Lok Man Rare Books 2018 by China in Print

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Contents 1. China

(pages 1-32)

2. Himalaya

(pages 33-40)

3. South East Asia (pages 41-54) 4. Voyages

(pages 55-60)

1. China 1. A Description of the Empire of China – Jean-Baptiste Du Halde 1738-1741, Printed by T. Gardner... for Edward Cave, London – First Folio Edition in English Two large folio volumes in contemporary bindings, housed in custom slipcases. One of the most celebrated of all 18th century works on China, illustrated with 64 engraved plates, including D’Anville’s exceptional maps (42 large maps most engraved by Bowen), 9 city and temple plans, and 13 full-page plates depicting dress, customs and ceremonies. With exquisitely engraved headpieces and initial letters. ‘The completest [sic] and most valuable history of the Chinese Empire which had appeared up to the time of its publication.’ [Cox] The maps by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville are based on the extensive Jesuit surveys carried out for the Emperor Kangxi between 1708 and 1718. These maps ‘remained the principal cartographical authority on China during the rest of the 18th century’. [Tooley] In contemporary bindings of smooth calf, spine intricately tooled in gilt and with twin green and burgundy morocco labels. Near fine to fine, occasionally two or three sheets with light foxing, in very good contemporary bindings, some minor rubbing to boards and spine. HK$ 245,000

2. The Morals of Confucius Circa 1760-1780, Printed for Randal Taylor, London The first edition of this work to include the folding frontispiece engraving of Confucius (often missing). Beginning with a ‘Preface’ introducing this translation and its sources, followed by ‘Part First’ titled ‘Of the Antiquity and Philosophy of the Chinese’, then ‘Part II’ which offers selected translations from the three books, and ends with 80 ‘Maxims’. ‘Confucius’s teachings were highly influential across China and large areas of east Asia for almost two millennia before this 1691 work offered English readers their first introduction to his philosophical approach. It provides an account of Confucius’s life and times, as well as 80 of his maxims.’ - Marsh’s Library, Dublin. Contemporary full brown sheep, spine in six compartments, raised bands, burgundy morocco label lettered in gilt and with triple gilt fillet borders, edges sprinkled red. Very good, toning to edges of endpapers, offsetting from frontis, binding with wear to corners, and slight loss to head of spine, outer hinges rubbed and cracked but strong, pin-holes to boards. HK$ 21,000

3. Abrégé Historique des Principaux Traits de la Vie de Confucius, Célèbre Philosophe Chinois – Isidore Stanislas Henri Helman (engraver), Pierre-Charles Levesque (translator), Jean-Denis Attiret (illustrator) 1786, Chez l’Auteur & M. Ponce, Paris – First Edition A clean example of this work, containing 24 engraved plates, engraved title page and 28 engraved plates of descriptive text in French taken from a larger work on Confucius (Pensées morales de Confucius 1782) by Pierre-Charles Levesque (who is referred to by Helman as Mr. l’Eveque). ‘Engraved by Helman [1743-1806] and drawn by Jean-Denis Attiret [1702-68], official painter to the workshop at Peking, copied from a set of Chinese miniatures which were sent by the Jesuit missionary Jean-Joseph-Pierre Amiot [1718-93] in Peking to Berlin, who was Louis XIV’s Minister of Art and the one in charge of France’s relations with China.The engravings illustrate the life and deeds of Confucius.’ Near fine, minor wear to corners, very faint foxing to title page and tissue guards. HK$ 15,000

4. An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China – Sir George Staunton, Earl of Macartney, Sir Erasmus Gower 1797, Printed by W. Bulmer & Co. for G. Nicol, London – First Edition A clean and exquisitely bound set of this cornerstone of Chine related travel literature, together with the magnificent Elephant Folio Atlas (61x45cm) showing 44 engraved maps and plates (mainly after Alexander), of which 2 are folding and 6 are double-page. ‘An account of the first British embassy to China, under Lord Macartney. Great Britain was anxious to establish formal diplomatic relations with China and thus open the way for unimpeded trade relations, but centuries of Chinese reserve and self-sufficiency presented a formidable obstacle to the embassy, and the Chinese emperor effectually resisted Lord Macartney’s arguments and gifts. The visit of the British embassy nonetheless resulted in this remarkable account of Chinese manners and customs at the close of the eighteenth century’ - The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages. Bound to style in full speckled calf, spines intricately decorated in gilt, twin labels of burgundy and green morocco lettered in gilt, boards with twin gilt fillet borders, edges tooled in gilt, inner dentelles in blind, marbled endpapers. Atlas folio in matching half speckled calf over marbled boards matching endpapers of text volumes, spines intricately decorated in gilt, twin labels of burgundy and green morocco lettered in gilt, edges tooled in gilt. Bindings fine, internally near fine, light foxing to a few pages, Atlas folio with slightly heavier foxing to several plates, plate 3 outer 1cm of edge rebacked. HK$ 220,000

5. Morokoshi Meishô Zue [Description of Famous Places in China] – Okada Gyokuzan, Oka Yûgaku, Ôhara Toya Minsei 1806, Kawachiya Kichibei [and 11 others], Ôsaika – First Edition Very scarce first edition of this magnificently illustrated six volume work on the famous places of Qing Dynasty China, with approximately 327 full-page woodblock prints (xylographic printing on mulberry paper) of which there are 135 doublepage illustrations, 1 triple page illustration and three eight-page illustrations [a few of the maps being outlined in red ink]. Edited and illustrated by the Japanese artists Okada Gyokuzan, [17371812], Oka Yûgaku [1762-1833] and Ôhara Toya [1771-1840]. Text printed in Chinese and Japanese with Japanese reading marks, in original publishers’ blue wrappers. Housed in custom made navy morocco leather and cloth clamshell case, titled in gilt. The illustrations depict mostly topographical views: natural archaeological or sacred sites [the Four Sacred Mountains of Buddhism, monasteries] and palaces, or historical and legendary scenes based on classical literature. Specifically a map of China and Korea, a map of Peking, a plan of the Forbidden City, a fine double-page plate depicting the astronomical observatory of Peking set up by the Jesuits Johann Adam Schall and Ferdinand Verbiest, maps and views of the Great Wall and its numerous gates. There are also views of buildings no longer extant, such as the Imperial Elephant Stables. Very good, occasional spotting, minor marginal browning in places. Some worming, affecting text, image or stitching in some volumes, some minor archival repair to wrappers. HK$ 110,000

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originally drawn up by Captain Collinson, C.B. from surveys of that coast made by himself, and Lieutenants Bate and Gordon, R.N., between the years 1841-5, and the appendix from F.W. Beechey, Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., Rear Admiral Cecille, and the officers of the Sabine, and the United States Japanese Expedition, 1851-3.

which 10 are double page), published between 1840 and 1860, consist of 22 British Admiralty e of the First Survey of the China Coast by Collinson and Kellett., and 3 French Charts.

n later half maroon morocco over marbled boards, gilt morocco title label on upper board, ndpapers. Pilot - near fine, some toning to pages, blue paper spine replaced. Charts mostly in fine condition, small number with a modicum of faint spotting. HK$ 220,000

