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[AGRICULTURE.] BEIJING MUNICIPAL BUREAU FOR AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY.
农业机械安全生产挂图 [Nongye jixie anquan shengchan...
[Beijing], China Agriculture Press for Xinhua Bookshop, [late 1970s].
Very rare complete set of posters promoting the modernisation of agriculture at the outset of China’s economic reform.
£1750
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[CHINA.]
Notes of a Journey from Canton to Wu-chow-fu.
S.l., [c. 1862].
Extremely rare account of an early journey by a Westerner into the interior regions of China, navigating the Xi river upstream from Guangzhou to Wuzhou.
£450
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[GO Keitai 吳啓太 and TEI Eihō
鄭永邦.] 官話指南 [Guanhua zhinan; ‘A Guide to Mandarin’].
Kiukiang [Jiujiang], Central China Press, 1893.
Very rare edition of this guide to Mandarin printed by a Methodist missionary press in Kiukiang (Jiujiang).
£1750
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FLOWER, Stanley Smyth.
Album of 14 watercolours of India and Malaya.
India and Malaya, October 1894 to August 1895.
A charming album of vivid watercolour views of India and Malaysia, painted by a British zoologist and army officer during his time serving in India and the Straits Settlement.
£750
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IDES, E[vert] Ysbrants.
Three Years Travels from Moscow over-land to China: thro’ Great Ustiga, Siriania, Permia, Sibiria, Daour,...
London, W. Freeman, J. Walthoe, T. Newborough, J. Nicholson, and R. Parker, 1706.
First edition in English of this important account of an early embassy to China, our copy from the library of Sir Erasmus Gower, commander of the Macartney Embassy, Britain’s first and pivotal delegation to the Qing Empire.
£2750
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[IRWIN, Eyles.]
Eastern Eclogues; written during a Tour through Arabia, Egypt, and other Parts of Asia and Africa, in the Year...
London, for J. Dodsley, 1780.
First edition of these travel-inspired poems by the Calcutta-born East India Company servant Eyles Irwin (1751–1817), composed during his journey from India to England in 1777, and containing several interesting references to the British presence in India.
£850
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JOHNSON, Samuel.
A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the Words are deduced from their Originals, and illustrated in...
London, W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton, T. and T. Longman, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, A. Millar, and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755.
First edition of ‘the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography’ (PMM), this copy preserving 19D and 24O both in the first state.
£20000
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KEATS, John.
Endymion. A poetic romance … with engravings by John Buckland-Wright.
[London,] The Golden Cockerel Press, [1947].
No. 200 of 500 copies of the Golden Cockerel Endymion (the first 100 specially bound in full vellum), also found in brown buckram rather than red as here; Buckland-Wright’s greatest work and one of the most important Golden Cockerel publications, begun in 1943 but not completed until...
£1750
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KOO, T. Z. [Tsu-Jen KU].
Songs of Cathay. An Anthology of Songs current in various Parts of China among her People.
Shanghai, Association Press, [1931].
First edition, fourth impression, of a collection of twenty-five traditional Chinese songs compiled by the Chinese Christian leader Tsu-Jen Ku (1887–1971).
£275
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LATHAM, Simon.
Latham’s Falconry: or, the Faulcons Lure, and Cure: in two Books. The first, concerning the ordering and training...
London, Printed by Thomas Harper, for John Harison, 1633.
First collected edition (third edition of volume I, originally published in 1614 and reissued in 1615, second edition of volume II, originally published in 1618).
£8500
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LEVEY, Michael.
The later Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen … second edition.
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Revised second edition of Levey’s catalogue of the later Italian paintings in the Royal Collection, from Carracci to Zuccarelli and including the largest group of Canalettos in the world, a specially bound duplicate of Elizabeth II’s presentation copy.
£475
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
The Childermass … Section 1.
London, Chatto & Windus, 1928.
First edition, no. 74 of 225 copies of the special edition, signed by Lewis, additionally inscribed, in c. 1951, ‘To Geoffrey Bridson (through whom I am enabled to finish this book) – deepest thanks and friendliest greetings / Wyndham Lewis’.
£2500
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[LITURGY.]
L’Office de la Semaine Sainte, selon le Messel et Breviaire Romain; avec la concordance du Messel; et Breviaire de...
Paris, par la Compagnie des libraires associez au livre de la Semaine Sainte, 1700.
Uncommon edition of the offices for Holy Week in parallel French and Latin, in an attractive binding bearing the arms and monogram of Philippe I, duc d’Orléans (1640–1701).
£1250
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VOLOSHIN, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich.
O Repine [On Repin] …
Moscow, “Ole-Lukoie”, 1913.
First edition thus: three pieces written earlier in the year and published in journals on the work of Ilya Repin (1844–1930), often regarded as Russia’s national artist. At the end is an extract from a lecture (1885) by Landtsert on the painting ‘Ivan the Terrible and his Son’. Voloshin (1877–1932)...
£450
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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