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Five House of Commons Command Papers, two sketch maps (in the reports for Hankow and Pakhoi) based on ordnance surveys, numerous tables, in all 118 pp (+ blanks), original plain stab-sewn title wrappers, 24.5 x 15.5 cm, edge wear and discolouration, the wrapper to one Report (Tachienlu) with tidemark to the upper edge and that for Shanghai a little creased and chipped at the foot, several unopened leaves in the Report for China, neat inked stamp of the University of Hull Library to the front wrappers, but an interesting group in very good condition. Including analysis of trade, and commentary on customs and society by the serving British Consuls or their agents. De-accessioned from the University of Hull Library, sold with their permission.

Seller Inventory # 177160

With notes and commentary for the study and appreciation of the Chinese poems. Xxxvii + 300pp, appendices, index, dustjacket torn and repaired, occasional light browning, a good hardback copy. Text in Chinese and English.

Seller Inventory # 176983

Parliamentary Report (House of Commons Command Paper), 34 x 21.5 cm, 16pp., folding map, original plain title wrappers, stamp of the Bibiothèque du Palais de la Paix with their shelf stamp on the title page, in very good condition. Report for Saigon for 1912 by the British Consul Thomas Carlisle. He notes the disproportionate advantage given to French imports because of the tariff advantage as against broader European (British) market share.

Seller Inventory # 177157

Maps, black and white photographic plates, xvi + 218pp, spine very lightly faded, good hardback copy.

Seller Inventory # 177030

Parliamentary Report, tables, 14 pp, cream title wrappers, stab sewn, 31.4 x 21 cm pagination stamps to the recto of each leaf, in very good condition. Comprehensive summary for Surinam, then a Dutch plantation colony. The report notes in addition to regular crops cocoa, bananas, sugar and rice) the planting of rubber, prospecting for gold by "pork knockers" and inducing colonial settlers (the report notes the arrival of 633 migrants for the year, "from British India under indenture") to plant "Surinam" coffee.

Seller Inventory # 177155

One case of cast metal very small movable type sorts for Japanese kanji, hirigana and katakana, case 13.5 x 13.5 cm, the type 2.2 x 05 x 0.5 cm, 25 columns x 25 rows of sort specimens; in very good condition. Fine examples of Japanese type.

Seller Inventory # 176622

9pp, original stab-sewn blue wrappers, 24.1 x 15.4 cm, stamp of the University Library Hull upper cover, a very good copy. De-accessioned from the University of Hull Library, sold with their letter of consent.

Seller Inventory # 177153

Three House of Commons Command Papers, 24.3 x 15.6, tables, original stab sewn blue title-wrappers, in all 47 pp, with the neat the ink stamp of the University of Hull Library to each of the front wrappers, previous owner's pencilled name to the head of the final report, slight edge wear and toning, but in very good condition. Accompanied by official letter of the de-acquisition of these reports. Three comprehensive trade reports for Shanghai for 1901-4, 1905 and 1906. The final by British diplomat, explorer and businessman, Archibald Rose (1879-1961) notes "Th port of Shanghai is now recognised as the greatest distributing centre of the Far East.it becomes each year of greater interest to the manufacturer and producer, both in the United Kingdom and in India, Canada and Australia.and the port.now ranks as the eighth shipping port in the world." De-accessioned from the University of Hull Library, sold with their letter of consent.

Seller Inventory # 177159

Engraving, 14 x 19.8 cm, 21 x 26.1 cm (sheet), a few edge tears, two neatly sealed on the verso affecting the margin only, lower corner creased, marginal toning, but in very good condition. Appealing view of Macau originally prepared for the official account of the great 18th Century voyage by La Pérouse, published in 1797. This is a later issue and re-engraved.

Seller Inventory # 177152

277pp. Endpapers evenly browned, edges slightly foxed, dustjacket worn with little loss, mended on reverse by a prior owner, a good copy.

Seller Inventory # 168877

Blue cloth covered boards, stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Cloth on the upper corner faintly discoloured, small puncture mark on the spine, endpapers browned but an attractive copy. Eight short stories set mostly in Asia. 20 x 13cm. Bertram Lenox Simpson (1877-1930) was a British author who wrote about China under the pen name "B. L. Putnam Weale" (or sometimes simply "Putnam Weale"). Lenox Simpson was the son of Clare Lenox-Simpson, who had been in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service since 1861; he had a brother, Evelyn, a mining engineer who worked in China, and a sister, Esme. His education was at Brighton College, after which he too joined the Service. He was in China during the Boxer Rebellion and during the siege of the legations. After this, he became Brigade Interpreter for the British Expeditionary Force. (Wikipedia).

Seller Inventory # 169107

Single leaf, double colummn, 14.2 x 9.6 cm, rubrics (handcoloured in red), early inked marginalia toned at the margins and a neat paper repair affecting the margin only, but in good condition. Single leaf of the Canon of the Roman Mass from a 16th Century Missal.

Seller Inventory # 177149

Black & white frontispiece portrait, 59pp. Endpapers trifle browned, overall a good copy.

