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Christie's Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. New York Wednesday, November 27,1991.

By: N/A

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, 1991

Seller ID: 4204

Condition: Very Good

New York. Very Good. 1991. Christie's catalogue; 438 lots. Extensively illustrated with full-color photographs.; royal octavo; 275 pages .
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Sotheby's Fine Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art, Jadeite Jewellery, Jade Carvings, Pendants and Snuff Bottles. Hong Kong Tuesday 30th April to 2nd May, 1991.

By: N/A

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Hogn Kong, 1991

Seller ID: 4213

Condition: Very Good

Hogn Kong. Very Good. 1991. Sotheby's catalogue; 359 lots. Extensively illustrated with full-color photographs.; royal octavo .
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China Reconstructs April - October 1967 (7 issues)

By: N/A

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Peking, China Welfare Institute: 1967

Seller ID: 4665

Condition: Very Good

Complete issues including publisher's inserts. Nice clean copies without previous owners' names or other markings. 9 x 12 inches. First Edition.
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Fine Chinese Ceramics And Works Of Art New York, December 1 and 2, 1992

By: N/A

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Sotheby's: 1992

Seller ID: 4847

Sale 6370, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. December 1 and 2, 1992. 678 individual photographed lots. Loss of paper on front cover. Remnants of reference copy sticker to rear wrap.
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Fine Chinese Ceramics And Works Of Art. Auction 8470. New York, Thursday, September 19, 1996

By: N/A

Price: $155.00

Publisher: New York, Christie's: 1996

Seller ID: 4846

Includes auction "prices realized." 334 lots being numbers 108 through 442. (Does not include lots 1 through 107 as these were published issued as another sale).
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Picture Book of 'A Dream of Red Mansions' by Sun Wen of the Qing Dynasty This Chinese English Bilingual Edition

By: Edited by Lushun Museum, translated by Han Dan

Price: $175.00

Publisher: The Writers Publishing House: 2007

Seller ID: 4667

Condition: Very Good

Oversize volume (13.75 x 12.75 inches). Unpaginated. String-bound pictorial wraps. Accordion fold textblock. Bump to lower right corner. Housed in tri-fold chemise. Quarter cloth over pictorial boards with cut out, please see image. Some wear to corners.Otherwise, a very nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings.
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An Analytical Vocabulary of the New Testament

By: F. W. Baller

Price: $240.00

Publisher: Shanghai, China Inland Mission and American Presbyterian Mission Press: 1907

Seller ID: 4780

Condition: Very Good

Revised and enlarged edition. Half brown morocco and green cloth boards. 4 raised bands. Gilt particulars to spine. Occasional old scholia. Wear all around. Crack to front outer hinge, not deep (see image). Owner's name (Sanskrit professor at Columbia) to front fly. 418pp.
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Recherches sur les Musulmans Chinois

By: Henri Marie d'Ollone

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Paris, Ernest Leroux: 1911

Seller ID: 5512

Condition: Very Good

Quarto (7.75 by 11 inches) in light grey cloth with gilt title to spine. Folding map. Illustrations together with folding plate. ; xii, 470, [i] pages; Clean, firm copy without previous owners' names or other markings.
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Etudes sur l'Astronomie Indienne et l'Astronomie Chinoise.

By: Jean-Babtiste Biot

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Paris, Michel Levy et Freres: 1862

Seller ID: 2960

Condition: Very Good

Quarter green morocco with raised bands to spine. Bookshop plate to verso of front fly and Joseph McPherson's 1862 bold signature to half title. With three foldout plates. First edition of an expanded version of writings on Asian astronomy. "Biot's treatment was much more systematic than any which had preceded it" --Needham, Science and Civilization in China III, 183. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; iii, 398 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. First Edition.
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China: A History of the Laws, Manners, and Customs of the People

By: John Henry Gray. ed. William Gow Gregor

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co.: 1878

Seller ID: 5075

Condition: Very Good

2 Vol Set. John Henry Gray M. A. LL.D. Archdeacon of Hong Kong. With 140 illustrations. Full blue cloth; gilt particulars to front, rear and spine. Top edge gilt. Wear to head and tail of spine. Disastrous worming to Vol I affecting some text and illustrations (see image). Otherwise, very good set with attractive illustrated bindings. Vol I: 397pp. Vol II: 374pp.
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The Chinese Empire: Forming a Sequel to the Work entitled "Recollections of a Journey Through Tartary and Thibet"

