CAVENDISH RARE BOOKS
China in Print - Hong Kong 2018
CAVENDISH RARE BOOKS Barbara Grigor-Taylor
Exhibiting on Stand 7
CHINA IN PRINT
Hong Kong Maritime Museum Central Pier 8 30 November - 2 December 2018
Company details: Cavendish Rare Books 19 Chesthunte Road London N17 7PU tel/fax: (44) 208 808 4595 email: Grigorbooks@aol.com Bank details: The Co-operative Bank IBAN: GB CPBK 0892 9969 2698 37 BIC/SWIFT: CPBK GB22 Cover illustration: 33. Rear cover: 24.
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Andrade, Antonio de. Voyages au Thibet, Faits en 1625 et 1626, par le pére d’Andrada, et en 1774, 1784 et 1785 par Bogle, Turner et Pourunguir. Paris: de l’Imprimerie de Hautbout l’ainé. L’an IV [1795/6]. First Edition thus, 12mo, a fine copy in contemporary French mottled calf, giltbordered, fully gilt flat spine, red calf label, marbled edges; pp. xii+204; with 2 engraved plates on 1 folding leaf. A rare and charming little book. £ 350 /HK$ 3,850 The Portuguese Jesuit Andrade was the first European to enter Tibet in 1624 and founded a Catholic mission there. His second journey of 1625 is related here. George Bogle led the first English trade mission to Tibet for the East India Co. in 1774, accompanied by the Hindu pilgrim Purangir, reaching Shigatse where they met with Panchen Lama. Bogle’s account was not fully published in English until 1879 and Samuel Turner’s account of his diplomatic mission to Tibet in 1783 was not published in full until 1800.
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[Argens, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'] (1704-1771). Lettres Chinoises, ou Correspondence Philosophique, Historique et Critique, entre un Chinois Voyageur à Paris & ses Correspondans à la Chine, en Moscovie, en Perse & au Japon. Par l'Auteur des Lettres Juives & des Lettres Cabalistique. Tome Premier [Cinquieme]. The Hague: Chez Pierre Paupie, 1739-1740. First Edition, 5 vols. 12mo, a fine set in contemporary vellum over paper boards, title and volume numbers inked on spines; pp. xxii+240; viii+240; viii+240; viii+240 and iv+240. Comprised of 150 letters of 4 leaves each, each volume separately dedicated, with woodcut head- and tail-pieces. A publisher's advertisment follows several letters, noting that they could be bought singly, twice-weekly, from (named) booksellers in various cities in the Netherlands and Europe. Another states that the five title-pages and dedications could be had separately from the publishers on request. Each letter carries the publisher's imprint at the foot of its final leaf. Rare, with no copy of the first edition in Britain. £ 500 / HK$ 5,500 These are 'Lettres imaginaire' from Chinese travellers in Paris to their correspondents, largely in China. As the reputation of Confucius soared in the West from the early 18th c., thanks to the Jesuit propagation of Confucianism, the fictional Chinese visitor to Europe became the sagacious, detached observer reporting back to his countrymen. Here the observers attack the absurd philosophies, beliefs and customs found in Europe, and applaud the customs and habits of the Chinese. Argens was an anti-Catholic philosopher whose publications were denounced by the Inquisition and appeared on the Vatican's list of prohibited books in 1742. It seems he found French philosophy compared favourably with Confucianism and was much opposed to the Church's religious intolerance. Argens fled from France, first to Constantinople and then to Amsterdam and Berlin, returning to France only in 1769. Cordier 1855. Lowendahl 413. Lust 1268.
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Ball, J. Dyer. How to Speak Cantonese: Fifty Conversations in Cantonese Colloquial:... Hong Kong: Printed at the ‘China Mail’ Office, 1889. First Edition, 8vo, original cloth-backed printed green wrappers; pp. [viii]+180+xii (advertisements for Ball’s other works on Cantonese and Hakka). Covers soiled, showing signs of use. £ 325 / HK$ 3,575 By the Hong Kong-born scholar and linguist who was largely responsible for developing a system of romanisation for the Cantonese language. Cordier 1648.
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Bamber, M. Kelway A Text Book on the Chemistry and Agriculture of Tea, including the growth and manufacture. Calcutta: Law-Publishing Press, 1893. First edition, 8vo, publisher’s maroon cloth gilt; pp. [ii]+ii+258+[iv]+xxii (Appendices); with 2 folding charts on methods used at Doloo estate, Cachar. Covers a little soiled, paper repair to title, slightly shaken. £ 125 / HK$ 1,375 The author was chemist to the Indian Tea Association, Calcutta. His appendices include analyses of Indian and Ceylon tea, and the chemistry of Japan and China tea.
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Bickers, Robert. Empire Made Me. An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. First U.S. issue, 8vo, fine in dustwrapper; pp. vi+410, indexed, with half-tones throughout from early photos. £ 24 / HK$ 265 The biography and times of Richard Maurice Tinkler, from his personal letters, contemporary documents and the biographer’s research. Tinkler served in the Shanghai Municipal Police from 1919 to 1939 in the International Settlement.
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Blyth, Sally and Ian Wotherspoon. Hong Kong Remembers. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1996. First edition, 8vo, as new in dustwrapper; pp. [xii]+285, map on endpapers; with half-tones from photos throughout. Foreword by the Rt. Hon. the Baroness Thatcher. £ 24 / HK$ 265 Compiled from first-hand accounts of life in Hong Kong from immediately before World War II to the change-over to ‘One Country, Two Systems’.
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Booth, Martin. Golden Boy. Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005. First U.S. issue, 8vo, fine in dustwrapper; pp. [x]+342, with glossary of common Cantonese words as spoken by ‘gweilo’. £ 25 / HK$ 275 When Martin’s father was posted to Hong Kong to serve aboard an RN supply ship in 1952, Martin and his mother joined him. The ‘Golden Boy’ had the run of Kowloon, which he packed with adventures among the street traders and local people.