Seller Inventory # 168638

Reprint. 316pp. Endpapers little browned, dustjacket trifle worn with spine sunned, upper cover lightly marked in pencil, overall a good copy.

Seller Inventory # 168702

288pp. Endpapers trifle browned, dustjacket somewhat worn with little loss at head and tail of spine, mended on reverse by a prior owner, overall a good copy.

Seller Inventory # 168701

372pp. Endpapers and edges lightly browned, dustjacket worn with loss at head of spine, mended on reverse by a prior owner, a good copy.

Seller Inventory # 168640

Reprint. 450pp. Endpapers evenly browned, upper edge little foxed, dustjacket spine somewhat sunned, a good copy.

Seller Inventory # 168635

First Edition. 254pp. Endpapers little browned, edges trifle foxed, dustjacket somewhat worn with spine sunned, otherwise a good copy.

Seller Inventory # 165934

First Edition. Black & white photographic illustrations, iii + 207pp. Paperback covers somewhat worn, otherwise a good copy. Modern China Series, No. 2.

Seller Inventory # 168911

Endpaper maps, black & white photographic illustrations, 22pp. Wrappers trifle worn, overall a very good copy.

Seller Inventory # 177003

xi + 192pp, notes, bibliography, index. A very good hardback copy in like dustjacket.

Seller Inventory # 167415

1 folding map and 21 maps within the text, many photographic illustrations, vi + 160pp, appendix, index, red cloth limp wrappers slightly marked with small split to top edge of spine, decorated endpapers, one page with damp stain, prior owner name on front free endpaper and a chop yet a sound and pleasing copy. 2nd postwar edition.

Seller Inventory # 176945

Tinted lithographs, 15.1 x 22.9 cm; 24.6 x 32.3 cm (sheet including caption), marginal toning (waterstain to the upper margin of one), abrasions at the head of one and the foot of the other, neatly sealed marginal edge tear, but the images in very good condition. Two views of the chapel of St Helena, within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the Christian Quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem. Prepared for David Roberts' great work "The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia" from drawings made "on the spot". The first lithographs were published in 1842 in monthly parts by Moon, Boys and Graves, the final issues appearing in 1849. This is from the re-issue in smaller format by Cassell published in 1879.

Seller Inventory # 177135

Engraved map on laid paper, in original uncoloured state, 19 x 24 cm; 25.1 x 30.3 cm (sheet), original folds, a trifle spotted and browning to one of the folds, but in good condition. Fine map of the Iranian island of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, by Jacques Nicolas Bellin published in Prevost's "Histoire generale des Voyages .". Traditional Persian vessels can be seen bobbing in the foreground and numbers of merchant vessels to the East, illustrating the strategic importance of the Strait of Hormuz, and the competition for access to trading routes. Sites of fresh water are noted and the Portuguese fortress to the north of the island is delineated. A beautiful map.

Seller Inventory # 177131

First Edition. 257pp in red cloth covered boards, near fine in like dustwrapper. 22x14cm. Novel surrounding the disappearance of Mao's heir also gives an interesting picture of life in the foreign community in Peking at the time. The author worked as a journalist in China in the early 1970s.

Seller Inventory # 168822

Tinted lithograph, 15.3 x 22.8 cm; 24.6 x 32 cm (sheet including caption), marginal toning, edges worn and a trifle soiled (small tidemark at the top margin), inked stamp on the verso, but the image in very good condition. View of the City of Bethlehem prepared for David Roberts' great work "The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia" from drawings made "on the spot". The first lithographs were published in 1842 in monthly parts by Moon, Boys and Graves, the final issues appearing in 1849. This is from the re-issue in smaller format by Cassell published in 1879.

Seller Inventory # 177138

First Edition. 3 black & white maps. xiv+669pp. Hardcover, edges slightly toned but a very good tight copy in a fine dustwrapper. As 1920s China teeters on the edge of civil war, two Oxford graduates return to the land of their birth.

Seller Inventory # 169030

Tinted lithograph, 15.1 x 22.8 cm; 24.6 x 32.3 cm (sheet including caption), marginal toning, small edge tear and chip from the upper corner, but in very good condition. View looking towards Mount Carmel in northern Israel, prepared for David Roberts' great work "The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia" from drawings made "on the spot". The first lithographs were published in 1842 in monthly parts by Moon, Boys and Graves, the final issues appearing in 1849. This is from the re-issue in smaller format by Cassell published in 1879.

Seller Inventory # 177136

Tinted lithograph, 15.1 x 22.8 cm; 24.6 x 32.3 cm (sheet including caption), marginal toning and abrasions at the foot, small edge tear, but in very good condition. Fine view of the ancient city of Tyre, when Lebanon was still under Ottoman rule. Prepared for David Roberts' great work "The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia" from drawings made "on the spot". The first lithographs were published in 1842 in monthly parts by Moon, Boys and Graves, the final issues appearing in 1849. This is from the re-issue in smaller format by Cassell published in 1879.

Seller Inventory # 177116

815pp, light browing to endpapers, cloth covered boards a little shelf worn, contents sound. 22x15.5cm Story of a Peking family during the 1930s.

Seller Inventory # 168884