7. The Hand-Written Private Journal of Captain Robert Jenkins – Whilst on activ and HMS Comus in 1857 and 1858. With hand-drawn and water-coloured sketc

320 pages watermarked ‘1852 Fellows’ and bound in contemporary full calf leather (29x23.5cm) HMS Actaeon was commissioned in 1857 to serve as a survey vessel off the coast of China, under the command of Captain William Thornton Bate. She was present at the bombardment of Canton in 1857, where Bate was shot and killed on 29th December. Captain Robert Jenkins took over the command of the ship. The journal, which covers January 1857 until November 1858, refers to the bombardment of Canton, surveying factories, and disputes over land between British and Chinese merchants. It also covers skirmishes with armed junks and defence of the Barrier. Locations include Hong Kong, Canton, Macao and Amoy. In addition, the journal notes the day to day issues of a command, such as discipline, maintenance, supplies, training, and movement of other ships in the area. According to the Journal it appears that Jenkins was wounded seriously on June 30th 1858, and on September 16th ‘Joined Commander J Ward, [vice?] Captain R Jenkins discharged to Half Pay’, September 18th ‘I went to Shanghai with Commander Ward’, from whence Jenkins travelled to Hong Kong, Singapore, Penang, Galli, Aden, Alexandria, Malta, Gibraltar, Falmouth, arriving in Southampton 19th November, one month after leaving Shanghai. Bound in contemporary full black calf, blind tooling to panels with double fillet border enclosing decorative border, edges and turn-ins hatched in blind, marbled endpapers, brass lock. Fine in very good binding with some rubbing and marks, brass lock without key. HK$ 130,000

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8. Personal Narrative of Three Years’ Service in China – Lt.-Colonel Arthur A’Court Fisher – Royal Engineers 1863, Richard Bentley, London – First Edition Entertainingly written ‘Personal’ account of three years service in Canton, the Pei-Ho River, and Taku Fort battles, throughout the Second Opium War. One wonders if Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Agincourt Fisher was in any way related to Harry Flashman... Fisher begins his tales with the action at the Battle of Canton in late 1857, he remains in Canton, occupying his spare time with various adventures and sport (Cricket in Hong Kong, shooting snipe and riding ponies across the Canton countryside ‘PaperHunt’ style), and visits to Hong Kong and islands. Fisher then moves up the Pei-Ho River and is involved with the battles around the Taku Forts, as well as surveying the ‘Great Wall’, returning once again to the skirmishes on the Pei-Ho and around Canton. After the third and final ‘Battle of Taku Forts’ at the end of August 1860, Fisher is preparing to head to Peking but is taken sick and forced to spend two months on the hospital ship ‘Mauritius’ whilst hearing news from other wounded officers of the battles around Peking and the looting of the Summer Palace. In November of 1860 Fisher’s service in China ends with his shipment back to England. Very good copy, illustrated with 3 folding maps, 10 engravings (3 full page, 1 plan, 6 intext), and bound for Fisher’s own regimental library of the Royal Engineers. HK$ 11,000

9. The Treaty Ports of China and Japan. A Complete Guide to the Open Ports of Those Countries,Together with Peking,Yedo, Hongkong and Macao. Forming a Guide Book & Vade Mecum for Travellers, Merchants, and Residents in General. – Wm. Fred. Mayers, N.B. Dennys, Chas King 1867, Trübner & Co., London; A. Shortrede & Co., Hong Kong – First & Only Edition One of the best early sources of information on Hong Kong, complete with all the 28 fragile and specially commissioned maps, engraved in China. With physical descriptions and brief histories of 23 Chinese and 6 Japanese ports, details of schools and libraries, population statistics and much practical information, as well as a list of other publications on China and Japan. Published shortly after the major expansion in Treaty Ports effected by the Second Opium War in China (1858 -1860) and the Harris Treaty in Japan (1858). In recent full green calf, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. A very good copy in fine binding. All maps and many of the text pages have been professionally silked, archival repair to 2cm hole on title page and first blank at rear. Small library stamp to verso of each map. HK$ 38,000

10. Contributions Towards The Materia Medica & Natural History of China – Frederick Porter Smith 1871, American Presbyterian Mission Press, Shanghai; Trübner & Co., London – First Edition First edition of this scarce work, being one of first books on Chinese medicine by a western author. With text in English and names and terms in Chinese. Smith was the first British medical missionary in China, sent by the Wesleyan Missionary Committee to Hankow in 1863, where he opened the first hospital in central China in 1864. This detailed catalogue of medicinal drugs and compounds was compiled through his close work and personal exchanges with practitioners of traditional China medicine, and was meant for use by both Western physicians and Chinese medical students. Smith also credits the early Chinese medical works from which he drew his knowledge of herbs, and of native and imported drugs from throughout Asia. Near fine, light foxing to first and last pages, slightly heavier to title page, in fine recent binding. HK$ 9,000

11. A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language – S. Wells Williams 1874, American Presbyterian Mission Press, Shanghai – First Edition In contemporary binding, with two hand written sheets of Chinese characters and one small map torn out of a magazine with annotations and markings of a route. There is also a letter tipped into the front from the Chicago Imperial Academy of Sciences, sent to L. Wilkinson, offering three Chinese dictionaries, listing by importance ‘the big one by Giles’ ‘next to this in importance are the two following dictionaries’ ‘Wells Williams Syllabic dict- of the Chinese Lang.’ and ‘Wells Williams Tonic dict. of Canton dialect’. ‘Williams (1812-1884) began work on this dictionary in 1863, taking almost 10 years to organize his 53.000 examples and phrases and 12.527 characters. Joseph Edkins contributed a section on ‘Ancient sounds’ in the introduction and was responsible for lists of ‘Old sounds inserted at the head of each syllable.’ - Lowendahl. ‘Williams’ Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language was an attempt to combine and synthesise the achievements of Western lexicography in China, in particular the method of dialect comparison (a field in which ‘the natives have done nothing’), while making extensive use of Chinese reference works and traditional lexicographic sources. Thus Williams describes the Wufang Yuanyin or ‘Original Sounds of the Five Regions’ (1700) as ‘the groundwork of the present dictionary’. Bound by A. Tomes of Leamington in smooth green calf, titled and tooled in gilt, marbled edges. Fine in very good binding, some light rubbing to boards, minor fading to spine and board edges. HK$ 18,000

12. Up the Yang-Tse (Reprinted from the ‘China Review’) With Sketch Maps – E. H. Parker 1891, Printed at the ‘China Mail’ Office, Hong Kong – First Edition A rare first edition of this detailed and descriptive account of a journey taken by sinologist, diplomat and barrister Edward Harper Parker. His observant narrative ranges from opium, trafficking of women, infanticide, and bribery to the silk trade, farming, local customs and beliefs. ‘The first serious Western student of Chinese dialectology who was not a missionary was the brash Edward Harper Parker (1849-1926), a British consular official’. Parker (1849-1926) was an English barrister and sinologist who wrote a number of books on the First and Second Opium Wars and other Chinese topics. He intended to engage in the tea trade, studied Chinese, and from 1869 to 1871, in the character of student interpreter, he travelled in Mongolia, and afterwards served at the British consulates in Wenchow, Fusan, and Shanghai, and travelled in Oceania, Eastern Asia, and North America. He retired from the consular service in 1895, becoming a university professor.’ - Journal of the American Oriental Society. Illustrated with eight sketch maps (six of which are folding). In later half black morocco over contemporary marbled boards, brown morocco spine label lettered in gilt, new endpapers. Near fine, tear to fold of first folding map, in near fine binding with some rubbing to the marbled boards. HK$ 13,000