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[Brereton, Ensign Frank Sadleir]. [Views in Tientsin] [Tientsin]: 1861. An original sketch book kept by Ensign Brereton in Tientsin in 1861 following the conclusion of the Second Opium War, containing 54 ink & wash and pen or pencil drawings. Oblong small 8vo, in the original tan morocco album with brass clasp, with the stationer Henry Penny’s engraved label on front paste-down. With 26 views of Tientsin and the forts, including a double-page view of the South Forts; 1 tropical scene; 2 of Singapore; 6 of Java; and a further 19 of Scotland, dated 1863 at the album end. Of the 26 views of Tientsin all except 3 are captioned, signed and dated by the artist. A complete list of the Tientsin, Singapore and Java views is inserted. A remarkable survival and in fine condition. £ 5,500 / HK$ 60,500 An inserted typed note by Brereton’s son states that his father was with the Second Battalion, 60th Rifles, and was actively engaged in the attack on the Taku Forts in August 1860. This was the Third Battle of the Taku Forts to enforce the 1858 Tientsin Treaty. The Anglo-French victory at that battle ensured continuation of the opium trade and opened a river route to Peking, which the allied forces occupied in October 1860.
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[Canton]. Boats, Canton China [manuscript cover title]. [Canton]: c. 1920. Oblong 12mo, original red silk brocade binding and silk cord ties; with 12 pith paper paintings of Canton Boats, each 8x11.5 cm. and bordered with blue paper, with printed English captions. One has three vertical tears but all others are in unusually good condition, a few with minor flaws only. The painting technique is particularly fine, with the colours raised and pronounced. £ 1,500 / HK$ 16,500 The boats illustrated are all types found in and around Hong Kong, the Pearl River and Canton: Dragon-boat, Pleasure-boat, Mandarin-boat, Tientsin-boat, Passage-boat, Actorsboat, Flower-boat, Duck-boat, Silk-boat, Tea-boat, Revenue Cruizer, and Lekin Hulk.
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[Carpets]. Imperial Carpets from Peking. Pittsburgh: University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, 1973. Exhibition catalogue, quarto, cloth-backed illustrated boards; pp. iv+44, bibliography; with 16 full-page plates of silk carpets (7 in colour) of the 19th century; With a plan of the Purple Forbidden City and list of inscriptions on the carpets. All were gathered from private collections. £ 24 / HK$ 265
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Chalmers, John. An Account of the Structure of Chinese Characters under 300 Primary Forms;..... Second Edition. Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1911. 8vo, red cloth lettered in black; pp. [vi]+viii+199, with index of English words; with folding chart printed in red and black of the 300 Primary Forms of Chinese Writing. A little shaken but a good copy. First published 1882. £ 120 / HK$ 1,325 Chalmers reached Hong Kong in 1852, succeeding James Legge there at the LMS. He completed a translation of the Bible in Wênli and published a number of works on the
origins of the Chinese language and a Kangshi dictionary. Here he based his work on the Shwoh-Wan characters of 100 A.D. and the Phonetic Shwoh-Wan of 1833. Cordier 1743 for the first edition. 12.
Chavannes, Édouard. L'expression des voeux dans l’art populaire Chinois. Paris: Éditions Bossard, 1922. First edition, 8vo, original printed orange wrappers; pp. [ii]+42, mostly unopened; with 14 half-tones plates from photographs, and 17 line-drawn figures in text. Covers darkened at edges, otherwise a nice copy. £ 65 / HK$ 715 Symbols and designs in Chinese art, from ceramics to sculpture and painting.
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Clerc, Nicholas Gabriel. Yu le Grand et Confucius, Histoire Chinois... Premiere Partie [- Quatrieme Partie]. Soissons: De l’Imprimerie de Ponce Courtois, Imprimeur du Roi, 1769. First Edition, thick quarto, a fine copy in contemporary French cats-paw calf, raised bands, gilt-decorated in compartments, gilt lettering piece, red-stained edges, foot of spine very slightly chipped, with blue silk marker; pp. xxvi+702 (including title, Dedication, contents leaves, errata and Privilege), and 8 folding letterpress tables. £ 1,000 / HK$ 11,000 An analysis of the Confucian code and a counter argument to misconceptions about China. The work is in four parts: 1) a description of the empire: its government, population, trade and produce, with particular note of the agriculture of Kuangtung Province; 2) the life of Confucius: his philosophy, teaching and disciples, and the applications of Confucianism to Chinese society; 3-4) the life of Yu, first emperor of China’s first dynasty - the Hsia, c.2070 B.C. - and his legacy to his son Ch’i. Dedicated to the Russian Grand Duke, with comparisons throughout between the Russian and Chinese agricultural and trading systems. The 8 folding tables are largely statistical, on trade between Russia and China. Clerc was medical advisor to the Russian Court, a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, an economist and a “Physiocrat”. The principles of the French economic theory of physiocracy were that the wealth of nations derived solely from the value of agriculture and land development. It emphasized productive work as the source of national wealth - as opposed to mercantilism which was based on the accumulation of gold or the balance of trade. The section on Yu the Great exemplifies the theory: he is credited with the first building of China’s great canal system, to eliminate flooding and increase agricultural output. Traditionally, it was during his reign that the dragon became the imperial emblem. Legend tells that it was a great fiveclawed dragon that came to Yu’s aid and tamed China’s floods by dragging its tail through the land to create the river systems and dykes. Yu is also said to have had built China’s first astronomical observatory. Cordier 604. Lust 1275. Lowendahl 549.
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Collis, Louise (Ed.) Maurice Collis, Diaries 1949-1969. London: Heinemann, 1977. First edition, 8vo, fine in dustwrappper; pp. viii+216, indexed; with 16 half-tones from photos. £ 30 / HK$ 330 Following his long career in the Indian Civil Service in Burma, Collis returned to England, where he maintained his connections with Burma, its leaders and people. He also became actively involved with the artists and writers of the time.
