China from Asia Bookroom

[China?].. [late Qing?]. Pair of Chinese wooden Fu dogs, architectural elements, each 8 x 19 cms, decorated in red and black lacquer and gilt paint, Chinese characters in ink on the verso, paint a little rubbed and chipped, good condition. Appealing pair of Chinese Fu dogs, guardian sculptures baring their teeth, their faces surrounded on one side by… Read more about this item

[China?].. [late Qing?]. Pair of Chinese wooden Fu dogs, architectural elements, each 8 x 17 cms, decorated in red and black lacquer and gilt paint, Chinese characters in ink on the verso, paint a little rubbed and chipped, good condition. Appealing pair of Chinese Fu dogs, guardian sculptures baring their teeth, their faces surrounded on one side by a… Read more about this item

Berlin.: Ullgemeiner Berein für Deutsche Litteratur. Zweite Auflage.(2nd edition). 1896.. Double-page map and a single map at the rear, viii + 391pp, numerous sepia-toned photographic plates including images of Hong Kong, Canton, Macao and Shanghai. Text in Fraktur or Gothic script. Bound in marbled boards with contrasting plain black spine, paper title label on spine with a handwritten title now… Read more about this item

New York.: Sturgis & Walton Company.. 1st Edition.. 1909.. Black and white photographic frontispiece and 98 plates including one full page map and a plan, plus 1 plate in colour. xvi +393pp. Original red cloth binding sunned and discoloured on the spine, interior clean throughout, an good copy. 22.5 x 15cm. .

London and Paris.: Fisher, Son & Co.. (1843).. Four volumes 28.3 x 22 cms, 4 engraved vignette title-pages and 124 black and white engravings after drawings by Thomas Allom, 72 + 96 pages; 72 pages; 68 pages; 56 pages; contemporary half morocco over pebbled cloth boards, spines gilt lettered with raised bands and decorated in compartments, all edges gilt, morocco… Read more about this item

Pall Mall, London.: printed by W. Bulmer & Co. for G. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty,. 1798.. Second corrected edition. Three volumes-- two text volumes 29.4 x 23 cms, and a folio atlas 57 x 44 cms, the text volumes lacking the frontispieces, but otherwise complete with 27 engravings (one, of the Camellia Sasanqua full-page): [iii]-xxxiv, 518 pages and [iii]-xx,… Read more about this item

Beijing.: 人民美术出版社. People's Fine Arts Publishing House.. 1977.. Large anti-Gang of Four propaganda poster featuring a heroic young female worker in an industrial setting. Some lightly browned holes along upper edge of poster. In very good condition, colours fresh and bright. 77 x 53cm. Poster was designed by Sun Quan, 孙荃, who was assigned to the People's Fine Arts… Read more about this item

Albert Dewit. 1909.. Illustrated with innumerable black and white engravings, photographs and drawings and including the famous detachable plate of the linghi - (Chinese torture of slow cutting), which the author recommends that sensitive souls could remove if it offended their Western principles! viii + 308pp. Early twentieth century half calf, rubbed and corners bumped, boards in pebbled cloth. Leather… Read more about this item

London.: Victoria and Albert Museum.. Reprint of 2nd edition.1921.. 2 volumes. Vol I: xi + 142pp. Vol II: xiii + 158pp. Both volumes have numerous black and white illustrations, index. Green pebbled cloth covers little rubbed, worn extremities as well as head and tail of spine, glue remnants of bookplate front pastedown of both volumes ex-library,… Read more about this item

Yokohama.: Thomas Cook and Son; Box of Curios Press. [circa1914].. Folding coloured map of Japan showing steamship and railway routes picked out in red, 28.5 x 336.2cms, large inset map shows Japan's connections with Korea, Manchuria and North China; tipped into the original blue card title-wrappers, small professionally sealed tear to a lower margin (no loss), early owner's neat inked… Read more about this item

Singapore.: Southeast Asian Ceramic Society.. First Edition.. 1991.. Map, colour and black and white illustration, 191pp, glossary, condition. 31.5 x 24cm. "Spirit of Han, a vivid study of the life and times of 2000 years ago. A high culture is revealed through an examination of Han Dynasty ceramics." - Publisher's description. .

The Monet Design.. First Edition.. 1996.. Lavishly illustrated in colour, 136pp. A very good paperback copy. The small amount of text is predominantly in Chinese but objects are generally described in English and Chinese. 30 x 22cm. .

Singapore.: Singapore University Press.. First Edition.. 1990.. 2 black and white maps, numerous colour and black and white photographic plates, line drawings, blue cloth covered boards lettered in gilt, xvi + 440pp, introduction, chronology, index. A fine copy in lightly rubbed dustjacket. .

New York.: The Century Co.. 1920.. Map and 14 black and white photographic illustrations, xi+240 pages, appendices, 19.3 x 13.2 cms; original pictorial tangerine cloth covered boards (a little dusty), couple of small previous owners' signatures on front free endpaper, a very good copy. Extraordinary account of the horrors of opium addiction by Ellen Newbold La Motte… Read more about this item

[China].. circa1850.. Four columns (per side) of closely transcribed “fly-head script” (蝇头小字), Chinese manuscript characters in brush and black ink on a double-sided silk handkerchief or sheet, 41. x 37.5 cms, narrow border, a little edgewear with minor loss to the foot and very occasional professional restoration in the body of the text by Grimwade University Services, University of Melbourne,… Read more about this item

[Paris].: Compagnie des Antilles. circa1890s.. Tea crate label 21 x 24 cms, textured cream stock, with coloured illustration and adjacent text panel in red, in very good condition. Attractive advertising ephemera for Compagnie des Antilles a French wholesaler founded in 1884 by René Honoré Collas. The company was very successful winning two gold medals at the Nice Exhibition of… Read more about this item

Macao.. 1, November1846.. Closely-written manuscript letter in French, boldy signed by Huc, 4 pages (bifolium), 26.7 x 20.7 cms. folding to 8.5 x 13.3 cms, postmarked Paris and Toulouse, remains of the red wax seal (small hole in the address panel marking its removal, but no loss to the text), small edge tears (without loss), overall in very good condition.… Read more about this item

London and Edinburgh.: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, and Cadell. First Edition in English.. Large folding copperplate map (as a frontispiece), vii, errata, lxvi (Preface and Introduction),+ 432 pages, 29.5 x 23 cm; period-style full brown morocco blind-ruled boards, spine in compartments with red leather title label lettered in gilt, endpapers renewed, tiny prior owner and date 1827… Read more about this item

New York.: Army Information Branch.. 1944.. Very large folding colour map, main map 85 x 95.5 cm plus 6 sidebar maps, together 85 x 14.1 cms; sheet 88 x 118 cms, several fold splits (archivally sealed), in good condition. Large colour wartime map issued by the U.S. Army Information Branch in 1944, the main map showing Shanghai to French… Read more about this item

New York.: Army Information Branch.. Volume IV, No. 17 B/F.. 13 August,1945.. Large folding aerial-style map 116.5 x 64 cms; 119.56 x 86 cms (sheet), black and white inset of East Asia noting the strategic position of Formosa with a lengthy explanatory note in red, on the verso a central panel with text relating to the Potsdam Conference, black and… Read more about this item