13. With Boat and Gun in the Yangtze Valley – Henling Thomas Wade 1865, Shanghai Mercury Office, Shanghai – First Edition with Folding Maps First edition of this practical guide to shooting in the lower reaches of the Yangtze, intended primarily for the Shanghai expatriate community; ‘Even before Shanghai was opened by treaty, officers from the well-manned opium schooners lying at Woosung used to organise shooting parties...’. Containing 40 articles contributed by various authors, including chapters on Chinese methods of game-hunting, hunting districts, house-boats and their owners, cookery, vocabulary, field medicine, how to break in dogs, and ‘What to do in case of Trouble with the Natives’. In publisher’s original deluxe cloth, with illustrated lithographic title page by G. E. Burgoyne, three folding maps, six charming woodblock illustrations, and three in-text diagrams. Near fine, in very good binding, splash spots to front panel. ‘A foreign sportsman is usually fully equipped with a fowling-piece with the latest improvements, the newest and best ammunition and a good dog... the Chinaman takes the field clad in straw sandals and the poorest of clothes and uses a common, roughly made gingal [the large Chinese matchlock], inferior native powder, and shot of unequal sizes. If comparison be made of the results attained by the two shooters... the palm must be given to the latter, who use their inferior matchlocks with singular dexterity and precision.’ HK$ 18,000

14. Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade – Various 1897-1907, Foreign Office, Printed for Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, London – First Editions A total of 116 various diplomatic and consular reports on China and the numerous British Consuls, dated from 1896 to 1906, finely bound into two thick volumes. With reports ‘On the trade of China’ for the years 1896 to 1905 (the last being of 120 pages in length), together with a selection of individual annual reports on Amoy, Canton, Changsha, Chefoo, Chinkiang, Chungking, Foochow, Hangchow, Hangkow / Hankow, Ichang, Kiukiang, Kiungchow / Hoihow, Newchwang, Ningpo, Pakhoi, and Samshui, as well as an industry specific report ‘on the Cotton Mills of China’ [Please contact us for a complete excel spreadsheet for full details of all reports] The reports range from the dry to eloquent and detailed, obviously depending on the importance of the area and the character of the consul and staff making the report, and include a number of maps, plans and charts. HK$ 16,000

15. The Englishman in China during the Victorian Era as Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L. Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Alexander Michie 1900, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London â&#x20AC;&#x201C; First Edition A clean bright original and thus scarce set of this important and detailed work covering the second half of the nineteenth century. With interesting provenance, from the library of Villiers Alwyne Caesar Hawkins, who was with the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong (1882-1907), became director of the Imperial Bank of Persia (1908-193), and was also appointed a director of Hongkong Bank in 1911. Sir Rutherford Alcock was a British army surgeon and later an accomplished Far Eastern diplomat. Alexander Michie was a successful Scottish trader, firstly with Lindsay & Co., and later as an agent for Jardine Matheson, he edited newspapers, authored several books, and also acted as Chairman of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce. Profusely illustrated with thirty full page black and white plates, three black and white maps, a large colour folding map at the rear of volume II, and a number of vignettes throughout the text. Near fine, light foxing to first and last few pages, in very good cloth bindings, spines uniformly sunned and a few lighter patches. HK$ 9,000

16. Russko-Kitaiskii Slovar [Russian-Chinese Dictionary] – Pavel Stepanovich Popov [Popoff] 1900, San-Kio-Sha, Tokyo – Second Edition, Second Printing The first edition of this dictionary was published in Russia 1879 and is now an extreme rarity; this is a Japanese printing of Popov’s corrected and enlarged second edition published in Peking 1896, the Introduction to which is reprinted here. Pavel Popov (Popoff) (1842-1913) was the Russian Consul-General in Peking and Correspondent of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. In addition to this dictionary, he published numerous tracts on Chinese affairs, and completed Palladii Kafarov’s unfinished Chinese-Russian Dictionary published in Peking in 1888. Provenance: Ministry of Culture of the USSR 1969, with their withdrawn stamp on rear endpaper recto. Later bookplate of Staffan Rosén (1905-1984), Swedish journalist and academic. Near fine, in very good contemporary black half morocco over patterned cloth, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. HK$ 8,000

17. Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and Other Treaty Ports of China – Arnold Wright, H. A. Cartwright 1908, Lloyd’s Greater Britain Publishing Company, Ltd., London – First Edition A massive and exhaustive work, illustrated with well over a thousand black and white photographs. Containing 270 detailed pages dedicated to Hong Kong, 324 pages to Shanghai, and 150 pages to the remaining treaty ports. Covering not only history, culture and government, but details on the major conglomerates, companies, industries, clubs (business, social and sporting), and leading figures of the day. There is nothing comparable. Scarce and even more so in such fine condition in the original publisher’s full dark blue morocco and gilt decorated binding. HK$ 50,000

18. Through Shên-kan. The Account of the Clark Expedition in North China 1908-9 – Robert S. Clark, Arthur De Carle Sowerby 1912, T. Fisher Unwin, London – First Edition An exceptional and mostly unopened example of this celebrated and profusely illustrated account of Robert Sterling Clark’s thirteen month expedition across China’s northern frontier, covering nearly 2,000 miles of largely uncharted territory, primarily on mule and horseback. Beginning in Taiyuan in Shaanxi province, Clark and his team, which included the young naturalist Arthur de Carle Sowerby, traversed “Shên-kan” (the provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu), with the intention of creating a detailed topographical map of the expedition route, study the animals native to the region, and collect meteorological and geological data. With over 65 photographic plates, six tipped-in colour plates, a map of the region outlined in colour, and a large folding map (96 x 51.5 cm) housed in a pocket at the rear. Near fine, rear hinge starting, light soiling to cloth. HK$ 8,000

19. La Montre Chinois. Relations de l’Horologie Suisse avec la China – Alfred Chapuis, Gustave Loup 1919, Attinger Frères, Neuchatel – First Edition A superb and fine copy, illustrated with 33 colour and black & white plates, and 245 halftone illustrations. Included is an introduction on ‘L’Horométrie et le Système cosmologique des Chinois’ by Léopold de Saussure. This is a comprehensive and heavily illustrated survey of European cosmological instruments and mechanical amusements introduced to the Chinese Imperial Court from the 14th century, and the elaborate Swiss timepieces made for that market in Europe and in China, the first seeming to be by Francois-Louis Stadlin, a Swiss Jesuit in China from 1707-1740. The whole is referenced with texts from the contemporary writings of ambassadors, merchant traders and churchmen; preceded by de Saussure’s essay on ancient Chinese cosmology. Prominent Swiss makers included Charles de Constant in the 18th century and the Bovet family in the 19th century, and many examples of their timekeepers could be found in the imperial palaces. HK$ 8,000

20. The Naturalist in Manchuria – Arthur de Carle Sowerby 1922, 1923, 1930 – Tientsin Press, Tientsin – First Edition

A remarkably clean set, profusely illustrated with three tipped-in colour plates, three folding maps 127 black and white photographic illustrations on 79 plates, 38 black and white sketches on 9 plates, a folding black & white line drawing, and numerous in-text sketches and diagrams.

