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A note on OCLC
As is now the norm, OCLC counts are tentative, at best, as we recognize that searches using different qualifiers will often turn up different results. Searches are now further complicated by the vast numbers of digital, microfilm, and even print-on-demand copies, which have polluted the database considerably, making it difficult, without numerous phone calls or emails, to determine the actual number of tangible copies. Hence, even though the counts herein have been recently checked, most all should be taken as a measure of approximation.
1. China and the English, or, the character and manners of the Chinese, as illustrated in the history of their intercourse with foreigners. Written for Abbott's Fireside Series. To which is added an account of the late war. New York: William Holdredge, [1843].
$375
First complete edition, 12mo, pp. [3]-324; inserted engraved frontispiece and chromolithograph title page, 16 wood-engraved plates on pink paper; original red cloth elaborately stamped in gilt on both covers and spine, a.e.g.; light wear and foxing but otherwise a very good, sound copy.
First published in 1835, it is republished here in its entirety with two added chapters on the Opium Wars.
Jacob Abbott (1803-1879) was an educator and a prolific writer of children's book, "writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. He wrote 180 books and was a coauthor or editor of 31 more" (Wikipedia). Among his best-known books are his Rollo series.
Not in Lust.
2. Arnobij disputationum aduersus gentes libri septem, recogniti & aucti. Antwerpiae: Ex officina Christophori Plantiti, 1582.
$750
8vo, pp. 285, [3]; woodcut device on title page, woodcut initials and decorations throughout; the final leaf is blank; contemporary full limp vellum, turned-in edges, 19th- or 20th-century manuscript titling on spine; while the textblock is sound, the vellum covers are almost loose. At the top of the title in a 16th-century hand: "Ex dono amantiss. cognati Samuelis. Ian. 20. 1598."
The first 45 pages contain a number of early underlinings and annotations in the margins. "The seven Libri adversus gentes ... are a detailed attack on ancient paganism ... The work of Arnobius was for the first time edited by Faustus Sabaeus and printed in Rome, Franciscus Priscianensis, 1542. In his Lectori the editor of the Plantanian publication, Theodorus Canterus, explains that he followed this edition..."
Adams A-1996; BM-STC Dutch and Flemish, 1470-1600, p. 14; Voet 596.
3. An apology for the true Christian divinity, being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers.... Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1765.
$2,500
Eighth (first Baskerville) edition in English, (first published Aberdeen, 1676); 4to, pp. [14], [ii]-xiii, 504, [16]; with the errata leaf as part of the preliminaries which is "frequently missing" (Gaskell); original blue paper-covered boards, uncut and partially unopened; neat cream paper rebacking, preserving the original printed paper label, in a red half morocco clamshell box (scuffed); a very good, sound copy.
This copy with a very nice inscription: "David Barclay / Grandson of the Author / to Lord Sidney. / In testimony of his respect. / 1789." Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney PC (1733-1800), was a British politician who held several important Cabinet posts in the second half of the 18th century. His most enduring legacy is probably that the cities of Sydney in Nova Scotia, and Sydney in Australia were named in his honor, in 1785 and 1788 respectively.
Gaskell notes that "no uncut copy has been seen." This copy is uncut and partially unopened. The errata leaf in this copy is on wove paper without an imprint, and was likely printed by Baskerville himself.
"Barclay's great book, The Apology, is remarkable as the standard exposition of the principles of his sect, and is not only the first defense of those principles by a man of trained intelligence, but in many respects one of the most impressive theological writings of the century" (DNB).
Gaskell 30.
4. [Bible in New Guinea Pidgin (Neo Melanesian), N.T.] Nupela Testamen bilong bikpela Jisas Kraist = New Testament in New Guinea Pidgin. Canberra & Port Moresby: The British and Foreign Bible Society of Australia, 1969.
$400
First edition, 7½" x 5½", pp. 861, [1]; text in double column on India paper; 3 maps, illustrations in the text; original limp blue leatherette stamped in white on upper cover and spine; fine.