By: M. l'Abbe Huc (Ã‰variste RÃ©gis Huc)

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans: 1855

Seller ID: 5094

Condition: Very Good

Huc was a Missionary Apostolic in China who also wrote "Christianity in China, Tartary, and Thibet" as well as "Souvenirs of a Journey through Tartary, Tibet and China." Blue cloth with debossed decoration to cover boards and gilt particulars to spine. Loss to Vol. 1 tail of spine. Both spines fraying at head and tail. Abrasions throughout exterior. Occasional spotting to pages. Vol. 1: [xxxii] 421 pp.; Vol. 2: [viii] 440 pp. 6 x 9 inches.
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Nanking: The Capital; Symbol of the New Life of China. An Address delivered at the College of Chinese Studies

By: Ralph A. Ward

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Peking, California College in China: 1935

Seller ID: 2818

Condition: Very Good

Stapled wraps. Green wraps faded to brown. Bookplate to verso of front cover and corresponding shadow to recto of title page. Nonetheless a nice, clean copy. ; 5.25 x 7.5 in; 12 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.
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A translation of the Confucian [Yih king] or the "Classic of Change", with notes and appendix. [I Ching]

By: Reverend Canon [Thomas] McClatchie

Price: $14,000.00

Publisher: Shanghai, London, American Presbyterian Mission Press, Trubner & Co.: 1876

Seller ID: 5071

Condition: Very Good

First edition in English of the I-Ching, the ancient Chinese book of divination, sometimes attributed to Confucius but actually much earlier, possibly with origins in the second millennium and so the most ancient text of Chinese Civilization. OCLC lists but eight copies worldwide. In McClatchie's view Qian and Kun represented the "God of Heathendom. Qian or his Male portionâ€¦ and Kun or his Female portion â€¦. These two, he goes on to say, "are enclosed in the circle or ringâ€¦ known as the Supreme Ultimate or Great One, from which all things are generated." His con...
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Two Visits to the Tea Countries of China and the British Tea Plantations in the Himalaya With a Narrative of Adventures, and a Full Description of the Culture of the Tea Plant, the Agriculture, Horticulture, and Botany of China

By: Robert Fortune

Price: $725.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1853

Seller ID: 5077

Condition: Very Good

Fortune, "formerly botanical collector to the horticultural society of London, and now in the service of the Hon, East India Company in China." Two Volume set with folding map and illustrations. Expertly rebacked in hatch blue iridescent silk over pebbled pattern cloth. Gilt particulars to spine. Very handsome set without previous owners' names or other markings. 5.3 x 8 in. Vol I: 315pp. Vol II: 298pp.
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Select Chinese Verses

By: Translated by Herbert A. Giles & Arthur Waley

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Shanghai, The Commercial Press, Limited: 1934

Seller ID: 2822

Condition: Very Good

Bookplate to verso of front cover and corresponding shadow to recto of title page. "R.S" inked in black to the top left corner of last page with transfer to recto of interior of back cover. Otherwise, a nice clean copy. ; 5 x 7.5 in. Pp. 96 First Edition.
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Thirty Famous Chinese Stories

By: Wang I-Ting

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Shanghai, The Commercial Press, Limited: 1933

Seller ID: 2819

Condition: Very Good

Bookplate to verso of front cover. "R.S" inked in black to the top left corner of last page with transfer to recto of interior of back cover. Otherwise, a nice clean copy. 5 x 7.5 in; vi; 150 pages. First Edition.
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A Yankee on the Yangtze Being a Narrative of a Journey from Shanghai through the Central Kingdom to Burma

By: William Edgar Geil

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, A. C. Armstrong and Son: 1904

Seller ID: 5078

Condition: Very Good

100 full-page illustrations. Full green cloth with white and black particulars to front and gilt particulars to spine. Light spotting to front cover (see image). Nice copy without previous owners' names or markings. 5.75 x 8.25 in. 312pp. First Edition.
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Category: China