China-born Arthur Sowerby began his career as a naturalist by collecting specimens for the Museum in Tai-yuan Fu. In 1906, he was appointed to the staff of the Anglo-Chinese College at Tientsin as lecturer and curator of its Natural History Museum. In 1908, he joined American millionaire Robert Sterling Clark on an expedition into Shansi and Kansu provinces of north China for the Smithsonian Institute. This began a long association with Clark, who financed four expeditions into Manchuria from 1913 to 1915, during which Sowerby gathered new facts and made original observations on ‘every type of country-wide and fertile plains, heavy coniferous forests, or lighter woods of deciduous trees, low, grassy hills, or high, rocky peaks, reeking swamps, the valleys of great rolling rivers, or lesser stream-cut ravines’.

Five volumes bound in three, titled: Travel and Exploration; Mammals; Birds; The cold-blooded Vertebrates and Tunicates of the Manchurian Region; and The Invertebrates and Flora of the Manchurian Region. Very good to near fine, rubbing to spine titles of Volume II/III, interiors remarkably clean. HK$ 32,000

21. Celebrities of the Shanghai Turf – Juel Madsen, Edmund Toeg 1923, Juel Madsen, Shanghai – Only Edition

A rare piece of Shanghai horse racing history, in remarkably fine condition. Containing 54 full page captioned illustrations of prominent members of the Shanghai community, by Danish artists Juel Madsen, and Edmund Toeg, with an introduction by A. W. “Bertie” Burkill, Steward of the Shanghai Race Club. The illustrations consist of 33 individual portraits of members of the Shanghai Race Club, Shanghai Paper Hunt Club, and International Recreation Club, beginning with G. H. Stitt, then Chairman of the Shanghai Racing Club (and Shanghai manager of the Hong Kong bank, interesting trivia – the right hand lion below the HSBC building in Hong Kong is nicknamed Stitt); 5 group sketches of Shanghai Race Club and Paper Hunt Club; 2 group sketches of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps (those featured are named below each sketch); 2 horses; all by Juel Madsen and 12 caricature sketches by Edmund Toeg. Possibly the last publication and showing some of the last sketches by the Danish artist and war correspondent Juel Madsen who was killed in September 1923 in the Great Kantō Japanese earthquake. HK$ 15,000

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22. The Chater Collection – James Orange 1924, Thornton Butterworth Ltd., London – Limited Edition, no. 300 of 750 copies A near fine example of this large work, comprehensively documenting this unsurpassed collection of 430 China trade paintings and engravings, including the historical context relating to each work. Written and compiled by James Orange, curator of the collection prior to its tragic destruction and dispersal during the Japanese occupation (1941-5), the remaining 94 pieces are now housed in Hong Kong’s City Hall Museum and Art Gallery. Illustrated with eighteen colour plates, 242 monochrome images, three folding colour maps, six monochrome maps, and a photogravure portrait frontispiece of Sir C. P. Chater. Sir Catchick Paul Chater amassed a large collection of historical pictures and engravings relating to China which he gifted to the people of Hong Kong. Its backbone was the collection of Wyndham Law of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, and included oil paintings, watercolours, sketches, prints and photographs, most of which are based on landscape scenes of the South China trading ports in the 18th and 19th centuries, and of British activities in China. HK$ 16,000

23. Shanghai: Its Mixed Court and Council – A. M. Kotenev 1925, North-China Daily News & Herald, Ltd., Shanghai – First Edition A rare first edition of the most detailed work on Shanghai’s Municipal Council and Mixed Court from 1842 to 1924, the year before its demise. Contents: Rules for the Mixed court, 1869. Rules of procedure of the International mixed court, 1914 and 1919, supplemented with provisions on general principles of the modern procedural laws of China, 1921. The provisional Criminal code of the republic of China. The provisional Criminal code amendment act.--The revised draft of the law on offences relating to morphine.The Chinese Supreme court decisions (1923). Rules for application of foreign laws (1921). Regulations relating to commerce. Copyright, 1916. The Law of publication, 1914. Rules of the Court of consuls. Land regulations and bye-laws for the Foreign settlement of Shanghai. Near fine, light spotting to edges of block and endpapers. HK$ 8,000

24. Grandeur et Suprematie de Peking – Alphonse Hubrecht 1928, Imprimerie des Lazaristes du Pé-t’ang, Peking – First and Limited Edition A stunningly silk bound copy of this wonderful work, illustrated with seventy full page halftone photographic plates [with 140 photographs], 560 woodblock in-text engravings, ten full page woodblock plates, a full page plan comparing Peking through the ages, woodblock initials incorporating monuments of Peking, and 220 zincographic engravings of Chinese art [zincography was a planographic printing process that used zinc plates]. This copy, in a variant binding of orange pictorial silk, is also one of a hundred copies that contained an additional eight full page hand water-coloured woodblock prints of nine porcelain works from the Louvre Museum [Opposite pages 460, 452, 412 [2], 404, 188, 180, 124, 116], water-coloured illustrated limitation page and extra illustrated title page, thirty water-coloured large initials with floral decoration. This comprehensive work is divided in two parts, one historical, one descriptive.The historical part begins with the Mongol Empire [13th to 14th Century] and ends at the first decades of the Republic of China [1912]. The descriptive part describes the palaces, temples, Imperial Tombs, and also family life in China, social life, beliefs, etc.’ [Bibliotheca Wittockiana 123]. Near fine, light wrinkling to free endpapers, fading of gilt lettering to label, one or two faint finger marks, archival repair to closed tear on page 31. HK$ 38,000

25. Shanghai Of To-Day. A Souvenir Album of Fifty Vandyck Prints of “The Model Settlement” – O. M. Green 1928, Kelly & Walsh., Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore – Second Edition – Enlarged A superior copy. The fifty tipped-on black and white photographic plates by Vandyck are preceded by an introduction by Owen Mortimer Green, who was British editor of the North China Daily News. ‘Shanghai, being a Treaty Port, was composed of two parts: the native of Shanghai city, under the control and administration of the Chinese and the foreign governed Shanghai International Settlement. This work, fully illustrated with photographs, covers the most important places of the Shanghai International Settlement, with its emphasis on the more Western-Style architecture, in particular administrative or commercial buildings and some religious buildings, combined to present Shanghai as a modern and attractive city.’ Fine in near very good covers, the delicate yap edges chipped as often encountered, small area of watermarks to upper edge of front board. HK$ 13,000

26. The Shop Signs of Peking â&#x20AC;&#x201C; H. K. Fung 1931, Issued by the Chinese Painting Association of Peking â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Edition Limited to 100 Copies A beautifully hand coloured and bound work, documenting the signs used by Chinese shopkeepers to advertise their trade, with 101 hand-coloured illustrations of shop signs each accompanied by the Chinese and English description, together with a foreword in English by H. K. Fung. Bound in patterned paper covered boards, embroidered silk cloth corners, silver title label to front panel lettered in Chinese, black strong ties. Very good, uniform frame of fading to front panel, title label chipped, upper edge of pastedowns with wear, internally fine with the exception of a 3cm closed tear to the lower edge of sheet 7 not affecting text or illustrations. HK$ 41,000