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Collis, Maurice. The Grand Peregrination. Being the life and adventures of Fernão Mendes Pinto. London: Faber and Faber, 1951. Second impression, 8vo, fine in dustwrapper; pp. [iv]+313, indexed, bibliography; with 13 plates. First issued 1949. £ 30 / HK$ 330 The first biography of this 16th-century Portuguese soldier-of-fortune’s adventures in Asia. From India he travelled to Malacca and the Far East to make his fortune as a trader merchant. He fell in with pirates, was imprisoned in China, and made his way to Japan, where he introduced fire-arms. He briefly became a Jesuit, with the idea of converting the Japanese to Christianity. Failing in that, he returned to Portugal. His own account was first published in Lisbon, 1614.
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Collis, Maurice. Into Hidden Burma. An Autobiography. London: Faber and Faber, 1953. First edition, 8vo, very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper; pp. 268, indexed, appendix, map; with frontispiece portrait. £ 32 / HK$ 350 Collis reached Burma in 1911 with the Indian Civil Service, remaining until 1934, first as district commissioner of Rakhine State, then as deputy secretary to the Governor in Rangoon and latterly as district magistrate. As an independent-minded civil servant he often crossed swords with the establisted British order; his first commitment was to Burma.
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Collis, Maurice. The Land of the Great Image. Being Experiences of Friar Manrique in Arakan. London: Faber and Faber, 1943. New issue, 8vo, fine in dustwrapper; pp. 317, indexed; 5 maps and plans. First issued the same year. £ 30 / HK$ 330 The Augustinian Friar set out from Goa in 1628 on a Portuguese diplomatic mission to Arakan, now within the borders of Burma, where it was said that a colossal image of Buddha had been created during his lifetime.
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Collis, Maurice. She Was a Queen. London: Faber and Faber, 1952 New issue, 8vo, very good in dustwrapper though some light foxing; pp. 248; with a map and 3 plates. With the ink stamp of the People’s Literature House, Rangoon, on front endpaper. First published 1937. £ 30 / HK$ 330
Burma’s 13th-century Pagãn dynasty, in the time of Queen Saw, of Kublai Khan and Marco Polo, as related in the 'Glass Palace Chronicle' by Burmese scholars in the 19th century. 19.
[Confucius]. La Morale de Confucius, Philosophe de la Chine. l’Imprimerie de Valade, et à Reims, chez Cazin, 1783.
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First Issue of “La Morale...” and “Lettre sur la Morale...” printed together, small 8vo, fine in contemporary French speckled calf, covers triple-ruled in gilt, flat spine gilt in compartments; pp. 20+197 (verso blank); with engraved portrait of Confucius by Delvaux; all edges gilt. The “Morale” covers pages 21-154 and includes a printing of the 80 Maxims, and the “Lettre sur la Morale de Confucius” covers pages 155-197. £ 100 / HK$ 1,100 The French translation of the ‘Morale de Confucius’ was first printed in Amsterdam 1688 and is based on the introductory “Proëmialis declaratio” which was first printed in the Latin work, “Confucius sinarum philosophus...” in Paris 1686/87. Authorship is not agreed by bibliogaphers: Lowendhal gives Louis Cousin as a possibility, but Lust and Cordier list Jean de la Brune. The “Lettre...” is by Simon Foucher, also first printed separately in 1688. In this edition by Valade they are printed together for the first time. Lust describes the work as an “idealized portrait” of the philosopher, as would be expected from its Jesuit translators and editors. Lowendahl 186. Lust 726. Cordier 1394. 20.
Drage, Charles. Taikoo. London: Constable, 1970. First edition, 8vo, fine in dustwrapper; pp. 320, indexed, appendices; with 30 photo plates and 9 sketch maps. £ 40 / HK$ 440 The founding, rise and progress of Butterfield & Swire from its establishment in Shanghai 1866 to the 1925 anti-British boycott. Drage was there, serving with the Royal Navy. As well as being his account of China through many tumultuous years, it is filled with character sketches of some of Swire’s more eccentric characters, and includes his friendship with the notorious Two Gun Cohen.
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Duncan, Marion H. The Mountain of Silver Snow. Cincinnati: Powell & White, 1929. First edition, 8vo, fine in publisher’s blue cloth lettered in silver; with frontis. portrait and 7 plates of half-tones from photos, map on endpapers signed by the artist, Vera B. Roseler. £ 120 / HK$ 1,325 The author and his family were American Protestant missionaries encouraged to work in far eastern Tibet by Dr. A.L. Shelton, renowned Tibetologist. The Duncans reached Gartok and Batang from Yunnan via Talifu and Likiang to the Yangtze, and up the Mekong to Gartok. Duncan remained for 7 years, completing remarkable itineraries with his young wife and small children. The mountain of the book’s title is Kawagabo, rising in northern Yunnan between the Mekong and the Salween rivers.
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[East India Marine Society]. The East-India Marine Society of Salem. [Salem]: Printed by W. Palfray, Jr., 1821. 8vo, unbound, sewn, spine strengthened; pp. 100; contained in a modern green cloth fold-down boxed; with early ink stamp on cover title of the Lyceum of Nautical History, N.Y. In fine condition. £ 300 / HK$ 3,300 Preliminary pages contain the act of incorporation of the Society comprised of members who have been masters or supercargoes of Salem vessels on voyages to the Indies (and China). Its purposes were to assist mariners’ widows and children, to improve navigation through the keeping of ships’ journals and the formation of a library of published voyages, and to form a museum of ‘curiosities’ collected on these voyages. With a list of its members and officers from 1799 to 1821. Contents of the museum are listed and described: original journals, with ship’s name, master, port and dates, and a complete catalogue of artefacts and their donors. A large percentage of items in the catalogue were brought from China.