Inscribed in Pidgin by a SVD (i.e. Societas Verbi Divini - Society of the Divine Word) missionary Padre Francesco Mihalic, and dated Wewak, July, 1969. Wewak is the capital of the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea.
Father Frank Mihalic SVD was originally sent to Papua New Guinea in 1948. In 1957 he standardized the language that’s most commonly used in Papua New Guinea today and compiled the first English lexicon of Toks Pisin, a form of Melanesian Pidgin English that is one of the country’s three official languages. The Pennsylvania native would write many more Pidgin dictionaries and grammar books, as well as a history of Divine Word Missionaries in Papua New Guinea. In 1981, Fr. Frank Mihalic was awarded the Order of the British Empire for “services rendered to Pidgin.” He also received an honorary doctorate of linguistics from the University of Papua New Guinea. Fr. Mihalic retired to the Divine Word Missionaries residence in Riverside, California, where he died in 2001 (see SVDmissions.org).
5. [Civil War, Minnesota.] History of the First Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry 1861-1864. With maps and illustrations. Stillwater, Minn: Easton & Masterman, printers, 1916.
$1,250
First edition, 8vo, pp. [1], 508; frontispiece portrait of Gov. Alexander Ramsey, 5 other portraits, 1 plate showing 3 portraits (including Christopher B. Heffelfinger - see below), 4 plates of monuments, 2 folding maps, and 1 map in the text; original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; cracking in the cloth in the top half of the upper joint; hinges cracked; all else very good and sound.
For those not acquainted with the Minnesota First, one of the regiment's most famous actions - and indeed, one of the most famous actions of the entire Civil War - "was on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg when Major General Winfield Scott Hancock ordered the 1st Minnesota to charge into a brigade of 1,200 Confederate soldiers. This action blunted the Confederate attack and helped preserve the Union's precarious position on Cemetery Ridge" (Wikipedia).
This copy with an important inscription: "James Ford Bell, Jr. from Grandmother Heffelfinger, August 14, 1916." James Ford Bell, Jr. was the eldest son of the founder of General Mills, and what is now the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota. James, Jr. was known locally as the CEO of Red Owl Food Store chain, and was also a noted conservationist. His "Grandmother Heffelfinger" was the wife of Christopher B. Heffelfinger, one of the authors of this book, who from 1861 through 1864 served in Company D of the famous First Minnesota Infantry Regiment, rising in rank from sergeant to captain shortly after the Battle of Gettysburg. After serving the full term of his three-year enlistment, Heffelfinger was mustered out at Fort Snelling in May 1864. After a brief appointment as a relief agent in the United States Sanitary Commission in 1864, he re-enlisted in April 1865 and was appointed a major in the First Minnesota Regiment of Heavy Artillery.
Heffelfinger died in 1915 while this book was about to go to press, although he did read through the manuscript and made suggestions "which have been adopted in the text as it now appears." Searles, Taylor, Heffelfinger, and two others (also deceased) were the members of the "Coville Commission" who had charge of the preparation of this history.
6. Mercedes of Castile: or, the voyage to Cathay. By the author of "The Bravo," [etc.]. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840.
$750
First edition, 12mo, pp. 12mo, [2], 9-xii, [13]-260; 232; bookplates of George Barr McCutcheon and Robert Hoe; original purple muslin, paper labels on spine; spines sunned else very good and sound; each volume in a half brown morocco slipcase. The printed labels on the spine are in BAL's state 'B' (sequence is arbitrary).
BAL 3893.
7. Colonel Grodekoff's ride from Samarcand to Herat, through Balkh and the Uzbek States of Afghan Turkestan; with his own map of the march route from the Oxus to Herat ... [Translated from the Russian by] Charles Marvin. London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1880.