27. Peking Studies – Ellen Catleen (Thorbecke), Friedrich Schiff (illustrator) 1934, Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., Shanghai – First Edition Describing the visit of Mr. Pim to Peking, where he meets with his colleague Mr. Wu, and together they tour the wonderful city that is 1930’s Peking. As a gift to someone who is moving to China or has recently visited this is hard to beat. Things may have changed slightly though. A large format book (38 x 27cm) beautifully illustrated throughout by Friedrich Schiff with a mixture of black and white or colour sketches, photographs taken by Catleen with her Roliflex camera, with colour applied and a full page hand sketched colour map. This copy with the front panel of the original dust jacket loosely enclosed. Internally fine and without marks, boards very good, toned, and with light water marks to front edge of spine. HK$ 9,500

2. Himalaya

28. An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet; containing A Narrative of a Journey through Bootan, and Part of Tibet – Captain Samuel Turner, Lieutenant Samuel Davis, Robert Saunders 1800, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol, London – First Edition First edition, completely untrimmed in original publisher’s paper covered boards, housed in later custom morocco clamshell case. Unusual to find such works in this original state. With 14 copper-engraved plates including the drawings of Samuel Davis ‘a surveyor and draftsman for the Bengal Army, he accompanied the second British embassy, in 1783, to Druk Yul, the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon. These elegant depictions attest to the only foreign artist “of distinction” to show Bhutan, and the first outsider to paint scenes from these mountains’ [Michael Aris Views of Medieval Bhutan].The geographical focus of this work is split between Bhutan (180 pages) and Tibet (246 pages), together with thirty pages of appendices. In addition to Davis’ illustrations and the folding map of Bootan and Tibet by Turner (58 x 23.5 cm), is the marvellously Mona-Lisa’esque ‘Yak of Tartary’, an engraved aquatint by De la Motte of the Bhutanese yak that Turner successfully shipped alive back to Hastings, where it was painted by George Stubbs, better known for his paintings of horses. HK$ 30,000

29. Views in India, Chiefly Among The Himalaya Mountains – Lieut. George Francis White, Emma Roberts (editor) 1838, Fisher, Son, and Co., London & Paris – Second Edition A near fine example with the complete set of 29 full page engraved plates, and extra illustrated engraved title page, from water-colours by various artists including Turner after sketches by White, Grindlay, and others. In publisher’s full burgundy morocco binding. With the valuable input and editing of Emma Roberts (not included in the first edition). Roberts (1794-1840) worked as an editor and writer in India, and later under commission from the Asiatic Journal. Lieutenant White (1808-98) was stationed in India with the 31st Regiment of Foot (182546), and saw action at Moodkee and Ferozeshah in the First Anglo-Sikh War, retiring as lieutenant-colonel on half-pay in 1854. Between 1829 and 1832 he travelled ‘in that portion of the Himalayan regions lying between the rivers Sutlej and Kelee’ making sketches of sites along the Ganges and Jumna, at Sutlej, the Keeree pass, Hardwar, Mussoorie, Jamnotri, Gangotri, Simla, Nahaun, including an account of the ascent of Choor, there are also views in Rajputana, Bombay, the Deccan and Kathiawar. HK$ 9,000

30. Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet – Captain William Henry Knight, Forty-Eighth Regiment 1863, Richard Bentley, London – First Edition An exceptional example of this title, and the preferred issue with the mounted ‘Portion of a Thibetan Praying Wheel, Monastry of Hemis’ opposite page 200. The Brooke-Hitching copy, housed in custom slipcase, complete and without restoration, scarce as such. In addition to the fragment of prayer wheel, there are eight full page tinted lithographic plates, eight full page black and white engraved plates, and 29 in-text illustrations. ‘Nothing could exceed the beauty of the view as we approached our intended halting-place. Having crossed the torrent by a wooden bridge, the mountains we had been winding through showed out in all their grandeur, while above us, inaccessible peaks, with sharp and fanciful projections, nestled their mighty heads among the fleecy clouds, which hung about after the recent rains’ Captain Knight journeyed through Kashmir and Tibet in 1860 in the company of another officer and a porter. Having spent a year and a half in India with his regiment, Captain Knight had managed to obtain a six months’ leave of absence in order to escape the hot season and journey through the cool foothills of the Himalayas. His goal in this volume was to represent ‘a faithful picture of travels in regions where excursion trains are still unknown, and Travelers’ Guides unpublished’. HK$ 20,000

31. The Indian Alps and How We Crossed Them – Nina Elizabeth Mazuchelli 1876, Longmans, Green, & Co., London – First Edition A handsome volume of this enduring work on mountaineering, by the enthusiastic and irrepressible narrative of Nina Elizabeth Mazuchelli who, together with her Army chaplain husband, Francis, and their friend ‘C’ (the District Officer) traversed the NepalSikkim frontier along the Singalila Ridge – they almost reached the Tibetan border before a blizzard forced them to turn back. Despite their retreat, Mrs Mazuchelli was the first English woman to travel so far into the eastern Himalayas. Profusely illustrated with 10 full page chromolithographic plates and numerous intext drawings and sketches by the author, together with a folding map of Sikkim, the travelling party’s route marked in colour. Very good, neatly re-backed with original spine relaid. HK$ 5,000

32. Round Kangchenjunga – Douglas W. Freshfield 1903, Edward Arnold, London – First Edition Freshfield’s incredible account of his dangerous and exhausting circuit of Kangchenjunga, considered one of the greatest early works on Himalayan exploration, and a standard reference to the Kangchenjunga massif. The party’s entire route followed previously unknown areas, much of it at a great height: they climbed the Zemu glacier reaching 5,350 metres, then crossed the Lhonak valley and proceeded west over Jongsong La into Nepal, descending along Kangchenjunga glacier, before trekking ahead to Tseram and finally crossing back to Sikkim. Accompanying Freshfield was Italian photographer Vittorio Sella, whose remarkable photographs feature in this book. Profusely illustrated with two large folding colour maps of Sikkim and the glaciers of Kangchenjunga, 40 full page black and white plates, 2 in-text illustrations of the peaks of Kathmandu and a geological map of Sikkim, and one folding panoramic black and white photographic plate of Kangchenjunga Glacier. Near fine, slightly rubbed at extremities, scattered light foxing to edges, and the occasional page HK$ 6,500

33. The Great Plateau – Captain C. G. Rawling 1905, Edward Arnold, London – First Edition First Edition of Rawling’s important account of his unofficial and official surveys through Tibet, illustrated with 57 photographs (on 32 plates) and two folding maps. ‘In 1903 Rawling explored the Zoji La, Leh, Chang Chemmo, Lanak La with Hargreaves and Ram Singh. Then he explored and surveyed, with C. H. D. Ryder, from Lhasa to Simla by the valley of the Brahmaputra and Lake Manasaro-war, as a detachment of the Younghusband Tibet Mission in 1904’. In addition to taking part in a survey that established Everest as the highest mountain in the world, Rawling would have also been the first man to attempt a climb of the North Face of Everest if his senior officers had allowed! Near fine, minor rubbing to corners. HK$ 15,000

