China: Studies In Culture from Librarium of The Hague

Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1924. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Quarto. Pp. 58. Plus 87 plates with a total of 224 images printed in fine collotype. Title-page printed in red and black. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's ochre full cloth with illustration in red; remnants of bookplate inside cover, spine-ends trifle worn. In a very good condition.… Read more about this item

Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1924. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Quarto. Pp. 58. Plus 87 plates with a total of 224 images printed in fine collotype. Title-page printed in red and black. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's ochre full cloth with illustration in red. A fine copy, mint interior, by far the nicest copy we have ever… Read more about this item

San Francisco, Chinese Materials Center, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Octavo. Pp. x, 204, 6. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. In fine condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Chinese Materials and Research Aids Service Center, Inc., Occasional Series No. 34. Z-4 OUT

London, New York, Toronto, Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1955. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Octavo. Pp. x, 264. Plus 2 folding maps bound at end, and a folding chart bound-in. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's full cloth, gilt spine; free endpapers browned, first with a signature. In fine condition. Excellent copy. ~ FIRST EDITION. London Oriental… Read more about this item

London, Aldwych, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Royal octavo. Pp. ix, 434. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's full cloth. In mint condition, practically new. ~ FIRST EDITION. Z-3 OUT

Leipzig, Otto Spamer, 1910. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Royal octavo. Pp. vi, 412, (12) illustrated publisher's catalogue. Profusely illustrated throughout. Set in Gothic type. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's full ochre cloth, decoration to cover and spine, bevelled edges, decorative endpapers and text-block edges, one corner-tip rubbed. In a very good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. [TO… Read more about this item

Blackburn, The North-East Lancashire Press Company, 1898. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Two volumes in one. Royal octavo. Pp. xii, 152; vii, 386. Group-portrait as frontispiece. Plus large folding map preceding frontispiece, folding map bound-in, and large fold-out plan "Section of Main Caravan Route (.)" bound at end of volume I. Includes a transcript of Bourne's letter to… Read more about this item

Tientsin & Peking, Tientsin Press, 1924. Hardcover. .. Octavo. Pp. ix, (ii), 237, xii illustrated commercial advertisements. Plus numerous plates, maps and plans, some folding, some coloured, tipped- or bound-in, all outside the pagination. Plus large folding "Plan of Peking" printed in multiple colours, at rear pocket. Several original Addendum slips tipped-in. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's… Read more about this item

Weinheim, Acta Humaniora, VCH; Wolfenbüttel, Herzog Augut Bibliothek, 1987. 1st Edition . Soft cover. .. Quarto. Pp. 302, (2). Colour frontispiece. Illustrated throughout. Bound in the original stiff pictorial wrappers. In fine condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Published to coincide with the exhibition at the same name in Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel. 006-5

Shanghai, Kelly and Walsh, 1917. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Two volumes. Paginated consecutively. Quarto. Pp. 296; 297-633. Includes Addend & Corrigenda section. Set in double columns. HARDCOVER, uniformly bound in contemporary three quarter cloth, spines lettered and individually numbered in gilt, cloth inner hinges; paper on boards bit creased in places, minor marking in red pencil on… Read more about this item

Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1964. 1st Edition . Soft cover. .. Crown quarto. Pp. viii, 479. Bound in the original printed wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused, still entirely unopened. ~ FIRST EDITION. Doctoral dissertation, presented to the University of Paris. Considered the definitive study of Ssu-ma Hsiang-ju's life and work. Yves Hervouet (1921-1999). Rare. Z-5 OUT… Read more about this item

San Francisco, Chinese Materials Center, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Octavo. Pp. x, 204, 6. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. In fine condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Chinese Materials and Research Aids Service Center, Inc., Occasional Series No. 34. Z-4 OUT

Beijing, International Culture Publishing Corporation, 1987. 1st Edition . Soft cover. .. Thick octavo. Pp. 11, vi, 661. With 43 plates. Bound in the original stiff wrappers, small signature to title-page. In fine condition. Excellent copy. ~ FIRST EDITION. _O-2

Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1950. Soft cover. .. Crown quarto. Pp. x, 326. Bound in the original stiff wrappers, plasticized, some annotations to first free endpaper. In a very good condition, fine, clean interior. ~ Revised Edition. Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies, II. Z-4 IN

Weinheim, Acta Humaniora, VCH; Wolfenbüttel, Herzog Augut Bibliothek, 1987. 1st Edition . Soft cover. .. Quarto. Pp. 302, (2). Colour frontispiece. Illustrated throughout. Bound in the original stiff pictorial wrappers. In a very fine condition. Excellent copy. ~ FIRST EDITION. Published to coincide with the exhibition at the same name in Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel. 006-5

Prague, Academia, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Crown quarto. Pp. 586; HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's full light blue cloth, large gilt decoration to cover, gilt lettering to spine, with good dust-jacket, cloth ribbon marker, small marks on free endpapers. In fine condition. Overall an excellent copy. ~ FIRST EDITION. Z-4 IN… Read more about this item

Cambridge, W. Heffer, 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Crown quarto. Pp. xxx, 663. Set in double columns. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's full ochre cloth, Chinese lettering to cover and spine, with dust-jacket, this worn in places. Book is in fine condition. Excellent copy. ~ FIRST EDITION. Z-5 OUT

Shanghae, American Presbyterian Mission Press; London, Trübner & Co., 1867. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Crown quarto. Pp. viii, xxviii, 260. Table. Indices. HARDCOVER, bound in full blue grey cloth, gilt lettering to spine, spine slightly discoloured. In about fine condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Alexander Wylie (1815-1887). E-4 OUT

Hong Kong, K. Weiss, 1952. Hardcover. .. Octavo. Pp. 150, (2). Frontispiece portrait of Lin Ho-ching, printed in brown ink. Plus 6 tinted plates. Title-page in Chinese, printed in red and black. Bibliography. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's full blue cloth, yellow lettering in Chinese and English, with the original dust-jacket (good, minute chips). In fine condition.… Read more about this item

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1979. 1st Edition . Soft cover. .. Royal octavo. Pp. 178. Plus 6 plates. Indices. Original errata slip tipped-in. Bound in the original stiff wrappers. In fine condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Z-5 OUT