$250
First edition, small 8vo, pp. xx, 224; folding map, frontispiece portrait, 1 map and 1 plan; later three-quarter green straight-grain morocco, gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2, t.e.g., by Thuslove, Hanson, and Sloane; joints rubbed and tender, spine toned to brown; all else good and clean. At the top of the title page, a stamp reading: "With the publisher's compliments."
8. Central Asia and Tibet: towards the holy city of Lhasa. London: Hurst & Blackett; New York: Scribner's Sons, 1903.
$750
First edition, American issue, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xvii, [3], 608; xiv, [2], 664; "with 420 illustrations from drawings and photographs, eight full-page coloured illustrations from paintings, and 5 maps, mostly by the author," mostly from photos but some wood engravings; the 5 maps are on 4 folding sheets; mild dampstain at the bottom of the front endpapers in both volumes, otherwise a near fine, bright, and sound copy in original pictorial red cloth gilt, t.e.g.
The book describes the author's exploration in Central Asia and Tibet in 1899-1902.
Yakushi H174b.
9. Trans-Himalaya. Discoveries and adventures in Tibet. London: Macmillan and Company Limited, 1909-13.
$750
Second printing of volumes I and II, first edition of volume III; 3 volumes, 8vo; 545 illustrations after photographs and sketches by Hedin (8 in color) on 297 plates, 14 maps (4 folding in color); original crimson cloth gilt-stamped on upper covers and spines, t.e.g.; small spot on the spine of volume III, otherwise a very good, sound and clean copy.
Hedin's account of his travels in the previously unexplored areas of the Himalayas. He tracked the sources of the Brahmaputra and Indus Rivers, endured blizzards at 15,000 feet, disguised himself as a Ladaki to escape capture by Tibetan authorities, and successfully charted the main geographical lines.
Yakushi H177c.
10. Large game shooting in Thibet, the Himalayas, and Northern India ... Illustrated by photogravures. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1885.
$750
4to, pp. viii, 237, [1], 16 (Thacker, Spink and Co. ads); folding map, frontispiece, 29 gravure plates; original pictorial green cloth, stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; endpapers neatly replaced, some spotting on the lower cover; all else near fine and bright.
Constituting revised versions, with additions and corrections, of 1) Large game shooting in Thibet and the north west. Illustrated by photographs taken by Arthur Lucas, London: Harrison, 1869; and, 2) Large game shooting in Thibet and the north west, second series ... illustrated by photo-tint. London: Harrison, 1876.
Czech, Asia, p. 119; Yakushi K209b.
11. 蕙農畫集 = Huinong hua ji = Chinese water-colour painting with instructions and remarks regarding the use of Chinese papers and colours. [Hong Kong: printed by The Asiatic Litho Printing Press (imprint from a sticker at the base of the rear pastedown), 1940].
$600
Folio, ff. [2], 52; 20 mounted color plates, 2 b&w photographic illustrations, each interspersed with calligraphed Chinese poetry; original beige cloth, color-printed label on upper cover; several shallow marginal tears, front hinge cracked, but in all, very good, sound, and clean.
Includes a "Forward" [sic] by L. King Quan, Ph.D., New York City, and "An Appreciation" by Benjamin Wylie, Director and General Manager of the South China Morning Post.
Wikipedia notes that Kwan Wai-nung (1878-1956) was born in Guangdong and studied Chinese painting under Ju Lian. He fused this with a more Western style learnt from his brother, Kwan Kin-hing. Kwan migrated to Hong Kong at the beginning of the 20th century. He became art director for the South China Morning Post in 1911, before leaving in 1915 to set up his own lithographic business, the Asiatic Lithographic Printing Press in Sai Ying Pun. During the 1920s and 1930s Kwan personally designed calendars and posters for various companies in the city. Calendars acted as branded merchandise and artists were often hired to make the product seem more appealing. Kwan understood the impact advertising had on businesses and positioned his art, many of which featured modestly dressed pin-up girls, as a means of relaying brands to customers ... His company imported modern printing technology from Britain and Germany and opened branches in Singapore, Guangzhou and Shanghai. Effectively cornering the market in Hong Kong at the time, his success led to him being named "King of the Calendar Poster."