34. Five Months in the Himalaya – A. L. Mumm 1909, Edward Arnold, London – First Edition British explorer Mumm’s account of his 1907 expedition to the Himalayas with T.G. Longstaff. Considered a chief contribution to mountaineering literature, this book records the first ascent of the 23,400 ft. Trisul, as well as their journey through the Bagini Pass, Rishi Valley, Dhauli Valley, Garhwal, Kashmir, Haramukh, Khagan, and Shikara. Profusely illustrated with 28 full page plates, 4 of which are folding, together with numerous photographs in-text and 2 folding maps at rear, of Garhwal and Kashmir. Near fine, some light rubbing to cloth extremities, none of the usual foxing encountered, front hinge starting. HK$ 5,300

35. The Riddle Of The Tsangpo Gorges – Captain F. Kingdon-Ward 1926, Edward Arnold & Co., London – First Edition The Brooke-Hitching copy of this important work, housed in custom slipcase. Describing the period spanning 1924-25, during which Kingdon-Ward made what was probably his most famous and successful expedition, in the company of Lord Cawdor, to Bhutan and south-east Tibet, during which, in addition to ‘The Riddle’, related to the existence, or not, of the ‘Falls of Brahmaputra’, he collected ninety-seven varieties of rhododendron, and the first viable blue poppy seed. Illustrated with a folding coloured map, and 21 photographs on 16 plates. Near fine, slight bubbling to cloth on front board, light foxing to edges and preliminary. HK$ 16,000

3. South East Asia

36. Descriptio regni Japoniae et Siam â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Varenius (Bernhard Varen), Jodocum Schoutenium (Joost Schouten) 1649, Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, Amsterdam â&#x20AC;&#x201C; First Edition Two little volumes bound in one contemporary vellum binding (12x6.5cm), with additional engraved title page and folding out table. Volume I contains the first comprehensive description of Japan from a European perspective, which Varenius based on a diversity of sources, without visiting Japan himself, together with a Latin translation of the first reliable work on Siam (Thailand, and provinces of Cambodia, Malaysia, and Burma) by Joost Schouten. Volume II contains a discourse on religion in Japan by Varenius, and his writings on diverse races and their religions (including Schouten on the religions of Siam), followed by short excerpts from Leo Africanus on religion in Africa. Near fine, toning to endpapers, and light rubbing to hand inscribed title on spine. HK$ 7,800

37. An Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava – Michael Symes 1800, W. Bulmer and Co., London – First Edition, Large Paper Copy A stunning and rare large paper copy of ‘the first full account of Burma to be published’, finely illustrated with two folding engraved maps, eighteen engraved plates, and eight engraved botanical plates (four of which are folding). In contemporary full polished calf armourial binding of Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet, and once housed in the Hoare Library at Stourhead. Michael Symes was sent by Sir John Shore, governor-general of India, on a mission to Ava in Burma, to obtain from the emperor of Ava a permit to allow a British agent to reside at Rangoon, and to induce him to close his borders to French shipping. In diplomatic terms Symes’ mission was a success. His detailed account is highly interesting with keen observations and insight. ‘It is a mass of information on the history, religion, government, social systems, language, geography and economy of Burma, together with a narrative of Symes’ seven months stay in Burma, his journey to the capital and reception at court.’ HK$ 42,000

38. Extraordinary Hardships and Adventures of Captain Woodard... Including their Escape from the Malays – William Vaughn, Captain David Woodard 1808 Circa, Printed for Thomas Tegg, London – First Edition Thus A rare little account, with folding frontispiece engraving depicting Woodard dramatically ‘defending himself from the Treachery of the Malays’. Woodard had sailed in the American ship Enterprise from Batavia (Jakarta) bound for Manila. He and five companions were sent off in small boat to purchase provisions, but found themselves cut off by a storm, finally landing at Celebes where one of them, Archibald Millar, was killed in a fight with the local Malays. Imprisoned by their captors, they finally escaped with the help of a Muslim priest, and made their way back to Batavia. Woodard later recounted the story to William Vaughn who wrote this account. Near fine. HK$ 2,500

39. A Dictionary of the Malayan Language – William Marsden 1812, Printed for the Author, London – First Edition A finely bound copy of this scarce important and innovative dictionary, using Malay phrases, customs, beliefs, and quotations from manuscripts in Marsden’s collection to describe the use and meaning of each word. With interesting provenance, formerly owned by Jonas Daniel Vaughan [1825-1891], a prominent lawyer in Singapore, who attempted but ‘found the task of compiling a supplement to the MalayEnglish dictionary to be too complex’, as can be seen by his numerous pencil notes and marginalia in this copy. It was later owned by Dr. C. H. Wheeler, a Singapore surgeon. William Marsden DCL FRS (1754-1836) was a distinguished Irish orientalist, linguist, numismatist and pioneer in the scientific study of Indonesia. He joined the East India Company at the age of 16, and was sent to Sumatra. ‘While in Sumatra Marsden developed an academic interest in the Malay language and related tongues that was to last the whole of his life’. He began work on his dictionary in 1786; it was published together with his ‘Grammar’ in 1812. ‘These were his most significant and enduring linguistic works. The dictionary, in particular, broke new ground in terms of methodology. Unlike many previous dictionaries and word lists, Marsden used Arabic characters for the Malay words and arranged the entries following the alphabetical order of the Arabic characters. Another innovation is the inclusion of examples of phrases from native sources, many of which were taken from manuscripts in his collection.’ - King’s College London, The Marsden Collection. HK$ 19,000

40. Narrative of the Burmese War, Detailing the Operations of MajorGeneral Sir Archibald Campbell’s Army, from its Landing at Rangoon in May 1824, to the Conclusion of a Treaty of Peace at Yandaboo, in February 1826 – Major J. J. Snodgrass 1827, John Murray, London – First Edition The important first hand military account of the first Burma war by Sir Archibald Campbell’s Military Secretary and son-in-law. A full margined copy in original boards and spine. With large folding engraved map Burmese Empire [46 x 40 cm], two wood-engraved illustrations Bandoola’s Look-Out Tree at Donoobew - Mounting Four Guns and Meeting of the British and Burmese Commissioners at Neoun-Ben-Zeik. Principal Figure: The Kee-Wongee. Patricia Herbert in her bibliography of Burma notes that ‘the tone of Major Snodgrass’ narrative is fairly typical of British attitudes and accounts of this period. His concluding remarks upon the Burmese king are: ‘let him then vaunt and boast, and let us smile at his harmless vanity and arrogant imbecility. The appendix contains translations of captured Burmese military documents and the text of the Treaty of Yandaboo.’ Fine, partially unopened, in very good original boards with splits to hinges and spine. HK$ 6,000

