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MACHADO, Álvaro de Melo.
Coisas de Macau.
Lisbon, Livraria Ferreira, 1913.
Rare first edition of this early twentieth-century account of Macao by an ex-Governor of the Portuguese colony.
£950
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MARKHAM, Gervase.
Cavalarice, or the English Horseman: Contayning all the Art of Horse-manship, asmuch as is necessary for any...
London, Edward Allde for Edward White, [1616 –] 1617.
A beautiful copy of the second edition, ‘corrected and augmented’, of Markham’s Cavalarice, exceptionally well-preserved in a contemporary binding, from the library of the antiquary Sir John Marsham.
£9750
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[MASTER OF THE GENEVA BOCCACCIO.]
St Bartholomew in India, miniature cut from a copy of Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale.
[France (Loire Valley, Nantes or Angers), fifteenth century (c. 1460s).]
An iconographically intriguing miniature by one of the greatest painters in the circle of Jean Fouquet, from a deluxe copy of Vincent of Beauvais’s Speculum historiale almost certainly commissioned by King René of Anjou.
£12500
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MERCURIALE, Girolamo.
De arte gymnastica libri sex, in quibus exercitationum omnium vetustarum genera, loca, modi, facultates,...
Venice, [Lucantonio II] Giunta, 1587.
Third edition of ‘the first illustrated book on gymnastics’ (Morton). A physician occupying senior posts in the medical faculties of Padua, Bologna, Rome, and Pisa, Girolamo Mercuriale (1530–1606) draws heavily on accounts of ancient exercise to argue for its medical benefits, being the...
£2750
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[METEOROLOGY.] ZHAO Jingdong 赵静东, illustrator.
氣象知䛊掛图（供小型展览） [Qixiang zhishi guatu (gong xiaoxing...
Tianjin, Tianjin Municipal Press for the Popularisation of Science via Visual Materials, [1965].
An apparently unrecorded set of posters from mid-1960s China instructing peasants in basic meteorology.
£2000
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MILL, John Stuart; 中村 敬太郎 NAKAMURA Keitarō [i.e. 中村 正直 NAKAMURA Masanao], translator.
On Liberty. 自由之理...
Shizuoka, Ken’ichiro Kihira, Meiji Mizunoesaru/Jinshin [i.e. 1872].
First edition, rare, of the first Japanese translation of Mill’s On Liberty, published twelve years after the English original, and very popular in Japan as a result of this translation by the philosopher and educator Masanao Nakamura (1832–1891).
£2500
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[NAGAKUBO] Sekisui [
長久保] 赤水. 地球萬國山海輿地全圖說 [Chikyū bankoku sankai yochi zenzusetsu; ‘Complete...
Tōto [Tokyo] and Naniwa [Osaka], Yahei Asano, [late eighteenth–early nineteenth century].
An early hand-coloured impression of this pioneering world map by the ‘founder of Japanese geography’.
£5000
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NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.
Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos, y religiosos de la monarchia de China. Descripcion breve...
Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian Anisson, 1676.
Scarce first edition, one of the most important early studies of Chinese history, religion, philosophy, and culture, by the Spanish Dominican Domingo Navarrete (d. 1689).
£4750
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NEWTON, Isaac.
Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions, and Colours of Light. Also two treatises of...
London, for Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford, printers to the Royal Society, 1704.
First edition of Newton’s Opticks, ‘which did for light what his Principia had done for gravitation, namely, placed it on a scientific basis’, and ‘expounds Newton’s corpuscular or emission theory of light, and first contains his important optical discoveries in a collected...
£70000
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[PHILIPPINES and CHINA.]
Album of one hundred gelatin silver prints of the Philippines and China.
The Philippines, c. 1915.
A fascinating album documenting the Philippines – its towns, street scenes, indigenous peoples, and landscapes – in the early days of American colonial rule, likely compiled by an American officer stationed in the islands.
£1500
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POUND, Ezra.
An Autobiographical Outline.
[New York], Nadja, (colophon: March) 1980.
First separate edition, numbered 114 of 226 copies, in an attractive binding by David Sellars.
£1200
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RAIMONDI, Eugenio.
Delle caccie … libri Quattro, aggiuntovi’n questa nuova ’mpressione il quinto libro della villa.
[Naples, Lazzaro Scoriggio, 1626.]
Second edition, expanded and extended, with a new series of striking hunting plates. The series of plates (attributable to Nicolas Perrey, who signs the title), showing composite scenes of hunters pursuing animals from birds and fish to lions and elephants, is wholly new, replacing the woodcut...
£2500
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RICCI, Giovanni, and Ercolano PORTA.
Storia della missione francescana e del Vicariato Apostolico del Hunan meridionale dalle sue...
Bologna, Stabilimenti tipografici riuniti, 1925.
First and only edition of this history of the Franciscan Mission in Southern Hunan, an important copy bound for presentation by the Vicar Apostolic of Southern Hunan to King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy.
£750
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ROUGEMONT, François de; [Sebastião de MAGALHÃES, translator].
Relacam do estado politico e espiritual do imperio da China, pellos...
Lisbon, Joao da Costa, 1672.
First edition in any language of the Dutch Jesuit François de Rougemont’s history of mid seventeenth-century China, published a year before the Latin original. Inspired to join the Chinese missions after meeting the famed Jesuit sinologist Martino Martini in Louvain, Rougemont arrived in Macao...
£2500
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[SHANGHAI.]
Shanghai of To-day. A Souvenir Album of fifty Vandyke Gravure Prints of “the Model Settlement”. Introduction by...
Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore, Kelly and Walsh, 1930.
Third edition, revised and enlarged (first 1927 with only thirty-eight plates), of this photobook showing the landmarks of Shanghai, our copy in a deluxe binding (likely for presentation) and with contemporary Shanghai provenance.
£1250
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SICARDO, José.
Christiandad del Japon, y dilatada persecucion que padecio. Memorias sacras, de los martyres de las ilustres religiones...
Madrid, Francisco Sanz, 1698.
Rare first edition of this important and comprehensive account of Christian missions to Japan by the Spanish Augustinian José Sicardo (1643–1715).
£12000
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[SINO-VIETNAMESE.]
‘朱柏盧家訓 Instructions familières du Dr Tchou-Pou-Lou’.
[Vietnam?, late nineteenth century.]
A set of manuscript lessons and exercises in classical Chinese, partly unique and likely compiled by Frenchmen in late nineteenth-century Vietnam.
£3500
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TRAVERS, John.
A Letter to the Editor of the Courier Newspaper, in Reply to an Article inserted in that Journal of the 22d August,...
London, Effingham Wilson, 1834.
Second, expanded edition of this tract on reforming the duties on tea imported from China to Britain, this copy presented to the Sinologist Sir George T. Staunton, member of the Select Committee on Tea Duties and author of the letter appended here, likely with his annotations and corrections; bound...
£850
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[WALEY, Arthur.]
康熙字典 [Kangxi zidian; ‘The Kangxi Dictionary’].
Shanghai, Dianshizhai for Jiujingzhai, Guangxu 22 [1894].
Nineteenth-century Shanghai edition of the Kangxi Dictionary, this set with an autograph note from the great Sinologist and translator Arthur Waley identifying the text for a previous owner.
£1250
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WILLIAMSON, Thomas; Samuel HOWITT, illustrator.
Oriental Field Sports; being a complete, detailed and accurate Description of the...
London, J. McCreery for H. R. Young, 1819.
Second quarto edition, one of the most beautiful of all hunting books, first published in 1805–7.
£3250