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[Ephemera]. Chinese motif Valentine’s Day card. American manufacture, 1905. A double die-cut Valentine’s Day card in gilt, silver and colours, featuring two young Chinese girls bearing the message ”To My Valentine”. Overall 23x18 cm. Surmounted by a basket of chrysanthemums and a verse. Inscribed on verso to the recipient and with the original stamped envelope, postmarked Providence [R.I.] 1905. In fine condition, with original ribbon hanger. £ 150 / HK$ 1,650
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[Ephemera]. In China. New York: A.J. Stasny Music Co., c. 1919. Sheet music, music by Otto Motzan, lyrics by A.J. Stasny; 1 sheet folded to 4 pages, with full colour cover illustrated by Gustave Michelson of a romantic springtime scene with blossoms and birds, and a young Chinese couple in holiday costume. £ 85 / HK$ 935
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Espey, John. Minor Heresies, Major Departures. A China Mission Boyhood. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. First edition thus, 8vo, fine in dustwrapper; pp. x+349; 18 half-tones photos. First published 1945, here revised with additional material. £ 24 / HK$ 265 The author was the son of American Presbyterian missionaries, born in Shanghai in 1913, sailed up and down the Yangtze during the Warlord period and regularly habituated Shanghai’s Chinese quarter. He experienced the rise of both the Nationalists and the Communists before going up to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
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Forbes, R[obert] B[ennett]. An Appeal to Merchants and ship Owners, on the subject of Seamen. A Lecture delivered at the request of the Boston Marine Society, March 7, 1854. Boston: Sleeper & Rogers, 1854. Sole printing, 8vo, publisher's blue printed wrappers; pp. 28; lower wrapper corner creased, otherwise fine. £ 125 / HK$ 1,375 By the prominent American ship's captain, owner and China trader who made his first voyage in 1817, reaching China in 1832. From 1840-1889 he was head of Russell & Co., Canton, the largest and most important American commercial house in China, trading in silk, tea and opium. He was intimately involved in the First Opium War. His 1854 'Appeal' was not so much for the relief of seamen and the betterment of shipboard conditions but for the relaxation of U.S. Government restrictions on ship owners. He called for the law requiring that 65% of ships' crews be U.S. citizens to be repealed, for captains to be given freedom to maintain discipline at sea by use of the lash, and for U.S. ships to be given freedom to trade wherever and with whomever their owners wished, in peace and war. He also advocated the establishment of training schools for merchant seamen, and improvement of ship-handling and sailing times in order to increase profits in the American shipping industry. He published 'Remarks on China and the China Trade' in 1844 and his letters from China were finally published in 1996.
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Glazebrook, Philip. Journey to Kars. New York: Atheneum, 1984. First U.S. issue, 8vo, fine in dustwrapper; pp. 246, bibliography; with 1 map. This is the first of Glazebrook’s accounts of travel through the old Ottoman Empire. The journey took him through Serbia, Greece and Asia Minor into Turkey, along the frontier between Christendom and Islam to the ancient fortress of Kars, on Turkey’s borders with Russia and Persia. Throughout, he quotes from 19th-century travellers on the same route: Capt. Burnaby, Robert Curzon, A.H. Layard, W.G. Palgrave, Joseph Wolff, Sir Francis Younghusband and others. £ 25 / HK$ 275
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[Guinness]. Jennings, Paul. A Prescription for Foreing Travel. [London]: W.S. Cowell Ltd., [1966]. 8vo, publisher’s colour-illustrated wrappers; pp. [12]. fully illustrated in colour by John Astrop, with verse by Paul Jennings. £ 45 / HK$ 495 A delightful Guinness promotional souvenir, totally ephemeral, with nonsense verse by the humourist Jennings and artwork by Astrop, showing the British tourist on his holiday larks to Europe and the Tropics.
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Hackmack, Adolf. Chinese Carpets and Rugs. Charles E. Tuttle, Tokyo: 1980. First English edition, quarto, fine in dustwrapper; pp. xiv+48, map and 26 plates of carpets and their designs (3 in colour). First published in French, Tientsin, 1924. £ 26 / HK$ 285
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Hobson, Benjamin. Seii ryakuron [Xi yi lüe lun] [The First Lines of the Practice of Surgery in the West]. Edo: for Yorozuya Hiroshiro by Rosokan Publishers, 1858. First Japanese edition, the Miyake Clan ’Peach Tree Garden’ Collector’s edition; Vol. I only (of V), with a supplementary volume; original embossed yellow card covers sewn with silk, with printed cover labels, covers soiled but sound. I: ff. 62 complete, with 16 pp. woodcut illustrations of diseases and surgical instruments. Supplement: ff. 22 and single leaf colophon as rear paste-down; including the 6 ff. Table of Contents in English and Chinese of Parts I-III and 2 pp. woodcut illustrations of plants producing tinctures, oils or infusions. Reprinted and edited from the first printing published by Jenchi Hospital, Shanghai in 1857. Rare in any state of completeness. No copy in British libraries. £ 350 / HK$ 3,850 Hobson (1816-1873) was instrumental in introducing Western anatomical knowledge to both China and Japan through the Medical Missionary Society of China. He established a hospital in Hong Kong 1843, practiced medicine in Canton from 1851 and in Shanghai 1856-1858 during the Second Opium War.
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Hunter, William C. Bits of Old China. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench: 1885. First edition, 8vo, very good in publisher’s black cloth gilt; pp. viii+280+44 (publisher’s catalogue). A fine association copy: with a personal presentation on title-page from R[obert] B[ennet] Forbes, Boston ship owner and opium trader, who worked with Hunter in China in the 1830s, saw action in the First Opium War and was head of Russell & Co. 1840-1889. Spine restored. £ 700/HK$ 7,700 Hunter previously published ‘The ‘Fankwei’ at Canton Before Treaty Days 1825-1844’. The present work is his intimate reminiscences of a lifetime in Canton, his Chinese marriage, and his life in the Chinese community. From his arrival in Canton from Salem, Massachusetts, in 1832 he was employed at the American Factory there. Cordier 2284.