41. Memoirs of a Malayan Family. Written by Themselves. Translated from the Original. – N. Muda, W. Marsden (translator). INSCRIBED 1830, Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund, London – First Edition A very scarce copy of this little work, which was originally written 1756-66 concerning a Dutch East India Company settlement in Sumatra. With wonderful provenance, as it is inscribed by Marsden ‘For Charles Wilkins Esq. with the Translator’s love.’ In addition, tipped in is a hand-written note explaining that this book was gifted to Wilkins by Marsden, and then passed from Miss Lucy Wilkins to Felix Seddon, the writer of this note, and finally to his sister Harriet. Not only was Marsden Wilkins’ solicitor as noted in the letter, but they were close friends. Sir Charles Wilkins was also an orientalist and founding member of the Asiatic Society, both men spoke numerous Asian languages fluently, and had spent many years in the orient. In 1807 Marsden married Wilkins’ daughter Elizabeth. As the letter indicates, the book was then passed on by Lucy Wilkins to Felix Seddon, Professor of Oriental Languages at King’s college, London, another multilingual polyglot orientalist, who along with Wilkins had spent 15 years in India. Near fine, in very good covers, hand written letter split along fold. HK$ 9,000

42. Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Edmund Roberts 1837 - First Edition - Harper & Brothers, New York An account of this early American embassy to the east. Roberts was appointed as special agent of the United States to negotiate treaties with Muscat, Siam, Cochin China and Japan, which he set out to do in 1832 with the ship Peacock and the schooner Boxer. Including about 120 pages describing the culture and business practices of China. In publisherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original cloth, and paper label to spine. Very good, wear to edges, watermarks to upper edges, light scattered foxing, one or two pages poorly opened. HK$ 6,500

43. The Eastern Seas – George Windsor Earl 1837, Wm. H. Allen and Co., London – First Edition A very important association copy, with the signature of Margaret, Lady Brooke. Earl was a strong admirer of Raffles, who had died in 1826’ and Earl’s book ‘greatly impressed James Brooke, who was also an admirer of Raffles and his writings’. Brooke’s prospectus for his voyage to Singapore and then Borneo (published in October 1938) reflected the influence of Earl’s book. An entertaining and insightful work, with extensive chapters on Indonesia, Borneo, Malaysia, and Singapore, as well as a lengthy treatise in the Appendix titled ‘Observations on the Commercial Resources of the Indian Archipelago’. Illustrated with four folding maps. Brooke encouraged the work of Wallace, whose ‘Wallace Line’, showing the boundary between Asian and Australian faunal regions, was critical to Wallace and Darwin’s evolutionary theory. But the ‘Line’ had been earlier presented to the Royal Geographical Society by Earl in 1845, and Wallace acknowledged that ‘Earl believed that there had been a former connection between Asia and Australia’. Darwin also wrote to Wallace, after reading a draft of his paper on Malay zoogeography, to ask: ‘Are you aware that Mr. W. Earl published several years ago the view of distribution of animals in Malay Archipelago in relation to the depth of the sea between the islands?’. HK$ 9,000

44. Borneo and the Indian Archipelago. With Drawings of Costume and Scenery – Frank S. Marryat 1848, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London – First Edition A superbly illustrated work on Indonesia, and Rajah Brooke, with additional detail on Singapore, Macau, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. Illustrations include a chromolithographed colour frontispiece and additional title, twenty tinted lithographic plates, and thirty-seven woodcuts. Many of Marryat’s expertly lithographed drawings represent the earliest ethnographical records of life in Borneo and the Indian Archipelago. Frank Marryat served as a Midshipman on board the H.M.S. Samarang on a surveying expedition to the Indian Archipelago, 1843-1846, cut short in consequence, as Mr. Marryat infers, of the ill-conditioned behaviour and unpopularity of her captain, Sir Edward Belcher. Very good, neatly rebacked retaining original spine, small water stain to upper edge of last few plates not affecting illustrations, one or two spots, generally internally a nice clean copy. HK$ 18,000

45. Burma Past and Present with Personal Reminiscences of the Country – Lieut.-Gen. Albert Fytche, late Chief Commissioner of British Burma 1878, C. Kegan Paul and Co. – First Edition Written in the form of an autobiography, the work gives much information of early British-Burmese relations. The author served as Chief Commissioner of British Burma from 1867 to 1871. Two volumes, beautifully illustrated with ten colour chromolithographic plates, two engraved portraits, five engraved plates, one plate of Burmese Writing, two in-text engravings, and a large colour engraved folding ‘Map of Burma and Adjacent Countries with Routes of Various Explorers by Lieut. General Albert Fytche’ [68.5 x 42 cm], and additional contemporary colour map of ‘Farther India’ tipped in at rear of volume II. Fine with the exception of evidence of removed bookplates from the front pastedowns. HK$ 15,000

46. The Game Birds of India, Burmah and Ceylon – Allan Octavian Hume, Charles H. T. Marshall 1878, 1880, 1881, Hume and Marshall, Calcutta – First Editions A superb and thus rare example of this three volume work, without restoration or loss, in the original gilt decorated bindings, and containing the complete set of 144 fine chromolithographic plates. All three illustrated title pages are also present. Hume, ‘the Father of Indian Ornithology’, put together this work using contributions and notes from a network of 200 or more correspondents. Hume delegated the task of getting the plates made to Marshall. The chromolithographs of the birds were drawn by W. Foster, E. Neale, (Miss) M. Herbert, Stanley Wilson and others and the plates were produced by F. Waller in London. Hume had sent specific notes on colours of soft parts and instructions to the artists. He was unsatisfied with many of the plates and included additional notes on the plates in the book. This book was started at the point when the government demoted Hume and only the need to finance the publication of this book prevented him from retiring from service. He had estimated that it would cost £ 4,000 to publish it and he retired from service on 1 January 1882 after the publication. HK$ 22,000

47. Exploration of Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo – John Whitehead 1893, Gurney and Jackson, London – First Edition A beautiful copy of this stunningly illustrated and unsurpassed large folio (38x27cm)containing 32 lithographed plates, comprising 11 natural history plates, hand-coloured and heightened with gum arabic, and 21 tinted lithographed views and ethnographic subjects, and with map and an additional 21 woodcut illustrations in the text. The detailed narrative of John Whitehead’s (1860-1899) travels from October 1884 to August 1888 in Borneo, Java, Palawan and Balabac Islands, especially of his three efforts (the last one successful) to ascend Mt. Kina Balu. He brought back examples of many new animals, including no fewer than fortyfive new species of birds. The author’s primary interest was ornithology, but he also provides much information on head-hunting, religion and custom of the peoples of the region. Besides visiting North Borneo he spent several months in Java and Palawan, and made an expedition into the state of Malacca. HK$ 40,000

48. Wanderings in Burma – George W. Bird, Felice Beato 1897, Bright, Bournemouth; Simpkin, Marshall, et al., London – First Edition A beautiful copy of this large and detailed work, mostly unopened, scarce in any condition. Essentially the first ‘guidebook’ to Burma, profusely illustrated throughout with 68 black and white plates many from photographs by Felice Beato, together with a large folding colour map in the pocket at the rear, and 19 further maps and plans, three of which are folding. George W. Bird was an educational service official with twenty years residence in Burma. This work is arranged in two parts: the first giving a general introduction to Burma, and the second describing twenty-four ‘routes’ or excursion tours throughout Burma with a description of the main sights and practical travel advice - ‘the best way to get expeditiously to May Myo from Mandalay is to ride. With two ponies, and a bullock-cart for servants and kit, the journey up can be comfortably made in two days’. HK$ 22,000

