition, small 4to, pp. xxiv, 264; illustrated throughout, much in color; fine copy in a fine jacket. Murphy was an American architect who practiced in China, where he learned to strike a balance between Western technologies..... More
Hololulu & Hong Kong: University of Hawai'i Press and Hong Kong University Press, [2011]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxi, [1], 385, [1]; illustrated throughout, much in color; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. In the early twentieth century, Chinese traditional architecture and the French-derived methods of the École des..... More
New York: Praeger Publishers, [1971]. 8vo, pp. xxvii, 329, [1]; edited with an introduction by Alexander Eckstein; fore-edge and covers lightly soiled, otherwise near fine in original blue cloth, dust jacket. More
Taipei: Office of the Military Historian, 1969. Oblong 8vo, pp. xiii, [9], [426]; portraits, name, date of birth, and home town, with English translations, full blue cloth gilt; portraits sometimes of poor quality due to the facsimile nature of the text, pages clean and sound, near fine. More
London & New York: Harper & Bros. 1900. Second edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 464, [1]; frontispiece portrait, plates, illustrations in the text, 4 folding color maps; very good in original blue cloth gilt, slight wear to edges, two ownership inscriptions on front free endpaper, minimal foxing including some to..... 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
[Bejing]: People's Music Publishing House, [2003]. Folio, pp. [8], 298, [2]; text in English and Chinese; 451 photographs and facsimiles of source texts throughout; full red cloth; edges toned, dust jacket adhered to upper board, very good. More
Pleasantville, Montreal and Sydney: Reader's Digest, [2008]. First edition, 4to, pp. 334, [2]; color illustrations throughout, including photos, floor plans, elevations, etc. pictorial paper covered boards, fine in fine dust jacket. More
London: Thos. Cook & Son, 1920. 12mo, pp. [2], [4], [1]-160, xxii, [1]; original green cloth boards with paper label; 3 tissue paper folding maps, first map detached, endpapers toned, otherwise very good. Fourth edition of this guidebook produced by the venerable travel agency. At this time the railway system..... More
[Paris: 1883]. 8vo, extracted from Publications de l'ecole des langues orientales vivantes IIe Serie, vol IX: Mélanges Orientaux; pp. [3], 546; text in French with titles in hanzi and pinyin, recent full red cloth, black cloth label on upper cover titled in gilt; owner's seal label pasted onto section title..... More
Leide: E. J. Brill, 1900. Extract from T'oung-pao, series II, vol 1, no. 5; pp. 46; text in French; recent gray cloth gilt, original wrappers bound in; fine. More
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Shanghai: China Daily Herald Tribute Co., distributed by the Commercial Press, Ltd., 1935-45. Complete from no. 1 to no. 7, the years leading up to World War II and the war years themselves. 7 volumes, thick 8vos, tables throughout (some folding), several folding maps, much advertising matter throughout, some with..... More
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1965. First edition, very thick 8vo, pp. xvii [1], 1318, iv, 232 (Character Code Book), [4] (Radical Index); light rubbing at extremities else a very good copy in original printed blue card wrappers. An exhaustive work containing over 133,000 entries. The Romanized Cantonese-English part..... More
Shanghai: Foreign Language Education Press, 1992. First edition printed in China (the first edition of the previous year was printed in Kensington, Maryland); large 8vo, pp. [6], xlii, [2], 192, [1], xi, [2]; bottom of spine bumped and cracked, else very good and sound in original black cloth stamped in..... More
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1937. First edition, 8vo, pp. 316, [2]; pictorial endpapers; previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else very good, sound copy, without the dust jackiet, in original blackcloth, printed paper label on spine. More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1894. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 426, [2, ads]; 28 illustrations and maps; original red cloth gilt, spine a bit faded, rear hinge starting, small ink stamp on title-page, moderate foxing throughout; very good. D'Orleans started from Paris in 1891 intending to investigate lower Tonkin and..... More
Taipei: Hansheng Magazine, 1995. 3 vols, square 8vos; text in Traditional Chinese; over 700 paper cut designs on a variety of colored paper; pictorial paper covered boards, light bumping to corners, else fine in original printed cardboard slipcase. Hansheng Magazine is an award winning project dedicated to highlighting a specific..... More
London and New York: Thames and Hudson Ltd, and Harry N Abrams, Inc., 1997. 4to, pp. 175, [1]; black and white photographs with some commentary from Ribould's travels through China, starting in 1959 up until 1994; black cloth with red title on spine; fine in near fine white dust jacket..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1836. First American edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. [iii]-viii, [1], 10-383, [1]; [iii]-viii, [1], 10-440, 4 (ads); engraved folding map, 25 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, a number full-page; original brown cloth stamped in gilt on spines; spine slightly sunned; all else near fine. With..... More
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et cie, 1860. 12mo, pp. [4], 346; lacking the table of contents and imprint leaf; text in French; rebound in modern brown and patterend cloth, paper label on spine, speckled edges; small burn to edge of first two leaves, a touch of worming not affecting..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. First edition, 8vo, pp. 390, [10]; 8 maps, 23 figures and 10 tables in the text; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This book is the definitive study of imperial Chinese local gazetteers, one of the most important sources for..... More
London: Trubner & Co., 1873; [but Taipei: Ku-t'ing Book Store, 1970]. First dictionary of Amoy, based on the manuscript vocabulary prepared by the Rev. J. Lloyd, the American Presbyterian missionary, and edited and enlarged by Douglas; large 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 612; bound with: Supplement to Dictionary of the Vernacular..... More
London: Publishing Office of the Presbyterian Church of England, 1899 [i.e. 1970]. 4to, pp. [5], viii-xix, [1], 612; bound with: Supplement to Dictionary of the vernacular or spoken language of Amoy, Shanghai: printed by the Commercial Press, 1923 [i.e. 1970], 4to, pp. [2], iv, [2], 271, [1]; contemporary red cloth..... More
Washington: Library of Congress, 1977. First edition, 4to, pp. vii, 140; near fine in original blue cloth lettered in black. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1937. First edition, 4to, 2 volumes, pp. 469 (continuous pagination); black and white plates and illustrations throughout; a fine set in the rarely seen dust jackets. An influential text; nearly 2500 patterns of lattice from ancient Chinese windows, including the history of development and classification..... More