OCLC locates copies variously dated 1940 and 1941 at Hong Kong University, Michigan, Yale, and N.Y. Public.
12. [Magic & Illusion.] 文娛幻術 / Wen yu huan shu [= Entertainment illusion.] Compiled and illustrated by Xiong Dafu]. Shanghai: Guoguang Bookstore, 1954.
$150
First published in 1952, this is the tenth printing, 6¾" x 4¾", pp. [2], 88; illustrated throughout showing methods of performing magic, dice, cards, magic apparati, and rabbits; worn, with chips and tears, but complete in original pictorial wrappers.
This is the first in what appears to be a series of at least three volumes by Tianzheng Fu. At the head of the title, via google translate: "Mass performances by peasants, workers, soldiers." From the introductory note: "Illusion is an art of change. Although the phenomenon is very novel, its foundation is based on materialistic science. This collection contains fifty sets of new fantasy spells, including "immediate freezing of ice", "unbreakable handkerchief", "paper tube dyeing towel", "copper round transition", "cup flying off", etc. The equipment is simple and easy to use. The technique is simple and easy to learn, and the performance phenomenon is extremely novel. It can be used by the public to perform in recreational activities, and is especially suitable for beginners."
"Fu Tianzheng (1906–1972), grew up in Chongqing and became quite well known while still in high school. He could paint, wrote poetry, ran the school newspaper, acted in school plays, and put on his own magic shows. Later he attended Peking University and graduated with degrees in art history and business law. Since his father was a prominent lawyer, he was expected to and did work as an attorney. But he loved the arts so much that he quit law practice in order to become a magician, even though they were looked down upon. He stood out among his colleagues in the Shanghai Magic Troupe and spent his spare time researching and publishing books on the history of magic and acrobatics" (from his daughter's reminiscences - see "Fu Qifeng and Her Tangram Family," at chinesepuzzles[.]org).
13. Peking. Geleitwort von Arthur Holitscher. Berlin: Albertus Verlag, 1928.
$200
First edition, 4to, pp. xx, map, and 200 mostly full-page sepia-tinted photographic plates; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; very good, sound, and clean. Issued in the "Das Gesicht Der Stadte" series edited by C.O. Justh.
Perckhammer served in the Siege of Tsingtao during the First World War, and from 1917 to 1919 was a Japanese prisoner of war. He remained in China after his release, and produced two photo books. One was a collection of Peking street scenes [as here], and the second was a collection of soft focus nudes, mainly of prostitutes from Macao, which had to be smuggled out of China.
14. The aristocracy of Central Tibet. A provisional list of the names of the noble houses of Ü-Tsang. Kalimpong: printed by G[ergan] Tharchin at the Tibet "Mirror" Press, 1954.
$300
First edition, issue with 41 (not 43) pages of text; 7¼" x 5", pp. 41, [1]; 2 photographic illustrations on recto and verso of 1 plate; fine in original printed gray wrappers.
With the ownership stamp of "C. A. Muses" inside the upper wrapper. Charles Arthur Muses (1919-2000), was a mathematician, cyberneticist and esoteric philosopher who wrote articles and books under various pseudonyms. He founded the Lion Path, a shamanistic movement. He held unusual and controversial views relating to mathematics, physics, philosophy, and many other fields. (See Wikipedia).
"From the work of the 3rd Danish expedition to Central Asia."
Yakushi P-175 noting only the 43-page issue.
15. Voyage au pole boréal, fait en 1773, par ordre du roi d'Angleterre … traduit de l'Anglois. Paris: Saillant & Nyon [et] Pissot, 1775.
$950
First edition in French, 4to, pp. xi, [1], 259, [3]; 3 engraved folding maps, 9 engraved folding plates, 11 folding tables (in the pagination), other tables in the text; slight rubbing, but generally a very good, sound copy in contemporary full speckled calf, gilt spine, red morocco label.