49. Wanderings in the Great Forests of Borneo. Travels and Researches of a Naturalist in Sarawak – Odoardo Beccari, F. H. H. Guillemard (editor) 1904, Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., London – First Edition in English An exceptionally clean and sharp copy of this important work by one of the great botanical explorers and naturalists of the nineteenth century, containing three folding maps and illustrated throughout with 61 black and white photographs, sketches and diagrams. Odoardo Beccari (1843-1920), an orphan from Florence, studied at the universities in Pisa and Bologna, and after graduating spent a few months at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where he met Charles Darwin, William and Joseph Hooker, and James Brooke, the first Rajah of Sarawak. The latter connection led to him spending three years from 1865 to 1868 undertaking research in Sarawak, Brunei and other islands off present-day Malaysia and New Guinea. He made a second trip to New Guinea, this time with ornithologist Luigi Maria d’Albertis, in 1872, collecting many zoological specimens, especially birds of paradise, and ethnographic materials. HK$ 8,500

4. Voy 50.

The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook with “The Death of Captain Cook” Plate – James Cook, John Hawkesworth, James King 1773, 1777, 1785, Strahan, Cadell, Nicol, London

A complete set of the best possible editions, superbly bound in full tree calf and with the additional ‘Death of Captain Cook’ drawn by the John Weber who witnessed the dispute and ensuing fight. Eight quarto volumes and the elephant folio volume of plates. Magnificently illustrated with two hundred and five engraved charts and plates, many of which are double page or larger. There is no greater set of travel works. Cook was the first scientific navigator, these three voyages made great contributions to numerous fields of knowledge, and did more to clarify the geographical knowledge of the southern hemisphere than his predecessors had done together [Hill]. The first voyage is in its second and best edition, complete with the ‘Directions for placing the cuts’ and the ‘Chart of the Straights of Magellan’, and with the new Preface containing Hawkesworth’s virulent eight-page reply to Dalrymple’s whining reviews of the first edition, and the whole volume revised by the voyage’s astronomer William Wales. The third voyage is in its second and best edition, with the printing by Hughs (rather than Strahan who printed the first edition) with the text itself entirely re-set. Isaac Smith presenting a set on behalf of Cook’s widow in 1821 noted that ‘I am desired by Mrs Cook to request your acceptance of the 4 books sent herewith being her Husbands last Voyage round the World, as a mark of her respect the letter press of the second edition being much superior to the first both in paper & letter press’ (quoted by Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography, 85). King George III’s copy of the official account, preserved in the British Library, is also an example of this second edition.This particular set with variant title pages, dated correctly, but without edition statement or vignette of Royal Society medal. Text volumes finely bound in full period tan tree calf, spines in six compartments, raised bands, intricately decorated and tooled in gilt, twin green and burgundy morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, boards with twin gilt decorative borders, edges tooled in gilt with matching tooling in blind to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, Atlas folio in matching period half tan tree calf over marbled boards. Near fine and clean set, in fine bindings, some toning and offsetting to text and plates, some light intermittent spotting, one or two of the folding plates with small crease tears. Atlas volume - few plates gently foxed, heavier to ‘Death of Cook’ plate. HK$ 430,000

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51. Voyage dans les Mers de l’Inde – Guillaume Joseph Le Gentil de la Galaisière 1779, 1781, Imprimerie Royale, Paris – First Editions

‘Two monumental volumes... crammed with details on astronomy, navigation, and natural histo

In fine contemporary bindings and illustrated with 27 folding copper engravings showing 2 w Harbours, Manila, Madagascar and its coastline, Isle de France (Mauritius), Isle de Bourbon (Ré Together with engraved plates of animals and plant life, the ruins of Pondicherry, pagodas, Indi

‘In addition to the scientific details for which the voyage was undertaken, the first volume astronomy of the Brahmins. The second volume contains elaborate accounts of the Philippine the Philippines. Le Gentil gives details of the Islands, their climate, volcanoes, fertility, fruits, bir and civil, commerce, &c.’ (Edwards). Bound in contemporary full glazed calf, spines lettered and intricately tooled in gilt, burgundy

Near fine, light toning and spotting to endpapers and title pages, volume I with small wormho HK$ 37,000

ory... His descriptions of life in Manila, Pondicherry, and Madagascar are invaluable’ (Dunmore).

world maps, maps, charts and plans of Eastern and Western Philippines, Bay of Manila, Philippine éunion), Quartier S. Denis on Réunion, Eastern and Western Straits of Malacca, and Pondicherry. ian deities, and charts of comets and constellations.

treats of the manners, customs, and religion or the people of the Malabar Coast and of the e Islands, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Bourbon and their inhabitants, including views and charts of rds, animals, peoples, language, history, and description of Manila, the government, ecclesiastical morocco spine labels, all edges stained red, marbled endpapers.

oles to inner margins, in near fine contemporary bindings with some restoration.

52. A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean, Performed in the Years 1796, 1797, 1798 – William Wilson, James Morrison, Samuel Greatheed 1799, Printed for T. Chapman by T. Gillet, London – First Edition A very good copy bound in later black half calf over patterned cloth, spine tooled and lettered in gilt. With six engraved plates and seven folding engraved maps. ‘The London Missionary Society was founded in 1795, mainly to send missions to Polynesia. The voyage of the Duff was undertaken for the purpose of establishing a mission in Tahiti, and a settlement of twenty-five persons was formed. Apart from the missionary interest of this account, the voyagers made many important discoveries of islands, including Timoe, Mangareva, and Pakarua in the Tuamoto Archipelago; Ongea and Fulanga Islands; Vanua Mbalavu, and Satawal, Lamotrek, Elato, Ifalik, and Woleai atolls in the Western Carolines, before putting in at Macao. A new group of islands, named the Duff Group, was discovered among the Santa Cruz Islands. On the outward voyage, the expedition visited Rio de Janeiro. The narrative is fresh, although sometimes naive, and provides a glimpse of everyday life on the islands that the mariner or naturalist didn’t consider worth reporting.’ [Hill]. HK$ 8,000

53. Personal Narrative of a Voyage to Japan, Kamtschatka, Siberia, Tartary, and Various Parts of the Coast of China – J. M. Tronson R. N. 1859, Smith, Elder, & Co., London – First Edition A handsomely bound first edition of British officer J.M. Tronson’s informative and detailed account of his voyage to Japan, together with extensive chapters on Hong Kong, Siberia, Shanghai, Korea, and various parts of the coast of China. Tronson accompanied Sir Frederick Henry Stirling’s 1854-6 expedition, during which Stirling negotiated the first trade treaty between Britain and Japan, in Nagasaki. This was a time of great upheaval in Japan as the country had only recently been opened to the West. Illustrated with 5 folding maps, 8 full page engraved plates including frontispiece, and a number of other engraved vignettes in the text. Bound in later brown half calf and ochre cloth, spine in six compartments decorated in gilt, olive morocco label titled in gilt, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Very good, minor rubbing to extremities, light foxing to opening pages and occasionally scattered throughout. HK$ 11,000

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