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Jardine, Matheson & Co. Limited. The China Shipping Manual 1937-1938. Shanghai: Privately printed for Jardine Matheson by The Willow Pattern Press, [1937]. First edition; 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth; pp. [ii]+228+[ii] (Index to Advertisers); illustrated ads throughout, with a map of China and an Airways map on one folding leaf, and with 9 detailed harbour maps on one large folding leaf of Chinkiang, Chinwangtao, Hankow, Hong Kong, Kiukiang, Nanking, Shanghai, Swatow and Tsingtao, showing anchorages, soundings, berths, godowns, shoreside landmarks, Jardine and other related companys’ offices. With the bookplate of Lloyd’s Library on front pastedown. Only this 1937-1938 issue is listed as held in libraries worldwide. £ 850 / HK$ 9,350 As well as specific instructions to shipping for every port in which Jardine was represented, sections are included on exchange rates, standard weights & measures, quarantines, customs and consular fees.
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Jones, Owen. Examples of Chinese Ornament, selected from objects in the South Kensington Museum and other collections. One Hundred Plates. London: S. & T. Gilbert, 1867. First edition, folio, publisher’s deep red cloth, bevelled edges, cover elaborately decorated in gilt; pp. 16 [Text and explanations of plates] and 100 chromolithographed plates including half-title, which is listed a Plate 1; most heightened in gilt. Covers soiled but very sound, 1 plate somewhat foxed, a few stained at upper margin. Of the 100 plates listed Plates 1-5 are misnumbered; the image intended for Plate 5 is duplicated elsewhere. A very good copy of an extremely rare book. £ 6,000 / HK$ 66,000 Jones was one of the most influential designers of the mid-nineteenth century, greatly influenced by the art of the Near and Far East. After serving as a superintendent of works for the Great Exhibition of 1851, he published his monumental works on design: The Alhambra in 1854, The Grammar of Ornament in 1856, and this, his sole work on Chinese Art. He prefaces this by writing that “the late war in China... and the destruction and sackings of many public buildings has caused the introduction to Europe of a great number of truly magnificent works of Ornamental Art” - an obvious reference to the destruction of the Summer Palace. Cordier 1566.
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[Koffler, Andreas Wolfgang (Xavier)] et al. Suma del Estado del Imperio de la China, y Christiandad dèl, por las noticias que dàn los Padres de la Compañia de Jesus, que residen en aquel Reyno, hasta el año de 1649. Aunque los alborotos, y levantamientos de la gran China no dàn lugar à tener plena noticia del estado de la Christiandad en aquellas Provincias; las que por cartas de los Superiores de la Compañia en aquellas dos Vice-Provincias se hand tenido en Filipinas desde el año de 1638, hasta el año 1649. Son las siguientes. Madrid: Por Pablo de Val, 1651. Second printing, after the first in Mexico, by Juan Ruiz, 1650 [Summa del Estado....]. Folio, 2 leaves, double columns, finely bound in modern vellum on boards, with manuscript spine title; both leaves remargined, with any missing final letters at margins supplied in expert typographic facsimile. Excessively rare, with just 2 copies recorded worldwide of this printing (Berlin State Library and Tilberg University) and 1 copy only of the 1650 printing (ARSI - Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu). £ 3,500 HK$ 38,500 This first-hand account of the collapse and fall of the Ming dynasty in 1644, the six Southern Ming dynasties and the rise of the Ch'ing is by the Jesuits who witnessed and recorded the events. It was partly from the testimonies of these and other Jesuits that Martino Martini composed his 'De bello tartarico historia' in 1654 during his absence from China 1648-1657. Streit, vol. 5, 2219. Not in Sommervogel or Cordier but see: Cordier 1078-79 for the Dutch edition 1651, of which WorldCat lists only 1 copy, and his note by Sommervogel that no copy is known of the Mexico printing. see also: Albert Chan,
A European document on the fall of the Ming Dynasty (1644-1649), in: Monumenta Serica, 35 (1981-83). * a fuller description of this rarity is available on request * 35.
Kwok Tsan Sang. Select Phrases on the Canton Dialect Compiled by... Canton: [no publisher], 1888. First printing, small 8vo, original printed green wrappers; pp. [ii]+viii+54+[ii]+[iv]. Covers now repaired and strengthened. A rare printing in very good condition. £ 450 / HK$ 49,500 This may be an unauthorized printing of Dr. Kerr’s work of the same title printed in Hong Kong by De Souza in 1866/67. No copy in British libraries. Not in Cordier, but see 1682 for the author’s English Chinese Grammar 1898.
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Lawson, Lady [Kate]. Highways and Homes of Japan. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1910. First Edition, thick 8vo, publisher’s orange cloth, illustrated in black, lettered in gilt; pp. 352+88 (publisher’s ads), indexed, top edges gilt, others uncut; with colour frontispiece and 61 half-tones from photographs, most full-page. Some fore-edges spotted, otherwise a fine bright copy. With a pencilled presentation on front endpaper from T. Fisher Unwin, 1910. £ 250 / HK$ 2,750 Lady Lawson was a member of the Japan Society and of the Red Cross of Japan, and travelled alone. No aspect of life in Japan was overlooked by her during her many years there.