"An important addition to early nautical science in the polar regions ... The voyage is perhaps best remembered for the presence of the young Horatio Nelson, as midshipman on board the Carcass, and his encounter with a polar bear" (Hill). The expedition reached nearly 81 degrees north and was finally blocked by ice, but the results were lasting as the history of polar exploration east of Greenland begins with this voyage.
Hill 1351.
16. Instructive and curious epistles from Catholic clergymen of the Society of Jesus, in China, India, Persia, the Levant, and either America; being selections of the most interesting of the "Lettres édifiantes." With an appendix slightly illustrating the present situation of the countries described. Dublin: T. O'Gorman, 35 Upper Ormand-Quay, 1839.
$250
First edition in English, 12mo, pp. xi, [1], 373, [1]; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine; spine sunned; else very good, clean and sound.
Letters from Jesuits at foreign missions. These "Lettres édifiantes" were issued "regularly by the Society of Jesus, [and] presented selections from correspondence and reports written by Jesuit missionaries then scattered around the globe ... The sections on China systematically summarized the country's history, religion, economy, and customs." (Reed, Marcia and Paola Dematté, "China on Paper: European and Chinese Works from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century," Issue 85, Getty Publications, 2011, p. 20).
17. [Quakers.] Some account of the early part of the life of Elizabeth Ashbridge, who died, in the service of the truth, at the house of Robert Lecky, in the county of Carlow, Ireland, the 16th of 5th month, 1755. Providence: H. H. Brown, for the Trustees of Obadiah Brown's Fund, 1831.
$750
12mo, pp. 60; original drab front wrapper; some browning, very good.
Preceded by several other editions between 1774 and 1820, this poignant autobiography chronicles the spiritual journey of an independent woman in a patriarchal world. Born in England in 1713, Elizabeth Ashbridge eloped at the age of 14, but within several months she was a widow. After her parents refused to take her in she went to Ireland to live with Quaker relatives. At the age of 19 she immigrated to the United States where she was indentured as a servant in New York. After two years she managed to purchase her freedom from a cruel master, then married a teacher named Sullivan who proved to be abusive. Disappointed that the Anglican ministry was closed to women, she tried other denominations, but became disenchanted with clerics indifferent to her aspirations. Visiting Quaker relatives in Pennsylvania, she converted. Her growing independence and secular life increasingly alienated her husband. After Sullivan's death, quickened by habitual drunkenness, she married Aaron Ashbridge, a respected Quaker from Chester Co., Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Ashbridge overcomes an authoritarian father, a cruel master, an abusive husband, and the hypocrisy of the priestly class. In her failed marriage and in her faith, Ashbridge chooses conscience over convention. Her story provides a unique perspective on the situation of women at the time of the Great Awakening.
A thriving Quaker population in Rhode Island likely accounts for the publication of this edition, paid for by the Obadiah Brown Fund, which was founded in Providence in 1823 by bequest of Obadiah Brown "to be a fund, independent of New England Yearly Meeting, to enhance the Religious Society of Friends through grants to individuals and Friends organizations, and specifically for 'the printing and disseminating of useful books for the promulgation of the gospel and by that means, as well as, otherwise spreading our Religious Principals where they are little known'.”
Obadiah Brown was the son of Moses Brown, the founder of the Quaker School in Rhode Island (i.e. Moses Brown), and the nephew of John Brown, founder of Brown University. The original bequest from Brown was $100,000, said to be the largest single bequest to an institution of learning up to that time. The Obadiah Brown Fund exists to this day.
This edition not in Smith, Friend's Books (see pp. 135-36); American Imprints 5802.
18. Trails to inmost Asia. Five years of exploration with the Roerich Central Asian Expedition ... With a preface by Louis Marin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1931.
$175
First edition, 8vo, pp. xx, 504; folding map, portrait frontispiece and 151 illustrations, mostly from photographs, on rectos and versos of 42 plates; original green cloth stamped in black on spine; spine a little sunned, else a very good, sound, and clean copy.
