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Hua Hin, The Elephant Press. 2012. 4to, xxiv, 207pp., numerous coloured and black and white plates, orig. cloth, d.w, in a cloth box. Supplement to the important reference work on Western books on China published between 1477 and 1877: An extensively annotated catalogue in English of books on China in Western languages (1550 entries, each with a minute collation), arranged chronologically. With an introduction, references, indices, and a preface by Professor Han Qi of the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Löwendahl - von der Burg collection is a most important assembly of Western books on China, written by sinologues, missionaries, travellers, merchants and other authors. The collection also includes works by Chinese authors translated and edited by Western scholars. The contents cover Chinese history, language, philosophy, religion, society, science, medicine, missionary work and the "Chinese Rites" controversy, trade (incl. treaties with… Read More

Hua Hin, The Elephant Press. 2012. 4to, xxiv, 207pp., numerous coloured and black and white plates, orig. cloth, d.w, in a cloth box. Supplement to the important reference work on Western books on China published between 1477 and 1877: An extensively annotated catalogue in English of books on China in Western languages (1550 entries, each with a minute collation), arranged chronologically. With an introduction, references, indices, and a preface by Professor Han Qi of the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Löwendahl - von der Burg collection is a most important assembly of Western books on China, written by sinologues, missionaries, travellers, merchants and other authors. The collection also includes works by Chinese authors translated and edited by Western scholars. The contents cover Chinese history, language, philosophy, religion, society, science, medicine, missionary work and the "Chinese Rites" controversy, trade (incl. treaties with… Read More

Thailand: Hua Hin, the Elephant Press, 2008. Large 8vo, 2 vols; 4 plates; full yellow cloth, title printed in black on spine, fine in fine dust jacket, with fine slipcase and in original cardboard box. Together with: Lowendahl, Sino-Western relations... Supplement. 2012. Pp. xxiv, 207; full yellow cloth, facsimile illustrations; fine in fine dust jacket, also with the original cardboard box. An annotated bibliography of one of the great collections on China in the West.