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Lay, G. Tradescant. The Chinese as They Are: their Moral, Social, and Literary Character; a New Analysis of the Language, with Succinct Views of Their Principal Arts and Sciences. London: William Ball & Co., 1841. First Edition, 8vo, a fine bright copy in publisher’s blind-stamped tan ribbed cloth, spine and cover illustrated in gilt; pp. xii+342; with wood-engraved frontispiece and 34 engravings in the text. From the library of the 2nd Baron Hesketh, with the shelf label on front paste-down of Easton Neston Library, Northamptonshire. £ 300 / HK$ 3,300 Lay first sailed to China in 1825 as naturalist to Admiral F.W. Beechey’s expedition to the Pacific. He returned in 1836 and entered the Consular Service, later serving as interpreter to Sir Henry Pottinger, first governor of Hong Kong, who negotiated the Treaty of Nanking following the First Opium War. Lay went on to become British Consul at Canton, Foochow and Amoy, successively, from 1842-1845 and his four sons became prominent in the Consular Service and the Chinese Customs Service. Lay was of the belief that the Ch’ing government’s aim was to thwart British commerce, although he found the Chinese people “reasonable” and believed they would rank with “the best conducted subjects of the British Empire”. Cordier 77. Lowendahl 967. Lust 48.
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Leitch, Gordon B. Chinese Rugs. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1928. First edition, 8vo, very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper; pp. xii+171, indexed, appendix; with colour frontispiece, 32 plates and 10 in-text illustrations. £ 40 / HK$ 440 An authoritative work based on surveys made in China, Britain, the USA and Japan of ancient and modern carpets, their designs and symbols, the dyes, the factories, and the weavers and their techniques.
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[Macau]. Tourist Guide, Macau: Soi Sang Printing Press, c. 1954. A large folio leaf printed both sides, folding into a handy tourist guide. In Chinese, Portuguese and English. With a large city map keyed to an itinerary pinpointing 95 businesses, shops, hotels, offices, parks and museums; 2 half-tone illustrations, one of the Macau Grand Prix, which began in 1954. £ 80 / HK$ 880
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Macaulay, W. Hastings. Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1852. First edition, 8vo, publisher’s brown cloth gilt; pp. 230+[ii] (publisher’s ads); some foxing on first and final leaves. An uncommon China Trade account. The author sailed on an American merchant ship trading out of Massachusetts to China in 1850, just at the start of the Taiping Rebellion. He may have been the supercargo or even ship’s chaplain. Calling at Canton, Hong Kong, Macao, Amoy and Shanghai, he gives a good account of dealing with the compradors, relations with other Western trading nations in China and local piracy. Cordier 2121. £ 250 / HK$ 2,750
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McDonald, Angus. The Five Foot Road. In Search of a Vanished China. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1995. First edition, 8vo, as new in dustwrapper; pp. 192, indexed, bibliography, route map; with numerous historic and modern photo plates. £ 25 / HK$ 275 The author re-traced the 1894 journey of George Morrison, Times correspondent in Peking, which he made from Shanghai to Burma, up the Yangtze to Chungking and overland to Kunming, Bhamo and Rangoon, alone and in disguise. Morrison’s book ‘An Australian in China’ was published in 1895.
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Morshead, Ian. The Life and Murder of Henry Morshead. A True Story from the Days of the Raj. Cambridge: Oleander Press, 1982. First edition, 8vo, fine in dustwrapper; pp. xiv+210, indexed, glossary, appendix, bibliography, map on endpapers; with 50 half-tones from photos, maps and drawings. £ 28 / HK$ 310 Lt. Col. Morshead was an accomplished surveyor and mountaineer with the Survey of India from 1906. He accompanied F.M. Bailey to survey the Tsangpo Gorge in 1913, made
an attempt of Kamet in 1920, and was surveyor and climber on the 1921 and 1922 Everest expeditions. He rose to become Director of the Survey of India’s Burma Circle from his base in Maymyo before he was murdered in 1931, possibly by anti-British rebels. 43.
[Notice to Mariners]. New Discoveries. [no place]: [no printer], [no date] c. 1857. Broadside, small 4to, 202x188 mm, printed in double columns. With 22 notices to mariners, with dates of sightings 1850-1857. Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong are likely places this may have been printed; the type and paper are not consistent with Admiralty publications. £ 300 / HK$ 3,300 The notices are warnings to ships of shoals, reefs and rocks in the Western Pacific, South China Sea, Northern Australia and Indonesian waters. Some are new discoveries; other are corrected bearings. Examples are: 1853, a Dutch ship struck on a sunken rock off Crockatoa (sic.)...
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Omura, Seigai (Ed.) Kaishien gaden [Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting]. Tokyo: Zuhon Sokankai, 1923, 1915. 3 volumes, original blue wrappers sewn with white silk, printed paper cover labels: Part I-IV of the First Series, bound in 2 volumes, illustrating landscapes, trees, architecture and furnishings, people and their occupations; Part VI of the Second Series, bound in 1 volume, illustrating the Plum Tree and its blossoms, mostly with colour woodcuts. Omura published only the 5 Parts offered here. His edition is rare; no copy is found in British libraries. £ 550 / HK$ 6,050 The first four Parts of the First Series of Mustard Seed Garden were published in China, 1679, with additional Parts and Series added over the years until the early 20th century when it totalled 23 Parts in Four Series: First Series in 5 parts, the Second Series in 8 parts, the Third Series in 6 parts and the Fourth Series in 4 parts. Omura, the editor of this printing, was a noted historian and author on the art of the Far East, and championed literati ink painting in Japan in the 1920s in collaboration with his Chinese counterparts.
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Rabe, John. The Good Man of Nanking. The Diaries of John Rabe. Edited by Erwin Wickert. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1998. First edition, 8vo, fine in dustwrapper; pp. xx+297, map of Nanking on endpapers; with numerous half-tones from contemporary photos. £ 30/HK$ 330 Nothing in these diaries was made public until they were procured by the editor, who had known Rabe in Nanking in 1936. Rabe was a German businessman who arrived in China in 1908, eventually heading Sieman’s operations in Nanking. In 1938 he was re-called to Germany and arrested by the Gestapo. He is reported to have saved over 250,000 lives during the Japanese siege of Nanking of 1937 and was forbidden to speak of it or to publish his account. His diary extends from 1937 to 1946 at the end of the war in Europe.