Yakushi R296: "Account of a journey made by Nicholas Roerich, his wife, and his son, in Central Asia, from 1925 to 1928. They left Srinagar, followed the Ladakh-Karakoram trade route to Khotan, whence they went via Kashgar and Kucha to Urumchi, and then proceeded via Manas to Asiatic Russia and to Urga. From Urga they went first by car, and then by caravan across Tibet to Sikkim, and reached Darjeeling on May 26, 1928."
19. The Manchus, or the reigning dynasty of China: their rise and progress. Paisley: J. and R. Parlane. London: Houlston and Sons, 1880.
$250
8vo, pp. xxxii, 751, [1], 4 ads; frontispiece, 2 maps, plan of Peking (i.e. Beijing), several illustrations and tables in the text; original brown pictorial cloth, recased and rebacked in tan calf lettered in gilt; perforated stamp in bottom margin of title page, small rubberstamp at the bottom of the last page of text; all else very good, sound and clean.
Reverend John Ross (1842 - 1915), was a Scottish United Presbyterian Missionary to Northeast China (then, Manchuria), and known for translating the first Korean Bible and being the first to introduce spacing to Korean punctuation. He lived in Northeast China from 1872 to 1910.
20. [Title in Persian = Mukhtasar-i lughat-i farsi] or, a vocabulary of the Persian language. In two parts. Persian and English, and English and Persian. [London]: J. Sewell ... Murray and Highley ... J. Debrett, and the Editor, 1802.
$2,250
First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], x, [9]-484 columns, [2]; text in Farsi and Roman character throughout; nice copy in mid-20th century quarter tan calf over marbled boards, red morocco label on gilt-paneled spine.
"Printed by [the author] S. Rousseau at the Arabic and Persian Press, Wood Street, Spa Fields." The author is identified on the title page as a "teacher in the Persian tongue." His was the first Oriental press in England.
Not in Zaunmuller or Vancil.
21. Monarquia de España escrita por el doctor don Pedro Salazar de Mendoza, primer canonigo penitenciario de la Santa Iglesia de Toledo, primada de estos reynos. Publicala don Bartholome Ulloa, mercader de libros. Madrid: Por D. Joachin Ibarra ... se hallarà en las librerias del mismo Ulloa calle de La Concepcion, 1770-1771.
$3,800
First edition, 3 volumes, folio, pp. [4], xxviii, 411, [1]; [4], 443, [1]; xii, 278; engraved portrait of the King, folding numismatic plate of the coins struck during his reign, plus an engraved genealogical tree of the family of Phillip III; woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials; contemporary full Spanish mottled calf bearing the supralibros of the Society of Writers to the Signet on all covers, gilt-decorated spine in 7 compartments, red and green morocco labels in 2; some spotting to the pastedowns of volume III but in all a fine and impressive set.
According to the editor's design, this work was to consist of seven volumes, compiled from the best sources, bringing the history down to Charles III, 1759, but volumes IV-VII were never published. The title varies in volume III: Monarquia de España. Historia de la vida y hechos del inclito monarca, amado y santo D. Felipe Tercero. Obra posthuma del maestro Gil Gonzalez Davila ... Publicala don Bartholome Ulloa ...
Palau 286874; Lasala 281.
22. Buddhism in Tibet illustrated by literary documents and objects of religious worship. With an account of the Buddhist systems preceding it in India. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus. London: Trubner & Co., 1863.
$325
First edition, 8vo, pp. xxiv, [2], 403, [1]; 20 plates (9 folding); original gilt-stamped brown cloth, rebacked in brown cloth lettered in gilt, and recased with new endpapers; corners worn, with loss; internally clean and the binding is sound, but the binding has been through the wars. Lacking the large atlas volume containing an additional 20 plates, as often.