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Race, Steve. The Two Worlds of Joseph Race. London: Souvenir Press, 1988. First edition, 8vo, fine in dustwrapper; pp. 190, indexed, bibliography; with 3 maps and 19 half-tones from photos. £ 22 / HK$ 240 Race was a Wesleyan missionary who sailed from Liverpool to Singapore, Canton, Hankow, Wuchang and Wusueh in 1873. Compiled from his diaries by his grandson.
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Ross, Sir Denison. Both Ends of the Candle. The Autobiography of... With a foreword by Laurence Binyon. London: Faber and Faber, 1943. First edition, 8vo, very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper; pp. 345; with 17 halftones from photos. £ 32 / HK$ 350 The great orientalist and linguist died in 1940. As a specialist in Persian and Arabic, also in Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan, he worked variously in Calcutta, Istanbul and throughout the Middle East both before and after becoming the first director of the School of Oriental Studies (today’s SOAS) in 1916.
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[Shanghai]. Land Regulations and Bye-Laws for the Foreign Settlements of Shanghai, North of the Yang-King-Pang. Shanghai: Printed at the “North China Herald” Office, 1898. 8vo, original printed tan wrappers; pp. [ii]+ii+44+[ii] (Erratum and Addendum). With the 1899 corrections to boundaries mounted on pp. 1, 2; a Shanghai Municipal Council newspaper notice of May 1907 on new roads and landowners’ liabilities tipped-in at p. 9; and a Bye-Law amendment on shop and business licences of March 1907 tipped-in at p. 41. With the faint ink stamp on cover of the German Consulate in Shanghai (Kaiserlich Deutsches Generalkonsulat). Wrappers strengthened. £ 400 / HK$ 4,400 In 1889 the boundaries for Foreign Settlements were extended from 2.75 square miles to 8.35 miles. The 1898 Land Regulations were the last revision of the ‘constitution’ of the International Settlement before 1928, when Chinese representatives were admitted to the Municipal Council.
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[Shi Nai’an]. [Water Margin]. [no place] Peking? [no date] c. 1920. Concertina-fold album 17x14 cm, bound in tan and gold brocade, illustrated by Geng Desen with 16 highly accomplished watercolours on heavy paper of characters from the Water Margin, all captioned in Chinese. Volume, or Chapter III of what must have been a set, labeled Shuihu rén huàcè-San. £ 360 / HK$ 3,950 This immensely popular Song dynasty novel is based on the exploits of the outlaw Song Jiang and his 38 companions in Huainan. Over the centuries, for the purpose of subsequent editions, the number of bandits increased to 108, a collection of scholars, fisherman, soldiers, hiding out at Mount Liang where, in the Yuan dynasty editions, they turned against the Mongol usurpers of the throne. Authorship of the original novel remains uncertain.
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[Shipping Notice]. Notice to Mariners. China Sea - Philippine Islands. Light at Port Zebu.... Light at Port Romblon... Indian Ocean - Trincomalee... Washington, D.C.: Treasury Department, Office Light-House Board, August 4, 1858. Broadside, 32x22 cm, issued by Thornton A. Jenkins, Secretary, Treasury Department. £ 225 / HK$ 2,475 This large broadside may have been posted in shipping offices or port captains’ offices throughout the South China Sea and Indian Ocean, wherever American ships sailed. The warnings given here are for new lights installed at Zebu and Romblon, and the incorrect bearings given for lights at the entrance to Trincomalee, which “would lead to danger”.
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Sirén, Osvald. Gardens of China. New York: The Ronald Press, 1949. First English Edition; large quarto, fine in publisher’s green cloth gilt; pp. xiv+142, indexed, bibliography; with 11 colour plates from paintings, 208 gravure plates from paintings or from photographs by the author, with drawings, sketches and plans in the text. £ 400 / HK$ 4,400 The work is both descriptive and analytical, with a chapter on ‘Gardens in Literature and Painting’ and translations from the ‘Yüan Yeh’, the Ming dynasty treatise on gardening. The photographs of gardens were taken in Suchow and Peking by the author in 1922, 1929 and 1935, and include private gardens, parks and palaces, the Yüan ming Yuan and the New Summer Palace.
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[Stereoscopic Views] Views of China: Canton, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Peking, Tientsin, and the Yangtze Gorges. New York: Keystone View Company and Underwood & Underwood , c.1900. 10 stereoscopic view cards, each with 2 images of the same view, the cards measuring 19x9 cm. In fine condition. £ 300 / HK$ 3,300
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Stericker, John and Veronica. The Hong Kong Gift Book. Hong Kong: Printed by the Chung Hwa Book Co., Published by the Authors, 1954. First edition, 4to, original white cloth gilt; pp. 52, text in English and Chinese; with frontis. portrait, 39 photogravure plates from photos, 12 tipped-in colour plates, a double-page colour map of China in 1626, and 4 loose colour plates in end-pocket printed from paintings 1846: Hong Kong from Murray’s Battery, Wyndham Street, Spring Gardens and Jardine Matheson’s. In fine, bright condition. £ 100 / HK$ 1,100 The black & white photographs were all taken in 1954 by the author, of a long gone but still familiar Hong Kong. He was in Hong Kong before 1940 and spent the war years there interned in Stanley Camp. Later in the 1950s he produced ‘Hong Kong in Picture and Story’.
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Taylor, Mrs. Howard. Behind the Ranges. Fraser of Lisuland, S.W. China. London: Lutterworth Press and China Inland Mission, 1951. Fifth impression, 8vo, very good in scuffed dustwrapper; pp. 255, map on endpapers; frontis. portrait and 17 photo plates. First published 1944, from his diaries and from the records of the CIM, founded in 1865 by Mrs. Taylor’s fatherin-law, Hudson Taylor. £ 22 / HK$ 240 James Fraser’s posting with the China Inland Mission from 1908 to 1922 was in the mountainous country of the Yunnan/Burma border region among the Lisu. After reassigned to Kansu, N.W. China, in 1924 he ended his missionary days in Yunnan in 1938.