Schlagintweit (1835-1904) was a German scholar noted for his work on Buddhism in Tibet. He was tutored by Franz Joseph Lauth, and later sold 102 Tibetan manuscripts that were collected by his brothers, and which had likely been used to research this work, to the Bodleian Library.
23. Unknown Karakoram. London: Martin Hopkinson Ltd., 1936.
$150
First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 9-244; portrait frontispiece, folding map in rear cover pocket, 23 illustrations from photographs on 21 plates (1 double-page); original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine; very good, sound, and clean.
Yakushi S178a: "The author was permitted to travel in the lower Shaksgam and lower Oprang. So he crossed the Shingshal Pass in 1934, and explored in twice in that year. He made a useful reconnaissance of the Raskam, Shaksgam, Oprang, and Braldu valleys, and the highlands between the Shingshal and Ghujerab rivers."
24. [Title in Mongolian] = Physiological hygiene. Part 1. [Hohhot?]: Inner Mongolian People's Publishing House, 1958.
$200
First edition, 8" x 5½", pp. 128; 2 color plates showing 6 illustrations on rectos and versos, plus anatomical illustrations and tables throughout the text; original pictorial tan wrappers; very good.
Not found in OCLC.
25. An authentic account of an embassy from the king of Great Britain to the emperour of China; including cursory observations made, and information obtained, in travelling through that ancient empire and a small part of Chinese Tartary. Together with a relation of the voyage undertaken … to the Yellow Sea and the Gulf of Pekin … with notices of several places where they stopped … taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney…. Philadelphia: printed for Robert Campbell by John Bioren, 1799.
$650
First American edition, 2 volumes in 1, 8vo, pp. xxiii, [1], 297, [1]; 265, [1], xxiv; 8 wood-engraved plates; top corner of each title page clipped to remove a signature; all else very good in contemporary tree calf, gilt-paneled spine, red morocco label (slightly chipped in one corner and affecting one letter).
One of the great travel accounts to China. Lust, Western Books on China published up to 1850, 545 (for the first edition of 1797): "The work was remarkably successful. About 15 editions issued in seven European countries and the U.S. from 1797 to 1832"; Cordier, Bibliotheca Sinica, col. 2381-3.
26. [Tibet.] Further papers relating to Tibet. [In continuation of Cd. 2370.] ... presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty. London: printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1910.
$250
Folio, pp. xvi, 229, [1]; original printed blue wrappers bound into later brown wrappers; accession sticker at lower corner of upper wrapper; several marginal creases, chips and shallow tears; all else very good, sound and clean.
This is the fourth in a series of papers published by the Foreign Office, the first two in 1904 and a third in 1905. This volume contains all the correspondence during the time frame of these reports, 1904-1910, and includes telegrams, despatches, letters, memoranda, etc. among the officials of Britain, India, and China, regarding negotiations, trade, local unrest, the Dalai Lama, indemnities, boundaries, taxes, scientific missions, telegraph lines, Chinese policies, etc.
27. 中華人民共和國藥典 / Zhong hua ren min gong he guo yao dian [= Provincial atlas of the People's Republic of China]. Shanghai: Map Publishing Agency, 1953.
$325
Large 8vo (approx. 10½" x 7½"), pp. [176]; color maps throughout; later blue cloth, LC duplicate with stamps and marks internally only; clean, sound; markings aside, very good.
Library of Congress cataloguing tipped inside the rear cover reads: "1953, March, revised 1st edition, series no. 101 Original compiler: Ya-kuang Geog. Institute Revised by: Map Publication Agency Published by: Map Publication Agency This atlas is the first revised edition of the original Chin Ch'ing-yl's Ya-Kuang Atlas since the Ya-Kuang Geog. Institute was absorbed by the Map Publication Agency, a new organization sponsored by the Chinese communist government. It contains 50 maps: reference maps for topography, river systems, climate, soil, economical development, communications, population and racial distribution and administrative divisions, in addition to maps of provinces, principal cities, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Tibet."