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Terzani, Tiziano. A Fortune-Teller Told Me. New York: Harmony Books, 1997. First U.S. issue of the English edition; 8vo, fine in dustwrapper; pp. [xii]+372, indexed; with double-page route map. £ 24 / HK$ 265 After nearly 30 years as a journalist in China and South East Asia, Terzani died in 2004. Having been told by a Hong Kong fortune-teller in 1993 not to travel by air that year he undertook a circuitous journey of Asia and the Middle East by sea and train, foot, boat and car. This is his most engaging book, idiosyncratic and thoughtful.
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[Townsend, Ralph] [?]. What is the fighting about? Common questions on the Far East, answered by facts, not generalities. San Francisco: California Committee of Pacific Friendship, 1937. Sole printing, 8vo, fine in original printed wrappers; pp. 20, printed in red and blue. £ 45 / HK$ 495 A Pro-Japanese view of Sino-Japanese hostilities in the 1930s, possibly by Ralph Townsend, who pleased guilty in 1942 to having violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act when he failed to register as a paid agent of Japan. The use of English, however, is as may have been written by a Japanese or Japanese-American. Here the anonymous author alleges that China brought the Japanese invasion on itself through Communist attacks on peace-loving Japan in Manchuria.
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Tun Li-ch'en. Annual Customs and Festivals in Peking, as recorded in the Yenching Sui-shih-chi... Translated and Annotated by Derk Bodde. Peiping: Henri Vetch, 1936. First Edition, tall 8vo, very good in red cloth gilt; pp. xxii+147, plan of Peking on endpapers, indexed, with bibliography and appendices; with 7 plates (3 in colour, 1 folding) and 28 in-text line drawings. Text in English, names and titles in Chinese. £ 50 / HK$ 550 Yen Ching is the ancient name of Peking and this work by a Manchu nobleman, c.1900, is his day-to-day and month by month record of the capital's festivals, temple pilgrimages, fairs and customs, and the food, clothing and animals associated with each month and
season. Appended with the Chinese calendar, list of principal festivals and their entertainments. Although concentrated on Peking, these customs and festivals pertain to most of China and remain part of the Chinese calendar today. 59.
West, Maria A. The Romance of Missions; or, Inside Views of Life and Labor in the Land of Ararat. New York: Anson D.F. Randolph & Co., 1875. First edition, a fine, bright copy in publisher’s blue cloth gilt; pp. 710+[iv] (publisher’s ads]. Inserted from another work of the same period is a folding engraved map of Asia Minor. £ 225 / HK$ 2,475 Miss West was a missionary with the American Board [of Commissioners for Foreign Missions] in Turkey and published in Armenian as well as English. From its founding in Armenia in 1840, the Mission’s priority was Western education, establishment of schools and the publication of Western Christian works in modern Armenian, including the Bible. Conversions were secondary, but failing to convert the Jewish and Muslim communities of the Ottoman Empire, they turned to the most ancient of Christian communities, the Armenian Apostolic Church, founded in the 1st century A.D., to introduce American Protestantism.
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White, [J. Henry and Herbert C.] Romantic China. An Album of Forty-two Photographic Studies of China’s Historic Monuments and Charming Beauty Spots.... Shangahi: Published by Browhite Arts, 1930. First edition, 4to, publisher’s maroon pebbled cloth, cover illustrated in gilt with with a dragon image; pp. [106]; each of the 42 full-page photogravure plates is framed in black with a Chinese floral and trellis motif. Personal inscription on half-title, 1945. £ 450 / HK$ 4,950 The White brothers spent 8 years in China as language students and took some 4,000 photographs in and around Shantung Province, Peking, Hangchow and Suchow, where they also lectured on art, culture and current events. This is their second book on China.
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Wood, William Maxwell. Fankwei; or, The San Jacinto in the Seas of India, China and Japan. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859. First edition, 8vo, a very fine copy in modern brown levant morocco gilt, blindtooled spine, with Dutch gilt endpapers; pp. [546]+[ii] (publisher’s ads), all edges gilt; binder’s initials C.E.S.W. in gilt on front turn-in. £ 500 / HK$ 5,500 Wood was the U.S. Navy Fleet Surgeon in the Pacific and Far East Squadron at the time of the Second Opium War, serving aboard the ‘San Jacinto’. They sailed from New York for the South Atlantic, Siam, Singapore, Macao, Canton, Soochow, Shanghai and Hong Kong, which they reached in May 1856. His detailed narrative of attacks on allied shipping, of piracy, the battle at the Bogue Forts and seizure of Canton in 1857, the terms and significance of the 1858 Tientsin Treaty, and generally on Navy policy discipline, are from the American viewpoint. Wood himself was an active Naval reformer. His ship also
carried the first U.S. Consul to Japan in 1856, an account of which is included here. Wood translates Fankwei as “foreign devil”, while terming his Chinese counterparts “Celestials”. Cordier 2124. 62.
[Yangtze River]. "Excelsior", being an inadequate description of the Upper Yangtze. Compiled by “Charon” and dedicated to those who served with him on the Upper River, 1926-28 and 1932-34. Shanghai: North-China Daily News and Herald, 1934. £ 400 / HK$ 4,400 Sole edition, 16mo, original blue cloth lettered in yellow; pp. 50, map of the Upper River on front paste-down and endpaper; with 6 photo plates of the Gorges. The anonymous British author’s experiences of 12-years service on the Yangtze, with his notes to shipping company gunboats for use on the 5-day voyage from I-Chang to Chungking. These include navigating the Gorges and Rapids, anchorages, pilots and dealing with pirates. He also gives an account of HMS ‘Cockchafer’ and’ Despatch’ which were fired upon, with loss of British sailors’ lives, after a sampan was sunk at Wanshien in 1926.
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